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I remember when young people living at home were expected to pay 'board & lodging' which was often almost as much as they could earn. I'm not talking a million years ago either but 1980s.

Some people have too much time on their hands.

Maybe a few years in a women's prison will jog her memory?

Anyone remember the newsstand/telephone kiosks/information booth outside Marks & Spencer before a certain hideous monstrosity blacked out the skyline? To be honest I didn't until I found this picture. This itself was pretty-much an afterthought having been added in1962. Prior to that it was...

Thousands more like it here: http://icserver.no-ip.biz/coventry/viewforum.php?f=33 Fun fact: Casey Jones was the last major production from CBS to be filmed in black & white. This didn't matter much for the export market as few countries outside the US had color TV at the time.

Recreational drugs! I've seen it round here. I saw a group of young girls who were normally very well-behaved visiting a nearby drug dealer on a saturday night and around two hours later they were spoiling for a fight with anyone and everyone. I think they were on amphetamines although it...

I'm not criticising them but did they ever consider what sort of "life" he would have if he did survive?

If things seem slow at the moment it's because it's a bank holiday weekend in the US (of sorts). "Juneteenth" There's another one coming soon too, July 4th Weekend.

Mine died recently and not a single relative mentioned it on Facebook. It was as if he never existed. It was four days even before I found out he was dead although it wasn't entirely unexpected.

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YouTube videos telling me how great it is to 'downsize'. I've done it many times over 67 years and in every case it was a horrible experience. Who pays these people?

There's a lot of fly-tipping where I live in Spon End, by people who don't live here. I think many of them are business-owners judging by the sheer quantity of bin liners they dump.

I thought it peaked with the second episode and fell largely flat from there.

Are you sure? The Marina was right down by the junction with London Road. There was one much closer to Willenhall Wood at the other end of St James Lane and another at the bottom of Remembrance Road, just inside the precinct.

You're mistaken, the earnings limit for Pension Credit (£182.60) is lower than the current full State Pension (£185.15). It is also means-tested so an estimated million pensioners who would otherwise qualify don't receive it for one reason or another.

I think when most people use the term 'pensioner' they mean those living on the basic state pension and not those in receipt of graduated retirement benefit or private pensions which may be much higher.

While those on Pension Credit or Universal Credit will get £650 in cash, even if they've never paid a national insurance stamp in their lives. That's in addition to all the other discounts and payments they automatically qualify for.

The government's definition of "the poorest" is those on means-tested benefits as opposed to those on contributory benefits such as the state pension who may in reality actually be worse off overall.