Originally Posted by jibsymalone

or what about the obese people in the likes of wally world riding round on those battery operated trollies? Get up and walk more than a couple of feet a day, any excuse to sit down with some of them. Boils my blood sometimes! Fat F**king Americans, think they own the world (well what they know of it anyway!) and capable of doing it from their car or armchair!

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

You're never going to be a paid up member of the 'Slob Club' thinking like that

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

You're never going to be a paid up member of the 'Slob Club' thinking like that

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

You're never going to be a paid up member of the 'Slob Club' thinking like that

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Although he does live on the east coast Gruff, so according to some that makes him a slob.

Originally Posted by jibsymalone

according to who?

Originally Posted by jibsymalone

according to who?

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Read the Iowa thread on this forum. Post # 12 by Peter 21. All will be revealed.

Originally Posted by jibsymalone

I just read the slob club thread on the trailer park, and feel a little dumb now! If I pimp out an electric cart thingie with gas suspension, 20" spinners and a DVD/stereo system with the obligatory boom box could I possibly be forgiven and allowed membership?

Originally Posted by Englishmum

One of the biggest things I've noticed is that the old people here never seem to socialise in the same way they do in the UK.

In many (most?) towns in the UK the old age pensioners get their free bus pass at the age of 60 - and in the London area free rides on the tube as well. In my old home city, Coventry, the OAPs can use the buses any time after 9.30am for free and travel by bus and train anywhere within the West Midlands.

As you can imagine, at about 9.20am many of the oldies arrive at the bus stop and they all get chatting with each other whilst waiting for the bus and many friendships prosper in this way. I used to notice that on pension day (Thursday) many of the OAPs would choose to collect their pension at a city centre Post Office as they would all enjoy a trip into town and chat with their friends on the bus. My mum loves her bus pass and goes all over the place!

Whenever I go home to England I always see old people out and about doing their shopping, pottering about in their gardens or taking a stroll with their dog and I've rarely seen an obese OAP in England. I rarely see pensioners doing any of these things over here in the US....I don't know where they go or what they do?

Of course over here public transport is pretty much non-existant outside the largest cities or metro areas and you see very elderly people driving (when quite often they really shouldn't be on the road). Our town has some sort of bus service once a week to take the elderly to the local supermarket but I do get the impression that apart from their families many old people here are more isolated socially than their British counterparts.

Originally Posted by Elvira

So true - in my dotage I plan to become a NOB (nattering old biddie) at bus stops in London...

Originally Posted by jibsymalone

I just read the slob club thread on the trailer park, and feel a little dumb now! If I pimp out an electric cart thingie with gas suspension, 20" spinners and a DVD/stereo system with the obligatory boom box could I possibly be forgiven and allowed membership?

Originally Posted by gruffbrown

Here's mine...

Originally Posted by dbark

When I lived on the outskirts of London, ............I loved it.