Canada Bob

Just to prove that I can't be right about anything the now, here's my thoughts on it... I doubt we can compare this to the pandemic of almost 100 years ago, my granddad's brother was one of the victims in that. The thing is, the general health {diet etc} wasn't as good then, there were no anti virals and hospital care wasn't as high tech as it can be now. Add to that, this new strain although it seems to be very contagious it aint killing a high percentage of the folks who get it, so like bird flu / SARS my guess is more folks will drop dead whilst reading about it than from it... The only thing we need to fear, is fear itself, but... WTF do I know...

Who the hell started this fekkin thread Some bloke who don't even listen to his own words :018: The last two weeks have to be the worst run I've ever had, not just in how much I've burned, but no matter what I bet on it goes pear shaped as soon as the race starts or the match kicks off. Hard to believe that on other days I've walked into the Bookies and backed one winner after the other, now I can't buy a winning bet. How the **** does it work, what the hell is "Luck" where did mine go, and when's it coming back :thumb04: I'm beginning to think it's the Wigin Mafia jinxing me, they've been giving me all these "good things" from Rugby to F1. I've followed them into the mire and it just seems to be swallowing us all up, talk about a Bookies Black Hole...

I didnt even know anyone was that close to me :thumb04: Was going to go for ayr v eastfife draw to try and catch you up but....guess i should play it safe with a QOS win @ 1.83 You made the right decision there Joe, even though QoS took their time putting the ball into the net You could be vying for 2nd place if Don's luck is half as bad as mine :018:

And there was me hoping that you'd pull me out of the mire :thumb04: I've had another absolute shagger today, so bad I don't want to talk about it, other than to say that fekkin horse did 4 grand in for me :018: I've done 21k in in two bleedin weeks the now...

Just got matched on Nisaal with BF @ 3.90 and 3.85 to 4k, it's all down to Tony the now...

This past while youve got Man United knocked out of the FA Cup, Bradford Bulls humped, Crewe close to being relegated.. Who elses season have you snookered lately? Hardly anyone really, other than Tiger Woods and Jenson Button, to a grand on the both of them... I've one last chance to turn the tide, I'm looking for Nisaal to win the 1:00 race at Sandown, that's the Flat jockeys vs the Jump jockeys race, I'm told {FWIW} that Nisaal is a good thing, can't win can I, if I leave it it wins, if I back it then it has to turn the tide for me, but sod it, I'll be on it in lumps...

The Falcon aint sniffing anything right now, except his pillow, he got cleaned out tonight, no thanks to Crewe, he dint even come to the pub with us... I can't pick a winner for the life of me, so, I'll row in with CaleyD and take Airdrie to Draw @ 3.40 FWIW...

Now I know how Canute felt, I've kept hammering away but I haven't been able to turn the tide for the last two weeks now, and after tonights fiasco I've done in just ore 17k in two weeks, it's a hard game gambling aint it... Don't know what to do tomorrow, or next week, we fly back to Canada on the 3rd May, so I might as well throw some more cash at the Bookies before we beat a retreat. I know I go mad while we're ore here, mostly because I don't bet at all when I'm back in Canada, I just run Sid's System and although it wins money it aint as exciting as losing it, talk about being addicted to risk, sigh... Tonights match was shyte, Crewe were the better team in the first half, but they just couldn't get the damned ball into the net, and after a while it gets to the teams psyche and they start thinking it aint going to go in, but Stockport proved them wrong, with a team made of of the best they coulod put out on the night they ran 4 bleedin' goals in, mind you, at 3-1 down I'd seen enough and we set off for a pint in Wigin. Talk about a quiet ride back, no one could speak, a couple of the lads went in deeper than me, I lost 1,500 quid they lost more than double that, and they came home with empty pockets. You know that things aren't going yer way when you come out of the pub and head for the chippy to find it shut, before 11pm that was too, so we finished up in some Malayan take away, gawd knows what we were eating, tasted like soap to me, with a side order of misery...

Back in at the deep end, I'm told that Stockport have as many as 7 reserves on tonight, I just hope they are as bad as the first team who have won just 1 of their last 8 games. Crewe are lower in the league, in fact they are battling against relegation, but at least that gives them a bigger incentive than Stockport County who are relatively safe, long as they don't incurr a 10 point penalty if the club goes into receivership. At least Crewe have a full team out, so I've two monkeys on with BaldFred @ 13/10. Gotta run, it's an hours drive from here... Canada Bob. PS... where our Naps thing for Saturday ???

I've been to Oz and there's a lot to be said for it, but if I knew a better country than Canada I'd be living in it. The standard of living for {say} the average blue collar worker is way higher than in the Untidy Kingdom, yet the cost of living is lower than in the UK. Have a look at the type of house you can buy for 250,000 quid / $450,000 in Nova Scotia, or any other Province on... MLS.ca Or on... Tradewinds Here's one of my favourites, just down the road from us, we are on a Golf Course complex, with 2 free memberships, this development is on the Ocean Front, with one of the best surfing/fishing/kayaking beaches anywhere. The asking price is around 220,000 quid, but unlike the "offers over" system in Scotland in Canada most homes sell for 95% of asking price, could be even lower right now... Beats Wigin, that's for sure... Or... Claussen Walters

Never mind the 2,000 quid on the cars, I'm still mystified as to how the Goverment can float the country on pieces of paper, these so called Gilt Bonds, what makes them gilt ? what collateral secures them ? I have an uneasy feeling that the collateral is the broken backs of this generation of tax payers and maybe the next. How can Bonds be issued by one arm of the Government and then bought by the Bank of England, using money they are printing and the country be any better off ? how the f*ck does that work ? if it does I want in on it... Quiz night at The Highlands {just next door} tonight, I think I'll slip that in as a question, 'cause it has me beat... PS... Just had one of the Wwigin Lads on the phone, mentioned it to him, he says {if I've got it right} that... The Government prints up bonds, they sell the bonds to the Bank of England, they pay for the bonds with all this money that's being printed {this is where I lose the plot}. The end run is, the Bank of England finishes up owning "assets" well they call them assets, the rest of us would call them a debt {from the Government}, they then start trading off these "debts/assets", making what they can on them. BUT !!! Aint trading in debts as though they were assets {worth having} what got us into the sh*t in the first place... How can you float one debt on top of another without sinking deeper into the sh*t ? I want to see how this is done !!!

I think Ahmadinejad is a threat to us all the way he rants on, but... What he says when he goes on about the establishment of Isreal just don't make any sense. What's the point of war if you can't keep what you take off the other bloke ? isn't that what war has been about for the last 10,000 years ? Does anyone think that if Iran had beat Iraq 30 years ago that they'd have handed the land and the oilfields back ? Sure enough war is a condemnation on all of us, we should be able to sort things out without having to resort to slaughtering millions of each other, but until we find a better way then when you win you take the other blokes stuff, how can anyone claim offence at that. I note that Ahmadinejad's proposed answer to the problem is to wipe out Isreal, if he managed to do that would it give him the right to say who inherits the land ?

Am I missing something here, on how Governments raise money... From what I hear when the Government is in debt and needs to borrow money, they print off Gilts / Bonds and then auction them off to the Bank of England {for the most part}. The Bank of England buys the Bonds using the money that Gordon's printing press is knocking out the now. If that's the case why don't we cut out the middle men, {the Bankers}. These so called "Gilts" that they're printing up, what makes them Gilt ? what security does the Government have to back them up ? How can a country so seriously in debt issue paper that anyone {other than itself} thinks is a safe bet ? What happens if the Government isn't able to pay up on the Bonds ? does someone turn up with a truck and cart off the the Queen or the Crown Jewels ? or do we just hand over the keys to France, Germany, Russia or Saudi ? Why don't Gordon just mail out a Bond worth a Million quid to all of us, we could then use that as collateral to buy houses, cars, TV's, season tickets etc, wouldn't that get the economy back on track. Can someone explain to me how this works ? it seems an absurdity to me, but if it does work then I want in on it. I've had a shagger of a run on the horses and the football the last couple of weeks, so if there is any easy money to be made I'd like a piece of the action.

Right, understood, but... How would they know where to start the diversion ? it's a bit odd to me, especially when you'd be amazed how many folks don't know some of the regular road signs, especially the "End of Motorway" sign, I remember it, but folks who have lived here "for ever" don't know what that {sort of} Bridge sign with a line across it means, I'd say around 90% of the folks I ask "what does that mean" don't know !!! The other peculiarity is, the 30 sign has a 30 on it, so does the 40, and the 50, but the National Speed Limit signs don't have any number on them, how's that ? half the folks I ask about that white sign with a black crossbar, ant a clue what it means, FFS... And if you really want to f*ck folks up, ask them to explain what the 14% gradient means, sigh, I remember the older signs saying stuff like "Hill 1 in 6", the most memorable response I had to that {some 40 years ago was}... "It means there's 6 Hills like that in England, and this is 1 of them" !!! Yea, it was a woman, oddly enough not a Blonde though

Here in the Untidy Kingdom, I see them everywhere, but I don't recall them the last time we were here, {last year}. I've asked dozens of folks even retired coppers, no one know what they are...

Even after what's gone on... NuLabour just can't let go of the bone...

Anyone know what them wee yellow squares are on the Motorway signs ? They are about a foot square, some have a black circle, some a black triangel, some a square and so on... I see 'em all ore the place, but I can't figure out what the hell they are, and no one that I ask seems to know

Trust the b*stard to do me on a twist of the word, sigh... Ladbrokes are bollocks too, when I asked about Downturn @ 4/7 wanting a couple of grand on either that or Recession they said I could have 20 quid on it, FFS... what's wrong with them ? don't they have the nerve to stand a bet ! As it turned out though they saved me 300 quid on "Gambling" but if I could have had a couple of grand on the more favoured runners, "Downturn" & "Recession" I'd have picked a bit of money up :thumb04: Here's an interesting link from CH4 showing how often certain buzz words were used... Darlings Buzz Words...

Worse than that, it took the so called "Traders"at Ladbrokes an age this morning before they would lay me a bet. I wanted a monkey on Gambling, but at the finish all they'd lay me was 200 quid at 10/1 so I took it, waiting by the wireless the now for the results to come in...

If your really keen on a bet, and want to research... I've had a look at what Darling has said in the last year or so in his budget type speeches, and what his office say on their web site. People are creatures of habit when it comes to patterns of speech, Politicians even more so when it comes to drumming their ideology into the rest of us. As an example, who dreampt up that propaganda phrase "Credit Crunch" that's now on everyone's lips. How clever was that ! it steers our minds and our concerns away from talking about Recession or worse Depression. As long as Gormless Gordon, Meddlesome Mendelson et-al can bridle our tongues and turn our heads to see the world as they want us to see it, they maintain control. Anyway, I digress, here's a list of words that Alistair has mentioned at least 4 times in {near every} budget type speech he has made in the last year... Downturn: a 4/7 chance, 4 times at least in 5 speeches. Recovery: a 1/4 chance, as many as 6 times in one speech, and never yet missed the word in a budget type speech. Recession: a 1/2 chance, this is his favourite buzz word, best bet of all the odds on chances, 8 times in one speech. Credit Crunch: a 3/1 chance, is out of form, only used once in a formal/budget type speech. Difficult Times: a 1/2 chance, don't do well on this {formal speech} course, having won only once in 5 outings. Knob: a Palm Sister colt out of Home Secretary, at 33/1 represents value, although he tends to fade when challenged he has been known to spurt at the finish. Hasn't performed all that well when ridden by J.Smith who seems to have trouble doing the weight, even though the colt has a ?10 penalty from his last outing. Bollocks: a Meddlesome Mendelson mare rumoured to be out of Two Jags, tried to hang left on several occasions but seems ungenuine, at 50/1 is the proverbial talking horse with an ability that almost matches the sires good looks. Knackered: a Socialist gelding, sired by NuLabour, now owned by "The Workers", will unfortunately be carrying top weight {again} is easy to back at 100/1 and typically represents the syndicates chance. Formcast: With some persuasion from the whip Knob may find his action, if he does he'll go in, and Bollocks won't be far behind, after that Knackered is almost a certainty...

I've asked Ladbrokes, they say they will take as much money as you want on Bathplug, but at Ante Post rules, so if Bathplug gets pulled you money goes down the drain... On the other hand, if Bathplug goes in, Ladbrokes will go t*ts up, but, seeing that they are a High Street icon the Government will be obliged to bail them out, if that happens we'll all be taking a bath... PS... I'll be on "Gambling" I'll take what I can get on at 25/1 on that...

Tell you what, I think that "Gambling" is a fair bet @ 25/1, check the link below... Go for it Alisair, grab the Bookies money Remember that all he has to do is mention the word Gambling at any point in his speech, a speech that is likely to last around an hour, he may mention it in reference to Bookies, Banksor anything else, don't matter long as he says the word.

I can't pick a winner on the soccer and the horses I bet go lame, so... For the hell of it, I'll see if I can pick a winner out of Ladbrokes list... Climate Change 1/5 G20 1/4 Low Carbon 1/4 Recovery 1/4 Stamp Duty 1/3 Difficult Times 1/2 Recession 1/2 Real Help 1/2 Downturn 4/7 Fiscal Stimulus 4/7 Value For Money 4/7 Slowdown 4/6 Tax Haven evens IMF 6/4 Quantitative Easing 5/2 Credit Crunch 3/1 Hard Working Families 5/1 Obama 5/1 Green Shoots 6/1 Golden Rule 7/1 Sorry 10/1 Depression 16/1 Boom and Bust 20/1 Election 20/1 Gambling 25/1 Bathplug 100/1 Butcher 250/1 Just listening to that r sole Meddlesome on the telly, he's just mantioned "recession" 8 times in about 3 minutes, so it looks like that horse is in form...

Hmmm, there I was thinking it was just Whitehall to Town Hall, looks like I forgot this lot... Gawd knows where the rot stops... And while Rome burns... 24th out of 29, how bad is that !!!

:thumb04: :018: Yea, the Blades cut me throat tonight, that's for sure, I did a monkey in on that