tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
I've just seen an advert on BBC-1 for the government's digital
switchover help scheme. This is intended to help those over 75 make
the switch from analogue to digital TV. The advert showed a garulous
old fool who seemed to lack social awareness and common sense. The
young relative and the young engineer exchanged meaningful glances,
as if to say, "She can't help being daft; she's old." How incredibly
patronising and insulting this is to the very people they claim to
be helping. It seems that in modern Britain, whilst racism is almost
a capital offence, ageism is officially condoned.


Totally agree!. Don't they -ever- think that one day they'll be old
to?..


And *WHAT* were your thoughts on 'oldies' when you were in your teens,
twenties, thirties - and possibly forties when you were showing them how to
use that new fangled invention called the video recorder - or even early
mobile phones? ;-)

Cash