What a lot of miserable old buggers some of you are!

Some of you are real hard hearted Hannahs
But not the ones on this thread paddyann !!

and the ones who need a GOW emoji are the least likely to realise it.

I sometimes wonder if the age group is much much older than me...some have attitudes that are quite frankly stuck in the victorian era.Times change ..we cant stop the years rolling past and to live with the attitudes you had 50 or 60 or more years ago is counter productive.I also dont understand the constant criticism of the young...were you never young? Did you never make mistakes? The walk away from your family ones irritate me beyond belief.Maybe because my kids took a lot of years and miscarriages and tears before I managed two....and I'll be their mother until I or they die .I could NEVER walk away from family because of some of the trifling issues other folk here do .Some of you are real hard hearted Hannahs..or think you should be the top of priorities when they have lives of their own ...the same as we had .We are on the edge of their lives not the centre and thats how its meant to be .Of course ...I'm perfect ...lol

And we'll need one of these to fire them off!

You're not one Harri!

I don't think we should have an emoji - I would be happy to call myself a GOW but I'd get really upset if anyone else called me one!

On the other hand......think of the fun we could have lobbing them about when someone upsets us!! I vote for a GOW emoji!!

You can stand down, it was me. I got told off yesterday because I suggested a 70 year old might not want to be reminded of the austerity.

I am not always a GOW , but having an emojit might just offer a warning to others that someone is, for the time being, in GOW mode.

They used to put this down to PMT but many of us will be past that now. So GOW fits the bill .

Yes! Get us a Grumpy old woman. emoji

Let’s have a Grunpy Old Woman emoji GNHQ please. ???

You are clearly not Kitty

I don't suppose they recognise themselves as OG. Anya - but, if I'm here, I'm thinking I'm not one!

Varian a few years ago I shaw a live showing of Grumpy Old Women that was touring. I forget who was in it...that comedienne with the very pale blue eyes was one of them. I laughed so much my stomach muscles aches for days. I was just so true to life.

There was only one man in the audience and when they spotted him!,,

Perhaps these Old Grumps on GN (who are conspicuously absent from this thread - come on ‘girls’ fight your corner! - were always like this. Is an Old Grump simply an ageing Young Grump or it it a complete metamorphosis that happens with age?

I remember the 1950s! (And the 1940s too, )

Tegan - some friends saw Ken Dodd on stage recently and said it was one of the best shows they'd ever seen, no swearing, slight innuendo where tickling sticks were concerned, hilariously funny and he performed for 3 hours non stop. Not bad for an almost nonogenarian!

If you remember the 1960s, you weren't there.

I think he was 90 yesterday or the day before! Now that is depressing.

On the subject of the 60's did'y'know that Ken Dodds 'Tears' was the biggest selling single of 1965 [outselling the Beatles] and he 3rd highest selling single of the 1960's. And he's STILL performing! [it was on R6 today; same programme that told me about the beach stones rule...]

Do you remember a tv programme called "Grumpy Old Women"? I found I agreed with nearly everything they said, and it was years ago. I wasn't even middle aged then, let alone old. These days I try to look on the bright side - in spite of bloody brexit. ( I've only recently taken up swearing, and it's usually about that). Just thought I'd mention it.

What I can’t believe is that the majority of those I’m talking about were growing up in the 60s, but it seems to have passed them by entirely.

Or perhaps we enjoyed the 60s so much and so thoroughly that we don't need to re-live them!!

Those were the days, my friend
We thought they'd never end

Grumpy old Moo. I am facing about seven weeks of enforced and pretended Christmas and New Year jollity on TV, before we get back to some degree of nomality.

Am I downheated? Yes!.

Well, I have been busy over the past few days and haven't been able to keep up with Gransnet ...just dipped in on the 'last hour' and this thread caught my eye.

First thought 'Yes Anya ... a lot of miserable old buggers (I have been cultivating my own grumpy old woman style quite nicely of late.)

Second thought - how I have missed this: the grimaces and gripes, the get ats, the get overs the giving my tuppence worth and as a counter balance, the kindness, the compassion, the sound advice and good sense, the fearless exchanges when views differ ... GN in all its fullness.

I am just glad it is here .

Just normal on GN! It has never been any different and at least it isn't as bad as MN!

I actually think that most people on here are pleasant and courteous all the time. Try reading some other Forums, the flaming and name calling and abuse is horrendous.

We are a random collection of older people who like any other random collection includes the occasional curmudgeon, a few moaners and some one subject obsessives, but those apart, a nice friendly bunch.

The best things is that views and attitudes expressed on GN are so various and peoples circumstances so diverse that it exposes us to ways of life and problems and attitudes we might not otherwise meet in our every day life, which I have certainly benefited from.

We choose the glasses we look at GN through.

So true Anya but in my experience of senior forums generally, gransnet is not the only one by a long shot sadly, that fits your description ..it's such a pity.

Sure we are all older, sure we do need to exchange experiences due to age etc, good and bad, but yes, I get very sad watching the infighting, and on the whole it puts me off posting.

When I was younger, I loved older people they were always so nice it seemed, and wise too , I couldn't wait to get to be older... and be like them, but it seems to me at times that some my age have just brought the school bully mentality with them as they grew...

I was a rocker in the 1960s with a purple streak in my hair. I'm still an old rocker now in my early 70s and always say yes when my 6 year old GS says 'Do you want to boogie in the bedroom Nan ?'

I'm equally at home with Jerry Lee, Chuck, Sheeran and Ariana.

I must admit I now go to bed about 4 hours earlier than I used to as a groovy chick but there is still a bit of fun left in me.

Rock On. ?

I used to spray my hair silver, back in the 70s. Don't need to do that anymore! sadly