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Old 08-11-2018, 11:42 PM   #54701 (permalink)
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I've put about 7 hours into Monster Hunter World already. Probably going to play more tonight and tomorrow. This game is so much fun.
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Old 08-12-2018, 07:10 AM   #54702 (permalink)
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gambling really ****ing does your head in

Winning is like 100 times cocaine- especially playing cards in a casino - the rush when you win is incredible but the lows are just unbearable

And I’m just a moderate gambler

I mean this is it this month

In Biloxi - especially if you play all night you’ll see some heartbreaking **** between 6-8 AM

People will come in with two fives and eight ones trying to turn into enough for their daily drug habit - buy three five dollar chips 3 hands later they’re moping out with three dollars

Often they don’t know basic strategy or can’t double down on 11’s because they don’t have it (adds to the house edge considerably )
I have to say I’ve never understood the appeal of gambling. Just seems like a waste of money to me.
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Old 08-12-2018, 09:09 AM   #54703 (permalink)
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In Biloxi - especially if you play all night you’ll see some heartbreaking **** between 6-8 AM
^ That one sentence conjures up quite a picture.


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I have to say I’ve never understood the appeal of gambling. Just seems like a waste of money to me.
^ I've never understood the appeal of gambling either - also never understood all that glamour/macho treatment that Hollywood gives to it. Casino Royale is the best example: the stoney face, the steely look as each guy ups the ante and peeks under the corner of his next card, as if risking lots of money were the ultimate expression of manhood.

Probably to the greater good of the country, in Britain the most common forms of gambling take place in drab, unappealing betting shops like this. I think there's a whole bunch of regulations specifically designed to prevent them from looking attractive:-

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Old 08-12-2018, 11:06 AM   #54704 (permalink)
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At work, for possibly the first time ever I got to make a series of increasingly terrible dad jokes to a teenage girl who proclaimed me "whack" and I now realize why men have kids.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:08 AM   #54705 (permalink)
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At work, for possibly the first time ever I got to make a series of increasingly terrible dad jokes to a teenage girl who proclaimed me "whack" and I now realize why men have kids.
She probably considers you of dad age. After all, you're over thirty! Nearly twice her age? Imagine what she'd think about me: how did he get out of his coffin? **** young people.
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:09 AM   #54706 (permalink)
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At work, for possibly the first time ever I got to make a series of increasingly terrible dad jokes to a teenage girl who proclaimed me "whack" and I now realize why men have kids.
It’s spelled “wack”, gramps.
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:18 AM   #54707 (permalink)
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I always enjoyed occasionally gambling. In the US, I really only liked the nickel/quarter/dollar slot machines. I just liked to play for the game. "Princess Bride", "Wheel of Fortune", "Game of Thrones"...when you can get to the game, they become a blast. I literally will just go in a casino like Hollywood and play till I get to the game, then stop. If I don't get to the game in five minutes, I stop. Because that is what is fun for me. Some of those slot machines are so intense that you literally expect small children to come in waving flags and bearing your winnings ( which usually amounts to five doĺlars) on golden plates. But big casinos are a blast. Pity there really isn't anything like American casino towns in Europe. Here they are more fancy..there you can stroll in places like Tunica at 0100 in sweatpants and be treated like a king if you place a big enough bet. Besides, casinos offer cheap liquor ( or even free), comps, cheap food and occasilnally rooms.

Ok, watching the old people putting in money while hooked up to air machines is not fun. But I just like to wander around, get my free coffee or beer and play "Game of Thrones" till the game starts . Just cheap fun ( I might drop 50 dollars on average ..but since I only play for a night that isn't much). Here we have slot machines on the Finland boats but they are nothing like the American ones.

Gambling such as Betway and such never appealed to me not online slot machines because you loose the whole social aspect of it.

Ps Also had a great day. Just wanted to reply to the gambling bit
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:22 AM   #54708 (permalink)
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It’s spelled “wack”, gramps.
Yeah, Paddy.
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Old 08-12-2018, 11:23 AM   #54709 (permalink)
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She probably considers you of dad age. After all, you're over thirty! Nearly twice her age? Imagine what she'd think about me: how did he get out of his coffin? **** young people.
Well yeah it wouldn't be nearly as fun if I were still a whippersnapper.

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Old 08-12-2018, 11:27 AM   #54710 (permalink)
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In fairness, Frownland spells it "whack", and we all know that he's always right...
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