I would like to show you all a website a humorous website.

 

http://www.saggy-wars.com/register.php?ref=2591

 

My grandson showed me it and I found it hilarious.

 

Warning: whilst the website posted above is meant to be humourous some people might find it offensive as it makes fun of our age. I on the otherhand find it to be quite funny and hope my days in a "home" whilst 'hopefully" far off are just as eventful as the site makes out. 

 

Have fun and relax.

Ian

No, sorry, I don't find it funny at all.  All it does is to perpetuate the usual stereotypes, the toothless woman on the homepage for instance.  No one needs to be without teeth nowadays, that hasn't applied for a few decades now.

Put it another way.  Would you give publicity to a website poking fun at any other group in society? An ethnic minority, perhaps? I don't think so. 

I didnt want to get into a debate about it but seeing as you feel the need to get offended over something that is obviously satiricle (even after I warned that it might offend some people who take life too seriously)...

My point in showing this website was to have a laugh...

It would be sad to think that any "group" couldnt laugh at thier own little quirks. Some can not, I would hate to think that I belong to any group that does. 

 

I have my fair share of "senior moments" and would prefer to be able to laugh them off in my advancing years. If I cant laugh them off I am sure someone else will for me and if they do it maliciously then I will have something to chuckle about because it happens to all of us.

 

"Put it another way.  Would you give publicity to a website poking fun at any other group in society? An ethnic minority, perhaps? I don't think so. "

If it was homourus and in good taste... Most definatly! 

I am sorry, I have 'advancing years' too but I don't think I fit any of the stereotypes portrayed in the site you quoted and I am constantly trying to disprove the offensive stereotypes so portrayed.  I disagree that the site is either 'humorous' or 'in good taste'.  I think it is completely unfunny and in the worst possible taste.

Whatever 'senior moments' may be I am sure that everyone has them, but I am also sure that most of us have not forgotten how to spell.

You should meet some of the people in a local sheltered housing complex where my husband goes as a volunteer to help people eager to get online.  Late 80s/early 90s most of them, they're smart, lively and as bright as buttons.  The complete reverse of the stereotypical picture of the toothless woman with stick and slippers.

Thankyou for letting me know I make spelling mistakes I remember my teachers telling me off for such things - I never listened to them either.

 

I am at a loss as to your point, you seem to be offended by a picture, who is to say the woman portayed in that picture isnt "bright as buttons"? Looks are not everything. Do you judge the whole world that way? There is no shame in using aids such as walkingsticks to get around. Without my wheelchair I would be housebound and I refuse to be judged by that.

I am not sure whether you actually followed through and looked at the site any further than that, so I will explain it further.

It is a game, you play and try and get the most levels to beat other people (much like any game). You can choose different proffesions to level - gardening, knitting, fighting and working plus other things that I do not understand.

It does not have people killing each other...

It does not have foul language...

It is not a game that a child will spend countless hours numbing there mind in front of...

It does have a restriction of turns so that children cannot spend countless hours mindlessly playing a game and not going outdoors to play...

I let my grandson play the game because I see the humor in it, it does not offend me. I also let him play the game because of the reasons above.

 

I know many people that are in age care homes some of them are long term friends and some of them are new friends who I have met singing in a choir. None of them are your stereotypical "old" people.

My son bought me a computer last year and I did learn how to use it "through the help of my grandson"

Being online is something I cherish as it has opened up a new world to me. I am glad to hear your husband helps others to do so.

I am not 'offended'.  I can't explain it to you any better than I have done.  Obviously you don't see my point, and I don't see yours. I deplore any stereotypical and misleading images of any group, especially those images which are marketed as 'humorous'.

No, I didn't look at the site any further than the homepage.  Nor do I comment on wheelchair- or walking-stick users - my daughter is one of those, and I was largely brought up by a woman who never walked from age 21.  I would, however, comment adversely if wheelchair- or walking stick use was marketed 'humorously' as defining a particular age-group, spending life in slippers and without teeth.

There used to be a sitcom called 'One Foot in the Grave'.  Many people enjoyed this and even found it funny.  I recall when my late husband watched the opening theme song, not many weeks before his death.  He couldn't watch the rest of it, and even though I've tried to watch it since, I understand his reaction. 

You either see it, or you don't.  And by the way, before I'm labelled as 'humourless', I have been known to be weeping and helpless with laughter at some genuinely funny sitcoms, Michael Crawford or Peter Sellers spring to mind. 

Everyone needs humour.

 

I'm not sure I understand your reaction to One Foot in the Grave but I shall have a look next time I see a repeat is going to air. I can barely remember the program.

Some mothers do ave em was an excellent program and I see now that you do have great taste. (Unless, of course, you were making reference to Phantom of the Opea, in which case, I must inform you it wasnt a comedy)

 

You are completely right we will have to agree to disagree on the site. I am glad you said something it gave me something to think about, I always enjoy trying to look at things from someone elses perspective. I think you would be an interesting person to have a conversation with, I enjoy talking to people with strong opinions who are willing to say them.

No, I meant Michael Crawford as Frank Spencer.  Just so funny! Also Peter Sellers in (particularly the second of) the Pink Panther films.

My husband and I differ as regards sense of humour.  He comes from the Jewish tradition of humour which - rather as the site you quoted - pokes fun at itself and uses its own stereotypes.  You have to be born into this to understand it, I think, but it's similar.