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Florida couple scratch off a jackpot ticket
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:56 pm
by War Wagon
heh, heh... just kidding
What a bummer, and another reason why state lotteries are a complete and total fucking rip-off. The next time you walk into a convenience store thinking about buying a stupidity ticket and lining up for a voluntary tax, just hand your cash to the homeless guy hanging around the side of the building. At least he's going to score a 40 from your cash.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:04 pm
by MuchoBulls
It's nice that they have all important small print of, "all winnings are subject to verification".
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:16 pm
by indyfrisco
That dude should blame Jeb Bush.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:55 pm
by OCmike
My old man always used to say that the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. I always liked that, even though I'm sure he ripped it off from someone else.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:19 pm
by War Wagon
OCmike wrote:My old man always used to say that the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Speaking of math - I don't know what the pay-outs are in other states, but in Missouri scratch off ticket games, only 45% of lottery revenue is paid out in winnings.
Fucking highway robbery. Hell, even the most tightass Indian reservation casino slot machine probably pays back close to twice that. That's why I'm simply astounded whenever I see people fork over hard earned cash for some worthless piece of colored cardboard that will be littering the parking lot 30 seconds after they bought it.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:22 pm
by Dinsdale
Yeah, because goodness knows that a voluntary tax in place of mandatory ones is horrific.
Dumbass.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:24 pm
by Tom In VA
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:32 pm
by War Wagon
Dinsdale wrote:Yeah, because goodness knows that a voluntary tax in place of mandatory ones is horrific.
It is horrific for that most vulnerable segment of society that's most likely to volunteer, namely poor folk trying to hit the "big one" and get out of poverty. Sadly, all it does is put them further in the hole.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:34 pm
by Dinsdale
Whitey, you ever heard of a scientist by the name of Charles Darwin?
Ohhhh....
Sorry. Nevermind.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:43 pm
by BSmack
War Wagon wrote:It is horrific for that most vulnerable segment of society that's most likely to volunteer, namely poor folk trying to hit the "big one" and get out of poverty. Sadly, all it does is put them further in the hole.
Gotta go with Dins on this. If you spend all your cash on lottery tickets trying to get out of poverty, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Millions of people are able to gamble without pissing away the rent money. In short, if you can't afford it, don't do it. And if you have to ask if you can't afford it, you can't.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 7:43 pm
by PSUFAN
moderator: Raise your hand if you don't believe in evolution, if you tithe to Anheuser-Busch, if you know you are but what am I, and can subsist on ankle sushi and Diet Beer.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:19 pm
by Jay in Phoenix
PSUFAN wrote:moderator: Raise your hand if you don't believe in evolution, if you tithe to Anheuser-Busch, if you know you are but what am I, and can subsist on ankle sushi and Diet Beer.
Methinks I'll be a rackin' that 'un.
So rack.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:29 pm
by Tom In VA
I'll rack your avatar instead.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:39 am
by Cuda
I'll RACK! Dinsdale instead.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:44 am
by War Wagon
Racks are cheap up in this bitch.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:47 am
by Cuda
So's your mom.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:08 am
by BSmack
War Wagon wrote:Racks are cheap up in this bitch.
Rack that.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:31 am
by War Wagon
Cuda wrote:So's your mom.
This coming from the guy who sent me a tearful PM when his mom died from Alzheimers.
That's not very Christian of you, Coods.
Are you okay?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:50 am
by Mister Bushice
Jay in Phoenix wrote:PSUFAN wrote:moderator: Raise your hand if you don't believe in evolution, if you tithe to Anheuser-Busch, if you know you are but what am I, and can subsist on ankle sushi and Diet Beer.
Methinks I'll be a rackin' that 'un.
So rack.
I'll see that rack and raise it.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:36 pm
by Cuda
Oh, sorry, Whitey.
I meant to say "So's your daughter"
Happy now?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:40 pm
by PSUFAN
War Wagon wrote:
That's not very Christian of you, Coods.
Are you okay?
CTRL-Cuda's only in the Church for the priest sex.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:54 pm
by Cuda
Still jealous because Fr. Geoghan spurned you, PUS?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 3:08 pm
by Goober McTuber
Cuda wrote:Still jealous because Fr. Geoghan spurned you, PUS?
But he spermed you?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:45 pm
by Cuda
We just had an extensive explanation of this whole ankle-biting thingie in another thread, Hy.
Just because this is a different thread from that one doesn't mean you're not an ankle biting little cunt.