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I have decided us pensioners should keep our money for possible care fees.

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HUNTERF Thu 04-Apr-13 22:48:12

That will resolve the care fees problem.
Warner's would go out of existence as most of their customers are pensioners.
My local garage sales would drop as they have told me pensioners buy a lot of new cars.
Local pubs and restaurants will do little business at lunch time Monday to Friday.
Grandchildren will not get Christmas presents or any other presents from the grandparents.
And the list goes on an on.
But there would be no problems funding care fees.

Frank grin

j08 Thu 04-Apr-13 22:58:14

Would be a really boring life in the meantime though.

Ana Thu 04-Apr-13 23:06:18

Perhaps we'd all die of boredom before we needed to pay for care fees? hmm

HUNTERF Thu 04-Apr-13 23:06:46

j08

And a lot of unemployment as well.
We should give up our laptops and internet as they cost money which could be used for care.
Mind you probably not as they make us think which is supposed to slow down the onset of dementia.
My Dad was 89 an he liked the internet and he had a go at spread sheets etc.
If I had known about Gransnet I would have encouraged him to join.

Frank

j08 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:08:16

Yes. They forget about the "grey pound" don't they. hmm

Granny23 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:14:13

No care home fees needed for me #purplepillsattheready grin

j08 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:14:47

shock No!!!

j08 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:15:32

Just keep on keeping fit.

And breathing.

gracesmum Thu 04-Apr-13 23:27:21

How is this a product review??

Galen Thu 04-Apr-13 23:32:12

Jing
Purple pils?
Do you mean Purple Hearts?
They were amphetamines in my youth.
If that's what you mean, you'd get high as a kite after a couple and forget?

j08 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:46:46

I haven't got the purple pills! Granny23 has.

Granny23 Thu 04-Apr-13 23:48:06

Galen It was me with the 'purple pills'. Used to be quite an often heard saying perhaps based on the pills issued to soldiers and spies going into dangerous situations in WW1.

Galen Thu 04-Apr-13 23:58:11

Sorry! Tired after a long day!
Time for bed said zebedee!
moon

absent Fri 05-Apr-13 07:28:18

Very droll.

shysal Fri 05-Apr-13 09:34:14

Every penny of my pension is spent on basic living expenses. Sorry Frank, I cannot afford to save my pension!

annodomini Fri 05-Apr-13 10:30:19

With you there, shysal. My family are very good to me and if there's anything left when I shuffle off, they are welcome to it. The GC are bright and resourceful and will be well equipped to make their way in the world, just as their parents are doing.

vegasmags Fri 05-Apr-13 10:48:13

Count me in too, shysal and anno. The inheritance I will be leaving consists of the things that money can't buy. Same as my parents left me.

absent Fri 05-Apr-13 11:14:19

The OP doesn't, I think, mean Warner Brothers as in films but I have no idea who these Warners are that I am apparently subsidising.

gracesmum Fri 05-Apr-13 12:10:17

Still confused as to how this has anything to do with Product reviews

shysal Fri 05-Apr-13 12:10:39

Must be the Warners holiday company, I think.

absent Fri 05-Apr-13 12:15:23

gracesmum It's not really anything to with anything – including Product reviews. I think it's meant to be funny but I'm not sure.

Ariadne Fri 05-Apr-13 12:18:40

Earners are this hotels where it is adults only - no children. I hate the idea! Of no children, I mean. I like seeing them around in hotels.

Movedalot Fri 05-Apr-13 12:58:48

We went for a Segway trip in the grounds of a Warner Hotel, it seems they do a lot of 60s weekends. Just imagine being stuck with a load of old people for a weekend? Saga have a Saga only hotel in St Lucia, not for me thanks.

gracesmum Fri 05-Apr-13 13:24:21

Right absent thanks confused.com

Granny23 Fri 05-Apr-13 13:32:17

To confuse this confused thread further -

DH (an exile from the next town) informs me that it should be a BLUE pill - also tells me that when people went loopy they were carted off in the 'wee YELLOW van' whereas here we would send for the 'wee WHITE van' to collect them. We are agreed however that criminals were arrested and stuffed into a BLACK Maria, but neither of us has any idea where the Maria (Marr- I - Ah) comes from - does anyone know? #nowlookingforbluepills