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Walter Mitty Gambler Type Blows £130K.

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    Walter Mitty Gambler Type Blows £130K.

    Sound like anyone we know

    By 37, he had become disenchanted with his job as a teacher at a school in Hampshire – and was having a form of midlife crisis, desperate to feel more special and successful than he was.

    “I was getting to an age when I realised time was running out to be the success I thought I deserved to be
    ,” he says. “This was going to be my short-cut. Gambling gave me hope.
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...hris-stringman
    The Chunt of Chunts.

    #2
    Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View Post
    It's not him. There's a historic restraining order which would have prevented him from ever having been a teacher.
    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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      #3
      Even divorces are cheaper than that.

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        #4
        Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
        Even divorces are cheaper than that.
        Only if you are unsuccessful...

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          #5
          Originally posted by AtW View Post
          Only if you are unsuccessful...
          Or you know how to hide the money.

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            #6
            130k. Chicken feed.
            What happens in General, stays in General.
            You know what they say about assumptions!

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              #7
              Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
              130k. Chicken feed to my bookie

              FTFY
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #8
                Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
                130k. Chicken feed.
                WHS.

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                  #9
                  Why couldn't he complain to the FCA and claim his money back from the Spread Bet firm?

                  Or is that a bit like asking why doesn't the government ban smoking.

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