Laddies NOT ONE PERSON IN MY LOCAL SHOP THIS AFTERNOON

they've gone to a bookie.

Society has changed mate, the days when blokes drank smoked and bet on the GGs have long gone, i blame them Guardianistas!

They're all at Southwell

when i walked past the bookies this morning there was more adverts for slots than horses.

changed days indeed.  In the mid 80s the bookies would be packed for an ordinary flat card midweek.

wont see them in there. they need to be somewhere that they can get a bet on.

Watched the champion hurdle in dublin once and the atmosphere was brilliant in a pad pow.It was the year Hardy Eustice won.

Bookies more interested in roulette,slots ,cartoon horse and car racing.

You would need to tell them there is real life racing on.

Recession.

yeah ---all piled around roulette my local

they think chelt is like lingfield

there is no recession in Aberdeen.  I did nip into a hills this morning and all the young lads were throwing there cash in those phuckin machines.

their...............

The bookies of years gone by were great. Same crowd everyday chatting about the racing,fancies etc etc. Was like a club where you could have a laugh with guys there for mainly one reason.........horse racing.

Todays bookies are are just awful,full of those dreadful machines,cartoon racing and most of the guys in there know feck all about the game.

The smoke has gone,but that is the only thing that is better nowadays

sheep shaggers

were only sheep shagging bartsards

stand free

Funny thing about it was the bloke who walk out after playing the slots was offered a cup of tea.
I got offered F*** a**

You have to say .........that its V QUIET on ere!

was in korals a4 4.30 and laddies 5 mins later 3 in korals,1 in laddies.

now i remeber when the last 2 races shops were packed because not on telly,people had finnished work ,3 in korals 2 were on machines,the 1 in laddies was an old bloke who goes round all the shops tidying up,moving slips and pens - never seen him bet.

in my shop yesterday, only 3k over the counter, 5k in the FOBTS.

regular punters in most of the day and only a couple of 'decent' (£100 plus bets) taken all day.

^^^ thats a korals, no more than 7/8 in at a time.

Maybe 25-30 people in a Shop in Dublin yesterday just before the Supreme Novices. Still even 5 minutes before the off we had virtual racing and BAGS greyhounds on full volume. I didn't want to stay in the shop long but it was packed.

it might go full circle - end up meeting on newmarket heath whilst king charles runs his against magmiers son and a dozen or so of us arguing weather the kings will stay or not,whilst newmarket high street his renamed the strip all playing machines

bookies are not your local social club, just hard nose bast***ds, my local lads has its responsible gambling leaflet (1) in the toilet, for a company that promotes responsible gambling i think they are taking the p**s

all bookies promote sensible gambling,leaflets everywhere etc - .they do all they can ,its not their fault if people are foolish.

You can imagine the Trading Room at Rayners Lane at 830 this morning:

Two traders sitting amongst the dust and cobwebs, carriage clock ticking in the corner.

Trader 1: (feet on desk, reading the Sun, fly circling wistfully above his head) - 'Anything happening?'

Trader 2: (picking nose, playing minesweeper on PC, interrupted by message on screen) - 'Get in there!  Someone in the Mayfair shop just put £10 on the roulette.'

Comingupthehill - is that old bloke in York, by any chance?

what would you define foolish? maybe just to walk in one would be foolish?

jj - no ,