Ranking PL teams I dislike most to like:
1. Sunlun
2. Man Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Everton
6. Spurs
7. Chelsea
8. Palace
9. Villa
10. Forest
11. Ipswich
12. Brentford
13. Brighton
14. Coventry
15. Fulham
16. Hull
17. Leeds
18. Bournemouth
19. Newcastle
20. City
A gardener’s iPad showed she’d won £1.1 MILLION on a Paddy Power game. They paid her £20,265.14 and said the screen was wrong. Four and a half years later, a High Court judge ruled the screen was right.
– Corrine Durber was a gardener from Gloucestershire, England.
– In October 2020 she was playing a Paddy Power game called Wild Hatter on her iPad. It combines a fruit machine with a wheel-of-fortune bonus round.
– She won the first stage, moved to the next level, and spun the jackpot wheel.
– The screen showed the “Monster Jackpot” of £1,097,132.71.
– She took a screenshot.
– Paddy Power paid her £20,265.14, the amount for the smaller “Daily Jackpot,” and gave no explanation.
– She complained to the company the same evening.
– Paddy Power said a programming error had made the screen show the wrong prize. Its random number generator, it said, had only selected the Daily Jackpot.
– Its terms and conditions said the generator’s result was final and that it wasn’t liable for system errors.
– That was the whole problem. Paddy Power wrote the game, ran the software that picked the result, wrote the rules, and then decided which number counted when its own screen disagreed with its own system.
– A prediction market doesn’t work that way. There’s no house writing the game or choosing the result afterward.
– You trade against another person at a price someone actually agreed to, and your payout comes from the person on the other side, not from a company deciding the number on your screen was a mistake.
– She sued for breach of contract.
– In March 2025, Mr Justice Ritchie granted summary judgment in her favor, so there was no full trial.
– His 62-page ruling found that human error in mapping the game’s software caused the on-screen result to differ from the generator’s. It affected 14 plays over 48 days.
– The judge said customers expect the house to pay if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on 13.
– He found the terms unfair and unenforceable under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and not part of her contract.
– He also said it was unfair to place all the risk on the consumer for the company’s own errors, negligence, and inadequate testing.
– She said the judge confirmed she had “fairly and squarely won £1 MILLION.”
– She said Paddy Power had “tried their very best to deny me my rightful winnings.”
– She said she would never bet with them again.
A gardener hit £1.1 MILLION on her iPad, was paid £20,000 instead, and spent four and a half years in court proving the screen was right.
Bryan Cranston pays tribute to RJ Mitte
“I’m in deep despair as I write this tonight. RJ Mitte, my sweet son on 'Breaking Bad' has died. I met him when he was only 14 years old when he was cast as Walter White Jr., a part he played with such joy and enthusiasm. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he never – ever – allowed that challenge to be an excuse for anything. He met the demanding shooting schedule head on with great determination"
“Always listening to the advice that his TV parents (Anna Gunn and myself) gave him – but being a teenager, sometimes mischievously ignoring the counsel in order to learn the hard way… He was one of the stars of a hit TV show – but still a kid. That kid was pretty raw when we started shooting the pilot in February of 2007, but little by little we watched him grow into a really fine actor. He parlayed his experience on the show to be a vocal advocate for performers with disabilities, and was the head of a philanthropic organization with a focus on helping the disabled community. All that promise and potential now is such a loss"
“It is especially devastating to hear that he took his own life,” he wrote. “Why? We were texting each other just a few weeks ago – figuring out when we could meet for lunch. I don’t know if that lunch would have changed his future… But I do know that I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series, and after the spotlight on 'Breaking Bad' dimmed… I’ll miss you, son"
@benhatesnufc I was so fucking excited for Newcastle 2.0 and I know I sound dramatic as fuck but they’ve beat it out of me already and I feel fucking numb. Fuck football.
Forgive me for having no patience after the last few years of football but my god Jaissle is already walking a tightrope. This is some of the most uninspiring football I’ve ever seen