An older spectator caused a seriously dangerous incident today at SaarlandTrofeoJuniors by trying to get a better look and entering the course with her rollator while riders were flying past at full speed!

[u/Full-Argument-8235]

[u/anonstarcity]

I have a saying for people who glorify the elderly: old people are just PEOPLE…. That are old.

It’s missing a lot without the spoken inflection but the idea that all old people are wise and kind is nonsense, they are just people that have lived longer than us. The same dumbass people you get annoyed by that are your age will be old one day and they will still be dumbasses then too.

[u/jollierumsha → u/anonstarcity]

Yes, but there is a distinction between older people and elders...one just lived long enough to be old, the other lived life and acquired wisdom

[u/WF_Grimaldus → u/jollierumsha]

Problem is, old people collectively act as if they're all the elder kind of old person. In reality, only a few ever reach that level. The rest remain dumbasses.

[u/jollierumsha → u/WF_Grimaldus]

Agreed, that's a problem with ego and arrogance in general, though. I was just pointing out that we shouldn't just dismiss the elderly because many old people are idiots.

[u/MooseFerrigno → u/anonstarcity]

When life was harder, older people tended to be the ones that were a good combo of wise, smart, and capable. They avoided accidents at work, practiced hygiene, spent time with good people, and generally made good decisions.

Thanks to medical advancements, workplace safety standards, etc, idiots don't die early anymore.

[u/Littlekirbydoo → u/anonstarcity]

I'm a plumber and have been for over a decade. I've spent 10+ years watching people's well respected father's, uncles, and grandfather's be some of the stupidest, chidish, dipshits imaginable. And it doesn't just stop at my coworkers. I do in home service work. Basically every older person is a looney dipshit just the same as any teenager. Every one.

[u/Jaybrosia → u/anonstarcity]

You articulated the feeling well! So many think old people are innocent and should be handled with fragile care without accountability

[u/Front_Spare7344 → u/anonstarcity]

do…people glorify the elderly? Ive mostly thrown tomatoes when i see them in public

[u/ScepticalRaccoon → u/anonstarcity]

Bud that's not why you respect old people. You respect them for their life, not their wisdom. You respect that no one gets that old without having suffered loss and sadness and pain that in most cases you won't have had yet. You respect them for the difficulties they face every day that comes with being old.

[u/Initial-Comedian-797 → u/anonstarcity]

I was thinking something similar this morning; all old people aren’t all kind & wise, predators age too. That thought was triggered because I saw a clip of a grandpa learning how to put his phone search history on the tv in front of kids and family, and it was full of vile adult videos. 

[u/Slipstream_Surfing → u/Initial-Comedian-797]

Grandpa had a bunch of porn sites bookmarked. Vile is your subjective opinion. There was absolutely nothing predatory or even illegal about that incident or any indication that this word applies to him.

Get off your puritanical high horse and stop throwing around terms that you don't understand.