Got all excited - for nothing

[nonuffin]

Checked the euromillions lotty this morning.

First number 5. Yep.

Second number 8 Ooooh.

Third number 10 looking good, pulse rises.

Downhill from there as no more numbers. Bugger.

All that adrenaline wasted on winning a mere fiver. Just one more number and my winnings would have zoomed uncontrollably up to £14.50. Two more numbers would have netted nearly 10 million quid.

I have got more chance of swimmimg the atlantic than the big win, so no more money from me

[Macca]

If you're aged 15-24, you have to buy your ticket 12 minutes or less before the draw to have more chance of winning than of dying in the meantime (based on 2008 death rates and population estimates for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics)

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ale..._b_961514.html

[Macca]

It's what is known in the trade as a 'long shot.'

[Len Co]

It's what is known in the trade as a 'long shot.'

Better off having a long sh!t

[Minstrel SE]

I understand the odds and they depress me. However I know of three people who have won big

My auntie Hilda (not my real aunt but we called her that) in Scotland won a million or so In her later years...A woman called Julie down my parents road who I once rejected going out with...not close enough to make any difference to me though

Thats the thing with the lottery that keeps us playing. Nigh on impossible odds but these buggers keep winning to rub our noses in it.....the truth is I dislike them because it does bring out feelings of jealousy.

With more odds of being an astronaut or dying on the way to get a ticket, it needs putting in firm perspective. Heck you have a better chance of your favourite star visting and saying they have real feelings for you...well maybe but you get the picture

[Macca]

You've got the knock on effect too, though. I was temping at this place once, just doing the switchboard and some filing, and one of the permanent staff won a hundred grand on the lottery and promptly left. So they gave me her job. Which was nice. It was a good job, too, massive pay rise.

[Marco]

The title of this thread always makes me think of something else.....

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

You've got the knock on effect too, though. I was temping at this place once, just doing the switchboard and some filing, and one of the permanent staff won a hundred grand on the lottery and promptly left. So they gave me her job. Which was nice. It was a good job, too, massive pay rise.

You sort of had a lottery win then, without even buying a ticket! Can't get much luckier than that

[Marco]

So they gave me her job. Which was nice. It was a good job, too, massive pay rise.

Did they give you her dress too, and ask you to put on a high-pitched voice?

Marco.

[karma67]

the title reminds me of the time i stayed up to watch the young brass of the year awards,imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be a load of teenagers playing the bloody trumpet!!!