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The so-called evolution of man in reverse – smart phone storage….Filofax….err….shed.
So some got off the evolution bus at “Shed” – no big deal.
I’ve never had a shed (or a Filofax) but if I did I’d have it painted blue, have “Police Box” written on it and try to get the BBC interested in buying it for an exorbitant sum.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"On the subject of maximum odds, I haven’t had a bet in a long time but I still take an occasional interest in the odds on some events (why this is I have no idea). Anyway, I usually look at Bet365 to get an idea because they have a good website and the odds will be near enough the same everywhere. One thing I have noticed since Leicester won the Premier League at 5,000/1 is that they never price anything up at more than 4,500/1, even the stuff that will never happen in a million years like San Marino winning the World Cup. I’m pretty sure they would still only give 4,500/1 on me to knock out Anthony Joshua.
I guess maybe the 1,000/1 SPs disappeared because people who blindly chuck a quid or two on regardless would still bet it at 500/1 and they figure that in the event it does come in, they save a fortune on the few that back it. The value hunters (after all, any price can be value) would probably be put off by a smaller price too.
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A bookmaker friend of mine says there comes a point where even the most recreational of punters won’t have a bet because the odds of an outcome are so big they think it must be impossible for it to happen.
He bets a lot at the Points and says a Bank Holiday crowd won’t back a no hoper if he puts it up at 100/1, but if he goes 20/1 he will take a few quid on it.
A sort of law of diminishing returns as you push the odds out.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Actually, I tell a lie.
I once bought a house that had a shed – so I kinda inherited one.
I kept a lawn mower in it.
I always did know how to live life in the fast lane.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I dislike false-shed modesty. You have clearly been a shed owner, so don’t falsely look for shed-sympathy.
It is acceptable to keep a lawnmower in a shed. Well done.
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Thanks Richard88. I reckon there is something in what you say re the huge odds – 500/1 and 5000/1 are both hugely unlikely, and 500/1 keeps a cap on things.
Tatling, your guidance on what can be stored in various types of outbuilding has been very instructive. If only Josef Fritzl had consulted you about appropriate uses of a cellar a whole load of problems could have been avoided.
I feel well and truly told off.
And no doubt deservedly so.
Question: What’s worse then being accused of being a “Champagne Socialist?”
Answer: Being accused of being a “Shed Socialist.”
The shame.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"A bookmaker friend of mine says there comes a point where even the most recreational of punters won’t have a bet because the odds of an outcome are so big they think it must be impossible for it to happen.
He bets a lot at the Points and says a Bank Holiday crowd won’t back a no hoper if he puts it up at 100/1, but if he goes 20/1 he will take a few quid on it.
A sort of law of diminishing returns as you push the odds out.
Interesting, thanks. The polar opposite to my thinking that when the odds are past a certain point, the horse can’t possibly be that bad that it should be such a long price.
As an aside I think Laura De Minishing-Returns was representing one of the Oxford colleges on University Challenge the other week.
I can well believe it – plenty of punters back ‘un-named favourite’ in the shops for example.
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I’ve read an uncorroborated report concerning a beast named Wishing Ring who, on 17 June 1912, duly obliged at Latonia racecourse (now Turfway Park) in Kentucky.
The article states that Wishing Ring paid $1,885.50 to a $2 stake, giving an impressive return of 941/1.
The early mechanisms of Tote/pari-mutuel systems across the planet clearly threw up the occasional atypical payment when a single racecourse punter scooped the win pool on a particular race, which is perhaps what occurred with Wishing Ring.
It certainly happened at Haydock Park sometime in November 1929 when, in the first year of the tote operation on British racecourses, only one punter bought a ticket for a winner named Coole thereby collecting the money at odds of 3410/1.
This remains the highest ever win dividend in the Tote’s history.
Thanks, Salut A Toi.
The cost of a Tote win ticket in 1929 was 2 shillings, so the fortunate punter would have collected exactly £341 at the payout window. This is roughly £22,000 in today’s money, depending upon which inflation calculator is used.
In 1929 £440 was the average house price in London, so there’s a nice deposit if you were thinking of settling down. For a more mobile individual, £341 would have bought you nearly 3½ Morris Minors.
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