Is the whole world of middle aged people just really vacuous now?

[Sunbury1986]

Hi all, I'm no academic so I'm not talking about education in the formal sense. I just feel that everyone I meet and talk to, many are educated and hold positions of title and status, are really dull to talk to. the main conversations seem to be about property prices, their "job title", which is hardly the brightest way to introduce yourself unless you are really status anxious, or which bloody Russell Group uni their child is applying to, and obviously if their/your child doesn't make a Russell Group they are going to be lucky to get a job in a Pound Shop. AIBU? Or do I need to (re) step away from people I know? I believe many succeed with out a RG uni education.

lol get a grip

oh god what is so bad about saying what you feel/want

nothing - why do you object to other people doing the same - what IS your issue with people such as myself saying they find some comments here ageist - isn't that our right under your free speech argument?

yet you seem really hung up on us 'harpies' being wrong and that makes no sense given your view that you can say what you like

I can have free speech but you can't is oppression my dear - not equality

on the contrary i am not attempting to shut down anyone, people opposed to free speech are the ones doing that

and on that note I am off to bed - work in the morning - night all my hot flushing harpies who want to ban people from speaking

get a grip is an attempt to shut down opposing views as well.

get a grip

are you from the middle east

harpies

PC gone mad

all good ways of silencing debate ...night xxx

god don't talk about 'old' people on here even if it is used as a descriptive terms

you can say what you want 'dear' but i will fight to the end to say what i think and feel like it or not, i will not be told to not say this or that just because some people find it offensive

there lies the end of civilised existence.

Say what you like - if I find it offensive, discriminatory or contrary to the guidelines I'll challenge it and report it. I have a right to do that.

And if HQ agree they'll delete it.

do that then bit wow

do you think hq are a higher authority then for free speech? mad

They suggest casual ageism is challenged and reported.

I think that's fair enough.

big brother, do you usually follow rules set by internet forums so readily ?

or do you have a mind of your own?

I do think these responses are a little cliched southeastastra

I think I've made my position on this clear. I think I've done so without resorting to impoliteness. I think HQ's position is clear too.

Blimey, how depressing. I think that the middle aged, like any age group, are a diverse group of people with lots of different outlooks, personalities and traits.

I find it depressing when any age group is reduced to a stereotype. Teenagers are the main victim of this, but to be honest with any age group it's lazy and says more about the narrow circle of acquaintance the person believing the stereotype has rather than anything about the age group themselves.

The one thing I would say is that in general people who are middle aged now had a lot more financial advantages compared to younger people today, and sometimes they don't appreciate how much harder things are for us. But again, this is not universal.

Op you've poorly worded your topic. Ywnbu to be bored of the people you know boring you to death with inane chatter but yabu to tar all us middle aged folk with the same brush!

I'd never heard of RL uni's until I came on here, then I saw a thread entitled "How do you parents whose DC's didn't get into RL uni's feel". Thought to myself don't like the sound of that read some of the thread got mad at the OP so just posted you are a snob. I don't believe in all this ism stuff. Takes all sorts to make the world go round and there's far too much shite flying round so let's be nice to each other. Life's far to short to bicker.

sugar I remember that thread, op was flamed. I went to one of the bottom uni's in the uk and have a second class degree in a soft subject I've turned out okay!

The Russell Group thing is utter fucking bollocks (and I say that as somrone who's been to three of them.) They are a self selecting cartel of 'research led' universities who banded together and declared themselves an elite.

The research output of a university is no guarantee of quality at undergraduate level. In fact in some ways it hinders it.

Anyone who boasts about their children going to a Russell group university without any context or understanding of what that means is a fucking dope.

A cartel stars? I'm picturing drugs and gun running! Probably not the curriculum

Well. I am 45 and attended a RG university and have never, not once, had a conversation about them. I am not middle class either. Definitely your friends. Get some new and better ones OP.

I'm at you southeastastra. Were you pissed last night? Or do you like to deliberately insult people?

Why would you defend your (or anyone's) right to insult other people?

(Totally ignoring for the moment that it's against Talk Guidelines)

For future reference we don't have 'free speech' in this country anyway - because we have laws against discrimination just like MN had rules about it - hth

"just like MN": I hope the country's rules are never the same as those of MN.