Powerball

[Uberwonder]

It's around $70,000,000 and although I usually don't buy lottery tickets, I picked up ten this afternoon.

If I hit the big money, everyone who has posted more than 30 times in the last ten days gets a grand.
Filler posts from this point on don't count.
In fact they will be subtracted from your total.

I am too fucking generous to you peasants.

[Mudflap]

$70 mil will buy a lot of freakin' Real Dolls.

[Billyman]

w00t!

Looks like I'm in the running.

Who knows, it may pay to be a post whore after all! :D

I say this out of my own greedyness and personal benefit:

GOOD LUCK!

[Koliedrus]

Originally posted by Uberwonder
It's around $70,000,000 and although I usually don't buy lottery tickets, I picked up ten this afternoon.

If I hit the big money, everyone who has posted more than 30 times in the last ten days gets a grand.
Filler posts from this point on don't count.
In fact they will be subtracted from your total.

I am too fucking generous to you peasants.
Hope you don't mind. I went shopping for mine just so you'd know which one to send.

http://a763.g.akamai.net/7/763/1644/14/app.infopia.com/img/image/fp/VPID/329980

http://app.infopia.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/329980/vpcsid/0

This'll give me a reason to build a new house around it!

Odd, how motivation strikes...

Burn in hell if you subtract this one from my total.

Go Uber!

[Pianomahnn]

The Big Game here is around 140,000,000.

Your puny jackpots are no match for my l337 winnings.

[Uberwonder]

No luck. Kol, put the hammer down.
I think I will make this a weekly thing though.
I'm a sharing kind of guy.

[skalie]

Wonder adds gambling to his list of addictions.

[Uberwonder]

Bullshit, skalie. I don't keep a list.
I'm afraid of becoming a list addict.

[Venus]

So define "filler" post. I mean, if I were to just post a "good luck" would that be a filler? Even if I sincerely mean it without the prospect of recieving a grand? And what about birthday threads? Those are just a simple Happy Birthday, but it's an honest wish. And if I just up and decide to post my boobs, is that a significant post? And more importantly, if I posted my boobs, would I get more than a grand?

[Uberwonder]

I'll have to be the judge of that.
Post them.
If nothing else, I will guarantee you imunity from FPS (filler post sanctions).

[Venus]

Let me run that by the SO.

[TotalAnarchy]

Just think - to get to $70 000 000, there had to be what, 35 000 000 suckers willing to buy a ticket? Even more, because these people make a huge fucking profit. Oh well.

[MAC]

what was that TA?

I think I hear an echo (http://www.thehypertribe.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8369)

Good luck Uber, but give my grand to Billy if you win.

Because, regardless of my political opinions about the lottery, it all boils down to, I cannot comprehend how you can feel good for buying a ticket (and the chance to win) but not feel bad that you lose.

[Billyman]

Originally posted by MAC
Good luck Uber, but give my grand to Billy if you win.

Because, regardless of my political opinions about the lottery, it all boils down to, I cannot comprehend how you can feel good for buying a ticket (and the chance to win) but not feel bad that you lose.

Gosh, thanks Mac!

To help comprehend:

It's like Chutes and Ladders, Baseball, Football, Poker with guys...

It's playing a game.

Getting all pissy if you loose is just bad sportsmanship. ;)

[MAC]

3,12,21,13,34
4,24,21,31,5
16,29,35,42,10
10,28,17,38,26
2,16,6,26,34
11,15,32,16,20

the lottery is NOT a game

games require some kind of skill (at least at understanding the rules) and your performance depends, to some degree, on you.

the difference between us when we feel down and the proverbial "camel" suffering under his last straw is we seek out much of our loads to bear.
It feels lighter when you think "all my money troubles may be over tomorrow" why isn't it heavier when they aren't?
Because you never expected them to be. You got a break for a few minutes and possibly one nice nights sleep after a day when you didn't feel so good with nothing more than a tiny flat piece of paper hope.

But no one here, yet, has expressed that.

Now, if you where aware of why it made you feel good would you need it?

That's enlightenment I think.

[Venus]

Originally posted by MAC

games require some kind of skill (at least at understanding the rules) and your performance depends, to some degree, on you.

the difference between us when we feel down and the proverbial "camel" suffering under his last straw is we seek out much of our loads to bear.
It feels lighter when you think "all my money troubles may be over tomorrow" why isn't it heavier when they aren't?
Because you never expected them to be. You got a break for a few minutes and possibly one nice nights sleep after a day when you didn't feel so good with nothing more than a tiny flat piece of paper hope.

But no one here, yet, has expressed that.

Now, if you where aware of why it made you feel good would you need it?

That's enlightenment I think.

MAC, don't play the lotto. You don't understand it, don't play it. That's fine. But who are you to tell people that they shouldn't? Or that they should feel bad for not winning? See, people don't feel worse when they don't win because they didn't expect to win in the first place. They know that it's all about chance, and that they have no control over who wins. Hey guess what? You don't have control over who wins the Superbowl. So you don't watch? Or you feel worse when the team you wanted to win doesn't? People have no control over hitting the jackpot in Vegas. The slots are all chance, the cards..sure tell me the skill in knowing weither to hold or fold, but you don't know what the next card in the deck is, nor do you know what the other players have. Las Vegas is run, and funded on chance. That's what gambling is. It's fun partly because you don't have to feel bad if you lose. It's something that's out of my control. My winning has nothing to do with skill or smarts. That's why I can feel good if I win, and not feel bad if I lose. It's the one thing I don't have to take any responsability for.

[Uberwonder]

Mac, I really think you need an enema or something.
"The lottery is for people that can't do the math". Some comic said that.
I might consider feeling bad if I was actually investing an amount that had some significance but I'm not. Perhaps you are working at some job where a couple of bucks a week is a fair percentage of your takehome but I make enough to where that amount isn't a noticable loss, ok?
Fuck, the only reason I'm doing it is to add a little sport to the forums.
Why don't you try and get over your grouchy, depressed, fucking self and lighten up a little bit, eh?

[Billyman]

No wait, Mac has good points to ponder.

*goes back to review*




Well maybe not then.

*shrugs*

Mac just seems to be a good ole boy with teachings of if you didn’t earn it, it ain’t worth having. If you win something by chance, I get the feeling he sees no honor in having it.

I also feel that he sees these people who instead of paying rent or the power bill, they go and buy a load of lotto tickets and live on a pipe dream. I say these people are stupid but it’s their money, their bills and I don’t give a shit what they do with any of it.

Picking up a ticket or three here and there, a few bucks lost…….big fucking whoopee. Many of us can afford to piss away a few bucks a week to a month, whatever, with no recoil.

If one gambles at any GAME and expects to win, what disappointment will come. For those of us who don’t expect to win but absorb the thoughts of “well, it would be nice” get along fine with the “off chance”.

GAME (1)

game [ gaym ]
noun (plural games)

1. something played for fun: an activity that people participate in, together or on their own, for fun It’s only a game!

14. something not taken seriously: an activity or situation that somebody does not treat seriously Life’s a game as far as he’s concerned.

gamble: to play games of chance for money.