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Behind: Ahead
Jul. 5th, 2007 10:07 amWell, I'm behind with work, so I really don't have time to post this, but, hell, live dangerously, huh?
My Citibank dollar savings a/c details arrived today and, crucuially, it appears to be a UK sort code.
This should be enough to fool the donks at that well-known money service that is doing its level best to stop me getting dollars out of a dollar account.
Nothing would surprise me less than to see me set up the account okay for electronic transfers, make a withdrawal, and then to see that it has been converted to sterling and then back to dollars en route, costing me 10% of my money. Certainly it appears as if nowhere in the US poker land wants to send a dollar cheque to the UK, even if your account is in US dollars. Fuck ths sytem, eh?
I'm also behind because I'm funkin' for Wardacre, who is chip leader at the WSOP Sit n'go championships (also known as the Limit Hold'em shootout) with five players left. Ram Vaswami is also in the last five.
Andy has been in this situation thousands of times online, so he knows what to do.
I recall some donktwat on Gutshot's forums about 18 months ago posting "what has Andy done?" and mocking Andy's style of play in tournaments. I wonder where that poster is now? Probably back at his desk job, doing his cash at the Gutshot tenner donkaments every week.
Speaking of the word "forums" (preferable to the hideous "fora"), Ian Hislop made a bit of a dick of himself on Radio Five a few days ago when a political correspondent referred to "referendums" (the R5 presenter clearly had no idea what the correct word was and kind of mumbled it). Hislop, pissing around in silly hat at Wimbledon, pointedly referred to "referen-DA", as if the political correspondent was a non-public schoolboy fool with no knowledge of the classics. Non-public schoolboy the journalist might have been, but his use of the plural referendums was by no means wrong. The use of "referenda", contrariwise, should have as its postscript in Chambers "pomp.") that being short for "pompous".
Fuck it. Work calls.
PJ
My Citibank dollar savings a/c details arrived today and, crucuially, it appears to be a UK sort code.
This should be enough to fool the donks at that well-known money service that is doing its level best to stop me getting dollars out of a dollar account.
Nothing would surprise me less than to see me set up the account okay for electronic transfers, make a withdrawal, and then to see that it has been converted to sterling and then back to dollars en route, costing me 10% of my money. Certainly it appears as if nowhere in the US poker land wants to send a dollar cheque to the UK, even if your account is in US dollars. Fuck ths sytem, eh?
I'm also behind because I'm funkin' for Wardacre, who is chip leader at the WSOP Sit n'go championships (also known as the Limit Hold'em shootout) with five players left. Ram Vaswami is also in the last five.
Andy has been in this situation thousands of times online, so he knows what to do.
I recall some donktwat on Gutshot's forums about 18 months ago posting "what has Andy done?" and mocking Andy's style of play in tournaments. I wonder where that poster is now? Probably back at his desk job, doing his cash at the Gutshot tenner donkaments every week.
Speaking of the word "forums" (preferable to the hideous "fora"), Ian Hislop made a bit of a dick of himself on Radio Five a few days ago when a political correspondent referred to "referendums" (the R5 presenter clearly had no idea what the correct word was and kind of mumbled it). Hislop, pissing around in silly hat at Wimbledon, pointedly referred to "referen-DA", as if the political correspondent was a non-public schoolboy fool with no knowledge of the classics. Non-public schoolboy the journalist might have been, but his use of the plural referendums was by no means wrong. The use of "referenda", contrariwise, should have as its postscript in Chambers "pomp.") that being short for "pompous".
Fuck it. Work calls.
PJ
