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Over the past couple of days, the first Christmas based competitions have appeared - and so have the outlandish sob stories about why people deserve to win a cheap advent calendar or piece of Christmas tat. Are people so desperate to win that they will air all of their (maybe true) woes on a public facebook page? It will only get worse as the yearly advent competitions arrive in December, with everybody trying to outdo everyone else in the oh woe is me stakes, usually when just a simple phrase is asked for. I even wrote a poem about it, because it annoys me so much:

http://serendipitysays1.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/just-stick-to-rules.html
 
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Over the past couple of days, the first Christmas based competitions have appeared - and so have the outlandish sob stories about why people deserve to win a cheap advent calendar or piece of Christmas tat. Are people so desperate to win that they will air all of their (maybe true) woes on a public facebook page? It will only get worse as the yearly advent competitions arrive in December, with everybody trying to outdo everyone else in the oh woe is me stakes, usually when just a simple phrase is asked for. I even wrote a poem about it, because it annoys me so much:

http://serendipitysays1.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/just-stick-to-rules.html

oh boy, those outlandish stories! I've seen them on Facebook as well for the most 'win a felt tip pen' of competitions as they go on about how their house was broken into and all their 5 year old felt tip pens were stolen!
 

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oh boy, those outlandish stories! I've seen them on Facebook as well for the most 'win a felt tip pen' of competitions as they go on about how their house was broken into and all their 5 year old felt tip pens were stolen!

Yup. I've managed to catch out a few who have posted the same sob story several years in a row! They're either very unlucky that their baby has exactly the same illness at the same time as last year (and the year before that), or they're telling big fat porkies - I know which I'm inclined to believe.
 

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Yup. I've managed to catch out a few who have posted the same sob story several years in a row! They're either very unlucky that their baby has exactly the same illness at the same time as last year (and the year before that), or they're telling big fat porkies - I know which I'm inclined to believe.
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Uhh stuff like this makes me cringe! And makes people who really are going through rough times unbelievable!
I always just comment "WIN" or the line I need to quote if I ever enter anything.
We all have our own problems etc, I'm not going to air my dirty laundry on a competition just to win my daughter a bloody paw patrol bowl and spoon set!
 
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