Thursday 28 November 2013

Thursday 21 November 2013

Charles Osborne had the Hiccups for 68 Years, From 1922 to 1990

Daven Hiskey July 19, 2011 14
 
  Today I found out Charles Osborne (1894-1991) had the hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to June 5th, 1990.  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the longest bout of the hiccups ever recorded.

His hiccups first started in 1922 while weighing a hog for slaughter.  As he says, “I was hanging a 350 pound hog for butchering.  I picked it up and then I fell down.  I felt nothing, but the doctor said later that I busted a blood vessel the size of a pin in my brain.”  The result being that he damaged a small part of his brain that inhibits the hiccup response, according to Dr. Terence Anthoney who treated Osborne later in life.

In the beginning, Osborne’s hiccups occurred at a rate of around 40 times per minute on average.  Throughout his life, this gradually slowed to about 20 hiccups per minute until they finally stopped mysteriously about one year before his death in 1991.  It is estimated that he hiccuped over 430 million times in his lifetime!

Eventually, he learned to suppress most of the noise of a typical hiccup by breathing methodically between hiccups, which was a technique taught to him by doctors at the Mayo Clinic.

The fact that he kept his sanity through this is amazing enough, but apparently he lead a pretty normal life. He married twice over his long life (lived to the ripe age of 97) with the second wife marrying him despite the hiccups (he did not have the hiccups when he got married the first time).  He also fathered eight children.  Later in life though, he was forced to start grinding any food he ate in a blender due to the fact that it was hard for food to reach his stomach between hiccups.

Miraculously, about a year before Osborne died, his hiccups stopped.  The total number of years of his life he had the hiccups was about 68 years; the total without was about 29 years divided between the first 28 years of his life and the last year.

Sunday 17 November 2013

Miserable bastard lol

Coventry City's Callum Wilson says the word 'obviously' a staggering TEN TIMES in a post match interview.

You can never charge footballers with being dull, repetitive, tedious drones can you? Step up Coventry City's Callum Wilson, who obviously has a love for a certain word.

Friday 15 November 2013

Thursday 14 November 2013

Oliver Holt idolising his precious Frank Lampard. The one who left his wife and kids.


Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia (NOT minging)

After a discussion about Star Wars with the sprogs yesterday, I decided to show them that Carrie Fisher wasn't 'minging'!







The 'Macho Man' Randy Savage v Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat, Wrestlemania III. The Best Wrestling Match Ever!

Stretch out and wait. Analyse when you're over-betting

If you think you're over-betting, then you probably are!
So this blog has pocketed almost £2,000 profit since it started its bet suggestions in August and that my friends, is a pretty good return. But you should always examine where you are going wrong in this betting game, because even when you're going right, you can be doing things wrong!

Like anything that is addictive and sets the pulse racing, sports betting is no different in that emotions must be kept in check. Careful analysis of risk must be given attention and that element of moderation is very important. In my experience, over-betting is a common problem amongst gamblers, from both novices and experts alike.

Does this scenario sound familiar?

You've had a good run, you've found value in a number of bets, played the patience game, and think you've cracked it. It's at this point that you are at your most vulnerable. On the back of this you may increase stakes, bet on more matches/events and are far more likely to go all in on a lumper to cash in on the good run. Would you call it greed? To a certain extent, yes. What you are doing in effect is ripping up all those carefully planned steps and bending those rules that got you in that position of profit and prominence in the first place.

If the game goes sour, you'll find yourself back to break even or even worse a loss. It's at this point where the problems can increase further as your self defence mechanism kicks in working the brain to go on the attack. You may bet even more recklessly with increased stakes trying to win those losses back. You may even be prone to more in play 'opportunities' on events that you know little about but gamble higher on safer 'certainties'. This nearly always ends in tears! We all know that are no certainties, right?!?

So, it's always a good time to sit down and reflect on what is going right, and what is going wrong. For me in the first few days of November, I have quite simply, bet on more events than I'd wish too. Far, far too many events. That in short, is very bad.

If we break it down, I have bet on a ludicrous amount already, which is probably an after effect of a superb October. A classic pitfall. As confidence grew so did the amount of events I bet and the variety of sports that I deal with.

You'll notice near the top (most recent) I delved into darts and lost two from two. Whilst there were a few unlucky ones, the inclination by myself was to be a little too greedy with too many matches I would class as being too close to confidently call. Livorno-Atalanta was based on more than a hunch, but was a risk which in hindsight wasn't worth taking.

I layed Arsenal (bad), although some did beggar belief (Newcastle-Chelsea BTTS No). But there is plenty here that you could pick holes in.

Whilst 'gambling' is the game you still want to have the risk in your favour and although I am profitable for November, there have been a couple of mistakes that need to be rectified and corrected going forward.

The good news is that Halep was on hand to dig us out of the shit once more, something of which I cannot rely on going forward as the tennis heads for a break.

The point of this article is just to highlight that you are at your most vulnerable after a successful run. It is therefore paramount that you stick to your routine of success and that you do not look to 'cash in' on good fortune or streaks by altering those rules that got you there in the first place. £35 was lost yesterday for example with two darts bets that should have just seen me enjoy the matches, look on, take some notes, but not bet on.

Even for experienced gamblers/traders you can always slide into bad habits. You should always therefore look to analyse yourself regularly and to stay clear of betting too much and on too many events and markets.

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Wednesday 13 November 2013

Racist Diane Abbott shows her champagne Socialism

Today's betting preview

Not much in the way of sport today, but there is cricket between Pakistan and South Africa (T20) a couple of soccer games and a few darts matches to liven things up.

Basically, who knows about the T20s, Pakistan are in a bit of a mess right now, but they are always dangerous especially after setbacks. Think this could be one to have a look at in anticipation for the second match. Jordan play Uruguay at 3pm in a World Cup Qualification match and the -1.5 for Uruguay at 1.80 looks half decent; I'll be on that. Also we have King v Thornton tonight and I have always been a fan of Mervyn. On his day, he's right up there with the best and so at 2.32 I'll be taking him to beat Rob.

I simply cannot tell the difference? #peterhain


Sunday 3 November 2013