| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 11/24/2006 2:32:45 AM | | Yes Daddy, my hand is slapped, lol, BUT, I'm NOT a sucker. I know full well when I go, I go to loose. It's the excitment of it all thats fun for me, no different then someone who watches tennis, how is that exciting? But I surely don't call anyone who likes it a sucker for going. That was my point. Nothing more, nothing less........... | |
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pasky
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Joined: 12/10/2005
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 11/24/2006 4:47:20 AM | Geez just getting out of bed is a gamble - driving major highways, could kill our selves just taking a shower.
Dang - going out with a person from POF is a gamble 
So as long as I don't gamble more that I afford to lose - then why not? | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 11/24/2006 8:17:04 AM |  Not much of a gambler, can't stand the machines, and throwing money on a table hoping to get some back, does not appeal to me either. Have been in a few casinos over the years, just because they were close, and wanted to have a look, but did not spend any money or hang around long. In the casino in Halifax one night I spent 50 cents, don't mean I lost 50 cents that is what I spent. LOL. Was enough for me. Ocassionally buy a few lotto tickets, if I feel lucky. Since Video Lottery Terminals.. { VLT's} have been in Canada I have seen many people put their life in ruination in pursuit of a few hundred bucks. Spending paychecks on the way home, savings and retirement funds nonexistant, remortaging homes, multiple credit cards maxed out, often while keeping it a secret from their partner, who only finds out after all is lost. Have been many documented cases of bankrupty, and suicides due to Gambling addiction, ruined marriages, loss of jobs for stealing from employers. When you live with this side of gambling for a while, the glitter and blinking lights really do not hold much appeal, Gambling is glamourous when you win, and if only responsibility is to yourself, go for it. If you can set a limit and adhere to it, gambling can be a bit of fun. I work with guy who just recently found a credit card maxed out to 10 grand, second time his wife has done it to him, the first time he was working away from home and was letting his wife handle the finances, expecting to have a bank balance when he arrived home, he returned to find that they had to sell the house. Not too much fun living with somebody who you can't let out of your sight, or trust in day to day financial transactions. If you think this just happens
to the poor and stupid, you may be right, but some of these poor and stupid people are well educated and operate businesses. People are free to make their own choices about gambling, but all will not be winners, and I will bet on that. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 11/24/2006 6:26:45 PM |
2findu, aren't we just a happy little man. Opinions are one thing, careful on how you address others that don't feel the same as you.
You can give away your money to casinos, you can gamble away your car, your house, your life. I really don't care because its no skin off my nose. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/3/2008 6:47:55 PM | | I have absolutely no interest in gamboling. I played roulette once. Put down a five dollar bill and it was gone in seconds. Fecking hell, I work too hard for my money for that to happen. Having said that, I do in enjoy horse races and will place small bets, but you get some entertainment for your money, and, I sometimes win. Won enough one time to take the group of friends I was with out to dinner after the races. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/3/2008 6:56:45 PM | Ismene, I love gamboling! Throughs parks, promenades, the green countryside! With the right partner it is tremendous fun!
Oh....wait..... | |
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Posted: 10/3/2008 7:11:41 PM | ((chuckles))
gam·bol (gmbl)
intr.v. gam·boled or gam·bolled, gam·bol·ing or gam·bol·ling, gam·bols
To leap about playfully; frolic.
n.
A playful skipping or frolicking about.
Sorry, my quip is just the product of a misspent youth. The nerve of some people!!! They actually made me read a book!!!!!
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zeeba
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Joined: 8/31/2008
Msg: 34 | |
| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/3/2008 7:12:35 PM | I'm not at all smart enough for the high-stakes games! But in Las Vegas and Reno, I do love it when there is a choice for the nickel slots. I am a high roller, for sure.
Boy, I miss the days when the money would cascade down into the tray, and then you scooped up your winnings into your paper cup to carry around for the rest of the evening! Getting that little paper chit printed out, and taking it to the ATM-look-alike machine to cash in just is NOT the same. I still like my nickel slots, though. I feel so important if I win something and the lights and sounds go off!
I am easily entertained... | |
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Posted: 10/3/2008 7:18:29 PM | Yes...I'll confess. I've sought out counseling, behavior modification therapy, Primal Scream sessions, heavy medication....I just can't seem to help myself...a beautiful woman by my side, a green meadow dancing with flowers, and I'm overcome by the compulsion to frolic and gambol! I'm so ashamed....  | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/3/2008 7:26:39 PM | | I think you should start a frolicker's anonymous group in your area. It would be a good way to meet women frolickers...then you can frolick together and no one would need to be ashamed.... | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/4/2008 1:58:10 PM | though i love to play poker (max loss on the whole evening $4! LOL) and buy the odd lottery ticket, i'm very wary of gambling. my ex lost everything-- i mean everything, sadly, including his self-respect and retirement funds-- day trading stocks on the internet-- and i see that as gambling.
fun for a night out with $20 at the horse races? sure. and for most of us can be enjoyable in moderation. but i worry about folks who can't handle it... families can be devastated by out of control gambling...
JMO
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:30:00 PM | I am in a Powerball lottery pool at work....I was asked to join, so I did. But that is the extent of it for me. I have seen too many lives devastated by the "gambling" addiction.
There is a brand new (six months old) casino about 20 minutes from my house, and I have never been there. I work too hard for my money...... | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:48:52 PM | Gambling: getting nothing from something, or; retirement investment for the mathematically impaiired.
Folkie, if you were closer, I'd take you off to the Blues to gambol in my '72 bug! | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/8/2008 10:36:20 PM | | I can take it or leave it, and usually leave it. Once in awhile I visit a casino with a set mount I can afford to lose, and I spend it on games, and food, which is like paying to go to a concert, and dinner, or such. Actually going to sleep is a gamble that you will wake up. Taking a shower is a gamble that you won't slip and break your neck. Everything in life is a gamble in one form, or another. I prefer the gambles I can control more, so the lotto, casino, etc, is not my primary form of entertainment. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 12:03:37 AM | There was a time I enjoyed going.......the elderly folks just seem to really have fun.
But, it lost me long time ago....too many people....too much never stop noise....and odd smells....just kinda got to me....the pleasure was gone. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 6:03:46 AM | | I can't find anything at all about gambling to be of any interest. I don't/won't visit casinos, or buy lotto tickets. Going to a casino would be like watching paint dry to me. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 7:04:24 AM | Strictly on principle, I've never bought lottery, raffle or any type of win tickets. I don't even scratch the 'instant win' tickets that come in the mail or with my grocery bill. I've worked in every casino in my area, but as a musical performer. I've never played a machine or a game in them. And the times that I've spent on 'breaks', sitting with and watching the casino patrons, I've found to be rather sad, actually. But then, I had two close friends who lost their lives because of excess gambling debts. You could say my opinions are extremely biased.
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 7:40:07 AM | I get a powerball ticket couple times a month. And awhile back I bought one of those $ 20.00 scratcher's - Hehe... Should of just flushed my $ 20 down the toilet.
I like going to the casinos and play video poker. Guess my biggest win was Couple hundred. Rather prefer the Nevada Casinos where while your playing they bring you over a drink. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 8:16:13 AM | | I love to play cards! Any sort of cards, bridge, canasta, poker. I enjoy the feel of the cards in my hands, I enjoy the strategy involved in the games, but money doesn't have to be involved for me to enjoy it. I play poker on line ( a free site without any money involved), I enter canasta tournaments on line with "prize" money but I have never invested real money into the site. In the summer I might go to the local casino a time or two to gamble with real money while the children are at their father's, but I consider this entertainment like I would a night at the movie. When I remember I will play the lotto but it tends to be sparodic and a when I remember at the check out line. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 9:11:10 AM | | I dream of winning the lottery so I can sail off around the world ....but I can't remember to buy the tickets until it's too late. I've been to Vegas a few times and broke even all three times, although I would have come home ahead of the game had I not tried so hard to lose it all *haha* My mom won $120,000 the first time I went to Vegas which was a pretty cool time. I like Tunica, Mississippi better but I think because I can drive there. We have a gambling boat about an hour from my work so every now and then my friends and I will take our pitiful little twenty dollar bill and have a high time Gambling is like anything else ....do it in moderation and don't hurt anybody else. | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 10:40:52 AM |
Gambling is a tax on people that are not good enough at math to calculate statistical odds.
Quite possibly.
But Vegas/Reno are a great roadtrip stop because food/lodgings & entertainment are dirt cheap. If you don't gamble.....it's a bargain & a people-watching paradise, to boot! | |
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| Gambling, in any shape or form
Posted: 10/9/2008 12:22:41 PM | | And I'm perfectly fine with that. People's math skills are too low anyway... but as long as you treat it as entertainment and don't go overboard I don't really see anything wrong with it. I wish governments wouldn't use it as a funding source for education but that's for another day. | |
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