#4406

Two types of people in the world, you either want things to be better for the next generation or you’re a shit

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#4407

is the subtext of all this “we survived” stuff that they would be happy for people with mental health issues to kill themselves and people with illnesses to die as it’s survival of the fittest?

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#4408

If these people really crave hardship in their life they should sell all their stuff, paypal me all their money and I’ll guarantee them at least one really hard punch in the stomach every 3 months. And the rest of us can get the fuck on with not suffering unnecessarily.

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#4409

yes

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#4410

it’s a really good job brexit isn’t going to happen then

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#4411

I deleted my Twitter account because if pricks like this.

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#4412

David Cameron (or rather his team) understood this boomer nostalgia so well, you know. Calling stripping the state in order to bail out the finance sector ‘Austerity’ was a fucking bull’s eye, I keep thinking back to what a brilliant piece of marketing that was.

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#4413

“I was born 11 years after WW2, which is apparently still close enough to it to take credit for fighting it.”

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#4414

it’s so elastic isn’t it, do i get credit for being born 45 years after it ended and making do with a master system in the pre-ps1 days

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#4415

Current favourite one, how do you get to 70+ without realising that the reason the past was more fun and easier and freer is because … you were a child. Since then you’ve become an adult, had to work, had to compromise, but that’s totally unrelated right? Spam is the answer to eternal happiness!

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#4416

Brie as a goth

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#4417

I like how they all trot out the ‘healthier’ line as fact when life expectancy was like 15-20 years shorter

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#4418

“Healthier” means “complained less and had lower standards, also depression didn’t exist then, aren’t young people weak”

#4419

Healthier = “Blissfully unaware of the cocktail of carcinogens I was constantly exposed to”

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#4420

Also no ‘obesity crisis’* i.e. everyone was malnourished

*(Not my term)

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#4421

Asbestos, spam fritters and misogyny never did me any harm, snowflakes!

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#4422

“It turns out that ignorance really was bliss!”

#4423

‘healthier’ = I’m furious that Snyders of Hanover and chunky kitkats weren’t around in my day.

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#4424

There is a funny kind of confirmation bias at play with this. Back then if you got cancer or whatever then you died, it was over pretty quickly. Nowadays you can get treatment and you’re likely to hang around for a while. So there’s many more visibly sick people around, and the NHS has to take a lot more strain. I think this is what older people (often living into life they otherwise wouldn’t have with those self-same treatments) are thinking about when they say this.

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#4425

‘We all worked for a living’ - I especially deserve my final salary pension, free tuition and property windfall

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