Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

TrickyTree83

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Sigh.



Hint. The UCAS figures are right, the Natwest ones are not.

That's not strictly true is it.

UCAS would give statistics relating to applicants.

There will be additional young people who do not even apply to UCAS at that particular given time who take 1, 2 or more years out before applying for and commencing their studies. At which point they would be considered applicants who have taken up the offer immediately, therefore they would never show up in the deferral statistics.

Cakeguts

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Ironically the scenario of the boomers arriving at the family Christmas in a Mercedes then handing round presents made of stuffed socks with googly eyes stuck on and craft hedgehogs from the charity fair to their younger relatives is rather apposite.

Which boomers?

Christmas presents had to be useful you didn't give someone something that they couldn't use because that wasted money that you didn't have. I don't know any retired people who have a Mercedes car. I know a lot of people who have old cars but not new ones. We are the only people I know who have a new car and that is only because of personal circumstances that have nothing to do with this thread and it isn't a Mercedes.

You also have no evidence that the imaginary Mercedes that you are talking about was bought with pension money it could quite easily have been bought with savings from a working life where you didn't spend money on all the things that people buy today.

MobileSaver

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Sigh.

Hint. The UCAS figures are right, the Natwest ones are not.

Sigh. Again, I am quoting the source that you linked to!

The 'Review of Gap Year Provision' report

(29 Jul 04) was commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and was carried out by Dr Andrew Jones from Birkbeck, University of London,

Key Findings:

• Between 200,000 and 250,000 young people aged 16-25 are estimated to take a gap year of some kind each year,

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

Sigh. Again, I am quoting the source that you linked to!

I see. Please explain what a 16 or a 25 year old gap year student looks like.

Otherwise, I'll take UCAS' deferral figures, accepting that some students don't apply to university at all and then go later (which means they aren't taking a gap year by the way), which states about 27,000 students a year intentionally defer their place to do other things.

If this is your argument to try and prove that all young people do is waste their money on holidays and iPhones, then its pretty threadbare.

Why don't you try and conflate the fish and chips consumption figures, thats probably in the low millions of 18 to 24 year olds at least. I bet they go on their iPhones while they're waiting for a large cod with curry sauce and then throw most of it away, laughing.

ruggedtoast

Cakeguts wrote: »

Which boomers?

Christmas presents had to be useful you didn't give someone something that they couldn't use because that wasted money that you didn't have. I don't know any retired people who have a Mercedes car. I know a lot of people who have old cars but not new ones. We are the only people I know who have a new car and that is only because of personal circumstances that have nothing to do with this thread and it isn't a Mercedes.

You also have no evidence that the imaginary Mercedes that you are talking about was bought with pension money it could quite easily have been bought with savings from a working life where you didn't spend money on all the things that people buy today.

Boomers in Mercedes and Jaguars is all you see around here.

ruggedtoast

CLAPTON wrote: »

sadly in toxic toastie bedsit, their will be no boomer parents turning up with lovingly made xmax socks.

Have you ever given anyone a present Clapton?

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Boomers in Mercedes and Jaguars is all you see around here.

All I seem to see is young people in BMWs and four by fours

[Deleted User]

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Boomers in Mercedes and Jaguars is all you see around here.

Any Boomers in Beemers?

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

All I seem to see is young people in BMWs and four by fours

Does anyone else see them?

ruggedtoast

Sleazy wrote: »

Any Boomers in Beemers?

Younger boomers drive Beemers. Usually angry faced men who think that if you aren't 6 inches from the car in front's bumper then you are doing it wrong.

Those boomers get a lot of time added to their journey if they are behind me.