Twenty questions
Here's a fun quiz which everyone can try:
1. Did you ever lose time from work or school due to gambling? A couple of lectures when Newton Abbot was on, does that count?
2. Has gambling ever made your home life unhappy? Only when Lady Miros is doing her cobblers on Betfair.
3. Did gambling affect your reputation? What reputation????
4. Have you ever felt remorse after gambling? Almost every time.
5. Did you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties? Once or twice.
6. Did gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency? I never had any in the first place.
7. After losing did you feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your losses? Sometimes.
8. After a win did you have a strong urge to return and win more? Who wouldn't?
9. Did you often gamble until your last dollar was gone? So you've seen me in the Nugget then.
10. Did you ever borrow to finance your gambling? Well, Pedro was practically throwing it at me...
11. Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling? Only my dignity.
12. Were you reluctant to use "gambling money" for normal expenditures? No.
13. Did gambling make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your family? No.
14. Did you ever gamble longer than you had planned? Obviously.
15. Have you ever gambled to escape worry or trouble? I never have any worries, so no.
16. Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to finance gambling? No.
17. Did gambling cause you to have difficulty in sleeping? You must be joking.
18. Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to gamble? The urge is always there, so no.
19. Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of gambling? See 18.
20. Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of your gambling? No.
9 out of 20 for me, pretty good I think you'll agree. But apparently 7 or more makes you a compulsive gambler. Marv.
I can't help thinking they could have saved me a lot of time and effort by narrowing it down to one question:
1. Are you a sicko? Yes.
posted by Lord Miros @ 11:00 AM
3 Comments:
This old chestnut. Timely in view of BBC2's warts-and-all documentary about some poor sicko living off his giro in a bedsit in Bedford having pissed his life (job, wife, kids) up the wall at roulette. Seems as though he turned the corner at one stage and then BOOM they brought the FOBTs into the betting shops and that was the end of that. I did the decent thing after 20 minutes and changed the channel. I'm now engrossed in the replay of the days racing on RacingUK. Bedford isn't far from Luton anyway so I expect I'll quite like living there. At the moment it's 5/6 each of two who'll give me money first between the DHSS and Badbeat.
FOBT. I had to look that up, sicko.
Keep up the good work, Bill.
Alex,
Isn't it about time you updated your own pathetic attempt at bloggery?
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