Was life in Britain better twenty years ago?
Poll: Was life in Britain better twenty years ago?
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Britain is now populated by self entitled snowflakes or the underclass. Years of a liberal education, ‘everybody wins a trophy’ left wing unionist crap and hysterical fears of celebrating any kind of Empirical history have sadly taken their toll. As Boris says the constant negative stream of remoaner BBC drivel needs to change, and needs to change now.
Yep
Looking back in 99 I was 2. The House I live in would have cost me 2 x my salary.
Today it’s worth over 4 times my salary. My salary obviously has gone up as i’ve progressed career wise.
I wish I would have bought a house as soon as I started full time work and not the one I live in.
Ones that were £60k then are now going for £360k.
Looking back in 99 I was 2. The House I live in would have cost me 2 x my salary.
Today it’s worth over 4 times my salary. My salary obviously has gone up as i’ve progressed career wise.
I wish I would have bought a house as soon as I started full time work and not the one I live in.
Ones that were £60k then are now going for £360k.
Schmed said:
Britain is now populated by self entitled snowflakes or the underclass. Years of a liberal education, ‘everybody wins a trophy’ left wing unionist crap and hysterical fears of celebrating any kind of Empirical history have sadly taken their toll. As Boris says the constant negative stream of remoaner BBC drivel needs to change, and needs to change now.
Spot on. The 80s and 90s were great, now we are heading to hell.WinkleHoff said:
Compared with 20yrs ago;
Good;
Internet has resulted in easy access to masses of information.
Easy to stay in touch with people.
Medical science improved.
Vehicles substantially better.
Bad;
Multiculralism has failed/is failing.
Music is awful.
Pub scene has died.
SJW's, offence merchants everywhere.
Social discourse is falling apart.
Narcicism has become an epidemic.
High Street dying.
People more connected but less connected.
In essence, my own life is better now in terms of progress, but I don't think wider society is in a better place at all.
20 years ago A Pc was very expensive, A mobile contract cost £14 a month.We didn’t have internet for a while either. That wasn’t until 2002 when I could afford a PC. Cost over £1k but I got a free digital camera with it and a scanner.Good;
Internet has resulted in easy access to masses of information.
Easy to stay in touch with people.
Medical science improved.
Vehicles substantially better.
Bad;
Multiculralism has failed/is failing.
Music is awful.
Pub scene has died.
SJW's, offence merchants everywhere.
Social discourse is falling apart.
Narcicism has become an epidemic.
High Street dying.
People more connected but less connected.
In essence, my own life is better now in terms of progress, but I don't think wider society is in a better place at all.
Tech wise a 32”CRT tv weighed a ton and cost about £600 minimum.
Music was buy a CD or tape the charts still.
Schmed said:
Britain is now populated by self entitled snowflakes or the underclass. Years of a liberal education, ‘everybody wins a trophy’ left wing unionist crap and hysterical fears of celebrating any kind of Empirical history have sadly taken their toll. As Boris says the constant negative stream of remoaner BBC drivel needs to change, and needs to change now.
The biggest bunch of snowflakes are the baby boomers it seems, the generation that had all the jobs for life, the council houses they could buy on the cheap, the best of the NHS when it wasn't under extreme financial pressures, being able to retire early etcThe only thing that comes out straight from Boris's mouth would be Putin's c*ck!
IanJ9375 said:
The biggest bunch of snowflakes are the baby boomers it seems,
Yep, I've always said this, a bunch of teenagers who have never had to grow up and had everything handed to them on a plate throughout their lives.As a Gen Xer I came into a world inhabited by narcissistic, entitled, fragile, whiny workshy snowflakes and it looks like I'll be going out surrounded by the same in the form of the millennials.
SCEtoAUX said:
Spot on. The 80s and 90s were great, now we are heading to hell.
Life was better, I don’t care what anybody says. I used my first mobile phone back in 1992 and I was a superstar as an IT geek on call.Music was great, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Suede etc. Smoking in pubs, drinking and chatting up women. The only way to find a partner was to be sociable and it was amazing. Met my wife this way, in a pub in 1992 and we are still together. First 3 bed (Victorian house with original features) in ‘95 cost 62k. Got 100% mortgage in an afternoon and it was cheaper to buy than rent.
I wouldn’t change a thing it was bloody great. Life today for most young people looks s
t to be honest. I loved life in Britain 20 years ago and still love it at least as much now.
If you are a positive person and make the best of the world around you and the opportunities in front of you, then you will probably always be happy about things.
If you are someone who just sees everything around them as a negative, you don’t like change, or moan about the ‘state of things’, and so on, then you probably won’t be happy whatever happens.
As one example, some on this thread moaning about multiculturalism and immigration being ‘a bad thing’. I saw it as an opportunity to meet, live and work with interesting people from different countries and cultures.
I met my wife thanks to immigration. Numerous friends met and married French, Italian, Polish, and took the opportunity to live and work in cities across Europe without any form or paperwork or questions. My wife works for a Japanese company based in the UK, but often works out of their offices in Germany, Poland etc.
The world is getting smaller and people are moving around more than ever.
You can sit at home pissing and moaning about it and just getting angry, or you can accept that it’s happening and make the most of it.
That applies to many things.
If you are a positive person and make the best of the world around you and the opportunities in front of you, then you will probably always be happy about things.
If you are someone who just sees everything around them as a negative, you don’t like change, or moan about the ‘state of things’, and so on, then you probably won’t be happy whatever happens.
As one example, some on this thread moaning about multiculturalism and immigration being ‘a bad thing’. I saw it as an opportunity to meet, live and work with interesting people from different countries and cultures.
I met my wife thanks to immigration. Numerous friends met and married French, Italian, Polish, and took the opportunity to live and work in cities across Europe without any form or paperwork or questions. My wife works for a Japanese company based in the UK, but often works out of their offices in Germany, Poland etc.
The world is getting smaller and people are moving around more than ever.
You can sit at home pissing and moaning about it and just getting angry, or you can accept that it’s happening and make the most of it.
That applies to many things.
Mothersruin said:
Eric Mc said:
Mothersruin said:
I think society was closer, more coherent and harmonised than it is now.
Blair has plenty to be guilty of but I see his legacy of identity politics, unchecked immigration and multiculturalism has irreversibly damaged the fundamentals of the country.
And I see a lot of those things that you see as negatives as positives. So, this is almost a pointless topic in that people view the world in different ways and "better" or "worse" can be completely different to different people.Blair has plenty to be guilty of but I see his legacy of identity politics, unchecked immigration and multiculturalism has irreversibly damaged the fundamentals of the country.
Britain has changed and will soon not be "Britain" in what many would consider to be its "normal" state. Of course, what Britain is and meant has never been a static thing. It has evolved and changed constantly since the whole "Britain" concept came into being.
I fully expect that the United Kingdom will exist in name only in less than ten years.
Never had you down as a closet anarchist Eric.
We've had constant waves of immigration to this country for well over a thousand years, and doubtless will continue to have more for the next thousand years. Britain wouldn't be Britain without it.
It's really weird if you think about it.... Even though we're only separated from the European mainland by 20-odd miles, for most of human history has represented a really massive barrier. You'd think that we'd be one of the most insular, homogeneous nations on the continent, yet the absolute opposite is true! Even our language, formed over the last couple of millennia, is a complete mongrel. We have large portions of our vocabulary that draw from Celtic, French, Germanic and Viking languages.
As far as I'm aware, no other language, certainly in Europe is such a hybrid, and guess what? It's not because we looked overseas and thought "Ah yes... We'll use those words from that language today". It's because we've had more immigration over many centuries than any other nation in Europe, and long may it continue, as I completely love the diversity it has injected into our modern society.
Schmed said:
Britain is now populated by self entitled snowflakes or the underclass. Years of a liberal education, ‘everybody wins a trophy’ left wing unionist crap and hysterical fears of celebrating any kind of Empirical history have sadly taken their toll. As Boris says the constant negative stream of remoaner BBC drivel needs to change, and needs to change now.
What’s that smell? Bacon? No, Ham? No.Ah yes, Gammon. 😁
It’s a mystery why the serial cheat and liar Boris gets so upset by the news and their inconvenient facts.
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