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Previously on "Walter Mitty Gambler Type Blows £130K."

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  • ChimpMaster
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    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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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    130k. Chicken feed.
    WHS.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    130k. Chicken feed to my bookie

    FTFY

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  • MarillionFan
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    130k. Chicken feed.

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

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

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  • BrilloPad
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    Even divorces are cheaper than that.

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  • Mordac
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    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.

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  • MrMarkyMark
    started a topic Walter Mitty Gambler Type Blows £130K.

    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

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