Baby boomers?

[SpontaneousOrder]

Anyone who votes is to blame.

[Cliphead]

What's a baby boomer? What kinda age?

[zoco]

Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

Anyone else feel this way?

I worked with a young British Asian chap a couple of years ago. He was in his early '30s I guess and he certainly held exactly the same views as you.

His view was that his generation had been bequeathed a chalice made of excrement by the baby boomer generation.

[cojak]

Nostalgia ain't what it was...

[KentPhilip]

The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

You are right in a way: The baby boomer generation were brought up by their parents, war heroes, to work hard and smart. And they did, bringing in a great deal of wealth to the country.

However where the baby boomer generation went wrong, in my opinion, was in then adopting liberal economic and social politics, which lead to the dumbing down of education, political correctness, and multiculturalism. This screwed up the futures of the following generations.

[fullyautomatix]

Whose sockie is monkey boy again ? The quality has gone down really. I blame the baby boomers.

[original PM]

I worked with a young British Asian chap a couple of years ago. He was in his early '30s I guess and he certainly held exactly the same views as you.

His view was that his generation had been bequeathed a chalice made of excrement by the baby boomer generation.

I have no idea what a 'baby boomer' is in this context - but did anyone here remeber 3 day weeks, rationed electricity , supermarkets were a joke compared to today, huge amounts of child abuse/bullying/casual racism on a daily basis for all the kids in school - and I could go on.

Is this muppet somehow implying in the Starbucks filled, free wifi land where being a spoilt complaing brat is de rigeur that they somehow have it harder than those who grew up in the 70/80/90's?

[Mich the Tester]

Loved the ;, pity it's in the rong plaice.

That's a red herring though.

[Doggy Styles]

Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...

Anyone else feel this way?

No, just you by the look of it.

What mess are you referring to? How is it any more of a mess than any other era?

The world has always drifted on, losing some old sh1t and gaining some new sh1t to take its place.

[VectraMan]

John Major was really the only PM we've had who could be said to come from the baby boomer generation (though a quick Wikipedia check shows he was born in 1943); Blair and Brown were born in the 50s and Thatcher much earlier before the war. Before Thatcher the country was run by old men, and post Major by young trendy New Labourites. So who ruined the country?