Bog Roll ::

I get quite a few emails per hour advertising penny stocks. I never pay any attention to spam, but now and then I think about them for a few seconds before purging my spam box.

In the UK all stocks are quoted in pennies, so it's not £3.50 a share, rather 350p. I assume that the spam is some US thing where they trade in dollars not cents, so a penny stock is something very cheap, and under a whole dollar.

In the same vein I always find it funny to receive "lose 10 pounds" emails. To me, a pound is a monetary unit, which is exactly what you lose if you send them any money. Weights are measured in kilos.

Spam evidently isn't internationalised yet, though phising scams are.

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My father visited us this weekend and left us a 3D jigsaw puzzle. It just had to be done and now I'm not quite 100% awake.

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