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CXRAndy

Epic Member
 

CXRAndy

Epic Member
Resounding No from the English people

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CXRAndy

Epic Member
She's only 62
The f uck is she talking about

She's remembering her childhood or those of what her parents told her.

It was like she described, work hard, no holidays or very seldom, very few domestic appliances.

Live within your means. Now the left has created gimme dependants of society
 

C R

Legendary Member
Tbf, she is describing my childhood, and I'm in my 60s. To take it further, while I was a child there remained a row of flats down the road which still had communal outside toilets. When you get old it is hard not to notice how much things have changed.

I'm 53, and what she describes is more or less how I grew up. Having said that, I'm not sure what the point of it was, a Three Yorkshiremen reprise?
 

Shortfall

Active Member
She's only 62
The f uck is she talking about

It's an accurate description of my childhood growing up in the 70s. Boomers have done well over time and there's no denying it, but what she's describing is that it was pretty grim in the post war years right up until the mid to late 80s. Any Boomers who bought a house and joined defined benefit of final salary pension scheme will be quids in now but a lot of them will have died young from industrial diseases, been injured at work because there was virtually no Health and Safety, and will have lived through privations like the three day week and regular black outs and power cuts.
 

TailWindHome

Well-Known Member
It's an accurate description of my childhood growing up in the 70s. Boomers have done well over time and there's no denying it, but what she's describing is that it was pretty grim in the post war years right up until the mid to late 80s. Any Boomers who bought a house and joined defined benefit of final salary pension scheme will be quids in now but a lot of them will have died young from industrial diseases, been injured at work because there was virtually no Health and Safety, and will have lived through privations like the three day week and regular black outs and power cuts.

I mean, I was born in '74, and I agree that life has changed massively. But my dad raised 4 kids on what was the equivalent of minimum wage clerical job. This paid a mortgage on a suburban 3 bed semi, a car, and my mum stayed home

We'd more than one pair of jeans (each) and more than satsumas at Xmas.

In fairness to her, she did go to school on 'estate'.....it was on 20 acres

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