The Wife & The Lottery

[2long]

Who else out there has to listen to long & repetitive phone calls to friends & family members twice a month (same story for all calls).

The calls are to discuss the lottery, and how they 'nearly' chose the right numbers (For example, 'I chose 45 or 44 when it was 54!')... or how they chose this draw's winning numbers in a previous draw?

Even in the west where combinations of lottery numbers have so many more variables, no sane human could talk for so long about it... especially after no winning!

Rant over.

[worgeordie]

I often see complaints about noise on here,be it,Frogs,Karaoke,Cicadas,

motor bikes,Cocks (crowing),and dogs barking,this is a first for wife yacking

on the phone.

 regards worgeordie

 

[PatOngo]

11 minutes ago, 2long said:

Even in the west where combinations of lottery numbers have so many more variables, no sane human could talk for so long about it... especially after no winning

In the west, you don't need to win the lottery to buy an iPhone or a pickup truck!

[bergan]

You mean you eavesdrop? Can't really say I'm ever forced to listen to her phone calls.

[luk AJ]

Immediately after the numbers are announced there must be a tel traffic overload. They discuss why they did not win although the numbers came from the new license plate of the sister of the neighbours husband etc...
This goes on for hours and then when you think all is said, a new strategy is set in motion how they will choose the next numbers.
They always loose money but never loose faith that the next lottery round will finally be the big jack pot!


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[remorhaz]

21 minutes ago, luk AJ said:

Immediately after the numbers are announced there must be a tel traffic overload. They discuss why they did not win although the numbers came from the new license plate of the sister of the neighbours husband etc...
This goes on for hours and then when you think all is said, a new strategy is set in motion how they will choose the next numbers.
They always loose money but never loose faith that the next lottery round will finally be the big jack pot!


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You think its bad now wait until casinos are allowed to open up.  They may be Thai owned but only the Thais that do own them will own anything.  

[sammieuk1]

I let my 5 year old choose the ticket and the Mrs complains every time its not lucky and more often than not she is spot on????

[Thaidream]

I heard a frog croak last night and I know he gvee me the winning number. Now off to the lottery vendor.

[KKr]

indeed,
and whereas I wonder how come so many lucky winners have multiple tickets, what is statistically in my understanding unlikely but of course not impossible, this is only discussed as a see, "you buy many tickets get big price I tell you all the time".

Strange enough, tickets sold in a set of identical numbers are sold for more money than individual tickets whereas the chances of getting a price at all, are definitely bigger when holding different numbers.

in any case, it seems it is not so difficult, and I will let you in on the secret.
the numbers do reveal themselves on the bottom of a freshly emptied bottle when looking into it up against the morning sun, really, I tried and 75, 50, 7, 5, 3, 30 and 33 my lucky numbers. Believe it or not, I played a large multimillion dollar American Lottery with that.
Another working strategy to win big on the Lottery is opening a many click web channel and tell straight faced (preferably with a scantily clad woman of the female gender in the background holding up number cards) about the moon, the stars, and the number of Tuktee calls between 00:08 and 4:03 revealing what numbers will be drawn.

 

Will keep you posted on when that idea goes live,
most likely after smoking you know what becomes legal.

????

 

Edited August 20, 2019 by KKr

[wolf81]

2 hours ago, Mansinthe said:

They need to ask the relatives if they dreamed of some numbers recently.

 

But my wife won 2000 baht recently.. (doesnt matter that she probably did spend 4000 to win that money).

 

So it must be working.. thai math after all

Thai math, it's disappointing.

 

I bought some lottery ticket for my girlfriend and the last 3 numbers might have been something like 465 while the winning combination was something like 654. My girlfriend come to me and she told me she was really close to winning. Though it'd be impossible for me to explain that all numbers have like a 0.01% chance of winning equally. That 456 wasn't any closer to winning than 001. 

 

And another example of Thai math was when we discussed sugar contents in drinks. From the Yakult bottle it was shown that 20% of the drink was sugar. So I told her that like 1/5th of the bottle was sugar. But she said it was much less, since the bottle was very small. I think the concept of percentages aren't really explained well in school. Of course, I didn't bother to explain her, but I will do my best to make sure our daughter will get a decent understanding in maths.

[Aatsi]

The greed of money messes up people's heads just as many religions and for Thais money is a religion it goes beyond everything because neighbor and wealth envy is endless. The aftermath of what the number should have been and what was felt as a prayer for the next draw.

[kensisaket]

3 hours ago, bergan said:

You mean you eavesdrop? Can't really say I'm ever forced to listen to her phone calls.

The only way not to eavesdrop is to crank up the volume on the TV.  Thai women have two speaking voices loud and really loud; especially, when it comes to telephone calls.  

[ChouDoufu]

On 8/19/2019 at 9:39 AM, 2long said:

Who else out there has to listen to long & repetitive phone calls to friends & family members twice a month (same story for all calls).

The calls are to discuss the lottery, and how they 'nearly' chose the right numbers (For example, 'I chose 45 or 44 when it was 54!')... or how they chose this draw's winning numbers in a previous draw?

Even in the west where combinations of lottery numbers have so many more variables, no sane human could talk for so long about it... especially after no winning!

Rant over.

what phone calls?  i told my gf two years ago to stop buying lottery tickets.  (this was just after i confiscated all her credit cards!)  she hasn't bought one since, and nowadays doesn't even slow down when we pass a vendor on the street.

[Joe Mcseismic]

How to Double Your Money Playing the Lottery.

 

From your pocket, pull out a 100 Bt note.

Fold the note in half.

Put back in pocket.

[Joe Mcseismic]

8 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

what phone calls?  i told my gf two years ago to stop buying lottery tickets.  (this was just after i confiscated all her credit cards!)  she hasn't bought one since, and nowadays doesn't even slow down when we pass a vendor on the street.

.....and of course, she doesn't have a phone with a phone number to a black-market lottery.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Strange enough, tickets sold in a set of identical numbers are sold for more money than individual tickets whereas the chances of getting a price at all, are definitely bigger when holding different numbers.

 

Illegal but Thai customers who want multiple tickets of the same number will pay without complaint.! ????

[Brer]

There is a special tree down the way a bit, if you scratch off some of the bark, offer it a few cigarettes on a banana leaf, light a couple of candles, say a pray and wait about half an hour it will reveal a two digit number which will win. 

The wife never seems to win and tells me many people win and I say who and she says many. 

[Tonyt00]

Yeah, we have all the phone calls also, but when we take our evening walk, we stop at every house and I have to listen to the same ALMOST stories. Amazing Thailand!

[farangkinok]

“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”

― George Orwell, 1984

[ChouDoufu]

37 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

.....and of course, she doesn't have a phone with a phone number to a black-market lottery.

correct, she does not.

 

i handle the finances.  she gives me her salary paper, i enter all the info on my budget spreadsheet, follow the balance in her bank accounts to keep updated.

 

she knows when she met me, she won the lottery.

[OOTAI]

24 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

she knows when she met me, she won the lottery.

Unfortunately she didn't realise the winning prize was a goose.

[2long]

25 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

correct, she does not.

 

i handle the finances.  she gives me her salary paper, i enter all the info on my budget spreadsheet, follow the balance in her bank accounts to keep updated.

 

she knows when she met me, she won the lottery.

You must be a right bundle of fun!!

My wife has some secrets from me, as I do her... but nothing serious. To have total control is IMO too much.

Live a little!

[crazykopite]

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[Skeptic7]

Every single draw...but it's said to me! Once it actually was valid a few years ago, as she had it on "live" TV and the 2nd prize for ฿100,000 x 2, since we had 2 tickets. My ticket was 669966 and the winning number was 669969. One number off...STILL A LOSER! Still ZERO payout to us, but it was exciting for a few seconds! 

 

She still talks about it...

[KKr]

8 hours ago, farangkinok said:

“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Fake News no doubt ????

[elgenon]

Then she is getting something for her money. 

[KC 71]

The only time i will dream of my numbers are when they’re up !


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[RocketDog]

My GF wanted to but lottery tickets the other day. She rarely does it so I humor her.

 

She ask me for 200฿ and told me she could win 12 million. She said she would split the money with me. I replied that instead she could keep all the money if she won but must pay me the 200 back if she lost.

 

She lost but I never saw the money.

It's OK because I got it back in 'services rendered' and she was on top of her game.

 

Best ฿200 I ever spent!

 

From now on I will consider such bargains more often.

 

There's more than one way to skin a cat they say. ???? ????

[sunnyboy2018]

22 hours ago, ChouDoufu said:

what phone calls?  i told my gf two years ago to stop buying lottery tickets.  (this was just after i confiscated all her credit cards!)  she hasn't bought one since, and nowadays doesn't even slow down when we pass a vendor on the street.

Confiscating credit cards sounds like controlling behaviour. 

[evadgib]

For the price of a ticket I'm surprised the prize is capped at just THB 6M 

 

(The same stake could net the full monty elsewhere!)