Wednesday, June 25, 2008

How is this a Lottery?

Lexus SUV crushes Porsche in car park. BBC headline 'Lexus rollover in parking lottery'. Is anything bad now called a lottery, or were they just desperate to use a rollover pun?
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  1. Fr.11:05 am

    Actually yes, everything bad is now a lottery. Here's an example crafted in… Oxford University. Steve Woolgar and the speed camera:

    http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/about/CI/CP/the_edge/issue25/speed_camera_postcode.aspx?ComponentId=21003&SourcePageId=21096

    Anything even remotely unfair and geographically locatable is now a lottery.

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