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Briton Bets All on Vegas Roulette Spin -- and Wins
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James_T_Kirk



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:21 am    Post subject: Briton Bets All on Vegas Roulette Spin -- and Wins Reply with quote

Click here to read the story.
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Slim Pickens



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Lanza-Armonia



Joined: 04 Jan 2004
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Location: London, UK. Soon to be in Hamburg, Germany

PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree Slim.

Chin-scratchingly questionable Question Exclamation
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Mark-O



Joined: 25 Jun 2003
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Location: 6000 miles from where I should be

PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. This is one of the unbearable aspects of TV culture over here at the moment - this unhealthy obsession with what has been coined as 'Reality TV'. The whole 'I'm a celebrity, get me out of here!' and the like are hackneyed, uneventful and heavily staged simply because without an underlying plot then nothing would happen!

What's worse is how fickle the general public are. All it takes is a well-hated celebrity to appear on one of these programmes for a few weeks and they emerge with total adoration and unquestionable respect from every sad soul who has wasted the previous x hundred hours over the past 3-4 months watching this contrived crap.

Other than that, I'm not bitter ...
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Lanza-Armonia



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure about that Mark? Are ya having a bad day?

Maybe some Zuo4 Ai4 An4 Mo2 will sort you out....

Let's see robocop get that one huh?

LA
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Mark-O



Joined: 25 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry LA, my chinese is not up to that translation. Would you care to enlighten me (circumventing robocop in the process!)?

P.S. Every day is a bad day if it is spent in the UK
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khmerhit



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What were the odds? 1 in 2? If so, it sounds pretty plausible. A middle-class high roller!
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Slim Pickens



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Mark-O



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ha ha - nice one, Slim-P!

Don't worry, LA has already enlightened me. This is not the root of my current mood, however. It goes deeper than that ... a certain piece of confectionary has been troubling me today.
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Mark-O



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