You need to play the alternative lottery.
Choose 6 numbers, write them down, but then don't buy the ticket and give the pound to charity, but check the numbers anyway

It's REALLY fucking annoying when you win. But, it's a really good reality focuser.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:29, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

No, no, no, no!
You can't do that. You don't even look at other numbers if you're not going to buy them. You don't change a number you've been using after a while. No.

I still give the money to charity, and as I pay every 3 months, I know I'm spending a lot, but still... what if I win?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:31, Reply)

You won't, though.
Well, you might. I dunno.

Lotteries just fit into that whole group of things in my mind including "X-factor" and "trying to pull a footballer" where society just seems to feel some sort of entitlement to an easy way to be well-off in life, rather than, y'know, working hard and that. And it depresses me. But then I'm old and cynical.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:34, Reply)

But I work hard too
and I don't need a lot, and I think I'll give most of it to charities; but nevertheless, it's exciting playing with the idea of not having to work; working, yes, quite possibly, but not HAVING TO do it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:37, Reply)

Me too!
I would stop work and concentrate on doing charity work. That would be after the year I take out to party hard of course.
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:40, Reply)

I would force my self-indulgent prog rock on the world
and I would use my new fame and wealth to get into a position where I can bunch Bono in the face.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:43, Reply)

I, like BGB
would take a year off to travel, and then use the money to help.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:46, Reply)

So, "somewhere in Dublin, with Bono standing on a stepladder"?

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:50, Reply)