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Old 08-22-2019, 03:10 PM   #1
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Optical illusion leads to wrong horse being declared winner
Optical illusion leads to wrong horse being declared winner.


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Old 08-22-2019, 03:33 PM   #2
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That's gonna be my new excuse when the horses I bet lose. "He didn't really lose! It was an optical illusion!"
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Old 08-22-2019, 03:37 PM   #3
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Just like MOST of the photo finish systems that Europeans use, they have the auto line function on that places the lines of placing on each..

NEVER used it as it potentially can be incorrect...
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Old 08-22-2019, 03:41 PM   #4
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That's gonna be my new excuse when the horses I bet lose. "He didn't really lose! It was an optical illusion!"
another ALTERNATE fact
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another ALTERNATE fact
Like many doctors, your bedside manner could use a little improvement every now and then...think about it...
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Old 08-22-2019, 03:57 PM   #6
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Like many doctors, your bedside manner could use a little improvement every now and then...think about it...
I am NOT in a hospital setting and MAKING up things out of thin air is what alternative fact relates to.
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Old 08-22-2019, 04:33 PM   #7
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Except he made a joke, nothing more.

Therefore, if it is not a fact, it can't be an alternate fact.
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Old 08-22-2019, 04:56 PM   #8
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That's gonna be my new excuse when the horses I bet lose. "He didn't really lose! It was an optical illusion!"
The money missing from your pocket...would that be an "optical illusion" too?
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Old 08-22-2019, 05:07 PM   #9
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The money missing from your pocket...would that be an "optical illusion" too?
It was an illusion that it was there in the first place...
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Old 08-23-2019, 11:53 AM   #10
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I see.....Dead Benjamins.
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