Do the elders laugh at the yoof

ruggedtoast

How is the house buying going Floridaman, have they seen things your way yet?

GeorgeHowell

The older generation has no right to laugh. It is far too many of them who brought up their children without an adequate sense of reward for effort. It is they who tolerated governments who screwed up the state education so badly, on ideological grounds. It is they who tolerated governments that perpetrated out of control state welfare, placing such a tax and debt burden on the working population. It is they who tolerated governments responsible for encouraging increasing the population so that land and property has become so expensive.

The older generation has nothing to laugh about.

floridaman

I just can't believe they (boomers) git away with it. They must be laughing at us. It's a disgrace.

Aberdeenangarse

MrRee wrote: »

Most of all we laugh because the young ask daft questions on forums like this

Most of all we laugh because you can't remember what you've posted and who you are! :rotfl:

Aberdeenangarse

floridaman wrote: »

I just can't believe they (boomers) git away with it.

They git away with it big time

Norman_Castle

floridaman wrote: »

I just can't believe they (boomers) git away with it. They must be laughing at us. It's a disgrace.

I can't believe you've got a degree as most of your posts are semi illiterate.

Didn't you start a near identical thread a few weeks ago?.

PaulF81

They won't be laughing once the yoof get into power and introduce Logan's run for the over 70s

GeorgeHowell

I suspect that the "git" was an attempted play on words -- remember the Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse's sketches ?

I suspect also that most of the types who relentlessly post all this ageist garbage are lefties. In the dog-in-a-manger world that they inhabit the 'haves' are always fair game to be attacked for having the temerity to have the advantage over the have not/do nothings. It's a variation on class warfare. The older generation who own property and have assets are automatically labelled as bourgoisie by the left and are therefore the enemy.

Of course I don't see a lot of this leftie claptrap because I have the main proponents on the ignore setting.

Thrugelmir

Jason74 wrote: »

Largely true. 40 years ago, a young person with no history of family wealth had every opportunity to accumulate wealth and security through their own efforts. Now, that privellidge is more or less reserved for those young people who already have wealth in the family. The ability for a young person to build assets and wealth purely from their own income is serverely limited in a way that it hasn't been at any point in the last 50 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .so much for progress.

Never recall people being obsessed with BTL.

What many people lack today is the desire to commit to 10 years hard work to create something from nothing. There's no secret to success.

floridaman

I post from my iphone - it sometimes auto selects words - the oldies wouldn't understand.