hold the bells

So Sorry for your loss Stan 

Spa, congratulations!

Know exactly where this is, hope it all goes well and you make some money

Have in-laws over and dinner is under control and will  be maybe 2 hours

Was up at 5.50am with my son, made sure Santa "Dropped" a small Lego set in his room which kept him occupied until around 7

Spent a good 4 hours building Lego sets for my son and made a start on a huge Playmobile castle 

Having a beer now and going to watch TV with my son

The bookies grew at a time when any employment increase was good news.

Their reason was to get as many shops as they could,  staffed by zero hour staff with 4 FOBT in each and make 50K or more per machine per year

I even have seen them in old bank buildings in Leeds.

Too many of them, stakes\Prizes are a joke and they do nothing to help addicts 

Yet sadly im seeing the drive towards a limited human workforce in supermarkets 

 

I either use online shopping or if I go to the supermarket I use the self scan, surprised how little this is still used given how easy it is vs queuing on the normal tills.

Guess a lot of people still don't like it.

As for fruit machines, they will never go back, suspect some watered down "sanctions" on the bookies but doubt stakes or prizes will change much.

The UK is a mess for stake vs JP, even the casinos are messed up. Most Novamatics pay 1000 X stake as a JP, most of them in the UK are 2000 X stake so god knows what that does to the game.