Lt Kije Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 I've been in hospital Normal service is now resumed I read this and thought it might be good for a debate http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8593210.stm Discuss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 An interesting line of thought, to some extent true - but there's a presumption that all baby boomers were in control of events: such as the de-industrialisation of the Country in favour of the sole reliance on the finance and service sectors - many baby boomers will have suffered the loss of skilled manual jobs in factories. Now we borrow money from China in order to buy goods from China! So whilst broadly speaking, a generation has enjoyed a peak in economic prosperity, they were not necessarilly responsible for it's demise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 I've been in hospital Damn them curable diseases!!! Aww we missed you really didn't we everyone.................. we did didn't we? aww come on give the lad some support.... he's been ill! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Might disagree politically with Lt K, but pleased that he's better and back with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safeway56 Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 40 years of being out in all weathers performing hard manual work to achieve a very modest private pension(which I paid for myself) and I'm to blame for the bleak future for the generation following me ? Don't think so matey !! Not Guilty M'Lud Hardly the fault of the lower orders that the young have very limited career opportunities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 30, 2010 Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 Life's a bit like a party, we arrived just in time for the buffet and ate all the pies and drank all the beer - just a lucky generation ! And now the party's getting rather cosmopolitan, there's a problem with the central heating, and the music's too loud - time to slip away and leave the youngsters to it! Trouble is, while we paid cash for the pies, the youngsters want to use their credit cards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted March 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2010 Ah you baby boomers you had it all and spent it, all I can say it was not me I'm not old enough. Sorry Safeway, but your generation are responsible for all societies ills, After all you had the sixties will all of that free love and smoking herbal cigarettes, its pay back time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 31, 2010 Report Share Posted March 31, 2010 Errm, "spent it"? Not quite Kyje, we had to live somewhere, so there's assetts to spend yet, before the kids see us off! And where there used to be 4 to pay tax to keep a dribbling old wrinkly in an EPH, there will only be 2 of the next generation - so loads of tax for them to look forward to - and don't forget the schools/hospitals built on PFI, which they'll be paying for too! btw Kyje, a soft hippy, toga wearing, sandal creeping, bearded, pot smoking minority where responsible for the social disfunctions of today, and their liberal minded successors have merely compounded their folly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted April 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2010 What did you do in the sixties Obs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 In her Majesty's service! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 In her Majesty's service! in or at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lt Kije Posted April 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 Brilliant Baz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted April 4, 2010 Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 obs, have you had plastic surgery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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