Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just did my first outing/food shopping run of the year; actually first food shopping since before Xmas .... I'd completely run out of kitchen towel and I use that a lot (cover dishes/wipe down the inside of the microwave, then wipe down drips on the worktop) ... so can't really go without it.

Also thought I'd get fishfingers and some cheddar: except they'd run out of those.

Picked up the tomatoes & peppers, both 29p this week. Loaf of bread and coleslaw (it'll be coleslaw/tomato and coleslaw/peppers sandwiches for lunch today then!). 2 scotch eggs, 3 cheesecakes, 2.5Kg spuds, 400g of cocktail sausages, 15 eggs, 3 pack of kitchen towels.

That's enough for loads of meals

£8.90 all in.

I had a cocktail earlier that cost more than that.

Kept me going for about 25 minutes

GDB2222

treliac wrote: »

Some statistician said (on the box this morning) that if a Harry Potter book was opened randomly and a word chosen off that page. Then someone else opened the book randomly and chose a word, they would still be 45 times more likely to choose the same word than to win the lottery!

Are you sure that was a statistician?

Or, to put it another way, are there really Harry Potter books with 1,000,000 words in them? I remember some of the volumes being rather lengthy, but surely not that lengthy?

ukmaggie45

GDB2222 wrote: »

Or, to put it another way, are there really Harry Potter books with 1,000,000 words in them? I remember some of the volumes being rather lengthy, but surely not that lengthy?

They just feel that lengthy when you're ploughing through all the boring Quiditch stuff. :eek: Never got around to the last 2 books, she could really have done with a decent editor.

GDB2222

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

They just feel that lengthy when you're ploughing through all the boring Quiditch stuff. :eek: Never got around to the last 2 books, she could really have done with a decent editor.

Same here. I read the first few, then gave up. In fact, the first one was delightful, and my children really enjoyed it. Then, the books just became more and more bloated.

zagubov

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

My speed test result.

This is via wireless. OH has the direct line into his computer, so I'll ask him to test it. Yesterday I had really rubbish numbers, but I think OH was online at the time. He's making chicken soup this evening! :money:

I seem to get a better result today.. Using a Bromley server instead of Croydon.

The Harry Potter books were good talking books with Stephen Fry reading them on cassette for long drives.

Can't gamble. Just don't believe in it.

Doozergirl

zagubov wrote: »

I seem to get a better result today.. Using a Bromley server instead of Croydon.

The Harry Potter books were good talking books with Stephen Fry reading them on cassette for long drives.

Can't gamble. Just don't believe in it.

I hate to say it, but Bromley has always been better than Croydon

Doozergirl

Anyone win?

58 was the first number out, so that's the people who can't let their original numbers go out of it.

Looks like a crap set of numbers to me. They've purposely created hype over giant rollovers to sell tickets because not even one person is going to legitimately win it.

I'm willing no one to have got six to find out how many managed five and the bonus.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

26, 27, 46, 47, 52, 58. Bonus ball 48.

If I'd been picking numbers .... it wouldn't have been any of those!

Dammit. I would have picked those numbers.

Oh well.

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

Can't gamble. Just don't believe in it.

I can't either. The sum total of my gambling is £1 a year - at my school when some teachers leave at the end of the summer term, there's always a sweepstake on the exact time the leavers' speeches will end.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

There are 500,000 deaths a year in the UK. That's equivalent to 1 person in 1 million dying every hour. The chance of a ticket winning (or at least sharing) in the jackpot is 1 in 45 million. So, if you buy your ticket an hour before the draw, you are 45 times as likely to die beforehand as to win the jackpot.

Therefore, you would have to leave your purchase until around 1 minute before the draw in order to have an equal chance of dying or winning the jackpot. In practice, I think that ticket sales end 30 minutes before.

I hope that helps. For all practical purposes, it actually couldn't be you, I'm afraid.



PS: There's a flaw in that analysis, in that it assumes that everyone is equally likely to die in the next hour. In fact, most of the people who are going to die in the next hour are currently in no fit state to buy a lottery ticket.

As Australian scientist Dr Karl says, entering the lottery only marginally increases your chances of winning it.