Household incomes in UK 'may return to 2004 levels'

[MrMark]

fixing being the operative word.

Amount of money I wasted on them bastards.

Quiz machines were a nice little earner at one bit. My brother and I used to clean up when we came across one; but we kept getting the evil eye from landlords so had to do it discretely. Eventually of course, some clever programmer decided to make the questions impossible (name the linesman's home town etc) and that pleasure disappeared.

[AtW]

We were playing one machine at the pub and managed to get to the last question whilst still having chance to get £10 - the question was - "What's the building number of KGB HQ in Lubyanka Square?"

We only won £2 (it was possible to put money on different answers)

[Sysman]

Not true!

1 bedroom flat for sale in Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth, SW18

Just a few more years saving and scrimping mate.

******By order of the mortgagees in possession, we would advise that an offer has been made for the above property in the sum of £112,000. Any person wishing to increase on this offer should notify the selling agents of their best offer during the course of the next 7 days prior to exchange of contracts.********

It's been repossessed. The address could have some bad credit history which could cause headaches for a would be occupier (includes BTL tenants).

[Sysman]

They did not teach you "theory of games" and "probabilities" in that school of yours?

LOL! It's just struck me that my teachers wouldn't have been seen dead putting money on horses.

But they were all at it with stocks and shares.

[Sysman]

Quiz machines were a nice little earner at one bit. My brother and I used to clean up when we came across one; but we kept getting the evil eye from landlords so had to do it discretely. Eventually of course, some clever programmer decided to make the questions impossible (name the linesman's home town etc) and that pleasure disappeared.

I saw a documentary on that. The blokes doing it had to travel to a different town every day because they'd get barred from any pub that knew them. The machine manufacturers, when interviewed, plonked down a dirty great computer printout and reckoned that anyone who could memorise that lot deserved to win.

Landlords of course didn't see it that way.

But if you were on the dole, which the programme's subjects were, why not?