Is age sometimes wasted on the old? Your answers

Karen Lynn Gorney and John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever — Much to answer for ... Karen Lynn Gorney and John Travolta do disco in Saturday Night Fever. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

Is age sometimes wasted on the old?

Always! The corollary, of course, is that “youth is wasted on the young!” but I’m afraid, even in this age of reducing waste, the young will not tolerate recycling from the old!
Cameron Grant, Nailsworth, South Australia

• A cursory glance in most nursing homes would suggest it’s given appropriate weight.
Louis Robertson, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

• Old age is not wasted, it is endured.
Robert Wilmot, Barongarook, Victoria, Australia

• Yes, and youth is sometimes wasted on the young.
Claire Sephton, London, UK

• If old age is wasted on me I’d happily return it from whence it came.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Most old things eventually turn into waste – except for good wines.
Edward P Wolfers, Austinmer, NSW, Australia

• Well they do say an old head on young shoulders, but not many young men want a bald head and dodgy teeth.
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia

• Other than someone who is 90, who wants to be 86?
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Step away from the glitterball

What is the most regressive step ever taken by a generation?

The goose step.
Anthony Walter, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

• Some in my parents’ generation would say that “the most regressive step” was their spawning my generation.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US

• Attempting to go back and return to an imaginary Land of Hope and Glory – Brexit surely takes the cake for reversionary political and economic folly, even viewed from a far-off former colony.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills , Victoria, Australia

• Homo sapiens leaving Africa. They should have stayed where they were and left the rest of the planet pristine.
Rhys Winterburn, Perth, Western Australia

• One word: disco.
David Dickinson, Auckland, New Zealand

• The Texas Travelling Cha-Cha.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado US