advice to a friend

[Professortrubshawe]

He said he was interested in gambling on horses.

I said: don’t do it. Don’t go near it. Unless you like having the hump and losing money.
I added: ‘there’s a sort of jedi knight old guard who pretend to be happy when they lose. They may have got the idea from japanese samurais who enjoyed acting as if severe pain was a trifling matter. The Jedi also think it’s bad form to have the hump, however briefly, when you lose. This Code of Manly Punting is oddly not extended to the woe caused by FOBTs. For the sheer idiocy of sticking 500 pounds in a machine designed by a bookmaker to permanently deprive the public of money in a legal way, punters are granted victim status by the Jedi. This cognitive dissonance among the Jedi has never been explained.

One day it will. And all manner of things will be well.

[Professortrubshawe]

I added that a day’s punting was not very different to walking in a pub and spending a lot ofmoney on drinks – without knowing if they contain any alcohol. Some might, most won’t. If that makes you yell happy days, I said, then get thee to a Ladbrokes forthwith.

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