Bingo Ads

[ouibonjour]

For heavens sake - does anyone think its a con showing lots of people in the sun, partying, laughing playing games, having a picnic, socializing - Am I wrong - or do most people sit on their own at home playing these online games? What does anyone else think? Or am I just odd!

[woofgang]

I think its no more of a con than the ads with the the poodle in who sings "where the hell has all the mud gone" What I do think is that online gambling is a pernicious thing and very dangerous.

[MallyJ]

It isn't a con as such but it does suggest lots of friends and fun which is aimed at those at home alone who are possibly feeling a bit bored and lonely. It does seem to me that most adverts suggest that, with whatever product they are trying to flog, we will be better looking, more attractive to the opposite sex, a better parent, wealthier, have a more up to date home etc etc depending on what the product is. All those ads for various lotteries are doing the same thing!

[zebo]

But at least they don't have to dance up and down the street with some shrill, Ronsealed youth as they would be doing if they won the Postcode lottery.
All ads are there to peddle a phoney view of life, you never saw a cornflakes advert in a scruffy kitchen, with less-than average looking parents and children while the rain from the grey sky battered the windows!

[maggiebee]

I must be odd too then. Can't stand the bingo ads with the "celebrities" from The Chase promoting it. Don't they get paid enough already?

[Patsy33]

I agree woofgang. They are pernicious and dangerous. Not that it will bother the advertisers/promoters. It makes me sad and angry. I know how an online gambling can have an effect on family. It's horrendous.

[dance2trance]

Well if you took as much cocaine as the young men in Soho advertising agencies do to make the adverts that is what you would think appealed to solo isolated bingo players. I think they are quite daft adverts but morally corrupt in as much as they promote addictive gambling which has to cause loss of income and eventual distress.