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Saturday, February 17, 2007 

Stupidity!


Poker has been fairly quiet this week. I sat down at Laddies with Juice last night, but just paid blind for an hour, and had to retire as my head hurt. I have a bit of a cold, but need to go to a birthday party in a few minutes...

Aside from that, I've observed a ridiculous amount of stupidity this week.

In the news, Peter Hain, one of my favourite MP's, apologised for the slave trade on behalf of Ireland and Wales (read more). icWales reports that Welsh historians "insisted that there was no sympathy for slavery in Belfast." To me, it just looks like a cheap token comment to gain popularity. Afterall, he didn't participate in the slave trade himself, and making such a broad statement on behalf of such a large group of people is ridiculous. It isn't as if Mr Hain has any intention of backing up his apology with compensation to the ancestors, or anything like that. His words are just empty and without consequence to him or anyone else. Anyway, after his comments last week (read more), there's no doubting the high quality of the words that comes spew from his mouth.

Moving on to work, a stupid over educated monkey pressed a wrong button and lost me a load of cash. There wasn't really anything I could do about it, and it was really frustrating, but it just shows that plenty of people with phd's are just full of shit.

The third and final piece of stupidity is quite funny. My cheapskate mate, Mr C, has moved onto doing his successful bet strategies in physical bookmakers, rather than online. His bets are growing in size, and today he was lectured by an old man who told him to calm down, providing worthless advice on using a betting bank to make his money last longer. Mr C continued to place a few large bets which happened to lose. The kind old man put his hand on Mr C's, and told him to consider his future, then threw a tantrum and stormed out saying "there's no helping some people" when he continued.

Anyway, Mr C has just checked the scores and lost all his bets today. He's looking forward to meeting the kind old man tomorrow, and reporting his bigger losses.

N.B. Losing a bet in a bet shop doesn't mean that the punter has lost on the match. Mr C had a very successful day despite his losses at the bet shop.
High five!


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