No offense to old people, its just an observation I’ve made.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen my grandparents angry in my life.
My grandparents were chill af too, even if my grandpa was a ‘serious’ man (just a sober and athletic family guy of virtue, which means I still have a long way to go, lol). But, while broke, they were also happily married, only death (shortly) separated them.
Lucky. My grandma would yell at my cat as a proxy of yelling at me 😿
As an old woman myself, I’m sorry to you and your little cat too. Sounds like you got stuck with crappy old losers. I hope you meet other old people who treat you nicer.
I am angry a lot, but it’s because as a kid I thought the world was getting better, more tolerant and caring etc. and instead it keeps getting worse, more fascistic and hateful and filthy and destroyed. Every time we take a step forward we get smacked down backwards about six. It’s exhausting. But we do still have to keep trying to take those positive steps every day.
Old people have been around enough to see through your bullshit.
“Everybody hates you when you’re 23” said some wise punk rocker.
There are a lot of idiots in the world, and some of them are old.
Old people may seem angry because they’ve seen a lot of crap and it just keeps coming in new, unexpected forms.
How many old people have you known?
Older folks can seem more angry than other demographics for a few reasons: pain from physical deterioration, disappointment in their life’s circumstances with fewer/no realistic opportunities to better them, people very close to them dying, worldviews that conflict with the realities of modern life, etc. It depends on the individual but pain and the whole “less unshitty time left on this earth” thing are more commonly experienced in seniors than other demographics.
But this is talking about this in general - to give you a useful answer, I’d want to know more about your interactions with elderly folks. Only one I saw in this thread was old folks telling you to kill yourself - it’s rare someone cold leads with that unless it’s online (the answer is always living, happily, in spite). What happens before that?
I met some of the nicest old people at the protest yesterday. Maybe you just have a bad sample set in your area
They were some of the most inspiring people I met yesterday. It’s great seeing people my parents age that are engaged and want to make the world a better place for their kids and grandkids.
It is very hard to be nice when you are in physical pain.
A lot of old people have beliefs from a very… different time. Y’all know what I mean. They bear a lot of blame for the way things are in general. I’m seeing a lot of people jump to conclusions about you for some reason. If it’s mostly old people, then you’re probably right. I honestly don’t fw most old people I know. A lot of them are grump old fucks, some with better reasons than others.
I mean… Have you looked around the world lately? What isn’t rage inducing? Now couple that with your body falling apart and feeling the pain of aging more and more the closer you get to your final days.
Your senior aged family members just seem to suck but we only got a single sentence of detail.
Old people are not universally mean lol. Honestly it seems to me that almost every asshole I knew since a young age was an asshole in their childhood, teens, and adulthood so far. I figure that won’t change. There’s some exceptions, but it seems very hard to change personality.
Yeah, most people tend to approach things from a positive or negative default and time seems to reinforce that unless a very major life experience shakes that up.
What are the insults? All the old people around me are very nice.
Sorry you’re experiencing that. I think it would have a lot to do with your area; I live on an island which is basically hippie central for my province and although there are some bite-your-head-off-leopards-ate-my-face-shit-head-old-people, they are somewhat few (but more then one would expect). Most of the old people I’ve met have been pretty chill, perhaps it’s the legacy of secret cannabis farms.
To me, from what little you’ve said it seems you need to kick people out of your life. I haven’t spoken to my parents in about 4 months because the veneer of kindness was wearing thin and aggravating me.
Being really old probably sucks. I’d be mad too.
That doesn’t justify being an entitled dickhead.
Some assholes hang around with other assholes because 1) it validates them, 2) it gives them someone to argue with,3) they have no one else because normal people cut them out of their lives
lol, everyone blames you!
It’s bc we’re fed up, we’ve got zero to lose, and bc “Fuck you and your wooden fuckin’ leg!”
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Probably confirmation bias. Content, happy people are generally not screaming out at the world about their happiness.
