old git rant!

[Bruntburger]

When i was a kid during the Eighties, all the kid on the neighbourhood would make go-karts together out of fruit crates and old pram wheels etc...

These days it's about who has the most expensive electric car!

We now live in a consumer society and kids are super spoilt.

 

[Daffy Duck]

We used to play out in the street at every opportunity. During the school holidays it was all day, every day.
Kids today just can't do that.

 

[narly101]

Everything is too easy now. No one has to make any effort anymore.

 

[Blackadder]

,MY PARENTS WERE BOTH WORKING BUT STILL NEEDED A PERSONAL LOAN TO BUY THE HOUSE FOR £5,000,

Do you mean they took out a mortgage to purchase their property?

 

[HovaGirl]

With the survey saying 4/10 families are cutting back on food what did the old gits not have when they were young.
I'll start double glazing,central heating,holidays abroad,sky,mobile phones,meals out,electricity when the strikes were on... you get the picture
We even lived in a paper bag in a septic tank

We licked road clean wi' tongue.

 

[Winker]

Our first car was a Morris Minor, when we stopped to fill up my dad asked the petrol pump attendant for four gallons, then gave him £1 and told him to keep the change. Happy days.

 

[HovaGirl]

As a child living in a village in the 1950s we did not have:
television
fridge
telephone
washing machine
car
central heating
supermarket

We got our first television in 1962. Our first washing machine and fridge in 1965. Our first car in 1968 (a Ford Anglia). A house with central heating in 1971. The nearest thing to a supermarket was Sainsbury's grocery shop in Western Road, Hove, which wasn't self-service, but I remember buying sachets of shampoo for 2d in Mitchell's at the bottom of Brunswick Road, because that was all we could afford. No such thing as conditioner, then. We used vinegar or lemon juice in the rinsing.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

In Park Terrace East in Horsham, just before the demolished the major part of the estate two houses shared one toilet, fact, early 60's. The bath was under the draining board in the kitchen and you had to walk down the end of the garden, to the shared toilet, for a poo .... not nice! (Or take the bucket down there!)

 

[Chris001]

Today's pensioners had jobs for life, final salary pensions, free education, free council houses, right to buy cheap mortgages, free bus passes, heating allowance and the ones in my family go on three cruises a year.

They are the least suffering demographic. For those that are suffering, it's their own fault - My generation won't get any of the above and neither will my kids.

 

[teaboy]

Then again house prices were affordable for the previous generation. Our young people who are not from a wealthy background have virtually NO chance of getting their own place let alone thinking that they may one day aspire to a house with 3 rooms and a decent size garden.

Nor will they have the chance to make the huge amount of money that has been made on property by the previous generation.

Energy bills in the last 8 years bills have gone up 140%. Salaries by contrast went up by only 20%.

Council tax has gone up 100% in the last 10 years.

Petrol prices are up 26% in the last 2 years alone.

I could go on. My only point is these are tough times for the majority of ordinary people. And the older generation should be able to see some reasons why, whatever their previous hardships.

Add to this a free University education, with government grants too! There's nothing like pulling up the rope ladder after you've got to the top, is there?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Add to this a free University education, with government grants too! There's nothing like pulling up the rope ladder after you've got to the top, is there?

And don't forget that these old gits will get the luxury of being looked after in their old age by their grateful offspring.

 

[Chris001]

Add to this a free University education, with government grants too! There's nothing like pulling up the rope ladder after you've got to the top, is there?

that's the point I was trying to make, you said it much better than I did.

 

[BBassic]

And don't forget that these old gits will get the luxury of being looked after in their old age by their grateful offspring.

Will they? I'll end up moving my parents into a rented flat with me because I won't be able to afford care or a mortgage.

 

[Chris001]

And don't forget that these old gits will get the luxury of being looked after in their old age by their grateful offspring.

We won't be able to look after our parents, we both have to work to keep the roof over our head. They will most likely end up in an old peoples home, that'll be paid for out of what's left of their estate leaving no inheritance for Mr&Mrs Chris001.

 

[BBassic]

Sums it up for me.

 

[teaboy]

And don't forget that these old gits will get the luxury of being looked after in their old age by their grateful offspring.

I'm looking at Knackers Yards and Glue Factories as I type...

 

[Chris001]

I'm looking at Knackers Yards and Glue Factories as I type...

Like that

 

[banjo]

When I was a kid I was lucky I got an apple and a orange for Christmas.

 

[T soprano]

When I was a kid growing up in the 70s I had to get up off the sofa and change the channels on the Tv, no remote control

 

[piersa]

You had a job for life, that was pretty good. No such luxury these days.

Gold plated pensions too. Not so bad.