Society & Culture Gambling ads everywhere

[liam_13]

The problem with gambling is it can be like drinking, have a little bit in just one area and it can then lead to a whole lot more.

I know a bloke doing 8 years for drug trafficing to feed his gambling addiction and he was just one of the syndicate that went down.

That's exactly it. In smoking, the act that harms you is the actual smoking, the breathing in of the smoke. In gambling, it isn't the handing over the money, or placing the bet that harms you, it is the consequences of having to have a bet - and what gets you the needs to place the bet.

In your friends case, to get him the needs to place the bet, he had to turn to drug trafficing. Not many legal activities turn people to such illegal activities. But there you go.

I'm also quite fed up with all the gambling advertising - and a lot of that is because I am interested. When they bring up odds like SA $2 to win, I'm like wow that's not too bad. Thankfully due to time I have been unable to place bets on the cricket (I do on football, but only within my means), but it still shits me to know that the advertising gets to me so easily.
If they can ban advertising of excessive alcohol consumption, they should be able to ban excessive gambling advertising (by that, I mean spot-fixing etc. Nothing wrong with advertising the odds of the Melbourne Cup winner or the Ashes series winner, people will do that anyway and those things are irregular events (i.e. annually, every 2nd year etc)

 

[kickazz]

• I enjoy a punt.
• It seems to me there is an excess of gambling ads.
• It's only in the last decade that bookies have been allowed to advertise, I think that shift makes it noticeable to us.
• I think they should be allowed to advertise nonetheless. Tattersalls have been advertising for years.
• I really hate the phoneyness of the 'interview' style ad during the races or another sporting event where the bookie tries to come accross as informing as , etc. Piss off that's an ad.
• Ads in general piss me off. Other highly competetive industies are just as bad. Feck, insurance (sort of a form of gambling lol) has heaps of advertising. If you haven't noticed, you will now that I've mentioned it. Shits me no end. Others with heaps include alcohol, cars, those stupid Apple ads showing that you can play a crappy song on a pretend piano - give me goddam spell!

The thing that annoys us is that the ads are creating a culture that you can't enjoy sport properly without betting. But alcohol ads may be responsible for a culture that says you can't have a good time without drinking.

YouTube, Facebook introducing more ads too. Sucks!

 

[Byron_Clanger]

They have unlimited amount of money to advertise due to stupid people betting

Yep, I've never bet and will never bet so I just tune out a second into recognising betting ads

 

[GOAUS!]

Yep, I've never bet and will never bet so I just tune out a second into recognising betting ads

I tune out during ads in general.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

The problem with gambling is it can be like drinking, have a little bit in just one area and it can then lead to a whole lot more.

I know a bloke doing 8 years for drug trafficing to feed his gambling addiction and he was just one of the syndicate that went down.

This is a lot more common than most would realise. Loan sharking in the Vietnamese community, preying on vulnerable gambling addicted women is a big problem. The gangs operate outta Crown Casino, targeting vulnerable Asian (mainly Vietnamese) women. They offer drug couriering or prostitution as alternatives to paying the debt. There's numerous women in Dame Phyllis Frost because of this.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

I find it interesting to see what the bookies think of the current state of the game from time to time as well.

But bookies get their money from idiots.

 

[Simple Jack]

But bookies get their money from idiots.

Happy to see what idiots think then. I don't get quite a lot of things that are apparently popular amongst the great unwashed so I find it interesting to try and understand how people could possibly think a certain result is likely/unlikely.

 

[Caesar]

I don't have a particularly strong opinion on gambling advertising outside of a hatred of the whole advertising-being-passed-off-as-content thing, which isn't limited to the gaming industry.

However it seems extremely strange to me that there has been so much fuss made about eliminating branding on cigarette packages for fear of impressionable children catching a glimpse of them, yet nobody seems to care that gambling advertising is positively pestilential. If you are that worried about kids getting sucked into addiction, I know which one I'd be worried about more.

 

[checkraiseulite]

• Ads in general piss me off. Other highly competetive industies are just as bad. Feck, insurance (sort of a form of gambling lol) has heaps ofadvertising. If you haven't noticed, you will now that I've mentioned it. Shits me no end. Others with heaps include alcohol, cars, those stupid Apple ads showing that you can play a crappy song on a pretend piano - give me goddam spell!

Came in here to post something similar to this. Watch any crap on FTA tv or the entertainment channels on Fox during the day and every ad break there will be at least one insurance line or similar ad (sometimes in an interview style) trying to guilt vulnerable old people into buying funeral insurance.

Don't have a problem with gambling advertising during sports coverage though I believe it probably is excessive at the moment. I will often have a bet whilst watching sport to take a bit of interest in two neutral teams playing and sometimes it's interesting to see the market's opinion on the game beforehand.

 

[Slax]

Came in here to post something similar to this. Watch any crap on FTA tv or the entertainment channels on Fox during the day and every ad break there will be at least one insurance line or similar ad (sometimes in an interview style) trying to guilt vulnerable old people into buying funeral insurance.

Don't have a problem with gambling advertising during sports coverage though I believe it probably is excessive at the moment. I will often have a bet whilst watching sport to take a bit of interest in two neutral teams playing and sometimes it's interesting to see the market's opinion on the game beforehand.

Whilst I don't have a problem with the advertising I have a massive problem with the commentators do paid ads during their coverage.

 

[BEEG]

Billboards. Sides of public transport. Radio. TV. Integrated into TV programs to try and make the gambling guy part of the commentary team. Mentioned during live sport. Etc. Etc.

Who else is sick of it?

Rather see that instead of the Tampon ads that get played every minute

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

I don't have a particularly strong opinion on gambling advertising outside of a hatred of the whole advertising-being-passed-off-as-content thing, which isn't limited to the gaming industry.

However it seems extremely strange to me that there has been so much fuss made about eliminating branding on cigarette packages for fear of impressionable children catching a glimpse of them, yet nobody seems to care that gambling advertising is positively pestilential. If you are that worried about kids getting sucked into addiction, I know which one I'd be worried about more.

 

[Super Hans]

Should see southern cross station, they're everywhere there. Even on tv. I enjoy a bet us much as the next bloke but it's getting a tad excessive.