I got all 6 numbers on the lottery!

OK, not everyone.

Any six-figure sum would do me, seven figures would be nice.

I guess you have to be there.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

*DING*

For a few minutes each week, before I check the results, I'm a
multi-millionaire.

 

If you are expecting a logical explanation, there isn't one. I was in
supermarket, saw a sign about a 20 million jackpot or whatever and
thought - "it could be you."

The nearest I can give is a far from perfect fishing analogy. There
may be a pool in the river where a big pike is known to lie because
you have seen it. If you cast a lure in to the pool and it is not
taken you will certainly lose it in the rocks on the bottom. Your
lure cost a pound. You decide not to waste a pound on the chance of
catching the big fish. You then see that the big pike has been
replaced by a humungous mother of all pike. You might decide that it
is worth wasting a pound on the same off chance that you might catch
the fish. The 'investment' and the odds are the same but the possible
payout is bigger.

The analogy is doubly flawed becuase if more people do the lottery
when there is a huge jackpot and several are lucky winners you have to
share the prize. Only one lucky angler can hook the monster pike.

There are other flaws which you can work out for yourself.

The short answer is probably "human nature" and "do you feel lucky?"

 

I never feel lucky.

 

Here's the rub, y'see - Ace is already rich

 

Feck orf. We're economising now, anyway. Going to have to give up the
Basel flat, at the very least.

 

Shame. Get yer missus back out to work!

 

You see, there's rich, and there's profligate. Even if I won the lottery
I wouldn't waste money on housing made out of herbs.

 

Not even a thyme-share?

 

You'll get a right rocket for that sort of thing.

 

Sage advice.

 

I had a weird on t'other night.
I was German, building a batch of jetskis in Latvia.
**** me, it was funny too.
Too much garlicy hummous before bed, I think.

 

What does Rosemary think?

 

Who cares, she's a complete dill anyway.

 

She keeps everyone at bay.

 

<Des mode>

Gold taps

 

<applause>

 

It's cheese that fucks me up.

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Nige,

BMW K1200S
Range Rover Vogue

 

Yes. Peoples perception of risk is very badly skewed in such matters.

I think of it as a tax.

 

Then play roulette, you have a better chance of fulfilling your dream.