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scratch cards

Where do you work if you can't afford a £3 scratchcard?

The lottery is just a tax on benefits, it's just a shame they fund so many tin pot schemes rather than using the cash to lower income tax for proper people.
 

The lottery is aimed squarely at the low income and unemployed bracket, because they're thick as mince. They buy them the same time they buy their fags and booze and complain they're skint. Silly cnuts.

Anyway, that whole article is over nothing, because every ticket, I'm led to believe, has a serial number which tells Camelot if it's a winner. I recall a newsagents got caught because they scratched off the serial on every ticket to find the winners.
 
Scratch cards aren't what they used to be

Leather Goddesses of Phobos scratch n sniff.jpg
 
Another scam I've heard about in the USofA is that each roll has a set total value of winnings on it.
Store clerks (check out me and my use of foreign terms) used to note how much had been won and when the tickets left/winnings unclaimed ratio was favourable they'd buy up the remaining cards via a mate.
 
If this story is to be believed, this unemployed person is spending £126 a week on scratch cards, close to £500 a month. Looks like working is for mugs unless your own self respect says otherwise.
 
If you can't afford 3 quid for a scratch card you need to get a job that pays decent wages

The scrote buys 6 £3 cards a day out of unemployment/lazy c**t payments. That's £126 a week, or near enough 45% of what some poor sod on minimum wage takes home.

Fire up the furnacesoutrage bus.
 
Where do you work if you can't afford a £3 scratchcard?

The lottery is just a tax on benefits, it's just a shame they fund so many tin pot schemes rather than using the cash to lower income tax for proper people.
What I've heard locally is that the lotto is a tax on stupidity.
 
I don't know what the odds against winning anything on UK Scratch Cards are, but here is a page giving the odds against winning in Australia:

https://thelott.com/content/dam/projects/the-lott/winningcombinations/GC_ISI_odds-of-winning.pdf

They work out to a reasonable chance of winning a very small amount, but as far as winning anything significant, they are about four fifths of five eighths of fcuk all.

"The lottery is aimed squarely at the low income and unemployed bracket, because they're thick as mince. They buy them the same time they buy their fags and booze and complain they're skint. Silly cnuts." (Mr Bane) Same here.

In short, the damn things represent a tax upon imbeciles. I can't remember when I last bought one.
 
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I used to buy the odd one, until one day when I won £100.

Fantastic, you might think, but actually no it was a bad thing, as for some reason I now thought I had a chance of winning.

I went from buying one or two a month, to at least four or five a week. In the space of a month or two, I realised that I'd spent more on scratch cards than I had won.

I haven't bought any since.
 
One hates to be a cynic, but imagine if the lout did get his 200k - bets are that he'd be on a plane to the Caribbean and a big blow-out with cocaine and hookers before you could say Jack Robinson.
 
Bought one in our Co-op in the late 80's/early 90's, really cannot recall but Our Kid was just a nipper.
Won a tenner, incredibly. What were the chances? Pretty much nil to getting struck by lightening really, therefor it was the last. Back in the 70's, I went out with the lads, popped a massive Fiver on ( I vaguely recall since I was likely half-cut) Roulette and won a lot.but we spent that on a good Stakis steak dinner and that was the last time. One of my mate's sisters was a pit-boss in the casino, and she told me that was that and best walk away. I did.

Yesterday, thanks to this thread, I asked the staff I know very well at the Tesco fag/Lotto check-out if they could recall a meaningful winning event in the 7 years they have been there. None could.
You always see single-celled repeat offending Lotto trailer-trash bringing in their tickets to check...nil response of course. Hell mend them. I relish their cyclical desperate Food-Bank lemming-driven misery. Smelly lazy no-good oxygen thieving wasters. Some of them have the cheek to look SWMBO & I up and down since we go out dressed smartly, polish my shoes, and actually shave. Well, I shave.
 
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