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Are you a cheat?
Hugh Jboobs
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I don't mean cheating on a partner...
With Luis Suarez and his blatant display of cheating in yesterday's Uruguay v Italy match, I wondered if cheating was rife in "normal" life?
Do you admit to being a cheat? Did you cheat in school tests/exams? Have you ever cheated somehow in your job, or in life in general? What about in sport? Has your cheating had an impact on other people?
Can you play a board game without cheating?!
Do you think cheating is sometimes excusable?
The only example I can think of when I blatantly cheated was in school tests at GCSE level. We had a German test every Monday and had a bunch of vocab to learn over the weekend. Even when I did learn it, I never remembered it for long after the test, so I saw it as a waste of time. During the test, I would just sit with a piece of paper on my knee containing all the stuff I needed to know. I was never caught and ended up with an A at GCSE.
These were just school tests by the way, not the actual GCSE exam - I would never have cheated during a proper exam. And I have never cheated in any way during my working life. I view it as a pretty low act, especially in work and in sporting events.
So how's about you?
With Luis Suarez and his blatant display of cheating in yesterday's Uruguay v Italy match, I wondered if cheating was rife in "normal" life?
Do you admit to being a cheat? Did you cheat in school tests/exams? Have you ever cheated somehow in your job, or in life in general? What about in sport? Has your cheating had an impact on other people?
Can you play a board game without cheating?!
Do you think cheating is sometimes excusable?
The only example I can think of when I blatantly cheated was in school tests at GCSE level. We had a German test every Monday and had a bunch of vocab to learn over the weekend. Even when I did learn it, I never remembered it for long after the test, so I saw it as a waste of time. During the test, I would just sit with a piece of paper on my knee containing all the stuff I needed to know. I was never caught and ended up with an A at GCSE.
These were just school tests by the way, not the actual GCSE exam - I would never have cheated during a proper exam. And I have never cheated in any way during my working life. I view it as a pretty low act, especially in work and in sporting events.
So how's about you?
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Haha I did exactly the same during my French vocab tests at school
Seriously though I hear of cheating in real life all the time, like for jobs how x from down the road got the job at y because her father/mother/whatever knew z who works there, that's a sort of real life cheat. Or how a complained at work because they did so many shifts that b company wasn't paying them properly for. That case, b company cheated out of a contract.
For my own cheating, I guess copying and pasting code I've wrote before and using it is a sort of a cheat. I also guess that looking at wikis of games I'm playing is a sort of cheat as well. Bah. ^_^
while I'm a hugely competitive person, if i could win something with the aid of cheating then I doubt I'd have much of a problem with that.
Personally, I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in an exam, there's no real way for me to cheat at work.
I've only ever really cheated at monopoly - and even then when I snuck out a few extra £100 notes I'd always make a mental note and pay them back later in the game, they were usually just a "loan" to tide me over until my dad landed on my hotel on Mayfair
I suppose its cheating as we had an unfair advantage in a way but hey ho and good grades a go go
We go to a free quiz now where people play just for fun so nobody bothers to cheat because there's no point cos you don't win anything. Cheats not only spoil it for others but they spoil it for themselves too because there's no self gratification to be had when you know you've won by cheating.
As an aside, the traditional pub quiz has been destroyed by the mobile phone.
You could always disqualify anyine who uses a mobile phone for any purpose during the quiz.
I'm loving the image of this
A victory by cheating can never be as a good as a victory earned. I don't cheat at games / exams etc.. its a pointless waste of time particularly as I only take professional qualifications these days so its not like I would get away with not actually knowing the stuff.
I disagree my local still has a very well attended pub quiz and there is certainly no cheating in evidence I recently compared a quiz night and again there was absolutely no cheating in evidence.
The vast majority of people are good and honorable people.
Exactly. If you win a game, you know you only won by cheating, if you pass an exam you know you only passed by cheating, where's the glory in that?
I don't cheat because, as the cliché goes, you only cheat yourself.
It really hasn't. They always mention no phones and the start and i have never seen anyone ever cheat. What would be the point, its just a pub quiz?!
It's not winning.
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