Hi folks did anyone else read this on the BBC website, its about the power of the Purple Pound. Not a term I had heard of before and I never regarded myself as Purple. The power of the 'purple pound' explained - BBC News
Don in a wet and windy Margate
Reminded me of this song about Purple People Eater Purple People Eater Lyrics - YouTube
Hello Don.
I heard it on the news yesterday. Iāve never been associated with purple before, apart from my face after a night on the town. It all sounds a bit contrived to me. I know the MS Society does make use of purple but thatās it.
Maybe we should change the lyrics of Priceās song to Purple Brain.
Best wishes from a blustery Crowborough.
Steve
Hi
It seems utterly contrived to me. Itās a take on the āPink Poundā which is what the lesbian and gay (LGBT etc) spending power was known as for years, and still is for all I know.
I canāt really see it taking off. After all, there are a huge number of us who actually donāt have a massive amount of spending power because we are dependent upon ever dwindling benefits. Obviously there are also many disabled people who are in work. But I question whether such people necessarily want to define themselves and their spending power as āpurpleā or in fact solely on the basis of their disability.
Sue
Purple, grey, green or redā¦Iām happy to spend whatever pounds I have left, after the mortgage, rates, gas, electric, water, phone, insurance , food and whatever else to keep the wolf from the door!
Hang on though, after all that there aināt much left for booze, gambling , escort services, and wild carryings on!
Pollsx
Excellent point Poll. Got to have money left over for the finer things in life! Especially the wild carryings on!
Sue
I am sure I would like this wild carrying on malarkey but after paying everything I am not sure what to spend my 22pence on? I did once try to save up and did manage to accumulate fifty pence but it was that long ago I blowed if I can remember what recklessness I wasted it on
Xxx Don
Don, you could have just gone down to the seafront today and roared into the wind whilst eating a bacon butty.
Wild enough? Oh hang on, how much is a bacon butty?
Best wishes.
Purple is one of my favourite colours, but Iām not sure about this āPurple Poundā business. Why not Blue Pound, to go with the colour of our parking badges? It seems that ātheyā want a way to describe the spending power of disabled people, or their value to the economy, so a colour was chosen at random.
I was surprised at how many disabled people there are worldwide. Nearly 1/6 of the worldās population is disabled in some way. Thatās a lot more than I would have thought there were.
Perhaps Don could purchase a share in a bacon butty, in the same way folk buy a share in a racehorse!
But then pig the bacon came from wont be doing much racing, will it?
Poor piggy!
pollsx
these posts are getting dafterā¦I blame AD and the sock revolution!
Not particularly bothered what a bunch of bankers want to call it, because only they will. I have never asked my uncle what he spends his āpinkā pounds onā¦but are they pink or are they purple? (he is gay and disabled, he also works) or are they just pounds. I do think though that as it is an economy worth Ā£249 billion, I think maybe we get ripped off a lot of the time.
Does bankers necessarily have to be spelled with a B?
If weāre going to start bringing AD and the sock revolution in here, weāll probably end up with multicoloured pounds and made of inflammable nylon as opposed to some natural animal based product.
Damn that BF thread, itās sneaking its way into all sorts of otherwise relatively sensible threads.
Sue
BF is the future and it ain`t orange!!!
pollsx
The colour purple makes me think of Oprah Winfrey.
Dont get me started on being ripped off. Put disabled in the name of anything and we get ripped off. I spent forty quid for a pair of slippers that I could wear with my foot bracesā¦ I have bought cars for less
Don X
Now your cooking with Gas Poll, not sure the piggy will thank us for racing to cook him but I am an ex butcher slaughterman so he will be okay. Just trying to bring socks into this reply but failing miserably maybe I need to pull my socks up
XX Don
Sue, the collective noun for bankers is a wunch of bankers.
Ah Steve, just the info I needed. Thanks.
Sue
I remember those days, when the tax left was worth more than the car! I remember one with the reg no. including FAY, so 6 months tax plus saleable number plate, absolute bargain,think it was Ā£55!
Hi
Take a look at the poem
āWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purpleā by Jenny Joseph
xxxxx
1thing for certain if your more than a bit unhappy then dial"m s society",there you will be certain to be āt a n g o e dā that or find Josephās Technicolor dream socks.who is Joseph by the wayā¦