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[challenge entry] Pearoast for the compo


sigh... Back to work.

From the Corporate Logos That Tell The Truth challenge. See all 524 entries (closed)

(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:29, archived)
# You wouldn't be saying that if you won.
Euromillions, now there's statistics that are *really* pointless playing against. That extra ball is a killer.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:32, archived)
# Well,
I certainly wouldn't be going back to work.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:35, archived)
# 678223072849 to 1
that is all
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:44, archived)
# Euromillions = 1 in 76,275,360
Lotto = 1 in 13,983,816


I don't know where you got your odds from.*

*I don't actually play, I'm just being irritating
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:49, archived)
# tax on the poor and the stupid
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 19:23, archived)
# odds of being struck by lightning...
1/700,000 in a year
1/5000 in your lifetime!
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 19:49, archived)
# Because you'll win a tenner at some point
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:34, archived)
# Perhaps
After blowing ₤100 on it.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:38, archived)
# makes no sense to me
my mum spends £4 a week. thats over £200 a year. She wins about £10 a year if she's lucky.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:46, archived)
# i can understand it
you don't have to think it's a good investment to find gambling fun. in fact, at the point where you start treating it as an investment you should probably start asking yourself some important questions

though as random rewards for handing over your small change go, crack whores are more fun
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:50, archived)
# It's only a 1 in 14million chance.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:40, archived)
# which is infinite times higher than if you don't have a ticket.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:43, archived)
# You'll never win it like that.
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:45, archived)
# Fruit Machines
They have a payout on them, and sometimes people leave 10p or 20p 'credit' in them.

So if the following is true
(amount in machine / cost of play) < (payout)

Then you'll ultimately come out ahead?

EDIT: HTML escaping needed
(, Mon 26 Oct 2009, 19:04, archived)