Every so often, I buy a ticket for the National Lottery, aka the tax on the poor and stupid.

So with my present degree of arsedness* being pretty low, I decided to register and play online. Here’s part of the confirmation e-mail I received when I signed up:

“Dear `Firstname`,

Thanks for opening a National Lottery Account and welcome to The National Lottery online service.

Your username is: `Username`. Please keep this email handy; you may find it useful to refer to if you forget your sign-in details.”

Yes, I’m sure that will come in handy… 

*the extent to which I can be arsed to do something