Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

ruggedtoast

westernpromise wrote: »

In a packed field, this may be the stupidest and nastiest steaming pile of bilious envy toastie has ever excreted.

Why don't you just form an "Expropriate and Gas the Old Filth" party?

Why don't you offer to pay for your starter?

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I prefer to lunch alone. Thank you.

making a virtual out of necessity ?

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

And do you live in a shared rented house now?

No because I worked and saved for 25 years.

ruggedtoast wrote: »

No. That's the difference.

No, the difference is:

• I worked from the day I left school, I didn't take a Gap Year to go enjoying myself holidaying around the world for a whole year.
• I didn't go binge drinking every weekend spending most of the previous week's wages.
• I didn't have a new car on finance but instead was content with a £200 rust bucket for many years.
• I didn't spend £500+ a year on the latest iPhone.
• I didn't spend £500+ a year on a Sky subscription.
• I didn't waste my money by only buying brand name clothes.
• I didn't start taking annual overseas holidays until I was in my 30s.
• For 15 of those 25 years I regularly worked 100 hour weeks.
• My first house was an old two up two down terrace with no central heating, no double glazing and no cooker; not a swanky new build with brand new appliances.

That's the difference between me and too many of your generation; your sense of entitlement. You see me with my big house and fancy cars and completely disregard that I worked every hour there was and did without so many things to get to where I am today. For unknown reasons you seem to think you are entitled to the niceties in life right now without putting in all that effort for 25 years...

MobileSaver

MobileSaver wrote: »

like so many younger people you just want everything now.

mwpt wrote: »

Exhibiting the very prevalent trait here where it is ok to label and entire generation. Remember, you guys raised this generation.

Well, no, you missed the "so many" in my post. There are a lot of people like Rugged who have this dreadful sense of Entitlement but not all, so not an entire generation.

And, no, I didn't raise this generation but, yes, I agree that the parents do have to take some responsibility for their kids ending up like they did.

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

No because I worked and saved for 25 years.



No, the difference is:

• I worked from the day I left school, I didn't take a Gap Year to go enjoying myself holidaying around the world for a whole year.
• I didn't go binge drinking every weekend spending most of the previous week's wages.
• I didn't have a new car on finance but instead was content with a £200 rust bucket for many years.
• I didn't spend £500+ a year on the latest iPhone.
• I didn't spend £500+ a year on a Sky subscription.
• I didn't waste my money by only buying brand name clothes.
• I didn't start taking annual overseas holidays until I was in my 30s.
• For 15 of those 25 years I regularly worked 100 hour weeks.
• My first house was an old two up two down terrace with no central heating, no double glazing and no cooker; not a swanky new build with brand new appliances.

That's the difference between me and too many of your generation; your sense of entitlement. You see me with my big house and fancy cars and completely disregard that I worked every hour there was and did without so many things to get to where I am today. For unknown reasons you seem to think you are entitled to the niceties in life right now without putting in all that effort for 25 years...

News flash. Pretty much everyone works from the day they leave school. You presumably think further and higher education is a complete doss though, albeit one that costs about £12k a year of young people's own money now.

Otherwise, yeah, iPhones, foreign holidays, new build houses. What ridiculous stereotypes. Presumably you take your opinions of the young from TOWIE, or you spend too much time on Instagram.

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

News flash. Pretty much everyone works from the day they leave school.

That would be pretty much everyone apart from the 2.5 million young people in the UK planning a gap year?

http://theleap.co.uk/gap-year-statistics-broaden-mind/

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Otherwise, yeah, iPhones, foreign holidays, new build houses. What ridiculous stereotypes.

Ridiculous stereotypes? So young people don't do any of those things then?

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

News flash. Pretty much everyone works from the day they leave school. You presumably think further and higher education is a complete doss though, albeit one that costs about £12k a year of young people's own money now.

Otherwise, yeah, iPhones, foreign holidays, new build houses. What ridiculous stereotypes. Presumably you take your opinions of the young from TOWIE, or you spend too much time on Instagram.

At least you had a chance of higher education I wonder how you would feel if you were one of the 75% consigned to secondary education at the age of 11 reducing your chance of going to university to almost zero and then receiving a poor education compared to today's standards.

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

That would be pretty much everyone apart from the 2.5 million young people in the UK planning a gap year?

http://theleap.co.uk/gap-year-statistics-broaden-mind/



Ridiculous stereotypes? So young people don't do any of those things then?

2.5 million young people.

Gosh. Well thats quite a statistic considering there are less than 800,000 18 year olds in the entire country and universities last year only made 500,000 offers.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/articles/overviewoftheukpopulation/february2016

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

At least you had a chance of higher education I wonder how you would feel if you were one of the 75% consigned to secondary education at the age of 11 reducing your chance of going to university to almost zero and then receiving a poor education compared to today's standards.

I probably wouldn't care because depsite working in a factory packing punnets for 30 years I would have ended up with a £650k house, two cars in the drive way and a yearly foreign holiday anyway on top of my generous pensions, winter fuel payments, free tv licenses and bus passes.

Its when you spend four years in HE, take on £40k of debt work for 30 years and still end up in a rented flat without a brass farthing and having never had children because you could never afford them, that people start to get ornery.

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

2.5 million young people.

Gosh. Well thats quite a statistic considering there are less than 800,000 18 year olds in the entire country

Oh please! How desperate are you becoming to try to argue "young people" can only mean "18 year olds"?!?!?