To wonder what will mark us out as old people?

[BrightonCalling]

You know how you see old people out and about with stuff that is firmly of their era?
Examples:
Headscarves
Suits
Hankies
Stockings
Face powder
Etc

What do you think will mark us out when we're old? Or are the "rules" so relaxed now we'll just look like the young people but wrinkly?

Im thinking smartphones will have wildly changed but we'll still be doddering around with our galaxies
Straightened hair
Those of us who are smokers will truly stick out and young people will be like "omg! Look! An old woman with an actual cigarette!" a bit like how we feel when we see an old man smoking a pipe.

You only need a short visit to hospital to realise that a lot of old people have some of the latest phones.

Oh god. Where’s the touch screen? There’s no mouse? Well how do ya work this thing? Oh I know it’s not a compuuuter, but it’ll always be a computer to me!

Tattoos!

Yeah my mother has a smart phone. Cause the buttons are easier to dial. . She has an iPad but she doesn’t use her smart phone foe anything other than calls

Ann

What do you think the average lift expectancy is? Reaching old age isn’t an insult, it’s a privilege.

I have relatives in their mid 70’s and also work with people of the same age. They are active people, particularly the ones working, but they’re not “youthful”, they’re active elderly people. And fair do’s to them, I hope I age similarly and have the same sort of energy when I am their age.

My grandparents were always old. My mom’s parents were in their sixties and my dad’s in their fifties when I was born and they were just always old. I look at my parents now - in their late fifties - and they’re not old at all.

I hope they have an indie disco in my nursing home!

I always quietly sniggered over the size of my mum's pants on the washing line thinking we would be the old people in small, beautifully coloured pants.
Then I got older ,and comfier and wonder if my DD sniggers at my knickers.

Rather than drinking sherry/babycham, the official 'old people' drink will be prosecco and fancy flavoured G&T's

Who is in charge of decorating old people’s homes and are the ‘inmates’ opinions taken into account? When I was looking round one with my dgm a couple of years ago she completely wrote one off just because every available surface had a picture of Princess Diana or a kitten on. Their eyes followed you around the room and DGM said she was alread mad enough without having to deal with embroidered kittens.

wrote one off just because every available surface had a picture of Princess Diana or a kitten on

The care homes of the future will have pictures of Kurt Cobain, Oasis and that huge poster of a cannabis leaf that was all over students' halls in the 1990s, as we oldsters reminisce about the good old days.

Or maybe that 90’s Athena poster of a topless chap with a baby. Or Jeremy Corbyn.

Or Jeremy Corbyn

Maybe a Tony Blair 'things can only get better' campaign poster, in memory of the nail biting drama of the 1997 General Election when so many prominent politicians were unseated.

Think that Athena poster was 80s not 90s...

Not Jeremy Corbin.

Or a poster of dolphins.

Oo quite looking forward to a nineties revival when I’m old!

Snap! Yes, people actually speaking to each other, more tolerance, better music and TV, no social media, more optimism and laughs.

Afternoon tea and biscuits will be followed by a traditional, old-style Acid House rave.

You know how old ladies always used to have grey, curly hair? Well we will have lots of old ladies with over straightened long dyed hair.

Annelovesgilbert

News anchors are a prime example. Lines and grey hair on the men signify wisdom and experience. You rarely see a grey haired woman on tv so there’s little comparison.

The Queen.
The Prime Minister.
The President of the Supreme Court.

So, if you are in the UK, the three most important constitutional roles are currently occupied by people who look like, well, wise, dignified elderly women.

I can already imagine hearing "Smack My Bitch Up" on Radio 2 and messaging my friends reminding them of the old days. And then we will remember the days of WhatsApp and TOWIE ....

Gosh I am in my 70s and I don’t own a headscarf, a suit, face powder or hankies other than Kleenex! I don’t wear stockings and dh at 82 only wears a suit at weddings and funerals. I guess our grey hair is a giveaway though!

TheGreyLady yes...that's because people on here are remembering old ladies and how they looked 20-30 years ago when THEY were children.

The headscarf wearing hanky weilding ladies were women who'd grown up from 1910 onwards!

I am 45 and my Nan wore headscarves etc because she was young in the 40s.

You're of the same generation as my Mum and MIL....women who were born in the late 40s onwards and so didn't age as badly as your own parents.