I'm beginning to feel paranoid .......

thorsoak

**Patty** wrote: »

And fwiw....Thorsy, i never think of you as old.......but i promise i won't tell the forum about those tartan pompom slippers you bought on ebay last week......No really i won't.



Oooopps.:o Runs>>>>>>>>>>>>

As long as the winceyette nighties remain our secret :eek:

**Patty**

thorsoak wrote: »

As long as the winceyette nighties remain our secret :eek:

OMG...new thread>>>>>:rotfl::rotfl:

HeatherintheHills

thorsoak wrote: »

We're the generation that grew up under the threat of the H-Bomb - unless you were a teenager/young person when the Cuban missile threat was less than 24 hours away, you don't know the meaning of fear of the end of the world and desparation - and from my experience of the younger (here I mean teenagers/early 20s people) they have every bit as much enthusiasm for life as we had - they'll reach their goals .....its the goals/aspirations of the generation born in the 80s that I have concerns about - Maggie's kids.

Gawd yes! A complete absence of social conscience was the order of the day. Now THAT is the the generation to be frightened of.

Fatballs, there is no point trying to discuss anything with you. You are too busy benefiting from everything your baby boomer parents/grandparents did for you while blaming them for the wrongs of current society.

Good luck to you. One thing life has taught me is that nobody likes a moaner.

FATBALLZ

HeatherintheHills wrote: »

Good luck to you. One thing life has taught me is that nobody likes a moaner.

Interesting that this post was thanked by the person who started the thread with the intention of moaning about me :rotfl: Maybe they've seen the light

Oh and btw I was born in the 80s, what did I do?? (Apart from pay too much for housing )

thorsoak

Fatballz - before you go - perhaps you would care to peruse the paper prepared by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research entitled "Policies in Britain in the 1970s on Mortgage Lending, House Prices and Mortgage Interest Rates: An Episode of Intervention Worth Remembering?" by A E Holmans (http://www.york.ac.uk/chp/hsa/papers/spring06/holmans06.pdf
)

It makes interesting reading ....

And by the way - I didn't start this thread to moan - just to highlight the dangers of making sweeping statements.

January20

thorsoak wrote: »

We're the generation that grew up under the threat of the H-Bomb - unless you were a teenager/young person when the Cuban missile threat was less than 24 hours away, you don't know the meaning of fear of the end of the world and desparation - and from my experience of the younger (here I mean teenagers/early 20s people) they have every bit as much enthusiasm for life as we had - they'll reach their goals .....its the goals/aspirations of the generation born in the 80s that I have concerns about - Maggie's kids.

My friend says that as well. It was unreal for me the first time she told me about being at school and actually expecting to be bombed. The fear of an atomic attack was very real and the children were quite aware of the situation. It's really difficult to comprehend that as a kid or teenager, you were going to school not sure you'd still be alive in the evening!

HeatherintheHills

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Interesting that this post was thanked by the person who started the thread with the intention of moaning about me :rotfl: Maybe they've seen the light

Oh and btw I was born in the 80s, what did I do?? (Apart from pay too much for housing )

I was born in the 1950s. Pure accident of birth What did I do? (Apart from survive 2 recessions and am now battling with my 3rd)

Seriously, the boomers you are talking about are literally a dying breed. Those of us coming up to retirement now are mostly hanging on by our finger nails and will really struggle. Even those of us who tried to plan, save and prepare for their own futures. You cannot predict the course of your life. There are too many things beyond our control.

One day your generation will be held to account in just the same way, so please stop blaming older people for the ills of the world.

Or we will disinherit you.

thorsoak

January20 wrote: »

My friend says that as well. It was unreal for me the first time she told me about being at school and actually expecting to be bombed. The fear of an atomic attack was very real and the children were quite aware of the situation. It's really difficult to comprehend that as a kid or teenager, you were going to school not sure you'd still be alive in the evening!

We didn't just expect to be bombed - we expected to be annhilated! That day, I left work as early as I could, my OH (then my fiancee) caught the train down from London where he was working and we .:o.....became lovers for the first time ....because we didn't think we'd live until our wedding day :D

Spendless

I think it's very easy to focus on what used to be available that sounded/was great and is no longer whilst forgetting/not realising any hardships that that time period had.

Until the current recession(s) there hadn't been one since the early 1990s. I was an adult then, but unless you were or a very 'aware' /older child how would you know how rubbish they are to live through? I was a child in the 1970s so I'm aware it wasn't an affluent time, my kids roll about laughing about about my talk of 3 tv channels and no landline phone, but I don't remember the power cuts or inflation.

It's not that long ago that there was no subsidised childcare in any form and very little available. Friends/relatives and neighbours helped out instead if they were able to. My 88yo Grandmother was a teenager when rationing started and 30 when it stopped.

I bought a house in the mid 90s. Dec 94 to be precise. Within a year it was in negative equity and remained so for the next 7 years.

LadyMorticia

It's the same with every type of person - you're going to get the rude ones and you're going to get the polite ones.

I don't think it's fair to tar certain people with the same brush either but people see MSE as a venting ground and when you vent, you don't tend to take into consideration everything.