When you bought the winning ticket at a porn shop..!

Winning $129 million lottery ticket bought at Detroit-area porn store

(CNN) -- A group of friends got lucky when they bought a winning Powerball ticket at a Detroit-area porn shop.

Somehow, for some reason, I don't think he cares

What is embarassing about going to a pornstore? I just don't get it.

Because it shows an appalling lack of taste?

In that case, I would be far more embarassed to be seen in a fastfood place.

Agree 100%, it does show an appalling lack of taste. Any porn connoisseur worth their salt downloads it from the interweb like the rest of us.

what a strange idea to sell lottery tickets in a porn store, or is it just an excuse like "i buy Penthouse for the articles".

These stores get a lot of walk in traffic. The store makes money from selling lottery tkts. These stores are not just for downloads - they have diversified. Just look at the merchandise on display windows in the big store, right behind ikea, in Dietlikon, as you drive by . . .

I have never laughed so much as the time some friends and I went into a sex shop here in Geneva... Some of the merchandise was eye poppingly odd, to put it mildly.

The embarrassing part shouldn't be the going in part but rather than what you come out with part of a visit to a porn shop - and how long you spend inside, particularly in dark corners.

Some have some good products for "all of us"... body dust and that lotion stuff that gets hot when you blow it just to name two, as well as usually a very nice selection of condoms of a variety of materials.

Oh, but it should.

Porn shops are like theme bars. Theme bars are tacky, unconvincing, and have an atmosphere as divorced from the serious business of drinking as sex shops are divorced from anything even remotely erotic. And vice versa. Or something.

Every time I've been dragged into one of these emporia of crappitude, I've just got bored. The "wild and wacky" humorous stuff is just crap. The fetish stuff is just crap. The dildos and fleshlights are just crap. They're like Pound Shops for repressed admin clerks and unimaginitive accountants. I find it very hard to believe that anyone purchases any of this trash for anything other than practical jokes and hen nights.

One can have so much more fun in the food hall at Globus...

Well, I think that's a little unfair on all sex shops. Yes, the stereotype seedy corner or side street stored with the blackened windows and lone guy manning the till are definitely unpleasant legacies of how things used to be, but it can't be argued that mainstream and more well-equipped sex shops like Ann Summers have had a good effect on breaking that stereotype and providing people with a better range and more socially acceptable way of buying sex toyaps and outfits, many of which are actually decent. I think anything that promotes spicing up a sex life and encouraging couples to experiment and add variety, while remaining easily accessible, is generally a good and healthy thing.

I assume you are not including the famous Black Nobbler in this?

I assume you are including the famous Black Nobbler in this?

It's precisely the Ann Summers type of sexshop that I'm talking about: Brightly lit, full of garish plastic toys, lots of red and black chrome, giggling HR assistants and bored looking couples. Like Cachet, but with dildos.

Maybe the "seedy" sex shops are less crap, but I doubt it.

If one wants variety in one's "sex life", one needs imagination, not Woolworths with willies.

But each to his own, I guess.

Isn't that one of Mr Grapefruit's cheeses?

Ann Summers has some good and fun items in, its not all "woolworths" crap, and when combined with the active imagination you're enthusing about, much fun can be had. However, I guess it all depends on previous experiences, and the attitude previous parters have had. Some people can pull off sexy/skimpy/trashy fantasy outfits etc and be comfortable in the role... others can't, and this undoubtedly affects what you buy there,and any other sex/erotic shop. Good things can also be found at tbe many online stores too if you hate going in the shops, so there is a lot of choice out there for couples should they be of that mindset.

Either way, blanket ignoring all sex shops and the things contained within is a little close-minded imo. But as you say, each to their own.

Monumental missing the point... but never mind.

You carry on shopping at Woolies.

Feel free to explain your monumental point in small, easy to digest words... because I'm still not sure exactly what it was, other that you hinting that anyone who buys something from a sex shop lacks any real imagination in the bedroom. Which is, of course, untrue.

Of course it's true.

It's true in the same way that people who buy Tesco Chicken Tikka Masala lack imagination in the kitchen.

It's true in the same way that people who buy Stella Artois lack imagination in their drinking habits.

It's true in the same way that people who wear Ben Sherman shirts lack imagination in their sartorial habits.

Not that there's anything wrong with lacking imagination - we're all too lazy to think about stuff for ourselves from time to time - but let's not pretend that sex shops are anything better than what they are: the lazy, easy option for giggles, cheap thrills and overpriced lube.

As I said: Woolworths with willies.

There never was any accounting for taste...

Remind us......what was that jacket you got??