The argument/complete nonsense thread...

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The thought of 70 & 80 year olds voting alarms me greatly.

The vast majority haven't got a dog in the long term future game. It's not having a go at the elderly, it's just FACT.
I would guess that many of them have children, grand children, other family and friends that they care a great deal about.

It's relatively recently that the bank of mam and dad became a thing, and those mam's and dad's in general didn't get that cash given to them.
 
The thought of 18-100 year olds voting alarms me greatly. Politicians are all ****s, they’ll all **** you over and I’m not convinced it’s not all rigged anyway.

The vast majority are too busy bickering with each other to see that the fat cats are playing them like puppets, exploiting everyone and getting fatter and richer at all of our expense lFACT.
 
No it’s a fact. Theres a reason Mi5 and Mi6 actively recruit from universities instead of old peoples homes.
Universities? They are old codgers compared to the young. Of course the people in charge of Mi5 and Mi6 are oldies.
 
The thought of 70 & 80 year olds voting alarms me greatly.

The vast majority haven't got a dog in the long term future game. It's not having a go at the elderly, it's just FACT.
That's simply not true. Most in their 70's and 80's have children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren. They fear, and care greatly, about what is being left for them. They often have the wisdom to see through the BS. Teens typically haven't got a clue. (exceptions in all age categories of course).
 
How much did previous generations spend on alcohol? Is it not that social habits have changed - instead of drinking 4 nights a week, young ppl are having a coffee, a pizza, streaming netflix and going to the gym...

The facts remain that when wages, inflation, housing costs and spending power are compared, the working young these days, on average, are worse off, and most likely going to have to work beyond 70 before they get to retire. Plenty of facts about there stating that this generation are the first to be poorer than their parents in over 200 years. And workers are also carrying the highest tax burden since the 1970s.

Not sure why it's so unpalatable to accept. It's easy to find and interview someone who has been making the wrong choices, but it doesn't generalise to an entire generation. I guess we always feel we had it harder, but the facts don't indicate it that way.
I was in Glasgow City Centre last Saturday night(not normal for me as I usually go on the p!ss during the day and I'm home before the mayhem)anyway, there was little or no evidence of these young one's sipping coffee,going to the gym or streaming netflix?

The place was absolutely rammed with young uns staggering around,females half-dressed,full of mango monster mash(courtesy of our 5 city centre Wetherspoons)?

I did see what appeared to be the remnants of a pizza(carrots too),lying in a fairly large puddle of vomit that had 'spewed forth' from some young lass heading for the last train to oblivion so I suppose there might be some truth in your claim.

Hey,we've all been there in our youth so no condemnation from these quarters but I think this myth that the young ones of today are curbing their drinking habits in favour of a girly night in and a diet pepsi is just that...Myth.