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I don't get why there's such a stigma or should be such a stigma surrounding gambling and in particular horse and dog racing.

We used to have plenty of young women come into our bookies to do the Irish Lottery who given half a chance would soon seperate themselves from the 40+ year old men and pensioners who've been coming in since before I was born. It's all gambling and as such you can WIN aswell as lose.

A good idea for the programme and taking bets on the egg and spoon race to my mind proved that it's not just the betting shop dwellers who like a gamble it's everyday folk - a total cross section of society. Gambling in itself isn't a bad thing it's the addiction that people have negative feelings towards, I mean how many people who frown upon betting on football, racing, rugby play the lottery? I'd bet it's most of them.

<blockquote data-quote="Irish Stamp" data-source="post: 2101264" data-attributes="member: 65088">I don&#039;t get why there&#039;s such a stigma or should be such a stigma surrounding gambling and in particular horse and dog racing.We used to have plenty of young women come into our bookies to do the Irish Lottery who given half a chance would soon seperate themselves from the 40+ year old men and pensioners who&#039;ve been coming in since before I was born.&nbsp; It&#039;s all gambling and as such you can WIN aswell as lose.&nbsp; A good idea for the programme and taking bets on the egg and spoon race to my mind proved that it&#039;s not just the betting shop dwellers who like a gamble it&#039;s everyday folk - a total cross section of society.&nbsp; Gambling in itself isn&#039;t a bad thing it&#039;s the addiction that people have negative feelings towards, I mean how many people who frown upon betting on football, racing, rugby play the lottery?&nbsp; I&#039;d bet it&#039;s most of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irish Stamp, post: 2101264, member: 65088"] I don't get why there's such a stigma or should be such a stigma surrounding gambling and in particular horse and dog racing. We used to have plenty of young women come into our bookies to do the Irish Lottery who given half a chance would soon seperate themselves from the 40+ year old men and pensioners who've been coming in since before I was born. It's all gambling and as such you can WIN aswell as lose. A good idea for the programme and taking bets on the egg and spoon race to my mind proved that it's not just the betting shop dwellers who like a gamble it's everyday folk - a total cross section of society. Gambling in itself isn't a bad thing it's the addiction that people have negative feelings towards, I mean how many people who frown upon betting on football, racing, rugby play the lottery? I'd bet it's most of them. [/QUOTE]

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