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641  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [FINAL] FIFA Club World Cup; Manchester City vs Fluminense on: December 22, 2023, 07:58:28 PM
Manchester City vs Fluminense

Manchester City as champions of the UEFA European Champions League for the 2022/2023 season.
Fluminense as champions of the Copa Libertadores for the 2023/2023 season.

The final match of the FIFA Club World Cup was held in Jeddah, at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium.
The referee for this match will be Szymon Marciniak from Poland.
About 30 minutes from now, the match will kick off.

Who do you think will be better at lifting this trophy? Whether Manchester City or Fluminense.

ManCity, Guardiola will be the first manager who won the Club World Cup 4 times if Mancity able to beat Fluminense
Guardiola: Barcelona 2019, 2011 and Bayern 2013
Ancelotti: Milan 2007 and Madrid 2014, 2022
It is quite certain that Guarduiola is now the first manager to win the Club World Cup 4 times, because from the look of the match in the first half, City is already winning with a 2-0 victory and I don't think that Fluminense will be able to equalize these tow goals, talk more of winning the match.

Man City is a strong club and their opponent will not be able to withstand their pressure because Guardiola will want to make history by winning tonight's game. City should be very happy that they met a weak club in this match.
642  Other / Politics & Society / Re: women goes through a lot when they don't get married on: December 22, 2023, 06:30:03 PM
Anyone who is treating a woman that is not married badly in words or actions, has hatred for that woman in person and not because she is not married. Women can choose how they want to live their lives, either to get married or not. I have seen a lady that didn't get married because she feels that she don't need a man and wants to stay focus on her goal in life, saying that a marriage will be a distraction to her.

The only women that I will feel for are those that really wanted to get married but couldn't get married because of some challenges, still such people shouldn't be abused with that or treated badly because it might lead them to depression. It is good to value women the way that they are either single or married, because they need to be shown care.

If it is the property inheritance, l will blame the father for not writing a will and include the female children in the will. An educated man will always write a will on how his property will be shared and it stands as long as there is a lawyer involved.
643  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Can loneliness make one addicted to gambling on: December 22, 2023, 04:01:39 PM
By doing various kinds of activities, people will not feel lonely, especially if they can do activities that connect with others. This will help them communicate with other people so that something will be created from this activity or there will even be cooperation between them. This will allow people who feel lonely never to feel lonely again because they have other activities.
The point is to never be alone and feel lonely, look for friends and do activities to have fun, there are many games out there that can be played as well as other hobbies that can be played not only in gambling, don't always think that gambling is a very fun game, there are many in this world fun games that can be played besides gambling, for example playing football or other sports activities with friends or family.

As long as it is done consistently there will be no desire to gamble because if you are alone and feel lonely there will definitely be something you want to do in gambling, for example trying to use a new strategy or something else, it's best to forget about that and do other activities to enjoy life more because gambling is not the end goal. from eliminating feelings of loneliness.
This depends on the gambler in question, if a responsible gambler is lonely, I don't think that he will see gambling as something that will free him from loneliness. Why I said this is because a discipline gamble will have his time limit that he uses to gamble and as long he is gambling on his lonely time, he will stop gambling was his time limited is over.

It is a gambler that cannot control his gambling activities that will use his loneliness as an excuse to game all through and we all know that gamblers that cannot discipline themselves will end up becoming an addict through any means, either by chasing his loss or passing away time with gambling. If you are lonely, go and chill with your friends or go to the cinema and enjoy yourself but not with gambling.
644  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Succeeded in introducing Bitcoin to a friend on: December 22, 2023, 02:40:33 PM

My question now is that is it wise that I showed him the amount of Bitcoins I have accumulated before he developed interest?
It is not a safe practice to show anyone the amount of bitcoin in your wallet, because you don't need to prove to anyone that you have bitcoin before you can convince them to buy bitcoin. Whoever that love bitcoin concepts after explaining to him will think over it and decide if he will adopt bitcoin or not. This is because, you don't know who is happy with your progress and they might end up looking for a way to steal your coins.

I understand the happiness in you for seeing your old time friend after a very long time and that was what made you to be over excited to show him your wallet. Remember to keep your bitcoin hodlings a secrete for privacy. I hope that he is not investing because of the bull run that you explained to him for quick profit so that he doesn't think that bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme, and if he misses out from selling during the bull run, when bitcoin will go to the bear market, he will blame you for not explaining that bitcoin should be a long term investment.
645  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Are successful gamblers seen as addicts? on: December 21, 2023, 08:34:43 PM
When you say successful gambler, do you mean a gambler who has won more than he has lost, or do you mean a gambler who is addicted enough that he doesn't do any other thing apart from gambling?.
If the second one is the case, then the person isn't successful at all, why because gambling is never a profession and should be discouraged for someone in his right senses choosing to do nothing else than gambling. Its wrong in many ramifications. Unless he's owning a gambling platform, the decision is a disastrous one as gambling is not a certain hustle that you can  rely on, there are good days and bad days and the bad days comes with a great disadvantage that the person involved will be so discouraged and frustrated that he/she will sought other ways to make up and out of pressure, he might choose the wrong way and get himself into addiction troubles to meet up with necessities.
In A nutshell, if you're lucky enough to be getting wins in gambling, its not a criteria to take it as a career as its just a fun medium and should be treated as such no matter what as the repercussions of depending on gambling might be far detrimental then ever imaginable when the tables turn around.
Gambling is not a profession and I don't think that anyone can be successful gambler. I haven't seen anyone that has won more than he has lost in gambling. This is why anyone that is gambling needs to caution himself so that he doesn't become an addict because when you allow gambling take over you, because you think you can be successful with it, you will bring frustration upon yourself.

I will say that gambling is more of a guess thing and such activity should be relied on. The only person that can say is a successful gambler, is that gambler that after winning big, he invested the money in a business and quits gambling finally. But if the person is still gambling, he will loose everything back to gambling because he is greedy and will want to win again.
646  Economy / Economics / Re: Setting up financial structures before going into the family way on: December 21, 2023, 05:12:05 PM
OP, as long as both husband and wife can understand themselves, they can assit the gamily together. I am not sying that one should jump into marriage without a job, but it doesn't mean that you must be financial stable first. This is because as two people that just came together, it will be hard to be able to meet up with all the family demands because new expenses will be added. It is gradually with time that the family will begin to get balanced after understanding the most important needs for the family.

What of a situation whereby, the husband has a good job and after 5yrs, he lost his job what will happen, will the wife divorce him..NO. As long as the man is hardworking and provide the basic needs for us family, they can get married. There are some people that it is when they get married that they will be blessed with riches because marriage is a good thing.

Even if a man is wealthy and he doesn't understand his wife, the marriage might not work, money is not everything and this is where the youths of nowadays get it wrong, especially the girls. Love, commitment and understanding makes a poor family to be happy with the little that they have. Sometimes to become financial stable can take a very long time due to the economy of some countries.
647  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Quit gamble! Easy or Hard? Let's talk. on: December 21, 2023, 10:04:40 AM

Informing about the dangers of too much gambling and the high probability of a player becoming addicted to gambling at the stage of the disease is indeed very widespread now in the world.  
Almost everyone who starts gambling is well aware of the possibility of such a development of events.  However, a player who can be called safe does not pay too much attention to such warnings and plays as much as he wants.  And he has absolutely no idea when he crosses the border that separates his gambling from gambling addiction.  And quite often it turns out that the player has already become addicted to gambling, but he does not understand it yet.  And close people already understand that there is a problem, but the player tells them that he can easily stop playing at any time.  But in fact, this is not at all true, he is not able to do this voluntarily because it is a mental illness.  It’s not so easy to find informaation about this boundary between healthy and unhealthy gambling on the Internet.  And therefore, simply information about the dangers of gambling is not enough to effectively combat gambling addiction.

Before someone enters the gambling industry, one must already know the possible dangers of gambling. It's not always rainbows and sunshines in gambling. There will always be times that one will be unlucky and experience losses. Those losses are learning lessons to do better next time around. If one will disregard the consequences of gambling, it's really highly possible that he will suffer addiction later on. And this is because not considering the possible negative effects means being complacent. When you get complacent, you do not care about doing better and rather just go with the flow. So the longer the dependency, the harder it will take for someone to quit gambling.
For those who can control themselves and have multiple channels to stay busy all the time, it is not a problem to give up gambling, but for those who have greed for money and a desire to get rich quickly, it is very difficult to give up gambling for those who cannot control themselves.  And sometimes becomes almost impossible.  So in this case it totally depends on the personal control of each one.  And that's why you have to control yourself from the beginning and everything is much easier for the one who can control himself

Gambling may look difficult to quit for one that is addicted to it. For an addict, no matter how busy they are they will still make some available time for themselves to bet. Sometimes what make people become an addict most time is when thinking you can re-gain your loses. After losing so much on bet, they believe they will win one day. This made them to keep playing everyday believing that day they may not play may be their day to win.
Yes, those are people that think gambling us for making profit or took gambling to be a job. Such people must be addicts because they will allow their emotions to control them and this will make them to keep on chasing their loss, because they think that their win is in the next game. Before you know it they are already addicted to gambling unknowingly to them.

If an addicted gambler wants to stop gambling, he needs to take the bold step to stay away from gambling with all seriousness and determination by determination, if not it will not be easy for that addicted gamblet to quit gambling.
648  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: When do you think Bitcoin ETF will be approved? on: December 21, 2023, 09:14:21 AM
I don't think that Bitcoin ETF will be approve this year, as the tear has come to an end and it is time for holiday. According to the the rumor that it will be on January 10th, but nobody knows if SEC will approve it on that day or still delay the approval. One thing that I know is that ETF approval will be next year but I cannot say when exactly.

What I know is that whether ETF is approved or not bitcoin will be doing great next year since the bigger event is taking place which is the halving because it is the halving that will lead to the bull run. The approval of ETF will only make the price to skyrocket more than 100k to maybe 200k. The important thing now is dor us to keep on stashing our bitcoin portfolio for the next bull run and worry less about news in the market.
649  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is Michael Jordan a gambling addict ? on: December 20, 2023, 09:05:45 PM
He takes care of his family, far from broke and gambling brings him entertainment.. so my question, would MJ be considered an addict?  I argue he's not.  He just loves to do it, but any negative effects may be literally zero ..
If he takes care of his responsibilities and does things that is expected of him, I won't call Jordan an addicted gambler. He does that for fun because he has self control on his gambling activities and I don't think that anyone can call such person a gambling addict.

I have seen a wealthy man that got broke due to his excessive gambling and under two years he had nothing anymore. He couldn't control his gambling activities and he was wrecked. There are a lot of wealthy gamblers that gambles responsible because they know that it will be worst for them if they become addicted. Since they are rich, they gamble and go home, no matter the loss that they hard on that day, it is like nothing to them and they still put things in order in their homes and in business.

Gambling is fun, but very dangerous when you allow it to control your emotions.
650  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: RBF. What are the dangers of making it mandatory for all Transactions? on: December 20, 2023, 07:51:31 PM

But this leads me to think that any wallet that does not support basic things like RBF should be avoided.

I think it's just good we say centralised wallets should be avoided in transaction of Bitcoin as they might support other tokens.Well there maybe some that supports RBF but I haven't heard of any , maybe someone does know any he/she can share. Smiley
It is not advisable to use a centralized wallet because you are not in control of your keys and your wallet can be compromised. We heard the recent scam on ledger wallet because it is no longer a self custody wallet. This is why good self custody wallet should have RBF in other to help users use the function to fasten up their transaction due to low transaction fee that was initially used.

Let's take example of the ordinal running in bitcoin blockchain, a wallet without RBF, it means that once your transaction has been broadcast, if the low make miner rejects it, it means that it will just be there for weeks and back to your wallet.
651  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: December 19, 2023, 03:12:09 PM
I understand that Manchester United is far from playing their best football. With the way other teams are performing it will be hard for them to make the champoins league spot. What Manchester United should do is to take their focus off the top 4 and make sure they can make the Europa league next season. But they should focus more on rebuilding the team next season.
Rather than forcing to qualify for Champions or Europa League, it's better for them to develop their club first.

They need to find two wingers, midfielders and few defenders. Although Onana sometimes make mistakes, but we have Bayindir who can replace Onana. While the other positions I mentioned before, Manchester United really lack of good players.
If I may ask, how does a club focus on one trophy like the champions league or the Europa League? You cannot have a target when you don't have a squad to actualise your goals. Manchester United is not in the race to qualify for the champions league and neither are they in the race to qualify for the Europa League. They are just playing without focus. Whenever it gets to a stage that club will be celebrating draw like a win, you will understand that the club is in trouble.

Chelsea is in the state that I described above. We saw it when they drew with Manchester city 4 : 4, the celebrated like they won and their subsequent matches were disaster. Last week, Manchester United drew with Liverpool and celebrated as if they won the league. Something is wrong.
I am laughing at you statement because you just said the fact. U myself, i was also happy that Manchester United was able to draw Liverpool because Manchester united is not in a good form to withstand Liverpool die to their poor performance since the beginning of this season. Their last two matches was also a lost, so many people already gave Liverpool the victory already even before the match started. Also last season, it was a flawless defeat on Manchester United with 7 goals to nothing. All these I mentioned made United fans to be happy when the game ended in a goalless draw.

I am also not in support with the jubilation because of a draw, instead of a win. This shows how weak that United are and their fans also understand that. I don't think that there will be a better chance for Manchester United to qualify to the champions league next season but I still believe that there is hope for then in Europa

652  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Give respect to your teachers and parents on: December 19, 2023, 01:37:48 PM
Teachers and parents are people that contributes to someone's moral life and success. This is because the parents are there to guide and teach us at most times when we are still young but the teachers are there to teach us when our parents are not there. Teachers should be valued in the society, because they are the ones training the future leaders.

But it is the other way round, as teachers are not valued in the society instead the government treats them like garbage and this is why some students don't also respect their teachers. Take example of my country, Lectures are been owed and the government hasn't still meet up to their demands over a very long period of time because these lectures have love and passion for their jobs. Teachers are the most contended people in the world.
653  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Have any one had experiences with banned bank/providers because of gambling? on: December 19, 2023, 12:41:05 PM
He must have gone against either the bank or casino ToS, and this is why one must be careful with everything that involved money online so that you don't get deprived of your funds on these centralized platform.

The only thing I know that they will tell him was that he has used his account for illegal/fraudulent activities because that is what will make them ban your account with every right. since you said that you have contacted the customer care of the casino, you should give them more time for them to respond to you. Tell your younger one to also go to his bank and lay the complain so that they will let him know why it happened like that.
654  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Introducing bitcoin to the orphans on my birthday on: December 19, 2023, 08:41:00 AM
This is a wonderful thing that you did mate and I give you an applaud for this, you have should your generosity to the highest level by putting a smile on these orphans face by providing food for them during this festive period. You have motivated me and I have to learn from you on how to show love and care to the needy.

I love the style that you used to introduce them to bitcoin by feeding them first, so that they can know that bitcoin is for real. It shows that people when you are telling them about something good, they should be able to see the benefits that you have gotten from it and not just by words of mouth. You have made my day with this your charity act, and you will never lack for providing for these orphans and exposing them to bitcoin.
655  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Does match fixing concern you often? on: December 18, 2023, 09:18:35 PM
Match fixing is a very big offense and I believe that those people fixing matches does this secretly because if they are caught, they will get sanctioned from football. It is against any sport and I believe that it doesn't only apply to football.

This is the reason why I can't bet on those small leagues that is not popular because, they use their matches to make money by fixing the match and I see this as greed and lack of love for football because match fixing will kill the passion that they players have to win games for their clubs, since they don't have any option than to play according to what they are instructed to do. What of a player or some players disagree to dance to the tune of the game and they played to win the game instead of losing, will these set of players be kicked out of the club, or is it that platers are also paid when a match is fixed ?
656  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: December 18, 2023, 08:20:11 PM
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However, a team like Man United taking such a defensive approach is strange. Its unusual for a club with their history and ambition. It casts doubt on their strategy and league standing.
I think Ten Haag was more focused on not getting more embarrassed so I didn't find it unusual to be honest. You can notice how United cannot really find a good mix of offense and defense. They can score if they open up but they are also prone for allowing many goals and we've seen that a lot in their previous CL matches this season. The same thing could have happened against Liverpool if Ten Haag decided a more offensive approach.
Yes you are right, man utd was very cautious with their approach to the game, the 7-0 lose the last time is still fresh in the back of their minds, so to me it quite logical that they took such approach due to their defensive frailties this season.
If they had come out toe too toe with Liverpool they would have scored a goal, but they would have lost whole fully.
This was the same thing that I was discussing with my friend during the match yesterday, that assuming Manchester united played save and they were not after scoring because if you look at the game during the last 15mins of the first half, it was very obvious in the sense that any ball that reaches united player they will always play a long pass to see if they can use counter attack to net the post.

Eric Had strategy yesterday was a good one, because Liverpool was looking for a goal by all means but they couldn't make that happen due to united tight defense and nobody was ready to make any mistake. This was why he didn't put Maguire in the match to avoid expensive mistake.
657  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: The best decision you can take on: December 18, 2023, 03:35:09 PM
Staying off is the best we can do, when not sure.
Exactly, one need to stay off the market when he is not sure of the market rather than having the spirit of greed and you want to try your luck in the market, this will make you run at bug loss because it is now a guess work and not due to experience, which makes it like gambling.

If a trader can control his emotion and know that he can still trade tomorrow if the market is not in his favor that with make that trader risk taking to be lesser compare to that trader that wants to trade, even when he knows that he is in big loss because he thinks that the market will later be in his favor. I love this your advice because newbies jump into trading when they don't know anything about the market.
658  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: December 17, 2023, 07:37:40 PM
We don't usually see such poor defensive gameplay in the Premier League. And so I was very disappointed with Manchester United's performance in today's match. The players of Manchester United did not make any attempt to score. Manchester United is not a weak team. Despite having a strong squad, Manchester United's performance has been poor. But I would have been happy if Liverpool had won. Because in today's match, we are only dominated by Liverpool. I saw 69% possession of the ball by Liverpool players. At the same time, Liverpool players made a total of 34 shots. Even then he could not score a single goal.
However, Liverpool dropped 1 point behind Arsenal due to the loss of points in this match. Liverpool lost the top spot in the points table.

Imo, Man Utd showed some class today against Liverpool compared to their 0-3 defeat at home to Bournemouth last week. Coming into this match, Ten Hag knew that his team has a shortage of quality compared to Liverpool. As a matter of fact, Bookies thought Liverpool will run this over with a strong win (1.3+ odds) while draw at 6+ odds and man utd to win at 8+ odds. What this means is that Liverpool was supposed to win effortlessly.

Recall that Man Utd has 12+ players either on suspension or injured yet they were able to hold off a Liverpool team that has looked unstoppable in recent games.

This was a fine performance from Man Utd and they did have some good chances here and there like that Hojlund encounter with Alisson Becker.

I think a lot of bad luck was on Liverpool tonight and more specifically on Alexander Arnold which had at least 3 goals opportunities in the second half which he should have at least converted once.Manchester United has done what they needed to do to get at least one point from this game considering that they come after so much bad results recently and this for them can be considered a good result.

Of course the bookies have gone somewhat wrong with the odds,despite Liverpool being the favorite in this game you cannot give to any team 1.30 odds when playing against Manchester United at home no matter who they are just for the history that Manchester United has.
Both teams had difficulties in netting the post because united also missed three good opportunities. Liverpool was in a better position of winning today's match because they are stronger than united this season but united didn't allow Liverpool to take advantage of their weakness and they made their defence very strong that Liverpool couldn't use their chances wisley because most of their shots was blocked.

This is the first time this season that Manchester united resisted defeat on a big club and their performance was superb for them to be able to share point with Liverpool today. So many people bet that Liverpool will win the match but they got disappointed at the result.
659  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Are the Americans also Europeans? on: December 17, 2023, 03:33:32 PM
OP, you are now a senior member and you should know the right board where this your topic fits in and not on this board, or is it compulsory that everyone must see your thread? You should move your thread to Politics and society board. Because Hamppuz paid late today which is always once in a million time that was why you created a thread for this. Common, you can use google to know about this.

It is true that Americans were colonized by the British but that doesn't make an American a British person, the two countries are different from origin, it was just a matter of colonialism that connected both countries.
OP, is talking about Europe and not only British but you are talking about British. I know that British is in Europe continent but not all Europeans are British, because we still have so many countries in Europe. America is not Europe. Their time zones also differ.
660  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Prove me wrong: Gambling is both more relaxing and entertaining than trading! on: December 16, 2023, 03:00:45 PM
I agree with you OP, gambling is fun and relief from stress of the day or stress during the week. You can entertain yourself with your friends during the weekend with your favorite gambling games as long as you are not after making profit. Like this  weekend, I am a fan of sportbet and I always chill with a bottle of beer with my friends to watch the matches and see if we made the right bet.

Trading is to complicated and have no fun in it because it is stressful and needs high level of skill in it. I don't trade and from what I have observed traders don't smile until they have made profit but you will see a gambler losing and he is still happy.
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