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I think a few people if not many would find that offensive.
It's not serious.
Everybody knows all old people aren't like that, so why even bother pointing it out?
That's very true, where i use to live was pedominantly old peeps/couples and a lot of them were really nice, and a lot of 'em were cantankerous old wankers
I did say 'some' so i wasn't generalising about the older generation.
Old people laugh at themselves "ooh im too old for this" etc when they have birthdays
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The retirement home on the Simpons is just targeted for jokes, its not offensive and its funny, ive never known anyone to complain about that.
It's not really, most of the things in this thread are exaggerated for effect.
koe was honest enough to say his family members have had racist views in the past, and let's be honest, a hell of a lot of old people do still seem to think that because they've been around X amount of years then they've got more right to act like absolute arseholes than the rest of us do.
[This is the space where I should put the painfully obvious comment about how not all old people are like that, and how it's wrong to generalise]
The way I see it, you can spend your life getting offended about shit like this, or you can take it for what it is, and I'm not seeing unjust and deep rooted prejudice here.
anyone who will speak to me with respect and politeness will get the same back, i just dont like using the age as a excuse to be nasty and horrible. same goes for kids, ive no time for little bastards either. nice kids..love em.
so all in all, i just dont like fucking horrible people, whether old or not.
maybe you are prejudice for holding my views against me??? haha
ETA: if anyone has a problem with what i have said (mod or not) dont be afraid to PM me and set me straight.
Yes, there are some old people are idiots, but then so are some young people and every other age bracket. Some old people can't drive to save themselves but I would prefer to get in a car with some old people than some young people. Some comments here are just offensive, unfair and completely unjustified.
It's like me going "God, all young people are just fucking tossers."
To be honest, yeah (with my post at least)
I think koe's worst crime is generalising, but it's patronising in the extreme to think that everybody who generalises thinks for a second that all old people are like that.
Lighten up, eh?
the op, imo had a right to moan about what happened to her. the offending person just happened to be elderly.
Get them behind the wheel though, especially on a sunday in the forest and I start getting abusive .
Point out where I said all old people were fucking tossers, or even a post where I haven't mentioned THE FACT THAT I WAS GENERALISING.
Thought not.
Not being funny, but I'd hope people would give me enough respect to realise that I know some young people can be tossers, and I know not all old people are nasty etc, and I wouldn't need to point it out on the off chance that somebody took it far too seriously.
If people are gonna go out of their way to get offended at people generalising, then they're as well switching off the computer and hide under their bed for the next 60 years.
AND said old person made a remark about the OP being young. So there's age discrimination too from an elderly person.
Fair enough and i whole heartedly agree with you. There's a part of a large path that's a cycle lane near me (the cycle lane is about a fith of the pavement), and people wander all over and tut, swear etc when a bike comes along. It's out of order and it's shit when a piece of land is clearly designated for cycles and people moan about cyclists;
BUT i'm sick and fucking tired of being pushed, tinkled, yelled and sworn out of the way by fucking asshole cyclists ilegally storming down the pavement, where there's no cycle lane, at stupid speeds.
If people have a problem with cars and traffic, report offenders, write to your council/MP about traffic calming measures, but they should keep their bloody bike where it should be, in a cycle lane or on the road.
I think you may of mis read my post, i'm not saying this old lady had grounds for what she said. The OP was on a cycle path, so she (the OP) was in the right.
Too fucking right you are.
The second any potentially lethal vehicle mounts a pedestrian path you are a menace.
ETA: No-one ever has the right to get violent with me. That's called vigilanty action, shyboy defended a paedo from the same behaviour. When I'm doing what's legal, and if not what is safer than most people with their prams and shopping baskets and those ass-wank motorised scooters, you can keep your hands off me, I don't care if your 18 or 80.
Let me get this straight, the OP was right not the OAP?
There is a reason why it's illegal, and that's because a bike is potentially lethal for pedestrians.
And tbh what about that guy who stepped across in front of me. There's a line of cars, that a stationary, and a marked cycle lane in the road, he just wants to get past people who are walking slower, but he steps right in my path, had I been going faster, or had my breaks failed I would have had to pick between hitting him and hitting a car. Where's his fucking £40 fine? Where's his insurance to cover damage to my bike? No, it's my problem, not his despite him being in a world of his own. No doubt he'd have been a complete asshole who if I had hit he would have tried to sue for compensation. And that happens every day, to and from campus, some idiot on the cycle path texting or listening to music just not paying attention and acting all put out when a bike exists.
Don't. Life confuses me enough as it it
I would have thrown a wobbly.