Pay day loans.

Galen

How can you afford an iPad.
I have only got 1 lap top

Frank

It's gone!!!!!!!!!!
iPad does not like Bourneville.

It might have been a blur when I was there, but I typed ! Honest!

I had digs in blur vile when I was a student.

Hi Nonu

My friend inherited a house in Bournville and wished he could have kept it.
Unfortunately it was not convenient for his own and his wife's work.

Frank

Adieu , one and all , off to a "Smart " part of Birmingham ,tommorrow , ie Bournville . To see DD , SIL and GC .

Bye for now .

Surely, the whole reason for payday loans is to target poor people, although I am not sure that you constitute a "poor people" HUNTERF. But then people handing out leaflets are doing a pretty breadline job themselves so they just dish them out to anyone who'll take them – even property owners with nice cars.

Well they would , they are hardly going to ask if the money came from a london pension Plan.

Still , Erdington is still aways from the Smart part , unless you count Sutton Coldfield as smart .

I have heard rumour that it is not like it used to be.

Nono

The shops did not ask me where I was from and they accepted my London pension money in payment.

Frank

Hi Nonu

I wanted a new light and there are 2 good light shops in Erdington and they are reasonably priced.
When I walked up the High Street I saw a brush and the 1 I had at home had seen better days.
I also got married to my late wife in Erdington.
She attended the St Barnabus Church in the High Street but I wanted to go to the United Reform Church in Sutton Coldfield.
We went to my church one week and the next week we went to her church and this continued.

Frank

The pay day loans issue was being covered today on Radio 4.

Frank in this instance I would query the use of "targeting poor people like me*. Unless you were wearing a hi viz tabard with the words "Poor Person" emblazoned on it, I don't think you could lay claim to the phrase you used and that I have quoted in my response.

I think that people who hand out flyers in the street do so in a random way, and therefore unless you were actually wearing the tabard or had some other identifying signs about your person, you were not actually targeted.

And again ,

I thought you lived in a smart part of Birmingham , would not call Erdington smart .

Perhaps just me though .

Report them to the Trading Standards people, Frank.

You do not sound like one of the people that payday loans are mostly aimed at - really poor people who do not have enough money left to last until payday. That is how they catch them and then charge them a vast amount for their loan.

Stop winding us up Frank!