The Elderly

by Chris | 26 Jan 2010 | No Comments

This probably won’t be a very popular thing to say, but I think that the idea of removing the compulsary retirement age (the age at …

by Chris | 6 Sep 2008 | No Comments

Apparently, we should never stop working. We should never retire, and never enjoy the fruits of our labour. Instead, we should just work, work, and …

by Chris | 20 Aug 2008 | No Comments

Apparently our road sign depicting the elderly is “insulting ” because it “doesn’t represent older people as they are today”.
So what?
It is a stereotype. It …

by Asp | 19 Apr 2008 | No Comments

Long term readers of The ThunderDragon will know that the Dragon is a volunteer with St John Ambulance. And, if you’ve got a particularly good …

by Chris | 21 Sep 2007 | No Comments

Your granny has gone missing. Where’s the last place you’d look for her? In the public toilets…
Police started a missing person alert for a great-grandmother …

by Chris | 1 Sep 2007 | No Comments

The world’s oldest blogger blobber?
At 107 she is probably the world’s older blogger and cyber granny Olive Riley may also lay claim to being the …

by Chris | 24 Aug 2007 | No Comments

Old people still have sex! I’m shocked. I thought they stopped as soon as they got their free bus pass? But apparently not:
Old age is …

by Chris | 18 Jul 2007 | No Comments

“The Elders” are here to save the world – or so they say:
“Nelson Mandela and five other senior statesmen will today form themselves into a …

by Chris | 12 Jun 2007 | No Comments

The European Union certainly can’t claim to be a benevolent supranational institution after this latest imposed tax – focusing as it is on the most …