Didn't gamble but regret it
The National Lottery. Yes, I know, idiot tax but once in a while and all that eh?

Predictably, I didn't play, and my numbers came out.

If you're reading any further.... I went to the pub to watch England play last January. Straight after the results came in and I watched my numbers pop out the machine. I play some numbers each time and rotate between a few others. I watched 7 familiar numbers drop out the machine. Sick as you like, I worked out what I'd lost (tip: never do this). Depending on which combination I'd chosen, minimum £946.00, maximum £2.1 million. No other jackpot winners either.

Ouch. Actually, no- big hairy balls. In purple, regulation number of hairs, amateur style drawing.

No sympathy clicks. No "idiot tax" clicks either. Still sore about it. Arse.
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Tue 12 May 2009, 21:41, 4 replies)

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What do you mean?
did your jackpot numbers come up?
Or did the numbers come up from various tickets that you buy every week?
Are you saying "if I'd picked those numbers that week I would have got the jackpot?"
Cos thats the same for everyone every week. Don't worry about it!
By all accounts winning a couple of million doesn't bring happiness anyway - its just a distraction.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 13 May 2009, 0:48, closed)

look at it this way
it wasn't meant to be. when you're supposed to win, you will. there's no point saying what if, because you just don't know.
what if you'd won? you may have gone on the holiday of a lifetime and been killed when your plane crashed.
you could have won the £2.1 million and had a family member kidnapped and held for ransom. that doesn't happen to people with no money.
there's a reason for everything, even if we don't understand it.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 13 May 2009, 2:25, closed)

True, but its a metric fuckload more fun trying to figure out the reason to everything with £2.1 million in your wedge.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 13 May 2009, 9:19, closed)

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Yes you could reflect on it on a beach somewhere.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 13 May 2009, 12:09, closed)