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Oh come on, that's the point of buying them tickets! If they win, they will be very happy. If they don't, you are apparently a cheapskate. If you are too lazy to buy a real present, don't be a jealous arse and spoil the person's chances. If you really want to bake this, then make the jackpots lower, but make almost every ticket a winner! That would be a great Christmas gift! And a really bad business. Oh well. |
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Or have it so you PAY for the jackpot... you give it to your friend... they scratch, they get whatever you payed for it (minus a commission), and you DON'T look like an cheapskate and you aren't jealous |
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"Err, thanks Dave, I just won 20% off oak furnature at home depot." |
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What would be really cute is if in the upper corner of the ticket it had a big "$1" that makes it look like that's what you paid to buy it, only that's actually the amount of the jackpot. One dollar. The actual cost of the ticket is like a penny or something, but leave that off all the ticket together. To make it extra special, have the "loser" symbols under the scratch off stuff be "$50,000", "$100,000", "a trip to the Bahamas" etc. Leave out the fact that you don't win these any more than you win a cherry or a liberty bell, they just signify you didn't get the $1 and therefore don't get squat. |
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I'll take $1000 worth of those penny lottery tickets, please. |
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You can buy about 347 gazillion skadillion types of limited-payout lottery tix at any lottery outlet in the UK. So, it's errrrm, baked, dude. |
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little old lady at ticket counter: "yes, i'd like two lucky ladies, four holiday sparklers, three bongo-bingos, and a MegaWinnerWeiner."
cashier: (hands tickets) "here."
little old lady: (scratches off all the tickets. drops them in the trash container provided just under the counter. walks away a little slower.) |
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Isn't the lottery just a tax on people who are really bad at math? Read that somewhere. |
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A really honest company could sell all winning lottery tickets if they would charge just enough to make a fair profit and buy the tickets. |
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They could spray some of that stuff back on the ones that get a complete scratching, just for the people who love to scratch. |
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What are the odds of winning something anyway, 1 in 10? So sell them for 20x cost, and make sure people hear about it when big winners are sold. |
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strictly from a business point of view, I think lottery is a sound investement. One pound to be in the chance of winning millions? It's more of a sure thing than some of the investements ive heard abaout! |
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It gets the label "tax" by virtue of its common political justification (at least where I'm from) as a substitute of sorts for an actual tax. The label is cynical, yes, but not about the lottery itself, but about how we expect to fund education. |
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