What do eldergays do that makes your skin crawl?

Remember things like history, handwriting....

Talk about some old hag named Judy.

Humble brag about their savings accounts, homes they own and constant history of employment since Gerald Ford was in office.

R1, you think Trump and his supporters know about history?

lean in to peck on the cheek or lips

R1 is a butthurt eldergay

Yeah...there are scads of Drumpf supporters on DL. And for you Pete boneheads, Pete is somehow quite popular with Boomers. Explain that in four words or less.

Breathe.

They think a hot young guy could possibly still fall in love with them. Not even eldergays want an eldergay.

CONSTANTLY remember all their sweet, courageous friends and lovers who died just for pursuing their natural sexuality.

OK boomer! Get over it already!

Caftans, but no earrings.

R3 doesn't know any eldergays. Those are heteros who passed until recently who had the continual employment.

Still trying to impress with their money, trips, houses or clothes. I’m hoping by eldergay time, I’m living just to be happy not to play the capitalism game.

Eldergays know much more about discrimination, because it was general, violent, and omnipresent in olden times.

Lust after young guys. Your libido should be gone by early 50's at the latest.

Wearing tank tops. Do they really think anyone really wants to see their wrinkly skin?

Their unrelenting cling to internalized homophobia as they cruise the bath houses for sex but would never dream of taking a guy home or letting their neighbors know they are gay. They call it just being private and nobody's business yet if they were straight the wife or girlfriend would be practically on display as arm candy or housewife. This is especially true in places like Germany and the UK.

Stop going on about the struggle for equal rights or the AIDS crisis. If we want to hear about ancient history we'd take a class at uni.

Exist.

Everyone was young once, and everyone will one day be old.

you won't be complaining when your monthly rent is paid, TWINK WHORES

Waxing nostalgically about trash television shows that weren't that good to begin with and decades later certainly don't merit passionate discussion from serious adults.

Talk about porn actors like they are members of their family.

Don’t take showers or have bad breath/periodontitis.

Ramble on about The Golden Girls even though the show has been off the air for 30 years.

Obsess about Barbra Streisand, even though nobody except Broadway freaks and New Yorkers listen to her anymore.

R12. Idiot. I'm 60.

Not maintaining personal hygiene especially their nails, their nose, wild eyebrow and ear hair

In the UK and Germany, is being in the closet as prevalent among "bisexuals" and DL "straight" men as it is here in America?

R17 do you actually know me ???!!?

Hanging out NAKED in the locker room. For ever. It's simply not done, and. NOBODY wants/needs to see your DISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSGUSTING old body. Put a towel on sir.

" I’m hoping by eldergay time, I’m living just to be happy not to play the capitalism game."

Enjoy your box under the viaduct.

Denying medical science and the efficacy of Prep

Expect their PTSD to be relevant

Won’t leave the steam room for any reason

Specific to DL, but going on and on about "stanksleeve".

1) refused to learn or use new information in order to adjust ancient ways of thinking or looking at an issue

2) STI terrorism - suggesting that anyone with an active sex life is riddled with diseases (or mentioning diseases anytime anyone mentions a sexual experience). This coupling of sexuality and disease at every opportunity is how right wingers and church goers as well as abstinence only sex education try to scare teens into not having sex

3) unfunny CONSTANT joking and limp sarcasm. This is most obvious when someone starts a thread where they have a real problem. You can’t read five responses without one or two of them being flippant jokes. So if any of these people are reading this, if you post any more than one joke per day, you are probably incredibly unfunny. Please stop. I am all for going after any clever opportunity at humor But when your default response is sarcasm, you’re basically just revealing yourself to be a sad and sick person. There are some genuinely funny people on here but there are others who seem to think they’re Oscar Wilde 24/7. They’re not. And it’s not just annoying, it’s upsetting especially when dealing with people who are sharing they are in mental distress.

Take up resources

Yet another divisive thread. Fuck off, you miserable troll—whatever age you are.

Engaging in persistant, clearly unwanted, physical contact. I hated receiving it when I was a twink. At 65 I hate watching it happen to others.

Shame younger men, claiming that "no one wants to have sex with you at 31, honey." I'm convinced that all age-shaming comments here come from bitter eldergays.

Also, it would be interesting to know how many of the racists and misogynists here are OAPs.

Refuse to believe my beautiful son Ganache cannot change sex, how DARE they not buy our endless mental shit

What a nasty thread for a gay forum.

Wishing you the best, OP, and all millennials. It's your world. Make of it what you will. You are smarter and more capable than we were, just as we were smarter and more capable than our parents' generation.

Sure, there are geniuses in every generation -- Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, the Wright brothers -- but on the whole each generation builds upon the last one.

My generation thought we were going to usher in an age of peace and understanding, and we gave you Donald Trump.

Good luck, you'll need it. But you'll be brilliant. I have faith in you.

We now go live to our camera capturing whiny bitch babies on this board complaining about eldergays

I have never seen one ounce of wisdom from baby boomers on Datalounge.

Science deniers, bitter and and jealous, their financial advice isn’t worth shit. Add to this their sexually unattractive wrinkled fat carcasses...

Conversation to them revolves around their physical aliments. TMI I really do not need to know every detail about your last colonoscopy.

r7, What. We. Fought. For.

An annoyance - but talking without listening. Maybe comes from being alone. I try to make conversations with the elderly when opportunity provides - like at the local gay bar. But too often it becomes a monologue by them where they show no interest in me or what I have to say - aka, having a conversation rather than a therapy session. I eventually have to be rude and cut them off and walk away. Not all - but occurs more often with elderly.

I've yet to meet a millennial who even knew the basics of of the world we live in or why society is the way that it is. And they aren't curious about it either. I personally couldn't live if everything came to me as a huge fucking surprise, but that is how they live. Ask these idiots what Chernobyl was and 80% of them never heard of it.

Ancient history r49

Old geezers think that what was important to them will be important forever. Guess what? You’re wrong.

Uh, every single nuclear power plant is going to fail in the next 100-150 years. That means it's more important now than it was in 1986, dumbass.

We will all be dead by then.

Hopefully, you will die soon. We can’t wait!

Old people are so self centered.

I love love love this thread! It’s hilarious.

Yes, OP. You are 100% correct. You know us so well...

So typical of millennial logic at R52. I'd swear it was a parody, but I know too many millennials who would nod their heads, "yeah"!

Whatever, Millennium.

They seem to excuse homophobia or attack other gay for made up reasons.

Acting like we all belong to a club, OP.

^^^ A perfect example of the rampant lack of insight and shallowness of the young. We were like that once, too, and learned, and they will too, no doubt about it. And when they do, some young thing will be telling them they're irrelevant. It's the way of the world.

Unfortunately it's not all of it. Sometimes their hate of eldergays is a reflection of their parents' homophobia. My gay cousin, for example, avoids me like the plague. He pretends to be an SJW even though he took a job working for antigay Catholic university. I suspect, although I can't prove, that the reason for this standoffishness is his parents' efforts to isolate me from him, owing to my clear memory of the homophobic remarks his dad made to the newspaper in olden times. But the reality is he's a bright boy and I'm sure he remembers them himself without any help from me. He nonetheless treats me like some kind of pariah, as though gays like ME caused homophobia, but gays like him are somehow the cure.

Your cousin ignores you because of your horrendous personality r60

Your eldergayness is icing on the cake

R61 What a remarkably idiotic reponse. How do you know this guy's personality? Or do you think it's just delightful to sound like a bitch?

I didn't hate older gay men when I was young, I saw them as what I might be like when I was old and that I would be OK. I really don't get where all the hate of elder gays comes from. Maybe a topic for a new thread. But its not just cycle of life.

We hope you never grow older, OP, not by a single day.

[quote]Pete is somehow quite popular with Boomers. Explain that in four words or less.

Pete is white man.

The sad thing is that most gays at any age hate themselves and others.

[quote]Pete is white man.

So is Bernie an Warren and now the rest of the cast. Your racist thought process if flawed.

Funny how many "Eldergays, tell me about..." threads there are here, yet none asking younguns about their lives.. oh, because no one cares.

Just a quick thought for all the younger Gays, the Millenials, the over 25 but under 35 guys, and all the rest who seem to be so put off and disgusted by what you call "eldergays" (WTF does the term ACTUALLY mean, anyway) - but I digress - quick thought #1) One day you will be one too and it will sneak up on you faster than you know. and quick thought #2) for all the "history haters" - THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT. - Just give that some thought sometime...

[quote]Just a quick thought for all the younger Gays, the Millenials, the over 25 but under 35 guys

R69, the "over 25 but under 35 guys" [italic]are[/italic] the millennials.

[R15] I'm in my mid-50's, and sex drive is still there.

Live in the past: all memories, all the time, all reflection and regret. You don't have to forget the past but it's not a good neighborhood to live in.

Complain that there is no good music, no good films, no good television. The Golden Age is now, there is brilliant music of all sorts, good films, fantastic TV, but you may have to look past the spoon-fed fare to find it. Stop watching TV via an antenna. Life moved on the after your peak year of club pulchritude. Make an effort, not to keep up with the outward trappings but to find a way to be a part of modern life.

Fight lost Civil War battles such as making change at a cash register, or cursive writing. "Oh dear, if only young people today were taught the Palmer Method of business handwriting!" These battles just make you bitter(er); at least learn to laugh at yourself if gear up to fight them.

Express open disdain at young people while wondering why they are not anxious to spend more time with you, or listen to your oral histories of the Good Old Gay Days. Make an effort to kind kind to people without wanting/demanding something in return and you open the opportunity to know people of different ages and backgrounds.. Friends don't come easier with age so think twice about dismissing everyone at or before the the first words are spoken.

f you don't have the capitol, you can not be living happily.

I'm in my mid 50's and I'm always curious about older guys around my age who exclusively prefer 20-somethings. I find young guys extremely boring, lacking in any kind of interesting experience, substance or insight. I constantly get hit up by younger guys looking for the daddy experience and I find the whole idea excruciating., expecially when they're bitchy little queens who think their acerbic attitude is a sign of wit. This thread is a perfect example of the shallowness and witlessness of these folks. Yikes.

If by "capitol" you mean "money" or "assets" R73, it's spelled "capital".

"Capitol" is one or more buildings where the functions of government are conducted. It can also describe the state or region where those buildings are.

You're welcome.

" I find young guys extremely boring, lacking in any kind of interesting experience, substance or insight."

R74, I disagree profoundly. I'm 65, and I have no sexual interest in young men particularly.

I do have a lot of friends who are teenagers and men and women in their 20s and 30s, and I am proud they like me well enough to be my friends. They are smart, creative, funny, inventive, kind, talented, and they give me hope they'll do a better job with this earth and this nation than my generation has done.

Perhaps I encounter young people who are above average in every way because I'm an actor and a musician in a flyover city, and thus my fellow performers have all those qualities by default. But I don't think they are that different from their peers. I think their whole generation knows more than my generation did. They have the benefit of everything we knew along with the perspective of growing up with all of today's technology at their fingertips. They are going to take this world to heights we can't imagine.

That's always the way it goes. Their grandchildren will think them hopelessly out of date, and we'll look like the flapper generation of the 1920s, who danced while the stock market crashed and Hitler rose to power. But that's only if we don't destroy the fucking planet before they have a chance to be born.

R76: I'm not so many years younger than you, but when I was young it was older men and sometimes older women who shared something of your perspective who helped shape mine. They were wise enough to know not to dismiss people because of their youth or outward differences, generous enough to share their friendship with no more expectation, and more willing to try new things and see new places than friends of my age. They were not lecherous, but gracious and sometimes patient in letting me into their circles of far-flung and interesting friends of all sorts and all ages. The thing that they had above all was immense curiosity and an interest in what they saw as interesting people. Where my friends who were my contemporaries tended to know me because of we had met through sex, or sexual interest, or sexual partners or friends in common, or because of some obvious similarities of age, looks, etc., my older friends learned about me in other ways and knew me apart from the buzz of sex and they gave me a perspective that my contemporaries could very rarely offer.

Those older gays were in many ways more engaged with the world than my gay contemporaries and for the most part more engaging as well. The memory of good sex decades ago fades a bit but the memory of older gays who let me into their circles has not faded.

Waiting to complain about R72 never shutting the fuck up.

[R72] "club pulchritude" - I see that the first semester of INTRO to PROUST is paying off.

[quote]Complain that there is no good music, no good films, no good television. The Golden Age is now, there is brilliant music of all sorts, good films, fantastic TV, but you may have to look past the spoon-fed fare to find it.

Three examples of "brilliant music," please, r72. And what were your "good films" this year?

The dull broken claws on the arthritic Madonna hands of the eldergays are bared tonight r72

You had better flee before the hissing gets too loud....

Hiss

The constant undertone of Eldergays hissing can be very jarring.

Whaaaaa,

The constant undertone of hatching whining that the world has older versions of them self in it.

R82 When, exactly, have you ever seen a gay man "hiss"? That's flat-out homophobic, relying on movie-land stereotypes.

You don't actually see them. I've been hissed at in dark rooms.

Yeah, really, where did that Hiss thing come from, I don't know any gay men of any age that do that. Now that you say that R84 it really does seem like a homophobic slur young people like throwing around.

I think it has to do with the sibilant "S" that so many gay guys use in regular conversation. Get them using a bunch of "S" words like Mississippi, sassy, sissy, etc., and it sounds like a convention of puff adders. I can see the uninitiated likening it to hissing.

i hate it, like, when they, like, correct me for saying something dumb, like, whatevz, like y' know? It duznt matter what peopl say enymore and all this grammer this and that doeznt master cuz im smarts and no how express myself.

R87 When has this happened? Your movie and television characters? I'd think at my age, I would have seen this. But the only time I've heard sibilant "s" is when someone's wearing braces - including invisaligns.

Same here, r89. Super sibilance is a recording issue, not a speaking issue.

[quote][R87] When has this happened? Your movie and television characters? I'd think at my age, I would have seen this. But the only time I've heard sibilant "s" is when someone's wearing braces - including invisaligns.

Granted, it's not as common as it once was, but there was a time not all that long ago when the sibilant "S" was affected by a huge number of gay guys. For an example, you need to look no further than an old film clip of Paul Lynde.

Insist that every guy under the age of 25 desperately wants to have sex with them, even when confronted with the reality that 98% of gay guys don't want to fuck with someone old enough to be their father or grandfather.