Embarrassed watching television.

[eightyplus]

Yes I mean that. Totally embarrassed at my age.

A couple of my grown up grand daughters were visiting and as usual the television was playing reasonably quiet in the background.

Suddenly the music shot up to an alarming crescendo and grabbing the remote I tried my best to prevent my elderly neighbour receiving a heart attack by lowering the volume.

Didn’t work!Panicking, I had only increased the sound just in time to hear some actors that I have alway respected hurling profanities at each other in the most casual way.

The girls just laughed it off and I felt that they were sympathising my apparent childish naivety.

Have we really come that far? Like any healthy male I enjoy the naked breast but am quite happy to leave the cinematic sex scenes behind the closed bedroom door.

Same for today’s language.

To be quite honest I don’t think we have children anymore, those that pass by my kitchen window on their way to school sound more like stevedores snarling into their cell phones than the cuddly little curly tops we popped into their warm beds not that long ago.

What we all go through each day is reality and our television a means of escape from that same reality.

I know that tv and the movies of the 50's had a different moral code and wish we could get back to the way it was, couldn’t imagine John Wayne, Cary Grant, James Stewart ,McQueen or Gregory Peck being like that, although in real life, probably were.

The ladies? Well there is something distasteful about the girl next door or the girl of your dreams when you discover that she is nothing more than an old potty mouth.

Well that’s my little rant or thought for the day. It doesn’t do a lot of good but getting things off of my chest is as good as a cough . . . . . have a great afternoon.

[Hidden]

....and remember your grandparents said exactly the same things about you and your generation!

[eightyplus in reply to Hidden]

You are probably right AlanF. In my case I was adopted by a couple already old enough to be my grandparents . . . . . so I missed out.

[Nikkers in reply to eightyplus]

I'm with you all the way on that one eightyplus. I too was adopted by an old couple - and they weren't even married. I still don't understand how they got away with it when you look at the rigorous investigations that people have to go through today to adopt a child? I found it very embarrassing when I was young as my peers all thought they were my Grandparents? They never understood me at all and I was always being sent to live with realatives because my "Mother" was ill. I think I was "bought" if the truth be known, things like that happened in WW2 so I'm told? They also wouldn't tell me anything about my birth parents because, according to them, I had" no right to know" ,and it took me nearly 50 years to trace my roots, which was too late!

Ok, that's my moan of the day! Have a good weekend. X

[Hidden in reply to Nikkers]

I'm sure it did happen during WW2...my first husband was adopted then and his adoptive Mother...she was a lovely woman actually...she told me that she and her husband went to the Doctors one evening and were handed a tiny baby. All they knew about his background, was his birth Father was a Polish Airman. Nothing else at all...

[Louisiana]

My first job was at the BBC - you had to speak with plums in your mouth just to be a clerk! Absolutely no swear words or profanity was allowed in the departments or on screen. I cannot believe how often the F word is used now. I didn't even see or hear that word until I was 18 and then afterwards when I was in my twenties. Times have sure changed! I love watching black and white films as it reminds me of the time I grew up in, during and immediately after the war...everyone was so kind and courteous and I didn't know anyone that swore......yes, I did live on this planet at the time!!

[Hidden in reply to Louisiana]

I remember my Father once said...'Oh,heck!' and my Mother was horrified...!!

[Offcut]

I agree. I can swear with the best of them but I usually have a good reason to do it, not just for the sake of it!

I am afraid I have said something to my children as they were growing up that I swore I would never say to my kids when I have them? All I have ever insisted on with my children 30,32 is be honest!

Be Well