To get really pissed off with old ladies telling me my DS 'isn't very happy' when he is crying?

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My 9 month old DS has 'a good pair of lungs', he is also a bit of a drama queen and likes everyone to know how he's feeling, good or bad. I'm not worried by this, or being paranoid, a friend has described him as like an air raid siren going off!

I'm used to this and he rarely has a meltdown when we are out and about but today he was teething badly and I was in town about half an hour before he could have any medication. An old dear looked at him and then me and told me that he wasn't very happy. Really? Do you think I haven't noticed? Just bugger off.

purdiepie I wasn't the only person to ask the question so there us little need for you to be so personally rude.

I don't think that supermarkets would be very happy if they only had retired people in during the day. Whenever I go in they have a whole cross section of the population. I know it has been said on here that old people shouldn't go at lunchtime because apparently they have 'nothing else to do all day'!

You are like a dog with a bone. And Jengnr most likely fled in the face of a coven of your cohorts approaching with the sole intention of demonising her for her fairly innocuous comment.

.. and that was addressed to Sooty.

You are like a dog with a bone.

It takes one to know one.

coven of your cohorts

Would you care to explain how two different people asking the same question justifies that description?

Pot calling the kettle.............

Seemingly several people found her post anything but "fairly innocuous".

Stop being so sanctimonious, hovering with your finger over the report button, cretin has more than one meaning but you clearly are unaware of that

cretin
A Person that is: brainless, stupid, child-like, and full of pointless information that makes no sense and appeals only to other cretins. They can be found in abundance in every single populated internet forum, where they race to post as many mind-numbing messages as possible in a single session. In addition, they seemingly interbreed with other cretins, ensuring that their cretinous genes continue long after they end up dead meaning the Internet will never be rid of their kind. More's the pity.

Dixie, no it isn't very nice, but aren't you just a little bit tired of having to simpler through life? Sometimes we come across people and we think, 'bastards'. Sometimes they are old. Sometimes they are interfering. Sometimes we just don't feel like being nice about them.

*simpler = simper

yes well it wasn't used in that context and as stated has more than one meaning.

old bastards does not

And sometimes they are black, so I'll ask you purdiepie whether you consider that an acceptable descriptor.

No, it is not, but then again I consider the suffrage of blacks throughout history to be somewhat more significant than the odd septuagenarian who failed to land a job in B&Q and so takes it out on harried mothers in Tesco.

What you consider significant is not the point. There are nine protected characteristics and age has the same status as race and the rest of the list.

Anyway as I am not 12 years old and in the habit of tit for tat replies on the internet, I will leave it there as I have made my point and have nothing further to say on the matter.

If people cared so much about the elderly there wouldn't be the need for 'fucking nursing homes' and l wouldn't feel compelled to voluntarily cook for several of them.

No, it is not, but then again I consider the suffrage of blacks throughout history to be somewhat more significant than the odd septuagenarian who failed to land a job in B&Q and so takes it out on harried mothers in Tesco.

What about the old person who is abused because she is old and devalued? The words we use signal the value that society places on classes of people in our society. Language that may seem relatively innocent can contribute to that devaluation. Marginalization of older people through language helps to create and support conditions and attitudes that foster elder abuse.