Posted on Monday 5 November 2007
Maybe Idiocracy was prophetic:
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.
“I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression – the card doesn’t say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled.”
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It’s always just a little too easy to underestimate ignorance.
Um, what in heaven’s name?!
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I am a teller at a bank so I’m never at a loss of number ‘issues.’ On Monday, a customer placed four $50 bills on the counter and asked me, “Uh, yeah, um, is that, uh, $100?”
She was 23 years old.
We all know there are 3 types of people in this world………Those who can count and those who can’t.
There are 10 types of people in the world…those who count in binary and those who don’t.
Ha! That’s hilarious…and sad…that’s why my mama schooled me at home…nothing beats home learnin’!