Imagine you were born in 1900

[1 shot willie]

 

[Ark79]

Blooming true, compared to that, this is just skid marks on the world’s unddies.... that stuff is waist deep shit

For me that Puts a hole new perspective on this pandemic, powerful stuff

 

[saxonaxe]

Anyone born in 1900 was born to parents of the Victorian era. A different breed in outlook, expectations and hardiness, most of which attitudes were passed onto the kids born in 1900 which I suspect gave them a certain advantage in coping with the troubles of those times.

In a similar fashion people born after the formation of the Welfare State grew up with different ideas of entitlement and values. That's just my opinion, I'm not saying which is the winning formula.

Anyway, don't get too comfortable folks, I've just heard the US Democrats consider it an urgent matter to remove Trump before the end of his full term. One is on record as saying, " He is unstable and should not be allowed to call a meeting of the Joint Defence Committee and must be kept away from any control of the Nuclear Deterrent capability of the US....

 

[Ark79]

He’s a bloody mad man

 

[saxonaxe]

He’s a bloody mad man

I definitely think it's a good idea to keep him away from any red telephones..

 

[Ystranc]

If he had got his second term he would only have tried to break the rules to get a third term in office. The US constitution means jack s**t to him.

 

[Ark79]

I think we have swayed another topic lads

1900 v’s 2020

 

[IAM ODIN]

You are absolutely correct in my opinion.
Many people today (not just kids) are somewhat different in character, nature and outlook. In other words its all about me me me. No make do and mend. No knowledge or life skills without google.
They believe the world owes them something which it doesnt.
Covid is just another thing we will eventually beat however if the shit really hit the fan ie war, we would be stuffed because there is no backbone to fight or give up their wrapped in cotton wool lives.
Nobody wants a nanny state but many misuse it and expect everything for nothing. I firmly believe a reset is needed.
We are an easy touch in Britain. Most around the world dislike us but all want us, want to use us, take from us, or blame us in some way.
Im stopping now because there is no limit to things i could say :/

 

[IAM ODIN]

Sorry i opened pandoras box. I have closed it for now :/

 

[Ystranc]

If I had been born in 1900 I'm certain that I wouldn't have survived early childhood, another gold star for the NHS.

 

[38thfoot]

And you’d probable have had to listen to your parents moaning about the current soft generation and saying how much tougher everyone was in the 1850s....

38

 

[Ark79]

And you’d probable have had to listen to your parents moaning about the current soft generation and saying how much tougher everyone was in the 1850s....

38

And they we’re probably right lol,

 

[Bam]

And they we’re probably right lol,

Glad I'm one of those snowflakes, I love the internet, Asda delivery, central heating, the NHS and wee stoves you can take away in a hot tent.

 

[Gulfalan67]

Hi folks

I agree with everything said above BUT, just remember that anybody born in 1900 in the Western World who survived the first half of the 20th century went on to enjoy the fruits and security wrested through the sacrifice and hardship of those who didn't. In UK the welfare state, booming economic conditions, high employment rising wages and access to housing. Post war, the peoples of Europe North America and Australia have enjoyed growth prosperity, well-being never previously experienced in human history and quite possibly never to be experienced again!

While I agree us boomers through to millenials may be a bunch of softies by comparison, I really fear for the hardships awaiting younger generations today.

A devastated biosphere, global pandemic, broken economies with incalculable public debt, emerging populism and political extremism, massive economic inequities, high competition for few jobs, poor job security, almost no chance of owning a home and a lower life expectancy than their parents...

This is our generations legacy.

Netflix is meagre compensation for those who follow us. If we aren't as tough as our parents were, I've got a feeling the current young generation and future generations are gonna need to toughen up fast.....somebody born in 2000 is going to face some dreadful challenges in their lifetime... Possibly as bad as those faced by those born in 1900.

Alan

 

[1 shot willie]

I think at every stage through our planets birth and history......there have been challenges to face...... overcome/manage.
It's nothing new really....... the complexity and increasing amount of challenges we seem to create for ourselves through so called advancement..... and want.......is itself..... like a virus.
It feels like our human intelligence?....... and so called advancement is actually killing us.....and our planet.

Answers on a Post Card please .........see you in the Pub when it opens again

 

[IAM ODIN]

I will say one thing for people living idea and there technology....
PORN HUB but look what they sent me

 

[Bam]

I will say one thing for people living idea and there technology....
PORN HUB but look what they sent me

Credit where its due.

 

[IAM ODIN]

Credit where its due.

Hahaha