Merse is holding a mirror up to a lot of guys on here.
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I’d say there’s a fair smell of LOM
I’d say Paul Merson’s PR people have seriously earned their corn by preventing him (to the best of my knowledge) from commenting on anything even vaguely political.
And thus we’re still able to appreciate him appearing on Tommy Tiernan and having a relaxing walk through the Yorkshire Dales on BBC1.
Which is good.
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The Merse interview was brilliant. Gambled away millions 
. A curse of an addiction.
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He could get a job with Sean Quinn. Or AIB. Or Chelsea.
Mick Flannery 
It’s so normalised now, every where you look.Radio TV every second and.Every radio presenter actually asking you to gamble,can you imagine Gay Byrne asking you to gamble your money away instead of feeding your kids?It’s a sickness.
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I think gambling “addiction” is a bit of a cod
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Merson didn’t once take personal responsibility for his various addictions. Surely that’s the first step?
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The like of gambling and sex “addictions” are a cod, the people who claim to have them are degenerate fucks with no self control and thats the long and short of it, people of low moral character
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I do believe that people can become addicted but this painting of it as an illness which made Merson lose all of his friends is clearly delusional.
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Dopamine fueled neural pathways. Some peoples pathways seem to be more deeply embedded than others.
Not everyone who gambles is an addict. No different to Guinness or Heineken ads or sponsorship but we don’t seem to have a problem with those …
I’d say there’s more people who ruined their lives with drink in Ireland than with gambling.
Alcohol has destroyed Ireland, imagine what the country could have achieved if we weren’t a nation of pissheads
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Paddy is insecure and needs the hooch for confidence.
It goes back a long time, its deep in the DNA, being ruled by the Brits for 800 years done it, two lads with big sticks in Dublin Castle controlled the place for hundreds of years
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Celtic tiger - nothing was enough , pure piggery .a horrible horrible time to be alive truth be told .
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Everyone lost the run of themselves, Bricklayers were driving Mercs and had holidays homes in Portugal and Spain
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An insatiable appetite for more to feel some sense of value .very sad.you can see it on here in some lads , trying to be the big dawg .
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There is a fella near me here (developer) who at the height of it, landed in 2 big stone eagles onto the palatial lawn. The fella who ended buying the place had some crack getting rid of them.
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