The Derry Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 11 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said: He's enough to make your skin crawl, ain't he? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 10 minutes ago, BFTD said: I've never bought a lottery ticket. I kept meaning to when it first started, but never got around to it, and it very quickly began to feel like a pointless waste of money. Sort of borne out by the fact that my mother has bought them for about a quarter of a century now and never had more than two numbers. I have, however, sold them. Primarily to folk who were clearly potless. I won a tenner each time the first 3 weeks, nothing since apart from a free ticket once. Pretty sure they fixed the draw when they started, to get people addicted, I knew lots of people who won the first few weeks. Just buy one now if I happen to be in a shop on a big prize day, a handful of times a year. It's fundamentally a tax on stupidity, brought in by the Tories. Killed off the pools which was more of a social, family thing, and more exciting for a tiny stake. Set the trend for unlimited promotion of gambling. It's evil. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Went to Cardiff & had full sex with a woman.Bet you've driven barefoot to Dundee though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 6 hours ago, welshbairn said: I won a tenner each time the first 3 weeks, nothing since apart from a free ticket once. Pretty sure they fixed the draw when they started, to get people addicted, I knew lots of people who won the first few weeks. Just buy one now if I happen to be in a shop on a big prize day, a handful of times a year. It's fundamentally a tax on stupidity, brought in by the Tories. Killed off the pools which was more of a social, family thing, and more exciting for a tiny stake. Set the trend for unlimited promotion of gambling. It's evil. It is funny to think back to a time when gambling was so heavily restricted. We're constantly bombarded with it now. Tragic/hilarious how most of the adverts are aimed at addicts, telling them that it's safe to gamble with them as you can ask them to stop taking your money...until you ask them to start taking your money again, of course. One of the things I hated about working in a grocery shop was selling scratchcards to folk who didn't have a pot to piss in, but would be back to empty their purse every day. As you say, you start to detect a slight tinge of sulphur in the air. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 Bumping this as was reminded of it on the other thread: Over a million people in Britain don't have a bank account. 6.5m British people have never been on holiday. Around 50,000 UK children are homeschooled, some of them will never have been school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 19 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Bumping this as was reminded of it on the other thread: Over a million people in Britain don't have a bank account. 6.5m British people have never been on holiday. Around 50,000 UK children are homeschooled, some of them will never have been school. I bet their grammar and sentence structure will have suffered. On a more serious note, I find that a bit concerning. Schools are important for social development as well as education. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcernedReferee Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I've never skied, it seems awfully dangerous 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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