Retirement age limit scrapped

[shaunbhoy]

They'll come up with nice names for these schemes though.

Something like Time to go

or my personal favourite Off you Pop

Sunsets and Organ Harvests

Deep Sea Discovery Tours

Slumbers and Slipways



I can feel a Plan B coming on!!

[Pondlife]

Sunsets and Organ Harvests

Deep Sea Discovery Tours

Slumbers and Slipways



I can feel a Plan B coming on!!

Stairway to heaven

Old Friends Reunited

Worthers hemlock originals

Saga adventure holidays

[shaunbhoy]

So stop fecking whinging, earn some money, save some and have a cosy retirement whatever.

WGS +++

Stop bleating and expecting everything to be handed to you on a plate. You whippersnappers from the "Mollycoddled" Generation are becoming extremely tedious.
I can barely concentrate on choosing another Holiday Villa............

[Doggy Styles]

Baby boomers must pay for their selfish and greedy ways.

They never supported any generation before them

They bought houses for a pittance. They sold them for a fortune forcing young people to take huge debt burdens.

They bankrupted the country with their social entitlements and welfare blah blah.

Now they want the next generation to pay for a cozy pension.

Sorry. It's payback time.

But just in case you are serious:

1. These baby boomers - they paid to bring you up.
   
2. If houses were too expensive for the younger generation, it's their own fault for paying stupid prices for them.
   
3. And you don't know much about pensions if you think the state pension, the one paid for by the next generation, is cozy.

[shaunbhoy]

I think this may be called for here.................



CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank
while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get
tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.
Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright
coloured lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and
when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention,
the risks some of us took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle
Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops,
McDonalds, KFC, Subway or kebab shops.
Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the
weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO
ONE actually died from this.
We could collect old ginger bottles and cash them in at the corner
store to buy sweets.
We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with
sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we
were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building go-karts made out of scrap and then ride
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built
treehouses and dens and played in them for hours
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at
all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no
surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no
Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went
outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were
no Lawsuits from these accidents.
Only girls had pierced ears!
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live
in us forever.
You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter
time.......no really!
We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,
We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass
covered in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in
1956.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door
or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!
Football had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and
bullies always ruled the playground at school.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard
of. They actually sided with the law!
Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent
stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade'...
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem
solvers and inventors ever!
The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

[TimberWolf]

We had stone fights and swam in the river or any other available body of water, we skated on thin ice and we cherry knocked and hedge-hopped, we ran amok on building sites and jumped off high things and climbed buildings. We survived.

What's wrong with eating canned tuna?

[Platypus]

Voluntary euthenasia will have been introduced before that happens IMHO.

Oooh I hope it ends up like Logan's Run. Except I'd like the age limit to me my age +5 years. Then maybe I can shag Jenny Agutter (well, a young clone version).

[Pondlife]

I think this may be called for here.................



CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1940's, 50's, 60's!!

...snip...

eh, doesn't this highlight what a good job your parents did and exactly how badly you've (babyboomers) f*cked it up since.

[shaunbhoy]

eh, doesn't this highlight what a good job your parents did and exactly how badly you've (babyboomers) f*cked it up since.

Eh, No. It highlights that our parents let us discover most things for ourselves, and the results speak for themselves.

HTH

[Pondlife]

Eh, No. It highlights that our parents let us discover most things for ourselves, and the results speak for themselves.

HTH

Yes, your parents allowed you to discover things and the results speak for themselves.

You discovered that;

If you buy your kids video games you don't have to take them to the park and kick a ball around with them,
if the missus works everyday you can have a new BMW every two years.
If you don't like the height of your neighbours fence you can sue them. Obviously you can't speak to them cos you don't know their names.
Giving kids ready meals is quicker and easier then peeling veg.
Putting old people into a home is much more conveinient
If there's blame there's a claim
Woe betide anyone who disciplins your kids, I know my rights and besides they should learn behaviour at school
**** the community, planet, everyone else as long as I get a fortnight in tenerife
Why save when you get cash at 0% from mastercard, when that's full get another
Any bloke over 30 that spends time with other peoples kids is a paedo
Quantity = quality
Won't work, can't work
I know it still works but there's a newer one out now.