Lockdown induced gambling addiction...

[Don]

I've just had this pop up on twitter:

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Nothing noteworthy there, just another completely nothing post-match interview to go alongside the other dozen on any given matchday. I'm just intrigued by why it came up as a 'Promoted by Bet365' advert tweet.

Is there a clear link between Sky Sports and Bet365 that I'm unaware of? If not, is this not a striking move by Bet365 given the advert itself makes no mention of Bet365? It seems a pretty striking admission of just how much they're absolutely thriving off this incessant football.

Thread made to lay a marker to revisit this topic once the stats are out. An advertising ban will no doubt come in the coming years but the filthy bastards have used this opportunity to corrupt and behaviourally disfigure millions and boy will it pay dividends.

[Baz]

When the fun stops, deposit more and try again.

[-james-]

The UK Gambling Act is currently under review with findings to be published at the end of the month. My arsehole is puckered.

I expect, and hope, that they do something like ban advertising on telly and on tricots, and restrict casino wank but leave sports betting relatively untouched. There is talk of things like £100 monthly deposit limits or having to send Denise your payslip. It wouldn't surprise me tbh, can't be many more things the UK public is more united on at the moment than Gambling = Bad.

[Spikey M]

I don't really get gambling as a thing. It's not even fun, so how someone gets addicted is beyond me, but regardless of that; the Government shouldn't really be getting too involved.

One of the Key Principles from my 'safe guarding' training is that "people with the cognitive ability to understand the implications of their actions have the right to make unwise decisions".

In other words, if Mahow wants to piss his dad's money up the wall then we stop him. But if James wants to, then have at it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gambling ads are unseemly as fuck so I wouldn't mind them going, but you should be allowed to do it if you want to. People have to take responsibility for themselves.

I'm quite interested in what's happening in America, as it's moving in the other direction (being unbanned/deregulated) and their naivety on the subject is a sight to behold.

[Shindig]

The only people I've known with gambling problems are mentally deficient in the first place.

[Spikey M]

I only signed up to bet on the Grand National.



It is a bit much.

[-james-]

Did you text STOP to 80006?

[Offshore Toon]

Or just block sender.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No but he did get some cracking offers.

[Spikey M]

I have now, you slags.

I very rarely check my text messages (because nobody uses them, it's not 2001) so the first I noticed of these messages was Friday, then again today. That's when I thought "this can't be helpful for any addicts out there, wasn't there a TTH thread on that? They'll appreciate this. They won't be a LOAD OF SARCY CUNTS about it".

Bastards.

[niko_cee]

They'll appreciate this. They won't be a LOAD OF SARCY CUNTS about it".

Really?

it's not 2001

[Spikey M]

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[Offshore Toon]

Text messages should be the only message notifications you have turned on.

[Baz]

Text messages should be the only message notifications you have turned on.

And Instagram live videos.