Reply to: 10 Things that Boomers have that Millenials don't

[shaunbhoy]

Odd. I always had you down as a mid-twenties sort of person. Mid 1920s.

[Gibbon]

Ah yes, when one could watch "Threads" or "The Day After" (if one preferred Kansas) on the idiot lantern.

Strange how each new way of conveying information is derided. Socrates thought little of books, saying they were for the lazy who couldn't be bothered to commit to memory!

[DoctorStrangelove]

And what about the cold war. Which a few of us on here helped win

Ah yes, when one could watch "Threads" or "The Day After" (if one preferred Kansas) on the idiot lantern.

[Gibbon]

yep living on toast when mortgages got to 14%.

You had toast!! we were eating coal in the eighties.

[vetran]

And it wasn't the bank of mum and dad back then but the other way round because our parents were skint with lots of revolving credit

yep living on toast when mortgages got to 14%.

[vetran]

19. Sense of accountability
20. Long term relationship

21. your mother.

[NigelJK]

19. Sense of accountability
20. Long term relationship

[Scruff]

13 stench of death

14 rude

15 age

16 think they are better then everyone else

17 think they have more of a right in everything

18 having an easy life (made money when living was easy) and think they are the dogs balls

The ability to spell, punctuate and use context? You have omitted "Envy" from your list.

13 stench of death

"Death, be not proud" - John Donne

14 rude

"Rude Kids" - 1970's Punk Rock band

15 age

"Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem" - Ode of Remembrance, Laurence Binyon

16 think they are better then everyone else

"Things can only get better" - Labour Party theme 1997 (Baby Boomer Blair enters, Stage Right)

17 think they have more of a right in everything

"More of a right" - Margaret Thatcher, 1983 - Danger to Miners

18 having an easy life (made money when living was easy) and think they are the dogs balls

"Greed is Good" - Wall Street, 1987

[tazdevil]

And it wasn't the bank of mum and dad back then but the other way round because our parents were skint with lots of revolving credit

[Gibbon]

Remember the "world shortages"?

Of variously sugar, bog roll, petrol, money, going cap in hand to the IMF to get a bail out.

Ah, them were the days.

3 channels on the idiot lantern. Come to think of it, this was good, since you read books instead.

The heady days of "One Out, All Out, Wot about the Workers?", the Three Day week, petrol rationing, power cuts, tv stopping broadcasting at 10pm, ah twas the very heaven.

And not forgetting the Morris Marina and, gawdelpus, the Austin Allegro.

And what about the cold war. Which a few of us on here helped win

[NotAllThere]

And there was me thinking that the reason I had a house, car, and decent pension was because I had been working hard for 40-50 years whilst raising a family.

Odd. I always had you down as a mid-twenties sort of person. Mid 1920s.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Oh yes it was easy living in the 70's with no technology, a fooked economy courtesy of Labour, no jobs on leaving Uni/School, having to squat as the paltry salary from the available job didn't stretch to rent, equipping the first home of my own with 2nd hand stuff or simply going without. Yes times back then were just glorious

It's interesting to note that the millennials living near me all seem to get their boomer parents to do the jobs they can't, such as fixing stuff

Remember the "world shortages"?

Of variously sugar, bog roll, petrol, money, going cap in hand to the IMF to get a bail out.

Ah, them were the days.

3 channels on the idiot lantern. Come to think of it, this was good, since you read books instead.

The heady days of "One Out, All Out, Wot about the Workers?", the Three Day week, petrol rationing, power cuts, tv stopping broadcasting at 10pm, ah twas the very heaven.

And not forgetting the Morris Marina and, gawdelpus, the Austin Allegro.

[Lance]

Oh yes it was easy living in the 70's with no technology, a fooked economy courtesy of Labour, no jobs on leaving Uni/School, having to squat as the paltry salary from the available job didn't stretch to rent, equipping the first home of my own with 2nd hand stuff or simply going without. Yes times back then were just glorious

It's interesting to note that the millennials living near me all seem to get their boomer parents to do the jobs they can't, such as fixing stuff

beer 'n' cigs were cheap though
amphetamines rather than cocaine
Led Zeppelin rather than Kylie

[tazdevil]

18 having an easy life (made money when living was easy) and think they are the dogs balls

Oh yes it was easy living in the 70's with no technology, a fooked economy courtesy of Labour, no jobs on leaving Uni/School, having to squat as the paltry salary from the available job didn't stretch to rent, equipping the first home of my own with 2nd hand stuff or simply going without. Yes times back then were just glorious

It's interesting to note that the millennials living near me all seem to get their boomer parents to do the jobs they can't, such as fixing stuff

[DoctorStrangelove]