It's essentially the "electoral college" of the NFL 

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I just read that Ben Roethlisberger is going to sit out Sunday's game, the Steelers are starting Mason Rudolph.  I don't know enough about Rudolph to know if that's a good or bad thing for the Steelers, but it's starting to look like the Browns will take the win on Sunday.

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Jared Goff had to have surgery on his thumb, it was broken during the game against the Seahawks.  Looks like he'll be out for Sunday's game against the Cardinals.  I doubt McVay is going to put his trust in another team to get him to the playoffs, so I suspect they'll be fighting hard nonetheless.  With the Bears playing lights-out the way they've been the last couple of weeks, I don't think he's that confident with a loss.  It's hard to see the Packers losing that game, but anything can happen.

Lol, I did say "blatantly."  I suspect more of QS's semantics games are at play here.

I was planning on staying out of this, because I don't have a dog in this fight.  QS has always been decent and polite to me, so I have no personal grievances against him.  I've said it before; I enjoy reading QS's posts, and often find his contributions welcome and valuable.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for; my unsolicited opinion about this apology:


At first blush, I was really impressed.  This is great.  Here's an apology for 5 year old dispute, long held grudges, and an obvious abuse of the community's trust.  There's even an a half-hearted acknowledgement that what we suspected is true; Panther52 is QS.  

It does take a lot of balls to own up to having made a mistake.  But wait, what's this:


Who cares where you got the idea? Is that supposed to absolve you of shady dealings?  I watched Ocean's 11 a few weeks ago, but I'm not plotting to rob a casino now.  WTF, over?  

And I'll be honest, the first thing that came to mind when I read the above paragraph was: who is this guy that gave you this shitty idea, and why haven't you exposed him for the scammer that he is?


Here you claim that you've never stolen from anyone, but I take issue with that statement.  You admitted that you were providing escrow for your own dealings, and by all appearances you were charging fees for the escrow service.  Claiming that you've never stolen makes me think that semantics are more important to you than actions.  Obviously you were charging for a service that was not provided.  Sure, technically that's not theft, but it's rather deceptive, and certainly fraudulent.  You may not have scammed anyone through your deception, but it was deception nonetheless.  A deception that earned you some marginal fees.  Didn't Wells Fargo just recently get run through the wringer for doing similar stuff?

You also claim that your reputation is important to you, and I have no reason to doubt that.  In fact, I believe you.  You've never let your red tags get in the way of being helpful to others, and I can't recall a time when you've blatantly lied about anything.  But there's a fine line between lying and not telling the truth.  For five years you've been omitting or manipulating facts, obfuscating the truth, and simply steering around accusations of sockputting without actually denying it.

Put all this together, and all of the sudden your claim of being "a very principled person" starts to sound a bit laughable.  Principled people don't do things they know to be wrong, they don't deny responsibility or accountability for having done things that are wrong, and they don't continue to do the wrong thing until they're caught.  They don't wait 5 years after being caught to apologize for their wrongdoings.  So now after having had time to really digest this apology, it comes off as rather contrite.

None of what I wrote above would prevent me from giving you the benefit of the doubt however, if you did actually start to act as if you are a very principled person.  I would suggest coming clean about all of it.  The sockpuppeting, the account sales, the self escrow, the doxxing, all of it.  If you truly care about your reputation, that would be a good place to start.  If you were to come clean, none of these gripes being aired out by Vod and Suchmoon would have any meaning.  They become just that; gripes.  Once you acknowledge and own them, they no longer have power over you.

Responsibility and accountability; traits of very principled people.  

Me too.  We really played well against Chelsea, no gimme there, that was earned.  It definitely seemed like the Gunners were playing with a purpose,  the way we all expected when the season started.  That goal by Saka was hilarious, he even seemed surprised, lol


That's bound to be a fun one also, but I'll be missing both games unfortunately.  Premier League isn't compatible with employed folks in the Pacific time zone.  I'll be recording both, but I'll likely only watch the Gunners match this evening.


That actually looks like a good ticket, best of luck.

I've been having a ton of fun with the betbuilder feature.  I really like how it's laid out and, of course, the odds.  
I've been using it mostly for the NFL games, and had a couple of tickets lose by the smallest of margins, but yesterday I won my first (by the smallest of margins,) Buffalo Bills @ New England Patriots, Monday Night Football:

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Here's what I chose for today's Arsenal match, Go Gunners!

ROFLOL!  I didn't factor that in, good call.

Do we know who'll be the Patriots coach next year?  I'm watching Belichick's press conference, and the dude seems dejected.  Like he's over it.  What are the odds he'll retire at the end of this season?

Something specific he said during the interview; "they were better in every phase of the game," then went on to list offence, defense, ST, coaching...  It was the way he stressed "coaching."

Lol,  Oh yeah!  I feel lucky.

Yeah, no kidding.  I added the under (47.5) to my multi for the game, yes I put my money where my mouth is.  Another touch down and that's about all it can handle.

And the Refs just tried to give the Bill the ball at NE's 5 yard line.  

ETA: 38-9 

Okay, now it's time to rotate Josh Allen and Stephon Diggs out.  My multi is on the line!

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Lol!  Looks like you don't have to anymore; Jason Stidham is in, Cam is out.

I can't help but feel a bit sorry for Cam.  He was such an arrogant pompous asshole for so many years, but at least he had some game to partially back up his inflated pride in himself.  Now he's just pathetic.

Lol, tell your friend that would be the best thing that could happen to Wentz.  I think he's a good quarterback in a bad system.



On paper both look like a good bet, but the last time these two teams met the Bills won 24 to 20.  Neither of those bets would have won, but I don't recall what the spread or the O/U projections were for that meeting.

Obviously the Patriots aren't the team they used to be, but never underestimate that damage a division rival can inflict.

Lol, maybe I should start offering escrow services again.  Not to actually offer escrow services, but to trick newbies into learning about encryption.  If only I had the time...

This is a good suggestion, but unfortunately it tends to fall on deaf (newbie) ears.  When I was offering escrow services I don't know how many times people asked me to share my escrow address in Telegram.  It made me cringe, and I'd have to go on this long rant how they should never trust an address posted on Telegram, only trust addresses posted on the forum, and signed with a PGP key, yada yada yada.  Some would get it, but many wouldn't.

Every escrow address I generated was signed with my PGP key and posted in my escrow thread or sent via PM, but if I had to guess how many of those signatures were actually checked, I'd speculate it was a small fraction.

I've been bitten twice by Liverpool, but I can't blame them exclusively.  One particular multi-bet that looked like a sure thing was ruined by the Hotspurs, LFC, and Arsenal.  I mean, okay you expect Arsenal (my favorite team) to fuck things up, lol, but LFC and the Spurs too?

This year has been so bizarre.  Most years it seems like it's been easier to predict the upsets, but this year is a mystery.  Look at Leeds United; they were flying high at the beginning of the season, which struck me as quite odd.  Now they look like a typical promoted team that's doing better than expected.  

No, you're not, but thank you for the heads-up.  The worst is when this kind of thing happens to a trusted member who's no longer active, because it makes it harder for the targeted victims to confirm.  This happened a few months ago to monbux, and I have reason to believe it was Elmanches attempting the scam.

The trouble is that a lot of people using Telegram don't confirm the identity of the individual they're communicating with.  I like Telegram, I find it to be a useful tool, but it can easily be abused.

Really?  What is that limit? 

You've started 55 topics since the beginning of December, and no one has stopped you.  Nearly all of the thread you've created are in boards that don't show your trust rating, so what's the problem with your trust rating?  Most of those threads contain little information, other than you trying to convince people that you know what you're talking about, when it's painfully clear that you have no clue.

Now you're hear complaining that you're not being respected?  Read the responses to those threads you've created.  Considering the stupid drivel and blatant misinformation that you spew, I'd say that most of those responses are quite respectful.

You can create $80 worth of Xbox live membership cards in one hour?  Why don't you spend the next few hours creating these cards, and then sell them?

Of course my questions are rhetorical.  When a newbie's first post is in the Lending board his intentions tend to be fairly obvious...

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I love watching the Packers play in the snow.  It seems to have little affect on them, while the other team is franticly trying to figure out how stay upright.


The Titans hold the tie-breaker over the Colts.  If the Titans lose tonight, they could still win the division by beating the Texans next week.

I think you're overcomplicating things.  If you have the seed phrase, just upgrade the OS to a newer version of Windows if possible, or the current LTS release of Ubuntu.  Then reinstall Electrum and restore the wallet.  Ensure you have the right seed phrase before you nuke the XP OS.

If you created the wallet with imported private keys, you should back those up, of course.

Lol, I noticed that.  Technically, it looks like a breach of contract, because romneymoney's guess was clearly made after the deadline.  Just sayin'.

In other news, today we breached $27,444...