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richms

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#3160622 17-Nov-2023 15:28

Some people are so inconsiderate and refuse to believe that there are offices where phone calls are not allowed because they are from an era that phone calls were all they had to do business by.

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#3160632 17-Nov-2023 15:41

So I once wrote a letter to NZLotto asking them if I'd be allowed to wear a chicken suit and cluck if I won the Winning Wheel segment:

From: Muppet
Sent: Sunday, 10 August 2014 9:37 p.m.
To: Info
Subject: Winning Wheel Question

Hello There!

I have a question which I am hoping you can answer for me.

Tonight my wife and I were discussing what is/isn’t allowed when it comes to being
on the “Winning Wheel” segment. The conversation arose because I expressed my
desire to wear a large chicken costume and do nothing but cluck through the whole
segment, if we were so lucky as to win a spot on the segment.

My wife, being the smarter of the two of us, said that there’s no way she’d let me
wear a chicken costume and/or cluck, and that NZ Lotto almost certainly wouldn’t
allow someone to dress up as a chicken anyway.

So my question is: What are “the rules” around the Winning Wheel segment?
Can a contestant wear a large chicken suit if they so desire?

Many Thanks,

A Muppet
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Hi Muppet,

Thank you for your enquiry.

While we have guidelines we follow during filming to ensure the integrity of our
products, we remain flexible as each winner’s story is very different.

There is no current ruling on wearing chicken suits.

Thanks for taking the time to write to us and good luck with your tickets.

Best regards,
<name removed>
Corporate Communications Advisor

LottoNZ

To this day, getting someone to write the words "There is no current ruling on wearing chicken suits" back to me in an email is one of my greatest achievements.
(You just know if I'd won there'd have been a ruling pretty damn quick, sadly we'll never know since they canned winning wheel)

Wombat1

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#3160654 17-Nov-2023 16:39

I have a hipster who shows up at our office every 2 weeks or so with his loud portable mechanical retro keyboard. He must be using the blue keys or something, but its super annoying in a small open-plan office.

sight.... I must be getting old.

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#3160655 17-Nov-2023 16:46

muppet:

So I once wrote a letter to NZLotto asking them if I'd be allowed to wear a chicken suit and cluck if I won the Winning Wheel segment:

I honestly think they'd be fine with it, and though I don't watch it, I wouldn't object if I watched it and someone wore a chicken suit.

It might be different if it was a suit made of real chickens....

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#3160755 18-Nov-2023 08:22

networkn:
muppet:

So I once wrote a letter to NZLotto asking them if I'd be allowed to wear a chicken suit and cluck if I won the Winning Wheel segment:

I honestly think they'd be fine with it, and though I don't watch it, I wouldn't object if I watched it and someone wore a chicken suit.

It might be different if it was a suit made of real chickens....

I am now imagining a person in a suit made of chickens, removing the mask/head piece, not having their phone on silent (with the chicken dance ringtone) taking a call on the live show with their phone held like a platter on speaker shouting:

“mum the turtle will die if you do that.”

And then proceeding to chase some of the chickens that made up the suit around the stage.

Very surreal.

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#3160814 18-Nov-2023 12:44

Wombat1:

I have a hipster who shows up at our office every 2 weeks or so with his loud portable mechanical retro keyboard. He must be using the blue keys or something, but its super annoying in a small open-plan office.

sight.... I must be getting old.

I am that guy. Cherry MX Blue 4tw.

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These comments are my own and do not represent the opinions of 2degrees.

Aaron2222

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#3160840 18-Nov-2023 14:06

Wombat1:

I have a hipster who shows up at our office every 2 weeks or so with his loud portable mechanical retro keyboard. He must be using the blue keys or something, but its super annoying in a small open-plan office.

sight.... I must be getting old.

Could be worse. At least it's not one of these: IBM Model F Reproduction (F62) + Solenoid typing demo

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#3160867 18-Nov-2023 16:16

People on the bus with the music cranked up via their phone speaker, like they think we all want to listen to it or something. Hey buddy, the earphone is a great invention, you know 🙄

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#3161070 19-Nov-2023 08:23

quickymart:

People on the bus with the music cranked up via their phone speaker, like they think we all want to listen to it or something. Hey buddy, the earphone is a great invention, you know 🙄

In a lot of cases these types of behaviours are territorial. It's a way of saying "I'm the boss around here and I can do what I like".

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#3161171 19-Nov-2023 14:04

Wombat1: I have a hipster who shows up at our office every 2 weeks or so with his loud portable mechanical retro keyboard. He must be using the blue keys or something, but its super annoying in a small open-plan office.

sight.... I must be getting old.

Sounds like it needs some of this spraying on it.

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