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  • peter_from_putney
    peter_from_putney Posts: 6,956
    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,802
    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    At the risk of putting the mockers on him Ali can't bowl for toffee but he looks a superb batsman. The comparisons with Amla do not end with the beard.

    You really did put the mockers on him.

    I feel exile to conhome for the remainder of this Test series is the only suitable punishment for you.
    Oh please, not that.

    *slopes towards the exit*

    Consider this your final warning.

    (Also can you say India are going to win this test)
  • Richard_Nabavi
    Richard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    AndyJS said:

    Ian Swales, LD MP for Redcar, is standing down after one term for personal reasons:

    http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/redcar-mp-ian-swales-stand-7410762

    I shan't be scrabbling to reverse my bet on Labour in Redcar, that's for sure!

  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,802
    peter_from_putney said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
    My tip for Sunday is Argentina, and for the match to go to penalties, also backed Messi and Muller to be FGS.

    I really can't stand the Argies, so if they do win, I'll be able to console myself.

    I'm not betting on the third place match, those matches often turn into exhibition/testimonial matches.

    Overall this world cup, has been my most profitable betting event ever.

    I'm going to miss this world cup when it is over.
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,608
    The Fisher election forecast has been updated:

    Con : 295 (-10)
    Lab : 296 (+8)
    LD : 31 (+3)
    Lab largest party, but short of a majority by 31

    http://users.ox.ac.uk/~nuff0084/ge15forecast/
  • DavidL
    DavidL Posts: 55,866
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    At the risk of putting the mockers on him Ali can't bowl for toffee but he looks a superb batsman. The comparisons with Amla do not end with the beard.

    You really did put the mockers on him.

    I feel exile to conhome for the remainder of this Test series is the only suitable punishment for you.
    Oh please, not that.

    *slopes towards the exit*

    Consider this your final warning.

    (Also can you say India are going to win this test)
    Oh thank you, thank you. I confidently predict an Indian victory. Indeed a hat trick for Sharma may be coming up shortly.

  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Richard_Nabavi said:

    AndyJS said:

    Ian Swales, LD MP for Redcar, is standing down after one term for personal reasons:

    http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/redcar-mp-ian-swales-stand-7410762

    I shan't be scrabbling to reverse my bet on Labour in Redcar, that's for sure!

    I think the LD defeat will be much worse now that he's out of the picture.
  • OblitusSumMe
    OblitusSumMe Posts: 9,143
    peter_from_putney said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
    This pub in Galway has done very well with the publicity from that match. I expect they'll have a lot of people in for the final hoping Germany do it again.
  • volcanopete
    volcanopete Posts: 2,078
    Boris Johnson is entering calculations.I wonder,though,just how attractive being an MP would be to him again,when as Mayor of London,he is the king of his castle and he certainly could not serve under Cameron as he is his Eton junior.
    Otherwise,Uxbridge is 3-1 fav. if he did throw his hat in the ring.
    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/07/uxbridge-set-to-be-destination-boris/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uxbridge-set-to-be-destination-boris
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,802
    edited July 2014
    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    At the risk of putting the mockers on him Ali can't bowl for toffee but he looks a superb batsman. The comparisons with Amla do not end with the beard.

    You really did put the mockers on him.

    I feel exile to conhome for the remainder of this Test series is the only suitable punishment for you.
    Oh please, not that.

    *slopes towards the exit*

    Consider this your final warning.

    (Also can you say India are going to win this test)
    Oh thank you, thank you. I confidently predict an Indian victory. Indeed a hat trick for Sharma may be coming up shortly.

    Personally I blame Michael Vaughan, he was earlier on today talking about England scoring 600 and put India under pressure on the final day.
  • CarlottaVance
    CarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    Danny writes to Eck:

    In a letter to the first minister, the chief secretary to the Treasury writes: "With voting on the referendum just weeks away, you are still making plans based on untold oil wealth beyond anything independent forecasters consider plausible."

    He added: "Your unrealistic oil forecasts lead to implausible expectations of a separate Scotland's fiscal position. This is unfair to the electorate – it is incredible that so close to the referendum you are still promising milk and honey when you should be laying out the real facts about the painful choices a separate Scotland would have to make."


    But...but......

    A Guardian investigation into Scotland's wealth cast doubt on Salmond's claim that Scotland is one of the richest countries in the developed world, when it found that major industries are dominated by foreign and London-based firms. Nearly all Scotland's North Sea oil and gas production is licensed to foreign companies. Only one privately owned Scottish business, First Oil, can be identified as holding licences. It produces just 6,000 of the total 1m barrels of crude produced from those oil fields every day.

    0.6%..........

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/11/danny-alexander-alex-salmond-scottish-finances
  • dyedwoolie
    dyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    Pulpstar said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    What was the tip ?

    Pile on England ?!
    No, England to pile on 600, but fail to break the Indian mid and low order
    Draw
    Draw remains likely, but not like that!

  • peter_from_putney
    peter_from_putney Posts: 6,956
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    peter_from_putney said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
    My tip for Sunday is Argentina, and for the match to go to penalties, also backed Messi and Muller to be FGS.

    I really can't stand the Argies, so if they do win, I'll be able to console myself.

    I'm not betting on the third place match, those matches often turn into exhibition/testimonial matches.

    Overall this world cup, has been my most profitable betting event ever.

    I'm going to miss this world cup when it is over.
    Yes, you've had a terrific number of successes, often at big prices - had OGH not inexcusably scrapped the annual PB.com TOTY award around 3 years ago (when I quite fancied my own chances), you'd be a shoo-in to win this year.

    It just goes to prove that football is a funny old game and furthermore confirms my long held belief that there's money to be made by laying the favourite - which let's face it is what the bookies do profitably every week. The problem is that their profit margin is around 6%-7% of turnover and those folk at Betfair take 5% commission on winning bets, so it's difficult to make it pay.
  • Tissue_Price
    Tissue_Price Posts: 9,039
    DavidL said:

    SouthamObserver said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    At the risk of putting the mockers on him Ali can't bowl for toffee but he looks a superb batsman. The comparisons with Amla do not end with the beard.

    You really did put the mockers on him.

    I feel exile to conhome for the remainder of this Test series is the only suitable punishment for you.

    DavidL has form on this and has been warned previously. Are there any sanctions that can be applied to discourage future repeats?

    Et tu Southam. Sad face.
    You'll enjoy the Shakespeare XI: http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/753783.html

    "Let's not forget the officials. There's Lady Macbeth, who proclaimed "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!", demonstrating her familiarity with thermal-imaging technology.
  • Neil
    Neil Posts: 7,983
    OblitusSumMe said:

    peter_from_putney said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
    This pub in Galway has done very well with the publicity from that match. I expect they'll have a lot of people in for the final hoping Germany do it again.
    Roisin's is always worth visiting whether the beer costs 50 cents or not!

  • edmundintokyo
    edmundintokyo Posts: 17,735
    edited July 2014
    HurstLlama said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    HurstLlama said:

    edmundintokyo said:

    HurstLlama said:

    @CycleFree



    Does the new bill alter anything of significance? I suggest not and therefore ask once again, what is this fuss about?

    A couple of things of significance raised by people on Twitter looking at this thing on their friday lunch breaks, which is apparently how legislation is scrutinised in the UK, are:
    1) Anyone running any kind of service may now be able to be forced to put a backdoor in their software to collect data for the government and give them access to it. Previously this seems to have applied mainly to ISPs.
    2) There's a very odd attempt to make British law apply to people who are nothing to do with Britain, who knows what it will turn out to mean.

    PS This isn't just about what can be intercepted, it's about what people are being forced to collect and store.
    Thanks, Mr Edmund. So this is not about civil liberties but about possible extra-costs and confusion amongst service providers. A storm, then, in a very small tea-cup.
    No, it's not just the costs. Forcing people to spy on their users for law enforcement is a civil liberties issue, distinct from the issue of the government collecting the data. It's also a broader privacy and security issue, because this information will leak beyond the intended law enforcement uses, especially as you broaden the range of people forced to collect data beyond a small number of (hopefully) technically adept ISPs.
    Sorry, Mr Edmund, I am struggling to see what your objections are. You have already said that you are happy to hand over data in case of need. What specifically is your beef? That you are worried that the security services may leak?
    They may leak, but I'd be more worried that, being forced to collect and retain data that I would otherwise have destroyed or never collected in the first place, I would leak.

    This isn't a big concern for me because my service is designed to stay as far out of people's business as possible (which is why I brought it up), but if you were - say - a judge or career politician using a political betting site with an email address that could be traced back to you, and you also sometimes used the same browser or IP address to visit porn sites, you certainly should be worrying about this kind of thing.
  • DavidL
    DavidL Posts: 55,866
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    DavidL said:

    At the risk of putting the mockers on him Ali can't bowl for toffee but he looks a superb batsman. The comparisons with Amla do not end with the beard.

    You really did put the mockers on him.

    I feel exile to conhome for the remainder of this Test series is the only suitable punishment for you.
    Oh please, not that.

    *slopes towards the exit*

    Consider this your final warning.

    (Also can you say India are going to win this test)
    Oh thank you, thank you. I confidently predict an Indian victory. Indeed a hat trick for Sharma may be coming up shortly.

    Personally I blame Michael Vaughan, he was earlier on today talking about England scoring 600 and put India under pressure on the final day.
    To be on the safe side I should say that Broad is batting recklessly and will surely by out any second.
  • DecrepitJohnL
    DecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300
    peter_from_putney said:

    O/T

    The ante-post market for L'Arc de Triomphe to be run on 5 October, suggests that this is a three horse race with Sea The Moon, Australia and Treve all on offer at around 11/2 or 6.5 decimal.
    Personally, I went for the first of these when priced at 80/1 prior to winning the German Derby. I've also had a touch each way on Taghrooda, his half sister and winner of the '14 1000 Guineas - both having been sired by the fabulous, all-conquering Sea The Stars.

    Taghrooda won the Oaks, not the Guineas, and is not half-sister to Sea The Moon (at least not in racing terms, pace the biologists). Otoh, 80/1.
  • MarqueeMark
    MarqueeMark Posts: 55,457
    Yay for Ed Miliband - 12% cooler than....er.....Gordon Brown. But not as cool as Ming. Oops.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10961684/Ed-Miliband-is-less-cool-than-Sir-Menzies-Campbell-survey-finds.html
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,802
    edited July 2014
    peter_from_putney said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    peter_from_putney said:

    dyedwoolie said:

    Can I retract my cricket tip from this morning? It appears my cricketing nouse has disappeared with England's backbone

    Don't feel too bad about it - I opposed TSE by favouring Brazil in their semi vs Germany.

    I didn't dare show my face on here afterwards for a full 24 hours.
    My tip for Sunday is Argentina, and for the match to go to penalties, also backed Messi and Muller to be FGS.

    I really can't stand the Argies, so if they do win, I'll be able to console myself.

    I'm not betting on the third place match, those matches often turn into exhibition/testimonial matches.

    Overall this world cup, has been my most profitable betting event ever.

    I'm going to miss this world cup when it is over.
    Yes, you've had a terrific number of successes, often at big prices - had OGH not inexcusably scrapped the annual PB.com TOTY award around 3 years ago (when I quite fancied my own chances), you'd be a shoo-in to win this year.

    It just goes to prove that football is a funny old game and furthermore confirms my long held belief that there's money to be made by laying the favourite - which let's face it is what the bookies do profitably every week. The problem is that their profit margin is around 6%-7% of turnover and those folk at Betfair take 5% commission on winning bets, so it's difficult to make it pay.
    Laying the favourite is the way to go.

    I think what this world cup has shown is that their are some patriotic punters out there, you need to fully take advantage of their patriotism. I was stunned at some of the odds on England (and their opponents)

    I've been laying England for ages, which helped.

    Also some of the bookies Money Back Specials have been very generous.

    I've found bet 365 to be really good for their cash out markets, offering reasonable cash out returns, and being free of glitches, and commission free.
  • Pulpstar
    Pulpstar Posts: 79,813
    Lol what awful fielding !
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,802
    New Thread
  • Pulpstar
    Pulpstar Posts: 79,813
    74 runs off 11 overs in the session. Knew I should have backed the draw at Evens :D
  • MarqueeMark
    MarqueeMark Posts: 55,457
    TheScreamingEagles said:


    I really can't stand the Argies, so if they do win, I'll be able to console myself.

    The World Cup has been a gigantic stitch-up by FIFA and Brussels to make us all become good Europeans by cheering on Germany against the land-grabbing evil Argies.

    And no, I'm not taking it off, I like my shiny tinfoil hat....
  • Morris_Dancer
    Morris_Dancer Posts: 62,742
    Not a tip, but worth considering Bottas or Massa (probably the former) each way to win [each way = top 2] at Germany. If memory serves, Hockenheim's a bugger to overtake on, and the Williams has been highly competitive of late.

    I'll be paying close attention when Ladbrokes put their full markets up.
  • Pulpstar
    Pulpstar Posts: 79,813
    The Burnley Lara is almost due.
  • Cyclefree
    Cyclefree Posts: 25,709
    The Law Society's comments on the Government's "emergency" Invasion of Privacy Bill:-

    "The Law Society has called for a review of RIPA and associated legislation for some years and its president Andrew Caplen welcomed the move, but said the emergency surveillance legislation was ‘particularly worrying’.

    Caplen said: ‘We are concerned that introducing emergency legislation does nothing to enhance the rule of law or address the fact that we are increasingly becoming a surveillance society. The history of emergency legislation is not exemplary, with laws being used for purposes for which they were not intended.

    ‘There needs to be a public debate about how to strike the right balance between security, freedom and privacy. We need to simplify and clarify a complex and confusing legal framework and ensure that it protects human rights.’

    The Society called for a review of the legal and practical framework of surveillance in the UK and explicit legislative protection for legal professional privilege in legislation like RIPA."
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