To start a thread for grumpy old ladies who think things aren't what they used to be

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I'm probably a bit older than the average age on here, and totally emphasised with someone who said, in slightly despairing tones on a thread yesterday 'I sometimes think nobody knows how to behave anymore'.

So:

I think children should stand up for older (60+) people on public transport.
I think weddings should be a 'cut your cloth to suit your measure' exercise.
I think children should be called in by 9pm at latest during the Summer, so that neighbours can get some consideration.

I wish I could just turn the telly on without having to navigate about 3 remote controls.

To open a drawer and not find it full of various chargers.

Quite the opposite, lydia but you know this is an open forum, you can't declare rules on a thread and expect them to be obeyed - when an opinion is expressed a counter opinion should be expected!

as someone who is an old lady
"I never knew anyone at my school with special needs or even badly behaved. No tantrums or allergy sufferers. No ADHD. Not sure why but can guarantee you that if you stepped out of line you were slapped and slapped hard."



i didn't know anyone either.
cos they were locked up in institutions.
or just kept at home
\thank fuck times have changed

Chaletdays - I can't be arsed going through your posts to uncover your issues, but calling someone a dry shite for expressing an opinion is hardly a cause for celebration of manners from olden days - maybe you could take a few tips from modern day manners because by my standards you are lacking!

not sure what this thread is about. but someone mentioned photo booths.
took me right back, you would get your best mate(or latest squeeze) cram your self in the tiny thing and have your pic taken
\such fun

Seriously Loafline, you come on this thread with the obvious intention of derailing it and then moan and complain when anyone calls you on it.

And where is calling someone a dry shite going against old manners. It's an ancient expression in Ireland. My mother and aunts use it all the time. You're the one who talks about an open forum and then accuses anyone who disagrees with you of having 'issues'.

Seriously??

Oh and please feel free to go through my posts. What a cowardly and rude statement.

Oooh I like this thread!
Was born in 1964 so here's my list ( with huge apologies to the more modern among you!!!)
Tattoos are for frolicking sailors
You don't need to put your tea on a social networking site
Books smell lovely esp if they're old!
Children CAN eat the same food as you if you really, really try!!! ( children eating neon coloured food with chips only happened in the 70s!!!)
Lycra clothes that cling to your plus-size body are not flattering irrespective of how comfortable you feel in them!
Old people LOVE to chat and feel like they're part of the community
Plastic ball-shaped plants in a hanging basket or a container should be annihilated!!
Talking on your mobile while being served in a shop should be abolished with offenders being asked to sweep the floor for an hour
When it's really hot please don't wear ugg boots with your strappy summer dress
Similarly please dont wear flip-flops in winter
Please don't put a pepperami in you child's lunchbox alongside a packet of crisps and a sausage roll
Please don't think that all 2000+ other people on your housing estate want to hear your amazing record collection at 2am in the morning
Leopard prints are for leopards
Midriff exposing garments are for those without a midriff
Cold-callers both by phone and on the doorstep should be sent to the Orkneys to clean up bird poo
You should only go to IKEA AFTER you've had couples' counselling
Why are soap operas so depressing? In my day they were hilarious!
In my day... Fish and chips tasted like fish and chips!!!
Oh bugger!!!!

I wondered about you getting deleted for that, chaletdays! It's such a harmless expression.

And yeah, people have been coming onto this thread deliberately killing our buzz - it's not the point of the thread. The point of the thread is for grumpy old ladies to complain about how much baby was thrown out with the bathwater. We aren't saying the bathwater was great.

My mum's Irish Chalet. She often uses that expression.

Anyone else miss the old local cinemas and hate the new multiplexes with their buckets of popcorn and smell of stainless steel?

Love it, 1morewine

Loaf is being a bit silly.

And I agree re the soap operas. I don't watch them anymore. I loved Rita and Mavis, and Hilda and Stan. I'm not a bit interested in babes doing drugs and everyone sleeping around with everyone else.

it is a fun thread,
but the stuff about sn is shite.

I remember lots of bad things about the good old days. Unchecked bullying, overt racism, overt sexism, spitting, lots of child-whacking, smoking. My mum got a lot of grief for being a single parent. Shops shut at 5pm (and Wednesday afternoons) as well as Sundays, which made it quite a struggle to shop for groceries if you worked FT: my mum would have to shop in her lunch hour, in the middle of town, then lug it all home by bus.

But I too am horrified by the circus weddings, the preciousness about children (can't get my head around the SCHOOL dictating to me what age my child can walk home), the crassness and cruelty of so much social media. I always forget to send my kids into school with water bottles - seems completely ridiculous to me. I am also appalled at how extensive and intrusive beauty rules have become for women - waxing, labiaplasty - and I'm really depressed at the impact of porn culture.

Overall, I'm hugely aware that my family (lesbian parents, mixed race) could never have lived happily in the suburbs back in the 70s, as we do now. So my vote goes for now.

(Oh, and my mum always called us 'kids', back in the 60s and 70s.)

I see Loaf hasn't had the grace or manners to come back and explain her behaviour .

I miss the way that children were allowed to gradually become adults, maturing slowly inside before outwardly being grown up.

Nowadays they look like adults and behave superficially like adults from about 14 yrs, but are still very dependent and childlike inside until well into their twenties in many cases.
A bit like putting a cake in the oven at a really high temperature so that it cooks on the outside, but is still raw inside.

I like that analogy Lydia.

Thanks funny .

I'm laughing at the irony of a poster preaching about intolerance and racism, and then having a post using a uniquely Irish expression removed.

I reported the post.
I don't care if it's unique to Ireland or wherever. It was intended to offend. And MNHQ agreed.

Oh FFS. Whole site full of c&@t and you report THAT

You can write crap. You just can't say that a pp is crap.

So if Chaletdays had called Loaf a 'dullard' or a 'bore' you'd have reported it Lweji?

I don't think so. Yet that's exactly what that expression means in Ireland.

I'm not Irish, and most pps aren't either.
You should take it up with MNHQ if you think it was harmless.

I guess this illustrates a point. The grumpies come from a time when sticks and stones could break our bones, but words could never hurt us.

I miss that.