The "generation Wars"

[Zaranna]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archi...5/age_wars.html

[DoubleBubbleTrouble]

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[BuyingBear]

Remember, there is no such thing as society, not if you're under 30 anyway, you pay your way through uni on your own and take on a load of debt to pay the fees, your tax burden will be ever rising but your own pension will be worthless, you will need to acquire private medical cover or die waiting, if you want the luxury of a 1 bed shoebox apartment on the wrong side of town you can take on a 50 year IO mortgage, if you miraciously want children (well, maybe one) you need to keep your other half in work right up until the last day and then buy in some Bulgarian nanny straight after, then you need to fork out for public school to ensure they can just spell their own name and get to university age in one piece, and then you need to save a £100k or so to pay for their tuition fees; you can leave them to worry about the £750k apartments built on a pinhead. Oh, and don't go on holiday because you'll screw up the environment, better to stay at work and pay off those student debts from 30 years ago. Unfortunately those crafty Chinese have just worked out Black-Scholes so you can just p*** off now, maybe you could become a cluster co-ordinator?

This, my friends, perfectly explains the scenes you see on an average Saturday night, it's so plain to see now, along with everything else.

[spuggy]

Surely the route would be to leave school early with no qualifications, start having children at twelve, be given a luxury 8 bed mansion by the local council with everything paid for and 40 grand a year child support, which you then save and buy your council house for £25k, whilst your kids steal Plasma tellys to pay for their crack habit, and a new car for you every few weeks. Utter laziness is the way forward!

Nu Lab wanted to steal from the rich and give to the poor, but then they realised they and all their mates were rich, so they'd steal from the middle classes instead - more of them and much easier!

Stop the dole after 6 months - automatic army enlistment after that, and stop child benefit after the second child - then see how many are still sat on their ****! we won't need any immigrants to keep the wages down as everyone will work, and immigrants won't come here as there will be no benefits or easy ride for them, and due to our massive army we could re establish the British Empire.

Problem solved. - Next?

[BuyingBear]

Surely the route would be to leave school early with no qualifications, start having children at twelve, be given a luxury 8 bed mansion by the local council with everything paid for and 40 grand a year child support, which you then save and buy your council house for £25k, whilst your kids steal Plasma tellys to pay for their crack habit, and a new car for you every few weeks. Utter laziness is the way forward!

Indeed, when you put it like that it seems the only ones' lacking initiative are those who go actually out to work in order to pay for it all!

The chav's and boomers deserve each other, hopefully everyone else will be able to escape in time.

[GCS15]

Remember, there is no such thing as society, not if you're under 30 anyway, you pay your way through uni on your own and take on a load of debt to pay the fees, your tax burden will be ever rising but your own pension will be worthless, you will need to acquire private medical cover or die waiting, if you want the luxury of a 1 bed shoebox apartment on the wrong side of town you can take on a 50 year IO mortgage, if you miraciously want children (well, maybe one) you need to keep your other half in work right up until the last day and then buy in some Bulgarian nanny straight after, then you need to fork out for public school to ensure they can just spell their own name and get to university age in one piece, and then you need to save a £100k or so to pay for their tuition fees; you can leave them to worry about the £750k apartments built on a pinhead. Oh, and don't go on holiday because you'll screw up the environment, better to stay at work and pay off those student debts from 30 years ago. Unfortunately those crafty Chinese have just worked out Black-Scholes so you can just p*** off now, maybe you could become a cluster co-ordinator?

else.

Spot on i'm afraid. Society is over. It's everyman for himself. The boomers have acted this way their whole life, now they want to play fair?

As I've said before - It's not over until it's over. Boomers are sitting pretty right now but the trickiest part of the scam is coming up, to get someone else to pay for their retirement.

[SHERWICK]

Remember, there is no such thing as society, not if you're under 30 anyway, you pay your way through uni on your own and take on a load of debt to pay the fees, your tax burden will be ever rising but your own pension will be worthless, you will need to acquire private medical cover or die waiting, if you want the luxury of a 1 bed shoebox apartment on the wrong side of town you can take on a 50 year IO mortgage, if you miraciously want children (well, maybe one) you need to keep your other half in work right up until the last day and then buy in some Bulgarian nanny straight after, then you need to fork out for public school to ensure they can just spell their own name and get to university age in one piece, and then you need to save a £100k or so to pay for their tuition fees; you can leave them to worry about the £750k apartments built on a pinhead. Oh, and don't go on holiday because you'll screw up the environment, better to stay at work and pay off those student debts from 30 years ago. Unfortunately those crafty Chinese have just worked out Black-Scholes so you can just p*** off now, maybe you could become a cluster co-ordinator?

This, my friends, perfectly explains the scenes you see on an average Saturday night, it's so plain to see now, along with everything else.

... oh dear, it's true (especially the black-scholes bit, though I wuld add india there)