Alcohol almost completely denormalised but gambling ads everywhere on primetime TV

veryangryman

Not sure what to make of it. I could give a fk about either but that guy in the ad with the creepy Welsh accent...

"When i've got an acca on I get really ecccsyted"

Ugh. He actually put's me off gambling.

Bring back the man dancing around the pint of Guinness i say.

Capt'n Midnight

next they'll ban the caffeine ads.

I see sheep

Should be banned and banned from sponsoring football teams too.

frozenfrozen

You couldn't give a ****?

doublejobbing 2

veryangryman wrote: »

Not sure what to make of it. I could give a fk about either but that guy in the ad with the creepy Welsh accent...

"When i've got an acca on I get really ecccsyted"

Ugh. He actually put's me off gambling.

Bring back the man dancing around the pint of Guinness i say.

I spent just over a year in Australia. Their alcohol vs gambling attitude is just bizarre. Bar staff need to complete a course to get a permit to work in a pub. Some venues are required to have what is known as an RSA Marshall, basically lads who patrol the bar handing out bottles of water and ordering people to take 20 minutes off the beer (bars there are typically many times the size of an Irish pub, they patrol usually in the evening rather than late night for some reason). Can't buy beer in your local Centra equivalent or a petrol station, strictly from off licences and supermarkets only.

Despite this vibe about alcohol abuse every single pub is stocked with a poker machine room, and most of them have terminals for betting on live sport. You just see absolutely tragic looking people sitting there drink in hand all day long feeding notes into the one arm bandits.

Strict on alcohol but every pub is effectively a bookies. The mind boggles.

Atlantic Dawn

Advertising the Lotto should be banned too, also move Winning Streak to after 9pm.

WrenBoy

Is Telly Bingo still a thing ?

RandomViewer

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Advertising the Lotto should be banned too, also move Winning Streak to after 9pm.

Winning streak has been off for nearly a year, dont know where Marty is but the grey haired one keeps Maura Derranes armchair warm when she's not on

endainoz

It's true, during any sport event you have the match betting live odds and loads of different ads for all the bookies etc. What's more recent is the day time tv ads for the online bingo to target housewives etc. Just because it's bingo, it's still gambling and can potentially be just as dangerous.

I'm not against gambling at all, I throw a bet on things maybe once or twice a year but I was definitely more addicted in my early 20s. Not gone to the poor house or anything but left a nice bit behind me all the same.

iamstop

Some strange rules here in Manitoba re: booze and gambling too.

First off it all controlled by Manitoba Liquors and Lotteries. (MLL)

There are only two types of places you can legally buy booze to go. A Liquor Mart (all owned by MLL) or a beer store. That might seem reasonable enough but a beer store can only exist in conjunction with a hotel/motel. And beer stores are not allowed to sell any wines or hard liquor. Only beer, cider and alcopops.

The MLLs all close at 10pm Mon to Sat and 6pm on Sunday.
Beers stores can open at 8am and close as late as 2:30am. Most close earlier.

No one under 18 can serve alcohol in a bar or restaurant.

You're only allowed to order 2 drinks max at a bar. So if you want to get a round of beers, the serve has to bring it over to your table. No one from the general public is allowed to walk away from the bar with more than 2 drinks. So no getting a pint for you and your mate/partner with a schnaky shot each.

There is also a rule that you can't bring your drink/s from the bar to the lounge. The server has to do that too.

There used to be a rule when I first moved here that you can only order drinks in a restaurant is 50% or more of the people sitting ordered food. Thankfully that's gone now. It's much better for bar/restaurants with DJs, back when that was a thing. Lousy Covid.

Edit: Forgot to mention the gambling. Yeah, most bars and some restaurants here have a side room or are for Video Lottery Terminals, VLTs. As someone said earlier, you see a slew of degenerates sitting there all day nursing drinks and just feeding thier kids lunch money into them. I've been in two situations where someone wins decently big ($100~$600) and then proceeds to blow most of it on buying drinks for whoever is near by.

MLL have loads of posters up around about drinking safe and no gambling too hard etc but they sponsor all sorts of events and sports too. Drinking age here is 18 but a 2 hour drive south across the boarder it's 21.

RandomViewer

WrenBoy wrote: »

Is Telly Bingo still a thing ?

Yep

Stovepipe

I went into a well known bar on Flinders Street, Melbourne back in 1996. "Pokies" (the machines) going full tilt (noise and lights) with a permanent crew of hard ups feeding them. Three TVs showing cricket, AFL and horse racing, all staples of Melbourne life. First time I ever saw the kind of aggressive advertising of betting that is common here now. You didnt have to leave to place a bet and it also has a bookies nearby and a trail of people going to and from the nearest ATM........I had a look inside a casino in Texas once. This was a relatively small local place. Still had rows of slot machines and loads of (mostly local) women,sitting there with flower pots full of quarters and each woman operated three machines,smoking and sipping a drink, hands flashing to and fro to, to hit the buttons or pull the lever. In the short time I was there,one woman hit the jackpot and the machine cascaded coins into a big bucket and the bells and lights rang. I recall she pushed the bucket under the stream of coins with her foot,as she continued to feed the slots and the hostess immediately came up and filled her glass up. The woman didnt bat an eyelid,just kept working the machines. Sad, really.

Fr Tod Umptious

Betting advertising on TV is very very predatory

Look at the ads

look at the Labrooke ads recently

One featured a giant the other Jay from the Inbetweeners dressed up a spaceman

What demographic do giants and spacemen appeal to ?

That's correct, young boys, just to plant the fun and sports and Ladbrooks seed there for them until they get old enough to figure out how to get around he rules and bet using their phones.

And then look at the other ads, it's all about "the lads" and comparing bets and making smarter "accas" than your buddy and all the "bantz" that goes on around it.

They portray it as for young males now sport, especially soccer, has not become about enjoying the game, it's about bets about enjoying he game with a bet on shots, cards, corners accas etc.

I don't mind betting, but the ads should be curtailed, if not banned outright

Zebra3

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Betting advertising on TV is very very predatory

Before the covid situation, there would be loads of ads for online casinos on tv late Friday and Saturday night.

Targeting people who have been out drinking.

Drexel_3

A gambling addiction seems like one of the worst types of addiction. I genuinely feel sorry for people caught up in it. There's no escape from it. It's in every area of life.

Having them on the phone is worse again

Strumms

Drexel_3 wrote: »

A gambling addiction seems like one of the worst types of addiction. I genuinely feel sorry for people caught up in it. There's no escape from it. It's in every area of life.

Having them on the phone is worse again

Very true, you no longer need to make any sort of effort to loose your arse, aside from having a phone / tablet charged that is...

I worked with a guy, don’t know if it was an addiction but a compulsion to the point he’d be diving out of the office from time to time to watch a race in the canteen about a 15 minute round trip away, including the race... god forbid the rest of us took too long getting a Coke, having bumped into a colleague from another department you were friendly with...but this fella...

He bet on racing a LOT and golf and football the odd time... if he was checking betting sites you could say..”Phil, here is a gift of 50 grand”, you get...”sorry, what ?” Totally tuned out... the race / event is all that mattered, weird.