So what's a pokie???
Mar 6th 2004, 7:21 am
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Australia has more pokies per capita than any other country in the world.
I didn't know they weren't legal in WA.
Yes, as mentioned, the gambling prob in Aus is rife. Annual state budgets depend on a certain level of income from pokies (like they do speed cameras) and govts are reluctant to take measures that may reduce this income.
I didn't know they weren't legal in WA.
Yes, as mentioned, the gambling prob in Aus is rife. Annual state budgets depend on a certain level of income from pokies (like they do speed cameras) and govts are reluctant to take measures that may reduce this income.
Mar 6th 2004, 7:56 am
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Re: So what's a pokie???
Originally posted by stevejohna
Just read the thread about a bogan (i had wondered), but what the hells a pokie???
They don't sound too popular whatever they are.
Just read the thread about a bogan (i had wondered), but what the hells a pokie???
They don't sound too popular whatever they are.
Sometime later, working in Sydney and still ignorant of the truth (they're 'one-armed bandits' - gaming machines, in fact), I was amazed at the frankness of some colleagues who said they were off the spend lunchtime 'with the pokies'
Anya.
Mar 6th 2004, 8:00 am
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Re: So what's a pokie???
Originally posted by anya4oz
First time I went to Oz, a good friend told me that pokies were 'ladies of easy virtue' who hung around the bars touting for business. Only problem was - I believed him!
Sometime later, working in Sydney and still ignorant of the truth (they're 'one-armed bandits' - gaming machines, in fact), I was amazed at the frankness of some colleagues who said they were off the spend lunchtime 'with the pokies'
Anya.
First time I went to Oz, a good friend told me that pokies were 'ladies of easy virtue' who hung around the bars touting for business. Only problem was - I believed him!
Sometime later, working in Sydney and still ignorant of the truth (they're 'one-armed bandits' - gaming machines, in fact), I was amazed at the frankness of some colleagues who said they were off the spend lunchtime 'with the pokies'
Anya.
