Another reasonably serious one…

[Mich the Tester]

My mum’s in her mid sixties and retired a few years ago. She was a university lecturer; highly intelligent and accustomed to dealing with all sorts of young people, in fact she enjoyed being with young people in her work and never once complained about kids with funny coloured hair or weirdo piercings and rude t-shirts. All part of being young as she saw it. However, the last couple of years I’ve noticed she’s getting a bit cranky. She expresses some very right-winged opinions about yoofs, Asians, queens and so on, and I mean the kind of opinions that would have got you thrown out of the tory party even in Enoch’s days.

Is this evidence that she’s losing it? Or is it just because she’s retired, middle class, drinks a lot of chardonnay and reads the Daily Wail every day?

Anyone else with suspicions their parents are starting to lose it?

[Pondlife]

Is this evidence that she’s losing it? No
Or is it just because she’s retired, middle class, drinks a lot of chardonnay and reads the Daily Wail every day? Yes

HTH

[Troll]

A perfectly natural reaction of being freed from the political correctness of the classroom now allows her to express her bottled up true feelings.

Much the same as:
Generals retiring and then saying the Iraq war was pointless
Government ministers retiring and saying the school system is a shambles
Home Secretaries retiring and then saying ID cards aren't such a good idea after all.

No on has the balls to stand up and object at the time when they can actually do something about it

[Wilmslow]

My mum’s in her mid sixties and retired a few years ago. She was a university lecturer; highly intelligent and accustomed to dealing with all sorts of young people, in fact she enjoyed being with young people in her work and never once complained about kids with funny coloured hair or weirdo piercings and rude t-shirts. All part of being young as she saw it. However, the last couple of years I’ve noticed she’s getting a bit cranky. She expresses some very right-winged opinions about yoofs, Asians, queens and so on, and I mean the kind of opinions that would have got you thrown out of the tory party even in Enoch’s days.

Is this evidence that she’s losing it? Or is it just because she’s retired, middle class, drinks a lot of chardonnay and reads the Daily Wail every day?

Anyone else with suspicions their parents are starting to lose it?

Yes, it comes with retirement. Mine retired a few months ago and she is exactly like you describe - nobody else is allowed an opinion seemingly unless they match hers......

[AlfredJPruffock]

I think over a certain age you consider any comments contrary to yours as impudence.

Whenever I talke exception or point out to my Mother (a former communist) an error in her thinking the conversation will go something like ..

Alf 'How can you possibly support Communism when Stalin killed more people than -'

Alfs Mum Alf - Shutup.

Alf 'But - you cant ...'

Alfs Mum I said - Shutup . Go and tidy your room now.

[Pickle2]

Deffo the daily mail.

Do her a favour and buy her some subscriptions to a few more left of facist publications.

[cailin maith]

I think over a certain age you consider any comments contrary to yours as impudence.

Whenever I talke exception or point out to my Mother (a former communist) an error in her thinking the conversation will go something like ..

Alf 'How can you possibly support Communism when Stalin killed more people than -'

Alfs Mum Alf - Shutup.

Alf 'But - you cant ...'

Alfs Mum I said - Shutup . Go and tidy your room now.

[Mich the Tester]

Deffo the daily mail.

Do her a favour and buy her some subscriptions to a few more left of facist publications.

I try to set an example by taking The Times with me when I visit, but she thinks it's a horrid leftist rag.

[realityhack]

A perfectly natural reaction of being freed from the political correctness of the classroom now allows her to express her bottled up true feelings.

That's probably not far from the truth.

[expat]

A perfectly natural reaction of being freed from the political correctness of the classroom now allows her to express her bottled up true feelings.

Much the same as:
Generals retiring and then saying the Iraq war was pointless
Government ministers retiring and saying the school system is a shambles
Home Secretaries retiring and then saying ID cards aren't such a good idea after all.

No on has the balls to stand up and object at the time when they can actually do something about it

Yes, she's tried hard all these years because she is really intelligent, humane, and liberal. But she has now had enough of PC. Me too.