The internet's erasure of geography lets people have a flutter without having to leave their living-rooms for the Bellagio's bombast or the shabbiness of the local dive (see article).

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Secondly, on the opportunities for cash betting games on Facebook, bingo is already one of the most popular leisure pursuits in the UK. Almost every town and city in the UK has a bingo hall, where friends and family members come together for a night out to have fun and a little flutter.

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And I have eaten a delicate turtle soup while watching dancers from the Dai ethnic group, of subtropical Yunnan province, flutter mothlike to an ancient melody wafting forth from a battered cassette player.

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