Sometimes I'm ashamed to be British

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In summary, the Cool Cash game was taken out of shops yesterday after some players failed to grasp whether or not they had won. Some players failed to qualify for a prize by scratching away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card.
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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.

To qualify for a prize, users had to scratch away a window to reveal a temperature lower than the figure displayed on each card. As the game had a winter theme, the temperature was usually below freezing

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"On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.

"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.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1022757_cool_cash_card_confusion
 
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:smile: :smile: That's brilliant!

But, still, 50% of the British population should go to university :rolleyes:
 
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That is terrible. I've long been campaigning to change the way maths and science are taught in british schools. Quite an over reaction from camelot though. I doubt there were that many people that couldn't grasp the game.
 
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News flash: man tries to scam shopkeep, fails.

At least he tried :wink:
 
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Yeah, the one's that scratched off -9 & -10 threw their tickets away, figuring they lost.
 
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I can understand you being ashamed to be British. The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule, and now they can't tell which number is higher or lower?!

I blame it on that darned Celsius system. If they used Kelvin, like sensible people, they wouldn't have had a problem.
 
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Lousy game. I won -1,000,000 pounds.
 
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BobG said:
I can understand you being ashamed to be British. The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule
Let's not start this! :smile:

I blame it on that darned Celsius system. If they used Kelvin, like sensible people, they wouldn't have had a problem.
That's true; or we could use a nice sensible scale like Fahrenheit like you Americans! :rolleyes:
 
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BobG said:
The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule...


:wink::smile:
 
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cristo said:
Let's not start this! :smile:


That's true; or we could use a nice sensible scale like Fahrenheit like you Americans! :rolleyes:

At least it might result in some savings in energy. What's up with the temperature in labs always being set to 300 K? Haven't they ever heard of global warming?

I think standard temperature for all physics formulas should be revised to use 293 K.
 
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BobG said:
I can understand you being ashamed to be British. The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule

And don't let's start with "Aluminum" either.
 
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Evo said:
Yeah, the one's that scratched off -9 & -10 threw their tickets away, figuring they lost.

news flash: Lottery Scams Customers, Succeeds :biggrin:

"I blame it on that darned Celsius system. If they used Kelvin, like sensible people, they wouldn't have had a problem."
And nobody would care about global warming if we used kelvin. I keep my lab at a balmy 300K, so an Earth increase of 2 degrees would be 0.67% relative to what I'm used to. Panic! :-p
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Lousy game. I won -1,000,000 pounds.

:smile: Hey, at least you didn't win -800,000 pounds; that really would have been bad. :biggrin:
 
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That would be a good lesson for all those that thought they won. Yes you've all actually won -£1.
 
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BobG said:
I can understand you being ashamed to be British. The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule, and now they can't tell which number is higher or lower?!
Chi Meson said:
And don't let's start with "Aluminum" either.

You two can suck my Dictionary (Oxford English of course)! :wink:


Quibbles aside, I really do worry about the intelligence of people sometimes...
 
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Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, they only recently figured out what a billion is. And that's a positive number.
 
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matthyaouw said:
You two can suck my Dictionary (Oxford English of course)! :wink:

Actually, as a half-Brit / half-American, I have half a mind to call that element "Alumininium."
 
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Don't feel bad, I don't think they would even that that game in America. They know better than to even try.
 
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Chi Meson said:
Actually, as a half-Brit / half-American, I have half a mind to call that element "Alumininium."
When Davy discovered it, he named it alumium, then changed his mind, and went with aluminum. Later the British Chemical Society (or somesuch) decided to change the name to aluminium, in keeping with the general style that was used for naming other elements.
 
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In the meantime someone in america had trademarked the name Aluminium so they stuck with the original spelling.
The IUPAC standardised on Aluminium for everyone - although they also said we had to spell sulphur as "sulfur" so you probably shoudln't listen to them
 
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Kurdt said:
That would be a good lesson for all those that thought they won. Yes you've all actually won -£1.
I lost -£1,000,000 and sued the lottery for damages (they could have earned the same amount of profits without humiliating so many people).
 

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