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This is a question about maths. Sort of.
My parents still play the lottery. They're in a small syndicate of five. If they win a tenner, they use that to pay for the next two weeks. I say that if they win a tenner, they should buy 15 lines the next week, as that gives them more of a chance of winning, while getting two weeks 'free' merely prolongs the agony of not winning anything again. Which do you think is the best way?

Alternative question: Benjamin Disraeli. Was he right?
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:14, archived)
Depends how concerned they are over saving £4.

(I helped save b3ta! Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:15, archived)
Those questions are boring.
Where should I go on holiday that's cheapish and superfun?
(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:15, archived)
Hilsea

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:16, archived)
Sell it to me.

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:17, archived)
There is a lido
That is often closed mid-season due to some sort of HSE violation. That's about it.
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:18, archived)
FIT.
I would like to be beside the seaside actually but Hilsea sounds a bit mank. No offence, forum banter etc.
(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:22, archived)
No, you're right...it's rubbish.

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:23, archived)
It's near me.
You can tug me off over your tits while talking russian.
(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
Niet.

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:23, archived)
Ungh.
That's plenty ta.
(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:25, archived)
I do not mean these things.
Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:29, archived)
Dr Stiffhardo

(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:46, archived)
Battleship Potemkock

(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:47, archived)
letter to brezknob

(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:02, archived)
would you like to buy hilsea?
a fiver, to you.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
For a fiver you could buy Hilsea, Landport and Buckland.
And the Freedom of Copnor
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:22, archived)
i have literally no idea what you are talking about.
don't stop though. i like the confusion.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:23, archived)
Old Portsmouth, Southsea, Milton, Baffins
Doing anything for you?
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:25, archived)
oh man, baffins.
this is like that bit from a fish called wanda, isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
haha

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:27, archived)
And get free hand jobs from mike handcock for life

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:23, archived)
pfft...cock

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)
does it have both a hill and a sea?

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
it's sort of like some hills

(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)
no, not really
There's a sort of big river that runs towards the sea...but there aren't any hills. Sorry.
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:21, archived)
No.
But within a mile or so there is a hill and in the other direction there is the sea.
(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:21, archived)
Shell Island in Wales.
It's famous for shells, so they reckon. Or hop on a cheap flight to Berlin, or Tallinn, or the Balkans or something.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
nowhere
holidays are pointless. Yours was an even shitter question.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
Your comment was the shittest you misanthropic rust bucket.
Go have a pina colada and a wank. Enjoy life a little. I JUST WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY GRRRMACHINE!
(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:21, archived)
I'm very happy
I just changed the oil in my car, and spilt it everywhere. And even that's more enjoyable and less polluting than modern tourism.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:22, archived)
Did you rub it all over yourself?

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)
It's proper engrained into my pores
the most appropriate word here is "slathered".
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:30, archived)
PHWOAR.
You just keep on basting yourself.
(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:09, archived)
Felixstowe.
I'm lying, it's SHIT.

I don't know. Camping is costing me £20 a night, which I think is fairly cheap for August.
(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)
it's still better than lowestoft.
lowestoft is fucking terrifying.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)
Oh Christ this.

(I helped save b3ta! Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
it's proper third world.
i went once when my daughter was very tiny. there was a market populated by neanderthals in cheap leisurewear. everyone was on drugs. on reflection, it was a bit like pitsea, but actually near the sea.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:29, archived)
Skegness was a place of similar interest
I'm tempted to not go there ever again
(I helped save b3ta! Frisbee TeaBoy, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:31, archived)
Heh.
You have NEVER been to Dare Valley Country Park.
:D
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:57, archived)
Or Trecco Bay.
:D
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:58, archived)
Pentonville.

(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
Sounds VERY boutique!

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:27, archived)
Tres chic, cherie
www.screenwork.nl/images/Amy/Pentonville.jpg
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:29, archived)
Take a cheap flight to Krakow, ride the bus to Zakopane, rent an apartment and climb the mountains
You get views like this
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:32, archived)
if you look closely at the shore of the smaller lake
there's a hostel there, where you can spend the night.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:33, archived)
That is absolutely staggeringly beautiful.

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:09, archived)
It wasn't an easy walk, hands and knees part of the way
but renting a studio apartment is about 40 quid a night, flights and food are cheap, and there's a lift to the top of the mountains so you can just stroll around from there.

It's well worth it.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:22, archived)
next door

(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:45, archived)
DIGGERLAND!
'Noon The LOVELY Tee Eff Dee.
*Panders*
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:53, archived)
'Noon Stuj!
We really must arrange to meet soon. Mini Oxford bash, just like the old times.
(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:11, archived)
When it was all fields.
Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:36, archived)
Too busy doing cock film jokes
Slither
(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:16, archived)
Touch Of Evil

(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)
YOU MASSIVE FUCKING TWAT AAAAAAAAAGAA!!!!

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)
you lose, spasticface

(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:33, archived)
Touch Of Evil

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)
YOU MASSIVE FUCKING TWAT AAAAAAAAAGAA!!!!

(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)
The Untouchables.

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:22, archived)
Home Alone

(I helped save b3ta! TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:25, archived)
Never Been Kissed

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
Lost

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:27, archived)
The Invisible Man

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:28, archived)
Swamp Thing

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:31, archived)
Toxic Avenger

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:33, archived)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:22, archived)

uk.imdb.com/title/tt0057181/
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)

why the hell have we not done Pee-wee's Big Adventure yet, we're losing it
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
BIG TOP PEEWEE

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:27, archived)
Shaft
/easy opener
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:28, archived)

soz
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:29, archived)
Oh, these days I never seem to make it past the first thread.
Why the FUCK has nobody said "Big"?
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:31, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/7219376
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:32, archived)
I'll just give up shall I?
LOLOLOLOL Dirty Harry! LOLOLOLBzzzzzlololbuzzz
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:36, archived)

soz
(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:34, archived)
We tried to make the board classy with terrible ancient civilisation jokes
and now it's all ruined again
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:29, archived)
Which ancient civilisation stank?
the G-reeks
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:35, archived)
Which type of Greeks made lots of poo?
The Sp ARSE tans
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:39, archived)
Which race REALLY liked cats (not the Egyptians)?
The PURR-sians!!! Ha!
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:40, archived)
which palace collapsed due to the weight of small low-growing plants, there are approximately 12,000 species of moss classified in the Bryophyta.[2]?
MOSSos !
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:39, archived)
which civilisation all had like loads of hernias?
the ETRUSScans !
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:41, archived)
What did Perdiccas try to blame when Ptolemy kept beating him at age of empires online?
Lagus
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:42, archived)
Why were the romans crying at the battle of cannae?
they were surrounded by carthage-onions
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:44, archived)
You are disqualified for repetition.
www.b3ta.com/talk/7219403

Stand in a damp shed for a month.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:49, archived)
which civilisation drives in the fast lane
the parthians
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:47, archived)
which ancient perisan religion liked big sunday lunches?
the zo-roast-rians
(I helped save b3ta! Lightguy hail satan, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:16, archived)
The long kiss goodbye

(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:54, archived)
Caddyshack.

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:17, archived)
The Pink Panther

(I helped save b3ta! baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:18, archived)
Steptoe Rides Again

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:19, archived)
weekend at bernies

(I helped save b3ta! Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:20, archived)

the best way is straight on at the traffic lights, over the railway bridge, then when you get to the petrol station, take the road to the left, not the first one no not that one, but the next one, it's got a londis on the corner, then it's opposite the carpenter's arms, well not right opposite but just a bit further on, don't park in the yard though the man there is a bit aggressive and put a brick through someone's window once, anyway hope you find it
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:18, archived)
You're suggesting a hedge
in the sense of buying 15 lines, knowing that only one can win (the jackpot.) They're playing long odds, as where they could theoretically win the jackpot twice in two weeks. But as a gambling system, your system has better odds since it can also pick up 3-, 4- and 5-number combinations more efficiently.

What did Benjamin Disraeli ever do for us?
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:18, archived)
He invented disraeli great thing that I can't remember.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:21, archived)
didn't he write disraeli gears for cream?
not cream as a reward, cream the band. i don't know where i'm going with this.
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:25, archived)
I was JUST going to say that
*staggers back to cave*
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:28, archived)
oh man, we're like really old rock-twins, or something.
want to have a talk about whether sabbath were better with ronnie james dio or ozzy osbourne?
(I helped save b3ta! janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:32, archived)
I don't think I have the strength
but thanks
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:34, archived)
What about with Tony "The Cat" Martin?
Also: 'Noon The LOVELY Sidekick.
*Panders*
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:46, archived)
Are you taking something for this condition
Or is this condition the result of you taking something?
(I helped save b3ta! Frisbee TeaBoy, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:28, archived)
*tap* *tap*
Is this thing on?
:(
(I helped save b3ta! Frisbee TeaBoy, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:55, archived)
Your way
They should just pay the same each week, otherwise any profit (or reduction in loss) they make only perpetuates the playing. They've already decided to piss 260 quid a year on the thing, all that they're doing is finding out that they only have to piss 250 quid on it.

On the other hand, raising their chances of a big win from fuck-all to three fuck-alls makes fuck-all difference. Well, two fuck-alls difference.

They should spend it on Thunderbird and sit behind the local shops, getting pissed and scaring the local kids.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:24, archived)
They should spend the winnings on heroin.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
I know someone who called their cat 'Diz', shortened from 'Disraeli'
This is about as much input I can muster for this thread.
(I helped save b3ta! Frisbee TeaBoy, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:26, archived)
I refuse to answer questions about Disraeli until he changes his name to Benjamin Dpalestinian.

(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:27, archived)
Alt: No.

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:28, archived)
That's typical of you, stuj.
I suppose you WANT Gladstone to win?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:31, archived)
Better him than some BACON HATER!

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:41, archived)
if they win a tenner, they should only buy one lottery ticket and invest the rest in parmesan.
eventually, they'll own a whole cheese which will appreciate in its parmesan bank
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32506081/ns/business-consumer_news/t/parmesan-producers-bank-cheese/
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 12:41, archived)
cheese is valuable
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/pepys/learn/page19.shtml
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:07, archived)
I'm learning a lot today

(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:13, archived)
you will soon be able to pass your GCSBries

(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:26, archived)
I like that

(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 13:12, archived)