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chubbycharley
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Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply
#7606596 - 11/07/07 11:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok, i love Canadians, BUT, the people over at basspalyer magazine apparently don't care so much for those Canadians with lesser math skills.
why's that, you ask?
so i'm over at bassplayer.com entering a contest to possibly win a $4000 Carvin custom built bass when i notice this in the fine print of the the "Eligibility" section of the official rules:
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In order to win a prize, residents of Canada will be required to answer correctly a time limited mathematical skill testing question to be administered via telephone.
WTF is up with that?
-------------------- if i'm just a stoned stoner, sayin some stoned ass shit, please correct me
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: chubbycharley]
#7606603 - 11/07/07 11:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just remember, the answer is 42.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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JunkFood
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: chubbycharley]
#7606614 - 11/07/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Wow.
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trendal
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: chubbycharley]
#7606634 - 11/07/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think that's law that they have to ask you some stupid "skill-testing" question here in Canada.
It's usually something like what is 28 + 84 / 2 - 7 * 4
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: trendal]
#7606652 - 11/07/07 11:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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What, why?
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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trendal
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: WakeboardrB]
#7606663 - 11/07/07 12:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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We like to keep our retards poor?
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: trendal]
#7606699 - 11/07/07 12:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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trendal said: We like to keep our retards poor?
So do we, but our way is a little bit more of a passive discrimination.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: WakeboardrB]
#7606959 - 11/07/07 01:19 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: chubbycharley]
#7606987 - 11/07/07 01:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Every contest is like this because otherwise it is classified as a game of chance (i.e. gambling) and subject to all sorts of troublesome restrictions.
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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SampaJasli
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OneLessForeskin said: Just remember, the answer is 42.
42 ftw
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: trendal]
#7607001 - 11/07/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
trendal said:
28 + 84 / 2 - 7 * 4
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: recons]
#7607002 - 11/07/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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recons said:
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WakeboardrB said: What, why?
Its the law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question
Ah, makes sense. Funny though that in that Wiki article, it says it's rarely regulated properly and the wrong answer doesn't usually disqualify you from winning.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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Re: Stupid Canadians Need Not Apply [Re: skydog]
#7607029 - 11/07/07 01:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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skydog said:
I'm glad someone got it
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