To think the baby boomer generation appears on another planet

[IncaAztec]

This weeks corkers from my DM (age 65). Have left me wondering about the baby boomer generation.

-Accusing me of taking from the state as we receive free infant school meals (?)
-Informing me how busy she is (with WI and history club all in one week). I told her to ask my friend who has 3 kids & 3 jobs before she tried that one.

Anyone else with any baby boomer comments to share?

Generation X that is.

your mum is a fool. dont be the same.

Exactly Prosecco which is why I hate threads like this that assume all of this age group are the same! They're not and thank you Inca for realising we are all different

Just stop this. It's divisive and hurtful. You don't know what people have been through at all, stop being judgemental about a whole generation. As others have wisely said, maybe the problem is your mum?
Let's have no more ill informed sweeping statements about any generation. Please.

Everyone received child benefit until this Tory government stopped it.

Yes. Really wealthy people received money they didn’t need which was frequently funded by the taxes of poorer people or companies which could have employed more people or improved the wages of lower paid employees if they hadn’t been forced to subsidise wealthy people with money they didn’t need.

I couldn’t find a job when l left university in 1986. Youth unemployment was through the roof.

But when you got a job (which you did, still under the Tories I assume) it would have allowed you a decent standard of living and affordable housing.

I was sent to court for refusing to pay poll tax.

You chose to do that to virtue signal.

I went to Greenham Common at a very young age. I wanted to make a safer future world.

Again, virtue signalling even though we all know that nuclear proliferation did not lead to nuclear war.

But.... because I’m a’Boomer’im out of touch😂. Yeah right.Spot on. Selfish and greedy that’s me! It’s all my fault.

Yes. You sound like a typical boomer who whinges about how hard their life was and how morally virtuous they were whilst ignoring all the advantages they had like free education and affordable housing because they are entitled and over privileged and have no idea how lucky they were.

And yes, whinging about how marvellous you were for protesting about things which haven’t been relevant for 30 years does make you out of touch.

‘How can you call me out of touch when I judge my ethics by my reaction to things which happened three decades ago’ 😂😂😂

The world has changes vastly in the last 50 years and I think its very sad when the different generations show a lack of appreciation and understanding at how the changes (for the better, on the whole) have affected everyone of all generations.
In the 1972 my sister was not allowed to return to work after having her baby, this was company policy at a multi -national company.
In 1974 I applied for a job with one of the big banks, I rejected there job offer when I realised the job had two pay grades one for men one for women!
My maternity leave was very short and I had to complete a certain amount of service post birth otherwise I would have to repay my Maternity pay, I also had to take some annual leave for my maternity appointments (Early 1980's)
I went back to work post birth it was so difficult. My only chilcare option was a Nanny (no private nurseries and any childminders were completely unregulated)
No paid for nursery hours or free school meals.
I couldn't get a mortgage as a woman in my own name unless I signed a declaration to promise I wouldn't get prenant within the first 5 years of the term.

Us "baby boomers" didn't have it particulary easy but it was as it was just as life is at it is today.
Different times create different circumstances, you can't say any generation has had it easier than another because it is just different

I think there are a lot of people in their 60's who are due for retirement over the next few years who have already had their pensions cut, and will not have a golden retirement. My pensions are not enough to live on and DH will have to continue to work indefinately
My 2 older Ds's both own their own properties, they are in their 30's, me and DH couldn't manage that until our 40's.
You just can't generalise, idiotic comments from either generation says more about those making them than anything else!

What's the point of this thread? Are you pissed off with your mum? I don't blame you but why slate a whole group of people?

My parents are 80. My friends and family range in age from 25 to 95. They don't come out with this shit about any generation. We have this strange tendency to look at indviduals.

"more than anything else"

I was born 1944 and despite living through rationing and recessions I think our generation was the lucky one. Free University education for all who qualified, guaranteed employment for most and the health service coped well. Additionally our dc were able to access grants for their education so we only had minimal expense there. Houses were affordable and a mortgage was usually 3x salary. We could retire at 60 (women) or even earlier in many cases. Having said that we have 5 dc in their forties all home owners with decent jobs and with children of their own. We do feel blessed and proud of the family who only had minimal help from us financially.

Your poor DM. Probably doesn't realise her child slags her off on a social media forum.

Your OP says more about you than her.

As virtually everyone else has said.
Yes, YABVU.

You are, indeed, being ridiculous to lump everyone born over 17/18/19 years (depending on whose definition you are using of 'baby boomers' together as if they were one homogeneous group.

You are also being ridiculous to fall for any kind of train of thought that says this or that generation have it so much harder, or so much easier than any other one. Every age group has had it's own challenges and own things that made life so much nicer / easier for them. You can only live with what you are presented with in your lifetime. Whinging and pretending life is wonderful for millions of people and everything you want to moan about is their fault is just making you sound childish.

I hate all this millennial v baby boomers. Nobody chose when they were born.

No. You are born into the circumstances your parents generation creates for you.

Boomers parents created excellent conditions for their children to grow up in despite the fact that they had lived through horrendous deprivation themselves.

But boomers took those advantages, used them up, then reused to pass them on because they wanted the best benefits for themselves rather than passing them on.

Oh fuck off with the baby boomer bashing. 😡.

I am a ‘baby boomer’, apparently. I shall go and hide under a rock, because everything is all my fault.

These threads never end well...

We should remember and discuss things that happened decades ago rather than dismiss them as irrelevant. Would be nice if we learned from them instead of repeating them each bloody generation.

MightyMucks "But boomers took those advantages, used them up, then reused to pass them on because they wanted the best benefits for themselves rather than passing them on"

The venue for those meetings must have been enormous.

But boomers took those advantages, used them up, then reused to pass them on because they wanted the best benefits for themselves rather than passing them on.

Utter rubbish.

I think one thing we can all agree on is that the next generation are screwed.

WomaninGreen

More lazy stereotyping.

I think the boomer-millenial debate is a Daily Mail generated fight. Each generation has different challenges and opportunities and these are terms we bandy around to stereotype people. Remember that boomers and millennials do not inhabit different worlds - they are all members of the same families and they love each other. My parents are (early) boomers. My dad retired on a full final salary pension and 20 years later probably still earns more than me, but he fully gets that it’s different now. My parents were of the generation where higher education wasn’t so easily available whereas I got a ‘free’ degree and masters, and my kids will have greater opportunities than both of us, but they will have to pay through the nose for it. My parents helped me to get on the housing ladder, and I will do the same for mine when the time comes. My dad would have loved to have gone to uni and took great delight in seeing his kids going.

I work in a university, and contrary to this ‘lazy, entitled, special snowflake’ image generated by certain sections of the press, I see most of my students going to uni and holding down jobs, serving burgers in McDonalds and folding jumpers in Primark, and then going out into an uncertain job market, and facing challenges and expectations that neither I nor my parents had to face. They are far from entitled or workshy, and I’ll bet their baby boomer grandparents are proud of them.

I’m a baby boomer (born in 1964). Why are you telling me my attitude and behaviour is the same as people born in the 1940’s OP?

Stupid generalisation.