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Betting/Gaming ads during football matches

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  • #302
    Moist Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭Moist Bread


    Let's get this mother to 100 pages.


  • #303
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,287 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    con___manx1 wrote: »
    i just sat down one day and closed all my accounts. It was the best thing I ever did. I had a problem for around 3 years and have stopped 10 months now. I kept it secret for all that time from everyone. I only told one person recently I had a problem and that helped me big time. I no the vast majority of people won't spend there Wages but I feel gambling adds are as bad as ciggie or alcohol adds that are banned from advertising at sports events. Gambling doesn't affect your physical health but it can destroy your mental health. It can destroy family's and some people have taken there own lives over gambling addiction or ended up in prison for stealing to feed there addiction.

    I see the online apps as very bad as it is just looking at numbers for most people and they may not see the money they are spending. Also speaking to a mortgage adviser from a local bank branch and they said it can reflect badly for you when going for a mortgage if they can see all these gambling websites on your bank statements.

    All gambling should only be done in a bookies where you know what you are spending and handing over the money, it may deter a few more people from doing it.

    ******



  • #304
    Clara Dirty Logo
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Clara Dirty Logo


    eagle eye wrote: »
    None of the items mentioned above are illegal for minors to buy. I protect my kids as best I can from those things to but they are legally obtainable for kids under 18.

    Gambling is illegal for under 18's so it shouldn't be advertised during the day when they can watch tv. Same as alcohol.

    Driving is illegal for under 18s, should car ads be banned? Voting is illegal for under 18s, should politics be banned?


  • #305
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,798 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Jabari Happy Test wrote: »
    Driving is illegal for under 18s, should car ads be banned? Voting is illegal for under 18s, should politics be banned?

    Driving and voting are perfectly fine aspirations to have as a young person.
    The fact that this has to be stated makes me wonder what age group you fit the into yourself.


  • #306
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    kippy wrote: »
    Driving and voting are perfectly fine aspirations to have as a young person.
    The fact that this has to be stated makes me wonder what age group you fit the into yourself.

    Gambling is the finest thing in the world to do if your good at it.


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  • #307
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,798 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    Gambling is the finest thing in the world to do if your good at it.

    That is completely irrelevant in the context of this thread.
    Its literally mugs game for the vast majority of punters with devasting consequences for a portion of that number. Allowing bookies as big an audience and with as much wall to wall access to a young demographic or indeed those that may never have thought of gambling in the first instance is crazy.


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