Almost Canadian

I know you are almost a geriatric and all but, even so, surely you realise that it was Tony Blair that introduced tuition fees.

Your son is being paid 5p less than the minimum wage. He should speak to a lawyer

I hope my kids are better off than I am. Someone has to pay for my retirement. I kept them for the first 18 years of their life. It's only fair they pay for the last 18 years of my life.

DandNHill

Nostalgic about nostalgia. Lol

scrubbedexpat091

Not much of a raise in minimum over the years...

In 1997 I made minimum wage in California which was $5.15/hr today it's 10.50 per hour so it seems to have gone up a bit more compared to where your son is.

Oakvillian

Ah. That's a cue for my spurious claim to fame! I took a gap year between school and university. After swanning around for the summer, I realized that I actually needed some cash, so managed to get a job with ICI's Chemicals and Polymers group in Runcorn. (Tying together another discussion on this thread, it was a salaried position, paying somewhere around £5,700 per annum, prorated for the nine months of my employment. I thought that was a great deal of money; it worked out around £3.00 per hour)

The team I was a very junior part of was - amongst other things - trying to make a cheaper substrate for the magnetic film needed for video and DAT tapes. Although that project failed, several of the experiments involved extruding a thin polymer film and coating it with a very fine metallic spray. Once the lead scientists worked out it was useless for magnetic tape, they brainstormed other potential applications (as the process itself was successful and relatively cheap) and sold the idea to Mars UK in Slough as a flow-wrap extruded film for chocolate bars. It presumably made ICI a shed load more money, in the mid-80s, than digital audio tape ever would have!

dave_j

Aaahhhhh.. It was your fault then...

BristolUK

I miss being able to run a fingernail between kitkat fingers to slit through the foil.

Oink

Wasn't really free though. I bet somebody was paying for it.

BristolUK

One of those money trees that Mrs M finds when she wants

Oink

She finds them up the backside of working class people whose own children had their educational opportunities truncated because someone had to spend the rest of their lives screwing nuts onto wheels in a car factory.

Shard

You seem a bit obsessed with foil wrappers ! Not sure if it is the same packaging over there, but if you buy the better grade Lindt (Excellence) or G&B (Velvet) chocolate bars, they come with the fine foil wrappers.

Oink

Sicko

Almost Canadian

When I used to do snow and ice climbing in the UK, we used to have competition each time we did. The trick was to be able to eat a 4 fingered KitKat without eating or losing any of the foil without taking our mitts off.

I've lived an exciting life, I have

BristolUK

Yes...inside the cardboard outer? It's not quite the same thing though. With kitkats there was a lovely straight line that sliced open. With squares the lines cross each other. There's not the free flow that you get from a kitkat.

It's not just me

Excuse me, I'm just going to my room.

Top Man.

Jingsamichty

You think that's exciting? Every time I eat a banana I try to peel it into 4 sections, and I am disappointed if it only goes to 3. Hey, you're a long time dead.

Shard

Do you peel it from the non stalk end, as you're supposed to?