So how much did it cost...

Graham_Devon

ash28 wrote: »

Have you ever done a verbal reasoning assessment?

Where you have to demonstrate the ability to understand, analyse and interpret written information accurately.

Just wondered.

"were not insulting anyone"

ash28

Graham_Devon wrote: »

"were not insulting anyone"

Apologies.....

GeorgeHowell

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oh I see, you're upset because you're a boomer, and most of the world at the moment is calling you part of the "selfish generation".

That must really irk you.

What a shame.

'Agitprop' was a good word to describe this poster that someone used earlier. The above post is a true colours job and demonstrates that winding up is the prime if not the sole purpose. This kind of individual usually reverts to type like this sooner or later.

Of course 'most of the world' is not doing anything of the kind. It's a part of the left-wing element in the world that is doing so. Classic socialist (or Marxist) politics-of-envy tactics is to label anyone who is better off than anyone else in any way as "selfish".

Young people who know which end is up realise that they are living in difficult times, appreciate the help that many of them therefore get from the "selfish" generation, and set about making the effort to forge a decent life for themselves. Others sit back and moan, seek futile comfort in alcohol and excessive consumerism, find someone else to blame for all their shortcomings, and post thinly disguised leftist propaganda on website forums.

RenovationMan

ukcarper wrote: »

He may well be but it this case he is 100% right.

Indeed, and if Devon stopped playing these games then I'd have nothing to pick up on. Simples.

NB: Did anyone notice how Devon didn't even apologise or acknowledge the way he twisted ukcarpers words. All he did was to try and deflect attention away from the point we both made. He is really rather good at forumnomics.

shortchanged_2

RenovationMan wrote: »

Indeed, and if Devon stopped playing these games then I'd have nothing to pick up on. Simples.

This is exactly what you do Renoman, so it's definitely a case of pot and kettle.

You are very adept at twisting and deflecting a discussion. So until you stop doing it yourself I suggest you don't accuse others of doing it.

RenovationMan

DervProf wrote: »

With himself, as well as you ?

Says the man whose last seven posts consist of 3 posts attacking me and 2 posts attacking Hamish (someone else he is fixated on). What an astonishing lack of self awareness!

What do Hamish and myself have in common? We are both doing better financially than DervProf (his words not mine). Deary me, if his finances bother him so much he should get a better job or learn to manage his finances better!

ukcarper

shortchanged wrote: »

This is exactly what you do Renoman, so it's definitely a case of pot and kettle.

You are very adept at twisting and deflecting a discussion. So until you stop doing it yourself I suggest you don't accuse others of doing it.

I don't so why did he twist what I said. I have no vested interest but some people seem obsessed by house prices and can't see the real problems facing people. It's no good house prices falling if the only job you can get is 20 hrs stacking shelves.

ruggedtoast

GeorgeHowell wrote: »

'Agitprop' was a good word to describe this poster that someone used earlier. The above post is a true colours job and demonstrates that winding up is the prime if not the sole purpose. This kind of individual usually reverts to type like this sooner or later.

Of course 'most of the world' is not doing anything of the kind. It's a part of the left-wing element in the world that is doing so. Classic socialist (or Marxist) politics-of-envy tactics is to label anyone who is better off than anyone else in any way as "selfish".

Young people who know which end is up realise that they are living in difficult times, appreciate the help that many of them therefore get from the "selfish" generation, and set about making the effort to forge a decent life for themselves. Others sit back and moan, seek futile comfort in alcohol and excessive consumerism, find someone else to blame for all their shortcomings, and post thinly disguised leftist propaganda on website forums.

'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html


Baby bust? On average, young professionals will have accumulated £400,000 less in wealth than their parents by the time they turn 65


Never had it so good: Harold Macmillan at the height of his political career in 1957


Paxman


Some other boomers

RenovationMan

shortchanged wrote: »

This is exactly what you do Renoman, so it's definitely a case of pot and kettle.

You are very adept at twisting and deflecting a discussion. So until you stop doing it yourself I suggest you don't accuse others of doing it.

RenovationMan wrote: »

One last question for shortchanged.

Have you 'given up' completely and will now avoid me on the forum and not participate in any discussions with me or indeed make any sly digs at me that could end up in debate/discussion.

Or is your 'bye' just confined to this particular discussion and the difficult questions you refuse to answer?

I hope it is the former because otherwise people might start suggesting that you lost a discussion and flounced out of it, then returned in later discussions to get revenge, desperately hoping that people had forgotten about your drubbing here.

Shortchanged proving once again how much he is smarting from the previous forum drubbings I have handed out to him.:)

RenovationMan

ruggedtoast wrote: »

'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html

Thanks RT. A really interesting and informative article that really made me sit up. It takes me back to an earlier point that I made where you'd get your message across far better if you made it without all the hystrionics.

I'm changing my viewpoint on this. Thanks again for the info.