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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
"...it's all about video slot machines with sound, graphics and near-wins designed to keep the customer gambling and gambling...just the repeated playing of video slots definitely seems to be a loser's game. You play....you lose....you play some more....you lose some more? NH already has scratch tickets so why add another way for people to be losers...?"
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1) Ahead of me in line in the Carolinas somewhere, I watched a young—and barefoot—mother as she played a $1 scratch-off ticket at a convenience store. She quietly won $7, and I was happy for her: then she immediately bought seven more tickets and lost every one.
When I related this to a neighbor (who's a federal-prison psychologist), he said "In Psychology, gambling is known as a
Variable Re-enforcement Schedule".
(If you lost every time you gambled, you'd soon give it up, but winning every-so-often just fuels a natural addiction).
This psychological phenomenon has even been noted in studies among rats. Electric shock or cheese, the rewards—and the penalties—are taken in stride.
2) I've found that giving a $1 lottery ticket as a gift can really pick up that person's spirits for the rest of the week; however, it can also precipitate a latent gambling addiction.
3) Just into my teen years, I played the 5¢ "one-armed-bandit" at the Christmas Farm Inn in Jackson, NH. At such an early age—and having to beg
every nickle—I was quickly shown gambling's futility.
BTW: New Hampshire was "First in the Nation" with a State Lottery. (Which didn't slow government-hirings, did it?)
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Originally Posted by phoenix
maybe we could claim that when we are in the broads we are in international waters and get duty free shopping  |
As gambling sites, the lake could support another M/S Mt. Washington—or even
two—still,
there's just something very wrong with that picture.
IMHO