GBD

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GBD

@DJBSBC

30+, British, politically homeless.

England, United Kingdom Katılım Haziran 2021

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GBD@DJBSBC·18h

@WhatNowDoc If I said - I want you to create a plane. I’ll give you a basic chassis with engine. You build the shell, add the wheels, fuel system etc, good luck - they probably wouldn’t give you clearance at JFK. In 1969, they’d have given you an hand. ‘Trying things’ got things done.

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Robin Redmile-Gordon@WhatNowDoc·1d

I’m sorry, I used to think the “conspiracy theorists” were just nutters. This week I’ve decided we were conned. Hear me out. That 1969 spacecraft I watched on my black and white TV had less computing power than your wristwatch, less than some thermostatic controllers I have on my walls. This week NASA sent a $93billion spacecraft to *orbit* the moon, just orbit, in preparation for an actual moon landing in a few years time. Why on earth would it take us 57 years, and a $93b test flight, with the compute power and comms facilities we have today, if we’d already done it successfully, once before, with so little, 57 years ago. Nah, I’m now with the conspiracy theorists.

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫@Matt_Pinner

Who among us watched man’s first walk on the moon? Sunday, July 20, 1969.

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GBD@DJBSBC·20h

@jackisgeeky @PeterHarry567 Would you sooner have 30 years of 1k a month on a property you still owned at the end, or a 150k one off ‘lump sump’ and hand over the property?

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Jack@jackisgeeky·21h

@DJBSBC @PeterHarry567 So is rent. When you die you stop paying it.

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Peter Harry@PeterHarry567·1d

One thing puzzles me. A young couple cannot get a mortgage for 900 quid, yet they pay 1200 quid rent? What are the banks doing?

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GBD@DJBSBC·20h

@ThomHuntley @matevermore “Who the fuck is dat guy?”. Know him as an actor just inserted into the ecosystem seemed strange.

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ThomHuntley@ThomHuntley·22h

@DJBSBC @matevermore ?

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Mathilde@matevermore·1d

Tommy Shelby surviving basically everything all that to be randomly killed by the most uninteresting and bland villain one could imagine

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GBD@DJBSBC·22h

@jackisgeeky @PeterHarry567 Yes but that profit is finite based on the repayment

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Jack@jackisgeeky·23h

@DJBSBC @PeterHarry567 The banks make just as much profit from mortgage lending.

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GBD@DJBSBC·23h

@jackisgeeky @PeterHarry567 Or… it’s profit. Why let somebody own something, when you can charge them more and still retain the object 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Jack@jackisgeeky·1d

@PeterHarry567 It’s called credit risk analysis. They don’t care about your affordability.

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GBD@DJBSBC·23h

@justaphag6 We had fuck all growing up, it’s given me a touch of an inferiority complex. I’m juxtaposed between trying to be with my two boys as much as I can whilst working ridiculous hours to try and provide for them. I’m 36 and want their lives to be amazing, can’t imagine how I wouldn’t.

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Nicole Pizza@justaphag6·1d

Such a bizarre world we live in, where the older generations actively want you to suffer, just because they did when they were younger. no desire for growth and change.

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GBD@DJBSBC·23h

@JohnBecher7 @lukerobertblack Most of the landlords on our books are boomers, John. 3-4 houses. If you use housing as a method to enrich yourselves the people who can’t afford housing probably won’t think too kindly of you? Then mix in the condescension, not trying to win any popularity contests are they.

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John Becher@JohnBecher7·23h

@lukerobertblack Why is that the fault of boomers luke ?

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Luke Robert Black 🌳@lukerobertblack·1d

People aged 18-25 spend on average 50% of their salary (after tax) on their rent according to Property118.

Rush@exRAF_Al

Young people tend to spend more on transport, consumer goods, clothing, children, entertainment and holidays. Pensioners tend to spend more on tradesmen, healthcare, local goods and services, housing costs, gifts and energy. The idea that pension money is wasted, is facile. It funds the salaries and jobs of people who would otherwise be overlooked or in sectors that would be meaningfully smaller.

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@venusdazed Exactly, hence the African American experience being so pleasant. Sure there’s ’the talk’, the stand your ground, ropes in trees reminding them of their past but they probably don’t get called names at sportsball! Well, they do, as per the reports from NFL players. But yeah.

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karo@venusdazed·1d

have noticed europeans will rightfully call out american politics but still have the social perception and treatment of POC and foreigners from 1955 like in public spaces in the US even certain white people in the crowd would fight you over talking like this

BarçaTimes@BarcaTimes

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Lamine Yamal was subjected to intense abuse from the crowd at the Metropolitano Stadium yesterday. “You’re very ugly.” “Go back to Morocco, go back.”

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@Solo9iii His mate should still be in prison now for those jeans and treads.

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Kenzo@Solo9iii·1d

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Kenzo@Solo9iii·1d

Ian Wright and his friend racially abusing and beating up the African Traffic warden, But but “uncle wrighty” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@OtitoNosike I like him. Sometimes think he leans into the long way around an answer but maybe it’s genuine. He’s all round a good bloke by all accounts 🤷🏻‍♂️

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@OtitoNosike Genuinely, I think he got men onto something better than the Andrew Tate offering. He taught men to be monsters, controlled aggression monsters. Then showed his own fragility. I don’t care at all about that, but some will have seen that and discounted his other comments maybe.

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Lukas Not Podolski@OtitoNosike·1d

I have never understood, and still do not understand, why people loathe Jordan Peterson. For me, he is the most compelling philosopher of the 21st century. His ideas have reshaped how the modern man, particularly in the West, sees himself. And this is not even limited to the West. Any sensible young man can recognize the value in his thinking; lessons that, if practiced as he presents them, have the power to turn one’s life around.

The Knowledge Archivist@KnowledgeArchiv

"The ability to articulate is the most dangerous thing you can possess." —Jordan B. Peterson

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@LozNorthon @kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc Only difference today is 🛜/📱. It’s needed for work. I do wonder if today’s luxuries were available back then, with the monthly payments, whether there would have been this level of abstinence often mentioned. You can’t have what doesn’t exist. Pubs + cigs sold well.

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Loz Southon@LozNorthon·1d

@DJBSBC @kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc Not unsympathetic. But some some young people today seem to think life was easy and we were handed everything on a plate. What is considered essential these days is massively different. Essential in my day was a roof over our heads, bills and food. Everything else was a bonus.

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Graham Kemp@accountingetc·1d

From putting a deposit down on my first flat to becoming mortgage free took me 36 years. Yes, kids, it was *that* easy.

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@joseph_gellman I was busy doing *literally anything at all other than taking responsibility* my WI coffee meetings!

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Joseph Gellman 🇺🇦@joseph_gellman·1d

I can’t wait to claim I never saw this in 40 years time then demand thousands of pounds in compensation

BBC News (UK)@BBCNews

State pension age starts rising to 67 - here's how much you get and when bbc.in/4m6ZZJe

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@LozNorthon @kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc Today’s rent is nearly half the minimum wage in Salford. How can people save for a deposit when left with £100 a month if they’re lucky? Literally everything has gone up aside from wages since you bought your place Loz. Inflation adjusted for ‘avg’ pay due to no min wage then.

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Loz Southon@LozNorthon·1d

@DJBSBC @kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc I was renting for a while, so paying rent etc., and somewhat naive at that age. But hindsight's a wonderful thing. "Wasting money" is relative. What young people consider 'essential' these days was unheard of then.

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@stevenson_les @accountingetc Seems that literally nobody ever ever ever had a takeaway, holiday or nice car back in the good old days. Probably why industry fucked off if nobody was buying anything other than 2 up 2 downs and second hand sofas.

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Les Stevenson@stevenson_les·1d

@accountingetc No holidays, no cars, no eating out, full time job and market stalls at weekend, no designer clothes. I too got on the ladder early and moved up it. I also moved 200 miles away from family, friends and what some call “their support network” for a better career.

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc Could you do that at 22 now Amanda?

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AMANDA@AMANDAMALES10·1d

@accountingetc Bought first house aged 22. We had a shite car, never went out, never had take aways, and lived with a salmon pink hand me down velour sofa for years. God it was miserable 😀

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@LozNorthon @kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc How much was your house, Loz? Assuming a wage of c£800-1000 per year, if you’d saved up over those 7 years and didn’t waste money you could have bought it outright?

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Loz Southon@LozNorthon·1d

@kokeshimum @AMANDAMALES10 @accountingetc At 22 I'd been working 7 years. 'Bought' (as in got a mortgage for) my first house, '2 up, 2 down' at 23. Still had to pay 'rates' (now council tax), utility bills, eat, transport to work, clothes...

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@CiaranMDuffy @stuey_beef You say you can’t compare, but they both killed people illegally. Also the IRA weren’t just a rag tag organisation, they were an army that weren’t recognised as official. There’s a lot of recognised, buried trauma involved for all and not sure how it affects current ‘peace’.

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Ciaran Duffy@CiaranMDuffy·1d

@DJBSBC @stuey_beef … “a terrorist organisation” and cannot be held to the same level of responsibility or accountability as the Great British Army. Can’t compare apples and oranges. The British Army owed a duty of care to their citizens

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Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@stuey_beef·2d

A British soldier served in Northern Ireland. Risked his life. Followed orders. Came home. He is now in his 70s. Keir Starmer’s Government has decided he deserves to spend his final years in court. The IRA got the Good Friday Agreement. The veterans got Keir Starmer. Remember that next time he talks about “values.”

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GBD@DJBSBC·1d

@LindaPears87262 I grew up with the church interspersed with my school and general life. Not all encompassing but always present. I hold that fondly, don’t feel the need to be pious and attend every single week but it’s not gone away necessarily because it’s not as displayed.

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Linda Pearson@LindaPears87262·1d

Please don't misunderstand this tweet. I respect a person's religious beliefs & right to celebrate them but; when did we become obsessive about Christianity in the UK. I'm 69 & the only time we went to church was a wedding, christening or funeral.

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@WhatNowDoc @jackisgeeky @PeterHarry567 @ThomHuntley @matevermore @justaphag6 @JohnBecher7 @lukerobertblack