You’d think that if a state government is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a program to tackle problem gambling, we’d be seeing results by now. However, the Victorian government in Australia came under heavy fire this week after it was found that a $132 million program launched in 2006 called “Taking Action on Problem Gambling Strategy”, showed “little or no evidence to suggest the initiatives in this audit would be effective.” Among the downfalls were the lack of targets set to measure whether the strategies had been effective and the fact that all those little bling things that they put on pokies to warn gamblers of the time were simply useless in preventing problem gambling… now fancy that..!
So… An Englishman decides that he wants to become an Irishman and goes to his doctor to find out how to go about it. The doctor hums and haws and says eventually: “Well, this is a very delicate operation and a multitude of things can go wrong. The procedure entails removing half your brain.” The Englishman thinks about this and then says: “That’s OK. My dream has always been to be Irish. I’ll take the risk.”
On the day of the operation, something goes horribly wrong and the Englishman wakes up to find the doctor looking over him in horror. “I’m so sorry,” laments the doctor. “In error, I removed your entire brain instead the half of it!” The Englishman opens his mouth and says, “No worries, mate!”
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