Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 19, 2021

The same people that put the beer commercials and liquor commercials on tv .

Why not me? It won’t be me because I’m not buying a ticket.

Several of my group refer to the purchase of lottery tickets as “paying your innumeracy tax”.

Somebody will win but at the same time lots more people will be in car accidents, get shot, be diagnosed with cancer, and so on. Statistics should really be a required subject.

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I don’t play the lottery regularly but I’ll cave in and a get a ticket when the Powerball gets big enough that I hear the news start talking about it, like half a billion or higher. A better “investment” than whatever small vice I would’ve used the same couple of dollars for, usually junk food. Like Nas once said, that buck that bought a bottle could’ve struck lotto. I mean, know I won’t win but it’s at least fun to dream for a few minutes once a year.

The old joke HAS to be said, the lottery is a tax on people that are bad at math.

I’m still trying to figure out what my excuse is.

The government, ad restrictions are only placed on its competitors.

First thought: who said someone’s going to win, it may happen no one will? Second: If she’s falling for something like lottery the answer to who’s not going to end top in the math quiz is: her.

The diss on math skills, if someone expects to get rich. However, some just play for entertainment, without seriously expecting to change their lives

“Where kids can see them” – which is everything everywhere. It’s better to educate your child then to try and avoid subjects you think are taboo.

Lottery and casino ads are shown everywhere on tv so it is likely children will see them during their bing watching sprees. But you don’t catch fish if you don’t bait the hook. It is to encourage spending on impossible odds and unrealistic dreams.

I miss Andy Rooney:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lets-list-the-lottery-losers/

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James 2:24

I’m wondering why the Government is in the gambling business.

They give you worse odds than the bookies – whom they used to arrest – did, too.

And the advertising is designed to appeal to desperate. When I see someone who is obviously poor dropping a ton on lottery tickets and scratch-offs, I get mad. Not at him, at the Persuaders who have convinced him that it’s his only hope.

Statistics: Knowing that “1 in 292,201,338” odds are close enough to “0 in 292,201,338” so that you have about the same chance of winning as if you don’t play.

in my 67 years I have won a house(urban renewal) a car(10 yr old subaru) and a balloon ride (me and heights don’t get along) so why not a lottery? (I don’t buy tickets.)

It’s been said many times before: The lottery is taxation for the mathematically-challenged.

Well yes teach your children. But, I have to say I am just floored with watching any major sporting event on TV due to the commercials. The are predominantly for online betting. Really! Do we need to have that? It is constant, every TV break they are back again trying to lure you into placing your bets. It seems to be leading us down the wrong path. Children or adults. IMHO

while in grad school, an economics prof once noted: "the probability of winning the lottery doesn’t go up much if you actually buy a ticket. "

A useful question on tomorrow’s math quiz would be “How long would it take you, ‘investing’ $10 a day in the lottery, to win your money back? Assume a million other people are playing. Show your work.”

Frazz, kids watch TV they see all sorts of commercials. Bus Stops, billboards, store windows. you name it, it is advertised all over the place.

The Michigan state lottery now has a gambling app. It’s insane.

Sure try for a month playing the same numbers every day and see how you do. I did that and it was a waste of time. Experiment completed.

“Who puts … where kids can see them?” Same folks who green light making candy flavored vaping solutions?