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DanH Flag SW2 24 Jul 19 12.30pm Send a Private Message to DanH Add DanH as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Says the generation that has had everything handed to them on a plate and still want more......

I had to pay for my university education. I only got on the housing ladder 2 years ago over the age of 30 due to the cost of renting, cost of living, and average salary v house price ratio being way way higher than my parents' generation, my right to live and work in the EU is being taken away by a majority of people who will be dead in the next 20 years and this over entitled bunch of babies in government are sleep walking us into a clusterf*ck of a situation.

But yeah, my generation have it on a plate and still want more. We haven't had anything easy.

 

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Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 24 Jul 19 12.52pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Originally posted by DanH

The over entitled baby boomer generation ruined it for the rest of us (and still do).

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. I will be taking no further questions.

Because your generation are a bunch of spoilt, unimaginative, gender-confused, effete, Corbyn-loving Remainers, pussies and benders.

Edited by Cucking Funt (24 Jul 2019 12.53pm)

 


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nettletoneagle Flag market rasen 24 Jul 19 1.10pm Send a Private Message to nettletoneagle Add nettletoneagle as a friend

Really liked the bit where he goes to the posh people's dating agency for the privately educated. Almost encourages selective breeding, bordering on eugenics. Might try the app myself, might have to tell a few porkies though.

 

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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 24 Jul 19 1.13pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by nettletoneagle

Really liked the bit where he goes to the posh people's dating agency for the privately educated. Almost encourages selective breeding, bordering on eugenics. Might try the app myself, might have to tell a few porkies though.

You could be their bit of rough. I would easily qualify for that dating agency but I'm as rough as Tesco Value loo roll. It would be a bit of fun though to show up in your Palace kit, fag in mouth and beer belly popping out. 'Hello love, want a peanut?'.

 


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EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 24 Jul 19 1.33pm Send a Private Message to EverybodyDannsNow Add EverybodyDannsNow as a friend

Originally posted by becky

Says the generation that has had everything handed to them on a plate and still want more......

What have this generation had handed to them that you did not?

Dan has provided quite a conclusive summary of what’s gone the other way...

 

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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 24 Jul 19 1.50pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

What have this generation had handed to them that you did not?

Dan has provided quite a conclusive summary of what’s gone the other way...

National Service and The Goodies were a couple of things people had to put up with.

 


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Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 24 Jul 19 2.17pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

What have this generation had handed to them that you did not?

Dan has provided quite a conclusive summary of what’s gone the other way...

Multiculturalism, gay pride, Ed Sheeran....

 


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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 24 Jul 19 2.19pm Send a Private Message to ASCPFC Add ASCPFC as a friend

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

Multiculturalism, gay pride, Ed Sheeran....

That's your weekend sorted - I'm off to the pub.

 


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Cucking Funt Flag Clapham on the Back 24 Jul 19 2.22pm Send a Private Message to Cucking Funt Add Cucking Funt as a friend

Originally posted by ASCPFC

That's your weekend sorted - I'm off to the pub.

 


Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham

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Originally posted by DanH

I had to pay for my university education. I only got on the housing ladder 2 years ago over the age of 30 due to the cost of renting, cost of living, and average salary v house price ratio being way way higher than my parents' generation, my right to live and work in the EU is being taken away by a majority of people who will be dead in the next 20 years and this over entitled bunch of babies in government are sleep walking us into a clusterf*ck of a situation.

But yeah, my generation have it on a plate and still want more. We haven't had anything easy.

How deluded are you?

Comparing your so called hardships to past generations is an insult to all those who helped drag this world to where we all in the West now enjoy relative paradise.

You talk like owning your own home has always been the norm.


 

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becky Flag over the moon 24 Jul 19 2.41pm Send a Private Message to becky Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add becky as a friend

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

What have this generation had handed to them that you did not?

Dan has provided quite a conclusive summary of what’s gone the other way...

Yes, and he proved my point.......

- I've regularly eaten bread and sugar for tea on Thursdays because there was no money til Father brought his pay packet home on Friday.

- More than one or two new garments a year was a luxury, everything else was hand me downs and jumble sale recycles (except shoes and underwear - Mum was very particular about that - although I have gone to school in mismatched shoes)

- University was for rich people - even with the then student grant - most just had to get out and get a job and earn a wage. (I paid fully for my own degree course in my 30's - not a repay when you earn loan)

- Yes, rents and purchase prices were lower, but mortgages were still near impossible to get for low earners. If you didn't qualify for council housing, you lived with your parents (even after marriage until you could get a deposit together).

- When you did get a mortgage, it was at 6-7% interest rate, and at one point in the 80's hit 14%.... try that on 80's wages!

- Abroad was somewhere you went with Thomas Cook for 2 weeks every year - but it didn't matter too much because it was full of foreigners anyway

and let's not forget the times when outside lavatories were common, central heating was unheard of, running hot water was a luxury for the few and some people were still living in pre-fabs from the war because there was a housing shortage.

I would imagine that Dan's been spared most, if not all of the above hardships of life which were pretty common when I was younger.

 


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Stirlingsays Flag 24 Jul 19 3.21pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

Originally posted by Cucking Funt

Multiculturalism, gay pride, Ed Sheeran....

Multiculturalism has been and is a disaster, gay pride is ridiculous but largely harmless....But..Ed Sheeran is an abomination on this God's earth.

Edited by Stirlingsays (24 Jul 2019 3.22pm)

 


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