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Really not sure what to say. Bolded parts are pure comedy.

Manchester Evening News

'Cool Cash' card confusion
Ciara Leeming
3/11/2007

A LOTTERY scratchcard has been withdrawn from sale by Camelot - because players couldn't understand it.

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.

But the concept of comparing negative numbers proved too difficult for some Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.

Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.

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."

A Camelot spokeswoman said the game was withdrawn after reports that some players had not understood the concept.

She said: "The instructions for playing the Cool Cash scratchcard are clear - and are printed on each individual card and in the game procedures available at each retailer. However, because of the potential for player confusion we have decided to withdraw the game.

 

[RenegadeRick]

If you Canadians only used the Fahrenheit scale...

Then there would be 32 degrees left of chilly temperatures until a confusing problem could be found in the game.

Even those educated in the American™ public school system could figure that game out.

 

[Silver]

I think that's the Brits there, not the Canucks.

Canadians don't have a GCSE...and they certainly never refer to it as "maths". Everyone knows that French Canadians don't do plural.

 

[RenegadeRick]

You are right.

I studied geography in the American™ public school system.

EDIT: and studied culture nowhere.

 

[gonefirefightin]

so did she, lol

 

[RenegadeRick]

I'm all about the Iraq.

 

[MMike]

No no...Manchester Saskachewan.......

 

[Changleen]

This is one of the reasons I left the UK.

 

[DaveW]

This is one of the reasons I left the UK.

So now you just have NZ's NCEA disaster to deal with. oster_oops:

 

[bohorec]

 

[Changleen]

So now you just have NZ's NCEA disaster to deal with. oster_oops:

Trust me, whatever the local media makes of it, NZ is still SOOO much better than the majority of UK schooling. I got lucky in the UK and got into a good Grammar School. Here, if I have anything to do with it, my kid will go to Wellington College.

 

[DaveW]

I guess its a trait of reasonably affluent western society's world wide to bitch not about getting education.
But to bitch about the perceived quality of education.

God knows for all the kudo's NZ gets for it's school literacy programs, I'm appalled on a daily basis by the gibberish you see posted on the web forums.

 

[ire]

-6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

 

[jaydee]

-6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

People that stupid should be sterilized to protect the human race.

 

[DaveW]

Trust me, whatever the local media makes of it, NZ is still SOOO much better than the majority of UK schooling. I got lucky in the UK and got into a good Grammar School. Here, if I have anything to do with it, my kid will go to Wellington College.

Well a project I've been working on at work has been launched now so I guess I can talk about it.
The new draft curriculum for schools is out now, it's actually quite an impressive document I must say.

Although as Russel Brown notes, the ranting special interest groups are now coming out to play!