Farcical. Nobody does it, bar the odd magnificent exception.

Think the first was that bookie bloke who was a MOD on here at one point, before he got bored and left the DOND high-life behind. What was his name? Chuckles? Cheddar? Larry? Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick or Titch? Anyway, he jotted down his next picks before he dealt.

Some others already had a pre-planned selection system, but the rest is just nonsense.

It's too late for this now, 10 years have steamed past, but the game should end completely whenever a deal is made. Sod the hypothetical nonsense.

Would that be Aaron, who had the £15,000 opening offer? Who was 'bushy' on here?

I forgot his username at one point, while I was researching him for 'Disappeared Members' - and you reminded me...

Yeah, I have to agree. I'm not sure if it has any effect whatsoever anyway - and to be honest, I'm not sure it'll ever matter anyway. I mean, widowers in Uganda are paying £3.20 for blacksmiths to construct spears so they can kill crocodiles which ate their wives and unborn children, for goodness' sake. And the rest of the world's ills. Sod whether DoND contestants played with honesty. Sod whether a deal's early or late or cautious or reckless or whatever. Sod whether the offer should have been twelve or thirteen. Sod all the self-entitled, jumped-up, sad old prats who think that's the worst thing that matters in the world because they're glued to a television at 4:37pm and they can't see beyond their own bloody noses, and sod whatever time the break comes at because I've news for that lot, every one of them, none of it is important and none of it matters. Sod the lot of them and sod the lot of it. Sod it all.

Sit back, have a cigar or whatever you like and try to relax, and enjoy the show. It's made for your entertainment, not your pointless analysis. And it is pointless analysis, because none of that will ever mean anything either in the world. If it means something to you, that's fantastic and you keep that close to you forever, but the starving mothers in Chad won't ever care, the petrified families of El Salvador won't ever care, the women of Saudi Arabia won't ever care, the children of Palestine, whose favourite games include 'play funerals' won't ever care, the people of Zimbabwe won't ever care, the homeless and destitute and poor and physically and mentally ill on our own soil and our own streets and in our own houses and in our own blood won't ever care, and neither the devil will I. Sod your fifty-games-since-box-27-had-the-50p. Sod that. Put your skills to more beneficial uses, will you?

I won't go on. Just three more words. Sod it all.

(I know you've done a bit of analysis yourself, as have I in the past, but I trust the forum knows the intended recipient of that part of the message...)