Scratchcards

Post by **Grimmie** » November 5th, 2007, 17:56

So, I just got my PC Zone subscription come in.
There's a scratch card that requires you to scrub off some panels. If you get two or three matching pictures you win a prize.

None of the prizes seem particularly shit, though it looks like they're really selling surplus coach-holidays to Italy.

I realise they're appealing to the part of me that says "What if it isn't the holiday, though?", so I'm asking 5punkers who have had the "The £1 Million Cash Card" in their mags, provided by purelycreative.com what their success rate was.

Did you get three rabbits/dogs/CDCs on the bottom panel?
Let me know, before I flush £9 down the drain for a coach holiday.

Ta.

Post by **Grimmie** » November 5th, 2007, 17:57

In before "Gullible".

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 5th, 2007, 18:09

Probably not the constructive answer you were looking for, but I'd have thrown it away without even looking at it. You don't get anything for free in this world (apart from maybe Wiimote jackets).

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 5th, 2007, 18:10

Dog Pants wrote:Probably not the constructive answer you were looking for, but I'd have thrown it away without even looking at it. You don't get anything for free in this world (apart from maybe Wiimote jackets).

and Wiimote straps.

and syphilis.

Post by **TezzRexx** » November 5th, 2007, 18:17

Dr. kitteny berk wrote: and syphilis.

Cost me £50

How did you get it for free!?

Post by **FatherJack** » November 5th, 2007, 18:52

TezzRexx wrote:
Cost me £50 How did you get it for free!?

From you.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 5th, 2007, 18:55

FatherJack wrote: From you.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 5th, 2007, 18:55

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 5th, 2007, 18:58

They'll probably kidnap you for several days of the holiday and try to sell you timeshares or some such. Same thing happened to my mum and dad - weekend in Spain in some fancy complex, but kept for an entire day watching presentation videos by Claire Sweeney, and having sales guys trying to crack them mentally.

Post by **tandino** » November 6th, 2007, 11:53

I'd throw them away. Got 3 cards with my Edge, two of which were winners, one was a 3 symbol prize, one was a two symbol prize. Duly burnt.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 6th, 2007, 12:27

You should hold all magazines by the spine and shake them over a bin, a recycling bin of cause, before opening. Never pay attention to what falls out.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 6th, 2007, 12:29

spoodie wrote:a recycling bin of cause

course.

and NEVAR. recycling is evil and a waste of everyone's time and money.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 6th, 2007, 12:34

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:course.

and NEVAR. recycling is evil and a waste of everyone's time and money.

I thought that looked wrong, but im on teh inetrnet so its aloud.

Next you'll be denying the holocaust, that's just as bad as not recycling.

Post by **tandino** » November 6th, 2007, 12:34

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
course.

and NEVAR. recycling is evil and a waste of everyone's time and money.

I'd like to hear your justification of such a claim (although I'm not disputing it).

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 6th, 2007, 12:42

tandino wrote:I'd like to hear your justification of such a claim (although I'm not disputing it).

I doubt the effectiveness of recycling but do it anyway. My council has bags that your put pretty much everything recyclable in and I doubt they extract every strand of shredded paper bills and put it on the paper pile.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 6th, 2007, 12:46

mostly penn and teller (yay biased sources)

but pretty much to recycle, you have to send out a second load of trucks, employ hundreds of extra people, build new machines to deal with the stuff you're trying to recycle.

oh, and on top of all of that, ISTR it's less efficient to recycle many materials than it is to make new.

of course, for some materials recycling is fucking great, but that doesn't mean we should try to fucking recycle everything.

Post by **Dog Pants** » November 6th, 2007, 12:50

Well seeing as I only get one wheelie bin full every two weeks, I'll be recycling because it's that or live in a big pile of rubbish. The other week/bin is for garden waste, which obviously very rarely gets used.

Fucking shite local councils.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » November 6th, 2007, 13:08

Dog Pants wrote:Well seeing as I only get one wheelie bin full every two weeks, I'll be recycling because it's that or live in a big pile of rubbish. The other week/bin is for garden waste, which obviously very rarely gets used.

Fucking shite local councils.

We've got the same system, and on green bin day (garden waste) the whole Town smells of silage as rotting garden stuffs gets wafted and dropped everywhere.

Post by **Roman Totale** » November 6th, 2007, 18:06

spoodie wrote:You should hold all magazines by the spine and shake them over a bin, a recycling bin of cause, before opening. Never pay attention to what falls out.

Recycling bin? Fuck that - I always do it in the supermarket and leave the little bastards all over the shop.

Post by **HereComesPete** » November 6th, 2007, 18:34

This. I'm not paying for all that crap, the place I bought it from can keep it.

Also, I went to a recycling plant as part of my A-level geography, they mostly ignored stuff and put it in the big ass hole in the ground next door, with all the rest of the stuff. Most metals and soft plastics were whisked off, but everything else was just buried. I asked about the paper, and the dude said it was mostly glossy, and as such a waste of time to recycle because of the expense in bleaching and in the disposing of the bleach/dye mix. It may be different 5 years down the line, but I no longer bother with different boxes for different things when it's all thrown into the same van and put in the same hole anyway.