…or not say the Advertising Standards Authority

Now that the great fog of December has lifted for 7 days you are allowed to turn your fog lights off. Infact

94: You MUST NOT
* use any lights in a way which would dazzle or cause discomfort to other road users
* use front or rear fog lights unless visibility is seriously reduced. You MUST switch them off when visibility improves to avoid dazzling other road users.
Law RVLR reg 27

The Highway Code

Last night I got this great email

Subject: your winning ticket number(44-40-23-777-01)

GUINNESS® CUSTORMERS PROMOTION
Dv-2006 program
Guinness plc, South Africa.
St Christo road (Sun City)

                          FINAL_ NOTIFICATION.
We happily inform you about our (guinness® national lottery program)held on the29th of November 2006, which you enterd as a dependent client and finally took the 1st position in our second category winners, that falls within the west africa region. Your email was attached to the ticket number(44-40-23-777-01) which made you a winner of 2.4 millionn dollars and your name being recorded in our guinness world book of record as the 1st lucky winner of the year 2006. You have been approved the sum of 2.4000,000 million dollars which will be sent accross to you through a guiness draft immediately. All emails are selected randomly through a computer ballot which subsequently won you the sweeptake of guinness internet web lottery.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU EMERGED OUR WINNER!!!
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This is part of our security mearsures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participant or impersonators.
Here is our fiduciary agent responsible for your winning claims.
MR SADLER JONES
EMAIL:[email protected]

GUINNESS® CLAIMING SECURITY AGENT.
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You are required to forward the following details to help facilitate the processing of your GUINNESS® CLAIMS OF CERTIFICATE.

Fullnames
Residential address

Phone number
Occupation
Sex
Age
Present country
Marrtal status.

ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATION!!!!
Yours sincerely
Jack Bruce

GUINNESS®CUSTORMERS PROMOTION.

WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
KEEP THIS INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL AND BE CAREFULL OF SCAM MAILS

That’s right, not only have I won $2.4 million, but I’m getting it via a Guinness Draft!

Today’s news of the Ofsted reports shows that my secondary school John F Kennedy Catholic School has now been mentioned “outstanding” three times. One of only 32 schools in the country to achieve this. Congratulations!

First we had the Royal Mail using Santa and Snowmen on their Christmas stamps, now we have these secular goods being sold in the Lincoln Cathedral shop!

Just got this addressed to my Gmail account

Subject: you
is there something you need? apparently you keep going through carol and my dad to get a point across. let me tell you something-I think we are a little to old to be running to someones daddy and telling on them when you have a problem. if you need something and you cant get a hold of tristan talk to me. you have my email address and i know you could have contacted me. but lets be mature about this. honestly, i dont even know whats going on and tristan isnt here but im sure it can be handled maturely and civilly. Tristan’s cell phone doesnt work half the time and that could be why your having problems getting in touch with him. Im gonna end this with a little word of encouragement-not all of us run to mommy and daddy every time we have a boo boo. maybe you should learn to do the same.

allyson

Should I reply..?

Yesterday Lincoln thrashed Rochdale 7-1. I was thinking about going to the game as I had nothing else to do and the ground is only 2 minutes down the road, but not knowing anyone to go with sort of stopped that. So I missed out on an 8 goal game with Jamie Forrester scoring his third hat-trick of the season and it looks like that finally Lincoln might be able to get themselves out of League 2.

As the government launches it’s new TV adverts, the press are quoting these figures

Latest government figures show that young people are more likely than any other age group to drink heavily [binge drink]. Among 16- to 24-year-olds in England, 33% of men drank more than eight units on at least one day a week and 24% of women drank more than six units on at least one day.

Source: Guardian
Now I can’t believe these figures. Are they really saying that two-thirds of young men don’t drink 3-4 pints in a night at least once a week? I had a look at a bottle of Bombardier this morning and it contains 3 units of alcohol. Which means as I’m just finishing off the third bottle I become a binge drinker.
Only recently was I asked how much I had drunk. It was two pints (4.544 units) and three large Baileys (3.57 units), therefore making it a binge. However I had started at 6pm having a pint with my dinner and was asked at 2am in the morning.
I think the definition is just too low, I always believed that someone who binged was drinking nearer 6 pints in a night if not 8. Maybe someone from the health profession can correct me.

Please ignore me, I’m just a test post

Earlier this month the BBC reported this story Second lottery win for US woman.
The woman had won the $1m jackpot on two scratch cards in the last 4 years.
The odds of winning the first card were 1 in 5.2 million, whilst the odds of winning the second card was 1 in 705,600, so experts claim that the chances of her winning both games were an incredible 1 in 3,669,120,000,000. However these experts (or BBC researchers) are wrong. Yes if she had walked in to her newsagents and said can I have one Cool Million scratch card and can I also have a Jubilee one too, then the odds would have been that high. However I pretty sure that she will have purchased more than one of each of the scratch card, and for each time she purchase another one from the same game he odd drop.
For example the odds of winning a small lottery which only has 10 outcomes is 1 in 10. However if I purchase two different tickets for the same draw my odds half to 1 in 5. If I purchased all 10 combinations I must win. And the same goes for this woman. Lets assume that she loves scratch cards and that she had purchased 200 of each before she won the jackpot. Her odds would change from 1 in 3,669,120,000,000 to 40,000 in 3,669,120,000,000 or 1 in 91,728,000 which is a slightly smaller number (but still impressive).