Year of 1's
Jan 24th 2011 | 9:51 pm
#16
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From: Vejer de la Fra., Cadiz
Re: Year of 1's
Years ago now, I remember Hedgehunter winning the Grand National at 16/1. I’m not much of a betting man, but I put a tenner on it because it had the number eight and was priced at twice that.
If I had applied critical reasoning to my selection, I would never had backed that horse, or indeed backed any horse, especially in the Grand National.
If I had applied critical reasoning to most of my life choices I don’t know where I would be today, but it is unlikely to be a foreign country bouncing with burglars.
I even had a shouting match with one of those con beggars at the gate yesterday, the ones with begging letters in ten languages for a charity that doesn’t exist. He was saying that I lived in a ****ing palace and wouldn’t even give five Euros to a charity.
(I don’t live in a palace and wouldn’t give money to a fat, lazy gippo even if I did).
If I had applied critical reasoning to my selection, I would never had backed that horse, or indeed backed any horse, especially in the Grand National.
If I had applied critical reasoning to most of my life choices I don’t know where I would be today, but it is unlikely to be a foreign country bouncing with burglars.
I even had a shouting match with one of those con beggars at the gate yesterday, the ones with begging letters in ten languages for a charity that doesn’t exist. He was saying that I lived in a ****ing palace and wouldn’t even give five Euros to a charity.
(I don’t live in a palace and wouldn’t give money to a fat, lazy gippo even if I did).
Critical reasoning will tell you that if the average person was capable of imitating my BIL, then the profession of bookie would disappear overnight.
I won't gamble for that very reason. The money I have is hard earned, and I have no desire to see it run away on the back of a horse.
