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07 Oct 14
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If you are full-time / semi-pro on Betfair, how easy is it to explain to your family and friends what it is you do?
I ask this after reading a thread on General Betting thread ("Betfair for a living... please help"), on which several people describe the impossibility of explaining todays betting (I include trading - it's still betting) to people who's notions of "gambling" are - at best - 15 years out of date, and at worst, wildly prejeudiced.
I've only ever managed to explain to two people, neither of whom are my family. How about you?
I ask this after reading a thread on General Betting thread ("Betfair for a living... please help"), on which several people describe the impossibility of explaining todays betting (I include trading - it's still betting) to people who's notions of "gambling" are - at best - 15 years out of date, and at worst, wildly prejeudiced.
I've only ever managed to explain to two people, neither of whom are my family. How about you?
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See the amount of people that you have to explain what "laying" something is, does my head in !!
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Perfect example, Schalke. "Their eyes just glaze over" I think was one of the comments I read.
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Ok, I don't do it for a living anymore, but I did for 2 years ... but even now, you say to people you are doing some betting for a few hours they still say "it's a mugs game" "thats the road to ruin"
aye, maybe if you are an idiot that just goes in te bookies and bets on dogs all day and does 8 team football accys ... Most people aint got a clue what Betfair really is, or the type of betting that I do to make money, am sick to death even trying to explain to people about the way I bet |
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Years ago, I had the same problem with art. I used to paint race-horses and people would say, straight away like, "Hey, BOOKIES WILL BUY THESE!" Yeah, a real lightbulb moment...one gallery in Glasgow left my paintings behind when an art fair was taking place - there was some sort of inverted snobbery going on as if racing is not a respectable subject. This gallery sold about a dozen non-racing paintings for me, but I never went back. Fookin' doughballs at best.
Bookies? Really? Like they live in a world where the aristocracy and the Queen and Arab sheiks do not exist. Degas and Stubbs and Munnings do not exist, because nobody would want a painting of horses except a BOOOOOOOKIE!! As for Betfair, the local joiner loves a punt and I was trying to explain Betfair to him and he said, "Stop it - you're doing my head in." |
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try explaining the Premium charge
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s-h, if only!
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BTW - the joiner was 20 yards away from a bookie and a typical bet for him was : Ayr 3.30 FAV. £50 win.
Why bother? As Disraeli said, "Never complain, never explain." |
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Don't bother!
People won't understand and if they get even an inkling it's about betting (and you can dress it up as trading if you like) the general public are so ingrained with the notion that gambling equals problem gambling, you'll be getting looks of sympathy-mixed-with-horror and phatic phrases (it's a mugs game' etc). Just say you're a rent boy - far more easily understood and respectable to the majority of the public! :) |
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Hey...eh...I hope all you hard core degenerate gamblers saw the front page of the Racing Post today because...that is enough to melt a grown man's heart...
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What, this pic? It's a beaut!
https://www.facebook.com/racingpost/photos/a.499138261119.273438.189008416119/10152302218306120/?type=1&relevant_count=1 |
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rogerthebutler 11:00
Just say you're a rent boy - far more easily understood and respectable to the majority of the public!  |
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That is fookin' horrendous - looks like the poor hoss has been dropped from a B-52.....no, I mean this one...
http://images.racingpost.com/2014/Oct/132058.jpg TREVE TAKES HER BOW. |
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Alec Head is 90 years old!
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That's a great picture Vel. Similarities to the Mighty Zenyatta there.
I noticed on Sunday Treve's antics as she came back to the paddock after the race. She really knew she'd won. |
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Yep, have to say now she is the greatest filly or mare to ever race in Europe. All the trouble and injuries, conceding the extra weight for age to a filly like Taghrooda. Better than Triptych, All Along, Allez France, Oh So Sharp, etc. The Best.
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And better than Zarkava.
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