They like good clean fun... unless they are dirty old men, and even then they are old and boring, just perverted which makes them that much worse. They are stuck in the past and are usually out of touch with the concept of modern reality, but still think they know everything. Some are zealots, most are just insane, and are more often that not, excruciatingly embarassing.
2007-05-27T23:16:46Z
dude, my parents think I'm a hoot and a half! they are old too
2007-05-28T04:58:13Z
ginger,thanx! I'm not bitter at all. My grandparents and all of their friends are nags, every old person I meet is strange or hateful, and they are so slow! I appreciate their wisdom, but then I start to feel soory for them... and then the sickening horror of the realization that one day that might be me if I live long enough and young people will shun me too. Old people depress me.
2007-05-28T15:13:54Z
lol! old people shouldn't do stuff like "stuff" ew!
yes, if I grow old I probably won't think this way... and by then will have matured enough to see young people for the idiots we truly are. I like living my life without some knowledgable old lady warning me of dire consequences, or some old guy telling me about having to walk 25 miles in a blizzard just to go to some ramshackle school.... Old people tell weird stories that more than likely aren't true or have been embellished a bit... old people are funny, but in a "I'm laughing at you, not with you" sort of way.
I'm not trying to be rude or disrespectful, old people are an alien species to me, like they still are human... but like a new evoloution or something... they've transended the physically functional needs that us younger generation are known to enjoy.
Life becomes mundane after 35.
?2007-05-28T12:52:22Z
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Perhaps the older men and women of your acquaintance are boring, but if you were to live the life I'm still living, at 71, you most likely would be overwhelmed. I am touring North America and Europe in a play, a hugely successful one-character play, and gosh I get so bloody tired of standing ovations! Yes, I'm old...an old professional actor...yes, as a person with disabilities I no longer run up hills, or down hills for that matter, but, dear heart, I can still make an audience weep, or laugh and weep again; I can speak the speech with such depth and resonance that, by my design, the audience leaves the theatre merry and happy, or angry and disturbed, or celebrating the two hours spent with me. Boring you say?
Who you've been hanging out with? In my experiences dealing with the elderly, I find them quite the opposite. Many of them will admit they don't know how to use a computer or find modern entertainment not their cup of tea, but they know their own experiences that have taught them alot. I'm 23 and I feel like I have stories and some wisdom to bestow, so I can only imagine and know about the many stories and wisdoms of the elderly. In ancient times, people respected their elderly (though their elders didn't live past the age of 40 most of the time, lol) but in the 20'th century AD we disregard them. The only people who seem to get any respect in our society are the 25-40 year olds. Everyone else is either too young or too old.
What age group do you consider "old?" And, why do you have such a narrow mind? I base this on your "so called authority" of seeming to know what "old people" are about. Tell me...do you feel the same about your own Grandparents if you had any? Dear...you too will be "old" one day. And, I can only hope that as you grow older your attitude will improve with age and you may have something to contribute to the "younger" generation that will be looking to you for wisdom reflected on your past experiences of living life.
I know you aren't going to like my comments before I can even make my old demented boring brain rememeber what I want to say. Here goes anyway. I would like to know what makes you qualifed at your age to know what we are interested in? Have you felt the pain of arthritis that is brought with old age that makes us a bit slow.? Have you been through a war, where the woman struggled to find the rations to feed their kids, never knowing if those kids would ever see daddy come home. Good clean fun? do you think we never had sex? are we to old to enjoy it now then? I'm quite sorry I shan't be here to see you grow old but I hope you rememeber why you thought we were boring when you started this conversation and realize that it is possible to still be an asset to the world in your later years. You may say your parents think you are a hoot but if you were my daughter I would be ashamed to admit it with your attitude, Thank God there are plenty more youngsters about that do have respect! I don't believe you will listen to me but at least I tried. have a happy and healthy life.
If it weren't for the "old and boring" people as you put it, we would not learn from the past. The stories they have, the things they have seen. We have computers, coloured TVs, and many other modern convenes.
Life was different years ago, even as little as 30 years ago. If you think they are boring wait until your at that "old and boring" age. You'll want to be your young self again. Who doesn't want to be young, when you can do things for yourself, move and not hurt, your heart and hearing working, your hair not white or gone in some cases.
No one wants to get "old and boring" but life is cruel, and marches as a fast pace. One day you'll look in the mirror and wonder how you got this old this fast. I once heard my Grannie, say to my Mom at her 80th birthday party which was a surprise, "Karen (My Mom) why did you and the kids (her brother and sisters) do this, I am to old for this?" My Mom said "Mom there are people half your age that have never had a party let alone a surprise and your 80, there are some people who have never lived that long, you have and we are going to celebrate it!" All of my Moms siblings were crying, my Grannie too!
Years ago, families took care of the elderly, there were no retirement homes, I call them FORGETFUL HOMES. People put their family members in one and FORGET them! SAD!
Talk to the "old and boring" people in your life, I bet you'll get some interesting stories! Many may have you in them!