After last weeks performance I am here to kick you bevans home again!
Brisbane to overcome a 1.5 point handicap $1.90
St Kilda by under 39.5 points $2.20
Geelong by under 39.5 points $2.20
Bulldogs to overcome a 4.5 point handicap $1.90
Cronulla to overcome a 6.5 point handicap $1.90
North Qld to overcome a 5.5 handicap $1.90
Newcastle to scrape through with an 8.5 point start $1.90
Souths to win $2.25
Canberra to upset everyone with a 10.5 point start $1.90
Hawthorne by under 39.5 points $2.25
Collingwood by under 39.5 points $2.25
Carlton by under 39.5 points $2.25
Western Bulldogs by over 39.5 points $2.90
Port Adelaide to overcome a 6.5 point handicap $1.90
Ford to win in Hamilton NZ in the V8’s $1.75
Our Smoking Joe is BACK and will win the Neville Sellwood Stakes $6.00
Put $5 on the above and you could own two real decent houses come Tuesday (odds are 337,000 to 1). Your choice but I warn you not to underestimate my powers!
Kick home All American in the slipper…. I have a feeling the slipper is about to go to overseas breeders.
After one purchase I am ready to claim 9th Dan black belt in ebay.
It seems Ebay have decided to try and monopolise there payment arm Pay Pal. As an existing pay pal user this does not worry me at all but a gajillion ebay sellers are a little upset. Who would have thought that trinket makers and dogey toy sellers could get so upset? Realistically they don’t have a leg to stand on, Ebay own the shop and the shop decide how the customers pays.
I was actually thinking to myself that I didn’t fully understand how Ebay makes money but that is not how a 9th Dan black belt thinks. I did some checking and found that Ebay are able to charge a small fee for each sale typically in the 0.4% area. Not bad, but you are gonna have to sell a shite load of teddy bears to make any money. With their decision to limit purchases to selected systems (mainly pay pal) they are making a decisive move for the payment facilitator business where they can earn 2 – 3% on each transaction.
Seems fair enough to me but hey what would I know. What are your thoughts here? Should ebay be able to increase their earning potential or should the ACCC lay a couple of body blows into them and leave them gasping for a vegemite sandwich?
What the hell is Ladette to Lady??!! I saw two minutes of this show as I waited for the Sarah Connor Chronicles to start last night and I am left perplexed with how a show like this is on television.
A bunch of women sitting around and bitching at each other about how to try and be ‘ladies’. A major upset for the madams was when one of the ladettes got into a car with her bottom sticking out as she bent over…. That’s called advertising where I come from.
So to get this straight, a bunch of pompous old English nags trying to reshape the so called unsuitable lives of some other younger English nags is a show that rates better than the Sarah Connor Chronicles forcing it back one hour. Well I am sorry I don’t believe it.
In case you were not aware, television shows are measured on their success buy a group called OzTAM. My understanding is that at any one time OzTAM employ 5000 television watchers to report back to them on exactly what they are watching. This information is then fed back to the television networks who base their decision on what is successful or not on these results. Altering their broadcast shows based on these figures.
5000 people!!!! Surely the 5000 wetbags (if you are one of the current 5000 I am sure you personally are doing ok, it’s the other 4999 that are morons!) that have had the job for the last 5 years are close to being recycled?
Does 5000 points of view give you suitable, credible information on something as complex as a persons preferred form of entertainment? I personally am not sure that it does, but I am sure all you statistical superiors out there will try and tell me otherwise.
Here is one piece of market feedback for you OzTAM…. You suck! You and your whole lazy work ethic!
I was shocked and disgusted at the actions of Brent Staker in the Sydney – West Coast game on the weekend. The veracity in which he head butted Barry Halls fist is something that will stay with me for a long time. He head butted it so hard poor old Barry broke his wrist and will be out of action for up to 8 weeks.
If you haven’t seen this blatant head butt, here is a clip…
But here we go again; every soft on with a heartbeat is having a whinge.
“I don’t want my kids involved in a game where that sort of behaviour is viewed as ok”
Bad news sweetheart, best pack up your house, wife and family and move yourself out to Amish country. Yes you heard me right time to move to Gympie!
Sure, it probably wasn’t the best thing to see Staker break Barry’s hand so blatantly but little Johny & Jill are exposed too much the same sort of violence once or twice a month at school. Usually no bones are broken but fights in the school yard are very common. For some sparrow hearted parent to try and tell me that they will not let their kids play a sport, where there is probably triple the supervision compared to the school yard, is just plain stupid.
It may even be a good thing that some of these young and impressionable young people see the results of what a head butt to the knuckles can do. The results of these actions are quite only ever found out the hard way.
The occasional knuckle in my opinion is ok but it should be frowned upon to limit its occurrence. What so you think, should Brent be wiped out indefinitely or should he be reprimanded, given 6 weeks to think about it and that’s the end of it?
Yes yes, I know. I am only too happy to talk myself up when I go well.
I didn’t quite get the $800,000 talked up. Infact, by the time I went to put the Peter Lonard part of the bet on it was already closed, luckily.
My count is that I got 12 out of 16 for the weekend, including missing out on a 17 to 1 shot which as anyone who has ever punted knows is on its own, hard to get.
Special note to Peter Lonard, you ok mate? You have dissapeared off the face of the Earth.
Next year I vote for someone I have EVER heard of to win the Masters as well.
I received my Ebay purchase in the post on Friday completing my first foray into the world of Ebay. It was very easy as I had previously set up a Pay Pal account and this was the preferred payment method from the seller.
I had chosen a ‘buy now’ product rather than bartering for a bid item that is likely to be second hand and possibly flawed. So after clicking the buy now button I followed the 3 or 4 easy steps and that was it, done and dusted. There was no need to drive from store to store looking for this unusual product it was a matter of clicks away.
After the product had been ordered I was concerned that the seller will take my $90 odd bucks and not send the item but those fears were allayed when the day after the online purchase the seller emailed me advising that the item had been posted.
A couple of days after the online purchase a mail plane crashed into the ocean loosing all of its cargo and for a short period, I feared that the fickle finger of fate would have its way with me.
Everything came together Friday afternoon when I arrived home and there sitting at the base of the letterbox was a thick envelope with what looked like something I had been waiting for. I took it inside, opened it and to my excitement all was in order. The product had been suitably packed, addressed and sent. It had arrived in tact and in complete working order.
Ebay rocks, its true, its DAM true.
To what value have you purchased things on Ebay? Any experiences you would like to share, good or bad?
I can’t see any real stand outs on the horses at this stage so this weeks “16 of the best” is based on sports bets.
Hopefully we can pull off some upsets. Especially the stupendous odds offered about Peter Londard to finish top Australian in the Masters. He recently placed second in a USPGA tournament, is looking good and is a big chance at those odds in my opinion.
The Bulldogs will be smarting after last weeks pizzling and I think they are a big show at good odds also.
Here we go, 16 of the Best.
Manly to shave through with an 8.5 point start. $1.90
Gold Coast with a 7.5 point start. $1.95
North Qld to win. $2.10
Bulldogs to beat the Warriors in NZ. $2.35 *
Canberra to win $1.65
Brisbane to beat the nights. $1.70
Souths to sneak it in with a 4.5 point start. $1.90
Western Bulldogs to win by under 39.5 points. $2.20
Geelong by under 39.5 points. $2.20
Brisbane by under 39.5 points. $3.40
Hawthorn to win with a –17.5 handicap. $1.90
Carlton to win with a +26.5 point handicap. $1.90
Peter Lonard to be the highest finish Australian in the Masters $17.00
Liverpool to win. $1.50
NY Yankees to win. $1.55
Jorge Lorenzo to finish in the top 3 in the Portuguese MotoGP. $1.75
The combined odds on all of the above all upped all weekend is a staggering
400408 – 1
Whack $2.00 on this and you are a chance to return $800,000.00!! That’s a better offer than Golden Casket can provide you.
