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Ghosted by a man in his 60s

105 replies

Rocketman4980 · 02/07/2025 16:10

So even older men are doing this now?

OP posts:
Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:15

I think if you have got to your 70s and you couldn’t grasp that was clearly the antithesis of anti agist… then there’s not much hope of that changing!

CKN · 02/07/2025 21:18

Is there a full moon tonight by any chance 🙄🙄

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:19

Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:09

@Arlanymor not too busy to mumsnet 😆

You need to read back on the thread - someone already asked about this - my phone is at home and I am not - I literally cannot physically respond until I get back! So in the meantime I will just annoy you on here! 😅

Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:27

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:19

You need to read back on the thread - someone already asked about this - my phone is at home and I am not - I literally cannot physically respond until I get back! So in the meantime I will just annoy you on here! 😅

So bugger all to do with being “too busy”!

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:28

Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:27

So bugger all to do with being “too busy”!

Eh? I don't live on here - I've just been on here a bit today. Definitely too busy - it's been a mad week, but I am guessing you don't need me to share my diary?!

Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:32

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:28

Eh? I don't live on here - I've just been on here a bit today. Definitely too busy - it's been a mad week, but I am guessing you don't need me to share my diary?!

😆
you’ve been apart from your phone for a couple of weeks
you’ve posted absolutely loads in the last week
so nothing to do with being “crazily busy”

and everything to do with you not having your phone (although a good friend… I’d email. On my laptop!)

Justsewsew · 02/07/2025 21:41

Uhm a friend of mine did meet a chap who didn't get in touch and he had died. She found out about three months later (i can't remember how though).

elfendom · 02/07/2025 21:45

this thread is something else 😅

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:47

Itchytoe · 02/07/2025 21:32

😆
you’ve been apart from your phone for a couple of weeks
you’ve posted absolutely loads in the last week
so nothing to do with being “crazily busy”

and everything to do with you not having your phone (although a good friend… I’d email. On my laptop!)

Edited

😂😂😂

Loubylie · 02/07/2025 21:55

He probably had his head turned at the bingo.

Loubylie · 02/07/2025 21:57

Or choked to death on a Werthers original.

coxesorangepippin · 02/07/2025 23:47

First response - maybe he's died?!?! He's only 60

thecatneuterer · 03/07/2025 00:01

coxesorangepippin · 02/07/2025 23:47

First response - maybe he's died?!?! He's only 60

OMG, how can there be so many people with no understanding of sarcasm/irony?

Itchytoe · 03/07/2025 06:26

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 21:47

😂😂😂

Today…. Before posting dozens of times on mumsnet - message your friend @Arlanymor !! 😆

landlordhell · 03/07/2025 06:27

MsDDxx · 02/07/2025 16:26

It’s a bloody joke!

This

landlordhell · 03/07/2025 06:28

Loubylie · 02/07/2025 21:57

Or choked to death on a Werthers original.

😂😂

Oodlesof · 03/07/2025 06:29

My brother is dating. He's been ghosted multiple times by women. Ghosting is very definitely not just a man thing.

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It was a joke!!!

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It isn't classed as elderly - that was the whole point - it was sarcasm and a joke! It was highlighting the slight ageism of the original post.

Jeez - people on MN used to have the intelligence and perception to joke and to understand jokes. What happened?

Lucynow · 03/07/2025 15:16

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 17:45

Totally what I am thinking. I have a message from a friend from over a week ago that I've not managed to reply to as yet because I have been so crazily busy and I love her!b

I regard mumsnet as something to peruse when I’m chilling out for a bit NOT as a “crazily busy” activity!!

Zov · 03/07/2025 16:33

Putmyfootinitagaindontyouknow · 02/07/2025 20:48

50 is scarcely middle aged.
You've got another 30 years before you are "elderly ".
You might not find jokes about older people dying so funny then.
I think this thread shows the contempt people feel for older people that its so acceptable by so many posters to laugh at their death.

Edited

You cannot police what I say, or what I think, or what I am allowed to laugh at. I found the post (that lots of posters are laughing at) funny. Not my fault that you have had a sense of humour by-pass. And don't project your issues onto me. Also, you have not answered the question as to why you are going to die soon. Are you very ill? You said in one of your posts that you are in your 70s, so unless you are very ill, there is no reason why you should be dying soon.

And I didn't say I was 50. You're twisting my words to suit your agenda. I am in my mid 50s (And that is what I said!) And that is not young. To say it's scarcely middle aged is ludicrous. It's not elderly of course, but it's an age where on ecan easily be classed as a 'senior.'

Zov · 03/07/2025 16:39

Left it too late to edit.

*It's not elderly of course, but it's an age where one can easily be classed as a 'senior.'

Halfaday · 30/09/2025 07:31

Arlanymor · 02/07/2025 17:45

Totally what I am thinking. I have a message from a friend from over a week ago that I've not managed to reply to as yet because I have been so crazily busy and I love her!b

Message your friend instead of mumsnetting @Arlanymor ? 😆