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    Baby boomers?

    Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

    Anyone else feel this way?
    http://www.cih.org/news-article/disp...housing_market

    #2
    You really want a fight don't you?


    There are some baby boomers on this board.* Not everyone in IT is young as the industry started long before there were Computer Science degrees.

    In fact the oldest IT workers I know are in their 70s and aren't all male........


    *I'm not one by the way.
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #3
      Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
      Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

      Anyone else feel this way?
      At least they learnt some basic literacy skills.
      The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

      George Frederic Watts

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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        #4
        Originally posted by speling bee View Post
        At least they learnt some basic literacy skills.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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          #5
          Maybe you should elaborate before we comment but I find much criticism is due to ignorance.

          For example, one often sees the assertion that we all got cheap student grants and tuition fees. Look at the facts and you find, that in my day, only the high achievers at A level got a university place at all and most of us got good jobs as a result. Now more than ten times as many go on to higher education and many do pointless courses that are of no benefit to themselves or society. Many do not earn enough extra to make the time spent worthwhile and have contributed 3 years less to their pension pot. High student fees are a result of idiotic socialist ideas, not a result of past spending on baby boomers.

          Many now recently retired also do an enormous amount of voluntary work. They not only save on council spending by doing stuff like footpath repairs, helping the disabled or really elderly but are the main workforce for organisations like the National trust and English Heritage, which play a major part in attracting billions worth of tourism to the UK.

          Mind you, if you consider some of our ghastly past and present politicians are baby boomers you may have a point. although the errors began long before that. The real idiocy began with Lloyd George.
          Last edited by xoggoth; 22 June 2014, 18:47.
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Maybe you should elaborate before we comment but I find much criticism is due to ignorance.

            For example, one often sees the assertion that we all got cheap student grants and tuition fees. Look at the facts and you find, that in my day, only the high achievers at A level got a university place at all and most of us got good jobs as a result. Now more than ten times as many go on to higher education and many do pointless courses that are of no benefit to themselves or society. Many do not earn enough extra to make the time spent worthwhile and have contributed 3 years less to their pension pot. High student fees are a result of idiotic socialist ideas, not a result of past spending on baby boomers.

            Many now recently retired also do an enormous amount of voluntary work. They not only save on council spending by doing stuff like footpath repairs, helping the disabled or really elderly but are the main workforce for organisations like the National trust and English Heritage, which play a major part in attracting billions worth of tourism to the UK.

            Mind you, if you consider some of our ghastly past and present politicians are baby boomers you may have a point. although the errors began long before that. The real idiocy began with Lloyd George.
            I blame Vortigern.
            The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

            George Frederic Watts

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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              #7
              Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
              Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

              Anyone else feel this way?
              Well each to his own.

              Personally I couldn't give a toss - everyone who lives here is to blame.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #8
                My assertion is that we are, today, in this state; largely due to boomers... And the country is in a mess.
                http://www.cih.org/news-article/disp...housing_market

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
                  My assertion is that we are, today, in this state; largely due to boomers... And the country is in a mess.
                  But you are a twat, so that is the assertion of a twat.
                  The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.

                  George Frederic Watts

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_Park

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by cojak View Post
                    Well each to his own.

                    Personally I couldn't give a toss - everyone who lives here is to blame.
                    And those that don't live there must be blameless? I win

                    On the day the EU is devolved who will the UK blame for its failings?
                    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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