Plain speaking, please!

Why do people want to be grumpy? If something is irritating and you can avoid it, it is not essential, e.g. TV, then just don't watch it.

I rarely watch the TV before 8:00p.m. I am using GN more atm as my "entertainment" as I have damaged my back and cannot get out and about or do the garden.

Agree it is different if you cannot avoid something that causes irritation but mostly we have choice!

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bring it ooooon!

I guess we have earned (earnt) the right to be as Grumpy as we like by now?

turning into Grumpy Old (ish) Women

Turning into??
I'm there already.

Shhuurely you mean soooooo boooring ,Granunkind ?

Yes - it is boring now Bridgeit!!!

‘watevah’

Yes or in modern parlance 'duh'!

Do you think we are turning into Grumpy Old (ish) Women?

Noooo Bridgeiiit!

Referring back to your OP, I don't think that their ' reality' is my reality either

Would that be twooo crowns ,Jalima ?

That's probably why I ended up with two crowns OldMeg!

Gritting your teeth is not recommended at our age. We need all the enamel we can hang onto.

but I really want to know

Fogey alert! Grans at play!

Robert Peston talks good sense if you can get past his way of speaking.
Yes, he does, but I do find myself gritting my teeth.

Re speaking Latin - I have often wondered (well, once or twice ) if the Romans spoke their language with a kind of flourishing dramatic Italian accent, and if British schoolchildren reciting amo amas amat, mensa, mensa, mensam etc in their dull way would be the ones regarded as having a strong accent.

Thought for today, wanders off reciting Latin declensions

I think you need to check your last sentence Jane 10.

Grankind. sigh. Well just you go on 'setting a good example' as you call it or 'speaking your own version of speech' as I call it!
Maybe we'd be better conducting conversations in Latin?! Or would you've complaining about 'correct' pronunciation in that too?!
Grunt grunt!

It's the odd emphasis in the weather forecasts that irritate me - '... and more rain In the south on Thursday', when that's the last word we need stressed. Happens all the time/

Yes to all of that - I am not claiming that my grasp of language is superior in any way, but we all seem to be pandering to the mediocre when we allow these corruptions into our everyday speech. We 'Grans' Jane 10, should be setting an example and using the education we were given. It is much easier to run with the pack than stand up for clarity and purity in our communication. As for 'grunting stone age people' - isn't that what we are in danger of becoming?

Brilliant Jaxie?

Bridgeit, I had a word with myself when I realised the effect that my merciless corrections of, for example, people who don't understand countable nouns and who say "amount" instead of " number"; "comprises of" instead of just " comprises" etc had on them. I realised that it was because my talents are so few I felt had to parade my superior knowledge of English grammar. Once I heard someone in the next garden teaching his kids to play the recorder. One kid said, " Dad, Johnnie says he's playing an A when it isn't, it's a C. " Let him call it an A if he wants to." was the reply. It taught me a lot.

Thanks all you cooool Dudes,I’m off to get down with my Besties ?
Ohh dear I’ve just remembered the 60s, cool man , hey dude, peace, chill out

Sorry Bridgeit, have nothing to add. Just wanted you to know your post makes me smile each time I read it. So true!