Thread: OK Boomers, we've been called out.

Originally Posted by bob10

I have one I like, "OLD GUYS RULE",
on the back a series land rover, with " they don't make them like they used to " . Also, "the older I get, the better I was."

More Gen X I would have thought rather than millennials but not sure. One thing is for sure, if you don’t own a house by the time your retired it would be very difficult to get by in later years.

Originally Posted by Homestar

More Gen X I would have thought rather than millennials but not sure. One thing is for sure, if you don’t own a house by the time your retired it would be very difficult to get by in later years.

How are we boomers going to keep the millennials in line if we don't hang a guilt trip on them at every opportunity? [ thinks....did I just say that out loud ?]

" We live in a decaying age . Our youth spend their time in Tavens and are disrespectful to their elders . "


Anonymous graffiti circa 1800 BC , found in an internal passageway of a Pyramid .


Sort of makes all the speculation here redundant .

So presumably authored by a Boomer Plus.

Originally Posted by Fatso

" We live in a decaying age . Our youth spend their time in Tavens and are disrespectful to their elders . "


Anonymous graffiti circa 1800 BC , found in an internal passageway of a Pyramid .


Sort of makes all the speculation here redundant .

and underneath, was scribbled....

tayyib al-mur [ ok boomer in Arabic,]

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

THey are working there guts out trying to get ahead. Lucky me .... The boomers implemented HECs just in time for us to get through school (so nothing free like the boomers), we left school at a time where we were thrust into a huge recession "that we had to have" (thanks boomers). ... So if we could find a job, it was tiny wages while paying back a big chunk of it as HECs. if you were dumb/desperate enough to take out a supplementary loan you'd probably still be paying the bastard off now ( that was how the boomers dealt with the fact we couldn't afford university .......... offer a "supplementary loan".) I read the paper work and decided I'd starve before I applied for that.

In the mean time, the boomers sold off, the power, the water, the sewerage, the telecomunication, the roads......................... bloody anything that my grandparents slaved there arses off to build. All the public infastructure my grandparents built offf there own backs, the public, halls, the pools, the public spaces. The bloody boomers are still desperately trying to flog them off and shut them down. They won't be happy until they have sold everything to there developer mates that they can lay there hands on.

Not to worry, us Gen Xs's will soon be doing the same to the millenials Not only that, we'll put as much care and effort into aged care for the boomers as they did into making our lives easy

Really, this generational bull**** is all just that. The world has changed immeasurably in the last 100years. You can't judge historical decisions unless you lived through them and understood the circumstances decisions were made under. Just imagine how much fun the next 100years is going to be. I wonder if those damn millenials will look up from there damn phones for long enough to realise they are now in charge

seeya,
Shane L.

Are you kidding? The only place those discussions will be held is ON their phones.... [getting popcorn now]

While I’m a Gen X’er I do get tired of the same old rhetoric about how all the worlds ills are the Boomers fault to be honest. Free Uni was only for the very high achieving and HECS gave everyone a chance to go to Uni if they wanted - only half the story being told as always when people blame the Boomers for no fee Uni - its the other way around, so those that got to go and have a HECS or HELP debt should be thanking the Boomers. And how is it the Boomers fault about a recession? They happen during the natural cycle of the economy - just because those in Power at the time were Boomers doesn’t make it their fault.

I think people need to do some research before blaming everything on them, and also they should have a think about what they would have done in the same circumstances if they were born back then and not when they were. Will we be blaming the millennials in 50 years time for the worlds problems then?

All needs putting into perspective IMO. Boomers have done far more good than not over the years and I find it disrespectful that this name calling is going on - it’s immature and petty, but maybe all Millennials are exactly that? - oh look, another sweeping generalisation there but seems to fit how others are seeing things...

Speaking from the perspective of someone who was born before the baby boom, a few things we had to manage that would give the boomers pause

University - your parents were rich or you had to compete academically for a scholarship. Not many of them, except ones that tied you to a specific employer for typically five years (competitive entry for them too). And in any case the minimum academic standard for entry was a lot higher than it is today; usually required two languages plus a couple of other hard subjects, plus, of course, English. Only a few years before my time you needed Latin for university entrance - I think you still needed it for medicine the year before me.

Youth allowance - never heard of that. You could get unemployment relief, but only if over 21. Otherwise your parents were expected to feed you and put a roof over your head.

Medicare - you paid your doctor/hospital, but most of the things doctors can do today did not exist, so it didn't matter too much. And ten times as many of our children died before they started school as today.

Vaccination - smallpox had been eradicated in Australia, and vaccines (not free) had started to reduce the incidence of whooping cough and diphtheria. Everything else that can be vaccinated against today, you survived or you did not. The big fears were probably polio and TB.

Antibiotics - became available but scarce, after I started school. People still died regualrly from simple infections - including cellulitis I got when I was ten, and probably would not have survived if I had got it two years earlier.

Annual leave - two weeks maximum for almost everyone.

Long service leave - to get any, you needed to be with the same employer for fifteen years.

Superannuation - only available to a tiny percentage of employees working for either governments or major companies, and then only for senior employees.

Tax - for a number of years I paid a marginal rate of 67 cents in the dollar. And stop worrying about 10% GST - sales tax could be up to about 30%

Mortgage rate - has never been as low as it is now.

Workplace safety - what's that?

I could go on, but these are a few of the things us older Australians lived with, as well as easy-to-get jobs and - my feeling is that if we managed to make a go of it and survived, we should be entitled to a reasonably comfortable old age.