I’m fuming at the ageist comment on Classic fm

Getting to be 75 is indeed something to be very grateful for. What a waste of energy to get het up about somebody pointing it out!

I remember Prince Philip’s retort when he was congratulated on reaching 90 - similar to lemongrove’s.
Something like what a bloody silly question it was and he’d done nothing special, just stayed alive.

Well I take it as a compliment! Find it mildly amusing when said by a younger person. No point in being cross.
Now it they said I looked older (as a young man with Aspergers did to me once I would find it a bit annoying !

A comment that really annoys me is when a person on knowing my age says 'you don't look it.'How should I 'look it '? Yet to receive an answer.

I agree Baggs

Calendergirl ???

It was probably Aled. Perhaps he meant it was an achievement that her husband had written in having remembered her birthday!

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I think you must be looking for something to get indignant about.

A younger neighbour on being told I was in my 70’s was gobsmacked and asked me “What? How can you be in your 70s?” I just said it’s easy, just don’t die.

"Fuming" just seems a waste of energy really. More "oh for goodness sake" and switch it off in my view

I might ( might ) have rolled my eyes but I wouldn't waste energy on fuming.

Could have been just one of those daft things that people say sometimes and then wish they hadn't.

Who was the host? Someone experienced, or not?

Cutting a bit of slack over these trivia doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

It could have been Aled Jones. He is 48. Somehow, though, I can’t imagine him saying something like that

Alan is 71 and Bill is 64.

If it was today as Kate says, it was either Alan Titchmarsh or Bill Turnbull.
I can't imagine either of them saying it. They can't be far off 75 themselves.

Ridiculous comment

I missed that one but heard the same for a 90 year old. As Lemongrove says. It is a ridiculous comment.

Thanks all.

No definitely her birthday. Don’t know who the host was.

Do you think he would have said it it it was the husband’s birthday ?

It wasn't their 75th wedding anniversary, was it?

Now, that is an achievement!

Yes, ridiculous comment isn’t it? As if the mere act of staying alive was down to one’s own willpower or talent.In any case,
75 may have been a staggering old age in 1620, but not the case in 2020.?

Who was the host? Cheeky young buck

However, I thought they were all quite aged on Classic FM