Hairnets??? Really???

I get tired of how older people get portrayed, apart from Hairnets ( do they even exist) My hates ?
Those road signs showing two bent people with sticks.
Cartoons with so called funny remarks about the elderly.
The term Pensioner.
It only hit me when I reached a certain age and suddenly I have morphed into a different person.

Sorry about the rant!!

Another child after becoming a gran! That's scary - but could be fun , too, I guess. I've just popped on here from "oop North" where the men wear the hairnets - in our famous bread factories !

Hi ummlilia You're right about The Argus
Do you live in Brighton/Hove?
Your life must be filled with the buzz of small children
I have a friend who actually had her last child after she'd become a grand-mother!!

three years ago I became a gran at 45.( my son was 24 )..and I am now still at the gates of the junior school with my youngest child who is only 9.. But come on..it IS the Argus...

That's just lazy journalism, unthinkingly hanging an old cliche on a new story without pausing to think whether it's appropriate. I see it all the time in the regional press where young reporters aren't being properly trained. The Argus used to be a good start for journalists but they've let themselves down with this.

I'm a 51 year old grandmother who became a grandma at the age of 47. It's such a shame when articles like these are spoiled by either unrepresentative images or ludicrous lines like this one.

Hairnets!?! Even MY mother didn't wear hairnets, she would have been horrified. She was 95 when she died 5 years ago and still had her hair styled.

Do they still sell hairnets? There is a tendency by many to lump 'older' people together, anything from 50+ to 80+ Think you'll agree there's a vast difference.

What a cheek are we all supposed to resemble Nora Battey and wear baggy stocking as well,I would like to see someone try and get all my long hair inside a hair net if they can they are a better person than me.

Ha ha! Am having my hair cut & coloured today by a hairdresser from Brighton.
He will be a bit annoyed to think that trendy him might be associated with grannies in hairnets! Though he does suggest (jokingly) I would benefit from a hairnet at night! I have very coarse and curly hair which simply has a will of it own so in the morning can be sticking up at all sorts of odd angles that only a hair wash will tame!

Stupid journalist! But anyway, congratulations on your local Gransnet being up and running. Hope it's very successful

Who ever referred to the grandma's in that frame sounds as as if they have a bit of a fear of getting older themselves. It's a very long time since I saw anyone in a hairnet, do they still make them? let alone wear them. Perhaps in a bakery?
Don't let it worry you, it is a minority view, nowadays the older woman is not something to be scoffed at. I suspect that article will cause a bit of an uprising. Good luck with your response which might be best placed on their letters page.
June from
Conwy Gransnetlocal

Can understand why you are furious. Even great grandmothers don't use hairnets these days, do they?