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I feel that the actual specifics of the race cannot be known entirely till the thing is over: this,regardless of all that went before, or, comes after.
Bit like a boxing fight or the like: it's a one-off, and all the gym-work, training, intended plans, can be knocked awry by one lucky punch.
I suppose I'm the type of gambler that looks for the lucky punch; mostly it feels like it ain't never going to come, but, ....
Without some kind of time-bend, there ain't never going to be a video of future events that matches exact actual occurrence.
Sure, there are guesses at the likely future, and, some are more accurate than others.
Speaking with guys who've scored a winning try in an important match, I find that several didn't even know or recall what actually took place.
"It just happened", they said.
Maybe that's why I'm a gambler and will never get anywhere.
Or, will I?
As an aside, I remember on the heinous btf forum ( before I got banned) I made a £100 bet that johnson would be PM:
I won the bet, I lost the bet, and finally, I won the bet.
That was the time of cameron, may, gove ( stabbed johnson in the back), and finally, eventually, johnson.
Anybody see the trend in that could easily fool me: all I went on was what an old Cotswold farmer told me at a car-boot sale in Witney ( PM's constituency).
Now, how scientific was that?