Youngsters have it easy

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SimonMac replied

15 August 2013, 08:48
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

Yeah but apart from that what have the Romans ever done for us!
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bobspud replied

15 August 2013, 08:45
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

^ THIS

I think we have forgotten, or been brainwashed that we don't do anything apart from finance in this country but we really do rather well.
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Moscow Mule replied

15 August 2013, 08:43
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

I think that today's media find it easier to concentrate on the feckless youth, and social media makes the feckless more visible.

I'm sure there were just as many successes and failures in the 1900s.
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Mich the Tester replied

15 August 2013, 08:37
How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?
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amcdonald replied

15 August 2013, 08:30
The difference is these days people pay to have the cane, so it's hardly a punishment
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BrilloPad started a topic Youngsters have it easy

15 August 2013, 01:49
Youngsters have it easy

Purge on A-levels revives 'gold standard' as one-in-four papers given top grades - Telegraph

25% get A grades? Back in my day in was 10%.

About time they bought back the cane too.
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