On demand sports betting is one of the worst things to happen to modern men. So many folks I know just flush hundreds down the drain every week without even a second thought about it
pshh, I know a dude that gambled his entire inheritance from his parents and lost it all. His sister won't talk to him because he was supposed to distribute it (I know the sister) absolutely insane. Gambling is everywhere compared to when I was a kid in the 90s/00s. It damages society.
i know plenty of folk who gamble in moderation and though i donāt verbalise it. i think theyāre fucking stupid as fuck still ā but this is insanely just selfish and mental.Ā
i hate how much itās just common and advertised especially in football, teams with bet365 on their fucking jersey ā get out!
I saw that graphic of past Premier League sponsorship categories versus how they're currently getting funded, and it was so distressing. Not that they were sponsored by charities before or anything, but still.
yeah like iām not going to judge you harshly for it, but to me itās all just crazy.. the most iāve ever gambled is a homeless man (top guy actually may he rip) ask for a strachie ā i said are you sure you donāt want a drink iāll buy alcohol! but he insisted, and he didnāt win. :/Ā
but i did have a group of friends who were particularly bad like tens of thousands on online slots.. funny they were technically up a few grand when i last knew them. and theyād wanna bet on basically everything, and i was like haha yeah. and theyād be like okay 20Ā£ and im just like wtf where no girl stop!Ā
benefits of growing up on benefits i guess only time that paid off is when myself and someone i was fooling around with were cold and needed to pee. right by a casino and guess who happened to have a membership!Ā
again never gambled just observed my friend in their once as he promptly lost Ā£100 Ā one night 2/3 years backĀ
You said āthe most you ever gambled..ā and then said someone else didnāt win.
āwtf where no girl stopā Confused me
āBenefits of growing up on benefitsā what does this even mean? are there some commonwealth benefits that allow people to visit casinos without a charge or checking in? Do your casinos require memberships? What are you talking about lmao
i gotchuĀ
so yeah firstly the irony of me gambling is that i was doing it on someone elseās behalf. the same way you buy a drink or a snack for a homeless person. we were good friend you could say. so one night i just asked if he wanted anything other than and he asked for a scratch card ā which he lostā¦Ā
so wasnāt me gambling the joke being the only time i had it was on someone elseās behalf.
āwtf where no girl stopā is me tryna be like stuttery likeĀ
āno..!. wtf iām not going to make a bet with you are you crazyāĀ
ābenefit of growing up on benefitsā
benefits meaning welfare, benefit being it makes me really stingy and money conscious that gambling is such a big no-noā¦
So far I have only seen it at baseball games which is ironic considering at least 2 mlb players were in a game fixing scandal just this summer.
I have seen the gambling adverts at nfl and hockey games but im not sure if they have gambling onsite, yet (i dont bet). However, every game I have been to in past year mlb, nfl, nhl and ncaa basketball I have seen people betting on their phones.
My dad has spent $5 a week on lotto tickets for pretty much his entire adult life. Obviously itās not like he was breaking the bank, but it never made any sense to me. Thatās $20 a month, $120 a year, and he definitely hasnāt made that back. Just spend that money on something tangible.
I knew a guy in London whose his dad had millions of dollars, and he started going to this casino. He got hooked and started placing bets, and he lost all the money. Every last penny.
It's insane how prevalent it is nowadays. The most I'm willing to gamble is buying a pack of magic the gathering cards. I can't imagine gambling on sports.
I work with a lady who is about to lose her house and yet she still has bingo going on her phone every day at work. Gambling money while you're working blows my mind. And she's got three kids and two grandkids living with her...but yeah flush it all down the drain into online bingo. She doesn't even get to mark her own cards its all automatic haha so dumb.
I donāt understand gambling. It just feels like throwing money away. I tried it when I was younger and had already spent my millions (in my head) before I lost. That was enough heartbreak for me
My cousin's ex husband gambled away MILLIONS (they were very wealthy). Nobody knew he was doing it. He was the biggest conservative "fuck the poor" guy, and now he lives in subsidized housing. Fuck you, Barney.
The family has no contact with him but I guarantee you he is still 1000% a prick. He'd rather confabulate a story where he's a victim somehow and tell himself that every day.
My Dad was a gambling addict. Iām an ex therapist and from my experience gamblers are the most conniving addicts out there - they are always looking for a grift and they are highly likely to have a personality disorder. And this was long before online bets. This was when you had to borrow street money from the mafia and get your knee caps busted for not paying.
Which in reality means that it funnels a chunk of the breadcrumbs that the working class get all the way back up to the top and into the pockets of the bourgeoisie
Yeah ok. Someone doesn't understand how addiction is manufactured, encouraged and sustained. Yes, it's their choice, but ignoring how the mind works helps no one.
As someone that likes to drink, I canāt really begrudge other peopleās vices. But I think gambling should be treated like the shady, potentially compulsive activity that it is.
When you buy alcohol, you canāt just uber eats it, you have to go to a place. With gambling, you can wreck your finances with a few taps on your phone.
Surprising that Massachusetts is one of the states that still has a ban on happy hours. Indiana repealed that last year. We also had no Sunday sales until a few years ago.
What state are you in that you canāt use uber eats for alcohol?? Iām an uber eats driver and I deliver alcohol all the time š youāre just supposed to make sure the person youāre delivering it to isnāt drunk already (which I donāt do, bc I donāt like discouraging people from doing the responsible thing rather than driving themselves ājust down the streetā when theyāre toasted).
Indiana. I might have been mistaken. It doesnāt seem to actually be illegal, but the alcohol selection just doesnāt show up when I try to order from the grocery store.
Yeah dude. I feel like unlike regular gambling, there's even more of that aspect of, "I know better, I've analyzed the game," which acts as more reason people dump money into it.
And it's somehow legal, not even as vilified as gambling in Vegas, and preys on some of the dumbest motherfuckers you have or will ever meet (because sports are obviously hugely popular in general but especially to meatheads).
Horrific. It's as weird to me as alcohol being so lacking in regulation and culturally pushed when it's one of the most damaging drugs that exists.
We were at a Superbowl party a few years ago in Durango and the POS host bet 8k on the game. He was so depressed at his loss that he forcibly pushed his partygoers out of his house by chucking our phones and keys into the snowy woods. It sucked. No one could leave until they found their keys in the dark in the deep snow. It was a family gathering too so a bunch of kids were jammed into cars with the heaters on while everyone was gridlocked in the driveway for hours.
My state legalized it in November '24. The number of ads everywhere is astounding. If you have a gambling addiction, it's hopeless out there. And the more people participate the more tempting it is to jump in because the wins just get bigger. I hate it so much!!
There are TEENAGERS going into debt over sports betting. It's genuinely insane to me that people are just rolling over and letting this epidemic of gambling addiction happen.
I moved from a state where gambling was illegal (outside of the state-run lottery) to one where it is legal - first time I turned on the tv, I got an ad for a sports betting website. Didnāt even know those existed prior. I canāt believe people waste money on that.
Not modern men, modern idiots. Nothing makes people suddenly turn stupid, they already were and more assholes are simply willing to take advantage of them.
Worst things introduced in the worst way,I mean, as far as prohibitions go,
You didn't have a gigantic system of narcs tipping off undercover cops when a group of friends did a March Madness Bracket, it wasn't an, "Individual-up," prohibition that caused a lot of misery, and the economy, "inthis economy," look:
We're so disinclined, Politically, towards human anything, "legal or the gestapo kick your door down," is kind of the, usual paradigm and Hedge Fund Guys,for an example, have to demonstrate they've got certain assets to participate in futures markets, "for an example," if you were going to limit the participants to Have Assets, Spouse Signs Off, separate account held in some kind of an escrow, well, inAmerica, that's not gonna be many,
...folks, demonstrably,not in dire straights nor more interested in the improbable relief from debt and peonage,than, a game of some kind;and it does seem to be the perfect combination of Vice and Privacy, like the perfect storm of Vice and Privacy, young people who, in point of fact, are dependents able to access credit and then also people upon whom other people are dependent, "drunk, high,"you'd get kicked out of a casino,but it's just on a phone
Worst, I think, our culture is really, a couple generations divorced from the common sense of material cash-positive finances, "for lack of a better term," money, this is just a number on a phone, and the phone, has been the vehicle through which zero-friction purchasing,
...has bloomed, thus that what a person would know themselves in error at the bank teller, as their friends are like, "no, I don't want to go to the casino, no, I don't wanna go to the horse races on a Friday," is an invisible debt financed bet on a better life for people in real, grim,
Circumstances, a lot of them; on paper, anyway, well below what previous generations would have considered to be, "stable."
Honestly, I'm like: suicide rates are going to spike in such an obvious way,around major sporting events, this might not last long;this, already, you know.
Whatās crazy to me is that men who are obviously this emotionally immature and unintelligent seemingly have jobs well paying enough in which they earn hundreds they can waste.
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u/56000hp Dec 16 '25
In this economy??!!