Unless you like Gs:
i.e.
Golf,
Gardening,
Gout,
Getting angry about articles in [i]The Daily Mail[/i],
Grey slacks and matching piecrust loafers,
Going really slowly in a sensible small car on country roads on a Sunday while wearing a tweed hat,
Getting lonely, old and incontinent while your children and grandchildren work themselves to the bone to pay for your lavish pension,

I really don't see the attraction of retirement. When pension ages were first set, the ratio of working life to retirement for men was, very approximately, and on average, 50 years of work to minus 3 years of retirement (when the UK male retirement age was first set at 65, UK male life expectancy was 62 i.e. you were lucky if you lived long enough to retire). The wartime kids and their post-war, baby-boomer younger siblings are the ones who caused the problem. Give it 20 or 30 years and they'll all be underground, and we can go back to a civilised pension system designed to give everyone some support, rather than keep some lucky fuckers enriched while others shiver.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 13:46, Reply)