Apology? Why?

[oggbashan]

A small paragraph in The Times (Og's paraphrase):

Staff at an Old People's Home apologised for complying with a 90-year old lady's request to have a Fish and Chip meal served by a young man wearing only a thong and an apron.

Why should they apologise?

It seems admirable to comply with the lady's request. With that attitude what will she want for her 100th birthday?

Og

 

[glynndah]

A small paragraph in The Times (Og's paraphrase):

Staff at an Old People's Home apologised for complying with a 90-year old lady's request to have a Fish and Chip meal served by a young man wearing only a thong and an apron.

Why should they apologise?

It seems admirable to comply with the lady's request. With that attitude what will she want for her 100th birthday?

Og

Who in the world were they apologizing to?

 

[oggbashan]

Who in the world were they apologizing to?

The article doesn't say.

The home's management perhaps? Social Services?

Og

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Are you kidding? We're a world o f whiners and placaters, now.

I think they should apologize for being old.

 

[matriarch]

This is the actual piece from Times on line.:

Codpiece

A care home apologised after a woman of 90 was given her wish of being served fish and chips by a man wearing a thong and see-through apron. Woodland House, in St Austell, Cornwall, said that staff had overstepped the mark.

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How silly for apologising, good for her I say, at her age she should be able to have anything she wants. Now me, it would be a young woman in a thong..........

 

[oggbashan]

Thanks, Matriarch. I couldn't find the paragraph after reading it.

My excuse was that we've had a carnival since that edition of The Times. I was cooking at a barbecue in the pouring rain last night while Pole and Harem dancers performed in the street outside.

I survived without any burns. Our granddaughter stayed up late to watch the fireworks but the semi-naked dripping-wet dancers were of greater interest - to her and me!.

As usual we opened out downstairs washroom to visiting carnival courts - more soaking wet young ladies this time in massive skirts and petticoats. We bought our house because the downstairs washroom could accommodate a disabled toilet and a zimmer frame. It works just as well for crinolined skirts.

Og

 

[Oblimo]

I think they should apologize for being old.

Now that's a masterful curmudgeonly post, JBJ.

 

[Corylea]

It seems admirable to comply with the lady's request. With that attitude what will she want for her 100th birthday?

*laugh* Good one!

And good for the lady.

Doc has something in his biography about keeping his sense of humor "after the fires of passion burn themselves out" or something like that, and I always think, "Burn out? I don't think that actually happens. Activity may decline with age, but I'd be very surprised if desire dies out." My grandmother had a poster of Tom Selleck in her bedroom when she was in her 80's -- you go, Grandmom!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

OBLIMO

From each what he has, to each what he needs.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And everyone ignores the sexual harassment whiners who sue over pin-up calendars, jokes, etc.

 

[oggbashan]

And everyone ignores the sexual harassment whiners who sue over pin-up calendars, jokes, etc.

Our carnival organisers are expecting complaints from some of our community because we had Pole Dancers in the procession. Some people have no sense of fun.

The Pole Dancers were local women as were the Harem Dancers. In between the two floats was the cycle-powered float for "The Alternative Carnival Queens" - four representatives of our gay male community dressed as a Carnival Queen and her Princesses rollerskating around the float while the tres-butch Lesbians dressed in tuxedos pedalled the float. They have won the prize for "Spirit of Carnival" three years in succession despite moans in the letter pages of our local papers.

Despite political correctness we have baton-twirlers, junior gymnasts - both groups from age 5 upwards - ; the Sea Cadets Marching Band; the line dancers towing a replica Civil War cannon and firing it every hundred yards (don't ask me why line dancers need a cannon); the local amateur dramatic and operatic societies publicising their next productions with scantily clad performers - all soaking wet. Total number of participants were in the hundreds even though some of the younger children didn't take part because of the weather.

In the pouring rain about 10,000 people watched the parade. If it had been dry the spectators would have been about 25,000.

Someone complains every year about some aspect of the carnival. The organisers' response is traditional - if you don't like it, don't look.

Og

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

OGG

I grew up in an era where Puritans complained about dancing and movies and almost everything; and the community's response to them was FUCK OFF. But such doesnt happen anymore. Now we give them a sack of money and motivate everyone else to do the same.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

OGG

I grew up in an era where Puritans complained about dancing and movies and almost everything; and the community's response to them was FUCK OFF. But such doesnt happen anymore. Now we give them a sack of money and motivate everyone else to do the same.

I'm offended by this post. Paypal me a $5 settlement and I'll forget all about it, though.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

ARW

Okay. Checks in the mail. I swear it! Stay calm.

 

[redpaint]

Hey if she is of sound mind and thats what she wanted, to hell with what anyone else thought about it.

 

[DeeZire]

I think when prostitutes get arrested and convicted, they should serve their time doing community service in old folks homes. (This has nothing to do with the fact that they shouldn't get arrested in the first place.)

Assuming we remain healthy, we'll all end in old folks homes one day. In this light, it would be to our advantage to try to raise awareness now, so that when we end up in diapers somewhere, a request for a lap dance will be as routine as a request for some jello.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DEEZIRE

Most of the prostitutes I know you wouldnt want near an old person.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think when prostitutes get arrested and convicted, they should serve their time doing community service in old folks homes. (This has nothing to do with the fact that they shouldn't get arrested in the first place.)

Assuming we remain healthy, we'll all end in old folks homes one day. In this light, it would be to our advantage to try to raise awareness now, so that when we end up in diapers somewhere, a request for a lap dance will be as routine as a request for some jello.

No, some of us will die in our own beds in our sleep. Others hope to be shot by jealous husbands.

 

[fifty5]

A small paragraph in The Times (Og's paraphrase):

Staff at an Old People's Home apologised for complying with a 90-year old lady's request to have a Fish and Chip meal served by a young man wearing only a thong and an apron.

Why should they apologise?

It seems admirable to comply with the lady's request. With that attitude what will she want for her 100th birthday?

Og

Shit, Og, she's got another 9 between now and then - and, unfortunately, each one might be her last. I say give her a treat for every one of them - "more than 90" ought to be enough. Don't make her wait for her 100th! (I know it's not you, but I also know you have strings you could pull - do it!)

If she still feels sexy, then good for her!

 

[Corylea]

I think when prostitutes get arrested and convicted, they should serve their time doing community service in old folks homes. (This has nothing to do with the fact that they shouldn't get arrested in the first place.)

Brilliant! (Really, that's not sarcasm.)

Assuming we remain healthy, we'll all end in old folks homes one day. In this light, it would be to our advantage to try to raise awareness now, so that when we end up in diapers somewhere, a request for a lap dance will be as routine as a request for some jello.

*giggle* Raspberry jello with a side order of dancing girls, please!

 

[DeeZire]

DEEZIRE

Most of the prostitutes I know you wouldnt want near an old person.

I have a glorified view of prostitutes. Perhaps I need to do some actual research. In lieu of that, I will take your word for it.

Coincidentally, I'm just wrapping up a little tale that takes place in a nursing home. There are no prostitutes involved, but there is a bra that gets unhooked, and a pair of panties that hits the floor.

* Corylea - thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm glad to see I'm not the only pervert around here.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

DEEZIRE

I'm well acquainted with the subject.

All kinds of women are prostitutes. I knew an MD who sold sex to visiting executives.

But your typical, garden variety hooker is a scary mess.