I hate

Poker is arguably a game of skill though, if played against other humans. Sports/slots betting is another matter, unless you're finding the loopholes in the various odds being offered and hedging so you always come out ahead. I know someone who does a lot of that kind of betting, and makes enough to live off (she's a coder, and I think finds the intellectual challenge as entertaining as the money), but as noted upthread it's a lot of work.

I did think it was an interesting detail in the news reports about William Hill's online profits being up (30-odd %?) through betting on South American domestic leagues and other sports that were still open; that would suggest to me that the people betting aren't spicing up their normal sports fandom with a little flutter, but compulsive gamblers betting on anything they could find, albeit possibly with some plausible deniability.

Good poker players rely making money from pots inflated by idiot amateurs who fancy themselves.

Nobody is making much money from football, horses or slots. I know a few people who have made a few quid on short odds spread betting but never quit while ahead.

Betting has never grabbed me thankfully. It’s relationship with football is far more troubling for me than ownership by Middle Eastern despots.

River monsters (TV programme) utter crap!

Utter carp, Shirley?

Auto-complete in search boxes.

Just stop it.

Haha yes, basically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=291ET6Py6H8

That one?!

And that was 9 yrs ago, you only 11?

Yes that one, HAAAAAAATE.

PS. it came out in 1982

what is it thats so annoying?

Hmmm... need to think what i really hate.

This threads been quite cathartic for me today.

The cunt downstairs playing his guitar and singing (shouting) like a fucking demented Native American Chief performing some sort of shamanic incantation. Every. Fucking. Afternoon.

I'm about ready to go and be really fucking uncool about it.....

Did you even listen to it? It’s ear AIDS.

hhhhmmmmmm

This smells rotten, what do you think?! Smell it

Fair play to the good captain on a troll move even Fergal sharky would consider a bit much

Fuck yes.

The original came out in 1949

https://youtu.be/LoaP0e2tFrM

Packaging. oh, what's inside this exciting box?

1 Attachment

One pair of cleats.

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People clinging on to their military titles after leaving the army. Surely you lose the rank when you leave.

You know who I’m talking about.

thought it might be a bookshelf...

Its usually looked down upon for ranks below Major. So Captain is a bit of a piss take. The main exception being cavalry captains who are seen as more entitled to use their rank after retirement than infantry captains (or engineers).

Probably a bit of a meeja influence in play as well.

And that ‘Entitlement’ is an attitude that goes back as least as far as Sandhurst, from what I have heard.

When I was a Courier we used to deliver to a flat off Park Lane it's probably in the £10m range now, the pick up would be in Mayfair around midday. A 30yr old guy wearing a silk dressing gown, just woken up would open the door sign, throw the package onto a sofa behind him yawn and close the door. I may have imagined the gorgeous blonde with a Scandinavian accent calling him back to bed.

The Concierge told us he was a professional gambler.

The package an A4 envelope was always securely taped closed.

professional gambler

Cover story. This person is/was clearly a hitman receiving his latest target by courier.

people that have known you professionally for over 5 years who still can't be arsed to spell your name correctly.