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Resentment of this generation
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Anyway what have the Romans ever done for us....?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
it really is ironic - if we don't look forward and look back blaming everyone else you'll probably walk into a lamp post.lemonjelly wrote: »
Isn't it funny how everyone is so hard done by? Every generation had their lot ruined by the previous one/two?
Someone recently posted a thread asking who the winners will be. If you read this thread, the answer is clearly - nobody, as some f***er ruined it for everybody!
forget or just deal with the problems and get on with it.
are Wolves officially the best run club in the Midlands now?0 -
Would any of the current batch of whingers really like to live a standard 70s lifestyle?0
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lemonjelly wrote: »I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies, but it seems to me that every generation will blame another, or someone else for the problems they face.
That will do nothing to address the problems faced.
Recent generations probably blamed their forebears. And so on.
Blaming others & refusing to take responsibility is what got us into this mess. It is unlikely to get us out of it.
We're all human. We all make mistakes.
Lets move on eh?
The previous generations do not believe they have made any mistakes though it seems. They think that the deserve the price increase in the house they are in. Makes me laugh watching these home programs on tv, they genuinely believe that putting creme carpets and magnolia paint in the houses is why they made money on them. In most cases they could have set the rooms on fire and they wouldn't have lost money.0 -
I'm glad I got my house at aged 19 for £20k.It's now worth around £170k, so will kind of be my pension, so I can go travelling as planned in a few years:D
I do feel sorry for young people trying to get on the property ladder.My DD and her bf have to pay an etortionate amount of rent to live in a house smaller than mine:o:o"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
(Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D0 -
Would any of the current batch of whingers really like to live a standard 70s lifestyle?
I dont want to live in a society where by all someone had to do was buy a house at the right time and that is the difference between financial security and not. Surely there has to be more merit involved than that?0 -
Would any of the current batch of whingers really like to live a standard 70s lifestyle?
Well you did have many of the classic Brit comedies such as Carry On and On the Buses to cheer you up back then.
Good old Sid and Reg.
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I'm glad I got my house at aged 19 for £20k.It's now worth around £170k, so will kind of be my pension, so I can go travelling as planned in a few years:D
I do feel sorry for young people trying to get on the property ladder.My DD and her bf have to pay an etortionate amount of rent to live in a house smaller than mine:o:o
Its sort of the same kind of smugness as when someone tells everyone their parents are rich, even tho it just makes every think they did nowt to deserve it themselves, yet people still brag knowing people will think this.
Confusing.0 -
I dont want to live in a society where by all someone had to do was buy a house at the right time and that is the difference between financial security and not. Surely there has to be more merit involved than that?
Don't worry, it will probably happen again. It,s all a matter of timing and luck really.0 -
Would any of the current batch of whingers really like to live a standard 70s lifestyle?
No ipods/iphones, rubbish size TVs, no holidays abroad and a home for my future wife and children.
Sounds fine to me, where is Doc Brown when I need him?Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
Started third business 25/06/2016
Son born 13/09/2015
Started a second business 03/08/2013
Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/20120
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