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When by national average it is closer to one in four?Boasting Stafford has 1 in 5 people financially stretched
This is a good thing then ?
When by national average it is closer to one in four?
This is just a thing then, now?
We accept that one in every four people you meet is struggling to stay afloat.
Not waving, but drowning?
Fifty pence piecesFake fivers
As I've mentioned elsewhere, twenty-something years ago I used to be a member of the Derrington VH "B" quiz team in the Stafford "Locks & Latches" Quiz League. There were a maximum of four in the team, plus a question-reader if you were playing at home."What colour is Mr ****?" is a fairly common pub quiz question. Mr Tickle is the only one that I know.
It was a question in the King's Arms quiz many years ago, when they had a six-year-old pub-child who took no prisoners, as far as the patrons were concerned.
Debate raged amongst the "adults" on the team, largely about whether the answer would be red or blue. I had no idea and it was clear that they didn't either, despite appearing to debate the issue, but in the complete absence of any real knowledge.
Whilst this went on, pub-child was sat next to me with a Game-Boy-type thing, so I asked her. "Orange", she said, glancing at me with a slight air of despair.
The debate raged on, but something had to be written - "What shall we put?", I was asked, as though it would then be my fault. "She says it's orange" - "Oh, I don't think there are any orange ones" - and the debate raged further on along those lines...
A further glance of utter contempt from my informant led me to state "Put Orange! She says it's Orange - and, if it's wrong, she won't be able to sit down for week!" (which drew a shocked intake of breath from the debaters).
As we can see, my faith was fully justified.