Rugby type stuff

[Shallowhal]

I'm sure RC's missus will be on standby with gallons of tea and piles of sangwiches...and maybe a pyramid of Ferrero Rocher....although,she'd be better of out of it...listening to the bollox youse two fuks can spew!!

[Belker]

.......... not to mention the opportunity to assess the lesser known players' abilities e.g. I hadn't heard of two of the players I backed on Saturday (Clemmons and Burton) until they played on Friday...

Nice one Stephen, the £385 prob took the financial sting outta the weekend,
yiz could have shared the inside goss with us about Clemmons and Burton though !

[Rat Catcher]

Covered me alright, took stg£80 out of the bank, still have £140 left, probably spent about a ton on the card, happy days! TBH, they were spur of the moment bets just for a bit of interest.

[Belker]

It's great to come home with more dosh than ye left with and expenses paid.

Did it twice meself, once in 1980 when I was 15 and sent off to Gravesend in Kent not too far from London on a 'Learning' work experience with a top English greyhound trainer, I reckon the 'Top' trainer learned more from me than I did from him !
Anyway we visited many dog tracks around London every night and with beginners Luck being what it is, I made a tidy profit from the on-course bookies as the Tote staff would not lay me as I was under 18. Me Daza gave me a Deuce Sterling before putting me on the plane and I came home with about £350 Sterling, never said a word ta me Daza though !

The other one was Poznan in 1992 fer a world cup qualifier against Poland, pissed as a coot I played roulette by night while totally inebriated and somehow managed to get home with about £200 more than I left with.

[Rat Catcher]

Ya have to be pissed to play roulette or any other casino game... unless you're a skilled card counter.

[Belker]

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[Belker]

Ya have to be pissed to play roulette or any other casino game... unless you're a skilled card counter.

That was way back in 1992 and I don't think that I have ever been in a casino since.
I only like to play when the odds are heavily stacked in my favour,
I like being the Bookie or betting against any of John M's predictions  !

[Rat Catcher]

I used to go to the dogs a bit in the late 80s / early '90s. Seems to have gone down hill everywhere nowadays, only one track in Dublin and loads closed down across the water. Seems the punters of today prefer to put their hard earned on virtual shite these days.

Oh, forgot to mention the sting in the tail with me darts bet... when the lad took it he franked it for £20 and I corrected him as I had written £10 and tendered £20 because I like the plastic £10 notes... anwaysanall when the pretty girl was working out my return (using the calculator of her phone for some reason) she got the lad I put it on with to check her math saying that's the stake as she pointed at the franked bit on the bottom (and I thinks nice one) but he looks at me and presumably remembers our earlier conversation while congratulating me on a couple of good prices so says to me it was a tenner, right... yes, says I, shame I didn't leave the twenty, etc... strange though that they didn't seem to have a machine to scan/automatically settle the slip, maybe 'cos it's a "pop up shop"?

[The Liffey Lip]

Nice fiddle there....if she made 94p per customer. Not one person under 40 can do any form of arithmetic without a machine. Eclair...€1.50 or 2 for €3......bargain.

[Belker]

Oh, forgot to mention the sting in the tail with me darts bet... when the lad took it he franked it for £20 and I corrected him as I had written £10 and tendered £20 because I like the plastic £10 notes... anwaysanall when the pretty girl was working out my return (using the calculator of her phone for some reason) she got the lad I put it on with to check her math saying that's the stake as she pointed at the franked bit on the bottom (and I thinks nice one) but he looks at me and presumably remembers our earlier conversation while congratulating me on a couple of good prices so says to me it was a tenner, right... yes, says I, shame I didn't leave the twenty, etc... strange though that they didn't seem to have a machine to scan/automatically settle the slip, maybe 'cos it's a "pop up shop"?

That seems strange, if the male cashier had not been there, then most likely you would have been paid on the £20 stake. Back in the day if a bet was stamped up fer more than it should have been, then next to the stamped stake at the bottom would be written "O/R £10" meaning an over-ring.
As fer the girl using her phone to calculate the odds, I'm guessing that there is a settling app now available and the girl didn't do the 2.375 X 3.25 X 2.5 X 2 X £10 to arrive at the 385 figure.

[The Liffey Lip]

Maybe she was a Narcissist, Rats....they tend to seek the admiration of others to prop up their very fragile egos.....buying friends etc.

[The Liffey Lip]

Narcissists often portray themselves as innocent victims of the sins of others whilst attempting to manipulate others into accepting them........women often do it by deferring to men, whilst male Narcissists, when found out by their female betters, desperately try to rally the troops in their quest for praise, oftentimes insisting that they pay for everything to conceal their inner desperation at having being copped and exposed by a cleverer female.

There again, she might just have been trying to be nice. You'd have needed to see her instagram and snapchat photos to suss it either way. They like pictures of themselves.

[Belker]

As fer Pop-up shops I hate em, I like me counter, me coin dispenser, me Anker F7 till and me OTT super settler.
Pop-up shops have none of these items. I remember the First one I did in a Cork pub fer Cheltenham, I was given a float and told to meet Freddie (one the locals) in the bar and he would be my assistant fer the day, so I grabbed a few betting slips and biros and pocket calculator and headed off to meet Freddie who was sat supping at the bar, he was a most pleasant man and I thought this was gonna be a doddle and I would be assisting Freddie rather than the other way around.
So I said the Freddie; "Tell me, how does this work ?"
And Freddie replied; "Jaysus ! I don't know, I don't know how they talked me in to doing this, I never had a bet in me life !"

[Rat Catcher]

They seemed to have all the mod cons, Ken... although the price screens were playing up so they backed them up with marker on 180 cards. When he changed the stake he done something on his terminal but I don't think he amended the receipt (photo below). In any event, had they overpaid I'm sure it would have come to light soon enough and I'd be looking over me shoulder for the rest of the weekend.

[john m]

Did you get the free £2 bet ?