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(NW Florida Daily News) Florida Seniors rave about the bingo experience. How much do they spend? "Usually $200. A day"   (nwfdailynews.com) divider line 44
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The Grinch 2008-09-28 04:06:48 AM  
This is where the Social Security percentage (that gets skimmed out of YOUR paycheck) goes.

 
SooooFarkedUp 2008-09-28 04:09:28 AM  
Sweeeeet, I can't wait to retire.

 
DeRosso 2008-09-28 04:11:28 AM  
They should start shooting craps instead

 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia 2008-09-28 04:12:04 AM  
The Grinch: This is where the Social Security percentage (that gets skimmed out of YOUR paycheck) goes.

yeah because soc security is totally $200 a day.

tard.

 
pyrion [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 04:12:57 AM  
The Grinch: This is where the Social Security percentage (that gets skimmed out of YOUR paycheck) goes.

THIS.

 
bamboozil 2008-09-28 04:15:12 AM  
So anyways... I have a page where I document my bingo experience being surrounded by countless old women and the musk of Old Spice.

thought I would share it.


HereLink

 
12inpianist 2008-09-28 04:15:53 AM  
DeRosso: They should start shooting craps instead

I agree. I really hate that guy 'Craps'.

On the last cruise I went on, I had a good time shooting skeet.

 
Lycopene 2008-09-28 04:19:30 AM  
"Anytime you use money, it's gambling,"

"This is better than a casino," Houston said. "It's not just a walk in and leave and 'See you in two or three weeks.' And in the winter a lot of our snowbirds are repeat people."


I realize that this is Florida, but the other communities need to stifle or tax this. Some octo-genarian blowing their social security check on a stamper and numbered pieces of paper to gamble is asinine. Our tax dollars hard at work.

 
EnigmaBurn007 2008-09-28 04:20:39 AM  
eh. at work, we use 4 tour buses and bring them in.

//casino employee.

 
myalias1845 2008-09-28 04:27:38 AM  
DeRosso: They should start shooting craps instead

I think that's why they created Depends.

 
tuna fingers 2008-09-28 04:28:53 AM  
Q: What do you get when you cross an octopus with your grandma?

A: I don't know, but it sure can play bingo.

/credits to the full house/aristocrats dude

 
Confabulat [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 04:33:16 AM  
The quesadillas are my favorite.

 
Dubai Vol 2008-09-28 04:36:56 AM  
No, Social Security isn't $200 a day, but those seniors who can afford to blow $200 a day on bingo all get Social Secutiy check. John McCain gets a Social Security check. Bill Gates will get a Social Security check hen he retires.

I've been told for 25 years that Social Security will be bankrupt when I retire. Maybe if they didn't pay rich people out of the fund it would be around for people who need it. Means testing works for every other wealth-transfer program, but old people vote and politicians know it.

 
Confabulat [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 04:37:31 AM  
What's awesome is most of these seniors would almost certainly be opposed to Vegas-style legalized gambling in Florida.

Bingo is what you do at church, you know. It's God's approved game of chance.

 
pyrion [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 04:42:48 AM  
Confabulat: What's awesome is most of these seniors would almost certainly be opposed to Vegas-style legalized gambling in Florida.

Bingo is what you do at church, you know. It's God's approved game of chance.


Yeah, ever since they did away with selling plenary indulgences, anyway.

 
Cozret 2008-09-28 04:45:42 AM  
This just scares the those people who want Mom and Dad's stuff when they kick it. I keep telling my folks, "It's your money, you spend it."

 
down4afall 2008-09-28 04:45:49 AM  
Also, in case you were wondering about your inheritance; That's where all that reverse mortgage money is going.

 
Mitch Mitchell 2008-09-28 04:47:38 AM  
I like talking about my kids at the bingo hall.

/don't have any kids

 
The Grinch 2008-09-28 04:59:08 AM  
holiday_inn_in_cambodia

yeah because soc security is totally $200 a day.

tard.


Doesn't matter how much it is, farktard; I'm pretty sure the retarded grandma blowing a grand a week isn't representative of the elderly population as a whole, but the journalist picked her to catch your attention. The least that any old geezer can do after cashing a free check to which I contributed is to handle it responsibly. Also doesn't matter if it's bingo or blackjack; they're both gambling, one just has better PR.

 
Mad Canadian 2008-09-28 05:02:31 AM  
They're probably only holding 20 percent, or about $40 a person.

So if grandma plays 8 hours, she's really only spending $5/hr to have someone watch over her.

Plus she can visit with all her friends, and laugh and have a good time.

And she can change her own Depends, tyvm.

 
Yogimus 2008-09-28 05:31:23 AM  
The Grinch: holiday_inn_in_cambodia

yeah because soc security is totally $200 a day.

tard.

Doesn't matter how much it is, farktard; I'm pretty sure the retarded grandma blowing a grand a week isn't representative of the elderly population as a whole, but the journalist picked her to catch your attention. The least that any old geezer can do after cashing a free check to which I contributed is to handle it responsibly. Also doesn't matter if it's bingo or blackjack; they're both gambling, one just has better PR.


It's their money. They contributed to it too. More importantly, do you REALLY believe that elderly only have social security as an income? Furthermore, if they ARE spending their social security money, isn't this a much better way to send it back into the economy than stuffing it under a mattress?

 
Richard Saunders 2008-09-28 06:12:05 AM  
FTA - ...a lot of our snowbirds are repeat people.

They're reincarnated?

Huh.
That I did not know.
Huh.

 
dofus 2008-09-28 07:29:02 AM  
$200?? Maybe in some fancy place. It's more like $20 in most places.

Around here, the sessions usually go from 6 PM to 9 PM and people (mostly women) start gathering sometime after 3. It's as much social as it is money...

/Florida

 
moralpanic 2008-09-28 07:52:43 AM  
Having lived in Florida, and gone to many a Bingo halls in Boynton and Seminole, yeah, this is pretty common. Heck, that's all they do.

 
michaeld5 2008-09-28 08:00:03 AM  
There's a certain smell to seniors. Anyone else ever notice?

www.campbellcounty.ky.gov

 
billybobtoo 2008-09-28 08:04:46 AM  
looking forward to spending my social security check on hookers and blow, in a few years. it's my money, not yours. enjoy the coming recession...for the next 10 years!

 
12inpianist 2008-09-28 08:06:51 AM  
michaeld5: There's a certain smell to seniors. Anyone else ever notice?

It's the formaldehyde.

 
dofus 2008-09-28 08:27:44 AM  
You young squirts love to pick on seniors. That's OK. Just keep in mind that one day you'll be a senior. Or not. The latter option is not so good.

\Florida
\\Student geezer
\\\Lawn, etc.

 
Jamieboy 2008-09-28 08:30:07 AM  
My brother and I had a friend whose mother would to drive us to the (Jersey) shore for the day. We would get there around 9:00AM, and the mother would say "meet me back here at 10:00PM". We would take off and do young kid stuff at the shore and she would spend all day in a bingo parlor, never leaving, ever for food. One time she lost it all, didn't even have enough money for gas to get home. We had to wait for hours until someone came to rescue us. Another time we met her back at the car and she had so much shiat she won we could hardly all get in the car. And by shiat, I mean cheap shiat: awful lamps, more awful art work, just general awful crap, but no money. Again we had to be rescued, by our parents this time. Mom and Dad wouldn't let us go with them any more because, as it was explained to us, Mrs. F had a gambling problem, and god knows where we will get stranded next time. Every time I see a bingo place, I think about Mrs. F, with her pasty, florescent light tan, bottle blond up do, chain smoking Pall Malls, with her box of plastic discs. All that time spent playing bingo, and she never won the cash prize.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 09:49:22 AM  
I don't get why that's not considered gambling.

 
Rhaab 2008-09-28 09:56:28 AM  
moralpanic: Having lived in Florida, and gone to many a Bingo halls in Boynton and Seminole, yeah, this is pretty common.

I'm a junk bond king playing Seminole bingo, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/Fell in love with the ping-pong balls.

 
InsaneJelloTroll 2008-09-28 11:36:16 AM  
I used to work at a bingo hall and $200 a day isn't that far off. Some of the customers spent more time there than I did, and I worked 60 hrs/wk.

 
Jingoro 2008-09-28 11:55:30 AM  
Dubai Vol: ...John McCain gets a Social Security check. Bill Gates will get a Social Security check hen he retires.

You know why? They paid into the system, and they paid THE MAX into the system. The system was set up, poorly set up, that you paid in and you got it back out. Unfortunately, they started giving to people who didn't pay in, and then people who didn't pay in and then got disabled, and then their spouses and children to boot. Then didn't take into account that the geezers wouldn't freaking die. That's the problem with Social Security. It's not the fact that people are actually getting back the money they were supposed to get back out of the system.

 
Kublai Khan [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 12:36:34 PM  
Jamieboy: Another time we met her back at the car and she had so much shiat she won we could hardly all get in the car. And by shiat, I mean cheap shiat: awful lamps, more awful art work, just general awful crap, but no money.

I had relatives obsessed with bingo. Their whole house was filled with the most awful, hideous knick-knacks imaginable, all from bingo. China lamps shaped like dogs, that sort of thing.

 
Rev.Veggie.Spam 2008-09-28 12:45:43 PM  
The Grinch:... but the journalist picked her to catch your attention. ...

dofus: $200?? Maybe in some fancy place. It's more like $20 in most places. Around here, the sessions usually go from 6 PM to 9 PM and people (mostly women) start gathering sometime after 3. It's as much social as it is money...

Mad Canadian: They're probably only holding 20 percent, or about $40 a person.So if grandma plays 8 hours, she's really only spending $5/hr to have someone watch over her. Plus she can visit with all her friends, and laugh and have a good time.

These comments needed some repeating. I don't gamble but I worked in bingo hall for a couple of years that was open 15 hours a day . RARE was the person who blew $200/day though they did exist and RARELY did they play or blow that every day and they certainly weren't on retirement income.

The average person probably only laid out about $20 and played for 2-3 hours. Some played more (for longer) and some played less (for shorter) in a day but $1 still got you 10 minutes of play and a chance to chat. That's cheaper than overpriced coffee.

Compare that to $1 at a casino. That's 30 sec at a slot machine or blackjack table and no conversation.

Both are gambling, yes, but they are very different experiences.

 
Je5tEr 2008-09-28 01:10:11 PM  
Jingoro: Dubai Vol: ...John McCain gets a Social Security check. Bill Gates will get a Social Security check hen he retires.

You know why? They paid into the system, and they paid THE MAX into the system. The system was set up, poorly set up, that you paid in and you got it back out. Unfortunately, they started giving to people who didn't pay in, and then people who didn't pay in and then got disabled, and then their spouses and children to boot. Then didn't take into account that the geezers wouldn't freaking die. That's the problem with Social Security. It's not the fact that people are actually getting back the money they were supposed to get back out of the system.


If you look into it, the stats say that you get everything you've paid into social security over the course of your whole adult working life paid back to you in 2 to 3 years time.

 
moralpanic 2008-09-28 03:25:52 PM  
Rhaab: moralpanic: Having lived in Florida, and gone to many a Bingo halls in Boynton and Seminole, yeah, this is pretty common.

I'm a junk bond king playing Seminole bingo, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/Fell in love with the ping-pong balls.


LOL Seminole bingo is awesome... at 2am in the morning, that's when the Hooters and strippers get off and play bingo.

 
berylman 2008-09-28 03:54:00 PM  
The first two words of the headline caught my eye, seniors rave. I briefly imagined a bunch of elders on ecstasy waving glow sticks around in a techno bingo parlor. Scary image.

 
phaseolus 2008-09-28 03:58:59 PM  
bamboozil: So anyways... I have a page where I document my bingo experience being surrounded by countless old women and the musk of Old Spice.

thought I would share it.


HereLink


So is that like this year's RickRoll or something???

 
Haoie 2008-09-28 04:12:37 PM  
You sunk my battleship.

 
Thusly Farked [TotalFark] 2008-09-28 05:12:19 PM  
My friends and I visit a bingo parlor about once a month.

/24

 
New Moon Rabbit 2008-09-28 08:00:34 PM  
What the...?

When I first read the headline, I thought it was talking about "bingo raves". I couldn't wrap my head around that phrase.

 
discost00 2008-09-29 09:22:42 AM  
Why haven't these people been euthanised?

/bitter 28yr old.
//lawn gtfo
///credit crunch, liquidity crisis waa waa waaaaaa

 
leland242 2008-09-29 01:40:57 PM  
i play bingo at foxwoods on occasion.

once, we won $1500.

it's a lot cheaper than the tables or slots, and the odds are better... but it's still random.


/damn you for hiding B10, i would have had a a hard-way bingo!!!
//only 31

 
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