26-08-2019, 10:05 AM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by big ben
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This post has not gone down too well with me. It,s the same old, same old. Everyone wants to get old and reach a ripe old age but to the younger generation we are a just a bloody pain in the rump. If it were not for the older generation the younger generation would not be here. What harm do we 'oldies' do to you of a younger generation. Do we go around mugging others. Do we carry knives and other offensive weapons and attack others just for 'fun'. Remember, with a bit of luck you too will get old one day. I am probably the oldest member of this forum (92) and it hurts to hear comments like this.
26-08-2019, 10:43 AM
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Spitty you nob!You might get away with that on an eighteen to thirty forum but not on here....
Talk about 'ruffling feathers' I feel completely plucked!
and I'm just entering my final year as an over fifties member, then it will be goodbye Foxy it was nice knowing you...What on earth will I fill my time with then?...
I suppose I'll have to start 'talking' to Mrs Fox....
26-08-2019, 11:18 AM
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Maybe this is a parallel universe?..PLease tell me if I've got it wrong but it's seeming to me that more than a few people here think that violent crime started with the current generation. Is 67 "old"...I was beaten nearly to death by a skinhead in Perth (Western Australia that is) in 1971 when I was 19. They all had knives. Bikers used to virtually run South Western Sydney in the 80s and they were middle aged then. They are probably in their 80s now. I've seen "Peaky Blinders"..What was that the 30s in Birmingham?..Whjat about the teddy Boys in the 50s? The Krays and people like them? I really can't speak for English youth. But as I have said most young people I meet here - including young English people - are great. BUt you have your experience. I just don't get it. Is the UK that much different to Australia? THe worst crime is committed by wealthy gangsters who drive around in limos and have Swiss and Cayman Islands bank accounts. And not too many of them are teenagers.
26-08-2019, 11:38 AM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by big ben
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This post has not gone down too well with me. It,s the same old, same old. Everyone wants to get old and reach a ripe old age but to the younger generation we are a just a bloody pain in the rump. If it were not for the older generation the younger generation would not be here. What harm do we 'oldies' do to you of a younger generation. Do we go around mugging others. Do we carry knives and other offensive weapons and attack others just for 'fun'. Remember, with a bit of luck you too will get old one day. I am probably the oldest member of this forum (92) and it hurts to hear comments like this.
26-08-2019, 12:00 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by Floydy
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Even though I'm almost 40 years younger than Big Ben I have to agree with his post.Spitty - not one of your coolest threads mate
Far from it, it is good to see folks united and galvanised.
26-08-2019, 12:11 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by keezoy
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I'm 67 but I'm still dreaming of being a Rolling Stone. I think the young people of today are (mostly) bloody awesome. I don't want to be one of them..been there done that. I'm not jealous of them - just proud of them. I still go crazy beating the steering wheel when I'm listening to good music in the car. When I hear those comfortable, boring and entitled "senior citizens" in affluent first world countries - Australia well and truly included - whine endlessly about everything when they have very little to complain about. Whinge about how everything was better in "their day" but don't give a damn about anybody except themselves..I feel like saying But it's not your day now. You've had your day. It's theirs now...But I don't I just wait for the noise to pass. I, for one am happy the age I am. I don't feel "Old" and I feel lucky that I have what I have and that I've had what I did have.I know I'm never going to be a Rolling Stone. But I'm not too old to have my own little "play and giggle" blues band. And that's enough.
I'll just take myself and my prettily decorated with painted butterflies tin helmet with me then if the maximum age to be able to converse sensibly is seen as 69!Does that mean I am too old to turn on my House music as we travel around in the car.? Oh well, at least when other drivers see two heads bobbing along to the beat, they won't look so worried anymore at what they probably assume is an elderly car driver and his elderly front-seat passenger both seemingly suffering with Parkinsons!
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