Money for nothing...

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[Polarbear]

The same could be said about every gambling product. However you can't ban them, it just goes underground.

The thing it shows is how much they make from gamblers.
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[Howling Terror]

Only 2 shops survive a deep recession.
The off licence and the bookies.

The knocking shop is around the corner.
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[doggone]

He doesn't get anything from me.
Is it compulsory to use it.

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[chickenstrip]

Dammit! It isn't my lucky day

Please be careful about thread titles chaps, false hopes can be built
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[Sister Sledge]

I've a friend lives in Gateshead. There's little work and she works in a bookies because she has to - it breaks her heart seeing the misery that shop does to people. We've spoken on the phone while she's served customers and you can hear to discomfort in her voice as she serves someone with next to nothing in their lives except an addiction.
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[WreckTangle]

I had a sister who worked a bookies as a part time job many years ago. The majority of people who went to bookies were the people who were on benefits.

Makes you think, your hard earned tax money is being used to pay people on benefits....so that they can go to the bookies (and make this man stupidly rich)

hey, thats how society works now....
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[Polarbear]

[Easy-X]

Just to be clear: the boss of Bet365 is Denise Coates... a woman! She's worth close to ten billion quid. Yes, a billionaire

Jeez, at least you know that some of the lotto money goes back to the government and charities (even if you disagree with exactly how it's spent.)

Of course she does a lot of work for charity herself. A good chunk of which goes abroad...
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[bhinso]

I've met quite a few people with gambling addictions.

The point made to me (and well taken) is you can only spend so much on booze before you lose your senses/pass out. But with gambling you can spend thousands in a night and just keep going...

[Ribenapigeon]

I hate gambling. Ive had so many clients over the years with different kinds of addictions. Gambling isn't taken nearly as seriously as other forms of addiction as people can understand how chemicals can undermine the proper functioning of the brain but it's not appreciated how gambling psychologically undermines the mind. I personally think that using what is effectively a vulnerability in human psychology to create a loophole which allows the bookies to get a person to hand over money should be illegal.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

Found this interesting article on gambling
https://theconversation.com/designed-to-deceive-how-gambling-distorts-reality-and-hooks-your-brain-91052

[Freddyfruitba...]

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[Polarbear]

It's difficult to imagine how you can let something that isn't a physical addiction destroy your life. I can understand drugs, I can understand booze but I just can't understand gambling even after reading that piece.

I've been in numerous casinos and enjoyed myself but I can't recall getting a buzz or a high like I have with drugs or booze. I do the lottery online as I can't be arsed to check it.

I have been sports betting with the same £40 I won a few years back when I betted a pound that NZ and the British Lions would draw. I usually bet a pound a week on a small accumulator. Sometimes I win, most times I don't. It doesn't actually bother me.

I certainly don't dispute the negative effects of gambling, but I have a question probably for Ribenapigeon. Is it only an addiction if you do it when you can't afford it, when it is destroying your life or can you be a stinking rich bastard and still have it classed as an addiction, even if you can afford it easily? A bit like City slicker cocaine users who would probably totally deny they were addicts.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

Bikes and the like at least incorporate one of my favourite phrases plausible deniability, yeah, I err... need a litre bike 'cos I ride to Wales once a year to see my granddad and err... it's like super annoying the rest of the time and I really don't enjoy it, honest!
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[Ste]

Loot boxes are preparing kids to be gamblers.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

I had to look up loot box.

If I've read it right you're basically saying doing something in a video games transposes into real life with some people.

If that is true isn't that fuel for the 'curb the video violence' as well.

Where do you stop with the nanny state?
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[Jmoan]

MMO RPG companies were addicting kids to those games then encouraging gambling and squeezing cash out of them while attacking other companies through the courts that mitigated some of the damage they were doing before lootboxes became an issue. Problems which are worse than a simple lootbox plus they can hide their gambling behind a more complex mechanism.