Poll: Old & bitter?

Based on your personal experience (your own views if you consider yourself to be older, or the appar

  • People's views stay much the same throughout their life

    Votes: 47 15.8%

  • As people age and enjoy/anticipate benefits of financial security etc. they become more tolerant

    Votes: 70 23.6%

  • Hearts harden with the arteries, old = bitter, Daily Mail is right, youth of today have it easy etc

    Votes: 180 60.6%
  • Total voters
    297

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

Mr Badger

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In numerous threads (pensions, national service, Brexit) there appears to be a trend of older posters showing a lack of empathy for others and in particular for young people. But is this really the case? How about a poll?

Based on your personal experience (your own views if you consider yourself to be older, or the apparent views of older people that you know if you are still young) do you think that:

1) People's views stay much the same throughout their life
2) As people age and enjoy/look forward to the benefits of retirement, financial security etc. they become more happy and tolerant of others
3) Hearts harden with the arteries, old = bitter, Daily Mail is right, youth of today have it easy etc.
 
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Just ask your parents.
My mum's become the personification of the daily mail as soon as she hit 60. Used to be a sensible educated middle aged woman. Now she's pro hitler, fully paid up member of Combat 18....
 
I have no idea where I am since I turned into 30s, the poll I did on here this week put me left with sinn fein. Well I do believe Ireland should be united, but with the United Kingdom.
 
I've said it before and will keep saying it. All the old people were young once, none of the young have been old yet. Your views change often with life experience as you have life experience and can look back on the views, ideas and knowledge you had back when you were a youth and realise how often much of it was misguided, wrong.......or spot on, but experience is what you need to educate you on which. The differences between being young now and young then really matter little in the grand scale of life as that will always change.

Young people are vital, their creativity and challenging of the ways of old are vital to an evolving and developing society and should be embraced where appropriate and listened to often and of course challenged hard. But as you age you realise that young and energised with an answer for everything is not actually and answer for much, that is what experience shows you. That won't change the younger or older generations however, nor should it, both have a place and the fight is what makes things better.....and worse.
 
I used to have quite conservative values but my view on things have become a lot more liberal as I've grown older (now 31) and had more life experience. This forum seems to have a strong right wing bias and I don't think it is good for your mental health to get engaged in the political discussions on here :D
 
Mr Badger said:
In numerous threads (pensions, national service, Brexit) there appears to be a trend of older posters showing a lack of empathy for others and in particular for young people. But is this really the case? How about a poll?

Based on your personal experience (your own views if you consider yourself to be older, or the apparent views of older people that you know if you are still young) do you think that:

1) People's views stay much the same throughout their life
2) As people age and enjoy/look forward to the benefits of retirement, financial security etc. they become more happy and tolerant of others
3) Hearts harden with the arteries, old = bitter, Daily Mail is right, youth of today have it easy etc.
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Middle earners making 50kish a year who think they're now cream of the crop (:D).
 
Kamerad said:
I used to have quite conservative values but my view on things have become a lot more liberal as I've grown older (now 31) and had more life experience. This forum seems to have a strong right wing bias and I don't think it is good for your mental health to get engaged in the political discussions on here :D
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Same, but I will always be a strong advocate of strong leadership which is why I will always be a Thatch fan :D
 
Housey said:
Nah, not really, it's just harder when you realise you are no longer young and don't have the stamina, motivation or willingness to keep challenging....but THAT is life.
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I remember 7 - 9 being so awesome. Can still remember it like it was yesterday even though it wasn't. 87 - 90 I always remembered the better and longer summers. 91 - 93 was awesome as well. We had moved in 91. So many great wonderful summers out cycling everywhere. 96 became even better once I got into dirt bikes but today is even better bar the amount of sucky weather. :/

I always hold on to the most now over the past decades what seemed to appear had longer and better summers.

Kamerad said:
I used to have quite conservative values but my view on things have become a lot more liberal as I've grown older (now 31) and had more life experience. This forum seems to have a strong right wing bias and I don't think it is good for your mental health to get engaged in the political discussions on here :D
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I hate politics. As it is guranteed to royally cheese off 50% of the people. It is poison.

 
People call it synisism, I call it realism. Realism is what achieves thing not relentless positivity.

So number 3 I have no patience with people who want to save the world, you won't the world is **** .
Look after your own, no one else will.
 
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