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Gen Z are quality. Puts my millennial generation to shame.

 

Or indeed: can you imagine being a small black girl in the 80’s and walking into a toy shop to be greeted by hundreds of perfect little white dolls? Because the only kids who’s feelings mattered were the white kids.

 

Nothing like using a personal anecdote to disprove something that is true for the generation. You might as well say "I didn't go to university and therefore it proves that no-one should"...something I hear a lot.

"Born in the postwar period, baby boomers reaped the advantages of free education, thriving industry, stable jobs and affordable homes. This age cohort might put good fortune down to long hours and elbow grease, but structural advantages are often invisible to those who benefit from them. Now, as a result of the marketisation of the education system, deindustrialisation, insecure work and a skyrocketing housing market, the economic outcomes for younger generations are worse than previous ones. They’re underpaid, insecure, in debt and often forced to find work far from home in the UK’s major cities. Of course, other advantages, driven by class and race, significantly shape realities at either end of the age divide, but access to economic security is undoubtedly the main driver of intergenerational inequality".

My point is that this 'outrage/cancel culture' is labelled as a modern invention - when in reality it emanates from the older generation (and has done throughout history).

 

Is Spud Murphy still Spud Murphy?

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But that wouldn’t have been available to you as a child, indeed when I was a child the majority of disabled people were still ‘hidden away’.

 

Yes but if he had been known as Mr Spud Murphy he would be now Spud Murphy but because Spud Murphy hasn't ever been Mr Spud Murphy then Spud Murphy is fine.

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Just what I thought.








What`s he on abart.

 

You do understand what a sweeping statement is don't you?
You say I'm using a personal anecdote to disprove something that is true for a generation.
Well what else can I do you are quoting something you have read about and I am telling you as someone included in it as far as myself and many people I know also from that generation its generalising
b0llocks!
As with all generations some might have benefitted from what you said , but I can assure you that, that is far from across the board, just as it isn't true to say all later generations are struggling.
You also quote 'thriving industry' when I and my classmates left school ( hardly anybody I knew went to Uni) there were hardly any jobs , each position attracted loads of applications ( as they do now) and you had to grab something and move on from there. That would be because most of our parents lived in council houses and had nowt so we had to contribute.
Apart from that ..crack on!

 

True. And it's a really good bellwether of how much of a ******** someone is, if they make a point about, laugh at, or object to someone identifying as another gender in a way that has no effect on anyone other than themselves.

 

once a spud, always a spud

 

If only this forum had someone to tell us about political correctness,snowflakes,wokes and gammons and how not to be racist.

 

Yes I do understand what one is but you're clearly unwilling to consider another perspective. I'll leave the discussion there as you clearly don't have any interest in debate. Thanks for your input though.

 

How do you explain these two I’ve got then. One looks like a c0ck and the other looks like Boris Johnson.

 

They're one and the same

 

This is a nothing story, They’re not changing the name. Just the overall brand. There’ll still be a mr and a Mrs, but I’m guessing a child and dog or whatever else.

Uproar over nothing, too many people jump straight on the lgbtq+ movement like it’s had something to do with it. It’s just marketing moguls getting your clicks. And stoking up bad feeling.

 

That's funny. The one I bought only came with little plastic figures.

 

The two Siamese cats in Disney’s ‘Lady and the Tramp’ now have a warning that they’re anti-Asian stereotypes.

Anyone who’s owned a Siamese would know that the way the sneaky little sods are portrayed is spot on. That’s what they’re like. As cats.

 

For the first and probably only time, I’m standing up for NYR.
Whilst ‘baby boomers’ did indeed have all the advantages in your post; the boomers on this site will share some characteristics that mitigate those huge advantages you’re assuming.

We’re likely not ‘post war’ but just fall into the end of the boom (and an assumption we’re working class kids from a mining background);

So we did benefit from peace, the NHS and decent education, though the advantages many working class kids got from the grammar school system had largely disappeared

And whilst universities were open to ‘all’, less than a dozen kids from my year at a large comprehensive went to Uni, most of us left school to start work so we could contribute to the household income.

By the time we left school, full employment wasn’t a reality and indeed by the time I was 30 I’d lived through at least 2 periods of serious recession / mass unemployment. Most of my generation have suffered at least one redundancy, some will have suffered several.

And by the time we were buying a house, half of the difference between 60’s house prices and today’s prices had gone.

I appreciate the things I’m lucky to have; I’ll get to retire at 60, not 50 like many post war boomers. My kids certainly won’t get that, but neither will most of my mates (of working age). Whilst most of my older mates got to retire pre 60.

But I’m nearing retirement still with a mortgage, most of my adult life has been lived on a fairly modest income, it’s only in my 50’s that things are starting to be ‘comfortable’. Plenty of the generation X people I know had a University education and have been comfortable from their mid 30’s.

So whilst your ‘boomer’ statements are correct, they don’t apply equally to all of us. In fact they hardly apply at all to those of us from a working class background.

 

If we are going to talk about potatoes I think this thread from Statistyke was more interesting.
http://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/britains-greatest-discovery.298142/

 

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Good to see a far more balanced debate. As I said in the second post, the age and class of those within that generation could lead to significantly different outcomes than the general 'benefits' of being in that generation. I'm not from either of the generations mentioned so have no axe to grind with either, but was trying to point out that those who are seemingly most offended by suggested changes are those in older generations (and this has generally always been the case).

When you compare the benefits and drawbacks from being from any particular generation, you can understand why people may have a particular perspective. My original post was that I can understand why Gen-Z desire change for their future, and their children's future. I therefore don't like that they're called 'snowflakes' for wanting to right the wrongs of the past...even if it doesn't meet with the sensibilities of all.