To think that middle aged women are really a bit pointless?

[Hullygully]

What is the point of them?

Really?

What about small boys-what are they for? And dogs? Definitely useless.

And worst of all ugly people

There are so many of them. I think we could allocate say 1 per 10 households once the kids are in secondary school to do all the chores and sort of lose the rest.

Couldn't we find a spare island to put them on?

I have pointy elbows. I can point at you and laugh. I have a point, see?

We can teach the younger generation how not to be so self-absorbed and self-conscious but embrace quirkiness and eccentricity in equal measure. We can call people 'love' and 'dear' without sounding too gay. We can 'faff' with alacrity. We always have tissues.

I'm feeling at the top of the slippery middle aged woman slope. Can see all the cliches of pointlessness looming. Friend recommended somewhere nice for afternoon tea 'what a treat'. Next it will be me-time and 'I juggle so many things'.

[shudder]

Michael Ball would have to give up the day job. So not all bad then.

As long as the spare island has a good branch of M&S, Hully.

They serve a couple of important functions.

They are there so that chippy fuckers can post 'am I being unreasonable to tell the old hag to mind her own business"

They are they so that chippy fuckers can post 'aibu to tell my fucking mother in law to stop buying stuff for my dc"

And generally they are the perfect person to complain about. They have no value other than to be complained about.

Fuckers

I'm up for living on an island

In another century, we won't have middle-aged women.

Children of the future will laugh and point at pictures of middle-aged women in history textbooks.

ME-TIME!!

yes yes yes

and juggling. I do that for real though to earn a bit of cash. Down the shopping centre, outside bhs, of a Wednesday.

The tena pad company would go into liquidation without us [hwink]

See what I did there...'liquidation' [hgrin]

Not up for an island with fecking M&S though!

THIS middle aged woman doesn't have a waist thank you very much!

If it wasn't for a middle aged woman you wouldn't be here OP [hbiscuit] but as I think this thread is tongue in cheek, we're the ones with the dosh to get the economy going again and I employ a lovely 20 something to do the cleaning and an even lovelier 20 something to do my admin at work. DH employs lots of young uns too so where would you all be without us.

DS is gearing up for some hard snogging too nowadays and if I hadn't been young once there would be no DS to swoon over .

Must dash - got to fill a Waitrose trolley and book a hair appointment and get some polyfilla to fill the cracks so I can look like a young 40 something!

40+ is a bit young really.

60+ and well, they can knit and erm.....

I can't wait to be old enough to be considered pointless, I'll happily mooch around with point, I'll enjoy my free time when no one sees me as neither use nor ornament. I think?

Yeah Hully - why are the old women getting off so lightly? They're pointless too, and they're mean and horrible on buses. And old woman hair always looks crap.

why do younger mums think there's nothing to do once the DC's are all at secondary school? IME that's when all the trouble has started!

Innit. Kill 'em and use their leathery pelts as mobile phone covers.

I'm not even going near the old.

They are a whole other kettle of support hose.

Right ok round them all up and shoot them when people get to 50, your not immune. So when your 50 you will have the same fate then. Don't be so stupid yabvvvvvvu

To shack up with younger men, obviously. Wasn't it Julie Burchill who pointed out that younger women/older men and younger men/older women are the natural pairings, because young women and older men don't like sex very much -- and young men and older women do

Am worried that I'm totally missing the point of the thread. But here goes anyway.

As an employer I would always go for a middle aged female candidate. They're clued up, reliable, skilled at multitasking and usually good company. Anyone who has been a sahm has usually got some good transferrable skills.

I thought this when I was young. I'm now middle aged myself and am even more convinced.

Middle aged women run my DCs sports club. There are men involved too but they tend to shy away from decision making and decisions are made and implemented by the women. Some of the women WOtH, some don't.

Middle aged women keep stressed teenagers on track - just as challenging as the early years and often much more emotionally draining.

I'm really not sure how much of a pisstake the original post is but I do know a lot of people with very low self esteem and it grieves me when I see how fantastic they are. This is the best time of my life coming up!