Sometimes I'm ashamed to be British...

matthyaouw

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

...

"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....card_confusion

cristo

That's brilliant!!

But, still, 50% of the British population should go to university

Kurdt

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.

ShawnD

News flash: man tries to scam shopkeep, fails.

At least he tried

Evo

Yeah, the one's that scratched off -9 & -10 threw their tickets away, figuring they lost.

BobG

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.

Jimmy Snyder

Lousy game. I won -1,000,000 pounds.

cristo

Quote by BobG

I can understand you being ashamed to be British. The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule

Let's not start this!

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 Farenheit like you Americans!

Kurdt

Quote by BobG

The Brits can't spell 'color', mispronounce schedule.......

BobG

Quote by cristo

Let's not start this!

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

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.

Chi Meson

Quote by BobG

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.

ShawnD

Quote by Evo

Yeah, the one's that scratched off -9 & -10 threw their tickets away, figuring they lost.

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"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!

Moonbear

Quote by jimmysnyder

Lousy game. I won -1,000,000 pounds.

Hey, at least you didn't win -800,000 pounds; that really would have been bad.

Kurdt

That would be a good lesson for all those that thought they won. Yes you've all actually won -£1.

matthyaouw

Quote by BobG

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?!

Quote by Chi Meson

And don't let's start with "Aluminum" either.

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

Quibbles aside, I really do worry about the intelligence of people sometimes...

Jimmy Snyder

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, they only recently figured out what a billion is. And that's a positive number.

Chi Meson

Quote by matthyaouw

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

Actually, as a half-Brit / half-American, I have half a mind to call that element "Alumininium."

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