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@JohnLeePettim13 Sort of same story here - describes my 34 year old daughter, and my son doesn't want it, but he needs it because he is on the autism spectrum. He's high functioning, can live independently, but will never earn enough to provide everything he needs.

Ok here's my boomer story: I have a daughter 34 yrs old. She put herself thru college, has a good job with the government. Married a miner, they had 2 sons. They bought a house and later bought a cottage on a beautiful lake. They don't complain, realize life is hard but the harder they work at it the better it becomes. When I want to talk about my will she say's Dad we don't want any of it, spend it all on yourself, you've worked hard for it, enjoy it. You see if you raise them right, give them a strong work ethic they need nothing from their boomer father. It's then you know you've done your job right.

I did not pay extra to go to London for several months - it was included in the tuition I paid to my US college. Pub food was gross, no offense, but it beat making boiled cabbage and veggies in the communal kitchen of where we were housed, which was what we did most times for dinner. We had crusty rolls, a bit of fruit and coffee for breakfast, ate lunch in whatever museum our lessons took place and then we were on our own for dinner. Inflation was very high - double digits and living was expensive, even fast food was expensive. We were not living a high life. I took exactly one vacation with my parents growing up, but I did fly places and travel with friends.

@MinnesotaFan92 @DapperD71783574 @SandyofSuffolk If you ate pub food & studied in Europe you were well off, middle class. That's not the experience of working class Brits. If we had a holiday it was camping/staying with grandparents/day trip to the seaside in a coach. Didn't even have a car until mid 70s. We never ate out.

Just so you know. Boomers didn't have fast food. Except fish and chips. Boomers didn't have ready meals. Except Vesta beef curry. Look it up. Boomers didn't have colour TVs, front loading washing machines, central heating or holidays abroad. Boomers didn't have babymoons or baby showers nor did they go on stag or hen weekends. Boomers didn't go to restaurants. Except on birthdays. Boomers didn't have new clothes every year, every season. They made do and mended. But Boomers had a fabulous time in the 1960s to 1980s because people were friendly, respectful, dignified and hardworking. Boomers also had law and order and a judiciary who punished ALL criminals. Boomers were happy with their lot. Yes. I'm a Boomer. Just so you know.

@PatriotBumer @SandyofSuffolk If someone makes a statement that boomers went without certain things, it's false if even one person had a different experience. The original statement should been qualifying - The majority of boomers, or Many boomers, or Boomers in the UK, or US boomers etc.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk Maybe you did. A lot of us didn’t.

@ShonAustin23 @SandyofSuffolk What is "a vet period of time?"

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk I’m thinkin he means during a vet period of time. And he’s right. 🫡

@3kwords @ChristineKelsa4 @DapperD71783574 @SandyofSuffolk Agreed. My parents sacrificed big time in many ways.

@ChristineKelsa4 @MinnesotaFan92 @DapperD71783574 @SandyofSuffolk Yes, the boomer's parents had it tough. The boomers had things much better as young adults in the late 1970s and 1980s

Water does not ever disappear. In farming and gardening, the water that truly gets "consumed" by growing plants is mostly returned to the air through evaporation from soil and transpiration from plants. The rest either recharges groundwater, or runs off into rivers and eventually back to the ocean. The water vapor in the air is redeposited to Earth in the form of rain, which eventually replenishes streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. The same thing is true of cow and other mammals that we consume. Some water eturns to the ground water, or is returned to the air, some is saved in the muscle and is transferred to the person consuming the meat.

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

So what's your point? You had a different life. The original post claimed boomers went without certain things on a list. I claimed it was false, because I was a boomer and had all of those things. Many people had different experiences which proves my point that no one can truthfully make a statement about what all boomers had or did not have, only what he/she experienced.

@MinnesotaFan92 @ZwodderFudgel @SandyofSuffolk I'm from a poor family in the 60s. B&W TV. Fish n chips was fast food. We had no freezer. A very old car that started using a turn handle. Mum had a mangle to squeeze water out of the washing before drying outside. One pair of school shoes that doubled up as best shoes.

@randa8385_bear @SandyofSuffolk Talking about my experience.............

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk Not false, there were places outwith USA.

I was talking to someone from the UK, not New Zealand. I've no idea what was going in NZ at any time because I've never been there. I'm a boomer, I do know what I grew up with, and it was everything on the original list. I also know what was available in London as a boomer because I spent several months there. Don't get your knickers in a bundle because you live in the middle of nowhere. I'm sure everything came late there.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk Jesus Christ.@Minnesotafan92.Dont be telling me/others what we had when U didn't live our lives.I grew up in New Zealand.WE DIDN'T HAVE THOSE THINGS.I know what I lived.Takeout/Restaurant,new clothes rarely.No heating except a fire,no cooling.Were'nt U privileged🤡

@ZwodderFudgel @SandyofSuffolk London had KFC in 1968 and McDonalds in 1974.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk We didn't have fast food till the early 80s and not everyone had it

@AngieBu90367969 @SandyofSuffolk I live in the US.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk The first one in the UK was 1974 in London and there is a lot more to the UK than London

@VinceV45008029 @SandyofSuffolk I grew up in a Victorian home with radiator heat - no AC. We did install AC units in the third floor bedrooms once they were introduced. They were monsters and cranked out a ton of cold air.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk Nope ,not in Australia..colour TV started in 1975 and A/C was only for the rich in the 70s..I'm a 60s gen x and we never had A/C until the 80s

@Muchadoabout60 @SandyofSuffolk Fast food came to Australia in the late 60s and TV was introduced in 1975.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk I'm Australian and no we didn't. I'm glad you had a wonderful youth with all the good stuff but we did not have the same. We were lucky if we got a Chicko roll, look it up you'll be impressed, once a week.

@TousiTVOfficial @BULLSFCMN I’m guessing Iran is already reneging.

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@LynneBailey @DottiMillotti @SandyofSuffolk I said when I was 19 - I was in London in 1979. There was color TV where we were staying.

Lol Blondie didn't have a hit in the UK until around 1977/78. Colour tvs were around in the 60s, but the point being made is, hardly anyone had one. The USA was far advanced of the UK when it came to appliances. But you carry on and argue with the actual British people who live here and lived it. 🙄

@1Nicdar Assassination attempts.

What's something society normalized that actually doesn't sit right with you?

@LynneBailey @DapperD71783574 @SandyofSuffolk Sausages and potato fries.

@MinnesotaFan92 @DapperD71783574 @SandyofSuffolk Bangers and crisps? 😂

@gayleviv @SandyofSuffolk Dallas was on Friday nights in the US, and even I had a color TV - I had an apartment with a roommate.

@MinnesotaFan92 @SandyofSuffolk Aren't you lucky! We didn't even have TV until 1976 in South Africa and as we couldn't afford a TV, it was a big deal to go to friends every Tuesday night to watch Dallas. I was 19 ...

I am a boomer, as are all of my siblings. None of us has had only one home, we have all done home renovations, expensive clothing is not out of reach for any of us, those most of us could care less about it, we do get regular haircuts and none are interested in weekly manicures. As for cars, that is totally false. Where do you get this stuff? Even my parents didn't fit that mold.

Yes. Their goal is to get us all to hate each other. Quite impressive. Anywho, boomers also: Rarely ate out Bought one home Did not renovate their home Did not buy expensive clothes Did not get hair and nails done except for major events Kept one car for eternity And the list goes on.

I've been noodling over this sudden irrational anger being directed at boomers and gen-Xers by younger generations over the costs of living. One of the things that has struck me is their belief that minimum wage jobs should provide you with anything and everything your heart desires up to and including purchasing a home. Nobody and I do mean NOBODY I knew growing up looked at minimum wage work as anything other than an after-school job or a steppingstone to an ultimately higher earning job. Left-wing politicians and idealogues have pushed this narrative that everybody "deserves a living wage" right out of high school when historically that has never been the case. It's taken root with younger generations unfortunately and I personally think that's where much of this misplaced angst against the older generations is coming from.

@Mt2Aguy Most of this boomer business is China trying to influence Gen Zers. Look at the accounta that are really harsh - very few follower or following despite supposedly being on X for years.