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!
[quote=binners ]They go on about job losses if these terminals are limited
Betting companies are true defenders of jobs: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/31/big-gamble-dangerous-british-betting-shops
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.
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
The House ALWAYS wins.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
I thought the curtains on bookies were mandated to stop young people looking in and wanting to join in? (with all the other ‘winners’
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.
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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.
This is covered in the (excellent) article p-jay linked on the first page. Well worth a read.
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.
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. 🙂
There is a takeaway near me called fatsos..
Ban phones I say.
Do tell...
