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The bookies don't care about the size of individual bets just the total potential payout they are risking on each outcome. If you walk in and stick a grand on the Cheltenham gold cup they wouldn't blink, do it in the 5:20 at hamilton and it'll raise eyebrows.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/craigslist-killers-murder-story-family-breakdown

Everyone should read the piece on the Craig's list killer on the guardian website by Hannah rosin. The best piece of journalism I've read in years.

Jason whiltlock has an incredible article up no espn.com about the dolphins situation and the wider Nfl culture.

There are two really good articles on grantland about this today. One which collates a lot of the reaction from players and another which connects this to the spate of suicides by players and ex players. Airing dirty linen in public seems to have pissed off a lot of players.

I've no idea why anyone would go to a casino to play a fixed odds machine. Also it's easier to either not join a casino or get yourself excluded from them than it is to get excluded from multiple bookies that are open all day to all.

There is already legislation restricting booze and fags despite them being widely available. If you ban these machines people can still go to casinos or use virtual ones if they want to gamble. The difference with these machines is that it makes it too easy to go out for the papers and lose hundreds of pounds quickly.

The machines are designed to get people hooked though with the visuals and creating the false impression of near misses.

I went into a bookies at queen street one morning a few years ago to fire a coupon on before we got a train to Aberdeen at about 9-30 and there were guys sitting playing these machines at that time which shocked me. Bookies are making a fortune these days but losing a fiver to spice up a midweek fixture list and firing your wage into one of these machines in an hour are very different things.

Have you ever been to America? There are plenty of decent people but 'jocks' are off the charts as far arseholeness goes.

I have completely ignored this thread. Just clicked on it and seen supras has 68 posts. Go me!

Probably not 90s but I liked a bit of the get up kids and rival schools back in the day.

It's all very strange. The investigators didn't believe Jane tanner's sighting but the police claim the guy came forward. Either tanner has admitted lieing and the police are covering for her to avoid a scandal or they are calling her bluff. The efit that is now being promoted as the prime suspect was supressed by the mccann's because it is clearly based on Gerry mccann after the Irish guy saw him on TV. Kate mccann didn't include it in her book so they can't be too happy all the focus is now on that picture.

That depends on whether or not you can suppress the report if it doesn't suit you.

The Sunday times are sticking the boot in the mccanns today. They are reporting that the mccanns suppressed a report by ex mi5 investigators that they hired which included the new efits. The report apparently questioned the credibility of the tapas 9 timeline.