You do realise that the main ‘achievement’ of gen X appears to be spawning offspring who are un ambitious and will inherit enough so as not to need to work full time if at all? Living off rents. Some on here have admitted it not boasted about it. Aside of the self satisfaction do you think that’s healthy for society? Do you think such offspring would have anything to add to a dinner party? What an utter failure of society. People who are rather good at going on holiday. But holiday from what?

anything to add to a dinner party

Go to these do you?

Do you?

people tend to broadly copy their parents. so your children will probably be PAYE earners in back office/advisory roles like HR, law, accountancy, consultancy or compliance SIR WOKE. And nothing wrong with that. unless they marry money

as if dinner parties have been a thing since about 1985

law is not “back office”

I am very much front office in my organisation. I am a revenue gener8r and salesm8kr 

“people tend to broadly copy their parents.”

Just follow precedent, like a good lawyer

In Laz’s 7Oaks set, it’s a supper party in the orangery.

The spawn of Gen X are different to previous generations only in the fact that their lives are more visible due to social media. 

You've been poisoned by social media, Cookster. Take a step back, brother. 

Children og Gen X never seem to grow up.      Early Gen Xers still seem to be running around after their twenty something kids and late Gen Xers seem to be even worse for lives revolving around children.  Convinced it is not good for parents or children.

Hotnow, or anyone else.

How do you insert the vertical line that indicates a quote as per your 6.41 please?

You do realise that the main ‘achievement’ of gen X appears to be spawning offspring who are un ambitious and will inherit enough so as not to need to work full time if at all? Living off rents.

 

Sounds awesome. Where do I sign?

I’ll use all my new spare time to do the Grand Tour and I can talk about that at dinner parties. 

Wot laz sed re dinner parties but in any event lol at the idea that you have to have your nose to the grindstone making money to be "interesting" at dinner parties.  I would say rather the opposite.

Pinkus I don’t appear to have been given a house, so their lives are very different. 

Few if any of my peers Pinkus were given houses. It’s very different now. Their kids have virtually no purpose. 

They have a sensible approach to actually wanting separation between work and leisure and the most interesting people at parties are not the ones who spend 15 hours a day 6 days a week doing some niche area of banking.

Everyone's aim should be to do as little as possible, and to have as much leisure time as possible. That was universally accepted a couple of generations ago, until Thatcher and thee emergence of the aspirational classes. 

fully agree

I’m done workin’

There is also a danger in this idea that kids must always do better than their parents and grandparents.  Thankfully mine never put that pressure on me because outdoing my dad's dad would basically require me to be a Dyson or a Bezos which was unlikely to ever happen.

I was explaining to club-minor the other day that if he wanted nice things in life he'd need to work hard and do well.

Initially concerned by the prospect he seemed to take it onboard.

Keep polishing those clogs.

classic cookie remark

kids could only in general do better than their parents in an era of constantly rising standards of living.  Standards of living have now stalled for pretty much a generation so obviously most people will not be doing better than their parents.

Clubbers sounds like my mum telling a much younger me that I could drive a tractor or live a nice farmhouse but my ambition of doing both was not realistic.

"If he wanted nice things in life he'd need to work hard and do well."

"Working hard" is for bloody fools and horses. 

he'd need to work hard and do well be mates with the right people.

FTFY

there are plenty of people who assume that someone will take care of them if they fail to take care of themselves.  I think the duty we owe to our kids is to put the idea in them that if they put more into the system than they take out, life for everyone will be better 

This country is saving up a massive crisis caused by people not having saved enough, 

Oh you are a misery guts. 

You can trust Bertha to spot a cloud on every silver lining 

Well it’s true, and no amount of living khuntstyle rof style will change that. 

Cheer up. It might never happen. 

I'm the child of someone who hade in his 30s. In 1985. 

I did some stuff that is probably resulting in all of you not having COVID. Do any of you know how any of this stuff works?

Do you know how the equipment works to make pharmaceutical products? I do. And I know about the software too. And it was a bloody stressful time hitting Phizers requirements.

So just loads of old men complaining 

We shouldn't have bothered. Would be better if you were all dead.

Oh god another Covid fannny. 

We all had it m7. It was like a cold. 

Well it wasn't a cold for me. I was stuck as a software engineer being asked to get all the equipment built and running

He was making the important point that T. Dan Smith was innocent. 

That’s all.

Carry on…

This must be one of those villages where rich weekenders have priced out the locals, otherwise the conversation would have been losing revenue  leaving a field fallow this year, how tractor parts are expensive these days, or sheep dip, silage, milking or pig-feed. Or even regretting that they voted Leave (cos they hate brown people) and they are paying the price.

Agree with Guy here. 

“Financial aspiration” was for people who grew up under Major/Blair. No point in kids these days having financial aspiration - the truth is they’ll either inherit a bunch of money from their parents (and will presumably already know that) or will never hold a stable job or own a house and will spend their lives renting and working until they’re 80 to pay for pensioners. What’s the point for them?