Damn

[Tim Watts]

We won't let ours have a copy, so he watched Youtube videos of other people playing Minecraft...

It's like Dilbert and the golf cart all over again...

[Bob Eager]

We let ours saturate themselves with it, and they've come out the other side now. Neither of them game very much at all, in one of them practically never.

[Harry Bloomfield]

[e-mail] used his keyboard to write :

You don't have to be actually claiming the pension, only eligible to receive it at 60.

[Huge]

I spent about 6 months playing Colossal Cave in the 70's and it seems to have burned out my gaming neurons, because I've never been much interested in them since.

[Tim Streater]

Me too since I got to the bit there "THE CAVE IS CLOSING ..."

[Bob Eager]

Pretty well the same with me. I had a hand drawn map for years!

[Bob Eager]

No, these days you have to be older. Both men and women are eligible when they reach the women's pension age, which is sliding towards 65 (or is it

66?).

I got mine quite a bit after 60.

[A. N. Other]

I got mine at 60, but my wife got hers 3 months ago at 62 + 2 months. There is a 'sliding scale' until the pension age entitlements equalise.

(But LibDems, or whatever they call themselves, are now talking about student discounts on travel, funded by removing some of the wrinkly benefits)

John

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It does in England too - but only on local buses. So you'd need to change rather often to travel the country.

The age you receive it in England is being progressively increased - same sort of thing as the age you get the OAP. It did seem odd to get free travel when I was still working full time in a well paid job. ;-)

[Chris French]

Yup, youngest would do that. She would spend forever it seems playing MC and watching videos of it etc. But she would no doubt find something else to spend all her time on the computer doing if it wasn't MC.

Though I don't find it especially interesting, I can see why she does, but the watching all the vids I don't really get.

We've had a couple of Minecraft LAN parties here which have been quite fun. A roomful of kids with PC's and laptops all shouting and babbling about Minecraft :-).

We did bottle out of letting them keep on playing after we went to bed though. But the hardcore last 4 were all 9 and it was 2am :-)

[Huge]

I wasn't bothered about that, but I think having to look at the source to work out how to get the emerald (and even that it existed, IIRC) was the last straw.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Be more to the point to give it to the unemployed. So they can easily travel to look for work.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Dave Plowman (News) pretended :

I thought they had bikes for that lol

[Harry Bloomfield]

Huge brought next idea :

Nah - Its a time when you have nothing more to prove to yourself or anyone else, you can sit back with a satisfied grin on your face and leave everyone guessing what you are grinning at.

It does take a while to get used to retiring, maybe they ought to have retirement councillors?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Dave Plowman (News) expressed precisely :

It maybe depends how they define local. It is nice to be driven occasionally and a couple of times we did the Leeds (well Tadcaster) to Scarborough trip on a single bus.

Bob - I didn't know they were changing the minimum age. I got one soon after 60, still working and it was a few years before I first used it.

[charles]

Ever since a "Park & Ride" was introduced locally, I've used my bus pass to get into town. Next year apparently, all those of us travelling free on the bus will have to pay to use the car park ;-(

[Huge]

I'm tapering off rather than going "big bang". I'm down to 3 days a week at the moment and will likely drop to two days a week in the new year.

[The Other John]

My wife used to work for Tesco and they had residential retirement seminars at their headquarters.

[Capitol]

I thought this was a DIY group?

[stuart noble]

The video my grandson was watching had only been online for something like an hour, and had been watched by half a million people. It seems kind of primitive by today's standards but that seems to be the attraction