What song are you listening to?

Yeah gambling addiction is brutal.

It's the only addiction that makes you think doing more of it is the way out.

Those bastard machines are designed to addict you. It's criminal really. At least with drugs you have fun. With gambling and pokies in particular you're just feeding a machine money for the most part.
Yeah it's the buzz of winning that's the addiction
 
Many years ago , I saw a boxing troupe up at the Atherton Show
I always thought it was Jimmy Sharmans until recently finding out that it finished in the early 70s due to the laws banning boxers from fighting weekly and this was 1978
My only guess it was Fred Brophys ...but wasn't able to find out when Brophys started exactly
Wiki says about 1977 ...no exact date
 
Dont know what bungers cost these days, the legit ones at Coles or Woolies...been about 24 years since I quit thankfully
I used to work with a lady who would walk out every 30-45 minutes for a smoke, so I asked her one day how much cigarettes cost. She told me they had gone up to over $50 a pack 😵, but she had found a tobacco store that sold her Chinese imported cigarettes for half the price.

With all the tobacco wars going on in Melbourne, you can see how lucrative that industry is.
 
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Great band. However in my opinion, Peter made a major mistake by going into politics. He was always Labor left, but I think he went too far with his own agenda. The Pink Batts scheme in 2009 is an example.

What a mess. Four young tradies lost their lives due to the rush to meet installation quotas with almost no safety rules. Then there was the cover up by the Rudd government in 2014.
 
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