Don't make fun of us seniors :)

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Those commercials that make us look and sound foolish really get under my skin. As I have been sitting here tonight listening to the TV while posting, I have heard that Gout commercial about 5 times. &*(#%^&())$#
 

I suppose in my own case, I often may sound foolish, but certain beyond doubt, that I LOOK foolish! I could be in commercials! imp
 
I agree with you, Red! Seems like every time they portray a senior person, he/she is a doddering idiot. I know a lot of seniors and I don't know a single doddering idiot. Well, maybe ONE, but I suspect she was a doddering idiot when she was 23.
 

You must embrace aging and enjoy the better commercials, such as the Depends one if you have seen it...
 
You have reminded me of that old TV Laugh In show, and I now identify with Arte Johnson playing a DOM...:D
 
Butterfly said:
I agree with you, Red! Seems like every time they portray a senior person, he/she is a doddering idiot. I know a lot of seniors and I don't know a single doddering idiot. Well, maybe ONE, but I suspect she was a doddering idiot when she was 23.
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Exactly Butter !
 
SifuPhil said:
It's pretty much the same meme as how white middle-class males have been portrayed in commercials for years - as idiots.
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Yes, same here in Britain Phil, both with ads and comedies, all based around how useless and wimpy men are. if this was done to women we would all be very angry, it's very strange really.
 
I agree with you Red about the commercials, although I haven't seen that gout one. Oakapple, you're right, many shows portray men as ignorant, useless and wimpy. Women would be angry if that was the case with them.

I do get a kick out of this commercial though, it's just the person I think, the other women there are in the same age group.

 
I watch a lot of TV, and I don’t see where every, (or even most) commercials make fun of older people at all. A few are satirical and a few are just for laughs, but overall that’s a very small percentage.

After all, advertisers are smart enough to know which groups have purchasing power.
 
There are a lot of men today who having always thought of themselves as top dog are scrambling to adjust to rather more shabby roles in life. The down turn in 2008 resulted in a lot of mid level managers looking for employment and when they finally got a job, they're making half the salary they were making in 2005. This is a pretty bitter pill to swallow....I feel sorry for them.
 
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I don't feel at all sorry for the egotistic upper management jerks who have finally been knocked off their high horses and had to join the ranks of the 'peasants' they had been lording over. Now they can do some work for a change and at least they have a job unlike many of those they fired without a second thought. I can happily let them eat cake.
 
I don't watch much TV but I do see enough to dislike how they portray us oldsters. And I agree they usually make the men look like ignorant fools too. I hate the Depends commercials for sure.
 
I can't understand what the fuss is about, adverts that feature senior citizens, dopy men or dopy women really don't bother me, learn to laugh with them instead of getting offended.

In the U.K. there is a tv programme that I enjoy watching, it is called Off Their Rockers.

 
The one thing here about old people being looked on as "old has beens" that just dodder about the place,
I feel really useless as i walk out of my 2 acre garden close the gates and look at the house and think "i own every brick every blade of grass" and again when i fill the car up with fuel and here comments ref the make of my car,

With age comes experience and the likes of myself "old farts" have seen the results of "no work" & can't get credit to buy this and that etc,
Also how to see who's trying to get what they can out of what "the old codgers have".

I dont concern myself with what anyone thinks, and i remember i interviewed a person once for a vacancy i was looking to fill,
When i asked about their own finance ie do you own your own car, home, how many kids do you have, how many times have you been married!!!!!!

The person started to feel "like a young codger" and im sure they felt a little jab in the pocket when i said the reason ive asked those questions is because before you spend my companies money i want to know how you've spent your own, do you think you've spent well???
It's very easy to spend the companies cash.

The person i was interviewing lived i few doors down from us and i'd watched him grow up "married once, devorced with two kids lived with a second partner = 0ne more kid & then moved back with mum, grow twice the size of most men and thought he was some great catch,

When i asked my final question he looked shocked,

"Question"
Do you know your nieghbours? And what was the name of the fourth nieghbour up from your mums house?

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I get on with all our nieghbours and the fourth ones up from us are some older people and i dont know them as they've not lived there long,

I'd lived in that house for 27 years (and before his mum) had moved into her home and it was us he'd stollen a hanging basket from outside the front door for a prank.

So sometimes the old codger living down the street proberly owns everything he/she has ref items but for sure these old codgers do own in their head a life time of experience
And experience only comes with age "no other way"
 

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