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Also I tapped my grandma up for stake money, so it wasn't mine I was losing
As youth a group of us used to always play the quiz machines, and that would often fund a few rounds of drinks because I was lucky enough to have very bright friends with a broad range of general knowledge. We thought we'd broken the machine once, as the screen went blank and it flashed horrendously for about 2 minutes, then came up with "Loading new questions ...". We got asked to leave soon after. Paid for the entire session, though.
These days I look at the flashing lights, the too many buttons, complex win lines, and the fact that it's sometimes £2 to just get one spin and think "Sod that" because I'm far too tight. Beer at £4 a pint is bad enough, and still an easy enough mechanism for (literally) pissing money away.
Anyone who fancies just having a few spins for fun trying to hit a big win, do yourself a favour and spend that tenner on a nice pack of strings. You'll get more out of it.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
The industry may well make claims about how it wants people to gamble responsibly, but the reality is that, like any business, it's there to make a profit. Las Vegas didn't become what it is by people gambling responsibly (or by people winning too often).
Perhaps if certain people (not all) had it explained and laid out in front of them just how unlikely it was they'd understand and move on to something different?
I don't know really. Reading that back it seems unlikely. Reality probably goes out the window, to a point where you could say it's a million to one and they see that as still a chance to win big.
Its like when you buy a scratchcard and match 2 jackpot symbols. Some people say they nearly won and go buy loads more. They didn't nearly win though, it was intentionally printed that way to get them to feel a bit of a buzz and buy more.
I wouldn't be pleased if I spent hours researching a horse's form, risk my own money, only for it to turn out it was never going to win cos some rich guy fancied a bit more cash.
Its never the people that need the money who do things like this, it's always the ones who have enough but want more.