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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The man who allowed tuition fees to rocket for those poor millenials and citing £9k as a cap for high cost degree courses when in fact it became the de facto rate. Won't listen to him on anything thanks
This guy!?
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Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Very relevant to this topic is todays news, the repeat of absolute bullshite that does the rounds regularly, about the extinction of polar bears.
Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100
Scientists say we have time to save polar bears if we act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
www.bbc.co.uk
In actual fact polar bears are thriving and there are so many of them that they have become a pest, rather like badgers except that bears are mean and kill people and at least partially eat them. If the Arctic was pure ice, there would be no seals or accessible fish [for the seals] for the bears to eat, so current conditions or even less ice suits them really well.
Here is the true position, although I'm sure the often used picture of a bear dying and emaciated due to old age will be wheeled out again to try and impress the gullible.
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I shan't watch it , he is flawed politician with an agenda
caveman
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- East Sussex.
Don't fret pal.My point being is that the situation faced by many Millenials and the latest generation Z are different to what the Post-war Boomer generation faced, I posted a really good video earlier on about the Boomer economics for example. It's a fact that a young boomer earned more, worked less hours on average than a young Millenial, Home Ownership is a big one as well, ratio of wages spent on rent etc.. Millenials are a smaller cohort than boomers but have to prop up the economy built by Boomers.
I single out Boomer generation rather then the Pre-war generation as they didn't have the impact that boomers have had, I'm not singling out individual people either but the impact a demographic that has had.
Sure there's a lot of Millenials who got lucky or more well off but on the whole across the generation there's more people who aren't well off compared to Boomers.
So if politicans actually start giving a damn about Millenials the situation might improve lol
The Govt currently won't as it's a demographic that'll never vote for them in the Majority.
I would think you parents are the typical boomers as you perceive them to be and as such you should be okay by the time you've stopped pissing your life away and grown up.
It shows how different the farming lifestyle is, where we are ruled by the weather and the well being of livestock, 44.6 hours is a quiet week and a weekend off, 37.2 hours is a part time job.
My Parents aren't boomers btw.
I have a career plan I'm progressing through, Pissing free.
caveman
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- East Sussex.
Pre war are they?
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
Old McDonald
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- Harray, Orkney
I am 76 years old. Father was a pitman. I started work at 16 on Two hundred and forty pounds per annum in 1960. Yes. £240 a year. Bought my first house and 9 acres ten years later (and could then get married) for roughly 5 times my annual salary. I was fussy about where I lived, but many people my age married at 21 or 22 and bought any house they could find. They had no option. Live in or buy your own. There simply were not rentals available. What is your present salary? Multiply that by 5 and tell us how much you would be able to pay for a house at the same 5x salary. I bet we can all find something for you in your price range. Interest rates are lower than ever in my lifetime, so repayments will be lower than for anybody that you criticise as having had it easy.
Just so that you know, along the way to reaching my present age I have farmed up to a wee bit more than 5000 acres - 3000 of my own and another 2000 belonging to a neighbour. Owned 5 farms in 4 countries and not finished yet, but very slowed down. You can have this one if you want it - and have the money of course. Click on the link below.
Stop moaning and do something about your plight if you want to get on in life. Your posts show you to be a loser, and you always will be if you do not.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I would like to take exception to the "less well off", I see younger people buying coffee and sandwiches for lunch every day, where as I always made my bait, couldn't afford to buy every day. My first car was a mini that cost £35, I don't see young people driving bangers today. Also everyone has a phone costing a fortune. I left school and went on Youth Opportunities Programme, and being born in 1964 I class as the last of the baby boomers by the way.
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- Lincolnshire
When I was a lad a holiday was a couple of days on a camp site near Selby in a tent in the shadow of the slag heaps. A posh car was a Ford Escort Popular. This was the 1970’s on a family farm. Foreign holidays were unheard of here, apart from trips up to Glasgow to visit relatives. My one abiding memory of such a trip apart from mouldy hay was a tattie lorry that had shed its load on a street corner and all the folks were out filling buckets and bags and taking them home. The comparative level of affluence nowadays is something to behold. Two car households seem to be the norm. People eat out as if it’s common place. At one time it was a luxury. Nobody had a car or a phone when I was a student. People weren’t ordering stuff off the net, you might occasionally cut out an order form, fill it in and post it and wait weeks for something to be delivered. Nobody drove their kids to school. Everybody either walked, got the bus or biked it. From 5 years old we left the house at 8 walked a mile to bus stop , crossing an A road unaided, to get to school. We arrived back at night a 5 often in the dark walking along stone not tarmac roads. We had no mains water till 1975, had one paraffin heater in the hall, no central heating and a coke or wood fired Rayburn for cooking and hot water. When Dad started out he used to hope a chicken would break its leg so they could have a decent sunday dinner. He didn’t know what underpants were till he joined the RAF. We had no quad bikes, pick up trucks anything that wasn’t absolutely essential. Poorly animals would be slaughtered for the freezer and never wasted. All the old laying hens would be slaughtered for the tiny bit of meat on them. They were old and tough.
The other night my Mrs served up one of these restaurant meals that arrives in a van from Northampton or somewhere in about half a trees worth of packaging that you then warm up at home. Jesus wept. As recommended by the Guardian weekend section.
The other night my Mrs served up one of these restaurant meals that arrives in a van from Northampton or somewhere in about half a trees worth of packaging that you then warm up at home. Jesus wept. As recommended by the Guardian weekend section.
Swarfmonkey
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- Hampshire
The whole "woe is me" attitude from millennials irritates me immensely. I went to university as a mature student. I'd sit in the back row of a lecture theatre and look down at the ranks of £500 phones sitting next to £1500 MacBook Pro's in front of young students, the same ones who had the temerity to moan that they couldn't afford anything.
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- Bury St Edmunds
First drive after lunch!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Reckon he’s an HRH!
Should be just about big enough to hit after lunch and a few “sherberts” ??
Very relevant to this topic is todays news, the repeat of absolute bullshite that does the rounds regularly, about the extinction of polar bears.
Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100
Scientists say we have time to save polar bears if we act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.www.bbc.co.uk
In actual fact polar bears are thriving and there are so many of them that they have become a pest, rather like badgers except that bears are mean and kill people and at least partially eat them. If the Arctic was pure ice, there would be no seals or accessible fish [for the seals] for the bears to eat, so current conditions or even less ice suits them really well.
Here is the true position, although I'm sure the often used picture of a bear dying and emaciated due to old age will be wheeled out again to try and impress the gullible.
The counter argument, of course, is that polar bears are being forced in to more contact with humans because lack of ice is prohibiting hunting so they are seeking out humans where they know there is food.
Plus there are just more people up in the artic circle these days trying to prove climate change
I’m not sure that his vocabulary and tone of phrase matches ?
Suffolk Serf
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- Bury/Thetford
To @GeorgeC1 and a bit off topic here, as you get older and wiser you will come to realise that the world just isn't fair, there will always be people better off than you who had more luck (whatever that is).
What is important is how you cope with that and what you make of the hand in life that you have been dealt.
What is important is how you cope with that and what you make of the hand in life that you have been dealt.