Calling a spade a spade

Your post Inspired me to reconsider the recent pioneering change to simplify the CC's message to seem more inclusive.

I decided to not do so lest it be deemed off topic and the thread closed either without comment as seems currently in vogue or with a link to 'The same Club, just better...'

About the spade thing I believe there are some folks who go further and call it an ******* shovel!  But I won't go so far as to mention which county I think  many of those come from!  What's wrong with OAP?   I am quite happy there!!  It's the PC thing gone mad isn't it!  Personally I don't like "seniors"  call me a recycled teenager .  

Domestic Engineer instead of housewife and many more that I can't think of this early, It is so annoying watching a quiz show and hear them say something sounding so posh ending in operative to find they are cleaners, cooks, shelf stackers, there is nothing wrong with the work or workers, but as you say call a spade a spade.

MIL has a weekly visit on Wednesday afternoons to help out at a gathering of mostly OAPs. It's held in a centre now known as The Community Centre but everyone still calls it the "Darby and Joan Club"

My OH has a weekly visit at the moment to the Chiropractor- how about The legal assault clinic! 

Don't  really  mind  being  called  an  O A P,  but  I'm  not  quite  sure  if  "Concession"  is  quite  polite 

The Americans never cease to amaze me at their ability to mangle the English language or find new ways, usually longer, to say simple things.

For example Alternative Facts or Post Truth. A four letter word springs to mind, Lies.

I once worked with someone who went to weightwatchers yet never seemed to slim down, her attitude was  - well I am watching it!

There's many O A Ps I have come across who are more like the oldest swingers in town type ....just never grow up senior citizen would definatly not suit them 🤔😎😉

I am not officially an OAP yet, as I don't get my state pension until later this year. However, I am old and get a pension, so I guess the name fits. The only time it seems to have any significance is with discounts, most give it for over 60 ( senior citizens)  A few for over 65 (OAP discount)