The "Over 50s"

[darth vadar]

And you can take out one of those Michael Parkinson life insurance policies (with no medical checks)

And get a free gift just for enquiring!!!

 

[Red Light]

"Residents of a market town aged 50 and over are being encouraged to get active and take up a new hobby. Indoor bowls, tai chi, salsa, badminton and exercise classes are being offered as part of a project to encourage Bedale’s over 50s to take up a new sport or physcal activity. The ‘eng-AGE into Sport’ project, funded by Sport England and delivered by Hambleton District Council, has already seen free ‘taster’ sessions held in the town".

Its because we are the only ones with any money No use targeting your marketing at the no-job twenty somethings or the maxed out on credit card 30 and 40 somethings

 

[Red Light]

I've always loved the idea that, once you're over 50, you suddenly desire to sit with your peers and remember the good old days.

Yes, I can remember back when it wasn't at all like that

 

[Fiona N]

I don't like most people as it is, why would things change in 30-odd years?

Oh that's sooooo Victor Meldrew, isn't it I can just hear him saying it

 

[ThePainInSpain]

I'm 62 and whilst not as fit as I would like, I never stop. I cycle 80km a week, and that's all off road with some bl**by big hills included.

I'll stop when I'm dead.

We have an 'over 50's Roadshow' which happens a couple of times a year. Useful for finding out about your pension etc. when living abroad. HOWEVER..............the advert for it on the local ex-pat radio station uses Glen Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade' as the intro.

FFS I was brought up on The Beatles and Motown not fu***ng Vera Lynn.

I wish I had a riding buddy, but most ex-pats in my age group do just sit outside bars all day and get slowly morose.

 

[Munchkin100]

On my way into town today, sat in the usual traffic jam at the lights. An elderly lady, I would, at a guess put her around 70+ mark, cycled by on the pavement, the bike looked about the same age as lady herself, wicker basket on front had seen better days but still hung in there. The lady was very well dressed and not a silver, permed hair out of place...... she obviously isnt gonna give up her antique any time soon. At the time she passed I thought to myself, mmmm there goes I in 20 to 30 years time. What an amazing woman she was obvously very fit, not an ounce of fat on her, had been cycling all her life. Give it up for the over 50's. Most of us are a hell of a lot fitter than the 20 year olds :-)

 

[Fnaar]

I'll be 50 soonish, and apart from my knees (which think they're 70) I'm fitter than I've been since my early 20s. Long may it continue!!!
The Vera Lynne thing above made me laugh. I've visions of my generation of people in the old folks in 20 yrs or so home pogoing about to "Teenage Kicks" and "Anarchy" etc

 

[danphoto]

Hah! By a nice coincidence, I fired off an email to Saga only two hours ago cancelling my subscription to what used to be a halfway-useful magazine well worth £9 a year, but is nowadays far too genteel, middle clarse and smug for my liking. I shall, however, keep subscribing to The Word and to The Oldie for as long as I can afford it.

I am 64 and I too am totally bemused by this whole "Over-50's" thing. Though overweight and far from as fit as I'd like to be, I am regularly appalled by the state of most of these "Over 50's", many of whom seem to be not only obese, but also brain-dead. And I have got used to people being astonished that I choose to use a bicycle for everyday transport and a cargo trike for bulky loads. What they would think if they knew we are intent upon selling the motor car ASAP later this year, I have no idea.

I like being this great age, and not only because I get free eye tests, free prescriptions and a bus pass. It is sad, though, how many of my contemporaries are boring old farts - and have been for many years.

 

[GordonB]

I'm 62 and whilst not as fit as I would like, I never stop. I cycle 80km a week, and that's all off road with some bl**by big hills included.

I'll stop when I'm dead.

We have an 'over 50's Roadshow' which happens a couple of times a year. Useful for finding out about your pension etc. when living abroad. HOWEVER..............the advert for it on the local ex-pat radio station uses Glen Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade' as the intro.

FFS I was brought up on The Beatles and Motown not fu***ng Vera Lynn.

I wish I had a riding buddy, but most ex-pats in my age group do just sit outside bars all day and get slowly morose.

I sympathise with your longing for a riding buddy, but it could be worse. For example, like me you could be so hard up for company that you're forced to ride for 100 miles with some whining, miserable, werthers sucking pussy like Rezillo

I'm not sure what to think about this thread, personally I could't give a short, sharp fart what category any media twonk wants to put me in, I'm now fit as hell, almost skinny, happy, healthy (apart from the diabetes, which isn't a problem) and doing a job I love that pays well. Most of the foregoing is down to cycling, cycling and more cycling, and no matter how much scorn others may pour on it I know it's the secret to living long and happy. So, Rezillo and I will be off into the wilds of Suffolk tomorrow for yet another life enhancing experience, if you're out there on your bike and you see two older looking lycra louts going your way, don't join us unless you're able to stand the pace!

Gordon

 

[ttcycle]

It's a load of old rubbish isn't it? I'm not over 50 or near it but I get pissed off with these little marketering stereotypes. It's dreamt up by people who often look at averages and fail to see individuals for who they are-besides individuals are harder to sell to whether it's some crummy council initiative, life insurance, bloody clothes or some other thing.

Be proud you're outside the box of average. People just don't get it. It's their limitations and small brains.

 

[XmisterIS]

My Great Aunt is 96, lives in the country and still goes out walking every day. She can still manage about 5 miles! She remembers the 1st World War (just).

 

[Arch]

We have an 'over 50's Roadshow' which happens a couple of times a year. Useful for finding out about your pension etc. when living abroad. HOWEVER..............the advert for it on the local ex-pat radio station uses Glen Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade' as the intro.

FFS I was brought up on The Beatles and Motown not fu***ng Vera Lynn.

Ah, I think there's a reason for this sort of thing.

I often hear a date in the 60's mentioned, and think 'oh, about 20 years ago'. My instinctive thought seems to be 'set' in the 80's, when I was a teenager. Obviously, once I think about it, I know, but there's a part of my brain that doesn't want to move on. Maybe the organisers are the same, and think instinctively 50 years ago was the wartime.

 

[Rezillo]

There was a half-serious point behind the OP and that was that being lumped into an age bracket than spans 40+ years and includes the very fit and the very infirm is clearly no help to anyone. Despite this being self-evident, the category is increasingly being used - there are no end of NHS and council websites where the health advice for this ridiculous age bracket appears to consign me to knitting circles and carpet bowls.

Anyway, I'll do my bit for care in the community tomorrow by escorting GordonB to his weekly hot meal at the WRVS hall

John

 

[pawl]

No hope for me then i am70.Think i will go and do a quick 40 miles then down a bottle of wincranis followed byPhyllosan whilst reading my latest editon of my Saga magazine.

 

[bongofury66]

At 56 I still dont feel much different......I think demeanour has a lot to do with it. Every part of me mentally and physically still feels a lot younger.......apart from my old man (and I don't mean my dad). Shame really.