To be annoyed by the 'in my day' comments

[Citycat1]

I'm 40, and it seems I am encountering more and more comments from people above 60 saying life was so different 'in their day'

Examples:
L.A issue a heat warning on FB. Relative starts a rather negative reply about how in their day, in the summer of '76 they used common sense. Yes, I get it, and I LOVE the heat, but there are many vulnerable people that may suffer or end up in a&e and the NHS is put under strain. I'm thinking frail elderly as one example group. So I cab see why warnings are in place.

My DD currently has chicken pox. I ask a lady (staff in boots) for some zinc oxide cream. She says there's no calamine lotion. I explain politely that actually that's not recommended anymore as it dries the skin and makes itching worse. I get 'in my day it was fine' and a roll of the eyes.

My mum regularly tells me how things in the 70's were so much better. I'm sure some things were....but some were not. And to berate my whole generation because you don't understand the next one is belittling.

I'm sure it happens in each generation but it just irks me. Or AIBU and things really were better 'in their day ?

Din’t worry, you’ll be doing it in about 30 years.

Interested to see that calamine lotion is no longer used for chicken pox though

It is still used - the OP was incorrect in her assertion. Other treatments include antihistamines, zinc oxide on its own and aqueous calamine cream, amongst others.

Yanbu. There was a 20% increase in deaths in the 76 heatwave

That is it

You didn't notice the things you do now itms

Of course I think things were better in the 90s, I was a kid with no responsibilities, no mortgage, no job, no bills and no back problems.

I love how this brigade say things like 'in 76 we just got on with it and didn't complain'. Right then, is that why it's an incredibly famous heatwave that people bring up whenever it gets hot, because you were just so strong and silent and barely even noticed it.

Graceface, I love music from all the different periods of my life, I love some of the music my kids listen to, music is a constantly evolving art form, being stuck in the music of ones youth is just narrow minded

YANBU to be annoyed, but YABU to tar all older people with the same brush.
There are ignorant people in every generation who aren't able to take a balanced view of any given situation.

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I'm well over 60 and always jokingly moaning to my children and grandchildren that they don't know they're born, have it easier than I did etc. It mostly wasn't better in my day, we had it fairly tough. We didn't quite drink mercury but we did get to play with it in our bare hands during a science lesson...

I think those of us who were young in the 1960s miss the tremendous energy and hopefulness and “can do” attitude of that era, and the amazing music of the “summer of love”.
We were not tied down by endless bureaucracy, or obsessed with social media, kids had far more freedom to disappear off all day on their bikes, we were much more independent much younger, and student grants (not loans) meant so many working class kids getting a chance on merit alone to better themselves. The contraceptive pill freed women to actually enjoy worry free sex lives. Wages were booming, people were able to get cars, fridges, washing machines for the first time. The zeitgeist was brilliant, culminating in the Moon landings - we thought we were heading for space travel and a science fiction future! By contrast, today seems very earnest, and doom laden, everyone expects things to get worse, not better.

Baldock, there are some incredible things about being young and alive now

I would have thought a wealth of life experience and accumulated wisdom would inform you that things weren't automatically better in the old days

I was there in 1976, it went on and on and we had no water. It's a couple of days now, we have water so.....

It was simpler back then. 30 years previously the world was in turmoil, life changed beyond comprehension and people were still recovering from the same 20 years earlier.

These 60+ people you are moaning about Op have the lived experience of then and now. You don't.

I'd much prefer my childhood of the 70s to one now even with all the bad things that happened because it was simpler.

I was 16 in 1976. I remember it starting to rain after weeks and weeks of heat and drought - we all went outside to experience this weird wet stuff falling from the sky!

You're 40, wait till you're 60! As you say, every generation does it and you will too.

It was pretty shit in 76. School was hot and people looked liked lobsters
I got a bit of sunburn too
It was pleasant , but this current uk heatwave is a lot worse I think

Unpleasant !

You do realise that you will over 60 one day and I can GUARANTEE you will say 'in my day' - particularly if you have kids. But you kid yourself that you will be different. We all did.

I hate this too OP.

It's along the same vein as Kirsty Allsopp telling my generation we'd be able to afford houses if we stopped eating avocado toast and watching netflix let's not mention that she comes from a reasonably wealthy family

I really hope I'm never like this with my daughter or her generation. Some people act like life is a race to the bottom.

I wonder what your grandchildren will be rolling their eyes at when you suggest it.

Moreover in 76 it was hot from the end of May until the end of August, and didn’t rain all that time.

My MIL is often pointing out things that her mother would have done (usually natural remedies that had been called ‘old wives tales’ until recently. And she would have been about 110 if she was still alive.

There is a lot of crap spouted in any generation. Now is my ‘sons day’…

Well I felt exactly like you at 40 and found it really annoying.
Now I’m in my 60’s I find myself doing it.
I think it’s just one of those things that happens as you get older like going grey or getting arthritis. 😂

But some things are frustrating today. Eg risk adverse culture meaning my daughter's evening guides outing got cancelled a few weeks ago due to the heat. It was only about 20 degrees by the evening. 🙄Some things are better, some worse.

If you're super-annoyed then, make sure you never speak a word when the advice changes again in the future! Remember you'll be old one day!

Agree that this has been going on since the dawn of time. Mark my words, OP, when there’s CovidPox in 2060 you will be droning on to “young people” about Coronavirus in 2020 and they will be doing mega eye rolls.

btw music was much better in the past. My dcs say so and are mad on 60s and 70s stuff, particularly “Yacht Rock” (which wasn’t called that then; it was farty adult-orientated rock; I was a New Romantic - the excitement of seeing Duran Duran et al on TOTP…)