Sometime civil servant, public health. Too many interests, too many unread books: history of art, complex systems, various areas of science & public policy.
@RaminNasibov The grandmother of someone who lived in my lifetime (Bertrand Russell, the philosopher) knew Bonnie Prince Charlie's wife. Charlie led the Jacobite rising in 1745.
@MartinSLewis@AnthropicAI Not a workplace but it omits the category 'retired old folk using AI to try to understand what on earth younger people are talking about'!
@simongerman600 Don't we need to know the age range of the sample(s). Those of us in our 70s had Bob Dylan & the Beatles when we were 13 or 14, so of course we still loooove the music π
@thomasforth I misunderstood your question. But my answer would be - Listen like a grandfather concerned as to how your grandchildren will travel to university in Liverpool or Manchester on the brand new trains just coming into service.
@SammyObeid Scottish, lapsed Church of Scotland & only brown after holiday in the Mediterranean - I and everyone of my generation called older people in the family, including my mother's cousin, aunt or uncle!
@SCynic1@AudreySuffolk@metpoliceuk I don't understand his fourth paragraph about police being put 'between a rock and a hard place'. Don't police, at all levels, have to (and do) make judgements about priorities? Some crimes, however much the law says they should be followed up, are not.