Posts Tagged ‘Bingo’
Posted January 27, 2010 and tagged as Bingo.
You may have heard the term (football widower) in the past, but now it seems many men are falling victim to a new online bingo phenomenon, becoming a (bingo widower). With the World Cup looming this year, yet again there will be many football widowers up and down the UK as lots of men (and some women of course) take to their local pubs or front rooms to watch all the World Cup action unfold.
So have the tables turned for men? In a survey which was conducted by online bingo club, it showed there are now many frustrated British men out there; after they claim that their wives prefer to play bingo than have sex!
In the survey more than 70% of men admitted that their love lives had suffered as a direct result of their partner preferring to play with her dauber, than spending quality time with them……………..possibly making them a bingo widower.
One man, who asked not to be named, said: “I don’t know what happened, we used to be so close, now she spends all her time online while I wait for her to come to bed. Everyone needs some time on their own but not every night, I barley get to see her anymore.”
Online bingo has been one of the fastest growing industries to ever land on the net, just nothing seems to be stopping its popularity or growth. Which does mean (unfortunately for men) there could be many more (bingo widowers) this time next year.
When the game of bingo was first introduced online back in 1996, there were just a handful of bingo sites for players to select from. Fast forward to the present day and there are now well over 300 online bingo sites listed on the world wide web. This gives you a good indication of just how much the online bingo game has grown over the years.
It is thought, many women now prefer to play bingo online or an evening, rather than a night of passion with their husbands or partners. It has even been claimed that some women are logging on directly they get home from work and continuing to play bingo into the early hours. Interesting enough, historically it is men who have been accused of losing their (sex drive) in favour of the TV or computer, but things certainly seem to be on the change.
Posted January 13, 2010 and tagged as Bingo.
Weather conditions throughout the UK in December 2009, have significantly disrupted bingo play in most Mecca Bingo and other land based bingo clubs. But despite (The Big Freeze) Mecca Bingo have reported that although customer visits were down, this has been offset by an increased average customer spend per player.
In fact despite the difficult economic and weather climate’s the Rank Group, owners of Mecca Bingo ended last year on a gaming high. The groups casino arm (Grosvenor Casinos) was the revenue show stopper, as like for like revenues in this department were up by 4% in the 12 weeks leading up to 27th December 2009.
The rank group are still in the process of developing seven of its sites into G Casino brands. The G casinos are designed to appeal to a much wider audience including the (non gamer) as they not only offer a fun night out packed full of entertainment, but a place where you can have a flutter at the same time if you wish.
Many land based bingo clubs closed their doors for the last time in the UK during 2009. Mecca Bingo although also closing some of their less profitable clubs being one of the few bingo establishments to actually open some new bingo clubs as well.
Mecca Bingo in Beeston is the next generation style bingo club which offers bingo players a whole new bingo experience. Mecca Bingo also opened new clubs in Nottingham and Catford (south east London) last year. Plans to open another new Mecca Bingo club in Oldbury (West Midlands) are set to go ahead later this month.
A brand new ‘Full House’ bingo concept was launched by Mecca Bingo in 2009, in a bid to attract the next generation of bingo players to their bingo halls. Their online bingo site (Mecca Bingo Online) continues to be a leading force within the online bingo industry and they have certainly wowed and entertained their players with a number of innovative online bingo promotions.
Mecca Bingo online are currently offering up a guaranteed £20,000 jackpot every week throughout January at their online bingo site, which gives you an idea of the kind of online bingo promotions they come up with.
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Posted January 12, 2010 and tagged as Bingo.
There are many online bingo sale bargains to be had at the moment around bingo sites on the net and by the looks of things Foxy Bingo have now joined in the sale fun. Throughout this week up until Friday 15th January, Foxy Bingo have stated that they will be running their best ever sale. You could say this one is a week long free bingo marathon,
We can tell you that this will include 100% cash match deposit bonuses all week long and 24 hours worth of daily free online bingo games.
The 100% cash match bonus will be valid on your first deposit of the day (each day) during this week, on any amount between £10 and £100. Foxy Bingo usually offer a 50% bonus on all subsequent deposits made at their online bingo site, so basically they have doubled it, giving you even more bingo play for your money at no extra cost.
You can’t get more of a bingo bargain than by playing free bingo and as this is free bingo with Foxy Bingo we are talking about, the free cash prizes up for grabs are well worth trying to win.
The free online bingo marathon is now on at Foxy Bingo, where you will find one free bingo game to play every half any hour (24 hours a day) until midnight Friday. To get your half hourly free bingo fix you just need to head to their (gateway to heaven) bingo room and grab those all important free bingo tickets.
Every single free bingo game is guaranteed to payout a £25 cash prize, so this will multiply into a whole lot of free cash flying around their online bingo site and you will also have numerous chances to try and win it.
The only stipulation to be able to take part in all these free online bingo games at Foxy Bingo is that you are a funded player at their bingo site. So if you already have a Foxy Bingo account and have funded your account at least once, simply log on and enjoy some great free bingo fun.
January is always a month when lots of us watch the pennies, so be able to play free bingo games all week long is sure to be a massive hit with Foxy Bingo players.
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Posted January 12, 2010 and tagged as Bingo.
Everyone is talking about the amazing 888 Ladies Bingo £5,000,000 Game – yes, you read right, there is a £5,000,000 event on. So the big question for you, the player, is “Do you have your Golden Ticket yet?” (There are 30 chances per day to grab one). If not make your move before its too late players because that Golden Ticket can win you an entry into the gob-stopping £5,000,000 Golden Game on 17 February! The thought of a game this size is enough to make any serious player’s mouth water surely!
Players will be glad to know that there are heaps of those shiny Golden Tickets up for grabs every day and there is a number of ways for you to win one too. You should log onto 888 Ladies Bingo to get the full information but we can tell you that from the start (4 January) of this promo recently right up until the 10 February that this nation is going to be well and truly showered with Golden Tickets! Winning one of these Golden Tickets will automatically register you in the £5,000,000 Golden Game on 17 February of course!
We can tell you that there are a total of 30 Golden Tickets up for grabs each, and every, day of the promo up until the 10 February but don’t waste a second players as 30 will go by each day before you know it!
Actually there are 5 different ways open to players to win those treasured Golden Tickets – we’ll give you just 3 of the 5 below – you’ll need to log on to discover the other 2!
1. Newbies – can win Golden Tickets on their very first deposit – 10 Golden Tickets are being given away every day in a raffle for all newbies depositing for the first time at 888 Ladies Bingo!
2. Instant Gamies – will win Golden Ticket on Instant Games at 888 Ladies Bingo. 5 of these precious tickets are given away every day in a raffle for those who have wagered £50 or more on Instant Games on any particular day.
3. Freebies – players can even get Golden Tickets with Free Bingo as 888 Ladies Bingo are giving away 5 Golden Tickets every day to each player who bingos and wins £5 in the 888 Ladies 5 scheduled Free Bingo games on any particular day! Don’t forget players that you can actually nab up to 6 Free Cards per game at 888 Ladies Bingo!
When a player wins a Golden Ticket they will actually receive a beaut shiny Golden Ticket in the post! Then all they need to do is to wait patiently until that exciting £5,000,000 Golden Bingo game is held on 17 February 2010 at 9.30pm!
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Posted December 31, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
We recently launched our coveted Online Bingo Club Awards 2009, where it is our aim to give bingo players a voice to air within the online bingo industry. There are now well over 300 online bingo sites on the net for players to select from, but do they all deliver what they say? Does signing up with some bingo sites leave you feeling somewhat deflated or make you want to come back for more?
Well if you do have a favourite online bingo site on the net, now is the time to let other bingo players know about them by casting your votes in our bingo awards 2009 poll.
It will not take you very long to make your voice heard, as our online bingo club awards have only been targeted at the most significant aspects of the online bingo industry. You will find four simple questions listed, which consist of the following.
What online bingo TV advert caught your eye the most during 2009?
Which bingo site would you say offered the best promotions in 2009?
Which bingo site has the best and most friendly community?
The Big One – Who would you like to win our bingo site of the year award?
You will then simply be asked to enter your name and email address. Once you have done this, just click submit and your votes will be cast.
All of the above questions come with a drop down menu, making it very easy to answer the question and pick the site of your choice. To make things fair, only one vote per person is allowed.
Our online bingo club awards are important, as they give other bingo players and us an insight into who ranks top with (real players) within their field. So if you want to make sure your favourite online bingo site is in the running to win (online bingo site of the year 2009) make sure you cast your votes now by clicking here – Bingo Awards
Posted December 29, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
We have heard of political correctness gone mad before, but a Sudbury council clerk advising a Charity bingo caller to stop using traditional bingo call terms like (two fat ladies 88) and (legs eleven 11) through fear of prosecution, takes the bingo biscuit.
The bingo industry had a sneaky suspicion that our traditional bingo call phrases would come under attack in the not so distant future and now those fears are starting to turn into a reality. Anticipated outlawing of our language led Rob Hutchison who runs (onlinebingoclub.co.uk) to set up a campaign on his website to save our bingo slang a few weeks ago and by the looks of things his campaign which has already seen over 3,000 people cast their votes could not have come at a better time.
As reported by the BBC, John Sayers who runs a weekly charity bingo game in Suffolk has been advised by a council clerk to stop using traditional bingo call slang words, as it could upset some players. Mr Sayers stated that no one had complained before about how the bingo game was called, but now people are starting to moan saying that his (new numbers only bingo calling style) was boring!
John also went on to say, “The concern was that if there might be two large ladies in the audience when I said ‘two fat ladies 88′ or someone might think I was looking at their legs when I said ‘legs 11′. I was advised that someone might take offence and we could end up being taken to court.”
He added: “I’m obviously not being offensive – just having a bit of fun. It’s the tradition of the game and part of our language.”
A council spokeswoman told the East Anglian Daily Times: “In particular with John being a councillor we have to be politically correct. It is very sad because it is part of the fun of bingo but unfortunately in today’s society people take it literally.”
We have to say it is a sad day for bingo lovers and the ‘English Language’ to hear news of such outlawing of our traditional bingo phrases by the Sudbury Council in Suffolk…………..it also makes you think ‘what next’?
Bingo players can join the campaign running at onlinebingoclub.co.uk to save our bingo calling slang, by casting their votes here – onlinebingoclub
Posted December 18, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
The game of bingo has always had many humorous slang words associated with their bingo call numbers, like Kelly’s Eye – no 1, Legs Eleven, no 11, Two Fat Ladies – no 88 and so on. Unfortunately it is these slang terms the bingo industry fear could soon become a target, after European Laws now seem to be taking precedence over UK objectives.
Recently European quangos ordered a purge on everyday terminology which is used by many people, such as (right hand man, gentleman’s agreement, old masters) and so on. This has resulted in bingo comparison site ‘Online Bingo Club’ starting a campaign to save our much loved bingo slang words.
Rob Hutchinson, who runs onlinebingoclub.co.uk, worries it’s only a matter of time before EU killjoys set their sights on bingo hall banter. The number ‘88’ earned the nickname because it looks like two fat women standing side by side. Rob is now encouraging bingo lovers worldwide to register their support for the tradition in a poll on his website.
He Said, “The call of ‘two fat ladies’ in bingo is part of our vernacular and our heritage. It’s worth sticking up for, before we get some diktat from Brussels saying it’s derogatory to overweight customers. At the end of the day, fat is fat. We’re living in a PC world these days, and I don’t mean the computer store.”
Rob also added: “I’m sure any ladies of larger size who go to bingo don’t find it insulting, but take it in the affectionate spirit in which it’s meant. What’s the alternative: ’two generously proportioned people of either gender?’ It’s not very snappy. So this is a pre-emptive strike. Hopefully, if the forces of PC descend on our bingo halls, we’ll be able to say that the number in favour is far greater than the number complaining.”
Bingo slang has always been a bit of fun in the mix when playing bingo for bingo lovers far and wide. Its bingo banter pure and simple and we do not want to have to term ‘political correctness gone wrong’ with our bingo slang, as we say – Hands off our Two Fat Ladies (88)!
Bingo players can now cast their votes to save our ‘Two Fat Ladies’ bingo terminology on the homepage of www.onlinebingoclub.co.uk.
Posted December 11, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
Cheryl McCann won a £50,000 jackpot whilst playing at her local bingo club, but is now reportedly back on the breadline after blowing the lot! Cheryl did split her jackpot win with her best friend whom she was playing bingo with at the time, which should have left her around £25,000.
You are only allowed to have a certain amount of money in the bank to still be able to claim benefits, (which is a very good rule) so this meant that all Cheryl’s benefits were stopped after winning this huge cash prize.
The Yorkshire evening post reported Cheryl blew all her bingo winnings on luxuries such as driving lessons, a new car, holidays, TV’s and furniture for her home. Once she was penniless again, Cheryl tried to re-claim benefits, but this time the Department for work and pensions, refused her claim.
Finally the benefits office seems to have made a good decision on this one. How can it be right for someone to win that amount of cash, spend the lot, and once it’s all gone think that they can just re-claim benefits again, so they can sponge off us hard working tax payers………it’s appalling!
Most of us would never have £25,000 to do with as we want in our lives and instead of Cheryl spending her bingo windfall wisely, i.e. investing it or putting some away for her children’s education for when they get older etc, she just spent it all and they from the looks of it expected to be kept by the state once more.
It is a shame to see such a huge bingo windfall not being put to better use. Bingo has always been a game about luck and chance, which is one of the reasons why is has become one of the most social gaming activities there is to partake in.
We don’t know the legal standing behind the department of work and pensions refusal to give Cheryl state benefits’ once again after blowing such a large amount of cash. But we assume at some stage they will be obliged to pay Cheryl benefits once more……………however maybe they should make her get a job to support herself and her three children………..after all that’s what millions of other single mums do every day of the week.
Posted November 20, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
They say you are as young at you feel and hearing about bingo vandalism story involving OAP’s at a housing association in Edinburgh, certainly put a spring in our steps to find out more. Things seem like they have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous as a power struggle between elderly residents at the Calder Garden Facility in Sighthill, has ignited, which has led to police launching an investigation into malicious vandalism.
This bingo power struggle all reportedly began after pool balls went missing and a bingo night had to be cancelled at this residential home. According to the ‘News Scotsman’ there has been a long running dispute between different cliques at Calder Garden home.
The latest development in this struggle happened last week when the pool table at the residential care home was vandalised. It is thought this was an inside job. The pool table was donated by a local taxi firm to 75 year old Elizabeth Mitchell.
Her daughter also named (Elizabeth) spoke to the News Scotsman about what has been going on, she said, “It was something that a lot of the relatives liked to play when they came round on Fridays, particularly the youngsters, and it was well used by residents too. We called in the police, although it looks like it was someone at the complex that did it. It’s just so unfair. A few people are causing problems for everyone else, but this kind of behaviour is totally unacceptable.”
Apparently all this unrest at the home has escalated from March this year after an election for a new residents committee took place. It has been claimed that the new committee are a law unto themselves and the election was rigged, so the committee members could do what the like with the hall at the centre of this dispute.
It seems a shame to hear of such ill feeling between the OAP’s, but just like a spokesman for the council in Edinburgh said, “As with any group of people living together, differences can arise and we are working with the residents to resolve them.”
This has got to be one of the wackiest (although not funny) bingo stories we have ever come across!
Posted November 13, 2009 and tagged as Bingo.
Audrey White has worked as an assistant manager at the Palace Bingo club in Felixstowe for many years and this lucky lady has just hit a lottery scratch card jackpot to the tune of £1 million pounds! What is astounding about this huge lottery win is that it came about due to a mistake by the supermarket shop assistant who sold Audrey the winning scratch card ticket.
Mrs White went to purchase a lottery scratch card at near her home in Suffolk at her local supermarket. Lottery scratch cards come in many dominations usually ranging between £1 and £5. Audrey asked for a £2 scratch card, but the supermarket checkout girl pulled off a £5 scratch card by mistake.
Audrey had previously won £5 on a scratch card purchase, so decided to keep the £5 ticket and we bet she is glad she did, as she is now £1 million pounds richer. It is not often that you hear about a mistake being made, which actually has the reverse effect of its namesake, but that is most definitely the case here.
It has not been all plain sailing for Mrs White who has three children. Three years ago she faced repossession of her semi detached house in Felixstowe, which could have made her homeless. Thankfully this will never be a worry to the lucky lady anymore, as Audrey plans to pay off her mortgage and put a new conservatory on her home with her winnings.
Speaking about her £1 million lottery scratch card win, Mrs White, said: “I asked for a £2 card and she pulled out the £5 one by mistake. I’d already won £5 on another scratch card so I decided to have a go. I rubbed it off when I got home later and I just couldn’t believe it – I’m still in a state of shock. I’ve got a private bank account in Mayfair. I’ve got my own private banker. This sort of thing doesn’t happen to an assistant bingo manager.”
Audrey has one million reasons to thank the shop assistant for her mistake, so it just goes to show you that some mistakes do have a light at the end of the tunnel.
