Re: The baby boomers


"Derek F" <lordpilrigNOX@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Derek F" <lordpilrigNOX@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No one generation has the sole rights to being stroppy, for some people
( but thankfully not all) its just an age thing :-)

No, its the not the age thing but the experience thing. We were brought
up with good manners, good education, good service, good dress sense and
respect for our elders. Now we get stroppy with people who just don't
give a F**k:-)

Codswallop. I would put my last penny on the miserable ones in every
generation saying things like that ( erroneously) since the dawn of time.


Sure, my Granny thought that standards were dropping over fifty years ago
but like me she was not a Les Miserable. God knows what she would think
now. She left her rich womanising husband taking her five children with
her before WW1 and brought them up as normal well adjusted kids. My other
Granny was widowed around the same time and also brought up five kids on
her own.

As has happened in all generations throughout time .
Its the generalisation that I can't handle, the 'this country/generation'
did/do it all right - that one doesn't' Countries, generations are made up
of people. You get the good and the bad and the middling within any group of
people. Lumping them all together is never going to make any sense to me.

The older generation in the fifties were saying that the younger generation
were out of control, had no discipline, no respect, their way of dress,
music, attitudes were all wrong. Its the way of things. No doubt Adam and
Eve bemoaned the way the next generation turned out.

I am going to be rubbish at being old, I like our young people. I think they
get a bad press, the minority that have and cause problems get all the media
attention. We don't hear/read about the majority who are nice kids, work
hard, have fun, do stuff for charity, are a source of love and pride for
their families.

Living in Canada you must acknowledge the tremendous difference in life
and attitudes between there and most other countries to here.

Must I? Living in a country is an entirely different thing to visiting one.
Visit a country and you get a taste of it, surface stuff, at a time when you
are relaxed and there to enjoy it. Living somewhere for a sustained length
of time is different, you get to see the place and the people warts and all.
Once the initial newness and excitement has died down you see that though it
may look different and sound different, basicaly its people and they are the
same mix no matter where you are.
There is a big section of the population here in Canada who would question
your belief that its a better way of life and standard of living here. The
poverty and social deprivation amongst some groups of the First Nations
beats even our worst sink estates into a cocked hat. There are many young
families who are struggling to get by, to bring up their families. A lot of
people in the UK enjoyed the series about the ice truckers, how much was
mentioned about the oil workers in the camps that the truckers serve? Did
they happen to mention the massive drug, alcohol, gambling problems ...
along with the crime that goes hand in hand with that to fund and fuel it?
Once again, the majority of the oil workers do just that, they go and they
work, but there is a fair percentage whose lives go very badly wrong.

Canada ( the bit I have experience of anyway) is a great place, it has a lot
going for it, I really like life here, but there again I really like life at
home too.

Having lived in places the length and breadth of the UK , I have never been
burgled, never been threatened or attacked, never had any crime committed
against me. Same here in Canada.
I know that we have crime in the UK, its spread all over the tv and
newspapers everyday. Same here in Canada.
The majority of the folk I come into contact with at home ( of all ages) are
normal everyday people who do their best by their families , whether they
are one parent families or two parent ones. Same here in Canada.
No, I reckon that whether you are looking from across an ocean or across a
generation, though there are differences there are many more similarities.

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Ticketty᧧


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