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    #11
    Originally posted by WKnight
    What will this mean to IT contractors? A generation that understands computers will take-over instead of one that preferred quill pens and paper. Things can only get better? Right?
    Wrong.

    Quill pens were Shakespeare's medium, and they worked for him.

    We preferred pencils and coding sheets. With these tools, our generation made the programs that made possible a Moon landing, computerised banking, and Air Traffic Control. Some of them are still in use.

    Things can get worse than that. They have.

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      #12
      Originally posted by wendigo100
      We didn't need plumbers when we shat out of our windows onto the street. Now - notwithstanding those who are good at DIY - we can't do without them. Plumbers that is. It's one of the biggest industries in the world.
      Exactly and what good has it done us! I for one am sick of this nanny state interfering with my defecatory habits and would welcome a return to arse-oot-the-windae sanitary solutions.

      THe prospect has really cheered me up this afternoon - must be years since I laid a log from an upper storey!

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        #13
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        Nope.

        10 years too late.

        Close though.
        So you were born in the 1960s ?

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          #14
          Originally posted by Lucy
          So you were born in the 1960s ?
          Hatched, he's a lizard.

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            #15
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            50s

            Could be right at the end of the baby boom...
            I thought baby boomers were until 1957

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              #16
              Originally posted by Lucy
              I thought baby boomers were until 1957
              1964 - after that you are generation x I believe until sometime in the eighties;

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                #17
                What? People going around blowing up babies?

                It's disgusting

                You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by zeitghost
                  Here's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.
                  Can you get another hobby?

                  Gardening is more healthy than dragging up old threads.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    Here's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.
                    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-history.html
                    http://www.cih.org/news-article/disp...housing_market

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                      #20
                      Characteristics of Baby Boomer workers

                      Values

                      Individual choice
                      Community involvement
                      Prosperity
                      Ownership
                      Self-actualizing
                      Health and wellness
                      Attributes

                      Adaptive
                      Goal-oriented
                      Focus on individual choices and freedom
                      Adaptive to a diverse workplace
                      Positive attitude
                      Work styles

                      Confidence in tasks
                      Emphasize team-building
                      Seek collaborative, group decision making
                      Avoid conflict


                      Just for a bit of balance. If Paxman and the rest of his Metropolitan Elite wish to feel guilty about their contribution to society then so be it.
                      But he doesn't speak on MY behalf, nor for most of my peers.
                      Sanctimonious twat!!

                      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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