Old fashioned opinions that drive you nuts!!!

bigpinkelephant · 14-10-2008 12:33AM #1

What mindsets/opinions from years ago drive you mad?
My dad is forever saying how "girls shouldn't swear" and all this "ladylike" crap! It drives me nuts!!!

Pride Fighter · 14-10-2008 12:40AM

If you **** you go blind.

shenanigans1982 · 14-10-2008 12:44AM

Anyone with tattoo's is a scumbag.

Mimikyu · 14-10-2008 12:46AM

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Holsten · 14-10-2008 12:49AM

That drugs are wrong.

JupiterKid · 14-10-2008 12:51AM

That being gay is evil and wrong.

bigpinkelephant · 14-10-2008 12:52AM

That having sex before marriage is wrong

Galvasean · 14-10-2008 12:53AM

"the youth of today....<insert random complaint here>"

"In my day we...<insert random stuff being generally better>"

"None of the bands you listen to are as good as the ones I liked when I was your age"

Or when old people describe how hard/crap their youth was and then say "but we were happy!" - obviously not if you keep complaining about it!

JupiterKid · 14-10-2008 01:03AM

Yes, the term "the good old days" is, I believe, aload of b******s.

What was remotely good about being desperately poor, in an culturally, economically and socially stunted remote island with an all powerful Church that treated its flock like slaves and stifled any creativity or free expression?

SV · 14-10-2008 01:07AM

That 'moving up in the years' with cars is the only way to get a good one.

Zillah · 14-10-2008 01:17AM

I absolutely loathe the very Irish/Catholic notion that hard work and abstinence are good things. Hard work should be avoided wherever possible and if you can afford it you should spend it.

Things like keeping nice cutlery locked away until family are visiting, keeping the same half broken kettle because it still technically works, looking down on someone who goes on lots of holidays etc

We don't need to kid ourselves any more, we're not a nation of poor/hungry famine victims any more, lets enjoy the success.

luckat · 14-10-2008 08:36AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

What was remotely good about being desperately poor, in an culturally, economically and socially stunted remote island with an all powerful Church that treated its flock like slaves and stifled any creativity or free expression?

Not *culturally* stunted. Otherwise, I agree.

javaboy · 14-10-2008 09:26AM

Galvasean wrote: »

"None of the bands you listen to are as good as the ones I liked when I was your age"

In my case, they're the same bands my parents listened to..... well not my Mam. She liked the Bay City Rollers and David Essex.

Leeby · 14-10-2008 10:04AM

bigpinkelephant wrote: »

What mindsets/opinions from years ago drive you mad?
My dad is forever saying how "girls shouldn't swear" and all this "ladylike" crap! It drives me nuts!!!

Back when I used to drink cider, if my dad was ordering my pint in a pub, he'd come back with two small glasses instead cos "Ladys shouldn't be seen drinking out of a pint glass"

Tupins · 14-10-2008 10:44AM

That working in a bank is a 'great job'.

I was a temp in a bank for about 2 weeks - worst two weeks of my life.

Dudess · 14-10-2008 10:48AM

That single women in their late 20s onwards (or even younger) are gonna be left on the shelf and are sad, lonely spinsters who should be pitied because life must be hellish for them that they don't have a man. Today, even the most hot, sexy, confident women in that bracket are still pitied by older generations (or even their own generations and younger who have been brainwashed) because yes, clearly they need such pity...

Oh and the view that women in their 40s shouldn't wear short skirts because it would be "mutton dressed as lamb" etc... even if the woman in question has a great figure, great legs and her short skirt is tasteful and not tacky.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 14-10-2008 11:00AM

That nudity is in some way harmful, shameful or naughty.

FlutterinBantam · 14-10-2008 11:07AM

That most of the scummers and scummettes who blight peoples live are really "nice guys" who have been disadvantaged and that they were well thought of in their"tightly knit" community,helping old folk and raising money for charity.

javaboy · 14-10-2008 11:09AM

Dudess wrote: »

That single women in their late 20s onwards (or even younger) are gonna be left on the shelf and are sad, lonely spinsters who should be pitied because life must be hellish for them that they don't have a man. Today, even the most hot, sexy, confident women in that bracket are still pitied by older generations (or even their own generations and younger who have been brainwashed) because yes, clearly they need such pity...

Oh and the view that women in their 40s shouldn't wear short skirts because it would be "mutton dressed as lamb" etc... even if the woman in question has a great figure, great legs and her short skirt is tasteful and not tacky.

Don't worry Dudess. I'm sure Mr. Right is right around the corner.

all the stars · 14-10-2008 11:10AM

"a womans place is in the kitchen..."

i can think of at least 1 much better place - like behind the steering wheel of the car about to drive over your face

*loughing loudly like mental patient*

Caoimhín · 14-10-2008 11:14AM

bigpinkelephant wrote: »

What mindsets/opinions from years ago drive you mad?
My dad is forever saying how "girls shouldn't swear" and all this "ladylike" crap! It drives me nuts!!!

Well i dont like to hear girls swearing, i dont like swearing full stop.

Nothing wrong with being ladylike, in time, you may find your Dad was right all along.

Dudess · 14-10-2008 11:15AM

Girls sticking swear words in between every other word does sound awful... A bit of swearing sounds fine though.

javaboy wrote: »

Don't worry Dudess. I'm sure Mr. Right is right around the corner.

Sometimes kinda wish I was single

Aw... there was obviously gonna be that response from some guy - never thought it would be you...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 14-10-2008 11:15AM

javaboy wrote: »

Don't worry Dudess. I'm sure Mr. Right is right around the corner.

...and his first name is "Allways"

all the stars · 14-10-2008 11:17AM

caoibhin wrote: »

Well i dont like to hear girls swearing, i dont like swearing full stop.

Nothing wrong with being ladylike, in time, you may find your Dad was right all along.

i agree, completely, my dad says those sort of things - and he's right.. it has never been a negative for me..

Femelade · 14-10-2008 11:24AM

That i'm a slut/knacker because i'm a single mother..and its not just the old folkies who make that assumtion..

Dudess · 14-10-2008 11:26AM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

That most of the scummers and scummettes who blight peoples live are really "nice guys" who have been disadvantaged and that they were well thought of in their"tightly knit" community,helping old folk and raising money for charity.

Isn't that more of a bleeding heart, middle-class, younger person's kinda view? I'd be surprised if I met any members of older generations who thought like that about scumbags...

Caoimhín · 14-10-2008 11:32AM

Femmy wrote: »

That i'm a slut/knacker because i'm a single mother..and its not just the old folkies who make that assumtion..

Well people who think that are just ignorant and small minded so you shouldnt worry too much about their opinion.

SV · 14-10-2008 11:39AM

all the stars wrote: »

"a womans place is in the kitchen..."

i can think of at least 1 much better place - like behind the steering wheel of the car about to drive over your face

*loughing loudly like mental patient*

Women drivers...never can get it right..

Acacia · 14-10-2008 11:41AM

People who think homosexuality is an 'illness' or something that should be contolled. Or that bi-sexual people are sex-mad nymphomaniacs who will sleep with anyone ''because, you know, they like everyone''. :mad:

That a woman is a 'slut' if she sleeps around, but a guy is a 'legend'. :rolleyes:

SV · 14-10-2008 11:46AM

Acacia wrote: »

That a woman is a 'slut' if she sleeps around, but a guy is a 'legend'. :rolleyes:

this is because women, nearly ALL women, no matter how ugly, will be able to pull guys left right and centre because..as we all know, We love the pussy uncontrollably, and even it takes us getting so drunk we don't know our own name..if some is on offer..best part are taking it.

So when a guy can get a load of women..of course he's a legend, it's not easy like!
When a woman does it she's just being a slut cos she can get lads easy!

basically....that's it.

oh and wimmins..if you're not getting the man you want then maybe you're aiming too high as he's already off with some angelina jolie lookalike, tis the only exception!

ScumLord · 14-10-2008 11:49AM

That badgers spread TB. I don't know, maybe they do, but I've seen badgers killed in disgusting ways using that as an excuse.

Old fashioned opinions that drive you nuts!!!

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