TheArtfulDogger

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I'm not sure if it's just me, but I feel that advertising for betting (online and in shops) has normalised it far too much. It used to be a few people betting in the bookies, a mass wave of hysterical betting around big events (the grand national, the Derby and so on) with football pools being the most normal thing. But now it seems every advert break on the screen (small and big) contains an advert for bingo, bookies or online casinos. Is this good for the nation and what sort of message does it send our young? "It's okay not to work as you can win big on x y z " yet at the same time it pushes some people further into poverty (thankfully they have limited the fixed odd betting machines in the bookies) Each to their own and I like a line on the lottery, that's giving to charity as there is zero chance of winning, but is it maybe time that the adverts are removed to denormalise gambling ? Or is it win win for the government who take a cut of the profits from the companies behind the betting?

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DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I really do struggle at times as to what is going > on in some threads.. > > At Swim Two Birds springs to mind. > > At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish writer > Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann > O'Brien. > It is widely considered to be O'Brien's > masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated > examples of metafiction. > > O'Brien is one of my favourite Authors but I > failed to get past the first chapter of this > Novel. > > DulwichFox Been sniffing the meths again foxy ?

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Kel I got all excited but then realised what you meant I guess you didn't Surrwnder to the idea in the end 😅

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fishbiscuits Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Eve and Emma both sound delightful, but I'm not > sure what a "hybrid mistress" would involve. That's what made me realise I had misread it, unless a hybrid mistress is someone else's wife (both a mistress and wife) Oh those fish bowls are going to be rattling to the sound of 4*4 keys now