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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

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  • I have to admit that I find the whole grumpy old woman / old man thing really tiresome and I rail against it in myself as much as I can. I see it really as someone losing touch with the new and failing to catch back up so taking out their frustration with that on younger people. It's similar to the rose tinted, everything was better in my day thing and I can't bear that. Some things are definitely shitter now and some things are better. I am middle aged, and interacting with grumpy older people only strengthens my determination that I will not end up like that -  tediously whingeing that not everything is how I want it to be.

    Sorry if that sounds really harsh Catwoman, it's not aimed at you! My mil is like this - just constantly moaning about everything and it drives me nuts!

  • in reply to McFrost

    I agree McFrost. A serious concern about this in my opinion is that this “grumpiness”, which most contributors to this thread talk about as a positive, is as you say part of the “everything was better in my day” attitude, which in turn is very much part of the demographic being targeted by a certain right wing party in this country. Overseas the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement is the same but worse and directly linked to President Trump. 

  • in reply to Alice-nice-Alice

    I actually detest nostalgia and the "things swere better in my day" attitude I think it's a national poison, I don't think things were better when I was younger, I can think of plenty of things that definately were not better. It's looking back to a mythicl golden age that never was, but I don't see this as being the same as being grumpy or that everything about modern life is good.

    For me its much more about how for all the so called advances there are disadvantages, I do feel we have less choice as thing "advance", no one ever asks us if we want all this stuff, and many of us just want a bit more simplicity and things to do what they say on the tin.

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  • in reply to Alice-nice-Alice

    I actually detest nostalgia and the "things swere better in my day" attitude I think it's a national poison, I don't think things were better when I was younger, I can think of plenty of things that definately were not better. It's looking back to a mythicl golden age that never was, but I don't see this as being the same as being grumpy or that everything about modern life is good.

    For me its much more about how for all the so called advances there are disadvantages, I do feel we have less choice as thing "advance", no one ever asks us if we want all this stuff, and many of us just want a bit more simplicity and things to do what they say on the tin.

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