Should I do tonights lottery?

robgilmo

I stopped doing it, cos I never win anything.

Should I do it tonight?

Bridgehouse

Yes. And if you win I want half now I've persuaded you to...

Sporky

And I want the other half because [insert plausible reason].

guitars4you

as Clint Eastwood said - do you feel lucky punk - well do you

octatonic

You have a 50% chance of winning the lottery.
You either win it or you don't.

axisus

Yes if you want to throw away two quid on an hour or so of hope

thumpingrug

axisus said:

Yes if you want to throw away two quid on an hour or so of hope

set up a direct debit and you can throw away a lot more money, but the hope goes on forever.

Emp_Fab

No.  Send the money direct to a charity.

57Deluxe

dunno - is a bit of a lottrery that one...

Ravenous

Give the coin to a tramp or a busker instead. Still won't make any difference but it'll make you feel far happier.

57Deluxe

/\ like fcuk am gonner be doing that!

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/gang-of-beggars-pictured-getting-out-of-romanian-registered-car-in-cambridge-6459992/

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BigBearKris

Do it man!
Jesus... 2quid is not a fortune and there's always a chance to win - ridiculously small, but hey! 

CabbageCat

The lottery is a great example of people taking advantage of the common man's inability to comprehend numbers bigger than about 20. People know that the odds are massively long but most don't use that part of their brain for decision making, they use what they can picture.

The most common argument for entering the lottery (apart from, "Well, somebody has to win it."), as BigBearKris said, is that the stake is not very big and the winnings are very big, but the scale of that difference renders it more meaningless than meaningful. Compounding this is the human propensity to value money on a logarithmic line, not a linear one. People value £500,000 more than half as much as £1,000,000. This scales down to the point where £2 is "worth" significantly more than one-five-hundred-thousandth of £1,000,000.

Snap

In other words, yeah, do it, its only 2 quid.

Tell you what, I'll do it as well.

robgilmo

Did it last night, didn't win feck all.

jellyroll

robgilmo said:

Did it last night, didn't win feck all.

You've already checked the result?   NO, no no.....wrong approach. Buy a ticket, stick it in your man-purse.....don't check the result. Carry it around for a few months (but less than 6) and then check it. That way you can enjoy the possibility of winning for several months for just the cost of a single ticket. Simples.

Ravenous

jellyroll said:

robgilmo said:

Did it last night, didn't win feck all.

You've already checked the result?   NO, no no.....wrong approach. Buy a ticket, stick it in your man-purse.....don't check the result. Carry it around for a few months (but less than 6) and then check it. That way you can enjoy the possibility of winning for several months for just the cost of a single ticket. Simples.

Schrodinger's Lottery Ticket

jellyroll

Ravenous said:

Schrodinger's Lottery Ticket

More like Win-delband. Or Socra-tease.....