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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 Cheltenham calls another totally unnecessary false-start
Would ya look [...]

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) [...]

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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