Author Topic: ... although I am sometimes ashamed to be English.  (Read 708 times)

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Re: ... although I am sometimes ashamed to be English.
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2007, 04:30:08 PM »
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This may be the definitive proof of the old saying: the lottery is a tax on people who aren’t good at math.
classic.

Of course if you guys used fahrenheit you wouldn't have to deal with negatives as much ;)

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Re: ... although I am sometimes ashamed to be English.
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2007, 04:30:56 PM »
Reminds me of the phone company people who didn't know the difference between $.002 and .002¢.

It's not just the English. :|

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Re: ... although I am sometimes ashamed to be English.
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2007, 04:48:26 PM »
That was a Canadian mixup.  Didn't the Brits settle the majority of Canada?  So it is still their fault ;)