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A tombola with a bias
The other day I attended a street festival in a nearby street here in Cologne. Like any other street festival it offered a range of activities: home made food and cakes; flower headband workshop; and, of course, a tombola (also known as raffle in some places). Me, my partner and her brother purchased 5 tickets…
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Heimat and the market
Heimat is a German word with no good English equivalent. It describes the relationship of a person to a specific geographic (or social) unit. I myself have few Heimat’s. Iceland is one of them and Eherenfeld, my neighbourhood in Germany is another. It is my view that Ehrenfeld is the nicest neighbourhoods in the city…
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Can Ali Baba insure against Svala winning Eurovision tonight?
As I was scrolling through Facebook earlier I came across a post by one of my favourite Facebook friends, the kebab place in Reykjavik called Ali Baba. The first reason why Ali Baba has become such a good friend on Facebook is of course that they make the tastiest kebab place in the country. It…
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Good reason to do good
In this post I want to tell you a story of a colleague of mine. His name is Adam and he is clever twenty something year old dude. Dark haired and tall with two degrees from Oxford and always carrying a great big friendly smile on his face. But on top of all of these…
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Are movies getting longer?
The other day I was watching the fantastic film Spotlight. After two hours and eight minutes the film concluded and two thoughts popped into my mind. First thought related to how incredibly important investigative journalism is to our societies and how it is of uttermost importance to make sure that this institution lives on. My…
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How did my Euro 2016 betting operation do?
If you read my post just before the Euro 2016 started, you might be wondering how my model actually did. Well most likely you have not been wondering at all about that but I have decided to share with you how i did anyway. I did not do too bad. But before I go into the results, in…
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Yesterday was bad, fingers crossed today will be better
My model failed and everybody else succeeded. France won and my model lost (and climbed comfortably above Romania in the Fifa/Coca-cola index. But, that is too late form me, the model advised me and I am £2.00 poorer. Figure: my financial position after the first day: And for today, my money is on: Switzerland winning…
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Terrorism risk and a napkin prediction
Two weeks ago me and a few friends went out for Schnitzel and Kolsch. As the topics of discussion bounced between the upcoming Germany vs England game and the recent Brussels attack I was reminded of the fate of the game between Germany and Holland following the Paris attacks. The coincidence that a big friendly…
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