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I've never been to a 'proper' casino, but I've seen a few in James Bond films.

Everyone is attractive, powerful and sophisticated. People look on, impressed at his daring. Everyone has a bow tie on. Beautiful women hand him free drinks with a smile. The atmosphere isn't even slightly tinged with the desperation and regret of gambling addicts.

I can understand losing $50 a day to live out that fiction.

I have no idea whether any casinos offer that experience - the gambling things I've seen in my country have all been far more tawdry.



The people in casinos are usually senior citizens carrying their oxygen tanks between slot machines.


And the slot machines are online ads incarnate.


I think of them as video games that are really simple, weird and boring.


Lol, at least the casinos I’ve been to in the US are nothing like this at all. Like basically the polar opposite.




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