Even though I operate on 'higher' plane of thought it is off-set with moments of great stupidity.

Recently.
In the hood, there is a jewish atheist bloke 63, a physics teacher and mathematical to boot with a penchant for colourful shirts and over a few curries he is a font of knowledge, he is an old-school Marxist. Known him 2/3 years.
A few months back, I see him and he stops and pulls out a giant calculator type thing and says he has cracked a code at a particular game at the bookies, the virtual horse racing - says he has written a mathematical program.

I am intrigued lol, say take me along next time.

A few weeks back he says that a different machine, this one, you play 21 with the machine but aha they offer you a side bet, where you can wager on the first two cards being given being a pair, he says - if you bet 1;1, 1;2, 1;3, 1;4 etc etc with the extra pound going on the pair bet each time - he assured me that the odds were in our favour and if I turned up at a bookies prepared to lose fifty pounds (hey big spender)then we would be quids in, more money in, more money out.

I believed him, he was a mathematician/physics teacher like Christopher LLoyd(?). Even when he said, if I had ten of you at each bookies, I would have a good night.

I saw him put in 130 of his own money and my fifty within 45 minutes of sitting down. He won blackjack, virtually everytime, but in the end was losing 1;17 on the pair bet. Not a single pair came up.

As I was leaving he said - 'I suppose I owe you fifty quid'
I thought nah, it cost 50quid to learn a salutary lesson. It is another anecdote to tell.
Oh, how my friends laughed when I told them the story.
