Britain's oldest worker

[Unklemonkey]

Linky: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainagelabouroffbeat

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's oldest worker has enjoyed a day off to celebrate his 100th birthday but explained he would become a "miserable sod" if he ever had to retire for good.

"Buster" Martin, a mechanic for a south London plumbing firm who has 17 children and 70 grandchildren and great grandchildren, tried giving up work at the age of 97 but couldn't face the boredom.

"Boredom is a big killer of men," he told the Daily Telegraph. "I went back to work because I like to keep active," adding that if he ever retired he would become "the most miserable sod you have come across."

The centenarian, who grew up in an orphanage and first married when he was 14, joined the Grenadier Guards and served in World War II before switching to the Navy.

In more recent years he worked on London market stalls. He now lives in south London, where one of his few concessions to modern technology is a television.

"I have never in my life owned a phone -- they are a bloody nuisance," he said. "You can be sitting peacefully indoors and they start ringing. I hate them."

Neither is he too keen on foreign holidays. "You are only going to spend a lot of money to go over and do the same things you would do here," he told the daily.

"I am living a holiday here. I wake up every morning and am happy in what I do."

Good god, he's fucking 100 and still working. Looking at his picture he really doesn't look that old, well, not 100 old at least <.<;

Also bolded a funny, those damn whippersnappers

[Zigma]

what he says is kinda true and a lot of people are like that. When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

bleh

[Tyr]

When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

play mmo's and creep out younger people, duh.

[Lylie]

what he says is kinda true and a lot of people are like that. When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

bleh

Play FFXI.

[Unklemonkey]

what he says is kinda true and a lot of people are like that. When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

You'd have to really like your job alot to be able to put up with it for that long. I've only been at my job for about a year and I already hate it with a fucking passion, lol.

[Xyzor]

what he says is kinda true and a lot of people are like that. When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

bleh

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8714/familyb5kt4.jpg You like popsicles?

[Septimus]

When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

play mmo's and creep out younger people, duh.

It will be funny when people who play MMOs get to retirement age. I wonder if we will have special old people MMOs in the future.

(Someone find the picture of "SIM I Remember When This Was All Fields".)

[Russta]

Extraordinary, that guy's life is the mirror opposite of mine.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

what he says is kinda true and a lot of people are like that. When you retire, wtf are you gonna do? sit there doing nothing waiting to die?

bleh

Enjoy life

[Lordwafik]

lol same, I dont understand how people can enjoy going to work, all day @ work I just wanna go home, and now that I dont have work for a tad ( go go temping) im soooooooooo relaxed.

[Dezzimal]

(Someone find the picture of "SIM I Remember When This Was All Fields".)

I actually can think of at least 5 cases where I could say that here in wisconsin. I'm only 21. My old house which I lived in was in a neighborhood of 5 other houses surrounded by farmland/forest. Now its a hugeass subdivision because one of the old fart farmers died and his heir(s) didn't want to farm.

[Septimus]

(Someone find the picture of "SIM I Remember When This Was All Fields".)

I actually can think of at least 5 cases where I could say that here in wisconsin. I'm only 21. My old house which I lived in was in a neighborhood of 5 other houses surrounded by farmland/forest. Now its a hugeass subdivision because one of the old fart farmers died and his heir(s) didn't want to farm.

It is a sad day when you can say that.

On an unrelated topic the same thing happened to three fairly large farms near where my father lives in the last 5 years. (Damn whippersnappers.)

[Unklemonkey]

(Someone find the picture of "SIM I Remember When This Was All Fields".)

I actually can think of at least 5 cases where I could say that here in wisconsin. I'm only 21. My old house which I lived in was in a neighborhood of 5 other houses surrounded by farmland/forest. Now its a hugeass subdivision because one of the old fart farmers died and his heir(s) didn't want to farm.

It is a sad day when you can say that.

On an unrelated topic the same thing happened to three fairly large farms near where my father lives in the last 5 years. (Damn whippersnappers.)

I remember when I first moved to the city I live in now about 13 years ago, there was about 100 people in the town, now there's like 60k