Jump to content


- - - - -

Fox tried to eat hand of sleeping pensioner

fox pensioner hand

  • Please log in to reply
15 replies to this topic

#16    ouija ouija

ouija ouija

    Shadow

  • Member
  • 6,240 posts
  • Joined:20 Oct 2011

Posted 05 October 2012 - 01:48 PM

View PostHabitat, on 04 October 2012 - 11:56 PM, said:

Plenty of pensioners, hopefully I won't need to add to their numbers, but you never know. For some reason it has always puzzled me why news media refer to pensioners in this way, which is just how they pay the bills. They don't say a self-funded retiree was run over at the pedestrian crossing, ever ! But pensioners are apparently slower to dodge traffic ! :cry:
Ah! I see where the confusion lies: here in the UK everyone gets a basic State pension once they are a certain age ...... SO, after a certain age, everyone is a 'pensioner'!
They keep moving the qualifying age further and further back, in the hope that none of us will be able to run fast enough to catch it!
But all the time in the back of these things there was the hill-quiet and the stony pastures, and sometimes they made me ashamed of what I was - human and full of a thousand wormy thoughts and selfishness, but more often they were like hands to heal.
from 'Now In November' by Josephine Johnson





Also tagged with fox, pensioner, hand

1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users