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Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: RD on 11/11/2009 12:19:38

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091111/video/vhd-unemployment-could-hit-2-5bn-686f718.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091111/video/vhd-unemployment-could-hit-2-5bn-686f718.html)

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: Don_1 on 11/11/2009 14:07:37

Geeze!!! Does this mean we will be unemployed several times over? Can I claim benefit for all the times I am unemployed.

Think I'm on to a winner here.

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: RD on 11/11/2009 18:19:20

Make that 2.5 billion and one ex-ITN caption writer.

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: Nizzle on 12/11/2009 07:30:42

I think it's time for the UK to acknowledge the fact that their colonies all across the world are independent now...

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: glovesforfoxes on 12/11/2009 16:13:14

NO! NO NIZZLE!

THE SUN WILL NEVER SET!

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: RD on 01/12/2009 03:11:46

Yet another news agency can't tell billion from million ...

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[Tiger Woods] whose personal fortune is estimated at $1 billion (608,294 pounds)

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN3051777520091201

A billion US dollars is about 600,000,000 pounds, not "608,294 pounds".

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: Geezer on 01/12/2009 07:01:12

Ahem. In the UK, a billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000. Did the EEC nick three zeros?

Title: innumeracy increases unemployment
Post by: RD on 01/12/2009 07:42:20

Quote from: Geezer on 01/12/2009 07:01:12

a billion used to be 1,000,000,000,000

Tiger may be loaded*, but even Bill Gate$ doesn't have a million million bucks.

 (* not an alcohol reference  [:)])