Bookmaker Saturation

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I have to post this because I'm becoming increasingly disinterested with the amount of bookmakers that are opening up throughout the country for example here in Birmingham I was walking along to get some shopping yesterday morning to find that William Hill have opened up in a vacant property within the city centre.

For me, this is just completely socially irresponsible given that the same road already houses a Ladbrokes, BetterBet, PaddyPower and a Corals withing about 500 yards of each other.The people that go in here, well I'll refrain from being rude but through my experience they seem to be largely aggressive, controlling and highly uninspiring delinquent sights. These people are hardly going to be inspiring consumers lurking outside in the dozens which is just yards away from a lovely little well to do cafe and hairdressers opposite, they are surely going to see some impact through this.

It's disgusting, we don't need this sort of influence on our high streets because it's the wrong message to be sending out particually to the younger audience. How many places do you want to have a bet? seriously, I have nothing against people going in and having the odd bet here and there because it's part of a personal release although I don't believe by saturating the high streets to make way for doormats for lurkers and the pennyless to accommodate as productive.

Then again you have to consider are these undercover casino's painted over with a traditional bookmaker reputation which has been known for donkey's years as a main connection with Horse Racing and Greyhound betting which just simply isn't the case anymore and as Horse Racing is a product of these companies I think it's imperative that we move away from them in order to save some reputation within the public domain and to stop using the sports reputation for providing an acceptable means in distributing violent casino outlets and there must be stronger regulation brought in to stop the overwhelming power they have on the high street.

In short, Bookmakers do not represent Horse Racing from what we see on the adverts to what we see on the street tells a different story and I think it's imperative that as an organisation we try to move away from Bookmaker reliance because they don't represent the industry but rather mini-casino outlets using our great sports name to legalize the high street saturation that we have to be faced with day in day out.
 
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I do understand the point your trying to make Bruce, but the fact that you are frequenting these establishments, makes your stance slightly hypercritical.

I'm an old time gambler, but the internet and telephone betting was a blessing for me. I've avoided the bookies at every opportunity on account of the idiots, noise and the smoking in the old days, but love it or hate it, there is a market for these places.

Most high st's are struggling, so maybe we should be faithful for these rate payers, or maybe we could have a few more charity shops.
 
i think there is a need for bookie shops..for one thing its a good place for smelly men to meet

Ahhhh...The delightful aroma of stale **** and B.O coupled with an insane lunatic jabbering at the screen. You just can't get that sort of ambience at home.
 
I popped into a bookies in leicester sqaure to watch 100 guineas today and a bloke near me smelled like a sewer. God only knows what his pants were like

Full of chinese going bonkers about the numbers things and not giving a monkeys about the race
 
I popped into a bookies in leicester sqaure to watch 100 guineas today and a bloke near me smelled like a sewer. God only knows what his pants were like

Full of chinese going bonkers about the numbers things and not giving a monkeys about the race

aye..i wish i could understand chinese because i'd understand 95% more of what were said in the one i pop in from work

chinese men I have observed in a bookies always remind me of magpies..there are always at least 2 of em...and normally will never speak to anyone in the shop bar their mate..its like everyone else is invisible..they always have a good wedge on..proper backers
 
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And most usually go in after finishing their shift doing the chopping at the local chinkies....:)

I saw a beautiful young looking chinese women in a William Hill the other day. I didn't know if she was the massage parlour type but i gave great thought to the idea that she might be and was thniking of asking, hey, you don't make them kinda bucks doing a 9-5, and shes obviously got a taste for getting fucked over by a machine.:)

It makes you think doesn't it, we can legalise a social ill of gambling and wash it away under the banner of having fun, hence I see no reason to stop campaigning for proper brass and lap dancers in the joints to boot.

To answer this thread in the serious and deserving manner it warrants, it is quite factual that the businesses thriving under the current economic conditions are bookies, charity shops and pawnbrokers. FACT.
 
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aye..i wish i could understand chinese because i'd understand 95% more of what were said in the one i pop in from work

chinese men I have observed in a bookies always remind me of magpies..there are always at least 2 of em...and normally will never speak to anyone in the shop bar their mate..its like everyone else is invisible..they always have a good wedge on..proper backers


Well down here in Cardiff most Chinese places are closed on Mondays because they all go to casinos
 
Bookies in England are generally for awful people.

In Cork, they are fine and you could happily while away an hour or so in one (not all of them).

I'm not sure why this is. Maybe betting/racing is more part of everyone's life in Ireland.
 
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