Guest Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 The chances of winning the lottery big time, is the same odds as walking out your front door and being eaten by a crocodile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Medical included! Board and lodgings to, presumably? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 The chances of winning the lottery big time, is the same odds as walking out your front door and being eaten by a crocodile That probably depends on where you live? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Board and lodgings too, presumably? If you didn't mind sleeping outdoors quite a lot and eating C-rations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaiRai Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Went to a dinner party in Minburi once and realized when the taxi dropped me off that I had forgotten to pick up a bottle of wine or bring anything. God damnit! Just outside the couple's home an old lady with a bicycle had one of those makeshift tables set up with lottery tickets. I bought one (pair) as a joke just to bring something. Anything. Anyway, was surprised at how happy my friend's wife was to get this. Cool. Since then it's become a de facto small gesture of thanks when I don't know what else to get. And it's surprisingly efficient. Thai lottery itself is shady as hell and expensive for the shitty reward if you win. I love the fact that they have an underground lottery running blatantly in the open side by side with the state lottery (and many times you can buy the tickets from the same folks for either one). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Thaksin made the underground lottery legal when he was the poobah. As soon as he was out, it went underground again. (I wonder what his interest in it was. ) Back in my Peace Corps days, another volunteer in Buriram bought a lottery ticket just for the hell of it. It was 20 baht a ticket in those days. To our amazement, he won the 20,000 baht prize. Our PC monthly living allowance was 1,800 baht, so that was a helluva lot of money. I decided to start buying them ... and never won anything more than the last two digits booby prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted August 19, 2014 Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 I quiet like the effect. I played the same lotto numbers for years. One night I got the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th numbers and both supplementaries. So 7 of the 8 numbers I had. Paid just on $4000.00. Division 1 which I missed paid $750,000.00. Big difference. Never played again. I figured that was as close as i was ever going to get based on the odds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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