Debbie J

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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I live in the UK and I "met" a friend who lives in Australia on the internet, on a web forum almost 12 years ago. We have been emailing regularly over the years. She had recently had a pool fitted in her back yard. I went to our local Garden Centre for an Open Event some time after this. They had an exhibition of pools. We got talking to the guy who was in charge of the pool display. I vaguely recognised the name of the pool company and realised it was the same company that had fitted my friends pool in Australia. We chatted further and I brought my friend up into the conversation, never for a second thinking it would have any particular relevance. It turned out this very guy had been to my friends house, in Australia and had stood in her backyard and checked out her pool!!!!
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:25:29 +0000Coincidence ID:5301

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Anonymous (not verified)

Tue, 17/01/2012 - 9:32am

We lost my beloved Grandad 30 years ago. My Grandma lived on to pass her 100th birthday. She spent the last 18 months of her life in a Nursing Home and wasn't really as happy as she could have been, a bit of dementia set in and she'd really had enough of life. She had a wonderful long life and passed 100 years old, receiving a telegram from the Queen. She started refusing food and medication on Thursday 2nd June 2011 aged 101. We all knew she had given up. The Nurses told us it was doubtful she would survive the weekend. I sat with her all Sunday afternoon, kind of hoping she would pass when I was there so she wouldn't be alone. She was still hanging on. On the Monday she was still with us. She finally passed away on Wednesday 8th June.....30 years to the day that my Grandad died. She was waiting for him to come and get her on his own anniversary.

Anonymous (not verified)

Tue, 17/01/2012 - 9:36am

We live in the UK and we have just been to Australia for Christmas. We stayed on Hayman Island, a resort on an island in the Whitsundays off the East Coast of Australia. We were stood in the pool one day when a guy came over to us with his daughter and asked if we lived in W*******. We said yes....turned out he lived 2 miles down the road and his daughter recognised our eldest son! We didn't know him but we went on to discover we had about 25 people in common! Small World!