It was as Mr Bolan said, (he is a genius, I swoon at his feet) a blip, not hackery.
I flicked a tiny smidgen of breakfast TV this morning. On channels 1 and 3 the talking heads were discussing 'problem gambling' on the internet. Each sofa consisted of a breakfast TV couple, an 'expert' and a female 'problem gambler'. The channel 3 specimen was middle-aged and respectable. She hid her gambling from her family and friends. Apparently, like 'problem drinking', if it takes place at home, it can appear quite genteel. At first. Until the bailiffs come.
The channel 1 bint was cut from a different cloth. She was brazen. Got herself into tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt then started stealing from work to fund her gambling addiction. She was quite blase about it all.
The presenter said,
But you robbed a bank of twenty-five thousand pounds!The hussy replied,
That was my gambling addiction that lead me to do it.Like that made it OK. I couldn't understand why she was sitting there. Shouldn't she have been in jail? Then I got bored and flicked to Dora the Explorer.
They were still on about internet gambling on Radio 4 while I was driving home from work. Apparently there are 250'000 'problem gamblers' in the UK. Some government type announced,
250'000 problem gamblers is an unacceptable number!And I thought to myself,
I wonder what number of problem gamblers would be acceptable?Let's face it - if everyone was as keen on gambling as Nellybert the bookmakers, internet casinos, lotteries et al would soon go bust. We don't even do the lottery. I've bought one scratch card in my whole life and have bet on the Grand National maybe twice.
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I got a Mace Scratch & Match card today and won 2 yoghurts. I could be just starting out on the slippery slope.
Glad to have been (of some) help!
Gosh, and such flattery, too. I blush, but amn't really worthy of such praise.
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