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annual debate.....fairytale of new york.....10\1 or 18\1
annual debate.....fairytale of new york.....10\1 or 18\1
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FFS we have the new Little and Large.
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Oh dear, left one still not descended ?
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Although you 2 are funnier.
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And can we trust the narrator anyway? "The guy is a bum who is living on the street," says MacGowan. "And he's just won on a horse at the unlikely odds of 18-to-one, so you're not even sure he is telling the truth."
When this transcript was recorded, how do you know the person didn't him say 10/1 and not 18/1  |
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didn't hear him say*
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when was recorded was 10s but drifted out on bf to 18s, trainer subsequently warned off.
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It's 18/1. Just listened through headphones. It's the way he sings it.
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It's like being in a Peter Kay gig
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It was 18/1 and account closed
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listened again even more closely with volume turned up and reading his lips
it's 10/1. |
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also he must have been lying as the narrative of the song is xmas eve- there's no racing on xmas eve so he was talking bollox.
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there was never a NYPD choir either.
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**** so clearly 10\1 I am stunned though consensus is the other way
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Ffs!
He doesn't say 'at ' !!!!! |
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if you read his lips its clearly 10\1
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Rule 4 applied to the bet after the fav taken out late but Magowan couldn't get that to scan to the tune.
Came in 18-1, 10s after rule 4 applied.  |
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he was fecking hammered and never knew himself ffs END OF FREDO
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That's because you're assuming it's 10/1 and therefore are reading his lip movement singing...' at 10/1' When in reality he's emphasising the 8 of 18/1. I.e he does not sing the word ' at ' |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0hlbWpa1w
Pause at 44 seconds 4+4 also = 8 Also at 44 there is 4.33 to go 4+3+3 = 10 + add the 8 we got and that = 18 Coincidence  |
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And we all know what 18/3 is
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And we all know what 18/3 is
Well it was Gold Cup day this year. |
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on-topic: it sounds to me like he sings eight-ten to one
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" he just won at the unlikely odds 'of' eighteen to one.
that ' of ' tells you it it has to be ten to one. |
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So we all agree it's 10/1 ?
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Has anyone ever said " I got home half past twelve" ?
no no one has ever said that. |
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no matter how drunk, no one has ever said that.
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who would disagree with that?
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a firm command of English is all that is required.
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if anyone can come up with any other instance of someone writing and leaving out very important words I might believe it's 18-1
let's see it may be so, any things possible. |
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The problem arises of course if the horse did come in at 18-1...then he wouldn't have been able to write the song without leaving out the 'at'
that would have been a terrible pity. so if the horse did come in at 18-1 I am glad he decided to leave out at |
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however if the horse came in at 10 -1 , no such problems arise.
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Is it possible there was no horse? certainly not.
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if there was no horse I think we can all agree that he would have just wrote 10-1 and have done with it.
so perhaps the story in the song is true. there is no other explanation for using such clumsy English... unless the story he tells is true. |
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Right 10/1 but people still going to want to know what bookies he goes to on xmas eve
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Keep trying
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