fucking Stephen Fry

Age also equals life experience and SF has by all accounts experienced a lot. I think he did a good thing speaking up about his experience and presumably he took it for a few days in hospital, had his physio, got out and moved to paracetomal or whatever. Painkillers are not always the enemy. Only when abused. The US healthcare system is VERY different from the UK one. GPs were paid and taken on holidays to incentivise prescription of these strong drugs which are designed for serious illness or surgery for those suffering a minor workplace or sports injury. And they were given big doses and long courses. It wasn’t a hospital controlled argument.

*environment not argument!

in that case why do we have various biographies of different people ?

Not to mention 'ugly'. Christ almighty. He might be posh, he might be rich but he certainly can't help being a man,or old, or how he bloody looks. That is such a low blow that undermines any argument. Ridiculous.

Well, you're a charmer aren't you?

How clever do you think you are?

Yeah things work differently on people - my mother didn't take to morphine at all so I had to speak to the hospital and get her on a different painkiller

The issue here is the journalist who thinks that writing down a conversation she hears on the radio constitutes writing an article.

Well I can't be the only one disappointed this isn't a sleazy sex scandal post surely? 😂

And yet you can't see that even this post is both ageist and sexist.

God knows, I've been treated to unwanted opinions from young men and women, middle-aged men and women, you name it. There is nothing unique to older men that means you are entitled to stigmatise all older men in this way.

Really? I’m a pointless old woman and I think my life matters so why shouldn’t he?

I find you vulgar and arrogant.

It’s a bit of a non-story but there’s no reason for anger, surely?

@Ortila and highly selectively at that! The article pretty much implies he was coerced into taking it ‘to help the NHS’ when in fact in the interview he talked about how much it helped him in his hospital recovery from serious surgery

It doesn't mean that gratuitous spite is acceptable, either.

When has he suggested he wasn't happy about that? The fact is that people find him of interest, hence his being invited for an interview on the radio and hence the newspapers picking up the story. Why should he be blamed for that fact?

how extremely ageist of you.there are plenty of boring young men who think they are very important.not a big fan of his to be honest but dont like the ageism,

dont call yourself pointless or old.you matter.

Let the old men shut up, and the old women too. Let them ago away and die. We only want to hear what young hot men have to say 🙂

Wow. Chill.
You are right he can't help it if national newspapers pick up fascinating titbits highlighted in red by his PR team in the press release for his self promotion tour about him all the time.
Stephen if you are reading this, sorry mate, I know my opinion matters to you and I didn't mean to upset you.
Hope we're good @dontbuyadell 💝

mumsnet has some seriously ageist people posting on it.they need to understand that they are targeting their future selves.anyway he is 66 which is not old,though he is an older adult.he is a bit of a fart though I agree and not that talented.

When there is so much pressure to 'get by without medication' and not even offer the stronger forms because some other people abuse them, it is of interest to hear somebody with direct experience say 'I had it, I was reluctant, but my doctor said I needed it and I'm getting better now'.

They're not going to print me saying it because I'm nobody. But they'll print something said by somebody famous who had a terrible accident. Because that's far more interesting to people than anything I could say about it.

Exactly.

There are a couple of books written about this. It’s a huge problem in the US.

I like SF. I don’t think he can help having a posh voice or being a middle aged white male.

@Blankspace4 I haven't heard the interview but what you're saying makes sense. It reads like she's [the journo] just written down a random snippet she heard on the kitchen radio before she went to put the bins out (or whatever), come back to it a few hours later, thought "aye, fuck it, that'll do" and sent it for publication.

You've missed the main issue here which is the absolute nonsense click bait article you've been sucked into. And have happily lapped up.

The Observer is trying to make it sound like Stephen Fry, who has had MH and addiction issues, is now popping Oxycontin. Because they want to attract people into their paper with scandal and misery.

@Showmethesunny wow! Ageist, anti a posh man and opening the door to disability discrimination all in a post intellectually titled "fucking Stephen Fry".

I'm still trying to unpick the meaning of "fucking Stephen Fry". The only correct interpretation I think is a reference to what it was like to fuck Stephen Fry. "Fuck" is a verb. To fuck, they fucked, she wanted him to fuck her..

Provocative you are; whether you are less boring than someone you have chosen to denigrate on a number of levels is debatable.

I may have clicked on this thread to find out.