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"It's to treat pneumonia" - 27g of cocaine in pensioner's hand...
An OAP caught with £1,370 of cocaine has avoided a jail sentence after claiming she used it to treat pneumonia. Betty Nicholls, 77, was arrested when cops found the Class A drug in her handbag.
But the widow insisted she was given the powder to ease her chest infection by a stranger who told her: “It will give you a lift.” An OAP caught with £1,370 of cocaine has avoided a jail sentence after claiming she used it to treat pneumonia. Betty Nicholls, 77, w... more -
Hip old folks
This blog catalogs the hippest Grandma and Grandpas.
Do you think it's cool if they wear a "World's Greatest Granparent" shirt ironically? This blog catalogs the hippest Grandma and Grandpas. ... more -
United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 2nd October 2008
Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
The dogs name has changed.
The Norfolk Broads.
Advice for anyone wanting to move to Bracknell.
The taste of onions.
It all happens on "Orange Blossom Trail".
I went around 6 times.
More credit card stories.
Oranges & lemons.
My neighbours wife has beautiful clothes.
Moving to get a bigger house.
Welcome Tammy.
Trash television.
An all day breakfast.
Bargains at Travel Lodge.
Cheap vodka.
You couldn't get a word in edgeways.
When is Susan off to the Dallas reunion ?
An old ice cream container.
Old people who move - it doesn't always work well.
Be careful where you drink water.
Is Ross an alcoholic ?
We don't do D.I.Y.
A couple of old friends appear.
Katie is being naughty.
More hanging baskets.
Close your eyes & I'll describe.
Fussy again.
I do hate waste.
Does she wanna be stroked ?
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
WWW.UNITEDKINGDOMTALK.CO.UK Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats. ... more -
Old people Facebook disasters
"[E]vents... point to a dubious trend. For years, college students have been opting out of future employment via boobie-flashing, obscene status updates and the pictorial remembrances of keg stands past on their social-networking pages....
"But now, the voices of reason, the beacons in the online wilderness, the adults who once clucked their tongues over the follies of youth, are lining up to humiliate themselves on Facebook."
On the one hand, it is nightmarish to see what Salon.com--itself part of one of the internet's oldest and earliest online communities and services!--names as "internet-old" or "old, for Facebook" (if you're over 30, shield your eyes). On the other hand, the opening story--about a young professional in the film industry accidentally forwarding a scat video to every contact she has--made me LOL, literally. "[E]vents... point to a dubious trend. For years, college students have been opting out of future employment via boobie-flashing,... more -
For some, nursing homes are a prison
Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.
The 67-year-old photographer has been confined to a nursing home for five years, the victim of a stroke that paralyzed his left side. And he's angry.
Most of the people come here to die, so you want to die," he said. "It is a prison. I can't escape it."
Lee is among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home.
They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes when they should be able to live where they choose. Advocates charge that nursing homes, afraid of losing money, have successfully pressured politicians to make qualifying for community care more difficult. They have filed a federal lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of nearly 8,500 institutionalized Floridians.
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http://news.aol.com/health/article/for-some-nursing-hom... Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots ... more -
Old People Review Rap
The Daily Fix goes straight to the wise for a broader perspective on today's popular music. On the edition of Breakfast At Sulimay's, Bill, Joe and Ann give us their critique on T.I.'s latest single "Whatever You Like." The Daily Fix goes straight to the wise for a broader perspective on today's popular music. On the edition of Breakfast At Sulima... more
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100-year-old woman shot dead in New York home
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. —
A 100-year-old woman was found shot to death in her Long Island home.
Suffolk County police say Jessie Burke was discovered by her daughter Sunday afternoon when she returned from the grocery store. The woman was found in sitting in a chair in the den. Police say there was no sign of forced entry and apparently nothing was stolen from the home. Her death was ruled a homicide.
Burke was described as a spry woman who loved crossword puzzles. She lived with her daughter, and had three other children. Police have not questioned the daughter in the slaying.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to contact the homicide squad or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — A 100-year-old woman was found shot to death in her Long Island home. ... more -
Pensioner groups demand elderly road sign change
Groups of pensioners are forming together to demand the execution of the caution sign representing them for drivers (of which I did actually always find pretty amusing, though insulting myself) that has been with us since 1981.
These annoyed pensioners are mainly annoyed with the sign due to the fact: "Very few older people are hunched over, with a walking stick. They are assuming everyone who is old looks like that, and they don't..." said Lizzy McLennan, a senior policy officer at the charity.
Anti elderly-sign pensioners, I salute you! (After all, I'm 19 and have a pretty wierd back, the people on that sign look a lot more like me!) Groups of pensioners are forming together to demand the execution of the caution sign representing them for drivers (of which I did ac... more -
Tom Cruise too old for "Mission: Impossible 4"?
Is Tom Cruise too old for "Mission: Impossible 4"?
According to a report in PageSix.com http://www.pagesix.com), Cruise reportedly met with Paramount execs recently about another "Mission: Impossible" movie but stormed out in frustration when it was hinted that they felt the 46-year-old actor couldn't hold up an action film. Is Tom Cruise too old for "Mission: Impossible 4"? ... more -
Young Republicans worry about McCain's appeal
From cyberspace to college campuses, many young conservatives are worried that Sen. John McCain is not appealing to their generation.
At a town hall meeting in Ohio this month, a student told McCain that Republicans were a dying breed on his campus.
"I understand the challenge I have, and I understand that this election is really all about the people of your generation," McCain said.
Many young Republicans said Sen. Barack Obama -- the 46-year-old junior senator from Illinois -- is inspiring voters their age, but McCain -- the 71-year-old senator who has been in office since the early '80s -- is not.
Eric Pearlmutter, a member of the Young Republicans at the University of Southern California, said the roaring enthusiasm that follows Obama is missing among conservatives his age. From cyberspace to college campuses, many young conservatives are worried that Sen. John McCain is not appealing to their generation. ... more -
Official: old people don't smell of wee
There is officially no such thing as the 'old person smell', research in Philadelphia has demonstrated.
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Better late than never: veteran, 91, gets PhD
A 91-year-old former Army officer has received his doctorate from Cambridge University for creating an atlas of railway stations built in Britain.
Michael Cobb, a former Colonel, from Devon, is thought to be the oldest recipient of a PhD from the University. Speaking afterwards, he said: "It's something I wanted to do and something I loved doing. I don't know what all the fuss is about."
Col Cobb was joined at the ceremony by 40 members of his family - some of whom had travelled from as far afield as Canada, Spain and Texas. His son, Stephen, 60, who flew to the UK from Canada, said: "We're all very proud of him. To get a PhD at 91 is incredible."
A University spokesman said "The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas" was Col Cobb's "magnum opus" and had involved 18 years' research.
Col Cobb, who lives in Plymtree, Cullompton, graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1938, joined the Army before seeing action at Dunkirk, north Africa and Italy.
Dr Richard Smith, head of the university's geography department, said: "The atlas is a remarkable piece of scholarship. Col Cobb retired from the Army in 1965 and worked in mapping until his retirement in 1971. He began work on the atlas at the age of 62 and carried out the research in his own time.
It is thought the oldest person to receive a PhD was the Reverend Edgar Dowse who received his from Brunel University in 2004, aged 93.
(Excerpts / BBC News) A 91-year-old former Army officer has received his doctorate from Cambridge University for creating an atlas of railway stations built... more -
SeventyONE -The Seven Decades of Jose Postigo
A short documentary we did for class, we tell the story of a 71 year old olympic weightlifter who attempts to defend his florida state title after 9 years, and whose only goal in life is to try as hard as he can. A short documentary we did for class, we tell the story of a 71 year old olympic weightlifter who attempts to defend his florida state... more
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Pensioners forced to survive on less than £10,000
Nearly two-thirds of single pensioners are having to get by on incomes of less than £10,000 a year, Channel 4 News reports.
Pensions are providing people with only modest incomes, with 61 per cent of single pensioners receiving less than £10,000 a year from them during 2006/2007, while 45 per cent of pensioner couples got less than £15,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Could you (or do you) survive independently on less than £10,000 a year? Is this what generations of elderly people were expecting in their old age? Is it what they deserve? And do you care? Nearly two-thirds of single pensioners are having to get by on incomes of less than £10,000 a year, Channel 4 News reports. ... more -
Chase bank teller stole 300,000 dollars from 86-year-old woman's life savings
A Chase bank teller was discovered to have stolen close to 300,000 dollars from the life saving of an 86-year-old woman. Jessie McDonald and her husband (who died last year) saved 400,000 dollars. The theft was discovered in 2007 and the teller fired but no attempts have been made to pay Mrs. McDonald back.
This is a clear case of elder abuse and I'm surprised that this case hasn't received more attention. A Chase bank teller was discovered to have stolen close to 300,000 dollars from the life saving of an 86-year-old woman. Jessie McDon... more -
McCain v. Teleprompter
Senator John McCain was performing relatively smoothly as he unveiled his energy plan.
He managed to limit the mechanical hand chops and weirdly timed smiles that can often punctuate his speeches. He delivered his lines with an ease that suggested a momentary peace with his longtime nemesis, the teleprompter.
But when Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, came to the intended sound bite of his speech — the part about reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil — he hit a slick.
“I have set before the American people an energy plan, the Lex-eegton Project,” Mr. McCain said, drawing a quick breath and correcting himself. “The Lex-ing-ton Proj-ect,” he said slowly. “The Lexington Project,” he repeated. “Remember that name.”
In a town meeting in Cincinnati the next day, Mr. McCain would again slip up on the name of the Massachusetts town, where, he noted, “Americans asserted their independence once before.” He called it “the Lexiggdon Project” and twice tried to fix his error before flipping the name (“Project Lexington”) in subsequent references. Mr. McCain’s battle of Lexington is part of a struggle he is engaged in every day.
Mr. McCain is working closely with aides like Brett O’Donnell, a former debate consultant for Mr. Bush, to improve his speech and performance. He is working to limit his verbal tangents and nonverbal tics. He is speaking less out of the sides of his mouth, which can produce a wiseguy twang reminiscent of the Penguin from the Batman stories, and he is relying less on his favorite semantic crutch — the phrase “my friends” — which he used repeatedly in his campaign appearances.
The more careful McCain, said by some to be overly scripted, has received some withering critiques. “His rhetorical style can best be described as ‘tired mayonnaise,’ ” the comedian Stephen Colbert declared on “The Colbert Report” before inviting viewers to enter the “Make McCain Exciting Challenge.”
Peter Spaulding, the chairman of Mr. McCain’s campaign in New Hampshire, said he recently saw a McCain speech on television that was “just atrocious.”
Mr. McCain and his surrogates appear to be taking a page from the primary campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, which made a point of praising Mr. Obama’s speaking skills both to erase any expectation that she could match them and to imply that Mr. Obama was more of a performer than a leader.
He shrugged when asked whether he is improving as a speaker. “It’s fine, it’s fine,” he said. “It’s coming along. I will continue to make mistakes,” he added.
He sheepishly volunteered that he received complaints after a recent Newsweek profile of his wife, Cindy, said that he sometimes referred to her alma mater, the University of Southern California, as the University of Spoiled Children.
Mr. Salter bemoans the current environment, in which, he said, “the press creates the expectation that you better not stumble on a word, or tell a joke that Mr. Rogers wouldn’t tell, or you’re going to be in trouble.”
There are any number of Web videos of Mr. McCain to prove the point. They include the moment he playfully called a young man a “jerk” at a town-hall-style meeting in New Hampshire last year after he asked Mr. McCain if his age made him a candidate for Alzheimer’s disease in the White House (Mr. McCain typically uses jerk as a term of affection), or when he suggested to Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” that he brought him a special gift from Iraq — an improvised explosive device.
Small misstatements become instant YouTube fodder — as when Mr. McCain vowed to “veto every single beer” that included lawmakers’ pet spending projects (he meant “bill”) or when he said the government should have been able to deliver “bottled hot water” to dehydrated babies in New Orleans. (It is fortunate for Mr. McCain that there was no YouTube in the 1980s when he jokingly referred to the retirement community Leisure World as “Seizure World.”) Senator John McCain was performing relatively smoothly as he unveiled his energy plan. ... more -
John McCain's secret plan for the Internets leaked to press
...this is hilarious
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John McCain is aware of the Internet
The first question at an excellent panel at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York today with top web folks from the leading campaign goes to McCain aide Mark Soohoo.
Moderator Andrew Rasiej asks for a show of hands on whether the panelists have had to tell the candidate not to say "The Google" or other flags of tech illiteracy, then turns to Soohoo.
"Is it proper to say I don’t do raised hand questions?" Soohoo responds.
Echoing an old Grunwald/Penn line -- though also making an accurate point -- Soohoo points out that the gap in things like Facebook "friends" doesn't bear out offline.
"There is this community of people – they just may not be on Facebook," he said of McCain's supporters.
Soohoo is getting beat up a bit before what isn't exactly a McCain audience at the tech conference.
Pressed again on McCain's tech savvy, he defends his candidate.
"You don’t actually have to use a computer to understand how it shapes the country," he says.
"You actually do," former Edwards blogger Tracy Russo responds, suggesting he try to explain Twitter to his grandmother and then ask her how that applies to governing.
"John McCain is aware of the Internet," says Soohoo. "This is a man who has a very long history of understanding on a range of issues." The first question at an excellent panel at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York today with top web folks from the leading campaig... more -
The Dailee News
Print is dead. No on reads the paper anymore except people who are old school. And there's no one more old school than Lee Guttman who reads and reacts to the daily headlines with her offscreen neighbor Dave. Print is dead. No on reads the paper anymore except people who are old school. And there's no one more old school than Lee Guttma... more
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McCain Cribs Exclusive: The Straight Talk Express
Campaign director Davis White takes a behind-the-scenes look at McCain's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express. Its their first ad specifically geared toward the MTV generation. Campaign director Davis White takes a behind-the-scenes look at McCain's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express. Its their firs... more
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