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School for Scoundrels
1960 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Robert Hamer
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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Drive in India and you will understand mathematical concepts of Chance/Randomness/Probability/Non-determinism/Game Theory/etc. along with philosophical concepts of Fate/Destiny/Providence/etc. in so direct and visceral a manner that you will never forget the lessons. Sissified countries with rules and regulations for driving can never give you such direct knowledge.
Game Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
Game of Chicken - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)
The game of chicken models two drivers, both headed for a single-lane bridge from opposite directions. The first to swerve away yields the bridge to the other. If neither player swerves, the result is a costly deadlock in the middle of the bridge or a potentially fatal head-on collision. It is presumed that the best thing for each driver is to stay straight while the other swerves (since the other is the "chicken" while a crash is avoided). Additionally, a crash is presumed to be the worst outcome for both players. This yields a situation where each player, in attempting to secure their best outcome, risks the worst.
How to learn One-upmanship/Gamesmanship:
The British author Stephen Potter actually wrote a manual on the practice of such games titled The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) which sissies can study to become strong - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship
For the even more sissified sissies who do not want to read a book, there is a documentary titled School for Scoundrels Or How to Win without Actually Cheating) which is very instructive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_for_Scoundrels_(1960_film)
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the consequences if the above emboldens you to act in such a manner in your specific context.
For me it was the other way around; We had the episode "Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture" from Three Men in a Boat as a chapter in our English textbook and i remember our Teacher explicitly mentioning his middle name as "Klapka" since it was such an odd name.
If you like old genteel British Humour, you should also checkout Stephen Potter's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Potter) series of books on Gamesmanship. Unfortunately Project Gutenberg doesn't seem to carry them and so you might have to get a hard copy. The classic movie School for Scoundrels (1960) based on these books is available on Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/SchoolForScoundrels1959
The 1960 movie School for Scoundrels based on the Upmanship books is worth a watch to see the techniques in action.
Gamesmanship? [1] As made famous in the old film School for Scoundrels? It's a very funny book if you get hold of a copy.
[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-Gamesmanship-Winning-Actually-Cheating/dp/1607960192
//edit// Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmanship