Are the people of Atlantic Canada this stupid? The ALC starts a new instant/daily draw ticket last week and the odds are horrible. A 1 in 500,000 chance to win $15,000? Tag has a 1 in 600,000 chance to win $100,000! Get a brain people. If you keep throwing your money away on these odds, they will keep releasing games like this with smaller prizes and worse odds. Hey at least you have a 1 in 4000 chance to win $20 instantly! LOL. Come on people, we are smarter than this. —I Guess We Are
This article appears in Feb 2-8, 2012.
According to Aesop, the lottery is a tax on stupidity.
yes
it’s not just the lotto…
vlt’s are even worse…
one arm bandits…
scratch n wins…
pull tickets…
you name it.
Yes, some are that stupid. In fact a lot of people are. But, all is not lost, we get a lot of tax revenue back from people we give it to in this manner. Unemployed and other we give benefits to are the most likely to use the lottery and VLTs.
They had an interesting idea on news 95.7 on Friday. They were talking about a pension lottery, you buy tickets for prizes, and instead of the lottery Corp stealing your money, the profit goes directly into a national pension fund, which you actually get to utilize. Just a fun idea they were talking about.
Playing the lottery is a mindset I don’t understand. Why would I play a game where I have a 99.999% chance of losing? and it’s not even that fun.
You know what I HAAATE, is when there’s a huge lineup at the store and it’s always some dingleberry with those stupid lotto tickets. “Err..I’ll take one of these, and one of those…gimme an instapick…with TAAAAAAAAG oh and can you check these twenty tickets?” They should be made to fucking wait until all the customers are gone, just for being so stupid. Get a clue, you’re being had FOOLS!
I used to have people come through my cash, No Fool, when I worked in grocery that used to attempt to buy the tickets and scratch them or they’d buy break opens and open them up WHILE THEY WERE AT THE CASH and expected me to wait so they could check them.
Uh no.
After they bought their shit I’d start helping the next person in line. If they said anything I told them to go to the back of the line.
I had one lady who’d come in for break opens every day. If there were none left, she’d start getting all twitchy and demand that I check the drawer. Once I was like “there are none in there” she tried to lean over the counter and open it herself. If there were none in the drawer she’d demand I call upstairs to see if they had any. They never did because lotto tickets were never allowed outside the cash area.
I felt sorry for her because she obv had an addiction, but at the same time, she really needed to fuck off.
LOL PK.
People could at least bet on sports or blackjack, at least you have a higher chance of winning.