“With most newspapers drawing more than half their audience from people who are 55 years of age and older, you would think they would avoid insulting those readers. But you would be wrong.“
“With most newspapers drawing more than half their audience from people who are 55 years of age and older, you would think they would avoid insulting those readers. But you would be wrong.“
Am I really first? I can’t be, I’m a senior citizen. And what am I doing with a computer? My mother-in-law just renewed her driver’s licence at 89 – I wonder what newspaper she reads…
Chronologically challenged please, never caught on cuz it’s hard to spell. Part of the fun is to watch clerks pussyfoot around the seniors discount. I don’t mention it but I’m getting to where they are not sure. I feel good about it, most start at 55 now. Of course some of them look 14 so we’re even.
Yes this is LOL. At, ohhh, let me see what was I typing about? Now I remember! Yes, at ~55 years of age I taught myself Linux (now 10 years later posting this using the Chromium Browser). So yeah. Thanks to the Internet (gods), we ‘old’ folks can still keep up.
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I’d say the intellectual lucidity of most senior citizens far exceeds the intellectual lucidity of the “progressive” “journalism” of the New York Times and other liberal fishwraps that formerly were great newspapers, at about the time these senior citizens were young adults.
Those newspapers lost their spryness and lucidity, to borrow the Times words, way before these senior citizen readers, who are “still spry and lucid”, as the Times condescendingly described them.
I really hate the smarmy New York people. I think they are probably very much like the smarmy Toronto people. They get embarrassed by Stompin Tom, Ray Charles, Buck Owens etc and think they are clever because they are listening to Astor Piazzola and Yo Yo Ma. They basically hate the culture that pays the bills
The old line Media can’t fade into history fast enough.
Hey, be careful whom you call “vivacious and lucid”; I prefer buxom and lively.
gord – don’t be a dink. A good number of us ‘Toronto People’ (notice the upper case) are far from smarmy. BTW, I do enjoy Stompin’ Tom, Ray Charles was fabulous and I could pick Buck Owens out of a line up thanks to Hee-Haw, which I watched many times. Can’t say I have any of his albums though…
In the early 1980s a car division named oldsmobile reached sales levels that put it behind only ford and Chevrolet. They were smashing records left and right. At the same time they were caught engaging in a scandalous practice of putting engines from chev into their cars and not telling their loyal owners. A couple of years later the average age of olds buyers passed age 55 – the legend was fading. Despite attempts to reverse the aging demographic, the average age crept past 65 by the mid to late 90s. By 2004 it was dead. (as were most of their prospective buyers.
A similar fate awaits the pulp-based MSM.
Gord Tulk I had an ’87 Olds and traded it for a ’99 Buick. I figure I’m killing GM all by myself. Both were real good cars. Still drive the Buick.
Well I just turned 70 and I still know gow to get on the internet. (except sometimes I forget why I want to)
And I can still know how to clear core on a H200 if I had to. (one of the first things I learned about computers way back in ’65)
gow -> how
(the vision starts to fail)
Well from time to time we old guys get a bit of respect…..
Last weekend a small delegation arrived with a brand new 50 cal Hawken…muzzle stuffer.
The fella wanted to sight it in….he had the new wiz-bang smoke-less pellets. He insisted I do the shooting to eliminate human error…..hmmm a compliment???
The #$%^ misfired….3 times. Well the old man removed the nipple and from his trove added a pinch of black powder…..it was absolutely naval….hee hee.
With patched balls it was all over the place at 100 yd but grouped acceptably with soboted bullets. The young guys were right….at 100 yds they were hard pressed to hit an old car hood…..
I admit it really is nice to have young legs do the hoofing down to check the target…..that and load and clean the devise……
foobert
I guess I’m not doin’ bad either…..that last post the silly thing said there was an internal server error……I copied my post onto the clipboard and refreshed….it lied….and I didn’t do a double…..
Brian M said “A good number of us ‘Toronto People’ (notice the upper case) are far from smarmy.”
I wasn’t refering to all Toronto people just the smarmy ones. I lived downtown Toronto for 20 years and I love the city. The point I was trying to make (poorly) was that I had noticed that the left seems to be abandoning American music and embracing anything exotic from any other country. It is probably a symptom of multiculteralism. It no doubt applies to their interest in food, film etc.
I hope people call me lucid for many years to come.
Sorry, but I won’t buy into Political Corectness even if it is a chance to slam the MSM.
Remember: Progressives = Fascists
These fish wrap rags are just continuing desensitizing the youth in preparation for our imminent round up to be sent to the “recycling” plants.
Soap and dog food (Soylent green if things get real bad) coming out the other end of the conveyor belt.
“Its the baby boomers fault we are in this financial mess…Its the baby boomers who have all the wealth…Its the baby boomers who pillaged the environment…There are too many baby boomers not dying fast enough that is drying up our social safety nets, we need a final solution…”
I’ve heard and read some similar sentiments already.
Just change “baby boomer” with “Jew” and you get a free ride into memory lane of 70 years ago.
“..There are too many baby boomers not dying fast enough..”
I’m doing the best I can but nothing seems to be able to kill me.