I Want Out Of The EU

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Recently a popular tabloid has claimed that "Most Want Out" of the European Union, do you?

• Yes! "I Want Out" of the EU - 190 votes
• 77%
• No! I Don't. - 57 votes
• 23%

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[jno]

I'm over 60.

[jno]

...and what's *your* cut-off point for being aged? Or don't you use the word at all?

[emmie]

so im younger than you. well i never.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// everyone was too busy taking mind-altering drugs back then (or just too busy listening to Abba) to know what was really going on.///

There speaks an enlightened young-un, I don't think so somehow, far from it.

[Old_Geezer]

England may have entered the EU in 1973 under the misguided agreement of a certain Mr. Heath; but the public was not given a say in whether, as we were already in, we should stay in, until 1975. As you had to be 18 to have a vote, that means 1957 would be the birthdate of the youngest. And they'd be 54 now.

[notasyoungasiwas]

I don't refer to people of 60 being 'aged', in fact, no, it's not a word I use at all come to think of it. And why the hell do I have to have a 'cut off' point. Still think you're offensive.

[emmie]

Notasyoung not sure that was levelled at you, but i don't use aged either. My mother would be appalled if i called her old, even though she is over 80, she is very young at heart.

[owdhamer]

If you dont like Europe try Afghanistan.

[notasyoungasiwas]

em My mum is 80 and looks 10 years younger. I would never refer to her as aged, she's just my lovely Mum. I know she'd love to be younger and thinks I'm a mere stripling, my Dad at 83 thinks I'm just a 'kid' - I love it !

[emmie]

owdhamer, why would anyone try afghanistan, and what's that got to do with Europe

[jno]

the OED is okay with the existence of the word "aged" and so am I but you politically correct youngsters don't have to use it if you don't want to.

So do you say "old" or "elderly" or just "chronologically challenged"?

[cazzz1975]

60 isnt old anymore

[notasyoungasiwas]

Seniors

[jno]

same question, cazzz: if 60 isn't old, when is?

[notasyoungasiwas]

Agree cazzz

[cazzz1975]

probably over 70/75

people are living much longer now, we have a record amount of centenarians, as medicine and living standards improve, it will become the norm.

[emmie]

it's not up to me to make judgements on people's age. I can't tell how old someone is just by looking at them, nor do i wish to.
If you call someone aged it seems to imply infirmity, and a dottiness, which doesn't apply to those i know. In one of Charles Dickens novels there is an aged parent, referred to as such, i forget which book. When i read it, that word smacked of decrepitude. I know youngsters who you would consider old, and older people who are very young. It's how they approach life with all its myriad problems.

[owdhamer]

A bit extreme i admit but i firmly believe in european monetary union,despite the current problems.A single currency will eventually prove its self.

[notasyoungasiwas]

Very well put em.

[emmie]

Owdh before it crashes you mean. x