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  • Nasqueron
    Nasqueron Posts: 10,657 Forumite
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    Tarambor wrote: »
    Its happened as a result of being sick of reading first posts by Generation Entitled complaining that they've been ripped off or whatever because something hasn't gone the way they wanted it to and feeling that they have the right to redress usually with some expectation of monetary compensation because for possibly the first time in their lives someone has said no to them.

    What's amusing about this is that EVERY generation thinks the next generation are like this. The Baby Boomers (those born in mid 1940s-mid 1960s) were called the "me generation". Writer Tom Wolfe called the 1970s the "Me decade"; fellow writer Christopher Lasch criticised the rise of narcissism among the boomer generation. A 1907 essay by M J Rendall on Ancient Greek education referenced a quote from the time from someone talking about the youth of the time: "The counts of the indictment are luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise."

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • adindas
    adindas Posts: 6,856 Forumite
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    nic_c wrote: »
    Surely this is a troll posting? Say something that everyone disagrees with? Especially as a first post. :rotfl:

    First post and disappear .....
    He might be chukling outthere to see the response he has got ....
    :rotfl:
  • PixelPound
    PixelPound Posts: 3,058 Forumite
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    adindas wrote: »
    First post and disappear .....
    He might be chukling outthere to see the response he has got ....
    :rotfl:
    I agree 100%. Even after I pointed it out and although many people have replied to the OP, others still continue, often stating what has already been stated before. Maybe people see it as an opportunity to boost post count. Going for that next level_up :rotfl:
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