The people of this country are being encouraged to gamble more and more and more by a seemingly endless supply of adverts. Countless numbers of betting companies plastering the promotion of their product at every opportunity, and at any time of day. Many introductory offers for first time gamblers.
Approximately half of the current Premier League teams are sponsored by gambling companies.
Whether it be bookmakers, scratch cards, lottery or online gambling.
The ultra sad betting shops in town frequented by weak willed individuals to the people buying £100 of scratch cards at the supermarket checkout.
Here are the latest UK industry figures.
In 2016 the top salary paid in the UK was to Denise Coates of Bet365. A staggering £199m basic salary plus a dividend. Worth more than Richard Branson by all accounts.
Many people become addicted to gambling and simply cannot help themselves, resorting to desperate measures to get their stake money, usually at a cost to others.
The industry try to defend themselves by saying they do as much as they can, including issuing a warning to anyone gambling, the pathetic “please gamble responsibly” or stop gambling when it stop being fun”.
After all, gambling is a tax on the stupid, the only winners being the betting companies.
Personally would love to see gambling outlawed completely but wishful thinking on my part I suspect.
Nominated by Willie stroker
The Premier league, the FA and the EFL won’t give a shit about the risks of gambling, just so long as the big money keeps rolling in they won’t give two fucks.
A ban on advertising might help, but the same was done for fags and booze over the years, but pretending it no longer exists on our tvs and tablets doesn’t mean its gone away – addicts will still bet, just in the same way addicts will still smoke and drink.
But then we all want to be rich quick, and if you’re a thick cunt gambling is probably the easiest option, short of turning to crime or trying to be a z-list seleb
Tell you what though, I’m sick of seeing/hearing Ray fucking Winstone and his “world’s favourite online betting company” cockney-geezer ads. Cunt!
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Totally agree. Gambling is a social cancer that preys on the weak and poor. The fact they use untrustworthy cockney geezers to advertise their scams says it all. I know a few people that have ruined there marriage / life through gambling .A mate of mine spends £150 a week on the lottery, he calls me to say he’s ahead because he won £500 one week.considering he’s paying out nearly £8000 a year he’s hardly ahead is he ? Fucking mug .
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The issue of gambling is the most obvious demonstrator of bullshit and deception in the history of mankind because:
1 It increases money in the general economy at the expense of poor people. All of its money comes from poor people and all of the benefits go to rich people. It is so obviously a bad thing – the fact that it is allowed so much and labour relaxed the laws so much further, just show the sadness of the human condition. It goes so much against the grain of the prevailing “give a shit about the downtrodden” bullshit narrative that it clearly shows that this narrative is all lies. But even worse …
2 The hilariously hypocritical “gamble aware” bollocks that accompanies all adverts, which basically is a further kick in the teeth to anyone it adversely affects, i.e. all of it’s participants.
We live in a world of lies and reverse morality, and nothing demonstrates this more that the current state of gambling.
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Spot fucking on CRW!
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Too fucking right CRW
I feel fortunate that gambling has never really appealed to me. My thing is autoafixiation but enough of that.
I’ve had the odd flutter but I almost invariably loose. Used to fall for the footy first goal bollocks years ago which I believe they call a ‘bookies bet’ but at a quid a time it wasn’t a problem.
Mind you when Shearer played for your team in his prime I felt it was worth a punt.
I too know someone who got sent down for stealing the pub he managed takings, turned out he’d been doing it for a while but always was able to find a way to replace them, then of course he dug a hole so deep he couldn’t get out.
Genuinely I’d like to go toe to toe with that fat cockney cunt Ray fucking Winston, who built a career on the back of Scum ‘where’s your tool’, What fucking tool, ‘this fucking tool……. Bla bla fucking bla.
When the fun stops stop. Get to fuck you fat cunt, when the fun stops it’s way to fucking late for 100’s of thousands of people and their innocent families.
Ban these fix odd betting terminals altogether. Fuck the 25000 who the drug pushers say will loose their jobs, there all on minimum wage anyway so no problem getting another job and instead consider the 100’s of thousands of families affected.
Yet again another New Labour policy brought under the guise of liberalising society, the voices that stood against it were belittled and drowned out.
Gambling tax was abolished and most of these betting companies offshore their profits so what’s in it for the government?
Not huge taxes, oh I wonder if lucrative consultancy work may have something to do with it just after the British public see you for the cunt you are andvote you out.
It doesn’t matter what you do you can’t help but think these cunts are really having a laugh at us.
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Agreed more could be done to protect children but at the same time like drinking its a pastime for lots of people who have no problem. Highlight the dangers of addiction but don’t nanny those who bet responsibly and those who have a problem should at least take some accountability rather than blaming advertising.
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Sorry but nobody forces any cunt to gamble. If you choose to gamble then you have to take the consequences, whatever they might be. It’s just like voting. You vote for something and, if you are in the majority that’s what you get……..Er…….. hold on a minute. That’s not quite right is it?
I need to find out what Gina fucking Miller thinks about gambling. I might have to consult some other enormous brains like Blair, Cable and Clegg.
I’ll get back to you when I know what i’m voting for and they have made up my mind for me.
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“In 2016 top salary in UK was £199m paid to Denise Coates of Bet365.”
So much for the Gender Pay Gap!
Morning folks.
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Couldn’t agree more with this timely post. Wreaking havoc in people’s lives. I should know. Memories of my father; sweating in the betting shop, studying the form. Smashing the sugar bowl down on the kitchen table when he had lost his whole wages. My mother screaming-‘What am I going to feed the children’. No holidays, no new clothes. Just getting by because all the money going on the GGs. Hopeless carry on looking back. But friends as well. One who gambles ALL his money away. I mean everything so hasn’t even got his taxi fare home. But he has an enabler in his ex wife. Another gambled all his inheritance way. About thirty thousand pounds. That was online. Blackjack. Such easy access to his bank account. And the psychology of it. I called once ‘you’ve just stopped my run’.
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But it’s that delicate dangerous idea of ‘addiction’. I know that my first friend above uses the idea not to stop. I’m sure he does. That’s the get out (of responsibility) clause. ‘I have an addiction’ But ‘compulsion’ does come to mind. But then ‘strategies’ could be put in place. Namely no access to money. Which we have tried…hopeless carry on. Timely post.
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From a rich cunts point of view, if you’ve got money it’s a licence to print more of it. There are very few overheads, no product to manufacture or sell, no cunt bringing your product back and saying “it don’t fucking work mate, I ain’t fucking touched it, honest.”
What more could you want? Do any of the political parties have a policy on curbing this disease? Of course not, they are there to look after the rich no matter what Comrade Catweazle says to his youthful, naive followers.
Gambling, and it’s sale to the masses, needs to be controlled just like drugs and prostitution (in theory) Don’t hold your breath though……too many cunts making too much money for our politicians to bother with anything that doesn’ t come in a big brown envelope.
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Devasted my Brother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I hope it doesn’t run in the family because my Brother also has it!
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Not for me this one,I’m afraid,Willie. I follow the horses closely,know a few people connected to the racing industry and enjoy a bet. I don’t have a bet every day,but thoroughly enjoy the excitement involved,particularly if I’m actually at the races.
Ban gambling and you finish the sport at a stroke. Ninety-nine percent (I’d guess) of people who go to the races or watch it on telly will have had a bet of their own free will. Nobody forces anyone to have a bet,it’s a choice many people make without allowing it to develop into a problem. Again we’re into the “some people can’t handle it,so lets spoil everyone’s enjoyment just because some inadequates can’t cope sensibly” territory. I’d argue that drink causes far more problems than gambling,perhaps we should ban it first.
At the moment in this country we seem to be heading down the path of treating everyone as children who need Nanny- inspired laws to govern our every action.A slippery slope indeed. This Puritan attitude of wanting to ban anything that might carry the slightest risk is puerile and unworkable, I hope.
If legal gambling was banned,people would merely turn to unregulated gambling and the inadequates would still suffer. Unfortunately there will always be weak people who are losers. If they weren’t gambling,they’d just find another way to mess their lives up.
I enjoy gambling and can’t see why my enjoyment should be spoiled to cater for the fact that some people can’t manage their own lives. They are weak. Fuck them.
I’m off now to peruse the Racing Post site.
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Ban gambling and you would have to ban alcohol. Both are similarly destructive to a minority and their families.
Perhaps it should be put to a referendum…
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Ray Winston’s head as a massive blimp or on a battle bus.
“Oi! Have a bang on that my son”.
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Don’t ban it Ruff Tuff. Perhaps a means tested system where you can only bet if you can prove your on a big salary. After all no one feels sorry for the rich when they loose.
Just a thought.
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You may have misread my admittedly poorly written comment Fenton… I was actually arguing against banning it, despite the havoc wrought on a significant minority.
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Personally I would like to see the minimum age to drink alcohol raised in this country from 18 to 21 (or even 25) with ID being required to be shown at the point of sale with stiff penalties for those retailers flouting or breaching the law.
So often we read of grocery stores blatantly selling alcohol to kids, the penalties for which usually amount to little more than a slap on the wrist or a small fine. Closing the establishments down for repeat offenders is the only answer.
Personally speaking have never been seen the attraction of gambling, have never smoked, and drink alcohol rarely (the odd glass of wine or gin and tonic).
I am not saying that these past times be banned completely as I realise that many people derive pleasure from the occasional indulgence however I do feel the industries involved should be regulated to a much greater degree than they are now, that any regulations be enforced, and that young people are educated at an early age of the potential risks of addiction.
Both my mother and father smoked, so the likelihood of me smoking was greater than if they were non smokers. What put me off was when aged about 10 years old, whilst at primary school, our lesson was interrupted by a knock on the door. A man entered pushing a trolley on which there were two done shapes, each covered by a sheet. Under the first was a human lung, taken from a non-smoker. It was quite horrid to see. Under the second dome was a human lung taken from a smoker. The shock of seeing the black object contained within was enough to make me never tocqantvtoveven try a cigarette.
The thought of gambling and losing large amounts of money gambling have fortunately never really appealed to me. The last time I went into a bookmakers was in 1974 when I remember placing £5 on Poland to win the World Cup. Lost my money, they finished 3rd. Used to have the occasional £1 on the National Lottery when it first started. Won fuck all. Chance of winning jackpot then 1 in 14m. More chance of being struck by lightning. Greedy fuckers have since doubled the stake money, and added more balls making even less likely to win the top prize.
Have nothing really against any of these in principle for those who are responsible enough to limit themselves to what they can realistically afford andvwithout being a problem to others.
The main problem must be a complete lack of education at an early age as to the potential downfalls, the ease in which people can lose staggeringly large amounts of money in a relatively short amount of time, the encouragement or seeming attractiveness of the product by the advertising companies looking to part you from your cash, and the seeming disregard by the government to do anything about it.
Have no wish or desire to stop Mr Fiddler enjoying his pint and cigarette whilst placing bets on the horses, and as (from what I have read) as a responsible adult he should be of course be allowed to do so.
Where I have a problem is where individuals less disciplined and less wise as Mr Fiddler develop addictions and cannot and simply do not want to help themselves, this will often lead to problems and have a direct negative impact on others.
I do not know what he answer is, only that looking at the social problems on the streets the government could and should be doing more other than realising the tax revenue these pleasures generate.
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Mr Fiddler “a responsible adult”?
Reckon you’re a bit wide of the mark there Willie.
You bin on the bottle again?
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I realised as soon as I made reference to Mr Fiddler you Mr Creampuff would pick up on it.
I think underneath Dicks seemingly harsh exterior there is a kind, compassionate and thoughtful individual.
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“Harsh exterior”?
Using that sort of language to describe an esteemed fellow Cunter is a somewhat uncalled for imho Willie.
Agree with you otherwise – a kinder, more compassionate individual than Dick I am yet to cum across.
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“Kind,compassionate and thoughtful”….Really, Mr. Stroker, there is no need for that kind of foul calumny.
I was referred to as a “vexatious litigant” following the most recent of my court appearances re “Fiddler vs. Fiddler” where I attempted (unsuccessfully) to sue myself for Slander, Libel and Utter Cuntishness. The court-room holds no fears for this Perry Mason.
Expect to receive my Summons To Defend Yourself imminently.
🙂 .
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Well said sir!
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Agree 100% Mr Fiddler.I too enjoy gambling but almost exclusively on footie.I only bet online and only with one bookie so I can keep track of my losses.So far this year I am down £65,which for 9 months I consider ok.In fact I worked for many years for an online bookie so I know how the system works.Basically the punter is fucked whatever he does.Win consistently and you are either stakes restricted or banned altogether.Lose consistently and you are offered free bets etc.So its all about self control.The analogy with alcohol is obvious-a couple of pints a day and you should be ok,a bottle of vodka a day and youre fucked.
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I watch the Chase at teatime, News apart,about the only live tv I watch. It is sponsored by Bingo and the adverts seem to be bingo as well. They are aimed at chavs. Some fat fucker shouting ‘do you wanna bingo’ and so on presenting it as some sort of social event. It isn’t. It’s on-line and addictive. Not like going to a club or a racecourse for a flutter and a laugh where you lose a few quid. It is set up to leech your money. On-line gambling is a cancer and government should tightly control it, but of course they wont. Too many vested interests.
Top notch cunting.
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Willie’s cunting is valid in my view. The gubbimint no longer allow tobacco adverts through the meeja and pubic health officials are chomping at the bit for a ban on alcohol advertisements.
What about gambling? Whilst gambling makes a lot of rich people even richer with no apparent cost to the NHS (this is the rub) then the high rulers of wankerdom are more than happy to let gambling adverts dominate late night TV and for gambling companies to proclaim their generosity by letting us know they sponsor many daytime TV programmes.
I seldom gamble. Statistically you are more likely to die of a cardiac arrest whilst watching the lottery draw on BBC1 than winning the jackpot. If I am on a works outing to a casino or the gee gees I will flutter a tenner and no more. Tight cunt I am, I’d sooner have the cash in my pocket. My old man is the same. Must be in the genes.
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Off topic, but…
What a surprise!
Corbyn set to back call for a 2nd (3rd) referendum!!
Q: Appeaser May’s Deal or Leave on WTO rules?
Of course not!
Q: Appeaser May’s Deal or Remain?
Yes of course – it’s a no-brainer for a commie cunt who campaigned 30 years to Leave the EU, isn’t it?
Man of principle?
Go fuck yourself!
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Oh no — Brexit will affect pet passports. My staffie’s holidays in the Canaries fucked up.
Will the misery never end?
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You don’t want to take him out of the country anyway. If we “crash out” of the EU you will end up eating the fucker as plague, pestilence and famine sweep across the country.
I read it in the Guardian.
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I’m a scrawny cunt, but my next door neighbour has plenty of meat on his bones, yum yum!
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He’s also a vegetarian, so my missus should be safe for the while…
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Bingo – he’s a non-smoker Cuntflap!
And a virtual teetotaller… would that be a plus too?
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Top Tip – cheers!
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I would have thought that a smokey taste with a hint of alcohol may improve the flavour Ruff Tuff?
Better start digging yourself a cellar if you don’t already have one.
Unlikely your next door neighbour would ever read this, however suspect he may be rather concerned as to the path this post is taking!
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Diane Abbott would be ten years worth of ersatz butter.
Imagine that dripping over yer hot crumpets…
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I’m going to make a vindaloo curry out of him Willie, no alcohol but might smoke his legs and stick them in the freezer for emergency Winter rations.
The wife quite fancies his liver, looking forward to having it with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, boom boom!
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Freddie, the fucker is more likely to eat me.
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Well, why not? Let’s put Noel Edmonds in charge of Brexit negotiations. He couldn’t do any worse than Mavis.
Deal or No Deal?
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If we’re going to ban gambling then I reckon the stock market needs to be in there too. The trading floor is basically just a tarted up Ladbrookes anyway.
I buy one lotto ticket a week with my own numbers. Know I’ll never win but if I did it would be nice, dont stake my future on it though. Fuck it, £2 a week.. thats cheaper than a soggy Tesco sandwich for christ sake.
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Call me mean… but if I “know I’ll never win” I’d rather have the £2.
Besides, I can make far better sandwiches than Tesco, and at a fraction of the price!
But try telling that to the young people of today… 🙂
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No halal chicken in my sandwich please.
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I once heard an old Cunt say “I win the lottery every week….I put my one pound in a jar,and at the end of the year I’ve got fifty-two pounds”……. I’d have liked to strangle the smug coffin-dodger.
I don’t buy lottery tickets regularly,but for the sake of a couple of quid I can indulge my imagination on how I’d spend it (for the benefit of the needy,of course).
RTC…..you’re mean. You should think of all the mongas and little brown babies who benefit from the lottery money. That’s the real reason I buy them.
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You are of course right Dick – that’s why I buy all the wife’s clothes in Oxfam.
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Why do ads for on-line bingo make out that it is a big social gathering where every fecker is having FUN, i thought on-line was at home on your own in your skid marked y-fronts stuffing a pizza into your grid ,i must have got it wrong.
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Just another indicator of the shit show this country has become.
The decline and fall of western civilisation continues. Values that once sustained families have been eroded and we are all encouraged to join the race to the bottom.
I don’t know about other cunters on here but me, I feel more and more alienated by the world around me.
Standards, principles and morals seem old fashioned and out of reach.
Another Audi ad, another gambling ad, it’s ceaseless.
My fellow cunters we are now to given social credit scores based on our use of the internet. I fear posting here will be considered a big no no.
Fuck em, much as I see much good in the internet it is also the matrix employs to pump shit into our very beings.
Be afraid cunters the big corporations are buying governments and pumping up liberals to establish global fascism. The sheeple are swallowing the shit as fast as global tech can pump it out.
Not a big believer in God but if there is anything above us it must surely be thinking it’s near time to flush the toilet.
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A great talk given by Sir Nigel on the subject of bias, and how the major internet companies are stifling the freedom of speech.
40 minutes long, but as usual Nigel straight and to the point.
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YpKkLNRzqjGj
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Its a wonder Mecca Bingo is still going and is not ‘Islamophobic’.
Stabby peaceful on the train, hit the floor, number 44.
Semtex in my shoe, number 2.
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They purposely don’t teach Personal Responsibility to the young, in order to breed yet another wave of mug gamblers to exploit… in much the same way they don’t teach Responsible Money Management, ensuring instead generation after generation of spendthrift consumers to keep the country’s Ponzi scheme Economy afloat, kicking the can further down the road to avoid the bubble bursting, before they’re safely dead and buried in the rocks. Cunts.
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Well I wouldn’t go so far as to ban gambling. Name anything you like, there are people who do it to excess, but that shouldn’t be everyone else’s problem. There’s only one thing I want that I can’t afford, and that’s a house built to my design on it’s own land. It would cost me several millions and the only way I’m ever going to get it is to win the lottery. It costs me £9 a week and I don’t miss it, so what’s the harm? Chances are I’m not going to win, that’s obvious, but the way I look at it, one chance in twenty million is better than no chance at all.
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Yet another one.
Grenfell Tower: Homeless man charged with fraud.
A homeless man has been charged with fraudulently obtaining food and housing intended for Grenfell Tower survivors and bereaved families.
Moses Ettienne, 48, allegedly claimed he was a resident in the tower block on the night the blaze left 72 people dead in June 2017.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-45617847
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Wonder why almost (if not all) of the Grenfell fraudsters are of the Peaceful or Bogo-Bogo variety? As Rigsby might say, ‘ Funny though, eh?’…..
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The best thing about Grenfell was that it took a few eye slime breeders out of the gene pool. Far too little to late however. They are going to take over and that’s that. Game over.
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Anthony Burgess said ‘They took away our opium, and they gave us beer and football’…
Now it could be, ‘They took away our football, cigs and beer, and they gave us online betting and Sky Bastard Sports’…
This country is a joke on so many levels… Starting with our not so esteemed Prime Minister, of course… But in shops and supermarkets fags, cigars, and baccy are hidden behind a plain wall type cupboard, like they are heroin or heavy duty German porn… But right in front of that cupboard will be a hundred different scratchcards, a lottery stand, and (at the time of year) fireworks that can maim or kill a kid… And them cunts who lecture people about the ‘evils’ of smoking and then they blow scores on gambling and scratchcards and lotto? Yeah…. Them cunts…..
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Well said Norman 👍
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Ray Winstone is one of the most overrated cunts ever…. Typical professional cockney, knew ‘Ver Twins’ who were ‘propar geezers who lavved their mum’ (yawn!), and he plays the same part in every single sodding thing he does… Even as Henry VIII he did the gorblimey hardman… ‘I’m gunna ave yer fackin’ ‘ead orf, Anne Ber-lin! Gorra fackin contract on that slaaag!’… Keith Michel, it wasn’t.. Only seen Winstone in two decent roles: Auf Widersehen Pet and Robin Of Sherwood… And in both he was surrounded/eclipsed by a strong ensemble cast… Reckon he’ll end up in NeverEnders eventually, with that Dyer cunt and having a feud with Fat Phil…
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Liked him in Compulsion however if being totally honest probably because I rather liked Parminder Nagra.
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Parminder Nagra is nice, but I find Archie Panjabi sexier, myself…
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Not bad Norman. Found Parminder highly erotic in Compulsion, a high class Indian girl blackmailed into having sex with her much older driver (Ray Winstone) only to find she could not get enough of it.
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On the subject of films, would like to let everyone know on ISAC that I will be appearing in my new film (Stan and Ollie) in a cinema near you from next month.
You can see the official trailer here:
https://youtu.be/MdcBNrjc3wo
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Who needs Viagra when we have posts like that!
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Most (but not all) people who gamble are thick, gullible and enfeebled. I hold to the mantra that the overwhelmingly vast majority of the populace are stupid. I think that we have about one or two percent if we’re lucky that are impervious to being raised by Nanny State. IAC seems to be a place where most of that one or two percent congregate.
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Unfortunately think you are right. It is considered ok, and almost celebrated these days to be a stupid, thick, gullible and easily led, having no independence of thought.
To quote RTCP’s catch phrase “This country is finished”
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In 100 years gambling has gone from illegal, except at on-the-track betting at race courses, to legal and taxed, to legal and not taxed. Guess who removed betting tax? Our old friend Gordon Brown.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s a social curse, undermining the whole social structure but if they did the same with drugs there would be a national outcry. It is very, very rare to win anything by gambling. A friend of mine worked for Sporting Index and the industry do not want any further taxation, harmonisation with Europe (probably a good thing) or regulation of any kind.
I tried writing Lay betting software for horse racing on Betfair. I tested the program for 3 years in my spare time collecting data from Sporting Life, getting live odds from Betfair and checking the results with the BBC. My software couldn’t even predict LOSERS 100% of the time. It only was 92% accurate. I only spent £40 on the whole venture and I obtained 3 years worth of race, runners and form data but the system wouldn’t have turned a penny.
Also guess where 90% of online betting exchanges and websites are hosted? Fucking Gibraltar.
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Yep…these fucking gambling adverts, are really pissboilers…I hate how they think they are doing you a favour…That fucking Foxy Bingo…with that Formbyesque northern twattage…Then the security guard ( though has not been on for a while)…to the tune of ‘ pappa likes mambo’ making out he is missing out on something…then other one for bingo , with all those obnoxious looking twats sitting around a campfire…and the other pile of dog toffee add for dozy hints ‘ When getting glammed up like a golden goddess’.. then the twat who dresses up in the dark for ‘Skid Vegas’….the outcome of gambling…two blokes at different intervals…topped themselves on the Leeds/Manchester railway line…..
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Have you ever seen a skint bookmaker?
I rest my case.
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