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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

BBG please get an attorney before you drive to your lottery office to tell those libtards to pay up.

Then promptly fire your attorney, for somebody more suited to your new station in life.

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BouncingBuckyBalls
Feb 15, 2011
I'll wait until this reaches $1Billion before getting excited. Ever since the odds have increased I just don't feel like throwing money away on this unless I can buy a small country if I win.

Flambeau
Aug 5, 2015
Plaster Town Cop
If I won I would become the first man to die of a cannabis overdose

A Neurotic Jew
Feb 17, 2012

by exmarx

henkman posted:

These threads used to be filled with pages of posts of people saying what they'd do with the money, good feelings and good times. Now it's just full of the usual cynical bad gbs posters

sounds like a bunch of really dumb idiots.

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
How do I claim winnings without giving any to my wife? Tia

Garcin
Jun 15, 2000
Courtside Laker's tickets and two chicks at the same time.

Also I would get myself upgraded to the A-list on Southwest Air.

spotix55
Jun 6, 2014
if i win i will donate purchased lottery tickets to impoverished countries.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Still running, .60 ROI coming up on 9500+ years

King Vidiot
Feb 17, 2007

You think you can take me at Satan's Hollow? Go 'head on!

BouncingBuckyBalls posted:

I'll wait until this reaches $1Billion before getting excited. Ever since the odds have increased I just don't feel like throwing money away on this unless I can buy a small country if I win.

Even at a billion, if you win you're going to get a fraction of the actual amount.

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


soy posted:

How do I claim winnings without giving any to my wife? Tia

travel back in time to the 80s, pouf out your hair, put on a jean jacket, and play 'hot in herre' at the high school dance to really blow peoples' minds

then gently caress your mom and tell your 80s child self to get that loving prenup

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
My sim is still running at 9300+ years, gonna let it go all night.

current .59 ROI

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Well, that's enough gambling for this ice age.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord

Say Nothing posted:

Well, that's enough gambling for this ice age.



Noice, won half a million bucks. pretty sweet IMO

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot
How loving stoked do you think your fictional timeless man was those nine times that he won ten thousand dollars? I mean, each of those covered his next fifty years of gambling.

EngineerSean
Feb 9, 2004

by zen death robot
Also nobody won so keep this thread open, next jackpot is gonna be like $500m.

henkman
Oct 8, 2008

A Neurotic Jew posted:

sounds like a bunch of really dumb idiots.

Sincerity is better than bitter cynical alcoholic computer janitors trying one up each other in the shitposting game

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
I forgot to play but I will this time

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Isn't gambling illegal

Why would the government sponsor a gambling

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Kuato posted:

Noice, won half a million bucks. pretty sweet IMO

This is how my elderly mother figures her slots winnings. If she walked out with money she won that money.

Laugh or cry, laugh or cry.

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



400 million smackeroos

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Iowa wins!!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/12/iowa-lottery-rigging-probe-widens/73852730/

Paging jastiger.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Don Tacorleone posted:

Isn't gambling illegal

Why would the government sponsor a gambling

It isn't illegal at all?

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Don Tacorleone posted:

Isn't gambling illegal

Why would the government sponsor a gambling

state lotteries typically fund schools, etc so its for the children

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


henkman posted:

Sincerity is better than bitter cynical alcoholic computer janitors trying one up each other in the shitposting game

check out this cool new discussion site called reddit, it's a great place to chill and post sincerely and make image macros and macaroni pictures with friends

henkman
Oct 8, 2008

Black Baby Goku posted:

I forgot to play but I will this time

Me too, going to be cool when I win

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Don Tacorleone posted:

Isn't gambling illegal

Why would the government sponsor a gambling

numbers rackets are only bad if people have a decent chance of winning

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

The Goatfather posted:

state lotteries typically fund schools, etc so its for the children

Aren't taxes for this?

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Don Tacorleone posted:

Aren't taxes for this?

More money is still needed and you'll never get a 75% tax passed, so government does exactly what corporations do and preys upon the stupid and weak willed.

Which is why corporations are trying to end the government. Competition.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




Don Tacorleone posted:

Aren't taxes for this?

Republicans.

loddite
Apr 17, 2012

I wish everyone who dies goes to hell no matter what.
if i win, I'll finally be able to buy an avatar

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.
If I win I will destroy something beautiful and priceless and buy myself out of trouble. Like art. Or buying an Original Six hockey team and changing their jerseys.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




Solice Kirsk posted:

If I win I will destroy something beautiful and priceless and buy myself out of trouble. Like art. Or buying an Original Six hockey team and changing their jerseys.

Buy the Bruins and just make their logo a cock and balls with extra pubes.

Deadbeat Poetry
Mar 6, 2004

Sorry if my costume scared you
When I win, gonna throw money at lowtax until he gives me the ability to embed music into threads. Also probably gonna eat a bunch of expensive Indian food.

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
If I won I would buy another dog, and a nice house with a big yard and a pool, also a new car, maybe a volvo?? Then I would set up college funds for my little brothers and sisters, the end.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Ten year road trip. Is that a thing I could buy?

How about a high priced hooker to accompany me on said road trip?

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

.

Ace of Baes posted:

If I won I would buy another dog, and a nice house with a big yard and a pool, also a new car, maybe a volvo?? Then I would set up college funds for my little brothers and sisters, the end.

Scrub tier lotto winning plans here. Maybe you should invest in a fleet of taco trucks that only serve mashed potatoes. Be sure to correct anyone who calls them "potato trucks."

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
All winners end up bankrupt, but not me!

Pakistani Brad Pitt
Nov 28, 2004

Not as taciturn, but still terribly powerful...



All of those bankrupt lottery winner stories are always people who win 1-2 million (before taxes) in their state lottery blowing it. Well no poo poo that you can't buy your whole family houses and cars for $800,000.

Outside of that Jack Whittaker dude I don't think you're going to find too many stories of people blowing $100+ million, that's enough to act like an rear end in a top hat for the rest of your days.

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

MrChupon posted:

All of those bankrupt lottery winner stories are always people who win 1-2 million (before taxes) in their state lottery blowing it. Well no poo poo that you can't buy your whole family houses and cars for $800,000.

Outside of that Jack Whittaker dude I don't think you're going to find too many stories of people blowing $100+ million, that's enough to act like an rear end in a top hat for the rest of your days.

Guess again:

http://www.businessinsider.com/lottery-winners-who-lost-everything-2013-12?op=1

quote:

Bud Post lost $16.2 million within a nightmarish year — his own brother put out a hit on him.

Toni F. Mestres


William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but was $1 million in debt within a year.

"I wish it never happened," Post said. "It was totally a nightmare."

A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings and his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him in the hopes he'd inherit a share of the winnings.

After sinking money into various family businesses, Post sank into debt and spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector.

Bud now lives quietly on $450 a month and food stamps.

quote:

Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. was undone by casino lawsuits.

DAVID SOUZA


In 2002, West Virginia building contractor Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. walked away with $114 million after taxes on a $315 Million multi-state Powerball draw.

That was just about his last stroke of good fortune.

In two separate instances, thieves ran off with $745,000 Whittaker stashed in his car. Later on, he was sued by Caesar's Atlantic City for allegedly bouncing $1.5 million in checks.

Within four years, his fortune was gone.

EugeneJ fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jan 4, 2016

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

MrChupon posted:

All of those bankrupt lottery winner stories are always people who win 1-2 million (before taxes) in their state lottery blowing it. Well no poo poo that you can't buy your whole family houses and cars for $800,000.

Outside of that Jack Whittaker dude I don't think you're going to find too many stories of people blowing $100+ million, that's enough to act like an rear end in a top hat for the rest of your days.

Feed your dream man

E history is littered with these stories

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