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Because YOU are dickweed johnson.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryS
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Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
yeah, gambler buy book about people that matter in the gambling world.
They biy books about famous people as you put it,
But a book by dickweed johnson.......no one care about. There are plenty books about famous people that I am interested in that I didnt read....why would I buy a book and invest time and money in the life of dickweed johnson
Yes, there are professionals in gambling that get published. Then there are poor souls like larry who can't so they do nothing but criticize. A very poor soul indeed. You've gone back to your old Gambling Forum habits larry. So predictable.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarrySredietz is one of the poor souls of the world that declares they are a "professional" gambler, sportspicker, house sitter, walmar cashier. Yes indeed he is a professional. And he can also crow according to his view of the world that he is also "publsihed..because he fucking posts on message boards.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
what a life. A crack addict that plays craps in the dark alleys of the inner city USA who also once posted on a website 10 years ago can call himself a published professional. Because after all gamblers can declare themselves a professional, and anyone who has ever posted on a website can call themselves a published author.
This is the world redietz and his ilk live in.
Welcome to his world
yes LarryS is a published author, with thousands of publications.........
not only is he one of the sad sacks that claim he coulda woulda shoulda had a book published, but he is going to live forever as people in the next generations read his posts 50 years later, 100 years later as his name will be immortilized. How sad is that thought. Its like 100 years after his death there will be a wikipedia spread on him.
what a self absorbed world the "professional gamblers" live in. they are all "professionals" and "published"......what an erudite group
Alan the Troll you are so predictable. You didn't get 1600 views over night. I was a complete nobody. You were a known journalist. And now you are a known idiot. You must understand, people watch Rob the same way they watched the Anna Nicole Smith death. People watch trainwrecks, Singer and Smith out of morbid fascination. And you, Alan, will go down is history as "the guy that put that quack on youtube."Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
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Honestly 1600 views is not that many
It is for a complete nobody that didn't expect to get 10 views. You can't just google something and come up with a hit for vpFREE. It's a closed yahoo group. But what surprised me was how many people were following me from reddit. I had never been on reddit. How many followers to you guys have?Quote:
Originally Posted by Robsingerwho
[QUOTE=mickeycrimm;64636]It is for a complete nobody that didn't expect to get 10 views. You can't just google something and come up with a hit for vpFREE. It's a closed yahoo group. But what surprised me was how many people were following me from reddit. I had never been on reddit. How many followers do you guys have?Quote:
Originally Posted by Robsingerwho
If I had taken that writing gig with Henry Tamburin I could have then falsely claimed to be an investigative journalist like Rob did.
A lot of people from there, apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
I'm still waiting for LarryS to explain why posting on this section (currently with 118 views) isn't a form of self publishing. Self-publishing, after all, isn't about who paid what or who got paid what. It's about self-publishing. I'm sure he'll have an erudite response as to why someone who loathes self-publishing as he does manages to do so much of it.
(And I was very disciplined with this response. I didn't even mention that I have been published in various and sundry small things, such as The Humanist and Playbook and Skeptical Briefs and op eds in newspapers and such.)
To my mind, posting threads and responses to threads on boards such as this doesn't qualify as "self-publishing" because the author is only chiming in, the topic is not his own, he just chimes in.
A blog or vlog would qualify, as it is the author's thoughts / work in its entirety.
Growing up I took it to mean paying to have your book published via a vanity press type publisher.
Nice job Mickey. I enjoyed that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmhttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...T1dx0F0bCMMKY4Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungThis is such a stretch that I wonder that it would be better were you drinking. Then, there would be a chance that you could sober up.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Writing about what you know, in a "vicarious" manner through fictional characters. A different sort of third-person self-reference. But then, you likely still tell yourself stuff like, no, I wouldn't say or do it quite that way (you had better rewrite it again, Mickey.)
In any event, I half-heartedly suggested, a couple of posts ago, that you might be better to make up everything about someone else. They call that (real) fiction. And I do recall, a few years ago, that you wrote something about you being one of the Freemont St. Raiders, or something like that. Now, it seems more a blur, and that we can't say for sure who is who, and what is what. Is all that stuff a blur to you, too, along with all the drinking?
Ditto, fun read. Educational and entertaining at the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyj
I didn't read it the first time either. Who has time for that stuff?
I enjoyed Part One. I'll be on the road in a couple of days and will save a part for each day -- make it a serial read.
:). You mean Dickey videos....Quote:
Originally Posted by regnis
I'm attempting to imagine that. Dickey waking up in his car (after trying to impress everyone about how he stays in Motel 6's) with steamy windows & sticky floor mats from his usual morning rosey palmer toss-off, grabbing a quick shave before stumbling into his newest Indian casino with a bar of soap and his lice-infested comb....and all the while coming up with one-liners for his new publication "How I Made It To 65 Without Brains, an Education, A Girlfriend To Clean My Chocolate-Stained Underwear, or a Dental Plan".
About as far as he'll ever get with a publication....
yes, and I can get on a soapbox in the park and rant about the trade deficit, and then call myself a "public speaker"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
I can stand on a corner and give people directions if they ask me and I can call myself a "teacher"
I can pick sports teams to bet daily and I can call myself a "professional"
its just ways for people who are bereft of credentials to self elevate themselves. Mom and dad let me introduce you to my fiance.....she is a homeless crack addict that gives people directions, has posted on the internet a dozen years ago, and she bets sports with stolen money to support her habit while giving her fellow junkies tips(investment advice). As she stands there picking at her infected sores on her arm and stinking to high heaven, I conclude with....she is the love of my life.....a published author, a professional investment advisor, and a teacher........the trifecta
SO......NO,,,,,posting on a website does not make you a published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people, giving advice on sports pics does not make someone an "investment advisor" and answering someones questions does not make someone a teacher., while pushing buttons on a machine does not anyone a "professional".....its all just bullshit that redietz wants to use to self elevate himself in his own eye.....but he just cant get the rest of the world to buy in.
I actually have had some things published that would make me a "published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people," so thanks for the kudos, LarryS. Much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarrySyes, and I can get on a soapbox in the park and rant about the trade deficit, and then call myself a "public speaker"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
I can stand on a corner and give people directions if they ask me and I can call myself a "teacher"
I can pick sports teams to bet daily and I can call myself a "professional"
its just ways for people who are bereft of credentials to self elevate themselves. Mom and dad let me introduce you to my fiance.....she is a homeless crack addict that gives people directions, has posted on the internet a dozen years ago, and she bets sports with stolen money to support her habit while giving her fellow junkies tips(investment advice). As she stands there picking at her infected sores on her arm and stinking to high heaven, I conclude with....she is the love of my life.....a published author, a professional investment advisor, and a teacher........the trifecta
SO......NO,,,,,posting on a website does not make you a published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people, giving advice on sports pics does not make someone an "investment advisor" and answering someones questions does not make someone a teacher., while pushing buttons on a machine does not anyone a "professional".....its all just bullshit that redietz wants to use to self elevate himself in his own eye.....but he just cant get the rest of the world to buy in.
I'm still trying to figure out how posting on a website forum is significantly different than starting up a website and blogging or paying a vanity press. It's all self-publishing. While surveys are lovely, I'm sure the erudite among us could explain the significant and dramatic differences between starting threads on forums, blogging on websites, and self publishing e-books.
Credentialism is inherently feminine.
Self publishing a book or vanity publishing gives one a credential of a "self published author".........which is a credential that is worht shit, just as the guy at the meadowlands racetrack sold cheaply printed xeroxed copies of his dailypicks.....he was also a self published author. Self publishing is meaningless...just as meaningless as posting on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzI actually have had some things published that would make me a "published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people," so thanks for the kudos, LarryS. Much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarrySyes, and I can get on a soapbox in the park and rant about the trade deficit, and then call myself a "public speaker"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
I can stand on a corner and give people directions if they ask me and I can call myself a "teacher"
I can pick sports teams to bet daily and I can call myself a "professional"
its just ways for people who are bereft of credentials to self elevate themselves. Mom and dad let me introduce you to my fiance.....she is a homeless crack addict that gives people directions, has posted on the internet a dozen years ago, and she bets sports with stolen money to support her habit while giving her fellow junkies tips(investment advice). As she stands there picking at her infected sores on her arm and stinking to high heaven, I conclude with....she is the love of my life.....a published author, a professional investment advisor, and a teacher........the trifecta
SO......NO,,,,,posting on a website does not make you a published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people, giving advice on sports pics does not make someone an "investment advisor" and answering someones questions does not make someone a teacher., while pushing buttons on a machine does not anyone a "professional".....its all just bullshit that redietz wants to use to self elevate himself in his own eye.....but he just cant get the rest of the world to buy in.
I'm still trying to figure out how posting on a website forum is significantly different than starting up a website and blogging or paying a vanity press. It's all self-publishing. While surveys are lovely, I'm sure the erudite among us could explain the significant and dramatic differences between starting threads on forums, blogging on websites, and self publishing e-books.
Its all totally self inflating nonsense when someone calls themselves a "published author" and leaves out it was a self published book.
Self publishing requires no expertise, no ability to spell, or write cogent sentences.....all you need is a thousand or 2 ...and a computer program. There are printing houses that will print any crap you give them. A crack addict can get access to a computer, and type incoherent pages and if they have money...it will be published.
Its like masturbation compared to real sex with a hot woman. You can brag about howmany orgasms you had in your life...but if they all came when you were alone in your mons basement...its not worth bragging about.
self publishing is nothing to brag about. Its self indulgent trash.
That's not really fair, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
He's gone from rags to (near) riches, and you've gone from near riches to what, exactly?
I give the former bum props for pulling his ass out of the gutter, finding an angle and running with it.
Perhaps you haven't heard that lots of musicians don't sign with record companies anymore. They make their own recordings and sell them themselves. As one musician told a record company exec "What can you do for me that I can't do myself?"Quote:
Originally Posted by LarrySSelf publishing a book or vanity publishing gives one a credential of a "self published author".........which is a credential that is worht shit, just as the guy at the meadowlands racetrack sold cheaply printed xeroxed copies of his dailypicks.....he was also a self published author. Self publishing is meaningless...just as meaningless as posting on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzI actually have had some things published that would make me a "published author in the eyes of 99.9 percent of rationally thinking people," so thanks for the kudos, LarryS. Much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryS
I'm still trying to figure out how posting on a website forum is significantly different than starting up a website and blogging or paying a vanity press. It's all self-publishing. While surveys are lovely, I'm sure the erudite among us could explain the significant and dramatic differences between starting threads on forums, blogging on websites, and self publishing e-books.
Its all totally self inflating nonsense when someone calls themselves a "published author" and leaves out it was a self published book.
Self publishing requires no expertise, no ability to spell, or write cogent sentences.....all you need is a thousand or 2 ...and a computer program. There are printing houses that will print any crap you give them. A crack addict can get access to a computer, and type incoherent pages and if they have money...it will be published.
Its like masturbation compared to real sex with a hot woman. You can brag about howmany orgasms you had in your life...but if they all came when you were alone in your mons basement...its not worth bragging about.
self publishing is nothing to brag about. Its self indulgent trash.
Now, larry you have advantage play reduced to "pushing buttons." If it were that easy why don't you go do it and make a ton of money. Anyone can push buttons on a machine but 99% of the public can't find the advantages in the casino (and that includes you). That's what advantage play is all about, having the knowledge and requisite skills to find and play the advantages. Button pushers are a dime a dozen, advantage players aren't.
I've really hit a nerve. Rob has now gone bonkers. He's blowing a gasket. Rob, have you considered anger management classes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer:). You mean Dickey videos....Quote:
Originally Posted by regnis
I'm attempting to imagine that. Dickey waking up in his car (after trying to impress everyone about how he stays in Motel 6's) with steamy windows & sticky floor mats from his usual morning rosey palmer toss-off, grabbing a quick shave before stumbling into his newest Indian casino with a bar of soap and his lice-infested comb....and all the while coming up with one-liners for his new publication "How I Made It To 65 Without Brains, an Education, A Girlfriend To Clean My Chocolate-Stained Underwear, or a Dental Plan". About as far as he'll ever get with a publication....
You couldn't pay normal people to look. You do it because you think you are getting away with something. People are easy to set up, in this case by the casinos, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Your ignorance is pervasive. I do it because it's worth 10K a month. Most of the button pushers in the casinos work their asses off for less than half that then go blow it in the casino because they are totally oblivious to advantages that can be found. If they knew they could make 10K a month in a casino they would be doing it....many of them quitting their jobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungYou couldn't pay normal people to look. You do it because you think you are getting away with something. People are easy to set up, in this case by the casinos, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Believe whatever you want to believe but don't bore me with it.
All's fair V. I've never been "near riches". Of course, it may SEEM as such to the level I'm talking to here, but where I come from and what I've done, it's no more spectacular than what the everyday hard working man achieves along with the ability to know how to have a long-term respectable marriage. And what exactly am I today? Nothing more than someone who long ago prepared for a lengthy, happy, and healthy retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVThat's not really fair, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
He's gone from rags to (near) riches, and you've gone from near riches to what, exactly?
I give the former bum props for pulling his ass out of the gutter, finding an angle and running with it.
Now to the bum. Someone who "pulled themselves out of the gutter" and claims to never lose while making $10k/mo. :) with two-bit gambling would be filing tax returns, he'd be staying at decent hotels instead of the cheap motels he says he frequents or spending the nights in his vanilla car, he wouldn't be bothering with an EBT card, his alcohol consumption wouldn't require "I Drink Alone" to be blasting from hanging speakers, and he'd have at least one friend that he doesn't have to conjure up from yesteryear.
In God We Trust.
You're only hurting yourself, Rob. Get help.
Luckily for the little girl she doesn't look like an Argentino. Rob got cuckholded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
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Originally Posted by Rob.SingerAll's fair V. I've never been "near riches". Of course, it may SEEM as such to the level I'm talking to here, but where I come from and what I've done, it's no more spectacular than what the everyday hard working man achieves along with the ability to know how to have a long-term respectable marriage. And what exactly am I today? Nothing more than someone who long ago prepared for a lengthy, happy, and healthy retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVThat's not really fair, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
He's gone from rags to (near) riches, and you've gone from near riches to what, exactly?
I give the former bum props for pulling his ass out of the gutter, finding an angle and running with it.
Now to the bum. Someone who "pulled themselves out of the gutter" and claims to never lose while making $10k/mo. :) with two-bit gambling would be filing tax returns, he'd be staying at decent hotels instead of the cheap motels he says he frequents or spending the nights in his vanilla car, he wouldn't be bothering with an EBT card, his alcohol consumption wouldn't require "I Drink Alone" to be blasting from hanging speakers, and he'd have at least one friend that he doesn't have to conjure up from yesteryear.
In God We Trust.
Sure sounds like someone with a happy and healthy retirement. Probably the poster child for happy and healthy. Maybe get some T-shirts printed up, "I'm happy and healthy." Or perhaps some tattoos. Happy on the left bicep; healthy on the right. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Rob likes to tell people that he's happy but you can tell by what he writes he's a very miserable person.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzQuote:
Originally Posted by Rob.SingerAll's fair V. I've never been "near riches". Of course, it may SEEM as such to the level I'm talking to here, but where I come from and what I've done, it's no more spectacular than what the everyday hard working man achieves along with the ability to know how to have a long-term respectable marriage. And what exactly am I today? Nothing more than someone who long ago prepared for a lengthy, happy, and healthy retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Now to the bum. Someone who "pulled themselves out of the gutter" and claims to never lose while making $10k/mo. :) with two-bit gambling would be filing tax returns, he'd be staying at decent hotels instead of the cheap motels he says he frequents or spending the nights in his vanilla car, he wouldn't be bothering with an EBT card, his alcohol consumption wouldn't require "I Drink Alone" to be blasting from hanging speakers, and he'd have at least one friend that he doesn't have to conjure up from yesteryear.
In God We Trust.
Sure sounds like someone with a happy and healthy retirement. Probably the poster child for happy and healthy. Maybe get some T-shirts printed up, "I'm happy and healthy." Or perhaps some tattoos. Happy on the left bicep; healthy on the right. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Sure you have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
You talked about earning $250K per year from your day job; presumably that job lasted for awhile and presumably set you for life.
You had every advantage, apparently: it's surprising the house of cards collapsed on you in '96, leading to your filing chapter 7.
Careful how you use the word "bum." I guarantee you I've worked harder in my lifetime, hard physical labor, than any person on this board. That's how I know I can slap Rob down in a heartbeat. He has air conditioned sinuses.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVThat's not really fair, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
He's gone from rags to (near) riches, and you've gone from near riches to what, exactly?
I give the former bum props for pulling his ass out of the gutter, finding an angle and running with it.
MC, the casinos did a blow job on your life. So here you are arguing with Singer. Lol.
You have the same penchant for making up lies about people that Rob does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
You know, for a gambling site, there sure are a boatload of proclamations, opinions, and general non-factual information being broadcast as to what priorities people should have, what their goals in life should be, and how they should behave. Not much about gambling from the folks doing the proclamating (note to Bill Yung: once again, not a word).Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmDid the mental hospital test to many drugs on you today?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
So I have to think the proclamators (correct, also not a word) don't have much to offer vis-à-vis gambling or Las Vegas (really, how often is Argentino in Las Vegas these days?).
Now I myself don't have much in the way of opinion regarding life values and all that. If people want to be "normal" -- seems to be a priority for Mr. Yung -- and conflate addiction with recreation, I'm all for it. I hope people abide by the math and protocols of Mr. Mendelson and Argentino until the cows come home, but I do feel obligated to argue when they baldly state their math and protocols as something they are not, namely as ways to win going forward.
Maybe a "Las Vegas and Gambling Factual Information Thread" could be kept separate from a "Las Vegas and Life Opinions Thread."
Like I said, it's a gambling site, and gambling is about everything except what it really is. Nobody wants to talk about it. Eg, there's nary a whisper about problem gambling at the Wiz's. Everybody comes on to say that God proclaimed to go gamble. Not in so many words, but they do. (Gambling isn't really about which way is best.)Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzYou know, for a gambling site, there sure are a boatload of proclamations, opinions, and general non-factual information being broadcast as to what priorities people should have, what their goals in life should be, and how they should behave. Not much about gambling from the folks doing the proclamating (note to Bill Yung: once again, not a word).Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmDid the mental hospital test to many drugs on you today?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
So I have to think the proclamators (correct, also not a word) don't have much to offer vis-à-vis gambling or Las Vegas (really, how often is Argentino in Las Vegas these days?).
Now I myself don't have much in the way of opinion regarding life values and all that. If people want to be "normal" -- seems to be a priority for Mr. Yung -- and conflate addiction with recreation, I'm all for it. I hope people abide by the math and protocols of Mr. Mendelson and Argentino until the cows come home, but I do feel obligated to argue when they baldly state their math and protocols as something they are not, namely as ways to win going forward.
Maybe a "Las Vegas and Gambling Factual Information Thread" could be kept separate from a "Las Vegas and Life Opinions Thread."
This site is a joke.
What, alan, is his recognizing that people post about most everything other than the 800 pound gorilla in the room hitting a bit too close to home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I'm talking about "gambling addiction."
Yung is correct in that it is a subject oft overlooked, when it arguably should be confronted and discussed front and center.
I'd be willing to bet (see?) that most of the regular, long time participants in gambling forums do so to supplement their gambling action, to get just a small jolt of the dopamine generated when they gamble in the casino.
But I can understand our seeming reluctance to confront the obvious: it takes strong men to admit they are weak.
If you get married at a craps table I think it's a safe bet that person had/has an addiction to gambling.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVWhat, alan, is his recognizing that people post about most everything other than the 800 pound gorilla in the room hitting a bit too close to home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I'm talking about "gambling addiction."
Yung is correct in that it is a subject oft overlooked, when it arguably should be confronted and discussed front and center.
I'd be willing to bet (see?) that most of the regular, long time participants in gambling forums do so to supplement their gambling action, to get just a small jolt of the dopamine generated when they gamble in the casino.
But I can understand our seeming reluctance to confront the obvious: it takes strong men to admit they are weak.
If you can afford it, and you're not really hurting anyone, I say who really cares. Even if you can afford it, I would assume it can be bad for relationships.
I think the biggest advantage I have gambling versus Bill Yung's "normal folks" is that I don't particularly like to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVWhat, alan, is his recognizing that people post about most everything other than the 800 pound gorilla in the room hitting a bit too close to home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I'm talking about "gambling addiction."
Yung is correct in that it is a subject oft overlooked, when it arguably should be confronted and discussed front and center.
I'd be willing to bet (see?) that most of the regular, long time participants in gambling forums do so to supplement their gambling action, to get just a small jolt of the dopamine generated when they gamble in the casino.
But I can understand our seeming reluctance to confront the obvious: it takes strong men to admit they are weak.
OK, then why do it, if you don't "particularly like to do it?"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Why not spend that time doing something you "like to do?"
Or why not spend that time earning a regular paycheck from bona fide employment, be it a first or a second job?
I can see gambling to make a few bucks if you are retired or otherwise unable to work, but if a person's real goal is to make money then working at a job is the only right answer for all but a few, i.e.the few "real" AP's, whoever and wherever they may be.
But really, if you don't particularly like to gamble, and you don't need to do it to earn money to live on, it seems fucking stupid for you to gamble, especially given the other options offered.
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Originally Posted by MisterVOK, then why do it, if you don't "particularly like to do it?"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Why not spend that time doing something you do enjoy?
Or why not spend that time earning a regular paycheck from bona fide employment, be it a first or a second job?
I can see gambling to make a few bucks if you are retired or otherwise unable to work, but if a person's real goal is to make money then working at a job is the only right answer for all but a few (the few real AP's, whoever and wherever they may be).
My gambling is 90% seasonal, so it's basically a hundred days. I stick to what I do best. And it is the single thing I do best, so not doing it would be a bit of a sin. Plus I get to do things I do enjoy, and that I consider important, given the seasonality of it.
That's what made Argentino's claims that I was texting every day, trying to sell him something, so outlandish.
Having said that, 2018 is different. Legalization is on the horizon. Opportunities must be anticipated and structured. Plus last season's performance attracted some people who are going to expect me to do some different things, both in terms of writing and socially. So it's a brave new world. The fun for me will be plotting how to deal with all of the state-to-state differences and variables, and how that will affect Las Vegas and offshore sports books, if it does. Many differences of opinion regarding many things.
I`m sure it was that lady`s dream as a girl growing up to get married at a craps tableQuote:
Originally Posted by AxelWolfIf you get married at a craps table I think it's a safe bet that person had/has an addiction to gambling.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVWhat, alan, is his recognizing that people post about most everything other than the 800 pound gorilla in the room hitting a bit too close to home?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I'm talking about "gambling addiction."
Yung is correct in that it is a subject oft overlooked, when it arguably should be confronted and discussed front and center.
I'd be willing to bet (see?) that most of the regular, long time participants in gambling forums do so to supplement their gambling action, to get just a small jolt of the dopamine generated when they gamble in the casino.
But I can understand our seeming reluctance to confront the obvious: it takes strong men to admit they are weak.
If you can afford it, and you're not really hurting anyone, I say who really cares. Even if you can afford it, I would assume it can be bad for relationships.
And along comes MisterV to start calling forum participants "addicts."
This site is a joke.
Alan did you see your namesake horse getting ready to run in The Derby?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Would be funny if he ran 11th
I see. 1 in 11. That dice problem. It could run 1 in 6, then.
And you Alan are 100% responsible for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
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Originally Posted by dannyj
Mendelshonn ran dead last. No surprise....he was a fraud....a shyster. I thought he might run 18th for good measure but he wasn't even up to that. :rolleyes: Rumor has it the jockey has filed an objection....with the FBI. Says he was bumped at the start and felt unsafe the entire race. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by regnis
last by 73 lengths too....must have been looking for a craps table in the stretchQuote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
And you Alan are 100% responsible for that.
Mendelshonn ran dead last. No surprise....he was a fraud....a shyster. I thought he might run 18th for good measure but he wasn't even up to that. :rolleyes: Rumor has it the jockey has filed an objection....with the FBI. Says he was bumped at the start and felt unsafe the entire race. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by regnis
No Mendelssohn is going to run in the mud.
You must have been a pretty shitty reporter alan, you can't seem to get your facts straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I didn't call you or anyone else an addict.
I only inquired of you, based on your typically snarky response to Yung's use of the phrase "problem gambling," as to whether it hit you too close to home.
I don't follow the horses, but if I heard correctly on the news, tonight, that horse's chances were 1 in 6.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I didn't read Yung's remark. Sorry but his writing confuses me.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVYou must have been a pretty shitty reporter alan, you can't seem to get your facts straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
I didn't call you or anyone else an addict.
I only inquired of you, based on your typically snarky response to Yung's use of the phrase "problem gambling," as to whether it hit you too close to home.
Your writing Troll V, however, is clear. You've been trolling me for years and now you're trolling this forum.
Alan, did you edit your post or did dannyJ?
I was just making a joke. I have no clue if you have/had an addiction to gambling or not.
Just because someone enjoys something more than they should, doesn't mean they have an adiction
Do you think you have a "problem"? yes, no maybe? I will believe whatever you say.
I told my GF a guy on the forum got married at a craps table. She said, "I bet that didn't last long."
Most people would think getting hitched at a craps table is a bit strange.
Then you should report him to the FBI. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
No, not "trolling:" interacting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
You and I have posted on gambling boards for many years, and have had spirited disagreements.
Yeah, I've criticized some of the stupid shit you've posted, both here and elsewhere: that's part of the fun of these boards, and it is all in an effort to ascertain The Truth.
Ah, the truth: would you recognize it if it bit you in the ass?
Whatever alan, it's all just words on a screen: chill.
Oh yeah; "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
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Originally Posted by KeystoneI`m sure it was that lady`s dream as a girl growing up to get married at a craps tableQuote:
Originally Posted by AxelWolfIf you get married at a craps table I think it's a safe bet that person had/has an addiction to gambling.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
If you can afford it, and you're not really hurting anyone, I say who really cares. Even if you can afford it, I would assume it can be bad for relationships.
What kind of a loser thinks getting married at a craps table is a good idea? It just reeks of degenerate. And the poor girl. Let’s hope for her sake the “marriage” was a PSO!
I thought alan marrying at a craps table at Caesars was pretty cool.
And the rabbi: nice touch.
Its so cool....yeah right....the only thing missing was the rabbi dressed in an elvis costume.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
those gimmicky marriage ceremonies I am guessing...and its only a guess.....have a short marriage shelf life.
Its cool if you plan on getting married a dozen times in your life and you want to be able to distinguish between them.
if you are getting married "as a goof"..I guess then a craps table is as good as anyplace. A solemn ceremony with religious leanings, encompassing the union of 2 human beings in sacred vows of matrimony would naturally be "cool" at a craps table.
Also maybe at the counter of Nathans in NY NY if you happen to like hot dogs,
Or in the feminine hygene aisle of Walgreens, if the lady is fond of tampons
or maybe at the valet parking pick up......so you can kill 2 birs with one stone.....wait for your car, and get married.
or at a Uhaul place...where you can get a Uhal to move the ladies things to your home....and you can get hitched in 2 different ways
I am going to go out on a limb..........the cool" goofy craps table marriage didnt last........right?
LarryS, are you the official website wedding planner now? :rolleyes: Every marriage ceremony has to be a boring, old, nose in the air, formal affair by the book?
People should incorporate whatever is important to them into such joyous celebration. Baseball enthusiast frequently marry at major league baseball stadiums. Similarly with other sports enthusiasts including nascar. How many people come to Vegas and incorporate the whole Vegas experience? Only about a million a year.
I myself was married at one of the chapels here in Vegas in 2014. Elvis officiated. I am pretty sure it was the real Elvis and not an impersonator. :rolleyes:
So, Alan took it a little further than most other Vegas weddings and married at the craps table. Or did he MARRY the craps table? Not sure, but either way, good for him if that's what made him and his partner happy. :)
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Originally Posted by kewlJ
maybe your god frowns upon elvis marriages......at least from his actions it seems that way.
I got married in Vegas. The preacher that married us was the drunk preacher in the flying elvises movie--Honeymoon in Vegas. I think he was drunk when he married us anyway.
Often times I tell my wife the marriage doesn't really count because the preacher was drunk.
The truth is that we inhabit the realm of the non-absolute, and everyone is trying to figure out what that means, the non-absolute. Whatever we take that to mean, there is no pure truth in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My basic understanding of this is that every thing here is nothing in particular while no thing in particular is everything. Everything comes together to fluidly wend its way through everything apart. Simplistically and incorrectly - but a way to explain it - to say that we are just the motion through many different fields. Everything we experience such as mass and force, we move in a way that builds those things to give the appearance of their pure existence. God is where that occurs in the point. The final solution.
A tale right out of fantasyland. Ask him to put up where we can find any of his "what he's known for" and we'll get the same old response "I can't because it's copyrighted stuff, and you'll have to dig it up because I have no idea where it is on the internet"....."but, I have plenty of testimonials and accolade from 20 & 30 years ago that I can put in the mail to you from my tippie-toe big shot friend's house in California".Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzQuote:
Originally Posted by MisterVOK, then why do it, if you don't "particularly like to do it?"Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Why not spend that time doing something you do enjoy?
Or why not spend that time earning a regular paycheck from bona fide employment, be it a first or a second job?
I can see gambling to make a few bucks if you are retired or otherwise unable to work, but if a person's real goal is to make money then working at a job is the only right answer for all but a few (the few real AP's, whoever and wherever they may be).
My gambling is 90% seasonal, so it's basically a hundred days. I stick to what I do best. And it is the single thing I do best, so not doing it would be a bit of a sin. Plus I get to do things I do enjoy, and that I consider important, given the seasonality of it.
That's what made Argentino's claims that I was texting every day, trying to sell him something, so outlandish.
Having said that, 2018 is different. Legalization is on the horizon. Opportunities must be anticipated and structured. Plus last season's performance attracted some people who are going to expect me to do some different things, both in terms of writing and socially. So it's a brave new world. The fun for me will be plotting how to deal with all of the state-to-state differences and variables, and how that will affect Las Vegas and offshore sports books, if it does. Many differences of opinion regarding many things.
Meanwhile....the phone silence is deafening ever since I explained that you and your collection of slimy "partners" have been soliciting me to make bets on your picks thru your "service".
What happened red, did you run out of ideas to clog up the forum with?
Same old nonsense from Argentino. If you had any texts from me, or emails, Mr. Mendelson would have a check for 1K in his pocket with which to play craps. Offer still stands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.SingerA tale right out of fantasyland. Ask him to put up where we can find any of his "what he's known for" and we'll get the same old response "I can't because it's copyrighted stuff, and you'll have to dig it up because I have no idea where it is on the internet"....."but, I have plenty of testimonials and accolade from 20 & 30 years ago that I can put in the mail to you from my tippie-toe big shot friend's house in California".Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzQuote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My gambling is 90% seasonal, so it's basically a hundred days. I stick to what I do best. And it is the single thing I do best, so not doing it would be a bit of a sin. Plus I get to do things I do enjoy, and that I consider important, given the seasonality of it.
That's what made Argentino's claims that I was texting every day, trying to sell him something, so outlandish.
Having said that, 2018 is different. Legalization is on the horizon. Opportunities must be anticipated and structured. Plus last season's performance attracted some people who are going to expect me to do some different things, both in terms of writing and socially. So it's a brave new world. The fun for me will be plotting how to deal with all of the state-to-state differences and variables, and how that will affect Las Vegas and offshore sports books, if it does. Many differences of opinion regarding many things.
Meanwhile....the phone silence is deafening ever since I explained that you and your collection of slimy "partners" have been soliciting me to make bets on your picks thru your "service".
What happened red, did you run out of ideas to clog up the forum with?
There will be no response, of course.
While it's understandable why you're bothered by this red, why would you want to believe that I keep spam texts?
All you have to do is have one of your "partners/goons" send me another of your annoying solicitation/begging-for-money texts and I'll be more than happy to broaden this expose'.
Typical Onehitwonder gibberish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungThe truth is that we inhabit the realm of the non-absolute, and everyone is trying to figure out what that means, the non-absolute. Whatever we take that to mean, there is no pure truth in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My basic understanding of this is that every thing here is nothing in particular while no thing in particular is everything. Everything comes together to fluidly wend its way through everything apart. Simplistically and incorrectly - but a way to explain it - to say that we are just the motion through many different fields. Everything we experience such as mass and force, we move in a way that builds those things to give the appearance of their pure existence. God is where that occurs in the point. The final solution.
Guess what, slobby. All your claims are from yesteryear too. And no testimonials from real people either, just sockpuppets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.SingerA tale right out of fantasyland. Ask him to put up where we can find any of his "what he's known for" and we'll get the same old response "I can't because it's copyrighted stuff, and you'll have to dig it up because I have no idea where it is on the internet"....."but, I have plenty of testimonials and accolade from 20 & 30 years ago that I can put in the mail to you from my tippie-toe big shot friend's house in California".Quote:
Originally Posted by redietzQuote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My gambling is 90% seasonal, so it's basically a hundred days. I stick to what I do best. And it is the single thing I do best, so not doing it would be a bit of a sin. Plus I get to do things I do enjoy, and that I consider important, given the seasonality of it.
That's what made Argentino's claims that I was texting every day, trying to sell him something, so outlandish.
Having said that, 2018 is different. Legalization is on the horizon. Opportunities must be anticipated and structured. Plus last season's performance attracted some people who are going to expect me to do some different things, both in terms of writing and socially. So it's a brave new world. The fun for me will be plotting how to deal with all of the state-to-state differences and variables, and how that will affect Las Vegas and offshore sports books, if it does. Many differences of opinion regarding many things.
Meanwhile....the phone silence is deafening ever since I explained that you and your collection of slimy "partners" have been soliciting me to make bets on your picks thru your "service".
What happened red, did you run out of ideas to clog up the forum with?
Well, my revised count on the number of dimensions in the universe is 24 regular, and 6 irregular, with the latter set down by two. Our motions don't use up any more dimensions; and one set of irregular dimensions is cut by half as a middle rather than end -set. The good news is that this upfront stuff is done. Now on to calibrationing this with the structure and function of the periodic table of elements. Hopefully, there aren't any errors in my recent spat of thinking, being down to the "nuts and bolts" of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmTypical Onehitwonder gibberish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungThe truth is that we inhabit the realm of the non-absolute, and everyone is trying to figure out what that means, the non-absolute. Whatever we take that to mean, there is no pure truth in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
My basic understanding of this is that every thing here is nothing in particular while no thing in particular is everything. Everything comes together to fluidly wend its way through everything apart. Simplistically and incorrectly - but a way to explain it - to say that we are just the motion through many different fields. Everything we experience such as mass and force, we move in a way that builds those things to give the appearance of their pure existence. God is where that occurs in the point. The final solution.
P.S. Perhaps I will get another "This forum is a joke" response out of Alan.
In the Trump thread at WoV, on page 178, darkoz deliberately misquoted Evenbob. I do believe that is a suspendable offense. Let's see if Babs acts on it. She doesn't like to suspend her liberal friends but if you are conservative watch out.
It is not against the rules to misquote; most especially in this case, as in context it was clearly a joke.
Plus it was not an ad hominem attack.
No worries.
MrV, a precedent has been set where it's a suspendable offense to misquote.
But I agree, it was clearly a joke and I don't think he should be suspended for it (but I wouldn't be sad if he got suspended).
The libtards in the thread are definitely picking on EB. Trump keeps racking up the successes and I know it has to be driving them nuts. Three Americans released from North Korea today.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS__
I am not saying you are wrong; if that is so I was unaware of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS__
There is no formal, written rule which prohibits misquoting.
If you don't mind pointing it out, in which thread was the precedent set, and what / who was involved?
the games they play at wov if you are the wrong person on the wrong side of an issue, or havent earned enough ass kissing points.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVI am not saying you are wrong; if that is so I was unaware of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS__
There is no formal, written rule which prohibits misquoting.
If you don't mind pointing it out, in which thread was the precedent set, and what / who was involved?
Of course its a suspendable offense...they just label it "trolling". So many things can be made to fall under that heading.
Since when must there be a formal rule? And taking it a step further, since when must a formal rule be followed? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
I can think of one specific case in which there was a formal rule, a written rule...."that things said on other sites and forums were not considered", and yet my banning announcement reads "that I was being banned for something said on another forum". :rolleyes:
Rules!? Please!! WoV management follows no rules...not even their own. THAT is a precedent set by Mike himself. Come on MrV, stop playing dumb. You have been around long enough to know that Mike does what he wants. If there is no rule, he makes it up. If his action is in contradiction to a rule, he changes it. His only concern is for himself and he doesn't care one bit what you, I or anyone else thinks. :rolleyes:
I (intentionally) misquoted GreasyJohn over a statement he made about racism and Blacks, to drive home a point. I was afforded the opportunity to apologize, and then PM'ed by the Wizard, himself, before I was banned for a couple of weeks. The misquotation rule hadn't existed, regardless.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
The Wizard makes it all up to suit no one but himself. Politeness in sheep's clothing. And doing stuff like entering no-fee blackjack contests, and then gloating over a victory, just isn't manly. More like anything for a buck.Quote:
Originally Posted by LarrySthe games they play at wov if you are the wrong person on the wrong side of an issue, or havent earned enough ass kissing points.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVI am not saying you are wrong; if that is so I was unaware of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS__
There is no formal, written rule which prohibits misquoting.
If you don't mind pointing it out, in which thread was the precedent set, and what / who was involved?
Of course its a suspendable offense...they just label it "trolling". So many things can be made to fall under that heading.
Now that I think of it, JB did that to me (under a different username) there, years earlier, to make a sick joke. Their "house", so they do as they please, and the lackeys (manservants) follow.
Larry is 100% correct in this post. (Yeah it is shocking to me when Larry is right....maybe it falls under the blind squirrel theory ;)) But the truth is WoV is about "sides" or "cliques". It's a lot like high school. :rolleyes: (with a lot of the behavior of Jr High school).Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryS
You know it is funny...in the past few days I read where Moderator BBB stated that there is a responsibility to challenge mathematically incorrect principals and claims regarding gambling. I agree 100%. And that's all I did. I challenged a ridiculously mathematical impossible claim regarding blackjack. I was right when I did it. I am right today. That has been proven beyond any doubt by several mathematical experts, including blackjack expert Don Schlesinger. And yet I was banned at WoV for doing so simply because as Larry says, I was on the wrong side. Not the wrong side of the issue, the wrong side of a friendship.
Speaking of this 'supposed' friendship (QFIT), did anyone happen to read what this so called "friend" of Wizards posted this week at WoV? :confused:
Answer: No you didn't, because this so called dear friend of Mike's didn't post anything. He hasn't posted in months....proving he had no intention of anything other than "using" and manipulating Mike. Once he got what he wanted, no interest in contributing. No surprise there though as he hadn't participated for 5 years, until he showed up to use Mike.