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- March 7, 2019 at 18:01 #1400106
Apparently they’re using a new tool called Maddie Playle to present us their best bets for the big races.
This new tool seems to be a female journalist who passed driving school back in 2016. So she could be already a 20-year old.March 7, 2019 at 21:26 #1400121It’s the same as everything else these days. Everywhere is being taken over by 20-something, self-absorbed know-alls obsessed with being right-on and “inclusive” but who are completely unable to spell or use accurate grammar or punctuation.
You only have to visit any newsroom and you will see that all the experienced senior reporters have been forced out, to be replaced by 20-somethings who think superficial click-bait dross is a substitute for proper journalism.
The spelling mistakes and sloppy writing are very noticeable.
It goes with not wearing a tie, spouting mind-numbing platitudes on Twitter and speaking in ridiculous faux cool-speak, with their voice going up at the end of sentences, as though they were in Australian soaps.
Watch any TV quiz show with young people in it and they have never heard of any famous historical figure from further back than 1990.
I saw a grinning young woman in her 20s on a quiz show today and she had never heard of the Bronte sisters. It was before her time, of course.🧐
It’s all a depressing sign of our dumbed-down, selfie-obsessed times with young people who have a sense of entitlement unheard of even 20 years ago.
Pass the smelling salts. 😁
March 7, 2019 at 22:17 #1400129Compared with print prices the online membership is the bargain of the century. Ultimate costs about £6 a week. For that you get access to everything in the Post, plus the Weekender and Racing and Football Outlook. If anyone recalls the old Chaseform/Raceform Notebooks, you also, effectively have access to those (though it’s a bit fiddly).
No brainer for my money
March 7, 2019 at 22:51 #1400138Joe, you have given me a toughie the nights are drawing in – a hot water bottle from Superdrug is £5.99, so just a penny to spend – Cheltenham is less waterproof but might be a lot hotter.

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