I keep seeing adverts for this, with some no mark knocking on doors and presenting gormless halfwits with cheques for £25,000 In nearly every case, the recipients are total dick heads with no teeth, barely able to string a sentence together to express their joy and shock What's going on? Is it some sort of scam? Has anyone on here had a big win? I smell a rat
Of course it's a scam. All lotteries are scams. The whole objective of a lottery is to separate gormless halfwits from their money in exchange for fantasies. The adverts for this one demonstrate that the promoters have a realistic understanding of who their target audience is, and how to push their buttons.
wow, what a bunch of meanies, a voluntary tax where the money is ring fenced for charities and good causes, inc the London Olympics and the punters get a we thrill to boot. wats so wrong with that?
That's the national lottery, which I'll think you will find is regulated by the govenment on how much has to go to good causes, get paid out in prizes etc. Think you'll find there is less regulation about where the money/profits go on things like the postcode and health lotteries, and most of their target audience probably don't check and make an informed decision. As a teenager, my sister used to collect on a round for a "Cancer and Polio" draw. When you read the small print an embarrassingly small amount went to the charities or as prizes, and a sizeable majority went on "operating costs" Personally I'd just give direct to the charites and cut out the middlemen.
Postcode lottery's own advert says that 30% goes to charities - but doesn't specify what the charities actually are. That is not, strictly, true. At least 30% is turned over to various trusts, who then distribute funds to around 2000 charities. Every single one of these organisations (the lottery, the trusts and the charities ) takes their own cut of the proceeds, so in reality very little actually goes anywhere useful.
I would still like to hear Umbra's opinion on people who go in for these kind of lotteries. Why sit on the fence, Umbra?
A fair challenge I think they can be encapsulated in the following vignette; A bloated, tattooed, purple-legged minger in leggings, with 7 kids to different men, "scraping by" on benefits, stood in a queue to buy scratch cards while intermittently smoking a ciggy, guzzling an energy drink and eating a pot noodle, with a pop tart for afters, all while texting her boyfriend in prison using the very latest iphone. That's what being a winner looks like:Cigar:
Apologies for beating about the bush, my therapist says I have issues with expressing how I really feel, I am trying to overcome it with help from like minded souls on here, bear with me:Troll:
When I asked if you had "won the lottery", I was being ironic. Didn't mean to imply you might actually buy lottery tickets, Steve!
