Image of an all-white Britain. 's no joke!

[Cort Haus]

[Drake Tungsten]

BNP propaganda...

[MOBIUS]

That's uncharacteristically insightful of you, Drake.

[Drake Tungsten]

I might not be good for much, but I am good at reading posters. Cort Haus has always struck me as a closet racist...

[MOBIUS]

[Theben]

Impossible Ireland is still green if Britain is white.

[Berzerker]

uh oh, tipping point - the longer all that land covered by snow keeps reflecting sunshine away we could see a brief cooling trend.

[notyoueither]

How brief and how much cooler?

[Thoth]

Cooler?

Bugger that.

Time to burn down some more rain forest.

[Drake Tungsten]

They're burning books in Wales...

[Thoth]

Liar. There are no books in Wales. Welshmen can't read.

[SlowwHand]

Bookie refuses to pay out $11 million on snow bet

By Girish Gupta – Fri Jan 8, 12:32 pm ET

LONDON (Reuters) – Bookmaker Ladbrokes is refusing to pay out more than 7 million pounds ($11 million) to a man who gambled on a white Christmas across the UK, as the bet was accepted by mistake.

Cliff Bryant, 52, had placed two 5-pound accumulator bets that snow would fall on 24 towns and cities across the north of England on Christmas Day.

"We have apologized to the customer for any confusion and for mistakenly accepting an accumulator bet when our own rules state that only single bets are available on a market of this nature," said a Ladbrokes spokesman.

"We are happy to void the bets and to pay the customer his winnings on the relevant singles."

They however amount to just 31.78 pounds, rather than the 7.1 million Bryant was expecting.

The graphic designer from Southampton, who told the local Southern Daily Echo newspaper he was "gutted" and would seek legal advice, claims the first accumulator would have won him 4.9 million pounds, with the second adding 2.2 million.

"If I make a mistake in my work like that it costs me dearly and I think the offer should be a lot more generous than they have made," he told the paper.

Ladbrokes should have made their rules clearer, he added.

"They are one of the leading bookmakers in the country and I think they ought to do their homework a bit better in future."

Ladbrokes gave Bryant details of the Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS), an impartial adjudicator on disputes that arise between gambling operators and their customers.

Danny Cracknell, a manager of the IBAS, told Reuters that Bryant had been in contact and they would be investigating the issue once he had completed the relevant forms.


An abandoned car sits covered in snow on the A68 road near Earlston in the Scottish borders January 6, 2010. REUTERS/David Moir

[Theben]

Ladbrokes gave Bryant details of the Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS), an impartial adjudicator on disputes that arise between gambling operators and their customers.

Bets Independently Adjudicated Service would be a better name.

[Cort Haus]

They're burning books in Wales...

In the name of civility, we must stop this outrage – even if some of the books might be remaindered celebrity autobiographies.

I think that keeping pensioners warm is the perfect use for remaindered celebrity autobiographies. Except for the fact that they needn't be remaindered. Sentimentality for the printed word stops way short of Ashley Cole's dribblings.

[Boris Godunov]

Any unsold book stock is returned to the distributor and turned to pulp anyway--burning them for fuel seems to be a much better use.