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In the first of our two seasonal business development posts, we looked at the inevitability of
recession in 2008 while today we focus on why recessionary pressures are a great time to develop
creative trading strategies for gambling markets.
The key word here is creative. When the global economy is in bust mode, there is always an increase
in the liquidity of the global betting markets.
Ignorance is not necessarily bliss. I've recently discovered that binge drinking can lead to
long-term health problems, such as crabs and Chlamydia.
The arrival of a new year offers me the opportunity to reflect upon my previous excess and resolve
to make a significant change. I have made a solemn pledge to drink no more than the next man; as
long as the man next to me is Joey Barton.
Licensed Betting Offices (LBOs) are a post-modernist artifice in which a traditional betting
environment has had its modern objects liberated from their original function. This new
infrastructure exists within the societal scam that is British bookmaking but the purpose of the
modernity of the environment is to optimise the returns to the bookmakers by utilising a range of
post-modernist and/or psychological devices.
Everybody has got a price.
According to our own individual and hidden agendas, shareholder capitalism enforces that we all set
proprietary thresholds relating to our employment and consultancy choices, our environmental
footprint and our degree of competitiveness in the workplace. Some people also set proprietary
benchmarks relating to the use of inside information, bribery, kickbacks, corruption, criminality
and coercion.
My heart goes out to the clinically depressed and the morbidly obese, but I have a genuine illness;
I suffer from sleep deprivation. I believe my condition is a result of an incident that occurred
many years ago, when I was naïve enough to believe that physical attractiveness was not an
essential requirement in the process of potential mate selection.
When it comes to a worthy cause, I live to give. I was so moved by Pele's appeal to help men with
erectile dysfunction that i agreed to pay £10 a month towards the campaign, but unfortunately I
wasn't able to keep it up.
Liverpool FC were not so generous of spirit when Luton Town asked for financial assistance before
their FA Cup tie.
Five days ago, there was only one man for the vacant Newcastle manager's position. Unsurprisingly,
Mr Redknapp didn't bow down to Mike Ashley's lucrative offer. All the money in the world wasn't
enough to force 'Arry 400 miles away from his family to an underachieving team, with the weight of
Newcastle on it's shoulders.
"Promoting choice and value for all gas and electricity customers" is allegedly the raison d'être
of Ofgem - one of the British government's utilities watchdogs. This bold claim is hardly supported
by recent events. Such occurrences provide a fine example of the skewing of incentives in order to
render the regulatory bodies toothless.
The one true universal city of Manchester has always suffered from being a testing ground for the
antisocial policies of a centralised government. From the cotton mills and workhouses of the
industrial revolution (sic) through to the supercasino and psychopathic football club ownerships of
today, we are the laboratory.
Statistics are normally my trusted ally, but even close friends can occasionally fall out. Research
claims to prove that men are over 50% more likely to be involved in a road accident than women, but
that's probably because they've all been run over by dippy bints.
Only last weekend, the wife's vertiginous nature led to a particularly bad smash.
