Monday January 11th (aka Powerball? I Have One Of Those!)

[Greenguy]

Morning!

So, Powerball is up to $1.3 BILLION or $806 Million Cash Value, so $450 Million or so after taxes? Doesn't even seem worth it

Rough weekend. Spent almost 12 hours on Saturday getting my Fantasy Football Playoff Pool set up for the 79 entries that came in Then watched football til I fell asleep at halftime of the PITvsCIN game

Yesterday, I got bored with the SEAvsMIN game and decided to watch Sicario on Amazon PPV. It was ok - not great, but not horrible.

The Bitch is off today, so I'll be spending most of the day with her

[Cleo]

I've bought my ticket. If you bought all 175,223,510 combinations you will still come out ahead. It would be enough money to buy the PlayBoy mansion. Not sure what I would do with Hugh Hefner still living there after I bought it though. Guess I could dress him up in a bunny suit for a conversation piece.





Just saw my Air BnB guest off. Now I get to be maid service this afternoon after I get home from another court date due to you know who.

[HowlingWulf]

Originally Posted by Cleo

I've bought my ticket. If you bought all 175,223,510 combinations you will still come out ahead.

The bad news is they changed the format on Oct 4th, so now it's 1:292,201,338

See '2015 format change'


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerball

[JustRobert]

Good Morning

We should only have 1 day of rain this week so I see a bunch of house stuff to do on my agenda, as long as the back holds up.

Winning one of those huge lotto's would probably have me disappearing from all the family and so called friends that would come out of the woods looking for handouts. I have no problem with that

[Ramster]

Good morning

Busy day for me as I am leaving for Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon and from there I go to Vegas which means I will not be home for 12 days, yikes! May my liver survive this back to back trips and 3 different shows

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Love this LMAO

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

So, Powerball is up to $1.3 BILLION or $806 Million Cash Value, so $450 Million or so after taxes? Doesn't even seem worth it

You should do the British lottery then, all wins are tax free!

(But they charge tax on buying the ticket, so they get the tax in the end, but all the losers have to pay a share of the winner's tax. Plus this means that they get their tax even if there are no winners that week!)

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Winning one of those huge lotto's would probably have me disappearing from all the family and so called friends....

Many many years ago, when Britain had just started having a lottery, there was a newspaper report about someone who took the money and dumped their family and friends. I was a member of a drama group at the time, and during a break in setting the stage we started talking about this. Everyone said how disgusting this was and that they would never ditch their friends. I thought it witty to say "Well, after I win, I'll never even talk to you lot ever again." Someone replied "In that case, we are all looking forward to you winning!"

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

aka Powerball? I Have One Of Those!

[ecchi]

Rereading the last post I made I realise two things:

1) There is a problem in translation. The maths only work outside the USA, but in the USA you have your own definition of a billion (real billion = 1,000,000,000,000 American billion = 1,000,000,000). So assuming that the prize is 1.3 US billion, that is only 4.33 thousand dollars per person.

2) Only $4,330????? How the hell does the prize get to $4,330 per American? Even if the main prize is 100% of all the money spent on tickets, with no money used to run the lottery, no smaller prizes given, and no profit made from the lottery - that still means that, on average, every single American has spent over four thousand dollars on lottery tickets since the last win!

|cash_bag_emoji

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Everyone said how disgusting this was and that they would never ditch their friends.

People say this in mixed company but if you ever read the horror stories of winners being broke in 5 years. This is partly because of their family and friends expecting them to pay for everything or fund any dumb ass biz they want to start. I made my statement partially joking but the reality is I have some family that would expect, I mean EXPECT, me to give them money thou they haven't talked to me in years. So a change of scenery with no forwarding address is definitely happening

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by ecchi

1) There is a problem in translation. The maths only work outside the USA, but in the USA you have your own definition of a billion (real billion = 1,000,000,000,000 American billion = 1,000,000,000). So assuming that the prize is 1.3 US billion, that is only 4.33 thousand dollars per person.

I thought that math was screwed up. And WTF is the differing billion thing about?? BTW: Wiki never lies:
1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now generally the meaning in both British and American English.

Maybe if you updated your browser or OS you'd know this

[ecchi]

One billion has always been 1,000,000,000. Sadly we have to make allowances for you Americans who cannot count!

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

This is now generally the meaning in both British and American English

Being serious though. There was a European thing a few years back that states that in Europe (including Britain) it is 1,000,000,000 unless one or more party/ies is American (not sure if they meant US or continent), then it is 1,000,000.