£2 per lotto line, and smaller prizes I gather

[zeitghost]

Traditionally you just went to the lottery stand in the shopping centre and queued up. There is usually a long queue on saturdays, i find.

Ah.

The last refuge of the (un)punched card.

They look exactly the same as cards I used to use for programming test equipment.

[vetran]

You made me snort.

just a couple of lines?

don't forget to wipe your nose.


Or did you do more numbers?

[doodab]

Does anyone here actually do the lottery? I've never done it, wouldn't have a clue how to! Surely, there's no point?

Well it depends what you mean by no point. For the price of 1/2 a pint of beer I get to dream of what I would do with squillions of pounds for a whole week. There aren't many things that give me that much pleasure for such a small amount of cash. Lovefilm and condoms are the only things that spring to mind.

[AtW]

Generally the law protects the ignorant (or "vulnerable" to use modern parlance) against those who'd try to exploit them, but with the lottery the government has encouraged a private company to make a boat load of cash out of the poor and stupid.

They only did it because taxing those people directly would looked bad in press