I had fun with our dream threads and my friends that bought tickets and talked about what we would do if we won. What was odd to me is that all four of the people I was hanging out with almost seemed legitimately surprised they didn’t win the lottery; disgruntled even. I found this very surprising when I was the only person in a good mood after the drawing (and they all quickly went home despite us having a great time up until 10:01)
Anyone else have a lotto group and notice this? They each legitimately expected to win, and were frustrated when I first refused to check my ticket and instead teased them about how I offered to trade and they turned me down.
I was the biggest loser tonight, $0. Everyone else got 2 bucks or 4 bucks. But I was the only one who didn’t get their life ruined by not rolling a perfect 20 7 times in a row.
How are y’all feeling? Sure you wanted to win, but did losing actually ruin a fun night for you?
1. This shit isn't politics 2. If you want to gamble, go to the fucking casino, at least they'll give you free drinks and comp you a buffet after you lose a couple hundred bucks.
Kevin Miller
false hope is for goys
Jose Cook
My night isn't ruined but I do stupidly feel some sort of disappointment. I just want the money for the sake of freedom. But I'm not gonna cry about it - in fact I'm looking up other ways to get rich. I've been budgeting lately and I want to get into investment eventually. I want to make lots of money but I think I can achieve it with saving and investing. One of my tickets started with "5" and "20 - something" so for a second I got so hopeful lol.
Jonathan James
>Do you feel disappointed?
No, it's fun to dream but in the time it took me to spend $2 on my ticket tonight I saw probably 100 more being sold. Just think, in my own personal area of nowhere there were 100x more tickets sold than what I bought. Multiply that by minutes in a day, days since the last drawing, and then the number of stores selling tickets all the way across the country. It's crazy, and even with all those tickets sold there's a chance no one wins.
Luis Wood
I mean I understand the want, I just don’t get the EXPECTATION.
All four of these goy thought they were gonna win, not that they might (which was my attitude) but it seemed like they considered it ordained by God that they would win.
I was being light-hearted, offering to trade tickets, joking about how one of them owed me ten bucks so their ticket was really mine. Everyone was having a laugh until the numbers fell.
It felt like someone died but no one told me.
Xavier Young
We all spent 10. It was my second time playing the lotto.
If no one won tonight I’ll probably spend 2 more.
Logan Phillips
Yeah I can't imagine actually convincing yourself you're going to win. The chances are too low to justify that amount of assuredness. I just want to get out there and start saving and watching that number go up. It's fun and a little exciting to throw the dice with such an improbable chance but I'm not going to hinge my life expectations on it
Noah Jenkins
As if Jews weren’t stealing our money already. The lottery allows you to donate to them directly
Asher Gray
I mean EVERYONE convinces themselves 2 dollars worth they are going to win, it just felt like everyone else at my place thought it was a coin flip and they got ripped off.
Daniel Butler
Also, I honestly probably wouldn’t worry about growing my money much at all, I would only participate in extremely conservative investments or ecclectic real estate.
Pic related was my actual plan, and perhaps the wisest investment plan of all time.
i made 12 bucks so i'm gonna get a nice 6pack of stout tomorrow. pretty happy about that senpai
Mason Powell
I’m glad you won but drinking beer is for women.
Joshua Foster
This is a thread about voluntary taxation, the absolute purest form of taxation available.
Kayden Barnes
Damnit Jow Forums, be my friend
Blake Young
I tried and I'm a leaf. If no one wins, I'll go back and get more.
Logan Reyes
The weird thing about lotteries is that although the odds are astronomical, someone wins eventually, literally nothing stops you from picking the right numbers, if you had just moved your fat finger a few spaces to the right...
It’s fun to play but the people who get caught up in what would happen if they win are bordering on insanity
Easton Mitchell
I used a form of divination to predict 4/6 of the numbers but Imdidn't believe in myself
Nathaniel Rodriguez
you do you and i'll do me
Colton Watson
That’s the wierd part: for me the whole purpose of playing is to “get caught up in what would happen” and I thought I shared that with anons here and my friends at home, but once they realized they lost they all acted like they were ripped off.
I dunno, it’s just wierd to have that high of an expectation of winning. I used to buy scratch offs on Monday and scratch them on Friday because the entire point was getting some fantasy time in and helping recognize what my real goals are.
Juan Cooper
An you read their minds? I think you might the autist in the group
Nolan Wilson
If you are a cute woman we could just do each other.
It’s kind of obvious when everyone is smiling, talkative, laughing, and having a good time, then become either angry and rip up their tickets or sullen and quiet then suddenly has to leave after the numbers are pulled.
Maybe you are the autist if you think it takes mind reading to figure this sort of thing out.
Anthony Davis
It’s very interesting from a philosophical perspective, people create such whimsical ideas of what they would do - donate to charity, build a hospital, pay their parents mortgage, as if they are admitting to themselves that they are unwilling to try and do so now
Frankly I would just call it degeneracy, but it’s fascinating nonetheless
Matthew Johnson
I’m not quite on the same page as you, but the fascination or confusion is what made me make this thread.
We were all on the same wavelength until the numbers fell. Then I was suddenly at a mass funeral in an upbeat mood.
James Watson
And I’m no stranger to other types of gambling and gamblers. I haven’t done lottery much but I am an acknowledged degenerate gambler who has to set hard and fast limits. Problem there is, I always lose eventually because I never set an upper limit, only a lower one.
But I’ve never been that upset over losing, and I’ve lost WAY more than the ten dollars we each lost tonight.
