The elderly are annoying..

I used to work in an old peoples home giving them tea and biscuits in their bedrooms. They would shout at me all the time for not making the tea strong enough and the diabetic ones used to steal biscuits while I wasn't looking.
Also alot of them would sleep half naked and then get up and walk round the room when I came in...I have seen things I never want to see again working there.

Of course I quit 3 weeks into the job.

 

George A Romero's early childhood experience at a family owned nursing home was the basis for his movie Night of the Living Dead.


From a child's perspective the elderly were slow but relentless, and you could almost imagine they want to eat your flesh.



Hotwater

 

I love the way old people always look happy !
Like these two people do

They look overjoyed about something, christmas maybe?




Exhilerated !

 

I was a receptionist at an assisted living place for over two years. All in all, I really like my old people. They would come up to the desk and chat with me or ask me the date seven times in two hours, but I loved them anyway. Sure, there were the cranky ones that complained about everything and threatened to get us all fired, but I think the visitors/family were the worst.

Thankfully, I never had to deal with the showering or toileting or laundry bits... ugh. I just had to deal with them and their problems. I do miss them though.

 

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*wonders if hgh lives in an old age home, that he/she seems to have oldies by the score peering over his/her shoulder on a daily basis!!

Sorry!! This is hilarious!!

 

In the swamps of South America, when people get too old this is what happens to them

 

No....the elderly have seen things that none of will ever see....they lived through more hardships than any of us will ever know....and they should be treated with respect....but we ship them off to homes to be out of our way......we really need to be ashamed.
ALL of us will be elderly someday , if we live that long !!

 

Well I'm still hoping some chump in Florida stumbles upon Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth.

How Ironic is it that the fountain of youth is supposedly located in Florida :H




Hotwater

 

your a wanker to think that

 

In certain cultures ths Elderly are venerated and looked upon as serving a spot as wiseperson....having survived so many years....the Asian culture and , my own, American Indian culture Velebrate them as having much wisdom to pass on to the youth...and claim to to be teachers...and couselors.
We need to treasure them , and love them , and seek their advice...not want them to be silent.

 

But we have seen and lived through things they dont even understand, so cant comprehend the hardship it imposes on us. Such as caring for the elderly while also having to bow to the pressures of working long hours for little pay. The elderly had it good back in the 50's and 60's industrial relations were good but today if you dont have two people in a household in work then times are rough and you have to do a full 40 - 45 hour week. back in the 60's and 70's the working week was as low as 32 to 35 hours also we get less for our money now.

Yes they should be treated with respect but theres no harm in having a laugh at old people. Most of us will become one at some point in our lives... sooner than we think

but they are slightly funny arent they, old people. I mean they never seem to understand anything you tell them and then if its too complex the start on about the wall street crash or something else historically important but irrelevent to any conversation.

 

People are annoying, period. One does not become annoying with age. To most older folks, we (I am 26) younger people are probably annoying. Our background are vastly different.

 

Let me tell you whippersnappers how it was in the old days.It was alwaays-uh -it was -uh-it-hh--what?who said that?oooo-there's one of those little fuckers I can sneak up on nowoh shit-what does sneek mean-where's my damn teeth

 

Well, if you ask me, the Eskimos had the right idea. They knew how to handle the elderly and the permanently baffled. Middle of the night, they'd take them out into the blizzard, remove their pyjamas, and just leave them to it.

 

Eskimos dont wear pyjamas. Its a fact that if you sleep with any form of clothing on it is slightly colder than sleeping, eu naturel. Eskimos in igloos have a huge fur blanket under which the whole family sleep in the nude. because the shared heat is essential. I saw it in a documentary about survival in extreme temperatures.

The fact is that when, in eskimo land, the elderly feel as though they have become a burdon to the family it is a matter of pride amongst male elders to take a canoe and row to a small iceberg and then to float off on it and sink the canoe. They take a very tiny amount of food, say goodbye and just leave.

These days though its changing a bit and families fly out via helicopter to visit them on the ice berg,

 

Hey....it was just my opinion......

 

I think you've seen Nanook of the North once too often

While every child growing up in grade school has seen the classic documentary, most of the actions sequences were staged for the camera and gave an inaccurate portrayal of inuit life.



Hotwater

 

Nope. Never seen it. It wasn't set 3 million years into deep space by any chance?

 

I've met tons of 19 year old that are VERY annoying....

 

Is that like Chinook of the North Vietnamese
a movie about a some guys from mars landing in North Vietnam and using their spaceships to blast the crap out of a load of old people in villages and then they go back to mars? to their loving grandparents I wonder?