Ranger's training thread

[redzone]

Ranger's refusal to pay Henry for the bet that he lost is just an indication of the lack of faith he has in ever winning the second unconnected bet that Henry offered him.

Think about it for a second. You have lost a bet with a guy but you are absolutely certain that you are going to win back double the money in the very near future. Why on earth would you welsh on paying and sour relations with the other party?

[whp4]

Ranger's refusal to pay Henry for the bet that he lost is just an indication of the lack of faith he has in ever winning the second unconnected bet that Henry offered him.

Think about it for a second. You have lost a bet with a guy but you are absolutely certain that you are going to win back double the money in the very near future. Why on earth would you welsh on paying and sour relations with the other party?

Ah, but you forget that ranger isn't merely the greatest age-group rower of all time, he's also the greatest investor. Why pay HJS $1000 now for the chance to get a measly $2000 later? He's turning that $1000 he lost but won't pay into millions and millions of dollars as we speak!

[ranger]

You are an up-standing guy.

I am sure you'll pay me the $2000 you will owe me when I reach all of my distance goals this summer

So the fact you haven't paid your debt just confirms you're most definitely not an upstanding guy? Are you not embarassed by that?

There are two bets.

The bets are linked.

Henry won the first bet.

The second bet is still pending.

I am happy to pay up if I lose the second bet.

But that bet is still pending.

It should be resolved this year.

The first bet was about rowing 6:40 two years ago.

I rowed 6:41, and so lost.

That bet was for $1000.

The second bet was about my reaching one of my targets--whenever.

That bet was for $3000.

That bet is not resolved.

ranger

[PaulH]

There are two bets.

The bets are linked.

Liar

[lancs]

The second bet is still pending.

I am happy to pay up if I lose the second bet.

This is probably a stupid question, but... at what point will you accept you've lost the bet? When you fail to reach any of your targets again (and you won't get within 4secs/500m of them) this season, will you pay up or just welch out again?

[ranger]

The second bet is still pending.

I am happy to pay up if I lose the second bet.

This is probably a stupid question, but... at what point will you accept you've lost the bet? When you fail to reach any of your targets again (and you won't get within 4secs/500m of them) this season, will you pay up or just welch out again?

As it turns out, the moderator of this forum is just deleting posts arbitrarily.

This is no longer an open forum.

It is gone the way of the British forum.

It is being heavily censored in order to fit a certain sort of party line.

Too bad.

Where free speech is not allowed, I don't see any possibilities of productive discussion.

So it goes.

I am out of here.

ranger

[jliddil]

I am out of here.
ranger

[PaulH]

I am out of here.

Liar

[hjs]

There are two bets.

The bets are linked.

Liar

Indeed a lie.

The second bet is not even a real bet cause Ranger can,t loose anything. After he lost the real bet he begged me to give him a chance to win his money back. That's the only connection.

here his begging

"Yea, time has run out
Oh well.
Don't much feel like doing a 2K, given that I still haven't sharpened for one.
2Ks hurt pretty badly if you aren't ready for them.
Hey, hjs, any possibility of modifying our $1000 bet along the lines of our $3000 bet?
A time extension would be _greatly_ appreciated.
That might be a squarer deal, given my situation (unprepared!).
I need to get sharpened up if I want to be doing 2Ks without a lot of grief.
Training is coming along great--but slowly.
Too slowly, it appears.
One last cry for mercy!

"
I am so convinced that he will never reach do that, that I gave him the rest of his life to row any of his goals. With solid proof ofcourse. I will pay him tripple what he pays me. But it seems I have to take it. Maybe I should take his new boat. What do you people think?

[hjs]

I am out of here.

Liar

yeah could we be so lucky.

[Citroen]

It is being heavily censored in order to fit a certain sort of party line.

Only the SPAM and posts by TROLLS get removed. It is not "HEAVILY" censored.

I am out of here.

Until later today.

[ranger]

Only the SPAM and posts by TROLLS get removed. It is not "HEAVILY" censored.

Sure, historically, the sorting of human beings into categories--"them" vs. "us"--is the standard rationalization for censorship, propaganda, prejudice, slander, war, lynchings, pogroms, genocide, etc.

You have joined a large and well established club, Dougie.

Congratulations.

Hey, Plato was for a "closed" society, too, albeit with more elevated intentions than yours.

ranger

[ranger]

Dougie--

If you are the best on the erg for your age and weight, you are not a troll on this forum.

You are one of the best.

There are only a couple of dozen of these folks in all of ergland.

Deleting the posts of those who are best at the sport, and therefore in the best position to offer advice, is bafflingly strange.

Your motivations must be unimaginably low.

ranger

[PaulH]

I am out of here.

Liar

I win!

[KevJGK]

I am out of here.

Liar

I win!

Would you say he's predictable Paul?