It seems to me that this reality TV thing is starting to get a bit out of hand. Most of these programmes, especially Big Brother seem to be centred upon people in their 20’s who’ve obviously been to some sort of ‘Want to be a Celeb’ School and are quite prepared to spend 4 weeks of their life looking total Prats !

You see, that’s the way that some of us ‘more maturer in years’ types think about them. So why not turn the table and let some of the youngsters see that us older one’s are quite capable of looking Prats ourselves ? We wouldn’t be of course, that would be their perception of it.

Just think of some scenario’s; when Arnold is asked what all the female grunting, sighing and groaning was when the lights were out, everyone would think he was spinning a yarn by saying Edith has a dodgy knee and gets night cramps. Mind you, be a good excuse wouldn’t it!
Then there’s all the walking about for ‘natural purposes’ us older blokes do in the middle of the night – they’d wonder what on earth we were up to.

I think Big Brother should certainly look into a Seniors edition and whilst they’re about it, why not ‘I’m a Pensioner, get me out of here’. But rather than being filmed in the Jungle, it could be done in the Post Office saving countless amounts of money

All us ‘old people’ seem to get on TV is ‘The Antiques Roadshow’, ‘Songs of Praise’ and ‘C Beebies’. I appreciate that most TV Companies and Advertising Guru’s think there isn’t much of an ad market in us, but there is.
Rather than the programmes being sponsored by the likes of some Healthy Yogurt, they could be sponsored by Steradent, Simply Knitting Magazine or some Clothing Comany who sell those Gaberdene Jackets we’re all supposed to get for a 60th. Birthday present.

TV seems to take many people over the age of about 60 out of their programming equation. What a lot of them don’t realise is that it’s case of ‘been there, done that, got the t-shirt’. These youngsters can’t teach us much about anything.
Get them around for a good honest chat about experiences and we’d probably shock them so much, they’d land somewhere in the middle of Belgium.

Speaking of Belgium, did you know they have to enter one Flemish song and one French song on alternate years in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Nothing like a bit of good old PC is there !

Stereotyping, don’t you just love. I remind you of the story when I went into a large Computer Store and happened to see a book entitles ‘Computing for Seniors’. I thought I’d have a quick glance.
It turned out it was just a straight forward normal type informative book – but it was in large type !