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Earwigged(ish) gems #7

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

In the shop Me wallet’s as empty as me grandfather’s grave. Good fek! Don’t say grave robbers! No. He’s not dead. In a neighbour’s kitchen I wrote on it with an indisputable marker by accident. You mean indelible marker. Yeah. But if you can’t rub it out it’s indisputable too. Right? When the starter at [...]

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 [...]

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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