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Why we have little to fear from ''No deal''
Why we have little to fear from ''No deal''
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Ah fatslogger so you are a remainer ,no surprise there
do you know reading your posts reminds me of the ex Archbishop of Canterbury , forget his name the one with the fuzzy beard and the fuzzy mind , and he would come on tv and start waffling also , using words in a slighty obscure but meaningless way And I would think to myself , that guy is talking sh1te Yes it would be interesting to hear what you think the referendum questions should be. |
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more abuse noted from akbula, irony lol
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What was your forum name before though, politicspunter?
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before what?
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20 Mar 18
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I assume that was the date I joined the forum.
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I assume you were posting before under a different name.
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No
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Really? But you say you have been on betfair for thirteen years..and lately you're on the forum all day and night. What changed?
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I have been with betfair for a long number of years but it was only after I retired that I joined the forum to pass the time.
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Fair enough. You're certainly making up for lost time.
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pp is Meadow and throwing in that Meadow post confirmed it for me.
Both notorious aftertimers as well. |
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they can aftertime as much as they like if they keep putting up solid stuff.
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What %age of their stuff is solid?
I know you're good with %ages.  |
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aye so long as you spot your mistakes too
 pity i corrected myself, innit |
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Sure was Dianne oops sorry I mean Donny.
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oh how funny
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Who do you wish me to be today , fantasy boy akabula?
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According to akabula, I have active multiple usernames. Serious question, is it possible for one individual on betfair to be able to do that?
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its easily possible.
back in the day you could open as many accounts as you wished it was a race at times to have a new account to have a new forum name that was topical. any was actually quite funny at times, some folk must have had 100s of accounts. if you can remember what username and password you had for that account then you can still post via that account on the forum. the one restriction i have found with having different accounts is that some markets are restricted to your nominated main account...like it was via aussie wallet. the account attached to my user name (donny) was opened to play them taikai challenges that betfair had 10 years or so ago. back then if you logged into the forum via one account, and opened up another without logging out of first account, it was pretty random which username would pop up on forum, so many folk were caught arguing with themselves or backing themselves up when losing a debate. there was a restriction of punting £10 before posting on the forum for a while but laying 1.01 meant that cost 10p and doubtless some folk self matched anyway! if you want to talk to yourself nowadays then you can open one account via say chrome and another via microsoft, ive tried it and it works on my pc. not found a way to do it on my ipad though! |
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and was actually quite funny at times
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aye so long as you spot your mistakes too LaughLaughLaugh
What I found interesting is that someone would need a calculator to work out 5% of 2,000. Before calculators were about most people could easily work that out in their heads. I'm not knocking Donny by the way, it's just that we're depending more and more on stuff like calculators, spell checkers and computers to do things. I wonder how many betting shop settlers could work out a yankee on a piece of paper using the crash block method? Image the work load involved in settling the afternoons bets in a typical betting shop in the old days using nothing more than pencil and paper. Anyone who could do that these days would be regarded as a mathematical wizard. |
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I remember years ago a friend showed me his new calculator that could work out Trigonometry.
You simply put in the information you had already for the triangle, and all the measurements and angles would come up. That was like magic at a time when the only way to do Trig was using log tables. |
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I agree completely with Crippen that the folks that work in bookie shops now have (mostly) no idea whatsoever how to settle bets, especially multiples or anything involving an each way selection. I don't place many high street bets but when I do, I always check the exact returns before going to collect. You would be astonished how far off their actual returns can be. I remember once having a football line where I had six selections in a multiple of twenty trebles and an accumulator. Five of the games were postponed and the sixth team won at 5/1. The cashier paid me out on 21 winning lines.
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i usually work it out in my head....and certainly work out returns before collecting at bookies
as i dont trust em. 100 out of 2000 sounded too high for the topic under discussion, so i was sort of agreeing with saddo, and i recently downloaded a new calculator onto my ipad so have been keen to test it ..... a figure of 40 out of 2000 sounded more realistic when it popped up so typed it onto the forum. once submitted i could see the maths were wrong, so corrected it. at a guess i have hit 2 instead of 5 during my calculation still got the calculator, still got a brain too, but calculator should help with more tricky stuff once i'm happy with it.. i really should read my posts before hitting "post reply", ...but hey ho |
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What does it matter if you made a mistake on here?
I know people who bought properties in the run up to the last housing crash. They could have bought them much cheaper if they'd waited a year. That's what I call a mistake. |
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on the forum it doesnt matter, its correctable, or somebody will correct it.
hit the wrong button on placing a bet and that can be a mistake ! |
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Who really cares Donny. Tis only a forum.
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According to akabula, I have active multiple usernames. Serious question, is it possible for one individual on betfair to be able to do that?
Only the one other, Meadow. And your acting naïve question will fool no one. |
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The only person on here who looks foolish is you.
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It was widely believed that Govt would renege on any deal with the EU but even I didn't imagine that the one to renege on Theresa May's deal would be Theresa May.
The EU simply cannot trust the UK again until we cancel Brexit, so tremendous logistical difficulties are likely to ensue. France should check every lorry through Calais and push the UK border back to England where it belongs. |
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No holiday for MP's :)
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so tremendous logistical difficulties are likely to ensue
Like when we joined? Can't think of any. It all went off smoothly, as will our leaving. |
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Don't remember Govt preparing for martial law when we joined. The adversarial stance of the UK towards the EU will reap its own reward, I'm confident of that.
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When we joined the EU, we had already adapted all our standards to theirs on the massive amount of stuff we sent there.
Now were leaving the standards will still be in place. Where were the tremendous logistical difficulties in our trading with the EU before we joined? |
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Where were the tremendous logistical difficulties in our trading with the EU before we joined?
Are you joking? You needed special dispensation to take more than £50 out of the country. Living standards were falling behind those of EEC members. The UK was losing the race to prosperity. The single market accelerates growth for its members. That's why we joined. UK simply cannot be trusted on the mainland. Macron is making all the right noises. Revisiting the Le Touquet agreement must be high on his agenda. |
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even if we leave with no deal ....if we want to export to eu we will have to comply with their standards.
the reverse is also true, their exports will have to meet our standards, whatever bar we set, or hoop we set, they will have to jump over or through. to begin with, customs union or not, we will start at same standards, and may then slowly diverge. if we export to them, our exports will be subject to their laws, and their exports to us subject to our laws. workers rights ...like sick pay, maternity benefits, and decent holiday entitlements will most likely be retained by uk until next tory government try to get rid of them... |
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You needed special dispensation to take more than £50 out of the country.
Nothing to do with the EU, the Labour party imposed that to keep cash from leaving the country due to Labour gaining power. Living standards were falling behind those of EEC members. And three years after we joined the EU we had to go begging to the IMF for a loan. With the winter of discontent around the corner. UB is rewriting history. He's blaming the blunders of the Labour party with being outside of the EU now. |