Ageism from Attenborough

I suspect he wasn't thinking in terms of those with dementia and in care but those who are fully mentally fit but just pack in life when they hit retirement and sit in an armchair and do nothing, falling asleep after lunch, with their mouths open and dribbling slightly - and not infrequently ending up drifting into mental deterioration and care.

We all know that the key to old age is the mantra 'use it or lose it' and if like David Attenboorugh you are one of those people who always needs to have lots of balls in the air and projects on the go, and I confess to being that way inclined myself, it is difficult to understand those who choose to spend all the freedom and choice retirement offers to choose to do - nothing.

I think all of us, however much we accept people are different, and can understand different attitudes and actions, always have one area where we struggle and if you are inclined to be a durex battery bunny you can struggle to comprehend those who cannot even be bothered to insert a battery, any battery.

Personally, having little or no interest in animals, I have no opinion or reaction to DA, as he is merely a name to me.

Personally I think he's a great role model for older people.

I'm not in a lather. It just adds to my dislike of the man which already existed.

If someone less sanctified said such a thing there'd be outrage.

Or maybe not. People don't seem to care much about everyday ageism, not in the same way they do about everyday sexism, even when what's said is off the cuff or said jokingly.

Or anything someone like the car man, wotsisname, the Other Jeremy, says that's in the slightest bit non-PC. And let's face it, much of what he says is non-PC, deliberately. ?

Why deleted? As someone whose OH does sit in a corner and slobber, I am not particularly offended by his, presumably tongue-in-cheek, remark. There are lots of better things he could have said, but I am not prepared to get in a lather about it.