poppins Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 How about every year in October, when the weather starts turning colder and the nights start drawing in, we round up everyone aged over 70, take them to a purpose built facility (maybe something like a prison), and look after them until spring time? Now I know alot of people are going to think this an outrageous idea, but my thinking is, they will be warm, fed three meals a day, no bills to pay, company over christmas.. ..ect... Not too many 70 year olds need taking care of now-a days, good food, nice pensions checks, fuel allowance and plenty left over for our Bingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 A teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their spring vacation. One child wrote the following: "We always spend our vacation with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big, brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida and now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded people. They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all right now. They play games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with their hats on. I guess they don't know how to swim. At their gate there is a dollhouse with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go cruising in their golf carts. My grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she forgot how. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing every night: Early Birds. Some of the people can't get past the man in the dollhouse to go out, so the ones who get out bring food back to the wrecked center and call it pot luck. My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded one day, too. When I earn my retardment I want to be the man in the dollhouse. Then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_jim Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Sorry but my 80 year old mother won't have time in between - girl's lunch (fortnightly for the last 40+ years), art class, running the craft club, tuesday group, endless saga holidays, visiting family, taking elderly(?) friends to visit even more elderly friends, organising coffee at church, not to mention getting the best use out of the bus and rail pass (do you know you can go to Leeds for nothing?). Mind you she's slowed down a bit recently........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horribleblob Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Sorry but my 80 year old mother won't have time in between - girl's lunch (fortnightly for the last 40+ years), art class, running the craft club, tuesday group, endless saga holidays, visiting family, taking elderly(?) friends to visit even more elderly friends, organising coffee at church, not to mention getting the best use out of the bus and rail pass (do you know you can go to Leeds for nothing?). Mind you she's slowed down a bit recently........ I'm thinking the OP has a rather ... let's say, outmoded view, on people over 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 You're too late! - It's already been thought of. It's a place called 'Florida'.In our family, we like to call the place 'Malta', with an alternative annexe called 'Portugal' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Malta certainly appeals ... I've lots of fond memories of that place (and one hilarious memory.) I was having a conversation with a Maltese gentleman in an Hotel in Sliema. For some reason (I've no idea why) he suddenly got very worked up. YOU ENGLISH! (he shouted) (well, near enough, I suppose ) YOU THINK WE MALTESE KNOW F* NOTHING! YOU'RE WRONG! WE KNOW F* ALL! Deathly silence. - Well, there's not a lot you can say to that, is there?:hihi: I'd certainly like to go back there. Florida is (for me) part of the 'payback' for spending half of the year in Europe. I choose to do that and (from next year) she wants to spend half the year in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Malta certainly appeals ... I've lots of fond memories of that place (and one hilarious memory.) I was having a conversation with a Maltese gentleman in an Hotel in Sliema. For some reason (I've no idea why) he suddenly got very worked up. YOU ENGLISH! (he shouted) (well, near enough, I suppose ) YOU THINK WE MALTESE KNOW F* NOTHING! YOU'RE WRONG! WE KNOW F* ALL! Deathly silence. - Well, there's not a lot you can say to that, is there?:hihi: I'd certainly like to go back there. Florida is (for me) part of the 'payback' for spending half of the year in Europe. I choose to do that and (from next year) she wants to spend half the year in Florida. What do you do for a living Rupert ? Nosey poppins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubydazzler Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 I was having a conversation with a Maltese gentleman in an Hotel in Sliema. For some reason (I've no idea why) he suddenly got very worked up....I wonder if this was the same man? Also at an hotel in Sliema, Maltese man chatting away quite amicably, we comment on how at home we felt, driving on the same side of the road, people we could understand, etc. Then suddenly "Do you know there are Maltese here who cannot speak their own language? DO YOU? I SPIT upon these people!!! Uncomfortable .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullerboY Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 oh dear sunni,I wonder what you will be doing at 70,not riding a Harley round europe,looking after a big garden,not going out on long walks and I mean walks not a stroll down meadowhall,not doing keep fit every day or many other activities,but well done for setting a thread which makes people bite,perhaps when you are 70 fishing maybe the sport for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 After last winter, I think we should all be taken into care for the duration. Why restrict it to the over 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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