Lotto

In my local area the Lotto prize often reaches $20 million and usually it is shared by ten winners who get $2 million each.

Here's what to do:

Pick the numbers you think will win the prize and play those same numbers on each of 90 tickets.

You'll probably lose but let's say your numbers win...

Normally there would be ten winners who each get a $2 million share in the total prize pool of $20 million - but this time you also have 90 winning tickets so now there are 100 tickets sharing the $20 million prize pool.

$20,000,000 divided by 100 winning tickets = $200,000 per winning ticket.

But you have 90 winning tickets so you collect $18 million and the other ten players get only $2 million between them - $200,000 each.

Works with any Lotto game - all you have to do is pick the winning numbers.

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I told a friend about this and he told me, "It doesn't work like that."

That's the great thing about blissful ignorance - the world works exactly the way YOU want it to work and to hell with the technicalities.

(I didn't bother to explain the situation more clearly to him. I just said, "Fair enough," and he went away quite happy; absolutely convinced that he was a genius and I was a bit of an idiot.)

Gunfight At The Pearl River Shops

PEARL RIVER COUNTY -- Authorities have released the names of all four people involved in a shooting at a Pearl River County gun store that left two dead and two injured.

Jason A. McLemore, 44, the owner of McLemore Gun Shop, and his son, Jacob Edward McLemore, 17, were killed in the shooting ... Both died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Audy McCool, 52, and his son Michael McCool, 29, both sustained life-threatening injuries.

Jason McLemore's wife was working at the shop when the McCools entered to pick up a firearm that had been repaired. There was some sort of argument about a $25 fee, Tucker said.

The woman called her husband, who arrived with their son ... An argument ensued and the shooting began.

http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article56352075.html

In my world a dispute over $25 gets an argument lasting a bit over a minute with a "fuck you" at the end of it. In their world two people die and two are critically injured. My world is better.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article56352075.html#storylink=cpyhttp://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article56352075.htmlhttp://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article56352075.html

Elizabeth McCarthy Is A Story Teller

Back in the 1950s and 60s my motorcycle racing hero was Mike "The Bike" Hailwood. He was a twelve times winner at the Isle of Man and won 76 races on the Grand Prix circuits; wins that gave him world championships every year from 1961 to 1967.

Sadly, at the age of forty, he was driving his family to the local fish and chip shop when a truck made an illegal turn in front of his car. The vehicles collided and Mike and his daughter were killed. The truck driver was unhurt.

So I was searching the Internet for details of his racing career when I came across this:

Hailwood claimed to have been told by a fortune teller in South Africa that he wouldn't live to 40 and would be killed by a truck. The story was repeated by Elizabeth McCarthy in a 1981 memoir, while recounting her relationship with Hailwood, whom she had met at the Canadian Grand Prix in 1967. When he asked her hand in marriage, she replied that she was hesitant to marry someone who could die at any weekend race. He then told her his story and said; "...so you see, it won't happen on a track."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hailwood#Death

Marvellous isn't it? The woman had known Mike Hailwood since 1967 but it wasn't until after he died in an accident with a truck that she suddenly starts telling everybody that a psychic had predicted he would die in an accident with a truck! Not much of a prediction when the first time anybody hears about it is after the event occurred.

So I did an Internet search for this Elizabeth McCarthy woman and discovered that twenty years later she was still telling the same story - but this time she also revealed some additional information about herself. She's a fucking ratbag!

I was in a terrible car accident - so terrible that I died, went to heaven and came back.

http://8w.forix.com/hailwood.html 

Bloody hell! She's doing even better than Jesus! She came back! Jesus didn't!

So I will quite happily dismiss her claim that a psychic told Mike Hailwood he would die in a crash with a truck. She seems to me like the sort of woman who casually adds supernatural crap to her stories just so she can kid herself that her own stories are more exciting than other people's stories.

Cycling: The Tour Down Under

It's a big day for Adelaide when cyclists from around the world arrive in the city for their annual "compare the chemicals" festival. 

(Some silly bastards still think it's a bike race - but try telling that to the drug merchants. They'll laugh in your face.)

Noah: Another Religious Psycopath

One of the saddest parts of the bible is the Flood Story. That bit where the waters subsided and all the animals on the ark were safe at last - and then Noah celebrated their rescue by killing them! 

All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. (Genesis 8:19-20)

How much blood and guts do these religious bastards need?

Christian Love & Tolerance

Police say that 49-year-old Laura Reid was visiting a disabled man in his home. At one point, police say, Reid asked the victim if he believed in God, and he jokingly replied that he did not.

According to an arrest warrant, Reid became angry with his response, so she picked up his metal cane and began beating him on the head and body, hitting him so hard that the cane broke.

Police say the victim was unable to leave his home because of his disability, and Reid stayed there for three hours after the assault. When she finally left, she allegedly took the man's cell phone, keys, $50 cash and a wallet containing credit cards.

Police say the man eventually crawled to a nearby gas station, where police and EMS were called. The man was taken to St. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, where he was treated for injuries he sustained, including a concussion, a broken arm, multiple bruises, as well as cuts and abrasions.

http://www.wdrb.com/story/30897934/

Laura Reid - Christianity Personified

Biblical Contradictions Explained

One of America's most famous Christians explains that god deliberately put contradictions in the bible so that clever people would find them, realize the whole thing was bullshit, and thus have an excuse to leave the religion.

That leaves only the really stupid people as believers, which suits parasitic preachers like Kent Hovind because he can feed them bullshit and they're still dumb enough to give him their money.