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

I still struggle to straighten mine loopyloo - although it is short now!
I always had 'difficult' hair and I moaned about it then and moan about it now and I hope I can still keep it and carry on moaning about it.

I went for my last official mammogram today, so as far as the Health Service is concerned I'm too old/not worth bothering with any more. Well, bugger them, 70 is the new 50! I'm not de-cluttering either, because when I win the lottery I'm going to buy a penthouse with a sea view, furnish it with a bed, a table, two chairs and a very comfy sofa, and have the best of both worlds; a minimalist flat to sleep and eat in, and my tip of a house to play in.

If I come across posts by the grumps and bickerers I just scroll on by, I don't feel the need to react unless I'm feeling grumpy too.

As for black-catters I do sometimes feel tempted to ask what makes some people think that their grandchildren have got bigger heads than other people's grandchildren...

Pmsl. Loopyloo did you iron your hair? I always had long straight blond hair and my classmates were so envious they used to actually iron their’s on an ironing board with brown paper!! Thank G for straighteners eh?

I had 4 daughters and 2 stepsons and I told them there
Was NOTHING they could do that I hadn’t (as a seventies teenager). It was true! Was always one step ahead of my children and thankfully they weren’t like me lol.

I don’t forget it all either! Loved my life then and love it now! Just need to accept my limitations. But I speak out more now
When I get bad service or see anyone behaving anti socially I say so!

Re being survivors of the sixties: I often wonder how we have allowed the world to become such a mess when we had such high hopes. But heaven forfend I should way lay this thread!

Be nice to have enough hair to straighten!

We went out to dinner last night with old friends. Friends who were in a pop band, rode Vespas and rebelled. I was a rocker, leather jacket an’ all. But we spent half the night comparing our ills and operations and the other half being in the right. Until the witching hour approached, then the booze kicked in, numbed our aches and pains and we got silly. We are still here, underneath, mini skirts an all, but life and cares can get in the way.

(I’m guilty of not reading all through the threads, cos I cant keep up. I think some are on GN all day)

No , we are here, finding ways to enjoy ourselves, and meeting other interesting people. And also helping following generations learn musical instruments etc.
But I tell you this I spent the Sixties straitening my hair, and I am not going to waste another decade doing that.

Not me Anya, I hope and, as point of information, I wasn't a rocker!

But I'm still peed off about being ignored!

Well....interesting reactions. Oddly enough those who are examining themselves and wondering ‘was she talkng about me?’ by in large are in the not-guilty box - simply because they are wondering.

In reply to Maw I usually do distance myself from you, don’t I! ?

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.

What happened to the generation that spawned the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles? Those who marched in support of CND, demanded the USA stop using napalm in Vietnam, insisted that the colour of a persons skin did not matter?

What happened to generation who bought Vesta Chow Mein, wore American Tan tights with bright pink mini skirts, and clung onto the back of the boyfriends scooter or motor bike if you were a rocker?

Have we really becoming a generation of moaning Minnies, castigating the younger generation and drawing up the drawbridge so we can wither away into a grumpy old age?

Thanks Jalima!

Well! Relating to the op, I'm peed off. Some people are repeating what I said and then other people are crediting them with a good idea.

And I'm feeling really nowty about it!

ah Alima mentioned black-cators

got it now

A black catter is someone who will always claim to be better than or able to outdo you. As in 'if I had a black cat, he'd have a blacker one'.

Note that it says he

Fish and chips is just not the same without lemon

As they say Anya....it takes all sorts. I don't think anyone is right or wrong with what they say.... Its all individual perception.

No two people will ever agree 100 pc with each other on every subject, even the best of friends!

That's what makes us so unique!

The ability to 'listen' is probably the best gift anyone can have, much better than the ability to speak.

I don't think anybody needs to feel superior or inferior and yes, some people get on my nerves and some I understand to a point, some I will NEVER understand ...but why worry..... Everyone, jogs along regardless and some people really ARE happy being miserable

Just be you

black-cator
but then I admit I haven't read all the posts

What's a black-cator?

I can relate to some of your comments Anya and I am sure I am guilty of some of the misdemeanours. It would be boring if we were all relentlessly cheerful, but hope misery does not prevail. Hey ho soon be the festive season ?

Gillybob My husbands idea of of some clutter is "this womans" nightmare of a hoarder.

I have come across some Very Grumpy People in RL recently - and all have been male!!

No doubt the men on GN will soon be here to defend themselves and tell us that they are always positive, optimistic and helpful in a non-partisan way

Oh Anya I agree and in particular:
"And of course, extremely irritating, those who don’t read the thread and other posts and say exactly what I’ve just said as if they had just had the most amazing idea. And even more irritating those who comment on that post ‘that’s a great idea why didn’t someone else think if thst?’ (they did - me ?) making it a double whammy. Grrrr..."

It sometimes feels like I have been in a conversation, said my important bit and no on took any notice as soon after they brought up exactly my point.

I don't spend as much time on gn as some so when I look in 'Last hour' if I see a thread has loads of posts I simply don't read it as I won't want to read through it all and wouldn't feel it fair to comment if I haven't. There is a recent exception where, rather than read all the posts, I simply PM'd the OP with my message.

Looking at your first line, should I expect a visit?

Yes, this is all virtual fish and chip paper, and will be binned before long.

Oh heck lemon! I have to gird my loins before going in there!

I have to be in the right frame of mind too. There are some days when I just cannot be bothered to interrupt the conversation of the regulars.

Today I have a guilty conscience about all the stuff I must decide what to do with and all the jobs I really must get round to but can't be bothered doing. Arguing current affairs/politics isn't on the radar today. Sometimes it's just too much like hard work and seems like a waste of energy bothering posting anything. If this was newspaper instead of a screen all our efforts would be tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers, wouldn't they? (If we still wrapped chips in newspaper that is.)

I need to summon up the energy to dig out the vacuum cleaner. No, I don't think it's going to happen today.

Brilliant Anya, you've hit the nail on the head,do you think we allow our dark side to come out just because we don't know each other & will never meet , it's like the anonymity let's us behave badly. I certainly end up feeling a bit down at times & wonder why I bother.

Day6 save the oil for any political thread?

I am just polishing my halo! I am in the clear as this is my first post today.

Now, can I pour oil on troubled waters anywhere ? Heh heh!