I love the fact that it's set around Christmas and all they are showing is the bookies making money. Why not show the true Christmas side of gambling? Grown men sat in their cars crying cause they've spent all their money on gambling and have none left to buy gifts for loved ones. Brilliant PR for ****, terrible programme making from bbc
Sorry but I disagree, showing them LOSING money would have been great PR. What better way to get more custom than showing millions of potential customers how easy it is to win?
Terry.... well I thought his FOBT experiences were spot on. I hope it opens up peoples eyes to the dangers of these machines.
13 years there've been around, totally changed the demographic of betting shops. Way too many teenagers have been sucked into it. Its time to make some changes - lets hope the govenment to the right thing.
kelvinww wrote:
I love the fact that it's set around Christmas and all they are showing is the bookies making money. Why not show the true Christmas side of gambling? Grown men sat in their cars crying cause they've spent all their money on gambling and have none left to buy gifts for loved ones. Brilliant PR for ****, terrible programme making from bbc
I doubt such men would get much sympathy from the public and they probably don't deserve any.
What made me laugh was the way they made out they cared about people spending too much and monitored the FOBT and then banned a guy for his own good. I must have been to hundreds of bookies and the guys who spend all day losing thousands on FOBTs are treated like royalty when they enter the bookies. They would never in a million years ban them for their own good, they want their money and they can come back day after day wasting thousands for as long as they like. I had a very bad gambling problem, but the more I lost the more free bets I got and the better they treated me. Nobody ever told me I had a problem or I should stop. The sooner the FOBT is banned the better!
It's all about personal choices. No one watching that programme can be under any illusions. They can't "beat the bookies" and especially not with FOBTs. Then again you could put a sign on FOBTs saying "you will lose your money on this machine" and it wouldn't stop some people.
DeLorean wrote:
It's all about personal choices. No one watching that programme can be under any illusions. They can't "beat the bookies" and especially not with FOBTs. Then again you could put a sign on FOBTs saying "you will lose your money on this machine" and it wouldn't stop some people.
Personal choices eh? Lets go snort some coke, down some heroin. I'm all for personal choices
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