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Originally Posted by richard s
How accurate this is I don't know... the Daily Star quote:
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Weather expert Nicola McGeady, from Coral, warned: “The odds on the worst winter in history continue to tumble as the latest weather reports make for grim reading.
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Coral. Ms McGeady is a bookie. Not a weather forecaster.
And Coral, in turn, is slashing its odds because its beer-soaked punters got a bit of a fright last week and have started betting on more of the same.
The Daily Star's headline is ultimately based on the boozed-up paranoia of a few thousand gambling addicts. Which, to be fair, pretty much sums up the Daily Star's readership.