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« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2015, 02:50:04 PM » |
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Tbf they can not/will not show winning punters.
It might encourage people to take up gambling and lose all their money.
Totally understand why they will only show losers.
Serious? Why agree to participate in a show if it's designed to point out what a terrible idea it is to use their services? Their adverts have Farley and Carly celebrating when they - relentlessly - win their bets. Surely they're entitled to show a bit of balance with a fella getting his Yankee paid out? They might not show the bloke running around the shop shouting at the virtual horses and the bonus ball, mind... They might show the odd rec getting lucky. Cannot believe they'll show Huddersfield's equivalent of arbboy or BigAdz. No. This is what I first thought of: |
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« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2015, 02:56:43 PM » |
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Tbf they can not/will not show winning punters.
It might encourage people to take up gambling and lose all their money.
Totally understand why they will only show losers.
Serious? Why agree to participate in a show if it's designed to point out what a terrible idea it is to use their services? Their adverts have Farley and Carly celebrating when they - relentlessly - win their bets. Surely they're entitled to show a bit of balance with a fella getting his Yankee paid out? They might not show the bloke running around the shop shouting at the virtual horses and the bonus ball, mind... They might show the odd rec getting lucky. Cannot believe they'll show Huddersfield's equivalent of arbboy or BigAdz. Yup, every shop has a Bigtime Charlie, and an aftertimer with a load of betting slips guaranteeing a winner. Only thing it lacks is a miserable old git.......room for us all somewhere.  |
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« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2015, 03:10:30 PM » |
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There was a great thread on the bf forum years ago about betting shop characters and a piss take at certain types of characters who lurk in every betting shop across the land. It was amazing how many of the 'types' do actually exist in any random shop you go in. Most of them exist on blonde as well.
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« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2015, 03:19:16 PM » |
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If its anything like the bank fly on the wall they did in Huddersfield there will be lots of absolute dicks hamming it up for the cameras and plenty of cringy moments. Is BBC obsessed by Huddersfield?
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« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2015, 03:24:59 PM » |
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According to the preview of the show in the racing post next week's show is all about the battle between bookies and punters and is coming directly from Joe's trading floor. Surely they will show bets being knocked back there? Will be hard to fill a one hour show with Joe not knocking a bet back on their trading floor? Would be the biggest editing job in the history of the bbc to fill an hour without it!
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« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2015, 03:25:11 PM » |
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There was a great thread on the bf forum years ago about betting shop characters and a piss take at certain types of characters who lurk in every betting shop across the land. It was amazing how many of the 'types' do actually exist in any random shop you go in. Most of them exist on blonde as well.
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« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2015, 03:33:19 PM » |
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« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2015, 04:13:08 PM » |
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There was a great thread on the bf forum years ago about betting shop characters and a piss take at certain types of characters who lurk in every betting shop across the land. It was amazing how many of the 'types' do actually exist in any random shop you go in. Most of them exist on blonde as well.
My favourite is "advice man". Always liberal to give advice to everyone before a race and to the losing jockey of his selection during/after the race. "Shout at screen" man always good too. There's an on-course version of him these days, "Haydock screamy woman", who screams home every winner. |
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« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2015, 04:18:49 PM » |
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Every bookie I worked in had one, and only one, massive punting Chinese guy. Different guy every shop.
I always presumed local takeaways were not too demanding of the taxman's time.
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« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2015, 04:25:07 PM » |
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There was a great thread on the bf forum years ago about betting shop characters and a piss take at certain types of characters who lurk in every betting shop across the land. It was amazing how many of the 'types' do actually exist in any random shop you go in. Most of them exist on blonde as well.
My favourite is "advice man". Always liberal to give advice to everyone before a race and to the losing jockey of his selection during/after the race. "Shout at screen" man always good too. There's an on-course version of him these days, "Haydock screamy woman", who screams home every winner. Haha. I always assumed that was some sort of, almost, backing accompanyment to the commentary. The woman that screams like she has had her entire roll on it every race. |
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« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2015, 05:22:32 PM » |
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Every bookie I worked in had one, and only one, massive punting Chinese guy. Different guy every shop.
I always presumed local takeaways were not too demanding of the taxman's time.
haha, my local bookies back in the day had a chinese guy who ran the fish and chip shop. Massive punter, always allowed to skip the queue and get on after a race had started |
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« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2015, 09:03:28 PM » |
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It will be the usual BBC/Channel 4 hatchet job showing countless fobtards knocking in their benefits, designed as ever to enrage squealing Guardian readers who can then wring their hands together and wail about the plight and abuse of the unemployed and unemployable. As usual completely ignoring the fact they'd lose it over the counter in the bookies or in an amusement arcade if Fobts didn't exist, albeit less rapidly.
Should have filmed it in an independent betting shop. Its a bit more cutting edge and gritty then
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« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2015, 09:58:07 PM » |
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Coral online dept admit to knowing the 'shrewdies'.
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« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2015, 09:58:49 PM » |
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1/4 million if Man Utd win a corner?
10,000 new accounts for every opening offer?
Me thinks they are fibbing.
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« Reply #29 on: July 20, 2015, 10:09:00 PM » |
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Lol
What have you bet on?
Odd
Err no you haven't!
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