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Old 11-08-2007, 02:16 PM
The once and future king The once and future king is offline
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Default Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

A lotto scratch card operator in the UK (Camelot) has had to withdraw a scratchcard because many players have complained about not being able to understand if they have won or lost.

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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

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How can I be the same species as someone this dumb, now I knoes why I can make £££ at the poker.
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Old 11-08-2007, 02:17 PM
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Default Re: Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

hahaha, awesome
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Old 11-08-2007, 02:18 PM
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Default Re: Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

to dumb or not to dumb, that is the question
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Old 11-08-2007, 02:19 PM
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Default Re: Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

but 6 and 7 are littler numbers than 8
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Old 11-08-2007, 03:28 PM
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but 6 and 7 are littler numbers than 8

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yeah, but these are negative numbers...
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Old 11-08-2007, 03:33 PM
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Old 11-09-2007, 03:17 AM
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lol apefish
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Old 11-08-2007, 03:33 PM
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but 6 and 7 are littler numbers than 8

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yeah, but these are negative numbers...

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Second level levelling?
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Old 11-09-2007, 03:16 AM
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brag or beat?: I work for the company that makes these games
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Old 11-08-2007, 02:20 PM
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Default Re: Beat: To dumb to understand lotto scratch card.

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to dumb or not to dumb, that is the question

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is it more noble to suffer through these horrible spelling errors, or to fix them and ruin the joke?
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