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Originally Posted by Caz

Prompted by Accymans "old Dear" comment in the ciggy thread.

I'm not young, I'm 55 and in a few years time, will be an "OAP" myself. So this is not me being ageist in anyway. My question is about how we see this group of people, and why we lump them together in a certain way

It just seems to me that once people hit the mark, they become part of a supposed cozy, cuddly group in society, as if all older people suddenly become worthy, and we dare not say a word against them for fear of giving offence.

For instance, a lot of OAPs, feckless in their own time, gave birth to the slack parents we have today, who's immoral offspring are making life hell for many people.

Lots of pensioners have committed crimes in the past, and some still do in their older years.

I will not give respect to a person, simply because of their age. As I said in a previous post, I respect my elders if they warrant it

I come from the other side of the coin.

The older generation deserves automatic respect until shown that it is not deserved.

The youth problems of today are caused by a minority and that means that only a minority of pensioners could possibly be held responsible – if at all, especially for the way their grand children turned out.

What you are doing is tarring all pensioners with the same brush and that is grossly unfair. In the same way that in general people tar all the teenagers with the same disruptive brush.