Years ago, in the midlands, same thing happened. They wanted 2 quotes but paid out rather than go to court.

Is that an industry average, or personal?

Our original cats just decided they wanted to go in the garden one day, now all their descendents do as well.

I guess they're copying the dogs.

Just in time for the holiday season - it's like a modern day Christmas Carol

But instead of 3 ghosts tormenting a rich man into paying his staff a bit better, we're making billionaires afraid to see the sun.

I still read hyperbole as hyper-bowl even decades later

That is really good

It calls to mind 80s / 90s 2000AD comics - and they were some amazing artists

Rememer to microwave a lunch of smoked fish and cabbage on your first day

I had the CI5 crimebuster kit as a kid because of that

Where where you born?

It was common in working-class areas like the one I was born in, especially those hit by closures, strikes etc.

I remember "poor boxes" for donations at churches, schools, youth clubs etc, and people giving their neighbours "spare" food.

Thankfully, my dad stuck with Fords until he started getting given company cars.

They weren't great, but at least they'd start more times than not. And a Capri was very cool to a 5 year old me.

Just buy multipacks of one colour, problem solved.

Mature students, maybe

A lot of billionaires are very good at one thing, and thick as mince on everything else

But young people don't vote Reform, and too many older people will agree with him...

This was twenty years ago, and he was a skinny sort, obvously desperate for a fix rather than this being his stock in trade

Where the hell did you go?

Despite living in and near, some of the "worst" areas of the UK, the closest I've come to being mugged is a half-hearted demand for my iPod outside a South London tube station in the early morning.

He wandered off in confusion when I pointed out it was a Creative Zen...