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Earwigged(ish) Gem #6

Monday, October 27th, 2008

In the shop
No. Not really. I just cancelled my direct debit to World Vision Ireland - A smoker when it was suggested the budget’s 50c hike in the price of cigarettes must be hurting him in the pocket.
In the bookies
We’ll never flippin’ match that - Ladbrokes staff to a punter (a bank clerk with Halifax) [...]

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Using complexity to con the customer

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I’ve written before about betting on horse racing before and even ran a sweep for the Grand National a couple of times. In the post linked I warned of keeping a tight rein of both horse and wallet, so I’m not getting back the whole right-wrong discussion here (so don’t go jumping in with mug’s [...]

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