"Cool cash" card confusion

[coolotter88 2]

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1022757_cool_cash_card_confusion

well, I suppose we all have our off days.

I blame global warming.

[Please don't stir a nationality debate with your title. I've closed enough this month and last month. Thanks. ] Marc

[topcliff 1]

Wow. That was . . . interesting. Oh, and thank you. I just found my extra credit for English. I have to find grammar errors in written work. There's two sentences I think missing periods. Anywho, fun read. That's why I don't play the lottery. I gamble.

[granto93 4]

who doesnt gamble....my life is Pro Line tickets and crossword scratchies

[2nerdy4u 1]

That lady they interviewed was... ahem... not very bright...

That article made me laugh... stupid people make me laugh... hehe...

[Callbat 8]

Lol!!! -"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."

hahahahaha!!!!!! ............that's a damn shame though...

[xmike1991 2]

[Edited for bashing nationality.] Marc

(note:i actually meant the world as a whole)

as for the topic, this made me laugh so much

"The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "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"

Kids, this is exactly why you need to stay in school, get ALL of your gcse's and go onto college and uni.

[beebs 129]

Going to college and university doesn't guarantee your intelligence. You might be good at memorization, yes.. but I know a lot of idiots that are in university.. and my boss who is a very bright woman doesn't have any post secondary education. And I should hope none of you think I'm an idiot, simply because I'm going into my second year out of high school and no university to speak of.

[hamsterTK 93]

wow...some people are dense

you don't need education to know how negative numbers work, its a basic concept...

[panthersimcity4 162]

LOL, that made my morning.

I can't believe so many people could be so dumb. Then again there's Miss South Carolina from Miss Teen USA...

[BurroDiablo 222]

Some people in this country are just thick... so she thinks -6 is Warmer than -8? Its BASIC maths! Even I can understand that and I suck at maths... I barely got my Scottish GCSE equivallent (Standard Grade)

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

Originally posted by: El Burro Some people in this country are just thick... so she thinks -6 is Warmer than -8? Its BASIC maths! Even I can understand that and I suck at maths... I barely got my Scottish GCSE equivallent (Standard Grade)quote>

wait...isn't -6 warmer than -8?

[Msprintz 25]

Originally posted by: El Burro Some people in this country are just thick... so she thinks -6 is Warmer than -8? Its BASIC maths! Even I can understand that and I suck at maths... I barely got my Scottish GCSE equivallent (Standard Grade)quote>

 

Uh -6 is warmer than -8 lol.  She thinks it's colder than -8, which is completely and utterly wrong.  I'm sure at her age she hasn't had a math class in quite a while, however that's not a valid excuse for not knowing basic mathematical skills.  You'd think at 23 it might be a good idea to brush up on your math skills from time to time.  Infact you'd think she'd have brushed up a little while pursing higher education(if she opted for that route).     

[BurroDiablo 222]

wth did I say warmer? I'm a such a child, can't get my opposites right, rofl...

[Duke87 1,070]

Never underestimate the human mind's capacity for stupidity. Ever.