[Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...]

Starting a new job in the morning and I've spent the last 3 hours wide awake trying to get to sleep.

[Kim Jong-Un is dead]

Unbereevabru news.

[Mascots observing minutes silences]

The West Ham one is the best.

[South Park]

Brack Friday Bunduru..

Jesus wept, almost pished myself at that episode.

[Liverpool City Council Ban FOBTs In Betting Shops]

The wife usually didn't know I was skint 'til it came having to buy messages or give the kids their bus fare and tuck money for school, glad that 1 experience helped you see the error of your ways, I was way too selfish to learn on the 1st few hundred occasions.

Yeah it did thankfully, I broke down in front of her having realised exactly what I had done.

Took about 7 months before I was allowed my bank card again, felt like a complete child but it was the only way to stop me from completely losing myself in the bookies.

I don't think people realise how easy it actually is to become addicted and how incredibly difficult it is to get away from it.

[Liverpool City Council Ban FOBTs In Betting Shops]

I had to ban myself from every bookies in the South of Edinburgh about 2 years ago as these machines were slowly destroying me.

I had a (really well paid) job at the age of 20 and thought it was the bollocks.

I'd think nothing more of going into the bookies and wasting £20 here or there and I could afford it, safe to say I own jack shit from these machines.

It really hit home though when I went to a William Hills, lost £400 in the machine and thinking I could chase my losses, went home and lost £1400 online in around 3-4 minutes.

Missus asked me to go to the shops to get nappies for the wee man and all I had was 30p in my wallet, 3 days after payday.

Still have the odd (small stakes) bet on an accumulator but will never ever look at one of those machines ever again, almost cost me everything before I realised what an absolute fanny I had been.