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  • Todays 'Defend the indefensible' – FOBTs
  • northerntom
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    i have a number of friends who mainly gamble on apps. They have gone from purely a few quid on footy matches to now gambling on everything.

    It’s got to a stage where i’m pretty sick of seeing them watching any football match is all based around gambling.

    Also, they bet on motorcycle speedway. They have no interest in speedway, but they watch it, so they can gamble on it. All of these are intelligent guys who earn good money.

    It’s an addiction which is unpleasant for themselves and all around them

    newrobdob
    Free Member

    It’s an addiction which is unpleasant for themselves and all around them

    How can that be? The adverts show groups of well dressed guys having a great time and the gambling brings out their personalities and they are proud to be part of the keeeerazy and exciting gambling scene.

    binners
    Full Member

    Ray Winstone is coming round to ours to watch the United Game later, to make sure we gaaaaaaaaaamble reshponshibly

    You actually have to take your hat off to the gambling companies for completely changing the narrative. Its been a benchmark in advertising. They’ve shifted the image from old blokes in grotty, windowless bookies putting their last couple of quid on the 3.15 at Kempton Park before nipping out for a roll-up, to the present association with premiership football via smatphone apps.

    They go on about job losses if these terminals are limited, but surely the days of the high street bookie are coming to an end anyway, with everyone doing everything via apps?

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    tjagain
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    This is a simnple case of corruption in politics. Our politics is so corrupt at Westminster. Large numbers of influential politicians are in the pay of betting companies

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41027964

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-how-the-betting-industry-keeps-mps-onside-8488393.html

    pistonbroke
    Free Member

    Ironically when scrolling through this thread, 2 out of 3 ads are for betting companies.

    poisonspider
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    There’s far too much advertising for betting sites online in my opinion.

    I mean, I can’t even open a free porn website without it autogenerating another browser window with Bet Fred or something in it!!

    It’s really distracting in my moment of need!

    aracer
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    Splash-man
    Free Member

    Ironically when scrolling through this thread, 2 out of 3 ads are for betting companies.

    I just got adverts for beds and sofas, shows where my interests lie.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    well even they realise its not wise to go we dont give a shit about penniless addicts we want to protect our profits so they will attempt to spin it as something more noble than naked greed whatever the cost to their customers

    Ming the Merciless
    Free Member

    The House ALWAYS wins.

    jambalaya
    Free Member

    All online betting should be banned IMO, HTHs.

    @bikebouy You should take that up with the owner running the “Inga from Sweden” programme. He “only” did the payments system and is now worth many many millions. Aside from the sailing he is Swedish touring car champion. Lives in Verbier. Nice.

    aP
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    tldr – along with most people I know at least 2 people who’ve lost their job and/ or their house because of gambling. It’s one of the last vestiges of my Methodist upbringing that I’m pretty strong on. I find the huge numbers of adverts for all gambling quite disturbing and surprising.

    simon_g
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    The under-reported part of all this is how easy it is to launder money through them. Flush with cash from drug dealing or some other nefarious activity? Doesn’t take much time or effort to gamble it via a FOBT, betting sensibly to minimise losses to 5-10%. Walk out either with it against your account (most will put it in an online gaming account that you can just withdraw from later), or as notes with a nice receipt to show the police if you get stopped – you just had a good afternoon at the bookies, officer.

    There’s so many high street bookmakers now that they can rotate between loads of them to avoid looking too suspicious. Just someone who pops in occasionally, plays for an hour and leaves again. If they’re not causing trouble the bookmakers’ staff won’t care.

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    Nationalise it.

    All the profits become tax revenue.

    Then heavy gamblers become community heroes – “He lost everything, but it paid for the Old Folks Home” 🙂

    I bet that will never happen. Oh…

    kilo
    Full Member

    I’m for banning them, they’re designed to fleece vulnerable people. They’ll be no loss to society and are already banned in other countries.

    cchris2lou
    Full Member

    I used to work for Ladbrokes in one of their greyhound track. That was 15 years ago and they used to say that if allowed they would quite happily shut the track and fit the whole stadium with machines.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    I thought the curtains on bookies were mandated to stop young people looking in and wanting to join in? (with all the other ‘winners’

    seosamh77
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    Don’t have a problem with gambling, if people are daft enough to do that batter in. I don’t know why you need 6 or 7 of them on a small main road though, should limit them to 2 per street or something like that. minimum distance between bookies or something, they are a blight on the landscape.

    retro83
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    seosamh77 – Member – Block User – Quote
    Don’t have a problem with gambling, if people are daft enough to do that batter in. I don’t know why you need 6 or 7 of them on a small main road though, should limit them to 2 per street or something like that. minimum distance between bookies or something, they are a blight on the landscape.

    This is covered in the (excellent) article p-jay linked on the first page. Well worth a read.

    zanelad
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    It’s a bit like smoking. They’ll tax it to the hilt in a lukewarm effort to stop it, but they want your money more.

    That machine that let’s you gamble up to £100 every 20 seconds 😮 that is atrocious.

    epicyclo
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    cchris2lou – Member
    I used to work for Ladbrokes…

    I’ve always admired the sheer chutzpah of their name.

    It would like your local pub calling itself Cirrhosis, or your corner dug dealer calling himself Overdose.

    Or more prosaically, Macdonalds calling itself Fatties. 🙂

    mattyfez
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    There is a takeaway near me called fatsos..

    CountZero
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    Ban phones I say.

    Do tell…

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