So let’s get this straight you get to be born around the 50s/60s…
Pretty much free education
cheap / free dental and healthcare - maybe you paid for dental care but it was peanuts compare to thesedays.
cheap fuel prices… heck even the cars were cheap… picking up old bagers for a couple of quid trading them about like ■■■■■■■ cigars.
Paying tax? totally optional… Cash in hand is king. For the majority of the 60s/70s/80s and prob 90s.
House costs around 10-30 for a decent 3 bedroom house and it will shoot up in value by 300% by the time your 60+.
So yea, I am a little bitter. But oh no that is not it.
Now that your a old fat git and in your golden years.
You get free healthcare and free prescriptions because your over 60. Whereas me I have to pay full rates for prescriptions.
You get a full over the top national lockdown to protect you from covid. Does not matter if children will lose out on education (almost a million still not back in school) does not matter if loads of people lose their jobs… we gotta protect da boomers.
I actually could go on for quite a long time.
Truth is though I am not angry at the boomers. I am envious. I wish I was born in the 50s or 60s. you guys had it good. I literally finished school in the same year as the 2007/08 financial crash and it has only gotten worse.
Yes, I agree, today’s younger generations have inherited a crappier state of affairs than we had, but Hey! You guys have mobile phones, Tik Tok, and cable TV, that must surely count for something
The think I think that was most valuable, and which was impossible to truly appreciate at the time, was a freedom that younger generations can barely imagine. As long as you were back by whatever time your parents set, and you didn’t bring police to their door, we pretty much did whatever we wanted. And if we did something stupid it wasn’t video’ed and shared with millions of strangers.
Yes we got hit by teachers, police, even random adults if we lippy, but I would rather my kids could have now some of what we had then.
Oh… and pints of lager for 33p As young apprentices in 1978 we had a night out for well under a fiver
As a northerner, the housing situation was even better than you can imagine as a southerner. I bought my first property (with my other half) in 1982, a Tyneside-flat for £7,500 (yes that’s four figures). One night after a gig I let a couple of guys crash at our place - they were from Bedford and they were gobsmacked that two 20-somethings could buy their own place.
When we were both 22 and on very low wages we made our second purchase - a three bedroom semi-detached house with driveway, gardens and garage. That cost £28,000 in 1988, but we could afford that on the combined wages of an office worker and a shop worker. The same house now is virtually ten times more expensive
I suppose every generation thinks it was “better back in my day” but to be honest I think it really was. Like Lemmy said “The sixties and seventies were better in every way than now - that’s not me being nostalgic, they were - that’s a fact”.
God knows how people cope now after 40 years of thatcherism taking money from the poor to give to the already rich. In the 70s you could quit a well-paid job on the Friday morning and have another well-paid job by Friday afternoon, buy your own house, eat and drink without some supermarket boss ramping up the prices so he can pay himself 10 million a year and funnel the profits to shareholders in Saudi. What a rathole the UK has become.
Like Derek and Clive said - “I used to think this country was allright but now it has become a Gestapo Khazi”
You forgot rationing and petrol price.4 gallons and change from £1.Plus we had decent music to listen and sing along to.My first house cost £2500.Then i worked and paid NI and income tax for around 50 years so I figure i’ve paid for the life i enjoy now. On the other hand ,at 76,how long do I have left? Will the king/queen still send out telegrams when i’m 100 ?
You forget how so many of us suffered from Hemorrhoids from wagons that didn’t have proper seats just a perch.
Blood shot eyes, spinal problems, etc.
Bulging forearms that meant forever being challenged to arm wrestles, and then having to let them use both arms or even double up and still failing miserably.
WE did have better Tachos though, you could buy them in W H Smith and they worked even with a flat battery, all they needed was a ballpoint pen to work, and if you made a mistake there was always a spare or 2 with different start times.
whisperingsmith:
Bulging forearms that meant forever being challenged to arm wrestles, and then having to let them use both arms or even double up and still failing miserably.
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God that brings back memories . All that roping, sheeting and handballing meant that I had the upper body of an Olympic powerlifter with all the bulging veins! That’s before I mention the callouses on my hands that meant I could honestly put a cigarette out on the palms of my hands and not feel it. Ah, happy days
adam277:
I have not been to a pub since pre pandemic haha.
How they are still going god knows.
Do people still even do after work pints? What’s even the point when you well end up spending £30+ Just for a couple of pints and some grub.
What’s the alternative?
Sat in the house watching telly?
Some of us don’t mind spending a few quid for a bit of social life,.you can’t take it with you.
If you want to save it all up and be the richest bloke in the cemetery…crack on
I think our generation had the best time in the job.
I was talking to an old boy in the pub ex driver,.he said I feel sorry for these young lads on the road, they have never known what it was like to go to work in a truck and be as free as a bird…and he’s right.
The advent of mobile phones was the first nail in the coffin of being a trucker.
adam277:
I have not been to a pub since pre pandemic haha.
How they are still going god knows.
Do people still even do after work pints? What’s even the point when you well end up spending £30+ Just for a couple of pints and some grub.
What’s the alternative?
Sat in the house watching telly?
Some of us don’t mind spending a few quid for a bit of social life,.you can’t take it with you.
If you want to save it all up and be the richest bloke in the cemetery…crack on
+1.
I’d rather have 2 pints in a pub than a case of beers at home. Was on about this last week, you just can’t compare having a drink at home to the pub. The beer & atmosphere completely different.
Speaking of after work pints I was on CPC Thursday so was done for 10.30pm, got a good last hour in at the local.
Having said that, the garage where I served my time was close to a few boozers. Remember used to finish at 5 on a Friday, go in the Irish centre and struggle to get to the bar it was so busy. Unheard of now think it only opens 2 nights a week lol.
adam277:
I have not been to a pub since pre pandemic haha.
How they are still going god knows.
Do people still even do after work pints? What’s even the point when you well end up spending £30+ Just for a couple of pints and some grub.
What’s the alternative?
Sat in the house watching telly?
Some of us don’t mind spending a few quid for a bit of social life,.you can’t take it with you.
If you want to save it all up and be the richest bloke in the cemetery…crack on
+1.
I’d rather have 2 pints in a pub than a case of beers at home. Was on about this last week, you just can’t compare having a drink at home to the pub. The beer & atmosphere completely different.
Speaking of after work pints I was on CPC Thursday so was done for 10.30pm, got a good last hour in at the local.
Having said that, the garage where I served my time was close to a few boozers. Remember used to finish at 5 on a Friday, go in the Irish centre and struggle to get to the bar it was so busy. Unheard of now think it only opens 2 nights a week lol.
I’ve got a ■■■■ CPC today
The only thing that was an incentive to get my arse out of bed, is that I’m going straight to the pub afterwards to watch the England under 21 game.
adam277:
I have not been to a pub since pre pandemic haha.
How they are still going god knows.
Do people still even do after work pints? What’s even the point when you well end up spending £30+ Just for a couple of pints and some grub.
What’s the alternative?
Sat in the house watching telly?
Some of us don’t mind spending a few quid for a bit of social life,.you can’t take it with you.
If you want to save it all up and be the richest bloke in the cemetery…crack on
+1.
I’d rather have 2 pints in a pub than a case of beers at home. Was on about this last week, you just can’t compare having a drink at home to the pub. The beer & atmosphere completely different.
Speaking of after work pints I was on CPC Thursday so was done for 10.30pm, got a good last hour in at the local.
Having said that, the garage where I served my time was close to a few boozers. Remember used to finish at 5 on a Friday, go in the Irish centre and struggle to get to the bar it was so busy. Unheard of now think it only opens 2 nights a week lol.
I’ve got a [zb] CPC today
The only thing that was an incentive to get my arse out of bed, is that I’m going straight to the pub afterwards to watch the England under 21 game.
Did you “pass”?
My fave bit is “using the nozzle at a petrol pump” - they took you through from soup to nuts of how you take a nozzle off and put petrol into the fuel tank. I was goggle eyed.
robroy:
I think our generation had the best time in the job.
I was talking to an old boy in the pub ex driver,.he said I feel sorry for these young lads on the road, they have never known what it was like to go to work in a truck and be as free as a bird…and he’s right.
The advent of mobile phones was the first nail in the coffin of being a trucker.
Yea, I used to set off to Milan or somesuch and they used to say “Give us a call when you’re empty”. No mobile phone, no tracker, nothing. Just used to find a payphone and furiously pump Gettonis into it while I wrote down the reload instructions. Then they would say “Give us a call from Dover”.
And of course, anyone (*) could find work driving the length and breadth of Europe and doing this, eating in Centres Routiers, Autohofs, taking in the scenery which was always more impressive than another trip along the M1 to a Tesco RDC.
(*) Except Carryfast of course.
stu675:
I always thought you were a boomer, going by your avatar?
It’s mainly meant to ■■■■ off the I stand with Ukraine brigade.
Not so much a fan of Putin but dislike the ■■■■■■■■■ that blindly support Ukraine and want to spend billions funding what is essentially a proxy war between the US and Russia.
It’s mainly meant to ■■■■ off the I stand with Ukraine brigade.
Not so much a fan of Putin but dislike the [zb] that blindly support Ukraine and want to spend billions funding what is essentially a proxy war between the US and Russia.
Not so much a proxy war, but more a statement /warning/message that NATO and the west ain’t going to take any crap off a pure c like Putin and his belligerent Communist state on their Hitler esque power trip.
Ukraine first then who next otherwise.? Poland a NATO state?..
So in your eyes if you are a ■■■■ for being in the ‘‘I stand for Ukraine’’ brigade as you put it (and the US) ok, pleased to meet you,.I’m 'Mr ■■■■ ‘’. …and btw your avatar ain’t worked, it does not ■■■■ me off in the slightest tbh.
Patton had the right idea in 1945,. the Allied troops who liberated Europe, to join forces with what was left of the German Army, and turn on Russia until their evil regime was obliterated, but Eisenhower wouldn’t have it unfortunately, but just think how (better the last 80 years of history may have been if he had.
Have I morphed into Carryfast with that historical political analysis.
Dont forget,no looking at the phone in the classroom!!!
Didnt take your advice about the phone.
Had a game of online scrabble with some guy in California ,.while being distracted while I was being taught to ■■■■ eggs about stuff like morning pre ■■■■ check lists and securing of ■■■■ loads… yawn ■■■■ yawn…
Enjoyed the England game after I shot down the pub like Lewis Hamilton away from it all to catch it.
Why tf do they not make CPC courses into like refreshers ? concentrating on the changing of rules since the last one, instead of being fed the same basic rule 1/day 1 sh, that I learned ■■■■ years ago and have done ever since??
8 hours of my life (AND on my day off) that I will never get back,.and still 3 more ■■■■ sessions to go.
. All that roping, sheeting and handballing meant that I had the upper body of an Olympic powerlifter with all the bulging veins! That’s before I mention the callouses on my hands that meant I could honestly put a cigarette out on the palms of my hands and not feel it. Ah, happy days 
…and btw your avatar ain’t worked, it does not ■■■■ me off in the slightest tbh.
