Oh fuck it, if the old bag doesn't want to see anyone do her a favour and stay at home.
I'm more amazed at the people on the board who still have grandparents. Wasnt one of your grandfathers in WWI? And blousie keeps saying "One of my grandmothers"?

All mine shuffled off this mortal coil before I was 30 (3 of them before I was 21).

Alt Q: Be warned, I defend myself with FUNK!
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:23, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Great-grandfather in WWI, Grandfather in WW2
The women in my family are fucking immortal. Great-grandmothers on my mother's side both made it past 100.

My mother will outlive me for sure. Probably my grandmother will too.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:27, Reply)

Same here.
My great grandma lived to just under 100. My grandma is getting on for 85 and still going strong. It's those Kraut genes that keep them hanging on for dear life.
( girlinthehole, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:30, Reply)

that is bloody old
my rota goes 'killed by a car' 'cancer from working as a radiation nurse pre-shielding' 'cancer generally' and one I can't remember. maternal granddad died before my mother was two, and her mother died when she was 18. My dad's parents were dead before he was fifteen in both cases
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:33, Reply)

My paternal grandparents died many years ago but still at an old age.
My dad was the youngest so my granparents were pretty old when they had him.
( girlinthehole, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:36, Reply)

obviously my family
is just death-prone. I've reached 21 without losing a parent, so I'm already doing better than either of my parents, relatives wise
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:38, Reply)

know what you mean
all my grandparents died before I was born
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:28, Reply)

That's kind of sad
but at least you weren't forced to see them every weekend
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:32, Reply)

true
and I know for a fact my maternal grandmother and me would have hated each other virulently. So bullet avoided there
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:36, Reply)

They certainly took deliberate avoidance techniques to extreme levels, didn't they?

( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:53, Reply)

I'm only 25
and there were only 2 left when I was born, the last one died when I was 7.

Means I don't have to deal with stuff like this, but alas, no Worthers Originals either.

I have to deal with Wiggy's grandmother though and she hates me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:29, Reply)

Push her down the stairs
and dig a bear trap at the bottom of the stairs, and put spikes in the bottom of the bear trap, and put poison on the spikes
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:34, Reply)

Wiggy might get upset if I did that
plus I'm fairly certain she's invicible.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Aye
all mine were gone by the time I was 16, and both my mums had gone before I was 3, but then her almost all of her family worked on ships from Portsmouth and got sunk / blown up / torpedoed in the wars
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Third one carked it when I was 18
But yeah, all gone before my 30s. The big drinking Scotsman lasted the longest of the lot. Shocker.

I plan to die in a puddle in my 40s or 50s.
( djtrialprice, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 9:50, Reply)