What are we watching tonight?

In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!

Wodalla he said.

I would say the doubles odds must have been long, for a drover to be able to collect that big, his stake might not have had to be too large. Those doubles bookies were a huge business on that Cups double in those times. I remember an old bloke telling me he and his brother had Ziema going for 80,000 quid, in the double on the '65 MC. A massive sum today, many millions. Too bad it lost a close photo.

Did you 24 hours in emergency on SBS last night? This unfortunate woman managed to get kicked in the leg by a horse - extremely severe fractures- while riding a horse.

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Simon Cameron

They seem to regularly admit horse injured patients with Drs saying how high they are on the list of 'most likely accidents'.
When working with animals, one tends to learn best from experience vs. the spoken or read word, however, sometimes you come off 2nd best in that process Cry

Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!

The Gentlemen - rollicking fun flick.

In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!

Doubt too many will be rushing to donate to St Vincent De Paul and the Red Cross after this blatant rip off ??

“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined”

Train to Busan

SBS streaming

Good pandemic viewing Thumbs Up

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Simon Cameron

Yes, thats a good idea but it leaves the families who have lost homes with nothing.

animals before people.

The ABC rolled out a segment tonight about a relatively young bloke who had been relieved of $8 million by TAB, Ladbrokes and Beteasy, allegedly, the emphasis of the story was on how he was obviously known to be a "problem" gambler, but they kept him on the line by dangling bonus bets and incentives. That story had a glaring omission, that being being the source of all the money lost. He was alleged to have had a $130k a year job, but even my rudimentary maths can calculate that doesn't supply the ante for his losses. The ABC failed to answer that very obvious question, in their eagerness to apportion blame away from the gentleman concerned.

acacia alba wrote:

Yes, thats a good idea but it leaves the families who have lost homes with nothing.

If my home burns down tomorrow, and I'm not insured, should I just get a taxpayer handout?

In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!

max manewer wrote:

The ABC rolled out a segment tonight about a relatively young bloke who had been relieved of $8 million by TAB, Ladbrokes and Beteasy, allegedly, the emphasis of the story was on how he was obviously known to be a "problem" gambler, but they kept him on the line by dangling bonus bets and incentives. That story had a glaring omission, that being being the source of all the money lost. He was alleged to have had a $130k a year job, but even my rudimentary maths can calculate that doesn't supply the ante for his losses. The ABC failed to answer that very obvious question, in their eagerness to apportion blame away from the gentleman concerned.

I see the ABC has now dropped a small detail into this story, in their news bulletins, about "old mate" and where the money came from. They say now, that it was "mostly other people's money". Just a minor thing, apparently not worth mentioning, initially. They have painted this bloke as a victim, when it appears he was a financial planner, who went rogue. There is a persistent stream of such stories on the ABC, that involve trying to put the skids under racing, when it is all too obvious that gambling losses on pokies and casinos are far greater, but rarely mentioned. I would bet there is someone in the ABC, in a position of authority, who is promoting these kinds of stories, has been for some time, and their's is a personal axe to grind, and it always concentrates on the ills that can be attributed to racing. My only query about this chap, portrayed as a "victim" by the ABC,, is why he isn't in jail.

Of course they don't, if they shed big losers, they'd be out of business. No one stops you chain-smoking, if that be your wont, the only valid issues that came under question in that ABC segment were surrounding how he was able to be contacted by betting agencies, seemingly a breach of privacy, somewhere, and whether his accounts were set up, and run, in compliance with law, the suggestion on the program was a fake name account was set up by one agency. But really, to concentrate on where the money ended up, and not where it was filched from, originally, is a major failure by the ABC

Is Big Brother over? I saw 5 minutes of it and they were down to the final 3 but that was the weekend before last.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Simon Cameron

Tlazolteotl wrote:

Is Big Brother over? I saw 5 minutes of it and they were down to the final 3 but that was the weekend before last.

Dont watch the show, but had the winner Chad Hurst @ $1.70

What are we watching tonight?

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