I am very puzzled and quite frankly slightly hurt.

[MellowJoe]

Ageism is weird, we're all guilty of it I'm sure but what the young don't get is that they'll be old one day, if they're lucky, and that just seems to be the way of it

 

[Eccles Blue]

First of all, I hope you're well on the road to a full recovery Sheila. Good to see you as feisty as ever.

I agree with you. What grinds my gears is those 'iPad for Seniors' type of books. I'm one of those 'seniors' and I work on the design & development of some of the largest and most complex IT systems in Europe. I don't need some patronising fucker telling me how to use an iPad.

And I taught teachers and adults to use the computers when it was all BBC’s in schools PB so I get where you’re coming from, even if you’ve got a ‘brain the size of a planet’ and mine is the size of a pea. :-) :-)



Please note I wrote PEA.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

 

[Eccles Blue]

Was the film “Logan’s Run” ?

It might have been, so long ago I’ve forgotten and to be honest at the time I felt it was so far fetched but well acted that it went out of my head until recently. :-)

 

[Eccles Blue]

Hi Eccles, reading your post, you have a lot to be proud about;
Us oldies love you too.
Has John boy Stones said something to upset you?

He could never, rather like Dunnie and Vinnie they are all incapable of upsetting me..

Thank you for your kind words. :-)

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Calm down dear and have a nice cup of tea

 

[Eccles Blue]

Ohh that made me lol I’ve never seen that one. I used to get called Speccy 4 eyes at school. Thank you for that good laugh @RadcliffeRick

 

[Eccles Blue]

Calm down dear and have a nice cup of tea

Another laugh there. :-)

 

[salford blue 62]

I am, as you all must be sick of reading, a bit middle aged ;-) but I don’t think I’m prejudiced against anyone (except naturally LiVARpool and that Stretford lot) and I’m definitely NOT racist or against the youth of the country. You can’t teach and be involved in education at all levels for over 50 years and not like youngsters.

So why all of a sudden is it ok to be oldageist? This month alone I’ve been patronised by 2 professionals who should know better, I read about people resenting our having to use the NHS and services. I’ve been reading about a tennis personage who has accused older people of not having good eyesight because he didn’t get what the tennis player thought he should. Now Lewis Hamilton is attacking old people.

Please someone explain to me why it is wrong to grow old? I remember years ago watching a film in which people over, I think it was 30, were ‘disposed’ of because the population was being kept under control. Is this what these people want to happen now?

I worked all my adult life, paid a full NI Stamp and still pay taxes on my Teacher Pension that I paid a percentage of my salary toward and don’t and never did claim anything at all. I was a one parent ‘family’ without support from my ex-husband as the laws were not very good in those days. My kids didn’t get free dinners (because I was too proud to apply for them) although one son did get a partial grant when he went to Uni (before loans) but he worked to pay for his accommodation and I took a part time cleaning job for a time to help with the rest. If I had been able to afford it he wouldn’t have had to apply even for that part grant.

My offspring and their offspring and my extended family love me so that helps but why are people so hurtful?

Sorry for the sort of rant but I am hurt as well as puzzled.

You are a better person than all of the ignorant idiots Eccles.

 

[Corky]

Even Frankie Boyle who has gone ultra woke these days has no issue attacking older people and cancer victims.