Night EO. have a nice Christmas if I don't see you again before then.

I was wrong about Mickstick. I was wrong about NL/Melanus but paddletoe is never wrong three times in a row! Only kidding. I hope I am wrong 3 times in a row and whats more I have seen some of 4th july,s post and he seems a very nice guy so I hope he does not let you down, not just because of the money but because you seem to both get on well.

One last thing. I love the way you talk about your wife.

Happy Christmas.

Dotchinite    22 Dec 14 23:03 
Whether any of this is true ive no idea but there is no way 4thjuly will have  a 2 grand bet at Cheltenham. Not a chance.

I'll be there, and he can have the bet with me.

I,ll be there as well cmat, perhaps we could both see this 2 grand wager placed

the more the merrier AG

The offer of a £2 grand bet is meaningless.

Pick a short priced horse, then lay it for £2k on here.

Go to Cheltenham, back it with a bookie for £2k at a fraction below the exchange odds, suffer a small loss and save face.

Handing over £2k in cash to EO would be better imo.

call me a taxi   
23 Dec 14 21:51 
Handing over £2k in cash to EO would be better imo.

But you can still have the bet with me if you get to the Festival.

With the Cheltenham Festival a mere handful of days away, we all look forward to the gathering of the clans.

In particular, the Politics Forum breathlessly awaits news of which horse will be carrying the £2000 of the forumite 4thJulykid's money, an obligation of course made necessary as a result of the agreement detailed above. Fingers crossed it will win and result in a handsome return for both beneficiaries.

Good luck.

EO - I'm sure he'll come good. The alternative simply doesn't bear thinking about.

We certainly don't want any repeat of the utterly disgraceful scenes we all witnessed on the Chit Chat Forum a couple of Christmases ago.

One of the Politics Forum's most liberal/left-leaning posters (we'll call him Forumite X) inexplicably and presumptuously decided he knew more about Forumite Y and his family's life than was the case. Forumite X bet "a great deal of money" on an outcome (unstated, but by definition most people would therefore say a four or five figure amount) and humiliatingly lost the bet. Sound familiar?

Despite Forumite X being an avowed "progressive", a lover of Multicultural London (from a safe distance of living several hundred miles away), a man with a passion for Africa, you know….all the right stuff…. has since avoided posting on here although his forum name remains extant. I have no wish to name and shame him here, he has already humiliated himself, and there's no way back for that sort. Goodness only knows what his peers would say of his failure to pay. 

Curious that Forumite X should have been completely silent since losing his bet. Hitherto, you could barely go a day without reading one of his lofty and often wincingly politically correct pronouncements.

Good luck to you both with the bet. Fingers crossed it isn't one of my Lays !!

Such a fiend deserves to be outed You would never have heard the last of it had the other party not taken him on.

I must confess my faith is wavering a little regarding 4thjuly. You'd have thought he would have been on here by now.

Left wing bottle job.

I think Burky puts it best when he says:

Fookin chickenshiit counts.

Aye.

Many thanks, Alun.