Lotto bike

so i've been pondering this every time i buy a lotto ticket (yes i know i will never win), but what bike would you buy if you won the lottery

the lottery is a tax on the stupid, you have more chance being run over by a bus on the way to buy your ticket than winning a million. i buy premium bonds instead, the odds are better and you get your money back.

the lottery does good things for sport/community etc but i still think it would be better to give directly and cut out the middle men (the government and camelot)

I won a grand in November and I'm getting Bob Jackson with a Phil and Sugino side salad. It could be you. Or not.

i know i wont win... i just like scratching things with coins.

vegansdontneedgears i know i wont win... i just like scratching things with coins.

maybe try scratching city boy wankers beemers?

If I won lotto I'd buy a two bedroom flat to keep all my current bikes in.. and maybe one of these for commuting duties..

hot stuff

it's not a tax on the stupid.

it's a tax on the optimistic...

with the jackpot chance is 1 in 13,983,816 or approximately 1 in 14 million.

but the advert says 1 in 20....

vegansdontneedgears but the advert says 1 in 20....

so if you spend £20 in tickets you should expect to win £1 back?

are you saying that ardverts lie....

so my new shoes wont make me jump higher, chevy is not trying to save the planet, and those pills wont work at all?

It is a voluntary tax, no doubt about it. And long may it continue to be.

It's a tax on the mathematically inept.

MrSmith the lottery is a tax on the stupid, you have more chance being run over by a bus on the way to buy your ticket than winning a million. i buy premium bonds instead, the odds are better and you get your money back.

Yeah that's what I'm going to do this term. My bank gives me a £1250 overdraft interest free, so I was going to put it in a savings account but the interest rate is dire. Might as well buy a shitload of bonds.

lpg it's not a tax on the stupid.

you need to justify this assertion LPG. I prefer to call it a tax on the poor.

It's no coincidence that George Orwell was only ten years off with his predictions in '1984', the Lottery was introduced by The Grey Prime Minister in '94 (apparently the Camelot board all drink in the same Club as Major). Orwell said the Proles were illiterate and innumerate, but all of them could wax lyrical about the numbers in the lottery and when they came up and what the odds might be and all that crap. It's a really interesting bit of that novel, I read it in '94 saying Oh Wow man a la Neil from Young Ones.

And there's a section in 1984 where people discuss the relative 'luckiness' of numbers which now also appears to happen in real life (on the tv programme when I'm unlucky enough to catch it, and on tinterweb). However, Lottery distributors have put billions of pounds into the voluntary sector and into sport / art / science over the last decade, money that wouldn't have been contributed by the State, nor by individual donation.

However its not all good, the current nu-labour manifestation is blurring the lines between what should be paid for via tax and what should be additional to that. I won't even start on the olympics*. So all in all, yes, teh operating quangos need to be more removed from govt strategy...

• nor the amount of 'sporting for excellence' funded atheletes I've met who *dont' *seem that excellent.
  

Lottery distributors have literally ripped everyone off for nearly fourteen years. I really don't see what they've done for 'good causes' couldn't have been paid for by our taxes, instead of funding the Royal Family and paying for Trident. But hey I'm an anarchist/antichrist probably. Gawd Bless em.

'in keeping with the fashion for charity, not change...' chumbawamba, 'pictures of starving children sells records'.

Well I could boringly talk about this for hours, but you don't want me to. I think **Camelot **have ripped people off for years, and I agree that I don't see why I should be paying for the Civil List and pointless deterrent missile systems. But funding to pay for unpopular causes is never going to be supported by taxation. Politicians are vote chasers and want to remain populist. Need and disadvantage isn't populist.

oh and the lottery bike would be something like this.

snowy_again oh and the lottery bike would be something like this.

!! God aint Sound System bikes brilliant? Love the Castor/stabilzer/speaker stand arrangement. I think Critical Mass is flippin great just because of the wierd bikes, forget the road-politics. I saw this brilliant dude with a sort of rolling wind-chime (road-chime?) thing that just clanked loudly behind him. Wicked.

Perhaps spend the change on a pump for that rear flattie.

Haha, its another NYC Bike Snob related find

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I've not seen the critical mass system for a while (well not since the thing in Brockwell Park over the summer)

that kiddie is looking at some serious tinnitus.

one of the low profile yamaguchi's with hed disc on the back front carbon zip YUMMY YUMMY

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