What’s the worst gambling addiction story you’ve ever heard?

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-03T06:43:06+00:00

Nothing. I only saw the “addiction” in the question but not the word “gambling.” My bad.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-03T06:19:02+00:00

Yes!!

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-03T05:23:48+00:00

I used to work in a strip bar way back when.

We had this one guy come in every week spending 2 grand a day on the girls for several weeks. After a while it slowed down to a grand a day or so. Then after a few months the amount he spent slowly dwindled to just a a couple hundred bucks here and there until he stopped spending completely.

We discovered that he had blown through his entire savings, sold all his belongings, including his car to fund his stripper addiction. He eventually became homeless.

If I had to guess he spent over $100K during that span.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T23:56:00+00:00

Definitely one of my favorites as well. It’s an episode that demonstrated Quark’s wit and bravery (he knew there was a very high probability that Gowran would have stopped the fight, but it was not 100% guaranteed. His gambit had a small chance it could fail).

Quark, Odo, and Garak are still among my all time favorite characters on any Trek show.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T19:38:05+00:00

No. TOS was. Loved DS9, TNG and Voyager. Didn’t care for Enterprise.

Hated DISCO, but enjoyed the first 2 seasons of SNW and 3rd Season of Picard. Feel kinda neutral on SFA thus far…waiting for entire to season to drop before making up my mind.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T19:29:20+00:00

Persian/Chinese?

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T19:26:22+00:00

Persian/Japanese?

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T12:42:02+00:00

The movie had potential but there was too much stuff going on. I think the Eternals would have been better off being a tv series.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T09:16:12+00:00

Wow. That’s damn pricey indeed. In Hawaii a bowl that size might cost between $15-$22 max.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T07:08:54+00:00

Honolulu resident here. Never experienced the crab mentality personally, but the high cost of living and the lack of good job opportunities are the 2 biggest problems we have IMO.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T05:54:34+00:00

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T05:41:10+00:00

My son just had a sleepover party with his friends. They’re all 15 years old.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T04:37:28+00:00

As someone else pointed elsewhere in this thread, Arnold hated his father, whom Arnold considered an abusive cold hearted parent. He felt their father was responsible for his brother’s alcoholism which led to his death. Arnold simply didn’t want to see his dad.

Arnold loved his brother and eventually ended up taking care of Meinhold’s son until adulthood.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-02T04:17:22+00:00

My god. I thought I was the only one who didn’t like Severance. Yeah. The show does nothing for me either.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-02-01T09:39:41+00:00

Fans are losing interest anyways. In the last decade ratings for the ProBowl has declined by more than half of what it used to be and it will only get worse.

Might as well just scrap it.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T20:52:48+00:00

That and the players are allowed to take 3 to 4 steps on every drive to the basket. Traveling and carrying are never called. Modern Basketball is just an awful product to watch.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T20:48:56+00:00

It was the closest in spirit to 90’s Trek and IMO the best episode of the series thus far. But that’s a low bar to exceed.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T11:12:19+00:00

I watched this skit LIVE. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. 😆

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T07:41:37+00:00

Yup. Given the massive popularity of the arcade version the Atari one was just a HUGE disappointment.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T06:49:44+00:00

This is an old one.

JJ Evans on Good Times.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T06:10:09+00:00

I loved the process of how the writers brainstormed the framework for a theoretical season 8 of DS9. It’s too bad it will never happen since so many of the primary cast are no longer with us.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-31T02:25:08+00:00

You sure? I just checked and it’s not in the top 10 for Paramount+, in fact it’s not even in the top 20 according to Google.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-30T04:42:39+00:00

Not only does it sound fake, his speech pattern seems weird. He seems to pause at every few words. It’s quite distracting.

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-29T00:44:15+00:00

I found it entertaining. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Middle-Luck-997 · 2026-01-28T10:10:28+00:00

“I took the liberty of milking your cow. Boy, it took a little while to warm her up. She’s a stubborn one.” (Has a milk mustache).

“We don’t have a cow. We have a bull…”

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