What Is It With The Over 60S

[jake-the-peg]

Has this sort of thing alwys happened or are our OAPs becoming more violent?

Asda car park fights
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1265165.html

another here
http://www.thestar.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/road-rage-attack-cost-oap-163-3-000-1-347528

and screaming obscenities over a hydrangea!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9175279/OAP-87-caught-in-hydrangea-plant-row.html

What can we do to curb these ferral pensioners?

[anotheoldgit]

tamborine

/// They hold up Asda checkouts by paying bills with pence they forage for deep in every pocket, then find theyre short of money and the queue has to wait longer for a supervisor to cancel sales. ///

Unlike the young women who hold up the checkouts by waiting till they have loaded everything in their trolley, fed their screaming kid, and answered their mobile phone, before rummaging in their handbag to find their purse, so as to find their credit card, then only to put it in the machine the wrong way round.

[Octavius]

Yes, younger people have to cope with more stressful fast paced lifestyles.

If only the over 60s understood that.

[maggiebee]

Oh get a grip Octavius - I'm 66, work a 30 hour week, do my own garden, ride a BMW and go off the beaten track on holiday. Got 4 grandchildren for a fortnight plus their assorted friends. And I started full time work at 17 and still haven't retired. Went back to Uni when I was 34 to change job direction and brought up a family on a very tight budget. Young folk don't know they're living. We didn't have stress, never heard of the word, we just got on with it. Even went berry picking to get the kids' school uniforms. Want me to go on??

[woofgang]

I am hoping that Octavius was being sarcastic?

[Octavius]

"Got 4 grandchildren for a fortnight plus their assorted friends."

Where are their parents?

[jno]

their parents have been sent up the chimneys, Octavius... we're starting to worry they may have got stuck, as they've been there since 1983.

[emmie]

could you at least spell feral right. Poor bloody pensioners, get it in the flipping neck for living too long, taking up hospital beds, state pension, free this and that, not that they all get those things, some just think they do, not to mention having to take their grand children when the parents are working, or not.

[tamborine]

svejk - I was short coz I misread BOGOF … lol ;)

[jno]

calm down, emmie, you need to recognise a little tongue in cheek occasionally

[emmie]

octavious doesn't always joke, nor do many...

[emmie]

sometimes i wish people had short names on here, typing some give me a headache.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah
Film 4 tonite Be there !

RED - retired experienced and dangerous !
all about retired CIA agents erm going on killing people !

spot Helen Mirren with a machine gun and using it !

spot the scene where the terr in the burqa says - does my bomb look big in this ? ker pow !

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I agree Em
Miss Taylor would neva have allowed feral with two r's

blam ! blam ! blam ! - get into the little room you stuppid duffer !

Do you remember the desks that seated two children ? One child ducked once (only once retribution was swift) and the second child got the slap full on the ear.

[jno]

emmie, I think the whole thread isn't to be taken too seriously, including jtp's original question. He was just responding to a thread by aog about how terrible young people are.

[emmie]

i often wonder, he doesn't seem such a jolly fellow..

[emmie]

peter, more likely to be hit by a chalk duster, the mess was horrible.

[jno]

well, if you think about the phrase feral pensioners rather than correcting the spelling, how can it not be funny?

[emmie]

some might be feral, but i honestly don't know any, i only know the type that struggle with bills, money, knees, backs, and indeed getting or being old. They don't so much complain as go ooh ouch, oh my poor back and words to that effect, and i can only join in and agree,

[emmie]

because the fact is you and he do that, correct spelling and moan when one says something tongue in cheek.. not remotely seeing that is what it is.

[jno]

it is quite difficult to knock yuppies over with a Zimmer frame, but it's always worth a try.