Retirement - Is it Easy?
Sep 8th 2011, 5:28 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
I wouldn't have parted with a penny until I had a DNA test done. After all, you don't know who else's broom cupboards she'd been in.
Sep 8th 2011, 6:34 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
oh yes I remember it well .... shades of Maurice Chevalier ...
Sep 8th 2011, 7:26 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
I saw a lovely cartoon in El Jueves. A mother and daughter standing by the side of the racetrack as Hamilton/Alonso went past. the daughter had her top lifted to show her tits, and the mother was screaming "Impregnate my daughter now!"
Sep 8th 2011, 8:37 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
COBBLERS.
HEALTH,...There are numerous health problems that no amount of money can make good. Money can just as easily have the opposite affect and lead ppl.towards a decadent unhealthy lifestyle.
Most ppl in the Western world already have good access to a reasonably competant medical service.
No doubt you can get specialist private care and speedier ops etc, but none of these can guarantee you good health.
HAPPINESS,... Money WILL buy you happiness ?
Plenty of miserable rich ppl around to prove that is not the case, however
Money if used wisely CAN buy you happiness, but no guarantees it always will.
LOVE,...I think its a bit cynical as well as inaccurate to define love as half an hour with a hooker........unless of course you get her off the game and live with her happy ever after.
Lots of thrills and pleasure possibly, but whatever love may or may not be, I would hardly classify it as buying sex for pleasure.
HEALTH,...There are numerous health problems that no amount of money can make good. Money can just as easily have the opposite affect and lead ppl.towards a decadent unhealthy lifestyle.
Most ppl in the Western world already have good access to a reasonably competant medical service.
No doubt you can get specialist private care and speedier ops etc, but none of these can guarantee you good health.
HAPPINESS,... Money WILL buy you happiness ?
Plenty of miserable rich ppl around to prove that is not the case, however
Money if used wisely CAN buy you happiness, but no guarantees it always will.
LOVE,...I think its a bit cynical as well as inaccurate to define love as half an hour with a hooker........unless of course you get her off the game and live with her happy ever after.
Lots of thrills and pleasure possibly, but whatever love may or may not be, I would hardly classify it as buying sex for pleasure.
Sep 8th 2011, 8:45 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
We have a little over a year to go before we finally clock off for good.
We will immediately set of for Spain to start a new phase in our lives.
We have been planning to live in Spain for two years now and finally all our ducks are being lined up.
Do you think that we should have also been planning to be retired?
Until recently when we have both gone part time we have both been in full time employment since we left school at age sixteen.
For thirty years whilst in the Fire Service, I also was, and still am, a freelance bookkeeper working in total up to more than 60 hours per week. Sometimes when the opportunities came my way I also did a bit of lorry driving both UK and Europe, and a bit of furniture removing. I did all this work because I wanted a decent standard of living and also to put my two girls through further education. I used to have a wife who did not care to go out to work.
I have always done my own decorating and DIY, kept on top of the garden etc.
Am I fit to retire? or will I find it difficult?
In the beginning we will be busying ourselves with settling in to our new country but that will not take forever.
I have recently started to learn to cook and enjoy it immensely so I envisage spending a lot more time sourcing our food from markets etc.
I am going to teach myself to play the treble recorder, I only ever learnt the fingering for the descant.
I intend to do a lot more walking both for exercise and to explore.
I am continuing to learn Spanish and hope that carries on with intercambios and the like.
Up until 6 years ago I used to watch up to 60 hours of TV a week, mostly rubbish and slept for only 5-6 hours per night never retiring before 1:30.
Now I watch zero TV, and don't miss it and get to bed at a more reasonable hour and sleep a little longer each night.
For those of you who are retired, what are your experiences of retirement?
Do you have full days? Do you have new daily routines when you are no longer slaves to the alarm clock? Did you find retirement easy?
Regards
Steve
We will immediately set of for Spain to start a new phase in our lives.
We have been planning to live in Spain for two years now and finally all our ducks are being lined up.
Do you think that we should have also been planning to be retired?
Until recently when we have both gone part time we have both been in full time employment since we left school at age sixteen.
For thirty years whilst in the Fire Service, I also was, and still am, a freelance bookkeeper working in total up to more than 60 hours per week. Sometimes when the opportunities came my way I also did a bit of lorry driving both UK and Europe, and a bit of furniture removing. I did all this work because I wanted a decent standard of living and also to put my two girls through further education. I used to have a wife who did not care to go out to work.
I have always done my own decorating and DIY, kept on top of the garden etc.
Am I fit to retire? or will I find it difficult?
In the beginning we will be busying ourselves with settling in to our new country but that will not take forever.
I have recently started to learn to cook and enjoy it immensely so I envisage spending a lot more time sourcing our food from markets etc.
I am going to teach myself to play the treble recorder, I only ever learnt the fingering for the descant.
I intend to do a lot more walking both for exercise and to explore.
I am continuing to learn Spanish and hope that carries on with intercambios and the like.
Up until 6 years ago I used to watch up to 60 hours of TV a week, mostly rubbish and slept for only 5-6 hours per night never retiring before 1:30.
Now I watch zero TV, and don't miss it and get to bed at a more reasonable hour and sleep a little longer each night.
For those of you who are retired, what are your experiences of retirement?
Do you have full days? Do you have new daily routines when you are no longer slaves to the alarm clock? Did you find retirement easy?
Regards
Steve
I retired at 50.
I used to leave home at 6am and get back at 9pm five days a week.
I spent 15 hours a week on a train, everyone stood on the same spot of the platform and sat in the same seat every day and no-one knew anyone else's name.
I only saw my kids awake at weekends.
Now I drink more than I should do.
But I think I deserve it.
So yes, in answer to your question, retirement is easy.
It won't be long before you're dead so enjoy what time you have left.
Hey ho.
Sep 8th 2011, 9:15 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
COBBLERS.
HEALTH,...There are numerous health problems that no amount of money can make good. Money can just as easily have the opposite affect and lead ppl.towards a decadent unhealthy lifestyle.
Most ppl in the Western world already have good access to a reasonably competant medical service.
No doubt you can get specialist private care and speedier ops etc, but none of these can guarantee you good health.
HAPPINESS,... Money WILL buy you happiness ?
Plenty of miserable rich ppl around to prove that is not the case, however
Money if used wisely CAN buy you happiness, but no guarantees it always will.
LOVE,...I think its a bit cynical as well as inaccurate to define love as half an hour with a hooker........unless of course you get her off the game and live with her happy ever after.
Lots of thrills and pleasure possibly, but whatever love may or may not be, I would hardly classify it as buying sex for pleasure.
HEALTH,...There are numerous health problems that no amount of money can make good. Money can just as easily have the opposite affect and lead ppl.towards a decadent unhealthy lifestyle.
Most ppl in the Western world already have good access to a reasonably competant medical service.
No doubt you can get specialist private care and speedier ops etc, but none of these can guarantee you good health.
HAPPINESS,... Money WILL buy you happiness ?
Plenty of miserable rich ppl around to prove that is not the case, however
Money if used wisely CAN buy you happiness, but no guarantees it always will.
LOVE,...I think its a bit cynical as well as inaccurate to define love as half an hour with a hooker........unless of course you get her off the game and live with her happy ever after.
Lots of thrills and pleasure possibly, but whatever love may or may not be, I would hardly classify it as buying sex for pleasure.
I never said money cures all ills, and some people are not made happy by money.
Oh yeah. As someone said, love is two minutes of squelching sounds.
Sep 8th 2011, 9:20 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
I'm a 50 retired and believe me it's Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Sep 8th 2011, 9:41 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
You see, I never said that. I said that money buys health. It gets you a better start in life, and at the end, a better chance of getting better.
I never said money cures all ills, and some people are not made happy by money.
Oh yeah. As someone said, love is two minutes of squelching sounds.
I never said money cures all ills, and some people are not made happy by money.
Oh yeah. As someone said, love is two minutes of squelching sounds.
Maybe CAN would have been more appropriate, meaning possibly.
Oh and as I said I may be a cynic myself, but I like to think love can a little bit more than that.
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Sep 8th 2011, 10:28 pm
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General love is an oxytocin positive feedback loop.
Then there's the kind of love that doesn't depend on anything other than shared experiences, trust and so on.
Oh yeah then there's parasitic love where the real object of the love is the bank balance.....
Sep 8th 2011, 11:30 pm
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keep the microphone pointed away from the loudspeakers and you will cure that
thats why divorce courts are so busy
Sep 8th 2011, 11:51 pm
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Since then the bug has bitten me quite a few times, but at the first mention of commitment I've usually been on my bike or else moved on to some fresher pastures that caught my eye and tickled my fancy.
Must be like those sheep of mine.
No matter which field I put them in, they could never wait to get into the next one.
The grass is always greener and all that stuff.
Sep 8th 2011, 11:57 pm
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Well I served my time, the equivalent of two life sentences, though to be fair it wasn't all that bad.
Since then the bug has bitten me quite a few times, but at the first mention of commitment I've usually been on my bike or else moved on to some fresher pastures that caught my eye and tickled my fancy.
Must be like those sheep of mine.
No matter which field I put them in, they could never wait to get into the next one.
The grass is always greener and all that stuff.
Since then the bug has bitten me quite a few times, but at the first mention of commitment I've usually been on my bike or else moved on to some fresher pastures that caught my eye and tickled my fancy.
Must be like those sheep of mine.
No matter which field I put them in, they could never wait to get into the next one.
The grass is always greener and all that stuff.
its only when its a tsetse bug and becomes long lasting you have to watch out as you will get recurring bouts of it.
Sep 9th 2011, 12:06 am
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Sep 9th 2011, 3:13 pm
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Re: Retirement - Is it Easy?
Depends on how you define love. Romantic love is a serotonin disorder with all the hallmarks of OCD.
General love is an oxytocin positive feedback loop.
Then there's the kind of love that doesn't depend on anything other than shared experiences, trust and so on.
Oh yeah then there's parasitic love where the real object of the love is the bank balance.....
General love is an oxytocin positive feedback loop.
Then there's the kind of love that doesn't depend on anything other than shared experiences, trust and so on.
Oh yeah then there's parasitic love where the real object of the love is the bank balance.....
I admit my romantic foolishness had bitten me a few times and sent me skint twice, but I would do it all again if I could. I would do it for the butterflies, those moments when you wait for her to arrive, even for those awful times when you know she won't come back, but you still wait.
I could spoil it all by mentioning the rustling nylons, but I suppose they're part of it too.
When I switch off my computer and sit on my terrace to reflect, I think of pleasant aspects of my romantic past. I often return to the lighthouse at Cromer and a park bench on the edge of the nearby golf course.
The darkness was lit every few seconds by the lighthouse, and she was kneeling on the bench right if front of me. Her bum was pure white, whenever the light showed.
Now that's romance isn't it?
Sep 9th 2011, 3:29 pm
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Jesus, Bil, you can't take romance out of life!
I admit my romantic foolishness had bitten me a few times and sent me skint twice, but I would do it all again if I could. I would do it for the butterflies, those moments when you wait for her to arrive, even for those awful times when you know she won't come back, but you still wait.
I could spoil it all by mentioning the rustling nylons, but I suppose they're part of it too.
When I switch off my computer and sit on my terrace to reflect, I think of pleasant aspects of my romantic past. I often return to the lighthouse at Cromer and a park bench on the edge of the nearby golf course.
The darkness was lit every few seconds by the lighthouse, and she was kneeling on the bench right if front of me. Her bum was pure white, whenever the light showed.
Now that's romance isn't it?
I admit my romantic foolishness had bitten me a few times and sent me skint twice, but I would do it all again if I could. I would do it for the butterflies, those moments when you wait for her to arrive, even for those awful times when you know she won't come back, but you still wait.
I could spoil it all by mentioning the rustling nylons, but I suppose they're part of it too.
When I switch off my computer and sit on my terrace to reflect, I think of pleasant aspects of my romantic past. I often return to the lighthouse at Cromer and a park bench on the edge of the nearby golf course.
The darkness was lit every few seconds by the lighthouse, and she was kneeling on the bench right if front of me. Her bum was pure white, whenever the light showed.
Now that's romance isn't it?
Most of us are so blinded with testosterone that we can't see what's going on, and we get ruthlessly exploited a lot of the time.
I remember seeing a young lad talking about getting married. He was saying "It's going to be great- a blow job every morning!"
Me, I laughed out loud at the mental image of a road sign saying "Steep learning curve ahead!"