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Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 11:00 am Also, "revellers"? Fuck's sake.

I love a good revel, I do.

See also : "motorists".

Here's one of the people putting pressure on the government, having (as far as I know) not exactly piled pressure on David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak.

In a foreword to the report, the former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith said: “The report shows that tougher regulation of the gambling sector would not only be uncontroversial but would carry strong public support from voters across the political spectrum.”

“If we are to protect the next generation from gambling harm, we must act.”

Here's a piece of trivia that was considered less important than Zack talking about Andy Burnham. OK, it's only a prediction. Then again Andy Burnham isn't even an MP.

Journalists love to gamble. Go to any newsroom and you'll see/hear people putting bets on anything.

Gambling also feeds into the "one of the hard kids" persona that they love to project. And of course they don't have a gambling problem; that's for feckless people, poor people, other people.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 12:17 pm I love a good revel, I do.

I like the orange ones.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 01, 2026 1:07 pm Journalists love to gamble. Go to any newsroom and you'll see/hear people putting bets on anything.

Gambling also feeds into the "one of the hard kids" persona that they love to project. And of course they don't have a gambling problem; that's for feckless people, poor people, other people.