BAFTA Scotland, it should be said. Also, Ford, Greg & Michael Hines (the latter being the director) all received the Outstanding Contribution to Film/Television award in 2019.
This is how a gambler lose their winnings, they spend the winnings back in the Bookie. Or they lose it by booting their prosthetic leg (stashed with their winnings) out of their tower block window.
£33k would be a brilliant win now but when you factor in this was shown about 20 years ago it's an even better win. In the show the price of a pint was about £1.90 (as it would have been in many pubs in Glasgow around the early 2000s)
I have no pity to spare for gambling addicts like Winston in this Episode. I can empathize with drug addicts just not this kind. I can't put a finger on why but I just can't.
Bets and gambling debts used to be considered as honour debts only, and not legally enforceable. Sponsiones ludicrae as they were referred to in Scots Law. But that all changed with the Gambling Act 2005. Bookies can refuse to pay out only in certain restricted circs, such as alleged fraud. Failing that, it is indeed a legally enforceable debt.
lol funny show that was 😂yrs ago the local at the bookies I put $1000 on hot tip I got off a jockey mate ,it lost in a photo so I screwed the ticket 🎟️ up and went home 😂when I got home I turned the race on to hear protest second against first interference in the last 100 meters , be stuffed if it didn’t get up on protest 🪧 😂I ran back up the bookies grabbed that bin 🚮 and found that ticket 😂$6000
