Has anyone noticed the ‘Old Biddy’ remarks??

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

Gill ?or a drinking game?

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?

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 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.

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 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.

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 have noticed it too lemon!

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

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

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

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.

Unusual for you to start a thread lemon

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

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.

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

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.?

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