The best
description I have ever heard of the National Lottery is 'A
tax on the
numerically incompetent'.
Anyone who is willing to spend money on a chance that they could win a vast pot of cash at those odds needs to have their head read. Common statistics bounced around about the lottery run along the lines of :-
-After buying a ticket, you are more likely to die in the hour before the draw than you are to win the jackpot
-You are more likely to get struck by lightning twice than you are to win the jackpot
- You have more chance of picking the 'lucky' coin out of a line of 10 pence pieces laid side by side ... that was two miles long.
I'm sure if you pointed these fact out to people then they may reconsider wasting their money, but I suppose if it makes you happy .......