only1billybonds 12:27 Sun Feb 4
Slot machines
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I went out to pick a kebab up last night and saw some bloke sitting outside Ladbrokes in tears. I asked if he needed help and he told me he'd just spunked a month's wages in the slots at the bookies. Told him to get some help and left him to it. I know we are all responsible for what we do but addictions are called addictions for a reason. Anyone else got any horror stories similar to the above? And no,the bloke wasnt me before some smart arse suggests otherwise.
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David L
12:34 Sun Feb 4
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Just please don't call it an 'illness' because it bloody ain't.
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Coffee
12:44 Sun Feb 4
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What is addiction then, if not an illness?
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Cheezey Bell-End
12:48 Sun Feb 4
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It has the symptoms of a mental illness, but it's self inflicted. I have some sympathy, but very limited.
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David L
12:50 Sun Feb 4
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Cancer is an illness. Chucking a months money into slot machines is just a lack of self control and discipline.
WHEN THE FUN STOPS, STOP.
Bit like West Ham really. I feel so much better now that I dont go.
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Kaiser Zoso
12:52 Sun Feb 4
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I subbed a mate most of the cash I had on me on Thursday, 260 sovs, as he was having a losing session on the fruity.
He’d already spunked his own money (no idea how much but must have been getting on for a similar amount), but kept at it because he theorises 'it’s going to pay out soon'
Spunking close on a monkey on a week night before 8pm isn’t my idea of value. He does have a knack of getting a big pay out, and always repays me promptly, but it troubles me a bit.
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Johnson
12:53 Sun Feb 4
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You’ll never see that cash again
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Nurse Ratched
12:54 Sun Feb 4
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Coffee - a maladaptive pattern of behaviour?
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Stevethehammer
1:08 Sun Feb 4
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I'm a manager at one of the high street bookies and I can tell you many stories that will make you feel physically sick and your blood boil at the same time.
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charleyfarley
1:12 Sun Feb 4
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Steve no wonder these bookies stay open until late at night
Bookies are making a staggering £34 million a week from ‘crack cocaine’ gambling machines in betting shops after a surge in profits.
Ladbrokes saw a 9% increase in money made from punters on the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) last year and Paddy Power raked in almost £1,400 a week from EVERY machine.
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Nurse Ratched
1:18 Sun Feb 4
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I don't really understand the appeal of regularly betting significant amounts of money on horses/dogs/football, etc (as opposed to once or twice a year; Grand National or Derby; office sweepstake thingy). I know men who go into a betting shop every day.
I strongly suspect Messrs Ladbrokes and Power live on huge country estates, have private jets, ugly super yachts and their kids go to private schools.
I wonder what percentage of their punters live like that.
If that's not enough evidence to convince punters that the odds are stacked against them and gambling is a futile pursuit, I don't know what is.
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Mad Dog
1:21 Sun Feb 4
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Slot machines is an anagram of cash lost in em.
They exist to make the owners money. Absolute mugs game
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Willtell
1:30 Sun Feb 4
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Nurse Ratched 1:18 Sun Feb 4
There you go speaking sense again!
I don't know what has happened to people in recent times. Somehow it is the bookies fault that people can't resist putting all their money in bloody slot machines and then claim to be ill!
Mental more like. Complete nutters! Never mind because they'll get by somehow. Society will take pity and not let them die from starvation...
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cornish
1:34 Sun Feb 4
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I work to hard for my money,what I have ,not a lot so I ain't going to give to some rich bookie.
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Pagey
1:41 Sun Feb 4
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I had a bit of a problem with fruit machines when I was about 14/15.
At the time, my uncle had a butchers shop and I helped him out one Saturday from about 6am-6pm. It was easy enough but I was still there all day, but having a laugh too, and he gave me £12 all in pound coins as a thank you.
That same night I went to our local club and stuck £12 in the fruit machine and won fuck all. In fact it was all gone in about five minutes, I remember thinking “I’ve just worked 12 hours for that money and now it’s all gone.” From that day on never got involved with them again. Probably the best £12 I ever spent!
A few family members have had gambling problems but there’s nothing wrong with betting in moderation and gambling what you’re prepared to lose. It add loads of interest and you can also get some decent returns at times. As soon as you start to chase your losses you’re on a slippery slope.
We all know those people who seem to win on bets all the time. They don’t. They just never tell you about their losses.
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arsene york-hunt
1:43 Sun Feb 4
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My plan would be this:
Lock all the doors of the betting shop
Allow the punters who go in just to put the bet on to leave.
Take all the staff out.
Now you have all the people who spend the whole afternoon left.
Gas them.
The benefits to society would be immense.
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NewtonsPartyBag
2:08 Sun Feb 4
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If it wasnt for the machines, most betting would be done online now.
They keep the bookies open.
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joe royal
2:48 Sun Feb 4
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I'll use the term loosely but one of the worst things I did was win a 100 quid jackpot , I have always stuck a bit of change in them and the odd fiver but after that win I would put change in plus a fiver and then a ten pound note.
Even the odd 20.
Now I'm just back to change , if I bother at all.
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Bungo
2:51 Sun Feb 4
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Nurse Ratched 1:18 Sun Feb 4
Tax on the poor isn't it. A bit like lottery tickets.
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Mike Oxsaw
2:54 Sun Feb 4
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Is their no app yet that tells you when one's going to pay out?
Modern smartphones are rubbish.
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chim chim cha boo
3:13 Sun Feb 4
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I remember the last season at Upton Park I was walking to the ground with a pal and really needed to piss. He loves a bet and informed me that a bookies has to have a toilet by law.
I dived into one on Green St and suddenly realised I had never been into one in my whole life.
There wasn't a single white person in this particular shop, just loads of frankly desperate looking Asians and the odd black bloke. They honestly looked just one notch above homeless.
I had to ask for the key to the bog and I honestly didn't think toilets like that existed in a first world country. It fucking STANK like it had never been cleaned ever. It was almost greasy.
Next time I need a bog that badly I'll just piss myself I think. The toilet wasn't even the most disturbing thing though, it was all the worried faces staring up into TV screens.
Fuck that.
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