montreal mike

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-23318731

so tell me is she entitled?

not a legal opinion sought here

scribe123

I suppose it depends if she was a regular part of the syndicate.

Legally though I doubt she has a leg to stand on. You have to be in it to win it, and she wasn't on this particular occasion.

You snooze you lose..... or you vomit you ...... dam! Can't think of a word fit

Souvy

Agree with the second para. On the first para, if she was a regular member of the syndicate and just didn't do it this time because she was sick, her colleagues are just gits. Sudden money does that to people.

I can't think of a word fit either. You won't find many poems that have 'orange' at the end of a line.

ann m

Agree.

We have a lottery thing at work, and they most definitely spell out that if you weren't in it on the week of the win, tough luck, even if you paid in every other week.

Several of them only play because they couldn't bare the thought of the rest of them being able to quit and them missing out.

Oakvillian

Oh good. An excuse to roll out one of my favourite silly rhymes. Tom Lehrer, satirical musician and wit, was once challenged to rhyme "orange." It only works in a North American accent... and was strangely prescient in the autoerotic asphyxiation death of Tory MP Stephen Millington years later.

Eating an orange
While making love
Leads to bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.

Souvy

That's cheating. The rhyme is split.

Jingsamichty

You snooze, you lose, you vomit... you bomb it?

Anyway, I agree that if the woman was a regular player in the syndicate, it's a snidey thing to cut her out. 28.8 million split 10 ways is 2.88 million each; split 11 ways its 2.62 million each. If she's a regular, it's hardly worth trying to cut her out.

Those Scousers, eh?

scribe123

I know what you mean. I have a week off next week so I've made sure I 'pre-paid' for my week off

Greenhill

You vomit,
you're omit-
ed.

You barf,
you lose out, arf, arf...

You blow chunks,
you flunks.

You burp solid,
you remain squalid.

You give an oral sacrifice at the altar of the porcelain god,
you ain't getting your fair share of the wad!

scribe123

A true wordsmith

Tangram

Even if she was a unpleasant person, it's still a bit of a unt's trick. It wouldn't cost each of them a significant portion of their winnings.

This is why you should set up standing orders to pay regularly ad infinitum and then you are always paying in instead of collecting cash each week.

Former Lancastrian

I have worked in several offices that have lottery syndicates. I don't pay into them as my mantra is why do I want to share 10 million plus with others if I can win it all by myself if I buy my own ticket.
Sure the odds of winning are slightly higher if in a syndicate.
I have heard these syndicates say to me over the last 20 years when we win it this weekend there will only be you at work on monday to which I reply that means more overtime for me
Guess what they have been turning up for work every Monday morning.

Ever tried reasoning with a bunch of Scousers

MillieF

Greenhill, you have far too much time on your hands! . I have tried to roll my vowels with Oakvillian, and I can't get it to scan.

I too would want to know if she normally stumped up the dosh, if she did and had always played before I label them downright gits and wish them no joy, as Tangram said, a tenth of their winnings wouldn't hurt them.

BristolUK

That was my thinking too. I can't imagine how a slightly smaller pay out, when the win is that much, would have a negative effect on someone's life.

Maybe they just didn't like her. But even then.....

Nothing guarantees never winning by making sure you never miss a payment.

bats

Mean gits.