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to ask if you're pissed off with the Baby Boomers?

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 17:33

Because people who are currently young-ish adults (MN's main demographic?), and younger, will be paying for the lavish lifestyle they've enjoyed?
The money borrowed for their nice big pensions will be paid back by us and our children.

Does this mean they shouldn't spend so much time in Tenerife?

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Dressingdown1 · 08/02/2015 19:36

I know a lot of nice BBs. People who volunteer regularly in their spare time, and try to help their DCs and GDCs as well as the wider community.

It is ridiculous and insulting to accuse a whole generation of being nasty. Some people are nice, some aren't, what's it got to do with when they were born?

timer · 08/02/2015 19:36

Hang on, who is being nicer to who??

TheRealAmandaClarke · 08/02/2015 19:37

To whom.
Wink

timer · 08/02/2015 19:38
Oldsu · 08/02/2015 19:39

entiledornot you DO realise that although its 35 years contribution to get full state pension unless you are retirement age when have paid for 35 years you don't get your pension and you don't stop paying NI until you do get your pension, so the 35 years means nothing if you still need to work, and of course if you still work you still pay in.

I personally started work at 15 and will not get my pension until 66, therefore I will have paid in for 51 years, so really you moaning about the possibility of having to contribute for LESS years then I will have to do makes me laugh

MythicalKings · 08/02/2015 19:40

Gosh. Another new poster having a go at baby boomers. Or yet another name change, maybe?

Penguinotterfoxbadger · 08/02/2015 19:46

It does annoy me a bit, but I also feel massive sympathy towards the poor kids graduating now with fantastic degrees but little hope of getting the job they want

Norland · 08/02/2015 19:46

DamFineBeaver Sun 08-Feb-15 19:20:03

No, this is not research. I'm just interested.

(I am a researcher by profession, though, so it may be that the language creeps in smile)

Tosh! Just my 2d worth.
What are you thoughts on improving mental arithmetic by a return to £sd?

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 19:50

Tosh! Just my 2d worth.

With all due respect, my dear Norland, this would be truly shite research if that's what it was (and it's not anywhere near my subject). Just my 2d worth.

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WonderingWillow · 08/02/2015 19:52

moniker I'm not. I'm saying that I don't appreciate my parents and their friends tut tutting that I haven't bought a house in LONDON yet before the age of 30, despite saving and not having holidays. Prices are NOT what they were. My father was a teacher and my mother was a public servant. They bought their house in 1991 for £44k. My father's salary was £26k at the time. Quite a difference to £60k salary I receive and the £500k starting price of houses where they live. And that's for a shithole.

So don't tell me they weren't lucky.

Fine by me, but for them to tell me I'm just not trying hard enough? No.

TheRealAmandaClarke · 08/02/2015 19:53

timer Grin sorry.

JT05 · 08/02/2015 19:56

Just in case anyone really feels aggrieved, we have given huge amounts to our offspring.

To the cynical - all done to avoid inheretance tax!

WonderingWillow · 08/02/2015 19:58

I don't think people hate a whole generation... Just people like my parents and their merry band of friends who tell us to 'stop buying flatscreen TV's and having holidays and save a bit and you'll be able to buy a house!'

Oh. Damn. The holidays in Tuscany were doing it? Next you'll be telling me I shouldn't be paying for my 2 year old to have a PA... Hmm

Those are the kind that irritate Wink

peabodyrocks · 08/02/2015 19:58

I seriously do not believe that so many of the BB are so stupid that they don't understand the world today? Or maybe many of you just have horrible parents!!!!

I don't know one person amongst my friends or family who would tut tut at me (or anyone) being unable to afford a house in London, or who would think that I have it easier because I have an iPad.

The majority are sympathetic and help out in anyway they can either with money, childcare or both!

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 20:05

You could also consider the different meanings of the words 'dam' and 'damn'

Norland, please could you explain this? I'm genuinely flummoxed.

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FaFoutis · 08/02/2015 20:07

I think Norland missed the Beaver bit.

Toughasoldboots · 08/02/2015 20:07

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 20:09

MoanRanger, thanks for posting in such a reasonable manner.
I don't by any means think that every "boomer" has it easy. I'm only really referring to the mass trends in finances for different generations.

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ExitPursuedByABear · 08/02/2015 20:14

Who knows what tomorrow brings ........

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 20:19

Who knows what tomorrow brings......

Well, I don't know about you, Exit, but tomorrow brings my PIL a nice winter break in the Seychelles.... Grin

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duchesse · 08/02/2015 20:26

No, OP, I am no more pissed off the Baby Boomers than with any other demographic. Nobody chooses to be born at a certain time. No reason anyone should have to atone for relative good luck (which being born into free healthcare, free schooling and university, full employment and cheap house prices is- luck). The baby boomers' parents had just fought a huge struggle to stay alive and they got even the smallest payback from seeing their children grow up happy, healthy and well-educated then they deserve that.

It will never happen again. That is not to say that the people enjoying it at the moment should atone for it every day- why should they make amends for something that is not of their doing any more than the rest of us should? In fact, it is the generation of people on decent pensions, in good health and with few major concerns who are doing a lot of the voluntary work in this country.

FWIW I also know some really not well-off baby boomers. On balance they are likely to be in a majority.

daisychain01 · 08/02/2015 20:26

Nope I'm not pissed off with

Baby Boomer
Millennials
Silver Surfing Pensioners
Benefits scrounges

I am very pissed with all the bloody generalising labels invented to homogenise human beings and vilify them for being born in a certain decade, or doing things people perceive (no proof) doesn't meet their criteria.

CBA
Biscuit

ExitPursuedByABear · 08/02/2015 20:28

So you are just jealous.

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DamFineBeaver · 08/02/2015 20:33

Exit, they're not really. I was joking.
And no, as far as I can tell I don't think I'm envious (or jealous, for that matter, although FIL is a sexy beast).

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Fadingmemory · 08/02/2015 20:35

My working class parents scrimped to buy a house. They left it to me. I now let it out. I have a house (through working and scrimping) which I live in. I worked and my boss died so I lost my job. I was paid redundancy money.

I engineered none of this. Someone has now been kind enough to offer me a job two days a week. I cost the state nothing. Why am I supposed to feel guilty about any of it?

As well as working part time for a salary, I work as a volunteer. We all respond to and operate in the circumstances in which we exist.

I am very sorry indeed that generations coming after me do not have the same financial advantages. However, the sub-prime awfulness in the US had nothing to do with me.

Oh please

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