Dublin Bus Lotto Winners are 'Heroes'?

ScumLord

jacksie66 wrote: »

The lotto here in New Zealand is $40million tomorrow. If I win I'll be the biggest bastard ever born on the island of Ireland..

Ya but if I know my hemisphere science then that would be -40 million on this side of the planet. That's why you don't see many new zealanders here, we just take their money off them at the airport and send them home again.

Permabear

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osarusan

Permabear wrote: »

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It was a joke ffs. Look at at the sentence you had to delete when quoting the post.

The King of Moo

Permabear wrote: »

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I really hope you went to the effort of looking that up and then making the calculations yourself after reading my post.

ofcork

I see the price of the euromillions is going up again!

_Brian

ClovenHoof wrote: »

This is getting surreal to say the least. A special Dublin Bus is laid on as they collect their money and they are greeted as heroes for buying a few tickets in a chance draw. Free money is nice and good luck to them, but what great achievment are we celebrating here?

I can understand if they did something like gave the money to charity, or raised it for charity. But to see the carry on today outside the lotto centre was just bizzare.



It seems part of a Irish bull**** mentality that we are unique at.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irelands-22-new-millionaires-step-onto-red-carpet-at-lotto-headquarters-34864899.html

That post just stinks of traditional Irish begrudgery!!

These guys had a great stroke of good fortune and I'm happy for them, yes a bit of a fuss was made of them but what harm, is it gone now that we won't accept a good news story at all in this country ??

PeterTheNinth

I think the OP must have read this similar article.

The 21 heroes and one hero bus inspector arrived, appropriately, in a glistening double decker bus with a garda motorcycle escort.
The hero bus drivers, who routinely ask passengers for €2 or €3, were able to demand a fare of €23.8m from the hero Lotto chiefs today.

The heroic men from Dublin Bus and their heroic partners stepped jauntily onto the red carpet on Lower Abbey Street and walked passed a battery of not very heroic photographers on their way into the building.

Sleepy

Uriel. wrote: »

You would if you were close to retirement age, as many of the group are, apparently.

A family member works in one of the depots and said that most of the lads are staying on to get their pensions. Which, given what little I know of salaries in Dublin Bus is probably the equivalent of another lotto win.

TallGlass

ofcork wrote: »

I see the price of the euromillions is going up again!

And the odds are getting worse. Some how it's justified by a bigger prize lol. They must really think only ticks play the lotto.

asteroids over berlin

I hope there is not too much media exposure when i win the lotto tonight. I don't really like crowds.

diomed

The King of Moo wrote: »

FFS, this is disgraceful while there are old people lying on trolleys in hospital corridors.
The money for the police escort could have funded three hospitals for a year.

I'm old. I've been on a hospital trolley a few times. No problem. Very relaxing.

Brendan Bendar

jacksie66 wrote: »

The lotto here in New Zealand is $40million tomorrow. If I win I'll be the biggest bastard ever born on the island of Ireland..

You are setting the bar fairly high there, Jack.

Lot of competition in that field.

Guy:Incognito

Very little talk of "idiot tax" when they win. Surely this just makes them king idiots in those peoples eyes?