Has anyone noticed the ‘Old Biddy’ remarks??

I don’t mind what you call me,as long as you call me

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Lemongrove not aimed at anyone at all but thought if I shout OLD BIDDY you could pour yourself a double.

I don’t care what I’m called as long as it’s not a lady.
I’m sure I look like an old biddy, especially since no visit to hairdressers for months, so I may start an old biddies appreciation society.

I don’t feel like one but I may well look like one?

You're allowed to call yourself an old biddy, Rosalyn, but no-one else is allowed to call you one!

I must say, I rather feel like an old biddy today.

I may be guilty as I class myself as an old biddy at times. It’s not meant to be a derogatory remark.

That’s a coincidence Purple ? as every GN member also has a life!

No I haven’t noticed it at all but I don’t read all of the topics as I have a life.

Love it Annie! Bet she was livid! But at least she knew he loved her!

Never seen it but a child did tell me I'm from the "olden times" the other day lol

That made me laugh Annie, said fondly I'm sure and I hope she's well now.

SIL calls his dogs 'Old Girl'
Although the new ones are relatively young ???

Sorry to go off topic but must share, one of my sisters has
‘A thing’ about ageing . 3 years ago she had a heart attack, ambulance called, rushed to hospital, in intensive care for
several days, made a good recovery, when she telephoned me
no mention of the trauma, just furious, her husband had said
‘Don’t leave me old girl’.

Oldbeige I think the notice in your sandwich shop is appalling and shows how people who are so alive to racist undertones just laugh at ageist ones.

Exactly this. If you replace the term "old biddy" or similar, with any of the slurs often attributed to racist or sexist slurs, it would be totally and completely unacceptable and condemned. But, for some on here, it's deemed perfectly acceptable to refer to a whole demographic of people in a demeaning and derogatory manner. Why is that acceptable?

Madeira, m'dear, sent me off to find the Flanders and Swann song They wouldn't have wasted their Madeira on an Old Biddie when the old rue's target was a young girl. It worked too.
They really don't do songs like that nowadays, do they!

We can't be old biddies if we don't drink sweet sherry or Madeira, m'dear.

You’ll be ‘blessing ‘ me next Callistemon ( ah! Bless) although I suppose a blessing is preferable to a cursing?

Oldbeige I think the notice in your sandwich shop is appalling and shows how people who are so alive to racist undertones just laugh at ageist ones.

Well remember my mother in her late 70s habitually referring to people of her age she gave hospital lifts to as 'the old dears'!

lemongrove

Now, since nobody has repeated the phrase ?am off to have just one G&T, which is rather disappointing.?

Surely a sweet sherry or Madeira, m'dear?

I know where the phrase comes from, as I have Irish relatives,and as a child this was used in a contemptuous way about women.It comes from Bridie ( Bridget) so an old bridey or biddy.It was always used about older people from younger people though!
So when somebody says ‘old biddy’ on here, it’s simply used as an insult.From one old biddy to another, haha.

Anniebach

Calling posters ‘nasty, embittered old crones’ was a step too far
for me.

Yes, "Speak for yourself" is the only appropriate response!!

Yes, I've noticed it too, lemongrove and just thought that the poster had lost the argument and was scraping around the bottom of ypthe barrel!!

NotSpaghetti, yes, I have a friend who always refers to us as 'the girls' although she's 82
"Well, girls, where shall we go for lunch?" "What do you think girls?"
Nowhere at the moment, unfortunately, but I would like to hear her suggest it!

Calling posters ‘nasty, embittered old crones’ was a step too far
for me.

Where I live in the West of Scotland, old biddy can be a used as disparaging or derogatory. For me it has connotations of a bad tempered, cantankerous old lady.
We all have different interpretations of language, that's what makes it difficult not to to be contentious. We can't know how another poster will interpret a word or phrase.

As an aside. I once sent my daughter an email at work, using a common Glasgow word. It was picked up by the filters as a profanity. ? .
I hadn't realised it had a totally different meaning nowadays.

Isn’t old biddy rather an old fashioned word, so would not be used by young ones?

I don’t mind being called old myself because that is what I am, and have been known to ask for “old fogie” rates at the cinema, back in the glorious day when we could go to the cinema that is.

I would find it worse to be called “little old dear” not being tall in stature. .