davet
11-01-2005, 06:26 PM
You know, I thank my lucky stars for finding friends who are involved in gambling. As any of you know, gambling is a good way to lose your social life.
Most of my friends are very risk averse. Ie. they don't bother to get a job, the live off their parent's income, they let their parents pay for everything, their parents are millionaires. Oh and don't mention money to them, oddly, $500 is a fortune.
Okay, they aren't risk averse, they simply don't have to take a risk...
Here are some of the reactions from my risk averse friends, and my gambling friends.
"Jeez, I just dumped $500 in the past two weeks."
RAF: You ##### moron! I don't understand why you do this to yourself.
GF: That's not bad, I mean 6.75 and hour. Do you know how many players wish they could say that?
"I love to gamble, look at all 15 of my books."
RAF: You're adicted, did you ever try gamblers anonymous?
GF: Wow, I can't believe I actually found someone as serios as I am. (talks about gambling for the next 15 hours.)
"You wouldn't believe how much fun I had at the table today."
RAF: I gambled once, and I lost $35 playing BJ, it took like 10 minutes.
GF: Yeah, me too.......
"The expected value on this play is...."
RAF: You are going to lose, dumba##. I though you were smarter than this.
GF: I think you did the math wrong.
"I play poker for a living."
RAF: It sounds like you are going to go broke again. It's all luck, and you know luck runs out eventually.
GF: Don't tell your non- gambling friends, they will never understand.
"Too late." /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Most of my friends are very risk averse. Ie. they don't bother to get a job, the live off their parent's income, they let their parents pay for everything, their parents are millionaires. Oh and don't mention money to them, oddly, $500 is a fortune.
Okay, they aren't risk averse, they simply don't have to take a risk...
Here are some of the reactions from my risk averse friends, and my gambling friends.
"Jeez, I just dumped $500 in the past two weeks."
RAF: You ##### moron! I don't understand why you do this to yourself.
GF: That's not bad, I mean 6.75 and hour. Do you know how many players wish they could say that?
"I love to gamble, look at all 15 of my books."
RAF: You're adicted, did you ever try gamblers anonymous?
GF: Wow, I can't believe I actually found someone as serios as I am. (talks about gambling for the next 15 hours.)
"You wouldn't believe how much fun I had at the table today."
RAF: I gambled once, and I lost $35 playing BJ, it took like 10 minutes.
GF: Yeah, me too.......
"The expected value on this play is...."
RAF: You are going to lose, dumba##. I though you were smarter than this.
GF: I think you did the math wrong.
"I play poker for a living."
RAF: It sounds like you are going to go broke again. It's all luck, and you know luck runs out eventually.
GF: Don't tell your non- gambling friends, they will never understand.
"Too late." /images/graemlins/tongue.gif