Contestant based shows on the TV always seem exciting and yet depressing as individual of teams compete against one another to get through to the next round, or to reach a prize or possible prize. For every jubilant winner, there's numerous others who have quietly slipped out of the back door ...

There's one contestant based show to end all contestant based shows. In this show, the whole audience in the studio, and most of the audience at home too, are contestants. And the winner-to-loser ratio is really dreadful. What a strange premise for a piece of entertainment - that everyone starts on a high thinking that their whole life could be changed and, twice a week, those high hopes are dashed on the rocks of reality.

You've probably gathered by now that I don't play the lottery. I pay quite enough money to the Government as it is, without paying extra lottery tax, and without paying for good causes which the government SHOULD often be funding as a matter of course.

For every pound spent on the UK lottery, 45p is returned in prizes, 28p is allocated to the distribution funds, 12p goes straight to the government as tax, 5p is kept by the operators, 5p by the retailers, and 5p is set aside as money to prime the pump of future scratch card games, etc.
(written 2006-06-07 09:57:28)

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