How do you know what life experience I have? Nothing more laughable than some old **** with one foot in the grave thinking he's of superior intellect because he's a geriatric.
I remember getting into a right argument with my dad in 1968 at the time of the student riots in Paris.We had been to the pub so discussing these things wasn't a good idea. He was, naturally, moaning about the younger generation. I informed him that when our generation was in charge we would sort out the mess his had made. I think classifying him with Wilson upset him more than anything else. He detested him despite for a number of years after the war being a Labour Party fund raiser and canvasser. He replied he hoped he would still be around as he very much doubted it.Anyway, go forward and the first PM of my age or thereabouts, within 5 years either side, was John Major, followed by Blair and Brown. He was right. You will recall what Mark Twain said regarding his father.
Jeez, I've read some stupid schoit on here, but this post takes the biscuit. It absolutely reinforces CC's 'bumptious young kid' comment. You should store all your 'best' posts, and look back at them in, say, 10 years' time. I don't know whether you'd laugh or cringe. One thing we more mature posters can guarantee you is that by then your level of cocksureness will have regressed to the norm. If it hasn't ... well, God help you. It's a rough world out there in the land of the grown-ups. As you will find out.
You haven't had any life experience. All of us at 19 or 20 have thought we know it all and have the answers to the world's problems. And all of us were wrong. My dad's generation who were in the war had more life experiences at that age than most have when I was 19. He had survived being sunk twice in the Med, on one occasion having to tread water with his sea boots on hanging on to a raft at age 19. I rather naively thought he knew **** all about anything compared to my 19 year old self. Your pathetic one foot in the grave and geriatric remarks are just rather sad. Some kid who has read a few books thinking that makes him a superior intellect is laughable. I don't consider myself as possessing a superior intellect. Superior to who? Patty? Einstein?
So, you and City Man making snide remarks about my age and my generation is fine, but me making snide remarks about your age are unacceptable? Rank hypocrisy. I don't claim to be of superior intellect. I don't know much about physics or maths past GCSE level. Age doesn't equal life experience. People can achieve more in five years than others do in 50. Your attitude is 'if I don't like it, it's worthless'. Having that attitude for several decades makes you no less ignorant than a six-year-old, no matter how old you are. There are 20-year-old Kurdish girls fighting in Northern Syria against ISIS and other groups, not just because they pose a threat to their existence but because they're fighting for an idea of what society they want to live in. I'd say those girls, some of which have been fighting since they were 16 and 17, have more life experience fighting in a civil war than a 70-year-old who's worked in the same job for 50 odd years and has never expanded their world view past reading broadsheets. There's nothing wrong working in the same job for several decades but it certainly doesn't make you more experienced than younger people who know more and have done more in a shorter time span.
I'm totally confused by you. Are you a boy, or a girl? Or, don't you know yet? Please clarify. Pleeeease. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in being confused about this. You're not Ghurkin, are you? OMG ... are you really that smart?
That slogan takes me back to 1965 when I was living in London and voted in the Leyton by - election. Patrick Gordon- Walker was running there as the Labour candidate having been beaten in the recent general election in the Smethick constituency in Birmingham. His Tory opponent there and in Leyton campaigned successfully on the slogan" If you want a ****** for a neighbour vote Labour". There were scores of posters and stickers around the electorate incuding some in my street in Leytonstone. After losing the by-election Gordon-Walker won the seat of Leyton at the next general election in 1966. He later became a Lord.
Talking about grammar. You should have had a commer behind 19,economic theory, and a full stop after typos and grammar.
