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NickHNickH
edited November 2007 in Chit chat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/scratchcard_anarchy/

"According to the Manchester Evening News, to qualify for a prize,
punters had to "scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower
than the figure displayed on each card". Sadly, as the card had a
decidedly wintery theme, this initially-shown figure was often below
zero."

[A card shows -8C, someone scratches off "-6C"]

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is
higher, not lower, than -8, but I'm not having it."
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Comments

  • thehivethehive
    edited November 2007
    "...some story that -6 is higher, not lower, than -8". LOL.
    What an outstanding level of education that lady has.
  • milemile
    edited November 2007
    everytime i go and buy fags some fucking oxygen theif is in front of me buying a selection of scratch cards, who then take them over to the lottery counter and scratch them off. its not so bad, but i know that money came straight out of my taxes and shoud be going towards milk for their 17 children. and then if they have a win they are only going to spend it on crack, WHICH ISN'T TAXABLE. so who wins? the FAT cats at camelot, fucking drug pushing detrement to society making bastwarts.

    saying that i like the odd bet on the horses.
  • dekhdekh
    edited November 2007
    thehive wrote: »
    "...some story that -6 is higher, not lower, than -8". LOL.
    What an outstanding level of education that lady has.

    Depends how you look at it, it is closer to zero after all :)

    Of course it is further from absolute zero but it's not marked in Kelvin ... or is it?

    dash 6 Kelvin would be lower than -8 as you can't go below 0.

    hmmm I think she has a case!!
  • neoncherryneoncherry
    edited November 2007
    mile wrote: »
    everytime i go and buy fags some fucking oxygen theif is in front of me buying a selection of scratch cards, who then take them over to the lottery counter and scratch them off. its not so bad, but i know that money came straight out of my taxes and shoud be going towards milk for their 17 children. and then if they have a win they are only going to spend it on crack, WHICH ISN'T TAXABLE. so who wins? the FAT cats at camelot, fucking drug pushing detrement to society making bastwarts.

    saying that i like the odd bet on the horses.

    You should get a job on TalkSport! ;)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited November 2007
    mile wrote: »
    everytime i go and buy fags some fucking oxygen theif is in front of me buying a selection of scratch cards, who then take them over to the lottery counter and scratch them off. its not so bad, but i know that money came straight out of my taxes and shoud be going towards milk for their 17 children. and then if they have a win they are only going to spend it on crack, WHICH ISN'T TAXABLE. so who wins? the FAT cats at camelot, fucking drug pushing detrement to society making bastwarts.

    saying that i like the odd bet on the horses.

    Hey glad to see the old Miles is back and not the tree hugging 'i'm in love' one we've had lately ;)
  • WinstonWinston
    edited November 2007
    Good grief, it really does make true the phrase "the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at maths"...
  • neoncherryneoncherry
    edited November 2007
    Winston wrote: »
    Good grief, it really does make true the phrase "the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at maths"...

    Premium Bonds used to make this really clear, they used to say exactly how many bonds the jackpot winners owned, and they were always people who had bought thousands of them.

    The lottery ought to do something similar if possible, so people realise just how futile it is to expect a win.
  • dekhdekh
    edited November 2007
    The odds of winning any game are published.
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