Over-55s have a financial 'annus horribilis'

wymondham

ruggedtoast wrote: »

What codswallop, what poppyc0ck, what blathering boomer balderdash.

You bought a house? Yes you did, an activity which you've thoroughly pulled the ladder up on for the younger generations.

No uni debt? No not really, you need a degree to get a temp job filing in this brave new world.

Forty four years paying for a pension? We're all paying for flipping pensions, the only difference is that after paying for yours there probably won't be one after that.

Oh yes, I know you were born in a tin bath and had rocks to eat. Thats the thing about boomers claiming poverty isnt it; it was like the French Resistance the day after VE day, the entire population of France claimed to have been a member.

Because no one at all is born into poverty now!

oh dear, you really are stamping your feet...... People who have purchased in the last 2 or 3 years have been directly responsible for raising prices, as they have been willing to pay the inflated prices.....

atush

RenovationMan wrote: »

Out of interest, does anyone know any baby boomers who have University Degrees?

I always thought Uni was more elitist in those days, and certainly there were less Univeristies to choose from. It seems the people who benefitted weren't the working classes that seem to be geting the stick on here, but the toffs who went to Grammar schools. I'm happy to be corrected though.

I am married to one. Who got into the local grammar via the 11+, and has a uni degree. First in his family from what I know. He wasn't a toff. Grammars back then were merit based. Toffs go to public school

ruggedtoast

2010 wrote: »

I agree, of course you can but some people today (ruggedtoast for instance) don`t want to make it happen but want others to make it happen for them.

Instead of doing it, they look green with envy at those who have, in their own small way, made it happen.
They seem to think someone came along and said "here`s a house", "here`s a job", "here`s a new car".
They don`t think people have worked for what bits they have.
They only whinge "it was easy to do it then".
Today`s generation have never had more and never had it easier but they just can`t see it.
They think the world owes them something for nothing and everything should be handed to them on a plate NOW.

Do you have any evidence at all for all these a priori assumptions, or do they all just come cut and pasted from your copy of this years edition of "Big Book of Self Entitled Prejudices Commonly Held by the Over 50s"?

oldvicar

Do the under 55's understand the meaning of the term annus horribilis?

Unless they have had a privileged education they probably didn't bother learning 'dead' languages.

For the over 55's it was almost a sine qua non for admission to a decent Uni(versity).

yorkshirekev

oldvicar wrote: »

Do the under 55's understand the meaning of the term annus horribilis?

Unless they have had a privileged education they probably didn't bother learning 'dead' languages.

For the over 55's it was almost a sine qua non for admission to a decent Uni(versity).

I imagine most people remember the phrase from when the Queen said it, the year of the Windsor Castle fire. That is where I remember it from and I was at school at the time/

Davesnave

Unless they have had a privileged education they probably didn't bother learning 'dead' languages.

I'm afraid I learned more latin in horticulture than I did translating nonsense like, "We shall lay waste the lands of the barbarians with our spears and arrows."

At a time when I was a member of CND, some of the the language from Ancient Rome seemed particularly inappropriate! :rotfl:

Itismehonest

Your starter for 10.

During which period of the 20th century did the Status Quo rock the the status quo ante?