Toulouse, November 2005
The Guardian has done a good job of trying to cover the (now 12) days of rioting in France. Although the situation is not so strange, given the conditions of the Banlieue, the scope and size of the riots seems astonishing. The French press (quoted by The Guardian) seems to be looking inward to the failure in addressing the problem of truly making the immigrants part of the French society.
As Ovidio rightly pointed out when I first posted about the riots, the same situation may happen in virtually all industrialized countries with big immigrant populations. And of course, LA and Chicago have had their own riots between different racial groups. Still, the scope of this new situation, now no longer confined to the banlieue Parisienne, surprises. Is it perhaps the combination of Sarkozy's incredibly arrogant look with the strength of the images that creates the element of surprise?
- Music:Corelli's violin sonatas, by Andrew Manze
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Lucky us the since the slots are online there is no such thing as a queue and you can play when you want. You don’t even have to get dressed.
Not that this has any relevance to who plays slots and who don’t. There is clearly according to the latest polls more women playing slots then men. Men seem to drift towards the poker and table games. But here is something us men have to watch out for, they are coming. And they are also coming in swarms.
And since we men can not do more then one thing at a time (at least that is what the women say) we are in trouble. Take Blackjack, they should be better at handling two and three hands then us. Texas Hold’em is up for grabs because of the pace and many factors in the game. So when you are playing against a women you might want to hold on to your chips (and maybe your hart as well) she could end up owning both of them. Women know we are simple beings, and do have this factor over us when playing face to face. All men are suckers to a nice smile, so in all fairness any poker game that has both men and women in it should be played online.
At least you will not be distracted by that nice perfume drifting in from the women next to you. It is so faint but a man has certain instincts and will try to get a good sniff. So leaning in (ever so careful) I still get booted from a game for trying to look at other peoples cards. And I had a straight lined up. Even the big smile I got from the women next to me did not really soften the blow of getting booted. At least the dealer understood me and just told me to take a break for a while. That is my 2 cents worth on the topic of women and gambling.
Signing off for now and heading towards the slots, someone told me there is a good chance of meeting women there. At least that is what they tell me on http://www.streetslots.com