Wow, there's some frothing craziness out there.
As many of you will have heard, the UK Royal Mint has issued some new coin designs. Most people I know are pretty indifferent about them. After all, you don't really spend an inordinate amount of time staring at them and you can still spend them on sweeties and comics.
The coins in formation. (picture from the Royal Mint site)
I thought this would the the universal opinion until I was pointed at the Daily Mail comments section -
Goodbye Britannia: A first look at the new designs for Britain's billions of coins | the Daily Mail
My current favorite comment is from Mickey the Manc:
decimalisation + new pictures on coins -> exile of the monarchy
I'm not sure I follow the logic myself. I shall have to ponder what could possibly be the next step according to this model.
For more examples of some outstanding reasoning, the BBC Have Your Say page is a gold mine. The comments on there are argument enough for teaching deductive reasoning in schools.
As many of you will have heard, the UK Royal Mint has issued some new coin designs. Most people I know are pretty indifferent about them. After all, you don't really spend an inordinate amount of time staring at them and you can still spend them on sweeties and comics.
The coins in formation. (picture from the Royal Mint site)
I thought this would the the universal opinion until I was pointed at the Daily Mail comments section -
Goodbye Britannia: A first look at the new designs for Britain's billions of coins | the Daily Mail
My current favorite comment is from Mickey the Manc:
"Decimalisation was the start of the decimation of this once fine nation.Hmmm.
Won't be long before the monarchy is kicked into exile... we can see what is happening and are doing nothing about it."
decimalisation + new pictures on coins -> exile of the monarchy
I'm not sure I follow the logic myself. I shall have to ponder what could possibly be the next step according to this model.
For more examples of some outstanding reasoning, the BBC Have Your Say page is a gold mine. The comments on there are argument enough for teaching deductive reasoning in schools.
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