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

[Hullygully]

What is the point of them?

Really?

Salander even doh!

I'm more than 50 and spend a good deal of time thinking about chips and wafers.

Lisbeth Salander?! Well, personally, I just wonder how she sees out of that hair!

Hully!! bloody hell, always thought you were at least 15 yrs younger than me!!

Woah - semiconductors - seriously STIDW?

To be grandparents to your children.

Read the title and the OP at lunch time and found it offensive.

I'm 46, I don't feel a day over 25, the best years of my life was my thirties.

Just because we age, we never feel old.

Its a misconception.

I can have just a good a time with my kids of 23 and 18 being silly, having fun as I can having a meal out with work colleagues.

I don't look 46 either, I pass for 35.

Where is the list?

We neeeed the list.

When I was 28 - I looked at women of 50ish with teenage children and thought they were very grown up with their big gardens and volvos and school runs and uni visits. I just don't feel that grown up now I've got there - did they still feel 25 inside too?

Just scanned this thread. It looks delicious. I can't wait to be 50. Maybe then I will have a little more freedom, a DS who can wipe his own arse and more disposable income. I expect I will still feel like a worried 12 year old inside though!

What on earth is the POINT of this conversation. This is my first time on Mumsnet and unfortunately this was the first discussion I tuned into - I thought that this was supposed to be a community where women support one another - 'what of the point of women over 40'?? I really hope I am not getting the joke here!!!!

Oh gawd Fabby - it's a joke thread.

How can you not see that?

The point of this thread? That middle aged women are not pointless, that they shouldn't be invisible etc. All delivered in a jokey way with a lot of nonsense thrown in and people having fun! Most of the posters are probably over 40. I really don't understand how anybody can take the original post at face value.

acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Actual Cats
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
All Antique shops
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
All things remotely to do with golfing
Alphabetised lists
Am dram
Antique Jugs
Any type of peering
apostrophes
Artic rolls and caramac
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Baking lots of pies
Barging small children off the dancefloor while singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping while dancing
Battenburg and Madeira cake
Being concerned about it being The Done Thing
bingo
Book clubs
Boots No 7
Branflakes
Buying Carnations because they last so well
Cardigans
Cat Ornaments
Cat tea cosies
chicken shaped things
Chiropody
Clapping hands while dancing
Cliff Richard!
Climbing trips
Clothes purchased from Woman's weekly or Telegraph
Coach tours
Coach tours
Coming up with list items which are too long
Complan
country living
Countryfile
Court shoes
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Daily M*il
Daniel O'Donnel
Danish spectacles?
David Attenborough programmes
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Dogs
Doing long distance walks.
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Dying your grey hair blonde
ecco
Elaine Page
Exclamation marks
Festivals
Fitflops
Fitplops
Flipflops
Footglove shoes
Fun cat cartoons
Fun cat greeting cards
Garden centres
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Gold stickers with your name on
Golf clubs
Good Housekeeping
Hats on parcel shelves
Having a sustainable garden
High leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Hillwalking
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Homemade birthday cards
Horses
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Hurumphing
Immodium
Imperial Leather soap
J Campbell Kerr
John Barrowman
Judge Judy
kittens
Lakeland
Last night of the proms
Laughing too loud
Lipstick on teeth
List obsession
Lists
Missing The Point
Mumsnet
Musicals staged in local theatres both watching and performing in
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Novelty egg cups
odd spec cases
Organiser handbags
parish mags
Past Times
Peachy's MIL
Peering over reading glasses
People who abdicate responsibility for their own lists
People who are unfettered by lists
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
People who don't google J Campbell Kerr
People who don't know what Fitplops are
People who don't know who J Campbell Kerr is
People who know what fitplops are
People who play golf
People who skip
People who take threads like this seriously
People who would fuck the list
Peppermint tea
Per Una
petunias (nasty flowers)
Phillipa Gregory novels
pop socks
pot of tea and a pot of hot water for a top up
Proudnscary (again)
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Quality Street
RHS and NT
Rovers, Volvos and Nissan Notes
Scholls
she
Silly questions
Singing in wavery voices at appropriate times
singing in wavery voicesat inappropriate times
Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Ski holidays
Slippers
Snorting
Strictly Come Dancing
Storing ONE spoonful of potatoes in tupperware for yer Dad's lunch tomorrow
Sucking
Suepurbly
Swapping winter and summer wardrobe (although that might be a UK thing)
Tapered slacks
Tea cosies
Teenaged children
The Archers (grudgingly)
the rspca
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
tins of biscuits
tissues shoved up your sleeve
Triumph's bestselling bra: the 'Doreen'
Tutting
Using things up
Voluminous linen outfits
Wafting up voluminous linen skirt and flashing support garments (in beige)...
waitrose
Watching Eggheads
Waterfall cardigans
Weeing a bit on trampolines
Weeing a bit while laughing too loud
Werthers
Westlife
Whooping while clapping hands while dancing
WI
wicker baskets
Womans Own
woollen mill
Zumba

the nicest thing is knowing that pointless middle aged women exist. In real life everyone is thirtysomething or sixtysomething

Isn't it funny how many people's first thread read and first posts are the bunfights. Almost as if.........no, I'm rambling again.

Very good, Sueperbly, very good!

Yay! The list is back!

Whoop whoop!!

Fabby i don't blooody believe it!

And another point of this thread: I have aquired some love kittens. It doesn't get any better than that.

I've started enjoying countryfile and gardening programmes!

Damnit, I got your name wrong, Suepurbly. Sorry. I hope you have added everything to the list that has been mentioned since. And keep it up to date. Hully will be along soon with a badge for you.

pass for 35? That's nothing Fabby - when I'm with DD, 21, , we can pass for sisters
( albeit sisters who are 25 years apart, but still)

The list, it hurts my eyes.

Ere love kittens?? That at all like Dragon Butter is it?? coz i'll have to come over all middle-aged outraged if it is. .