Has anyone noticed the ‘Old Biddy’ remarks?🤔

Can't say I have seen that, I would certainly remember because if it was aimed at me I would be incensed, as would you I expect lemon

I can only imagine they are trying to show how in tune with the young they are themselves.🤔
I must try and not call them young whipper snappers.🤣

It’s on at least one thread now Gill and appears from time to time.Tbh it makes me laugh.

Not aimed at me, btw, but usually just aimed ‘in general’.
It’s hardly insulting from another older woman, but would be from a younger person I suppose.

Yes I've seen it- its a bit of a yawn - ignore it.

Unusual for you to start a thread lemon

I've seen them, lemon.

Another tactic is to use WTAF as an exclamation which my DGCs moved on from after the age of about sixteen!

My mother used to say, 'It's just a phase, dear' but it's alive and well with wannabee cool kids, of the outraged variety, on Gransnet who are old enough to know better.

Resorting to trendy gobbledegook that nobody can nor want to understand is their last resort.

Just something that amused me Whitewave and wondered if others had noticed it.

True Merlot like all the Gfery stuff....it’s sort of the ‘being down with da kids’ 🤣

I have noticed it too lemon!

I was aware that it couldnt possibly be aimed at me so I just ignored it°

I shall now start forensically checking every thread! Old biddy is not a word I have ever used, to me it means someone like the grandma in Giles's cartoons; all long black coat and umbrella and hat, and I certainly don't think of any fellow GN members looking like that!

I haven't noticed it to be honest. I have noticed people (like my mother-in-law aged 96) referring to her friends as "the girls".

I hate people calling friends "girls" and "boys" unless they really are.

I know this is a bit off subject. Sorry.

Too much time spent with or talking to teenagers and children during lockdown perhaps, trying to be 'cool'.
DD gave me a look last week when I repeated something DGS says oops.

I gather “wrinklies” is being removed from the list of Scrabble words that are acceptable. Perhaps you can apply for old biddy and biddies to be removed too lemon.
Don’t think it’s a phrase I have ever used about myself or others.

Found one! On the H&M thread ( predictably perhaps). Well, there you go, no old biddies in sight and no doubt there will now be three in a row, just like buses. Maybe we should have a bingo card for them lemon?

I wouldn’t hear of it Doodle 😁 I didn’t know that wrinklies was an acceptable Scrabble word or had been! It’s a very old description ‘old biddy’ therefore using it denotes that you are actually old yourself.Strange eh?

Gill 😄or a drinking game?

If there are three mentions today, that’s three G&T’s for me.
Just about the right amount.

Right, challenge accepted lemon! I have found one so far.......of to search for two more. Would it be cheating, do you think, if we called each other an old biddy in order to qualify for three G & Ts?

I’m going to randomly drop old buddies all over the place and you will all become unconscious.

I call myself an old bint

I've got a plaque hanging on the key of the desk in the hall with " An old Bat Lives Here ". I was going to hang it outside but it would have weathered----enough to change the letters !

It certainly would have applied to me earlier in the fruit and veg shop when a young man came within an inch of me." ill-mannered oaf ", said I.

I haven’t noticed it but then I never seem to notice things others do 😂

Thank you WWMk2, I shall raise a glass in thanks