So you think you're lucky? Punk.

Gaaargh…consigned to the dark, dusty corner of “the knowledge” that is Wanted>FC Help & Comment. How the hell did that happen?

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Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

me too, I think they are being exceptionally mean about where threads go today

Posted about 1 year ago by archetype

The last thing I posted to Help & Comment received a total of one reply. Fortunately it wasn’t me. Or any of my real life friends, which is slightly disappointing.

Posted about 1 year ago by AdrianCooper

Thanks for the sympathy. I mean there is nothing in the slightest bit helpful about my post, and it has virtually nothing to do with FC. Or London for that matter. Oh.

bump bump BUMP

Bugger. That doesn’t seem to work either.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

sorry, i have no tips or luck it seems.

i gave up betting on the grand national when each horse i bet on for 2 consecutive years had to be put down afterwards….

Posted about 1 year ago by Mellie

I won a bottle of ginger wine in a raffle last summer.

Ginger wine.

Get in.

Posted about 1 year ago by Carla

i often get people giving me free stuff or letting me ahead of them in queues. i went to the races on monday and a family friend told me to pick a number, then he bet a fiver on that horse – and it came in first and won him £80- and he give me £20 then on the next race i gave my partners sister a tip to pick the jumper she liked the best on the rider – she did, and her horse came first.

ohh i also once found a £300 gucci watch on the floor when i was 15.

Posted about 1 year ago by kristine

Did you drink it Carla? Or are you bringing it to the shin-dig tonight? Come to think of it, is Ginger wine even alcoholic? Anything that foul should be alcoholic, but I’ve got a funny feeling it’s a measly 3% or something similar.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

I love ginger wine in the winter. Top notch.

I was lucky enough to pick Joe’s Edge at Chelts – won by a whisker at 50s which made me very happy. He’s a ‘hot tip’ for the National, being in cracking form, but I can’t see any value in the price – 10s is far too tight for my liking, and never worth betting on anything to win the National – e/w only please.

For a bit of value, possibly have a look at Silver Birch… I will be.

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger

I gave it to my best mate for her birthday, Juvey.

I am best best mate ever.

Posted about 1 year ago by Carla

Oh…and is he/she still your best mate?

Thanks for Silver Birch. At 25s seems worth a £5 e/w. Somebody else suggested Livingstonebramble as a outsider with a chance, so another £5 there at 50 should give me some excitement.

As long as all the horses have a nice time.

PS – If Silver Birch comes in, I’ll give you 10 kudos, or a pint. Your choice!

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

I never win anything. No competitions, bets, anything. My only lucky nights our were once an walthamstow dogs when I just kept picking winners (Based solely on whether or not I liked their name) and a few weeks ago when I got lucky on a roulette table (Not in THAT way you dirty minded people!)

Posted about 1 year ago by LittleEmily

I never win anything

I just kept picking winners

I got lucky on a roulette table

???

Yes, Juvey. She is still my best mate. Sort of. She’s not talking to me at the moment. I kicked her car in fit of rage after she nearly ran me over. For the forth time THAT DAY.

Posted about 1 year ago by Carla

I’m remarkably unlucky, materialistically speaking. The one thing I won was a very very small TV that didn’t work, from a can of strongbow, and even then, only when my flatmate decided to check every single can I’d drunk that night.

I remember years ago, when my then-gf was at uni, we used to speak every other night, and part of the phone call was to scratch a lottery card each. I think, statistically, there was a 1:5 win rate. We went 14 phonecalls (so 28 cards) before we won anything.

That said, I consider my life in general to be a fairly lucky one. I’m healthy(ish) and happy.

Posted about 1 year ago by flippy

LittleEmily , Carla’s got a point – I think your comment might prove that some people just don’t know their own luck.

I’m bitter enough at not winning anything and generally being a luck desert that I overuse the phrase, “they don’t know they’re born”. Then again I did break a mirror 5 years ago, so give it a couple of years and I might start winning cakes at raffles.

Posted about 1 year ago by archie

i must be the unluckiest person alive – i never win anything and i’ve also recently been diagnosed with crohns disease and have also just spent 3 days in intensive care as i had massive blood clots in my lungs – that’ll be why i haven’t been able to breath property since september last year!!

Posted about 1 year ago by shony

Carla, I can’t help but wonder whether the Ginger wine and the multiple attempts by your friend to maim you are somehow related. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Actually, LittleEmily’s rather glib dismissal of her astounding luck has reminded me of the one and only winner that I had at Walthamstow Dogs. ‘twas the last race of the night (isn’t it always, when someone starts this sort of story?) and a seriously hammered young lady fell into me while I was waiting to handover some more money. She apologised profusely, and then looked deep into my eyes and slurred ”...it’s trap 5! My grandmother was a psyhhcic and I’ve shhome of the gift. Make shhure you putsh yer cassh on trap 5”. Obviously, I never turn down advice from shit-faced Essex tarts so I dutifully put my cash on trap 5. Turns out it was something like 18-1 and a no hoper but at the first bend, there was a bit of a pile-up and old Doggy no-legs limped past to win by a…er…tail? I won nearly £100 but I don’t count it as luck, because there was obviously some Satanic ritual involved.

True story.

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey

It’s like another world in here.

Posted about 1 year ago by BraveNewMalden

Notice you describe being in, rather than on here. We are part of a cult. They’ve brain washed everyone.

Posted about 1 year ago by Chez

Mmmm…brain washing…

Posted about 1 year ago by Juvey