8 Sep
3:22pm, 8 Sep 2024
33,060 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Hard agree. Men who throw their money away on games of chance *always* think they have a secret sauce. They don't.
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8 Sep
3:41pm, 8 Sep 2024
17,767 posts
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jda
Anyone who thinks the betting markets are significantly wrong can of course just go and pick up the free money that’s lying there waiting for them.
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8 Sep
3:50pm, 8 Sep 2024
22,978 posts
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rf_fozzy
jda wrote: Anyone who thinks the betting markets are significantly wrong can of course just go and pick up the free money that’s lying there waiting for them. Thanks Nate. |
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8 Sep
3:54pm, 8 Sep 2024
22,979 posts
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rf_fozzy
Turns out that Silver, whilst running 538, was obsessively betting on various things (mostly NBA games)..... It has been suggested that he might have a slight issue |
8 Sep
5:15pm, 8 Sep 2024
22,103 posts
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Chrisull
As mentioned before by me, there are gaps between the betting markets and the opinion polls. I have made small amounts of money on this in the last two US elections (mid terms and 2020). I have basically wagered the opinion polls are better than the betting markets, and they were. As for free money - the odds are such, you'd have to throw a lot of money at it, to make a lot of money, and I'm not ready to do that. Nate has been captured by his new republican paymasters it seems since leaving 538.
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9 Sep
9:55am, 9 Sep 2024
25,534 posts
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larkim
richmac wrote: Former PM seems to be in further hot water over business dealings with some uranium guy, his next wife is also involved You mean Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge? Funny how the conspiracy theories about "she's his daughter" or "there's a super injunction in place" etc won't disappear on twitter, despite the utter absence of any such super-injunction busting stuff being published in the press overseas etc. I'm coming to the conclusion that she was picked just because his chaotic mind just landed on her as having done "something" half decent (in his view) at some point, and there's probably little more to it than that. At least this latest story brings it back to the fore! |
9 Sep
10:08am, 9 Sep 2024
5,605 posts
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J2R
The most convincing suggestion I've read is that Johnson picked her just to make fun of the Lords.
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9 Sep
10:12am, 9 Sep 2024
17,772 posts
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jda
“Something” half-decent wouldn’t get any normal person made a baroness. Hard to imagine there isn’t anything scandalous, there seems to be dirt behind just about everything else he’s done.
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9 Sep
10:30am, 9 Sep 2024
33,061 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Doing it "just to take the piss" isn't a good reason either.
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9 Sep
12:26pm, 9 Sep 2024
29,205 posts
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richmac
He did it to impress her.
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