UK News 27-08-2002 who: MORI Social Research Institute what: Says middle-aged people are dissatisfied with life when: Yesterday snippet: The optimistic yuppies of the Eighties have become this decade`s "GRUMPS (Grouchy, Resentful, Undervalued, Middle-aged Persons)," says The Scotsman. Elsewhere, the paper reports on a survey in which Sooty polled higher than The Queen as preferred head of state. Meanwhile, The Times shudders at what it calls "vulgarity of Falstaffian proportions" after a Science Museum survey reveals 60% of us pick our noses more than five times a day, amongst other even more disturbing statistics. [... more]

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