Yes, but in the same context there are files from WW2 that still haven’t been released even after the 30 yr rule? is up.

The “30 years” is actually the minimum, though there’s talk of it being reduced; I looked for a 1946 file, on behalf of someone, and found that it had a 75 year tag on it, and there are files (can’t remember them, now) with 100 & 150 year tags.
During the 1970s an employee of the NGTE, at Farnborough, wanted to write the history of Whittle, but found that the technology was still secret, so she couldn’t access it. She went to the Science Museum, and found everything she needed in the children’s section.

As a child, I dreaded hearing my mother say, “We’re going to Oxford this afternoon,” since I knew this would mean being pulled away from looking at the delights of toyshop windows, while having to spend (seeming) hours, kicking my heels outside the windows of women’s clothing stores. My mother could never understand why I always wanted Oxford to lose the Boat Race, University cricket match, rugby match, anything.

The biggest problem is that far too many don’t, can’t, or won’t know the difference between “use before” and “best before,” and it’s vast.
Whether the food is in a bin, or not, it remains the property of the store, until it leaves the premises (try walking out without paying,) so the question is fairly academic; rifling through bins, and taking the contents, is theft.

Firstly, what’s wrong with tattoos? It’s just body art…

Can’t speak for others, but, if I want to see moving pictures, I switch on the TV.

however, I don’t think children are as influenced by their parents as people think. At least I never was.

Well, I certainly was, and a brilliant piece of psychology, it was, too. When some of my friends had started experimenting with dried grass, corrugated cardboard, even tarpaulin (no, I didn’t,) my mother’s reaction was, “You can smoke and drink as much as you want to, my boy, but you’re paying for it.” With the cheapest cigarettes at 1/10d, and my pocket money being 2/6d, I much preferred the occasional bag of sweets; when I started work, and could afford it, I was no longer interested.

He pretty much did. He was on TV when he arrived in LA several years ago, then he was on TV again when he announced his retirement from the LA Team… Never heard a damn thing about him between those two events…

You mean he actually went ahead, and played football, instead of courting publicity? Sportsmen actually doing what they’re paid for; whatever next?

You missed the bit where a U.K. zoo offered to take him, but “regulations” wouldn’t permit even that.

I agree BUT the difference is, this IS a planned single parent family-the biological father will NEVER be there.

Which is something the father must have considered, or he would never have made the donation; since he would have known his wife rather better than any one of us, including her qualifications for bringing up a child single-handed, what gives anyone else the right to put their interpretation on the situation? If she should say, “Mind your own business,” it’s no more than you deserve.

Now, even if you live to be 120 you’ll get that £400 a month.

I’ve been hoping that someone (preferably a pensioner, like me,) would add a little more clarification, but it looks as though it’ll have to be me. You won’t get £400, you’ll get £320 (if you’re lucky.)
At retirement age, National Insurance contributions cease, but Income Tax doesn’t; the State Pension cannot be taxed (being an old cynic, I have a deep suspicion that this enables politicians to call their pension a State Pension, so that they avoid paying any tax on it.)
Private pensions have no such provision, but the amount is actually added to the state’s payment, and tax is calculated on the whole amount, meaning that (if you’ve listened to the politicians, and provided for your retirement) you do pay tax on the State Pension, though the money, itself, is deducted from your private pension.
The tax threshold, before you start to pay tax, is higher than when you’re working, but not above the amount you get from the state, which is probably why some say “Sod it,” and don’t bother.
Since my retirement, the threshold was raised, annually, so that it neared the state pension amount, but that was stopped last year, so that this year I receive a whopping increase of £5 weekly, out of which I immediately lose £1, and, with a rent increase of £5 per week………
And, before our Communist sympathiser jumps in, I haven’t forgotten that it was Brown’s bunch that did away with the 10% tax band, ensuring that the lower-paid lost more, in %age terms, than the rich bunch, and they claim to be the party of the working-class. :highly_amused: