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Offline Zathras

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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2013, 11:11:49 PM »
Quote from: FiddlingAnt on May 21, 2013, 02:12:36 PM
Repeat after me -- Lotteries are for losers.

I guess the 9 people at where I work who went in on a pool at $10 each for the PowerBall lotto are losers then...losers that are $700 richer each due to hitting 4 out of 6 numbers on the recent drawing on last Saturday, winning almost $9000....and they were just 3 numbers off for the 5th number which would have given the group $2.2 mil before taxes if they hit it.

If that's what you call a loser then count me in.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2013, 07:17:05 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on May 21, 2013, 02:50:58 PM
I think ALL n00bs should open with insulting nonsense and stupid stuff when they join a board.

That is how you make friends and ingratiate yourself, right?

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Well said!  The OP, not so much.  Lotteries are simply a thing with a very low chance of a very high return, a minimal entry cost, and a large potential for entertainment in the fantasy department.  Playing them is just an economic choice that people with freedom have, they can play the game or not, but either way it doesn't give them any kind of moral superiority over people who make the opposite choice.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #27 on: May 22, 2013, 08:14:58 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on May 22, 2013, 07:17:05 AM
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Well said!  The OP, not so much.  Lotteries are simply a thing with a very low chance of a very high return, a minimal entry cost, and a large potential for entertainment in the fantasy department.  Playing them is just an economic choice that people with freedom have, they can play the game or not, but either way it doesn't give them any kind of moral superiority over people who make the opposite choice.

Looking over his post history, I think he's blog/commentary-pimping.

I'm curious if there is a religious anti-gambling bias as well.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #28 on: May 22, 2013, 08:49:42 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on May 21, 2013, 03:33:06 PM
If I won that much money, I would celebrate by buying DemocraticUnderground.com and set fire to their servers.

Why do you hate me so much that you would kill my entertainment?  :(
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #29 on: May 22, 2013, 09:14:05 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on May 21, 2013, 03:33:06 PM
If I won that much money, I would celebrate by buying DemocraticUnderground.com and set fire to their servers.

But not before you made Frank the admin, I hope...
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #30 on: May 22, 2013, 11:55:58 AM »
Quote from: wasp69 on May 22, 2013, 09:14:05 AM
But not before you made Frank the admin, I hope...

And gave nads the granite cookie.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #31 on: May 22, 2013, 11:56:49 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on May 22, 2013, 11:55:58 AM
And gave nads the granite cookie.

Even better would be to make nads the admin.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #32 on: May 22, 2013, 11:59:11 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on May 22, 2013, 11:56:49 AM
Even better would be to make nads the admin.

How could she admin a damned thing when 2/3 of the inmates are on the 'Iggy list'?
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #33 on: May 22, 2013, 12:04:39 PM »
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #34 on: May 22, 2013, 02:09:16 PM »
Before I buy DU (and maybe Kos and LGF), I'd let them in on this little deal, and they'll run around in a hate-filled conniption panic for days, much like what's going on with the LA Times now. Then for laughs, I'd sell them all to the Koch Bros. as well.

You'd be able to hear their heads a sploding from the moon.
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #35 on: May 22, 2013, 03:08:12 PM »
Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on May 22, 2013, 02:09:16 PM
Before I buy DU (and maybe Kos and LGF), I'd let them in on this little deal, and they'll run around in a hate-filled conniption panic for days, much like what's going on with the LA Times now. Then for laughs, I'd sell them all to the Koch Bros. as well.

You'd be able to hear their heads a sploding from the moon.

Well, after the drubbing Apple has been taking over its 'tax situation' recently plus all the Foxconn suicides, I suspect several of the best, brightest, most technologically astute DUmmies, the artists, writers, the dreamer Tantrums, have pounded there "Big" Macs and Ifrauds into Android Ice Cream sandwiches.  And just who supplies the bandwidth, power, and servers to run the dump?  Big Hint Dummies, it ain't green and it ain't clean. :lol:  It's the man.  You are supporting "Big  Business"  oh, the horror. :rotf:
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2013, 05:37:08 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on May 22, 2013, 12:04:39 PM
Yup. Good to have him darken the doorway once in awhile.

Luv you too xoxoxoxo
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Re: Lotteries are for losers
« Reply #37 on: May 23, 2013, 08:14:17 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003b on May 22, 2013, 05:37:08 PM
Luv you too xoxoxoxo


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