hmmm...sounds similar to the sucking black hole called Oklahoma

is there a lottery?

yup just started around the first of the year...oh wait..the scratch offs started around Christmas...

 

huge thing here..lots of resistance..and now there are tons of commercials about gambling responsibly...*shakes head* but the Ok was a totally dry state until just recently too.

hmmm....

 

the thing is, the legislation isn't completely stupid. like, people mess up their lives gambling. not all, not even close. it's a definite minority.

 

but even outside of casinos, just sticking with lotteries and scratch tickets, i see poor folks, with little recourse for improving their lot, further impoverishing themselves by buying like $20 of lottery tickets a day. it can be a serious problem.

 

these people, they're poor, they dream of not being poor, or they're in a situation where they're heavily in debt, and that $10 000 scratch ticket jackpot would mean the end of their financial troubles. so they keep sinking money into more tickets, until after a year, they've spent nearly as much as they've been trying to win. while on the surface, some of these laws may seem stupid, but they're often at least a little bit well-intentioned. in practice, though, those laws never work as well as they are supposed to.

you are correct..and that was the body of the arguement here..but as with all things..moderation.

 

gambling, alcohol, food, smoking....there are laws intended to protect with all of those..but if the individual doesn't make choices or use thier brain they are not effective..and there is always a way to get around the law.

absolutely.

 

and everything in moderation, especially moderation.

Not just moderation but balance too. Too much of anything shifts everything else out of the way and *edits* you up.

moderation sucks

 

over excess on everything woooo!!

*grins, setsp back and waits for the inevitable overload*

*jumps round in circles giglling and falls because she is too dizzy*

too many daiquiris for elmindreda, looks like. 8)

*drinks and gambles all his money away*

*gambles and wins all the money, sips drink and smirks*

 

want a loan?

I was broke before then and I'm broke again, no big loss.

*grins*

 

good. Then we can go look at the pretty lights, the shows..*smirks* and the chorus girls...

oooh I like shiny lights

hmm..you go do that...i think ill play black jack for a while....where the drink girl?

*laughs* each to his own circus..

 

*runs off to Circus Circus...and the shiny, bright lights*

 

Coming?

The circus? sure...i can gamble anytime.

*grins and holds out hand*

 

Well..come on then..Dae, Steelie, Dude, Min?

 

*grins grabbing hands and skips off to the circus*

 

Lions, and tigers and bears...Oh My!

*grins and skips along* were off to see the wizard....wait who am I?

hm.. the lion??? lol

hmm...no i dont think so... that would make me the coward....maybe the tin man...no heart.

hmm.. i think neither.. :)

Well i cant be the scarecrow you know...Im way way too intelligent for that... and I am not toto or dorothy...hmm Can I be the wicked witch of hte west?