Younger people try to annoy older people by making them out to be out of touch and intellectually inferior. (This is the main reason for all the changes in attitudes towards diversity we’ve had. JSO, BLM, #metoo etc.)
Older people talk down to younger people about how easy they have it now and how everything used to be better. (This is the main reason for Brexit and the rebirth of apprenticeships and vinyl, even though most of it is now pressed from CD.)
It’s a tale as old as time, none lf it is actually new.
(Then there are those of us in our forties who are damn near perfect and get on EVERYONE’s nerves with our lethal cocktail of progression AND wisdom
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Agree with this generally. I'm not in the boomer generation (not yet 40) but I see so much promise in young people compared to when I was that age.
Generally smart young people who get into shape, much less binge drinking and tend to be more rounded. It's one of the few glimpses of hope after the past 15 years of shyteness we're seeing.
Most of the ignorance that I witness is also amongst the older generations rather than that in my own or the younger generation as much.
I agree Emerson I see my own Grandson has a lot of confidence and is shining, and I hold out great hopes for the new generations, my grand daughter is the last year coming up of her nursing degree along with a part time job she has she`s a good grafter.
I like to see young uns do well, and its no different to other eras and generations except.
In my experience only of course.
I'm a borderline boomer, born at the very beginning of the 1960`s. I have no beef with the younger generations, I have children 33,37,42,43 and grandchildren 9 and 19. I worship them all all day long.
I was of the thought
you only get out of them what you put in, in general they have done really well really tbh, but me and the wife worked hard to provide them with what they needed, allowing them to see and do things, go places, and climb higher inside to express themselves.
You can only steer them with high standards and expectations., kids wont do well if its- do as you please , low effort and little cost to your own time.
The post war generation
My old fella and old girl worked hard, he was an Iron Moulder serving his time at Dorman's, he was always on price work out of his time. (no work no pay) my mam was a clerk/ manager from a youngish age for a woman in those days.
By the time they were 30 1962 they had saved and mortgaged up for a brand new build bungalow in a considered posh area. The old fella - I never seen him drunk ( maybe once in France) and he never raised his hand to me. He came from a tough part of Middlesbrough to begin with, but later the family got a brand new house in Bruce Avenue - Whiney Banks.
The Tories never gave him dreams to aspire to, they never gave me any aspirations, dreams, or secrets shortcuts try to do well, and despite the country being ruined by the Tories since I can remember (its not a new thing) I think we have been in recession during all of the Tory governments.
I have been out with group of lads were the father and son smoke weed or take coke, bought nearby where they live, the neighbours must love em. This isnt rock n roll this just Scruffy cnts. Ibve been abroad were half witted blokes take drugs, not even contemplating what would happen if they were arrested.
But.
By some on here blaming working hard and buying things = greed and therefore is wrong. PLEASE STOP equating dreams, aspirations, goals, aims, personal wealth to be wrong and that its Just a Tory ideal.
Working hard for money buys you time and freedom from the man.
Society does exist, despite what Thatcher said, we get out of it what we put in. If you treat your local community to use and buy drugs (arsevipe saying = recreational use ffs), if you rob and cheat and spoil in your community, and show a low regard for it just because isn't in a high council tax band - that's the community and area you will have and live amongst.
Druggies.
I have been out with group of lads were the father and son smoke weed or take coke, bought nearby where they live, the neighbours and community must love em.
This isn't rock n roll cool- this is just Scruffy cnts.
I've been abroad were half witted blokes take drugs, not even contemplating what would happen if they were arrested.
The way we treat our own community's, our own neighbours, friends, and family at times - is appalling - but hey its recreational.
I don't want a argument, or any nastiness - I'm not trying to wind anybody up in the slightest and I know with this forum its easily triggered.
I guess I`m deemed to be a Dinosaur -I know I probably am, but I find all the new thinking isn't helping as much as it perhaps should. Maybe it is, its a bit confusing.
My generation, personally I wanted to go to tech college, have a trade, fix engines build stuff, make things, know how to do things myself, that's what I did I did not want to be sitting down all day at a desk.
As a Boomer to on Teesside to show timid character and not meet any problems head on in my family was a sign of weakness, especially in a man, so bursting into tears didn't do any good to anyone, and if the father in the home during times of strife cant handle things, then the rest will watch the ship go down.
I have been absolutely shocked to the core at how many posters on here here have major mental health issues, and not know how to deal with problems. Its easier to count the ones who don't have them. I've never experienced this at work now or previously amongst close or not close friends. I do admire how on here they all rally around each other.
One fella on here said he couldn't face going to his local shop to buy some milk as it would be to much of an ordeal, so he stopped off work and stayed in bed all day, its so very sad when we aren't prepared for the simple things in life.
I'm old and old fashioned, and will never change I guess, I was trained, indoctrinated and brought up that way , I worked in places were you had to be very thick skinned at times, yet people on here hold steel works and and heavy engineering work places in reverence.
The other thing was that - diversity is an under 40 thing,?
We were listening to musicians of all colours and creeds, and sexual preference, we had the Anti - Fascist league, Rock against Racism from the late 1960s. The only difference now is the 132 University's need filling, with kids, these were previously undreamt of figures and now all these kids have a political agenda and new battle they want to fight.
This battleground is gender and Trans gender, another thing I`m really at a loss to understand what its about?
The big thing in my day was racism and most young urns from poor backgrounds who were gay ran off to a London to do their own thing away from the norm. Some of them went to Uni, others followed the Arts.