Stupids Are Being Ripped Off Again.

My ex husband addiction was gambling... he gambled our marriage eventually ..and he lost.

.I won, because I got rid of someone who deprived both me and his tiny daughter of everything due to his addiction... I absolutely abhor gambling now..I saw the misery it causes, I lived it for years not only during our marriage but after he left, trying to pay debts and bills he accrued

.... and when they first started allowing gambling online years ago here slots and bingo , I was horrified, I still am at the thought of how quickly an addict can lose everything they have

I watch as people buy lottery tickets, and cheap food at the supermarket ... I watch people buying bundles of scratch cards, and getting as far as the door of the store before scratching them off in the hope of winning the £20 or more they've just spent on them, almost always losing or just getting a fraction back in winnings, then repeat over and over... .. horrible..
 

Gambled in the army on payday, big pots, played all night.
the rush of pushing 500.00 in the pot, then 75o.oo, must be akin to rush drug addicts get.
Gambled big time when single, quit when married, still have the yearn, but know bills come first.
would never go to a casino, only play with those I know.

I knew a professional gambler, as in the Steve Mcqueen movie
I could have traveled with him-declined.
I've not been in a high stakes poker game in 50+ years,
you can talk me into a .50, $1.00 game, not nothing higher.

Don't even know where the high stakes games are played-never. never
go to a casino.
 
"Lotteries are just a tax on people who are bad at math".

Look at it this way. If there was only one lottery machine and it printed out tickets, each with a unique number, at a rate of one per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it would take just over 9 years and three months to print 292,201,338 tickets. In order for you to win, you'd have to chose the correct second during that 9-1/4 year period! Those are the odds of picking the winning Powerball ticket. Hahahahahahaha! :ROFLMAO:

Yes, I do buy the occasional lottery ticket, but I understand the odds. I just look at it as a $2 fee for the right to pipe dream. :D
 
When the lottery first came out in MA. I bought my husband a season ticket for,Christmas, I played that number for 20 years, not,once did one of those rotten numbers come out! When we moved to Fl. I never played it again! ...🤣
 
I used to hit the slots.....$20-$40 every time we went to the coast
Part of being at the coast
One night I hit a hot slot
Took over $500 back to the motel
Hit it the 2nd night....again $300 and some
Third night I gave it back

That was about 20 years ago

I've got better ways to waste money
 
Packerjohn said:
Reading this morning newspaper has again proved to me that there is something very wrong with our society. I am talking about 2 stories:
1. First story tells us that "Personal & Business Insolvencies Rise". It says that people have amasse unmanageable debts. I'm not surprised when I see so many people flying off for winter vacations & driving brand new SUVs.
2. Second story tells us that, thanks to Atlantic City casinos, we now can gamble using slot machines right on line. Hack, you can sit in your underwear & blow all your money for groceries & the electric bill too. You no longer have to even go to a casino.
For the record, I never gamble but I have often been & stayed in casinos for the accommodation & the meals in Canada & the USA. Forget those silly Hollywood myths about breaking the casino at Monte Carlo or Roger Moore or other associated Agent 007 types gambling. What I have seen over the years gambling are the elderly, the lonely & the addicts that blow all their money in one night. Internet gambling is just another way society is picking on the poor, the uneducated & the lonely. Forget the fact that we all should have choices! That's OK for the educated & those who have no trouble saying "NO". Shame for picking on the weak elements of our society.
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I kinda agree with your viewpoint. I've known people who had many problems not of their own making, including poverty, yet bought lottery tickets regularly BELIEVING that "dream" would someday be theirs if they continued to spend money they could not afford on tickets every single week.
 
We haven't been to a casino in many years....We use to go to Atlantic City...probably only put 5 dollars in...I did win once. With only one
punch....100 dollars...That was a long time ago...
Now we only go to Atlantic city Airport, to fly to the South!!!!! We don't gamble.
 
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my protest against society, the more, more, more 'be good to yourself
you deserve it' (part of commercial for buying a 30k car)
🤢 (these smiley faces keep trying to tell you, you something is bad wrong, but we can't hear them)
 
Funny thing...my timeshare is in Atlantic City. According to what bus I take to go for the week, I get a casino slot credit of $25 or $30. These have to be played in the slots, whereas a couple of decades ago, they could be cashed in (and that's what I did). I play whatever the bonus is and walk away. I never put even one penny of my own money into those machines. And you're right...the casinos are full of elderly people who are brought in on the casino buses. I often wonder if this is their form of entertainment or if it helps combat their loneliness or boredom. Maybe some of them have good money and no one to leave it to.

The Revel casino, that thought itself so exclusive that all it's restaurants were too high priced and that it didn't want casino buses bringing gamblers in, failed miserably. The investor lost tons of money. Now it's Ocean and it has new owners/investors and has been reinvented. Supposedly it's doing well. I used to be fiercely opposed to people spending so much money on "the numbers" (pick 3). They'd be overjoyed when they won a couple of hundred dollars, seemingly not realizing they spent much more over time. I felt like if they invested the amounts they poured into lottery tickets, they'd have something. I read about this new system in A.C. last week. It seems to me that people don't need much coercion to gamble whether from their own homes, buying a batch of lottery tickets (some daily) or in the casinos.
 
We had slot machines in the on-base clubs on Okinawa back in the early 1970's.
They were programmed to give back about 97% of what was put into them.
You could play for hours on one of those machines.
 

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