I’m fuming at the ageist comment on Classic fm

Well I ve passed that age by a tiny bit (so they tell me) but I don’t see it as a insult just would have gone over my head

Sometimes I follow a link to a music quiz, run by Classic FM. Recently I did one that claimed to predict your age based on your taste in music.

Apart from the fact that several of the questions mentioned film music from films I've never seen, I don't think they even contemplated the fact that people live longer than 40 years.

My age is apparently 38!

I didn’t hear that one, but IMO it wouldn’t have been as irritating as some of the endlessly repeated ads on Classic - I’m forever switching off because I can’t bear to hear this or that one yet again - and then forgetting to switch back on again.

Sounds to me as if the presenter just wanted to say something congratulatory - but got it somewhat wrong.

It sounds like the kind of thing the guy who does Pointless would say (not the tall one). Not said with any particular sincerity but quite harmless as far as I can see. There are far worse things to be fuming about IMO.

Some people need to get a life is all I can say.

Maybe it was "an achievement" to send a request to ClassicFM? Or for a husband to send a request?

I used to be a loyal listener but since John Suchet left the morning slot I never tune in alexander Armstrong is terrible . I use mt Echo dod to play music and get no silly adds either.

The adverts on classic fm annoy me so I mute them whenever I can. Classic fm has ruined a lot of classical music for me by repetition. I turn to radio 3. I ignore all the talking bits in classic fm.

I listen to R2 & they’re amazed if anyone looks half decent at 50!

That does sound like the sort of thing Alexander Armstrong would say. I think his brain doesn’t keep up with his mouth sometimes.

lemongrove

Yes, ridiculous comment isn’t it? As if the mere act of staying alive was down to one’s own willpower or talent.In any case,
75 may have been a staggering old age in 1620, but not the case in 2020.?

The average life expectancy in the UK is currently 81.15, slightly less for males. The average life expectancy in 1620 was around 38 and hovered around the low 40's until 1880, since the increasing slowly util where we are now.

It's a bit silly but it wouldn't make me "fume".

What did annoy me a couple of weeks ago was the answer for "old age" in the I crossword - senility. It made some other readers annoyed too - as the readers' letters indicated on the following day.

Wouldn’t give it a second thought and certainly not be fuming over it,

Give it a rest! There are more important things to 'fume' about and it's not as if the remark was addressed to the OP in person!

This reminds me of a story regarding my late aunt and uncle. They invited a financial advisor to their home. He noticed, hanging on the wall, a photo of their exceptionally pretty daughter - my cousin. He asked who the pretty girl was and when they said it was their daughter he then asked where she'd got her good looks from? He didn't get any work from them after that.

Sorry, I know I'm going off subject. Please feel free to tell me off.

Eloethan

It's a bit silly but it wouldn't make me "fume".

What did annoy me a couple of weeks ago was the answer for "old age" in the I crossword - senility. It made some other readers annoyed too - as the readers' letters indicated on the following day.

But that is one of its meanings (check out any good dictionary) along with more verbose ones such as "characteristic of or accompanying old age". Some people may use the words senile and senility in insulting ways but the words themselves are descriptive, not insulting.

There a (minor in my case) skin condition whose medical name I cannot remember but which used to be described as "senile warts". I'm perfectly comfortable with that. All it means is that the warts are more common on older people than younger.

I wonder if, in some years from now, the word dementia will be thought outré. My grandmother suffered from it but in her day it was simply said that she had "gone senile". It wasn't insulting. It's just another way of saying that she suffered from a disease most commonly associated with old age.

ORIGIN: L senīlis, from senex, senis old

If she is 75, they must have been married a long time. I would assume the congratulations were for the long partnership

If you like classical music, but find the chat and adverts on Classic FM irritating, why not listen to Radio 3 instead! It’s a lot more intelligent, and no advertisements.

It wouldn't bother me. Sure it was kindly meant.