I admit to being a whingy women when it comes to stickers on fruit agghhh .
Yesterday my groceries arrived , i had ordered a swede grrr it came with a sticker * Swede by Sainsbury’s * as if I needed to be told it was a swede for biddlys sake !
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There you go, you see? 
I think Dachs is right and it’s a right if passage for people as they get older to start putting young people down! 
Many young people have had it tough and coped bravely and just fine and are streetwise about the world and it’s pitfalls and treacheries, thanks to the Internet, in a way we never were
And yet you generalise about them as being soft and naive and unable to cope, much like Socrates! Old people never seem to have any respect or liking for the young
I think they’ll do OK, probably make a better hand of it than we did, but it’s a shame the Brexiters made it hard for them, limited their possibilities and did their best to blight their future
And that our age top heavy population can outvote them and make selfish decisions
That’s not fair Maree
I am not judging young people on the contrary I feel very sorry for them like my own grandchildren .
My grandson for example is kind amiable clever but he is soft and brought up gently .How will he cope in this new world ?
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I do think that moaning can be a habit 
After all, here I am, moaning about moaners…and old people….again! 
who’s in a looop now?
I’m a big believer in that old cliche, “Be a fountain, not a drain”
In any situation, positive fountain people bring life and energy while misery-gut drains suck all the energy and fun away
So I’m going to try to be positive today, my husband will think I’m on drugs and it will probably last until about lunchtime and he annoys me and I let it all out by braining him with the frying pan…….
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He’ll cope just fine 
They are tougher than you think, don’t underestimate kind, amiable and clever as attributes, they can be qualities that add to your strength and toughness and the ability to survive x
its allright going on about young folks …but can you even imagine what it must have been like doing ‘lock-down’? remembering your own youth, my god
it was bad enough for us oldies but imagine being sixteen and locked-up
i think mostly they are ok, dont try to talk down to them, were not their betters, in fact most are worse than them… we should aspire to equal them … not the R. Soles of course…lol
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They had access to social media which you didn’t at 16 so could still communicate .
They weren’t locked up that much they still went out did anyway as covid is generally mild in young people .
I was thinking exactly the same @Crabby. It was bad enough for the older generation during lockdown, but we have had a large proportion of our lives whereas the young are just beginning. Their education was interrupted in a massive way as was their ability to socialise -all very important when growing up. However, having worked with teenagers for the whole of my career, I do have faith in their generation. There are a few bad apples in every generation and they tend to be the ones we hear about rather than those youngsters who go on to have successful lives. I get angry when I see young folks being belittled by older generations - whatever happened to live and let live?
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brilliant
Are you my wife in disguise?
If you were a rebellious rocker in the late 1960’s then today you will be in your 70’s. A 20 year old punk in 1977 will be 66 today. It’s hilarious to hear people of these ages complain about the youth of today without any self awareness. Or were they all prim and proper (dull) when they were young?
The thinking that today’s youth need national service is even funnier. The last conscripted soldier left the army in 1963 - so they’d be at least 78 today. So most ‘old people’ never experienced national service. There is a word, apparently, for a nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced: “anemioa”.
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It’s no good complaining about the young folk…We taught them everything they know…
Ha! There ya go - another modern word that means nowt! - 
What’s wrong with folk nowadays - why can’t they use proper English, instead of these youngsters concocting these fancy newfangled made-up words - it’s just a bag of wind - a load of hot air! Harrumphh! 
Mutter, Mutter, Mutter ……
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PS Anemioa - I thought it was an interesting quirky Word I’d never heard of before, so I looked it up.
I’ve learned something new today 
I’d never heard of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows before, either - it must have taken that guy ages to make up all those new words!
Curiosity will probably tempt me to start looking up more of them. 
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Not sure why this was spoilered so I’ll follow suit.
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has been around for a very long time. I’ve been thinking of starting a thread about some of the words.
As for old people moaning, it only takes a couple to lower the tone for everyone because many non-moaners don’t want to hear it repeatedly. That’s a bummer. 
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Exactly, oldie judgemental people have very selective memories when it come to their own past
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I expect anyone found stationery in the middle of the pavement fiddling with their phone, to stand aside as I approach, doff their cap and offer a little submissive smile. Anyone caught speaking anything other than the King’s English to be sent to Rwanda.
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That would be 90 % of the country then most people don’t speak like King Charles ?
I do wish ( moan moan ) that people would not stop dead when they speak on their darn phones .
There are people behind you numpties !
Speaking like Prince Charles
I was writing in my notebook in Caffe Nero this morning feeling rather down for various super-dull reasons, when a handsome old man responded loudly to an enquiry by the serving lady ‘I am absolutely fine, thank you, and Life is Wonderful!’ He so obviously meant it that he lifted my spirits out of my boots and I went over to thank him. No Moaning Oldy he!!
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Many a true word spoken in jest.
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