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Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:43 pm
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How long is "a normal" life span? Is it - as the bible says - three score and ten; or with modern medical advances, will you feel short changed if you don't make 100 and get that telegram from the Queen?  |
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Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:31 pm
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I'm a long way off me telegram yet mate. If I do get one, It can go in th'outside soil closet where someone can make good use of it.
Met the Queen already though, luvelly wench she is, tried to hit me on the napper with a sword, but I was too quick for her and dodged out of the way smartish like, NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT . Slurped tea with Princess Margeret at a garden party, and got a nice friendly smile and a wave from Princess Dianna one day going over the canal bridge on the A56.
Charlie boy was just sat next to her in the limo with a face like a smacked ar$e.
Long Live The Queen.
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Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:52 pm
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Everyone wants to live a long time, but no-one wants to be old.
Good news for you young ones, I'm 77 and don't think I'm old yet.
Happy days
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Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:52 pm
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my father in law goes sequence dancing twice a week, hops the train into liverpool when he gets fed up, has just spent three hours gardening and wants a pushbike to nip down to the shops in the summer because it will be easier for him to get the shopping back and cheaper than driving as his car has an automatic choke and is still on choke when he gets to the shops.
he has to go and have cataracts removed in the near future and has a dodgy heart valve but does not look a day over sixty. he is ninety one next birthday.
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:39 am
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| So life's a lottery and it's it's quality that counts? |
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Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:31 am
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| We've had several relatives live well into their eighties with horrible physical and/or mental afflictions, so I'd definitely vote for quality over quantity. |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:08 am
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| Well Gordy is going to provide - one to one care in the home for the terminally ill and the infirm elderly - can we really afford it? Would it be cheaper to issue cyanide tablets on prescription? |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:04 pm
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Hitler did, to his side-kicks. At my age I'd take one but on second thoughts I wouldn't - don't want my wife to get her hands on my money.
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:22 pm
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What good is your money H, if your demented, silivering at the corner of your mouth and incontinent - other than paying someone to clean you up now and again? Gordy's scheme for a National Care Service will cost tax-payer's an arm and a leg - and it's dead money!  |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:49 pm
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Very serious subject but to continue a light hearted look, if wives got their hands on cyanide pills there wouldn.t be many left posting on this forum.(if it mixes with tea)
According to what I have heard about Goering and Himmler, it was instantaneous death.
Happy days
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:53 pm
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| What good is your money H, if your demented, silivering at the corner of your mouth and incontinent |
Gets you a better class of care home.  |
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:00 pm
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Those places frighten me to death. When my mother was in, a well known referee was in there also. He kept ringing the bell but no-body came.
Inevitably a puddle appeared and the carers? first words were "you dirty bugger". Frightening.
Happy days
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:51 pm
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I reckon if I am lucky enough to get to my 100th birthday, and if I am fortunate to get a birthday card from the Queen, that will make her approximately 135?
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:04 pm
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Thought you were much older than that SD  |
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Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:30 am
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A serious subject indeed H; and unfortunately one we find difficult to address; we seem content tp prolong suffering and indignity; something we wouldn't do to an animal; the cost of dumping the problem out of sight (out of mind) will be astronomical in the future.  |
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