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The Grand National sweepstake at work.
Every year. Five pounds in. Names in a hat. You draw your horse.
Someone always draws the favourite and spends the rest of the week receiving grudging congratulations.
Someone always draws a horse that falls at the first fence and spends the rest of the week receiving exaggerated condolences.
Nobody analyzes anything. Nobody researches anything. You draw a name from a hat and then you care about that horse for approximately four minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
I've backed horses in the Grand National with actual research and a considered stake. I've backed horses in the sweepstake by drawing a folded piece of paper from a mug.
The paper-from-a-mug horse: I care about it differently. Less intensely but more publicly. The result gets processed in the same office conversation the following Monday as everything else that happened at the weekend.
Whether the sweepstake is the same activity as betting with the serial numbers filed off, or whether it's a genuinely different thing, I've never completely resolved.
Every year. Five pounds in. Names in a hat. You draw your horse.
Someone always draws the favourite and spends the rest of the week receiving grudging congratulations.
Someone always draws a horse that falls at the first fence and spends the rest of the week receiving exaggerated condolences.
Nobody analyzes anything. Nobody researches anything. You draw a name from a hat and then you care about that horse for approximately four minutes on a Saturday afternoon.
I've backed horses in the Grand National with actual research and a considered stake. I've backed horses in the sweepstake by drawing a folded piece of paper from a mug.
The paper-from-a-mug horse: I care about it differently. Less intensely but more publicly. The result gets processed in the same office conversation the following Monday as everything else that happened at the weekend.
Whether the sweepstake is the same activity as betting with the serial numbers filed off, or whether it's a genuinely different thing, I've never completely resolved.
