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   Linguist said, 9 months ago

   For those of you PC persons, I left a final comment at the end of yesterday’s strip, just before the turn.
   My only comment today is that I am disappointed in Joanie for not having the confidence in her own abilities. But like many seniors, she ( like many of us ) does not have the confidence in herself that she had 30 years ago.
   And maybe that’s GT’s point ?
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   surfstuff55 said, 9 months ago

   I’m not getting older, I’m getting BETTER!
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   Gweedo (Free Range Dry) Murray said, 9 months ago

   Is she channeling G.W. ?
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   marzipANn said, 9 months ago

   I’m not getting better; I’m getting older. But it’s not that bad: people are kinder and more helpful to the old, making them and the recipient feel better about thtemselves. Some seniors, however, feel the condescention acutely.
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   dukedoug said, 9 months ago

   I’m getting older and grumpier and I don’t give a screaming spit about “advice” offered to me by helpful “youngers”.
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   Borntalkingback said, 9 months ago

   Old people used to be the wise ones—we were the ones who knew who should marry whom, how to curb antisocial behaviour, what weather would follow a particular kind of wind, we knew which plants cured which conditions…we had that wonderful thing, experience. But now it is the young who Know—they sort your computer, they explain about the space after @ in a Twitter reply, they practise more on their iPhones in a week than anyone over 40 does in a year and so can condescend to explain when you’ve pushed the wrong button. And sadly a deep understanding of human nature is no longer a thing of value. Nor of course is it believed when offered to the young. In short, the wisdom we used to have is lost, the wisdom we still have is undervalued—the result is a kind of unwilling dependence on the technical knowledge that the young have and now imagine to be ‘wisdom’.
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   Borntalkingback said, 9 months ago

   @Linguist

   I don’t actually mind your using bitch as a specific in the way you did, but may I offer ‘cow’ as a perhaps less contentious alternative?
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   saywhatwhat said, 9 months ago

   @Borntalkingback

   Actually “cow” has gender implications too. And no, the “B word” has not lost the female context. Even when applied to a male, part of the slur implies female characteristics. I’d recommend “Linguist” stays with “twit” if he (I assume somehow) is too lazy to actually describe what he means.
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   Borntalkingback said, 9 months ago

   @saywhatwhat

   Of course ‘cow’ has gender specific implications. What is wrong with using gender specific insult? If I call a man a prick or a dickhead, is that to be censored, too? Anyway, for sure a man can be a bitch, he just has to be gay as well. And if you think ‘twit’ covers the same behaviour as ‘bitch’ or ‘cow’ you are linguistically challenged.

   We are getting a long way down this road. It’s one thing to insist that people refrain from directly insulting disability or race or sexual orientation for its own sake. It’s quite another to censor plain ordinary everyday description of human behaviour just because it happens to refer to a woman. Think about it.

   Cecily: When I see a spade, I call it a spade.
   Gwendolyn: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade.
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    chizzel said, 9 months ago

    I won’t address anybody younger than me as “sir” That is happening less and less now-a-days.
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    pksampso said, 9 months ago

    Today’s comments reprise fairly well-established complaints about the young, to wit:

    “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

    —Socrates
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 9 months ago

    Just pull that stupid thing from your ear, Joanie.
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    babka said, 9 months ago

    hi ho the glamorous life. where politics & showbiz converge, & a Palin can take center stage to satisfy the buttoned-up longings of the Good Old Boys. How any older woman could feel confident in this world is a mystery. Perhaps only those who are not asking for or receiving validation from outer things. those who are well loved, or have entered into Acceptance 101, the class that keeps on taking in new members.
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    Nantucket19 said, 9 months ago

    @Borntalkingback

    It isn’t any different than it ever was. The young think that the old don’t understand becase “everything is different” when things are fundmentally the same as ever.

    Technology changes – people really don’t.
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    timrinaldo said, 9 months ago

    You people take this much too seriously –
    it’s a comic, fercrissakes…
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