[kridel]

I thought my current thoughts would go quite well with the title of this previous post. Let’s talk spam. Not the processed meat in a can kind, but the kind you get in your mailbox. I’ve got my hotmail account set up to send all email from addresses that aren’t in my contact list directly to the spam folder and then I go through “diagonally”. As online gambling is my poison, I have signed here, there and everywhere to get notified of special bonus offers. Presently I’m receiving less of these, as I have removed myself from many mailing lists.
These things never really tempted me that much. Most of them were from really ugly sites that looked dodgy (not sure if they aren’t all a bit dodgy when it comes down to it, but let’s not turn my own problem into some kind of conspiracy theory… “I’m not an addict! They ***** my money!” … sure they did).
But this is one that really gets to me: an email with the subject line: “boost your salary”. WTF?! Dodgy bonus adverts, I can live with, but here they’re implying that you’ll get an extra income! That’s just wrong! All wrong! Don’t worry, I’m not being pulled in by it, but it is exactly the kind of thing that got me into gambling in the first place: kill a bit of time and make some extra money, as if it was a given that I was going to win.
The first time I decided to stop, I told myself I was not going to be like ex-smokers that come down as a ton of bricks on anybody who’s still smoking. This time around I’m saying: sod it! I’m angry at myself, but I’m going to redistribute some of that anger towards the (online) casinos. There’s simply nothing good about them. Period. Gambling adds nothing to anybody’s life. The only way to win is to get the **** out.

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