Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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[I had an argument, this morning, with a friend who frequents the
casinoes.  He was claiming that he was "due" for a win -- a BIG win!
He was absolutely clueless about the idea that the machines don't
remember his losses -- so, how could they be "ready" to reward him?]

As children we were paid pocket money to play fruit machines.  They were
owned by my grandfather's business and he needed to know what odds were
actually coming up, rather then the theoretical odds which might have
been miscalculated.

This meant that, at a very early age, we were all familiar with the
concepts of chance and had no illusions about it.  The result was that
none of us had the slightest inclination to start gambling.

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