Has there ever been a more annoying generation?

[Moon108]

I’m ashamed to live in these times today. I feel slightly jealous about those in the generation before.

I’m talking about people constantly putting labels on themselves. We can’t mention gender now. All this “they/them”. I’m confused. They all seem confused and there are so many types of people now!

I’m talking about the tonnes of very middle class people I know that are very vocal about environmental issues and climate change whilst they are self confessed petrol heads or own two cars or think that buying packaged sandwiches from Waitrose is good for the world as they “use less packaging” and buy tonnes of new clothes shipped in from China and simply must go on two holidays a year.

I’m talking about this generation that are seemingly “triggered” by every single sensitive topic on the internet.

I just am failing to see much good.

I did other generations feel like this?

The girl urging others to donate to refuges, even if she gives nothing herself, has the moral highground over the person saying everyone is a wanker.

You forget the hilarity of having Trump as our President....

I think you get thick people who follow trends like sheep without thinking of the consequences, for self-gratification, in any generation. Its just the way they do it that changes.

I've just watched Quentin Tarantino's new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which features the murder by hippy commune dwellers of Sharon Tait and several others. Hippies sound pretty annoying and not just the bad ones. Free love and shagging around aren't really a very great idea.

Then theres my parents and PIL's generation. They were pretty irresponsible. My parents couldn't plan ahead despite being given opportunities for free or next to nothing that people just don't get now. And my PIL are as selfish as it comes, having retired in their fifties on final salary pensions schemes and spent the last 20 years doing nothing but holiday and buying stuff, while reminding everyone else that they need to work as hard as they did to deserve it. They wouldn't even have got the middling jobs they had now, because they don't have any qualifications because they dropped out of school and uni respectively.

Just now, I find the people who live in towns and cities who tell farmers how to farm and not to wear wool or eat meat while leading lives totally divorced from the sources of production which enable them to lead these lives rather frustrating... or climate change protestors with plastic bottles who drive their children to school!

I feel young people cannot empathise with how society was for previous generations , it's probably always been the case but previously we didn't have the wherewithal to constantly lambast them as if we are more intelligent superior beings.

We could just send them all to boot camp. The lot of them. They’d be no worrying about boys liking pink, which gender or pronouns to use or who sleeps with who. Boot camp will put them all to work and they won’t have time to think, talk or post about it.

I thikn we should all try to get along with everyone. I have drunk tap water from a pint glass for decades so not a big plastic user but don't expect an environmental medal for that. I think people who can afford to buy drinks in plastic bottles are financially very lucky.

I don't think things change much - there has always been a generation gap of some kind although before people enjoyed teenage years ( I discovered one ancestor's first husband died in a mining accident with his NINE year old son who was also working there in about 1839) and worked from a young age there was probably not the time or money for young people to complain too much and they were probably married with a child by 22 as I was evenin the 1980s whilst working full time.

In general I wish everyone could be kinder to others - we seem to be very divided between brexit remain, labour tories, old young at present. North south too.

Also we cannot generalise. Someone above mentions a relative who retired early. My father of the same generation worked full time until he was 77 and died at 79. He paid 40% tax on his pension for a start. Not all older people are living the high life on 30 year retirements and plenty only have a state pension anyway. Some womeh have even less as they gave up some of their pension hoping to live on their husband's.

One of the problems for the very young people marching to save the environment is that they hit the problem all generations have had of wanting change but not having the means at their disposal to make changes.
They are demanding governments act but don't say what they must do. A gov banning cars for example will be voted out of office.

over the generation that voted for Brexit, fucked the planet, and think they’re terribly clever and insightful for pointing out younger people’s ‘hypocrisy’ over climate change.

They also fucked the economy and are sneering at this generation of youth who are the ones who will also have to pay for that.

I don't think the inter generational squabbling in either direction helps. I am in my 50s and I didn't vote for brexit. I voted remain as did everyone in this family.

there are good points on all sides. Older people fought hard against the germans to ensure British gays, blacks, jews and others were not enslaved and gassed. My parents had bombs falling over their heads in the UK. At tiems there was not enough food. It has not been a walk in the park for other generatinos and now a uniquely difficult time for young people today. Eg I worked until i went into labour and went back to work full time 2 weeks later. I used annual leave for my 2 weeks off. Would anyone do that today? I had no pay rights in that period. I am not moaning. I have and still have a good life but I have no pension other than state as I have given it to the children for housing. I don't have a second home or expensive stuff because I am funding my chidlren at university without student fees etc etc. I had to apply for 2135 jobs and had 25 interviews after graduating before getintg a job as there was a recession.

there are hard and good times in most 80 year life spans of all generations but if you sit there thinking you are hard done to you never get too far in life. Better just deal with the hand you are dealt, put on ab ig smile and make the best of it. The idea that climate change i a new thing is also wrong. In the 60s and 70s people were up in arms after teh Silent Spring book came out. Hippies were marching on the subject and having more than one child meant you were like dirt on a shoe because of the population explosion.