I played the Irish lottery, once, in a bookies and won.
I Never played again.

Alt: Yeah, don't fucking bother.

Alt Alt: Thin and pointy? nope.
( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:39, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

what's the irish lottery?
a pound a year for the next million years?

or waiting to see how many of your 137 kids pop out retarded?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:43, Reply)

totm?

( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:45, Reply)

nah
my family are irish, so
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:45, Reply)

Pick three numbers, 1-45 - they draw six, if all of your numbers are there, win £600 for your £1 stake.
The odds are about 1/1000 though, so it's a bit of a shit bet.
( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:49, Reply)

so it's basically like the national lottery, but more numbers and a smaller prize?
although i think you only get a tenner for three numbers here, so yeah ok i see what they did there
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:49, Reply)

Given that the chances of getting £10 on the UK lottery are about 1 in 1200
it sounds considerably better.

If you bet £1 in the bookies on a 1200-1 shit and it cane in, then they paid you £10 winnings, how annoyed would you be?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:52, Reply)

1/54 on the UK lottery I believe.
Although, £10 return is definitely still bollocks.
( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:56, Reply)

oh yeah - fuck knows where I got 1200 from....

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:59, Reply)

The bookies can't take bets on the English lottery
So they take them on the Irish (and numerous other countries) versions instead.

To maximise revenue, they've set this pick three, match three from six numbers thing, although the difference between the payout and the odds is fucking massive. I do expect someone to come along soon with a proper calculation to correct my quick bit of mental arithmetic though.
( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:54, Reply)

given that most people here are spastics, i wouldn't take that bet

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:55, Reply)

Autistics are good with numbers though.

( Muns, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:56, Reply)

no one on here is proper autist though
we are just fucking useless
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:06, Reply)

i couldn't be less aut
i have virtually no OCD and i love meeting new people. i'd love to catch tidying OCD, or to have a partner with it, that would be really useful
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:10, Reply)

*speechless*

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:11, Reply)

what??

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:14, Reply)

"virtually no OCD" ?!?!?!?!?!?!??.........

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:15, Reply)

I think she meant COD

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:16, Reply)

i don't like other people's saliva in my food
but that's not OCD, that's because other people's mouths are gross!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:16, Reply)

Yes that's the *only* weird thing you do...

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:17, Reply)

it so is!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:17, Reply)

I don't even know you personally and I know this is a lie based solely on internet witterings

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:19, Reply)

it really isn't
really really
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:21, Reply)

OF COURSE....
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:20, Reply)

and yet
yhpcciym
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:26, Reply)

just a bad rumour
never been proven
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:29, Reply)

Phew eh lucky escape

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:43, Reply)

So you are saying you agree with my statement
and you are fucking useless.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:16, Reply)

and you didn't know that already, because...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:16, Reply)

Fair point well made

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 14:28, Reply)

Standing around in a field hoping the spuds grow this year

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:46, Reply)

doing dodgy property deals

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:48, Reply)

Begorra
If the tatties don't grow dis yeior I will have to brick up some windows to avoid the taxes
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:51, Reply)

i'm after buying meself a shack and paying your man shifty joe cash in hand to give it a lick of paint
and calling it a luxury bespoke property
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:55, Reply)

Putting the poke into bespoke

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:55, Reply)

*hides lucky charms*

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 13:59, Reply)