"they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it. "
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1022757_cool_cash_card_confusion
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― gbx, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago)
hahahahahaha
― John Justen, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago)
jesus christ.
― haitch, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago)
hahahaha
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago)
SO MUCH FO R SOCIALMALIZED EDUCATION
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/numberline3.jpg
― ian, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago)
http://mathforum.org/johnandbetty/p20/p20.jpg
― ian, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago)
lol I do some work with adults in maths classes and the only thing surprising about this shit is that Camelot thought it'd be a good idea to use negative numbers on the lottery tickets.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago)
especially as their core customer base is people who ain't so good with numbers.
yeah, i wager americans would have problems with this too. but we shouldn't let that stop us from laughing at the britishes.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago)
Ok, the great part of that is imagining the junior reporter sitting there suppressing snickers and/or despairing tears while the interviewee goes on and on about how he totally won.
I once worked at a small-town newspaper and (sadly) had to get really good at that, kinda culminating with having to meet two burros named "Taco" and "Fajita."
― nabisco, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago)
Lottery companies basically make all their money from people who don't understand statistics.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago)
stupid tax
― deej, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago)
i hate it when i'm trying to buy beer and dudes are crowding the counter with their lottery picks. i always want to shout THIS AIN'T FOXWOODS
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago)
damn lottery players are ALWAYS pushing ahead in line.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago)
IS BRITIAN A BAD PARENT?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago)
i bought a scratch card the other day because it had a picture of christopher lee as dracula on it and i won ten quid
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
which is why its sort of phenomenally dumb of the lottery company to make a ticket that requires numerical skills more advanced than "match these numbers"
― max, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago)
I don't know, I'm imagining how many "losing" tickets got thrown away and thinking they might be really smart.
― John Justen, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago)
Speaking of Britain and the lottery, my brother won 25,000 pounds on scratchcards this weekend. That's $50,000 to you merkin yanks.
― admrl, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago)
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/3/37/Merkin_1.jpg/180px-Merkin_1.jpg
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago)
Britain could've avoided all this if they had just stuck with the imperial system of temperature measurement.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago)
we spell it measouremente
― admrl, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago)
The Cool Cash game - launched on Monday - was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won.
lolz. Britain may be dumb, but teh british st8 lottery obviously isn't.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago)
LEAVE BRITANY ALONE!
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago)
she was from levenshulme in fairness
― tissp, Thursday, 8 November 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago)
During the Cold War, BBC planned to broadcast The Sound of Music on radio in the event of a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom. The broadcast would be part of an emergency timetable of programs designed to "reassure" the public in the aftermath of the attack.[3]
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 9 November 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago)