Great 'What discounts can I get now I'm over 60?' Hunt

pineapple

youvesavedmealot wrote: »

Focus do it all give a discount card to over 60s - think you get 15% off everything you buy.

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere but Focus has gone into administration and is currently holding a closing down sale.

patricia50

sooperb wrote: »

Anyone got a clear answer about prescription charges for the over 60s? I know there was talk of staggering it similar to pensions and bus pass but I can't find anything on the DWP site that's definitive. I am distinctly unimpressed that my OH got his bus pass with only a 3 month wait last years but the earliest I can have mine is June 2012! I shan't bother though because I don't understand at all why pensioners should receive free bus travel!

I turned 60 in Dec 2010 but dont get my pension and bus pass until september. I live in a rural area and it cost over £5 to get into any decent sized local town. You can't afford to do that too often on a pension so I DO understand why pensioners should get free bus travel!!

Steve_xx

harryhound wrote: »

It saves the country needing to build new roads because pensioners are bumbling about in their 20 year old 5,000 miles a year private cars.

It prevents those dangerous (female) drivers from venturing out onto the roads.

I suppose you'll be perfect in every way then, are you?

harryhound

Elderly female drivers, perhaps forced back onto the road by the illness/death of their husbands, are statistically more dangerous than males of the same age.

Me? You would not want to see me bumbling about on the road if I could save money and carbon footprint by using my pensioner's card?

Steve_xx

harryhound wrote: »

Elderly female drivers, perhaps forced back onto the road by the illness/death of their husbands, are statistically more dangerous than males of the same age.

Me? You would not want to see me bumbling about on the road if I could save money and carbon footprint by using my pensioner's card?

So not only are you sexist; you are ageist too.

harryhound

Not me the insurance companies.
They have the statistics, they know the facts.
Political correctness cannot change the facts.
Older drivers by and large cannot see as well as younger drivers - fact.
However older drivers have more experience than younger drivers - fact.
So sensible older drivers drive slower than they used to to allow for their failing sight (and slower reaction times) - fact.
Unfortunately they sometimes thus annoy younger drivers and get themselves cut up.
Young inexperienced drivers pay more car insurance - fact.
Youn inexperienced male drives pay more insurance than their female equivalent - fact.
So what is sexist and ageist about that?
I've not noticed any Wimbledon tennis players with a pensioner's bus pass.

Harry.

PS I do not believe in homoeopathy, chemically it cannot work - is that another "ist".

Steve_xx

harryhound wrote: »

Not me the insurance companies.
They have the statistics, they know the facts.
Political correctness cannot change the facts.
Older drivers by and large cannot see as well as younger drivers - fact.
However older drivers have more experience than younger drivers - fact.
So sensible older drivers drive slower than they used to to allow for their failing sight (and slower reaction times) - fact.
Unfortunately they sometimes thus annoy younger drivers and get themselves cut up.
Young inexperienced drivers pay more car insurance - fact.
Youn inexperienced male drives pay more insurance than their female equivalent - fact.
So what is sexist and ageist about that?
I've not noticed any Wimbledon tennis players with a pensioner's bus pass.

Harry.

PS I do not believe in homoeopathy, chemically it cannot work - is that another "ist".

Older drivers can see equally as well as anyone else. If their eyesight is failing then spectacles can correct this. Oddly enough, this is similarly the case for young people whose eyesight is compromised.

All other drivers annoy younger drivers, due to the fact that most younger drivers want to drive far too fast and in a manner that endangers the lives of others.

We know what the facts are. I am pointing out that the manner in which you have presented your views appears to me to be both ageist and sexist. You may disagree with this, but that is the way that it appears to the casual reader of your posts.

zygurat789

harryhound wrote: »

Political correctness cannot change the facts.
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I thought it had recently been announced that male and female insurance rates for cars and annuities had to be the same.

zygurat789

Steve_xx wrote: »

Older drivers can see equally as well as anyone else. If their eyesight is failing then spectacles can correct this. Oddly enough, this is similarly the case for young people whose eyesight is compromised.

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Not so, they are prone to cataracts which, while developing, impair vision.

tangojulie

As a former ski instructor I have given some thought (and research) to what people can and can't be expected to do as they get older. And the 'getting older' process starts at about 25, so I'm not specifically referring to the over 60's alone.

Although visual acuity can be corrected, as far as I know there is no way of altering the time it takes to adjust from light to shade and back again. I believe that this starts to lengthen in the 20s and continues throughout life. It makes a big difference to a middle-aged person's ability to ski confidently and safely through dappled shade. I don't see why it wouldn't have the same effect on their driving, when they're travelling a lot faster.

I'm not suggesting that an older driver isn't safe, rather that we all need to appreciate how our responses might be changing as we age, and to keep safe by taking that into account instead of denying it.