Wow. I miss Sean Lock. I just wish there could be more to enjoy.
If you’re in South Africa (I am) and you watch the football (I do), then you can’t not have noticed the range of adverts that pervade the pre-game, post-game and half time viewing experience.
Second rate alcohol (Royal Flush gin, Billiato, Honor Cognac) and ALL of the internet gambling*.
But it takes Sean Lock to actually put it in perspective.
Internet gambling. Not the gambling itself, just the level of advertising. It’s ridiculous. The bombardment. I worked out that I haven’t been encouraged to do something as much since potty training.
Both parents standing over me going “Go on, Sean. Do a wee-wee on the potty. Go on then. There’s a good boy. Do a wee-wee.”
And I’m sitting there going, “Oh, I really want to impress them. I’ll do a wee-wee on the potty.”
And now it’s like: “Go on, Sean, put a bet on. Mansfield are bound to beat Derby 3-1. You’d be crazy not to put a bet on that.”
OK. Alright. It’s not the best punchline. But it’s a good point.
* I totally recognise that 6000 miles… is occasionally complicit in this. (But I need the money.)
(To fuel my internet gambling habit.)
(Brought about by the advertising.)