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Hi, Just wondered…If you can only have six bets and the maximum is £100 how do you spend your £1000? Have I missed something?
The minimum is £100
As usual, Ascot is a graveyard for my pocket book. I can’t do a thing right at that poxy place. Yet I continue to try to my detriment
The fact that it can even happen says a lot for the rules of racing in general. That goes for the stewards too, going all the way back to the Tillerman incident at Goodwood. The whole book needs to be re-written.
Weird thing. The horse didn’t appear to go wrong, but seemed to stroke or something? Horrible, commiserations to connections.
If you buy a flat screen television, for the sake of argument, for £500 and then find out someone else got it for £400 in a sale, do you march into the store demanding a £100 refund?
If you bought it from Amazon within the prev 30 days, then yes you do
Setanta did a similar deal for the Ricky Hatton fight.I think that the world is far too worried about the petty things in life and not worried enough about the important things. There are more important things to be concerned about than the ‘verbal’ blunder of a newspaper columnist IMO.
May I ask a question Bosranic? Do you really think that beating GW a hd entitles Authorized to win an Arc?
Take NCC out of the race and Authorized has scraped home. Not Arc winning form IMO. I’d say that Authorized may get placed in an average Arc on the form of that one race alone.I agree with you Reet. NNC is the one to be looking at with Admiralofthefleet good at the odds. I can’t have GW at all and Kinane’s defection says it all.
I’ll be taking Authorized on at the odds. I quite fancy getting this one turned over.
Quote: from Grasshopper on 4:24 pm on June 22, 2007[br]I am getting roundly ******-off with the constant bandying about of the phrase "PC  gone mad". As a previous poster said, it seems to be primarilyused to conveniently ignore an opposing view.
I would ask that those who have chosen to use the phrase on this thread (you know who you are), provide their definition, in order that we can see whether there is a consistent definiton amongst the perps, or (a much bigger price, imo) one which is in any way coherent.<br>
If you read what I said in context, you would see that I was saying that the guy should have known that in an insanely PC world (a mere paraphrase, maybe I should have used quotes and a winking smiley?), and in the aftermath of the BB incident, it was sheer madness to say what he did and think that it wouldn’t be noticed. Any frontman who values his job and credibility, would not even think of saying such a thing on air.<br>I didn’t say that he shouldn’t have said it. I was pitying the guy for lacking the self-preservation that should have stopped him from saying it. We all know that as soon as you say something that could even remotely be construed as racist, you are jumped on from a great height by all and sundry. Mr Rowntree is probably not a racist, maybe he is? I really don’t know. But the fact is that everyone will assume he is because of some stupid one line soundbyte.<br>Are you saying that political correctness is a good thing? Like I somehow disparaged the practice?<br>My opinion is that we live in a world where you can have a painful ass-ripping inflicted on you if you are naive enough to believe that you are immune to the PC gang and their masses of pseudo rules and regs. The PC brigade, for all their wishing to do the right thing, are sometimes more of a problem than a solution. I have no problem with them having an opposing view, I even agree with some of them, I just don’t like that opposing view shoved squarely down my throat without my permission like it is their decision as to what kind of person everyone should be. PC’ness isn’t just do-gooders trying to do the right thing. It’s closer to paranoid fascism.<br>PC doesn’t say "you shouldn’t be a racist, that’s not nice". It says "If you are a racist, we will persecute you and chase you to the depths of hell and back". It’s akin to persecuting, even prosecuting, a person for being gay. Some people are racist and some people are gay. Neither are illnesses or criminal offences in their own right, both are states of mind. You can’t change a state of mind simply by enforcing it by law, no more than you can stop thugs from stealing people’s cars and slamming them into lampposts or paedophiles from abusing kids.<br>I am against racism in all of it’s forms, but I don’t see why anyone should lose their job just for saying something that doesn’t adhere to someone else’s viewpoint of how a utopian world should be. If others want to be racists, OK that makes them assholes. So what. There are lots of assholes in the world. If some people want to dislike non-caucasians, that is squarely a lifestyle choice, not a reason for persecution.
Does that clarify my definition of PC? :biggrin:
At Towcester it would have been reversed. Everything gets reversed at Towcester and it is probably the only track in the UK where I would apportion no blame to horse or jockey for final furlong interferance. Go figure?
@SL … "Tangoman"
LMAO :o
I have to agree that Mr Chapman appears to take his holidays on the surface of Alpha Centuri, if that factor one bronzed look is anything to go by. It would be laughable if you didn’t know 99% for sure that he uses Boots ‘all year long’ instant tanning lotion.
I couldn’t vote for big mac as he was born annoying. You wouldn’t blame an orang utan for being born hairy would you? :biggrin: <br>Tanya comes across as being a little bit up herself sometimes. However, who wouldn’t be when you have to share a soap box with the dear stalker? Rishi would suffer delusions of grandure if he had to do Tanya’s job.<br>Thommo takes this hands down though. Thommo is absolutely dire. He is the very definition of the word ‘annoying’. In the dictionary, under the entry for an-oy-ing, it says "see ‘Thommo’".
Quote: from heffo on 1:03 pm on June 22, 2007[br]I know plenty of ‘up their own arzez’ bigots who, despite using all the P.C terms are still racists to the bone they’re just more clever about it.
I know plenty of smokers that will be going to the loo a lot when they go to the pub after Jul1. Just because they can’t smoke in public doesn’t mean they are now non-smokers :)<br>They just know better than to simply light up inside. This guy should have known better too. Such a comment wouldn’t offend me, but some people will complain about anything. Some are even looking for excuses to complain.
