27 NOBLE ACTS/GIVING TO CHARITY/THE LOTTERY

Judging by the majority of lottery winners to hit the jackpot you have to be over 50, overweight, more or less deformed, have four teeth and earn less than £10,000 per annum. You have to be willing to spend at least 40% of your income playing the game. You also have to be an intellectual schizophrenic; stupid enough to have your photograph taken with a big cheque but bright enough to understand the complex rules of Powerball, Lotto Extra, Thunderball and a myriad of instant win games. Such a person cannot possibly exist. The odds of winning the lottery are approximately 14 million to one. Imagine having a deck of cards with only one ace. If you cut to the ace you win. The lottery is a deck of cards 4,000 meters high. That is roughly 3 times the height of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the United Kingdom. No one would decide on a Saturday night to climb Ben Nevis because they think the ace is somewhere near the top and attempt to cut to it, not even a crazy, attention seeking American illusionist. If this were the scenario Ant and Dec would be even more popular than they are now, especially in winter. So the only explanation for anyone playing the lottery is the goodness of mankind. Man simple wants to donate to charity. And that is heart warming.