If this is a gambling forum why do so many people post non-gambling topics?

quantumleap · Feb 19, 2007

I have been noticing people questioning why others are posting off-topic posts so I feel this needs to be addressed here again.

A year or so ago there was a thread started by a mod requesting feedback regarding allowing off-topic threads. Some were irked that there was too much non-gambling talk in this gambling forum. I believe the feedback said that people like to hear off-topic ideas from time-to-time.

One person mentioned that theRX was kind of like your neighborhood bar. It's kind of nice to have things that may not just talk about gambling.

SportSavant · Feb 19, 2007

quantumleap,

as mods, we tend to let things go a little bit more in the month of febuary after football has ended and before march madness, mlb start. It is a slow time.

Anonymous1 · Feb 19, 2007

Here is your gambling quote of the day...from TVG annoucer..."if your not betting more, you lose more when you win"...

Iceman · Feb 19, 2007

SportSavant said:
quantumleap,

as mods, we tend to let things go a little bit more in the month of febuary after football has ended and before march madness, mlb start. It is a slow time.

this sums it up. If it wasn't for off topics NOBDY would be here right now. I am willing to say that 75% of the people on this offshore forum aren't currently betting right now becuase of alot of reasons.

I want to talk about gambling all day everyday but there is hardly anyone to talk to right now.

One thing that is cool about this whole site is most everyone is on the same level. I am not going to go to a real estate forum and asks question about RE. That conversation would go over my head.

whormoan · Feb 19, 2007

cheapseats said:
Here is your gambling quote of the day...from TVG annoucer..."if your not betting more, you lose more when you win"...

the actual quote is: "The less you bet, the more you lose when you win"

Anonymous1 · Feb 19, 2007

Stand corrected...guess I need to pay attention to the announcer's more than the race itself...

oldirtyku · Feb 19, 2007

I come here to socialize...

Dubpoet · Feb 19, 2007

We have one thing in common but we share much else.

:nopityA: :nopityA: :nopityA:

sd2 · Feb 19, 2007

whormoan said:
the actual quote is: "The less you bet, the more you lose when you win"

I first heard that in the '90s, uttered by that old tout faker Kelso Sturgeon, when he was he guest football handicapper on the equally discredited horse trainer Roger Stein's morning show. On Mighty 690, as they called it, out of LA, tho I think the tower was in TJ.

Sturgeon would give out a college best bet on Sat, and an NFL best bet on Sun. For several years he did so hilariously poorly that he made another noteworthy quote: "It's very hard to win two games in a row, and I'm living proof of that."

Wonder if he puts that in the advertising he sends out to his marks?