Bad Lotto Karma = being a poor loser and harbouring thoughts of negativity, jealousy, hate, disdain, etc. for those who win and where they're from.
Here in BC, we got loads of whingers who play the lotto hardcore and who often turn their losing frustrations upon the "winning" provice. Don't know how many times I've heard ... "ah bullcrap, why do Ontario and Quebec always win the big ones?!!!" ... whenever another draw goes down with the 'wrong' results. I like to say it too, but in a total joking fashion of course.
Contrary to their reasoning, these same people don't seem too happy when someone wins big in BC either. In this circumstance, they then proceed to attack the region/town/city for winning 'their' prize. "Surrey?!" "Those idiots wouldn't know what to do with it all!"
1 winner in Ontario out of 1.8 million tickets.
0 winners in BC out of 1.2 million tickets.
Easily explained, a numbers game, and nothing to do with an Ontario-Quebec lottery conspiracy. But don't try explaining the obvious facts. Knee jerk reactions and emotions rule these people.
Just so happens an old friend of mine is a prime example of harbouring this bad lotto karma, and the sole inspiration for this thread. The story goes...
Some years ago, a $14mil 6/49 jackpot was won in West Vancouver(the richest folk per capita in all of BC). The winner, last name Troll, is also the name of their longstanding family restaurant in Horseshoe Bay. A very successful establishment, EARNED through decades of hardwork and commitment by the family elders and their current offspring. And then 'they' win an instant fortune of $14 million. Good on them!
About a month after that draw, I was with a few friends down in Horseshoe Bay and we were getting hungry. Not one of us saw it coming when we decided..."yeah, let's grab some fish&chips at Trolls."
One very particular friend, Dave(alias given for legal reasons, hehe) then provided me and the boys with our first glimpse and case-study for a previously unknown affliction - Bad Lotto Karma. Dialogue went something like this...
Dave - I'm not going to eat there, I hate that place
Us - Huh? The food's pretty good man. Why do you hate it so?
Dave - Screw them! One of the Trolls won $14 million last month. They were already rich and shouldn't have won 'my' jackpot.
At this point we all laughed out loud, and in thinking he was just pulling our leg(wouldn't have anyone?), we continued walking towards the eatery. But Dave just stood rooted to the pavement and un-willing to go another step near the evil restaurant.
After a few minutes of us pleading with Dave to end his practical joke, we all realised that he was serious and soonafter we all realised that his lotto dreams had made him sick in the head...very, very sick indeed.
We went and had a lovely meal without Dave. In fact Dave was still waiting for us when we came out full and contented, albeit waiting from a safe distance of a few blocks away from Trolls. Made for a quiet ride home in his Explorer, let me tell you(now that we'd just painfully discovered that our buddy was a bonafied mental case in need of some serious counselling...hahaha).
I made a last gasp attempt to reason with him using some simple factors...
"Dave, if 'they' indeed win your jackpot that means you'd have had the same six winning numbers...that means at the most, you'd now have $7 million for yourself after they stole the other half fair and square."(trying to be a bit humorous often works wonders but not with this guy)
"F*ck that sh*t!! I deserved it waaaay more than those rich as*holes!"
(can you say, TOTAL WRITE OFF folks?
)
In a way, that day Dave provided me with the insight to move forward and forever allow me to treat the whole lottery thing in the exact opposite fashion - with well wishes, congratulations, and GOOD KARMA towards the lucky ones who take the big cardboard cheque home rather than myself.
I'm firmly encamped in the 'mystic' nature of possible lotto luck rather than in the number formulas/grids/graphs/stats pre-purchase approach. That's just me, I hate numbers really(and I know my bad karma towards numbers probably isn't a good thing with the Lotto Gods laughing at my every futile purchase...LOL). If it happens, it happens, and getting personally intricate with numbers would be fraudulent on my part.
These days I turn my numerous lotto disapointments into healthy moments of positive thoughts for the winners - all thanks to Dave - the biggest winner hater of alltime. I love to extend a mystical and personal "congratulations!!" across the universe to whoever/wherever the winner may be. I imagine their utter happiness and amazement upon finding out the GOOD news, and their joy gets pinged all the way back to me before I can bin my now worthless ticket that cost me ten bucks a few days previous.
I just joined this forum and already it's easy to see that I'm surrounded by many likewise well-wishing minds here. Just thought y'all would enjoy my story of the Winner Hating Bad Lotto Karma induvidual. Dave hasn't won squat since then and likely he never will. It's about all he deserves.
Good luck y'all!
Lou
PS - funny thing is, the one and only time I really sat down and whipped up some number formulas(quick study of 5 previous draws) was a few years back. The Super7 was 15mil and I was 'feeling it' bigtime. I randomly filled in 60 rows of 7 and blew my 20 bucks full of confidence. The one winning ticket was in Ontario(it's fixed!! LOL) so I delayed checking my loser tickets for a long time. To my surprise, one of the rows had five matching numbers. Not surprisingly, that got me only $150. Then in a further surprising discovery, I saw that I'd won another $150 matching 5/7 in another row. Wow! My formula was kickass right? Total fluke truth be told. Somehow I'd randomly filled in the same 7 numbers on two seperate slips in the space of 2 minutes. Now that's what I call lucky!!!
Here in BC, we got loads of whingers who play the lotto hardcore and who often turn their losing frustrations upon the "winning" provice. Don't know how many times I've heard ... "ah bullcrap, why do Ontario and Quebec always win the big ones?!!!" ... whenever another draw goes down with the 'wrong' results. I like to say it too, but in a total joking fashion of course.
Contrary to their reasoning, these same people don't seem too happy when someone wins big in BC either. In this circumstance, they then proceed to attack the region/town/city for winning 'their' prize. "Surrey?!" "Those idiots wouldn't know what to do with it all!"
1 winner in Ontario out of 1.8 million tickets.
0 winners in BC out of 1.2 million tickets.
Easily explained, a numbers game, and nothing to do with an Ontario-Quebec lottery conspiracy. But don't try explaining the obvious facts. Knee jerk reactions and emotions rule these people.
Just so happens an old friend of mine is a prime example of harbouring this bad lotto karma, and the sole inspiration for this thread. The story goes...
Some years ago, a $14mil 6/49 jackpot was won in West Vancouver(the richest folk per capita in all of BC). The winner, last name Troll, is also the name of their longstanding family restaurant in Horseshoe Bay. A very successful establishment, EARNED through decades of hardwork and commitment by the family elders and their current offspring. And then 'they' win an instant fortune of $14 million. Good on them!
About a month after that draw, I was with a few friends down in Horseshoe Bay and we were getting hungry. Not one of us saw it coming when we decided..."yeah, let's grab some fish&chips at Trolls."
One very particular friend, Dave(alias given for legal reasons, hehe) then provided me and the boys with our first glimpse and case-study for a previously unknown affliction - Bad Lotto Karma. Dialogue went something like this...
Dave - I'm not going to eat there, I hate that place
Us - Huh? The food's pretty good man. Why do you hate it so?
Dave - Screw them! One of the Trolls won $14 million last month. They were already rich and shouldn't have won 'my' jackpot.
At this point we all laughed out loud, and in thinking he was just pulling our leg(wouldn't have anyone?), we continued walking towards the eatery. But Dave just stood rooted to the pavement and un-willing to go another step near the evil restaurant.
After a few minutes of us pleading with Dave to end his practical joke, we all realised that he was serious and soonafter we all realised that his lotto dreams had made him sick in the head...very, very sick indeed.
We went and had a lovely meal without Dave. In fact Dave was still waiting for us when we came out full and contented, albeit waiting from a safe distance of a few blocks away from Trolls. Made for a quiet ride home in his Explorer, let me tell you(now that we'd just painfully discovered that our buddy was a bonafied mental case in need of some serious counselling...hahaha).
I made a last gasp attempt to reason with him using some simple factors...
"Dave, if 'they' indeed win your jackpot that means you'd have had the same six winning numbers...that means at the most, you'd now have $7 million for yourself after they stole the other half fair and square."(trying to be a bit humorous often works wonders but not with this guy)
"F*ck that sh*t!! I deserved it waaaay more than those rich as*holes!"
(can you say, TOTAL WRITE OFF folks?
)In a way, that day Dave provided me with the insight to move forward and forever allow me to treat the whole lottery thing in the exact opposite fashion - with well wishes, congratulations, and GOOD KARMA towards the lucky ones who take the big cardboard cheque home rather than myself.
I'm firmly encamped in the 'mystic' nature of possible lotto luck rather than in the number formulas/grids/graphs/stats pre-purchase approach. That's just me, I hate numbers really(and I know my bad karma towards numbers probably isn't a good thing with the Lotto Gods laughing at my every futile purchase...LOL). If it happens, it happens, and getting personally intricate with numbers would be fraudulent on my part.
These days I turn my numerous lotto disapointments into healthy moments of positive thoughts for the winners - all thanks to Dave - the biggest winner hater of alltime. I love to extend a mystical and personal "congratulations!!" across the universe to whoever/wherever the winner may be. I imagine their utter happiness and amazement upon finding out the GOOD news, and their joy gets pinged all the way back to me before I can bin my now worthless ticket that cost me ten bucks a few days previous.
I just joined this forum and already it's easy to see that I'm surrounded by many likewise well-wishing minds here. Just thought y'all would enjoy my story of the Winner Hating Bad Lotto Karma induvidual. Dave hasn't won squat since then and likely he never will. It's about all he deserves.
Good luck y'all!
Lou
PS - funny thing is, the one and only time I really sat down and whipped up some number formulas(quick study of 5 previous draws) was a few years back. The Super7 was 15mil and I was 'feeling it' bigtime. I randomly filled in 60 rows of 7 and blew my 20 bucks full of confidence. The one winning ticket was in Ontario(it's fixed!! LOL) so I delayed checking my loser tickets for a long time. To my surprise, one of the rows had five matching numbers. Not surprisingly, that got me only $150. Then in a further surprising discovery, I saw that I'd won another $150 matching 5/7 in another row. Wow! My formula was kickass right? Total fluke truth be told. Somehow I'd randomly filled in the same 7 numbers on two seperate slips in the space of 2 minutes. Now that's what I call lucky!!!
