sparky jones
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There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder.
This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with.
Thank god for parents like my mother
She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving.
These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.
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No Eze, Hincapie, Saka, Rice, Timber or Trossard with the group today. Turns out all the talk of Arsenal being dishonest & pulling their players out of their respective international camps under false pretences was a load of guff. Who’d have thought it 🤷🏻♂️
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@redartisan04 @AltFemKG @jclib1990 Used to be a baker. I am a teacher currently :) for which I don't need a phone contract.
But if you think that the only thing a baker does is managing his dough you really have weird tunnelvision.
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@i30sch1 Dont buy iphones. Dont eat out. No to the cinema. Dont have netflix, sky etc. there are 100ways. And before you say dont have a life. Well go to the park. Enjoy nature and yes if you think you dont have a life for that reason you fucked up somewhere along the line. Work harder.
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@SaintsRugby2 Great to host you today as always, great group who have belief and some great young talent.
Good luck for the future and no doubt our horns will be locked once again 👍🏉
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Well done Pontypool United on a deserved victory.
Tough times at the moment but we’ll stick together. And get better.
Well done to Haydn-Thomas Butcher winning the Ben Crook Player of the Match Award sponsored by Subway.
On to the next 🔴🔵
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@SusiePeaceCora @redartisan04 @HeatherBo63 No. Mathematics.
The triple lock means that pensions will always raise faster than wages, or the same. So they will never become a cheaper expense for the public purse, only more. If it were to continue this way forever, we would pay 99.99% of public expenditure towards pensions
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off of here for a few days.
Idiotic conversations about pensions.
What? Shall we all just vanish to make it easier on the selfish assholes who feel the earth revolves around them?
I wonder if there are similar disrespectful conversations going on in other countries where a state pension is provided.
Probably not.
It’s only this country where people have zero respect for anyone.
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@Meurer_T_ @AltFemKG @jclib1990 Why would a teacher need as phone during lessons, or a baker while managing his dough 🤷♂️
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@redartisan04 @AltFemKG @jclib1990 Would've been nice to only have to make calls while on the job and a normal phoneline on the ready.
But no, we live in different worlds.
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Why should young people have to pay for someone else’s retirement?
If you live in a million pound house, and you can’t afford to retire, sell the house. Or don’t. I don’t care. You just can’t expect young people to pay for you!
Sophie Corcoran@sophielouisecc
No. I don’t think pensioners should have to sell their houses to retire
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@redartisan04 @AltFemKG @jclib1990 No. I worked in a industrial bakery. Had to have a phone contract in order to talk to suppliers, truck drivers and mail services for our delivery of the final products.
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@saxon12456 @AltFemKG @jclib1990 She said 1981 not 1881 , as many people had TV’s in 1981 as people have phones today!
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@Meurer_T_ @AltFemKG @jclib1990 Hence why country skint, no manufacturing to earn country money just a service country now
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@jclib1990 such a whining bitch. why did she need a TV? she could have spent that time working
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@RachelT1722 @Jenny_1884 Small amount of pay every week then, so comparable
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@Jenny_1884 It's interesting every boomer says "we had 15% interest" well you all couldn't have bought at exactly the same time! 15% interest rates didn't last for 25 years! Also 15% on a small amount is better than 5% on a big amount!
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When I married in 1981 we both worked & most of our salary went on paying the mortgage as the interest rate was 15% at the time.
Everything we owned was 2nd hand & we never went out for meals as we couldn’t afford to.
We rented our TV
Went to the launderette every weekend as had no washing machine.
Only had new clothes at Xmas & birthdays as presents.
We went without until we could save enough to pay for something.
It’s always been hard whether you are young or old.
So those out there that think we had it easy we didn’t.
Our governments are to blame, not the old.
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The state pension is a social security benefit funded by today’s working population. This is a fact, whether you like it or not.
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