Why the baby boomers shouldn't feel guilty

JonnyBravo

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Its a shame you can't share my sense of punctuation.

Anyway, no, I am not sharing with you my place and date of birth, parental occupation and income, and where I grew up.

Oddly enough.

Ah squirming nicely.
You are, of course, more than aware he's not asking for identifiable information. You just don't want to go to the trouble of thinking up a convincing enough back story (perhaps partly true but it would need embellishment?) and typing it up.

ruggedtoast wrote: »

You are of course correct that black mold can be washed off of walls, however if you are trying to heat a floor with one paraffin heater, and have single glazing which loses so much heat in winter that you have to tape plastic over it to stop the draft; it does tend to come back again.

I only ever lived in a house with single glazing until I was 16 and then only a few rooms double glazed til I was 28. I'm sure that doesn't mean you have to have mould. I know this for a fact.

ukcarper

suburbanwifey wrote: »

They get that much after their rent is paid? Hell, no wonder they are workshy getting all that to sit at home and do nothing! :mad: That's where all our tax and NIC deductions go then is it :mad: wow! they have it so good don't they!

That does include £108 child tax credit and £33 child benefit which they would still get if they were in a low paid job.

StevieJ

It is interesting that Rugged claims poverty in childhood, this is most unusual as nearly all intergenerational whingers that I have encountered have fairly well off parents. It is not easy claiming that BB's were the golden generation when your own parents were skint

ukcarper

Somebody born in 1970 would be 25 in the mid 90s just in time to take advantage of the lowest house prices in relation to earnings since the war.

ruggedtoast

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Ah squirming nicely.
You are, of course, more than aware he's not asking for identifiable information. You just don't want to go to the trouble of thinking up a convincing enough back story (perhaps partly true but it would need embellishment?) and typing it up.



I only ever lived in a house with single glazing until I was 16 and then only a few rooms double glazed til I was 28. I'm sure that doesn't mean you have to have mould. I know this for a fact.

I don't think I really need to create a back story to please you. You can either believe what I told you, or not. If I cared more about you or Clapton believing me I would write more, but I don't so I'm not.

Mathematically, there were plenty of people born before the end of the war who were still young in 1970.

Even someone born in 1930 would only have been 40 years old when Generation X began.

StevieJ

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I don't think I really need to create a back story to please you. You can either believe what I told you, or not. If I cared more about you or Clapton believing me I would write more, but I don't so I'm not.

Mathematically, there were plenty of people born before the end of the war who were still young in 1970.

Even someone born in 1930 would only have been 40 years old when Generation X began .

Interesting but what is the relevance? unless you are saying that your parents predated BB and were from the heroic generation.

Graham_Devon

OK, so it seems boomers had it worse.

Despite all evidence. They just did.

So thread is over, bar the insults, I guess.

ILW

Graham_Devon wrote: »

OK, so it seems boomers had it worse.

Despite all evidence. They just did.

So thread is over, bar the insults, I guess.

Some things were worse, others were better. Probably about equals out overall. Don't think the boomers complained as much though.

StevieJ

Graham_Devon wrote: »

OK, so it seems boomers had it worse.

Despite all evidence. They just did.

So thread is over, bar the insults, I guess.

Nothing to do with worse or better, more the inference that 60 year old Jack or Jill down the road have been stealing from Billy idols mob.

ruggedtoast

StevieJ wrote: »

Interesting but what is the relevance? unless you are saying that your parents predated BB and were from the heroic generation.

I've lost interest in debating with you now the ad hominem attacks have started, but you may want to look up generational theory, and particularly the 'silent generation' in the eventuality you want to learn something.