Canada has skills?
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sTo0z
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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2007 23:10    Post subject: Canada has skills?
lol... I ordered something from McDonald's on the way home the other day and while waiting for food I happened to flip over the receipt and read the back.

What the hell is wrong with Canadians?!

Read the part after the bold print in the middle... lol.



Why do you Canadians have to answer a skill related question? Razz


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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2007 23:24    Post subject:
sTo0z filter the image with photo shop and post only the text becoz in 14sec i could see you Vista code


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PostPosted: Wed, 7th Feb 2007 23:56    Post subject:
Hmm?


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 00:09    Post subject:
i wouldn't eat that shit for free
home cook meal ftw, if too lazy pizza would do, but mcd or kfc=hell no
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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 02:46    Post subject:
god please don't start the usual junk food vs home-made food fight...


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 03:03    Post subject:
where is ze fight?!
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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 03:31    Post subject:
last time I saw it on some forum it started with some pic with mcd food and ended up in 15 pages of fighting


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 04:19    Post subject:
I just want to know why the heck Canadians need to answer a skill question!


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 06:38    Post subject:
sTo0z wrote:
I just want to know why the heck Canadians need to answer a skill question!


so they can gather canadians with skeels and make us americans look stupider than we already do Razz


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 07:01    Post subject:
sTo0z wrote:
I just want to know why the heck Canadians need to answer a skill question!


nothing more than a legal requirement Wink

skill testing questions are something like

5 x 6 - 32 + 12 = (if you're wrong, you're retarded)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question

Quote:
Skill testing questions are a legal requirement attached to many contests in Canada.

The combined effect of Sections 197 to 206 of the Canadian Criminal Code bans for-profit gaming or betting, with exceptions made for provincial lotteries, and licensed casinos and charity events. Many stores, radio stations, and other groups still wish to hold contests to encourage more purchases or increase consumer interest. A classic example of such a contest is Tim Hortons' Roll up the Rim to Win, that gives chance to win prizes with every cup of coffee purchased, with prizes ranging from vehicles to doughnuts. These organizations take advantage of the fact that the law does allow prizes to be given for games of skill, or mixed games of skill and chance. In order to make the chance-based contests legal, such games generally have mathematical skill-testing questions incorporated.

The most common form that these questions take is as an arithmetic exercise. A court decision ruled that these must contain at least three operations to actually be skill testing; for example, a common question might be "(2 × 4) + (10 × 3)" (Answer: 3Cool. Enforcement of these rules is not very stringent, and especially for small prizes, the player may not be required to answer the skill-testing question to claim a prize. Anecdotally, getting the answer wrong is also often not an obstacle to claiming a prize. For contests held in the United States or other countries that are open to Canadians, the questions must also be asked of any Canadian winner.

The same section of law prohibits receiving consideration in exchange for playing the games, resulting in a related peculiarity of Canadian contests: the "free entry alternative", which is usually telegraphed by the fine print "No purchase necessary". Generally this means that it is possible to enter the contest for free by, for example, writing a letter to the entity sponsoring the contest and requesting a game piece or entry form.


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PostPosted: Thu, 8th Feb 2007 14:38    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
sTo0z wrote:
I just want to know why the heck Canadians need to answer a skill question!


nothing more than a legal requirement Wink

skill testing questions are something like

5 x 6 - 32 + 12 = (if you're wrong, you're retarded)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill_testing_question

Quote:
Skill testing questions are a legal requirement attached to many contests in Canada.

The combined effect of Sections 197 to 206 of the Canadian Criminal Code bans for-profit gaming or betting, with exceptions made for provincial lotteries, and licensed casinos and charity events. Many s

tores, radio stations, and other groups still wish to hold contests to encourage more purchases or increase consumer interest. A classic example of such a contest is Tim Hortons' Roll up the Rim to Win, that gives chance to win prizes with every cup of coffee purchased, with prizes ranging from vehicles to doughnuts. These organizations take advantage of the fact that the law does allow prizes to be given for games of skill, or mixed games of skill and chance. In order to make the chance-based contests legal, such games generally have mathematical skill-testing questions incorporated.

The most common form that these questions take is as an arithmetic exercise. A court decision ruled that these must contain at least three operations to actually be skill testing; for example, a common question might be "(2 × 4) + (10 × 3)" (Answer: 3Cool. Enforcement of these rules is not very stringent, and especially for small prizes, the player may not be required to answer the skill-testing question to claim a prize. Anecdotally, getting the answer wrong is also often not an obstacle to claiming a prize. For contests held in the United States or other countries that are open to Canadians, the questions must also be asked of any Canadian winner.

The same section of law prohibits receiving consideration in exchange for playing the games, resulting in a related peculiarity of Canadian contests: the "free entry alternative", which is usually telegraphed by the fine print "No purchase necessary". Generally this means that it is possible to enter the contest for free by, for example, writing a letter to the entity sponsoring the contest and requesting a game piece or entry form.


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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Feb 2007 18:06    Post subject:
I don't get it. Where's the funny part?
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