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Message to the Kids: Stop Spending & Buy a House
Topic Started: 18 Oct 2016, 02:56 PM (2,299 Views)
Terry
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The old farts are fighting back. BBQ banter at its best.

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you are under 40 and starting to read this, I politely suggest that you turn the page. There isn't anything here that will interest you. Just me rabbiting on about the old days. Bit of a yawn-fest, really ... Have they gone? Is it just you and me now? Shhh ... act natural and read this column without making a sound. Do not look up; do not make eye contact with anyone. Come close to the page. Closer!

I belong to a secret society and I am looking for new recruits. It's a sect known as the Middle-Aged Moralisers. We in the MAM meet monthly in our members' homes in the suburbs, where we discuss ... hush ... the youth of today. Why the need for secrecy? Well, if it ever got out that middle-aged people talk about young people, all hell would break loose.

We on the MAM membership committee have been watching you. We've seen the pursed lips, the tut-tutting, the head-shaking. We have seen the sighing, the face-palming, the eye-rolling. We think you are one of us. We know it, you know it. Come to our next meeting. You'll find it liberating to know there are others just like you.

This week we're discussing the evils of hipster cafes. Do you know why hipster cafes have milk crates for seating? To keep baby boomers at bay. They know they can't officially ban us, so what do they do? They rig the seating so that tight baby-boomer hamstrings recoil at the prospect of positioning the buttocks below the latitude of the knees. Sitting is fine. Getting up is problematic. And doesn't the sub-40 set know it. They don't want we over-50s despoiling the authentic grooviness of their cafes. (Is groovy still a word?)


Do you know what else hipster cafes do? With malicious aforethought, hipster proprietors deliberately design their menus with the tiniest of writing and print these same menus using a light-coloured ink on light-coloured paper. That is pure evil writ large. And then these same hipster proprietors play thumping, pumping music that reverberates off polished concrete floors so as to eliminate all hope of audible conversation. The meandering middle-aged who have naively wandered into hipster cafes are thereby reduced to pathetically lip-reading conversations, hoping to catch the odd word so as to guess the meaning of entire sentences.

Don't get me started on the befuddlement caused by toilets with obscure signage. Is that an M or is that a W? Is that a top hat or is that a ladies' bonnet? This is a hipster cafe: they wouldn't have a top hat on the door to the men's loo. Unless, of course, they're being ironic. Maybe it is the men's. Why can't we have some light back here? Why can't we have a sign saying men and women?

But all of this is mere ephemera. It gets worse. I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle-aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this? Shouldn't they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house.

There. I've said it. I have said what every secret middle-aged moraliser has thought but has never had the courage to verbalise. Should you disclose the contents of this conversation, I will disavow all knowledge of you and of the existence of this secret society. In fact, this conversation never took place. Goodbye.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/moralisers-we-need-you/news-story/6bdb24f77572be68330bd306c14ee8a3

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Foxy
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Zero is coming...

Imagine if kids just said, we will never buy a horse.

What would happen to the price of horses.

My dad said that 70 years ago.

Now move forward to today.

Kid you have to sign up to live in poverty for the next 40 years just to say at the BBQ, of the cheapest cuts of meat, i own my own home???

I say phuck the house.

Live your life.

Move to somewhere you can thrive, not just survive.

You are the future, forget old pricks like me.

We got the houses and property and shares and farms and resorts and hotels when they were cheap.

Now you want to buy them off us at top dollar???

Run rabbit run.

The word is Boycott, just boycott the game you are always going to lose.

Live your life free, not shackelled to a bank and the greedy runners of banks sucking the last drop of life force from your Tortured Soul of souls.

Just replace "box" with house.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfE74l55WDI

Imagine the people in Port Hedland and Karratha sitting on 70% losses in the one way ticket to ride....

What hell are they in???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-40E0dl2M

Maybe Pinhead was a banker in his other life???
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18 Oct 2016, 03:13 PM
Imagine if kids just said, we will never buy a horse.

What would happen to the price of horses.

My dad said that 70 years ago.

Now move forward to today.

Kid you have to sign up to live in poverty for the next 40 years just to say at the BBQ, of the cheapest cuts of meat, i own my own home???

I say phuck the house.

Live your life.

Move to somewhere you can thrive, not just survive.

You are the future, forget old pricks like me.

We got the houses and property and shares and farms and resorts and hotels when they were cheap.

Now you want to buy them off us at top dollar???

Run rabbit run.

The word is Boycott, just boycott the game you are always going to lose.

Live your life free, not shackelled to a bank and the greedy runners of banks sucking the last drop of life force from your Tortured Soul of souls.

Just replace "box" with house.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfE74l55WDI

Imagine the people in Port Hedland and Karratha sitting on 70% losses in the one way ticket to ride....

What hell are they in???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-40E0dl2M

Maybe Pinhead was a banker in his other life???
Nice perspective Foxy. Alternatively, buy the house and celebrate with some avocados.
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Foxy
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Zero is coming...

Imagine the terror if young people on mass said lets make do, let's not put our heads in the noose, lets wait.

What would the owners that have the houses do??

The farms the assets, if there was no one to buy?

Imagine being able to win the unwinnable game.

But can they organize and defeat the evil BabyBoomers??



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUDoKCV-kOQ




you see a 20 year old can wait 20 years.

How many 60 year olds can wait 20 years.

But the young and inexperienced can not put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Peter
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I am always surprised at articles like this by a person who has been afforded the most generous social/welfare of any generation along with the greatest economical growth are the first to write such ignorant trash.

How can it be lost on them that it is their generation that encouraged, raised and developed the very generation they now deride. They are also the generation that have profited the most from a this materialistic generation they created and have done so st that generations expense.

This view that 'younger people' need to go without everything to save to buy a house' is always amusing to me and here's why:

Are they that economically defunct they can't even fathom that if this trend of 'saving' and eliminating all expenditure on consumables took off and 'the younger' generation started saving every penny they would be f***ed. Their businesses would faulted or close, the economy would collapse along with their precious house prices, they would be significantly poorer for it.

Are they that dumb?

The smart card would be to invest in the greedy, must have, can't wait, buy now, car loan, payday loan generation they created and encourage them to carry on. Unless they want to be poorer?!
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It's a bit of tongue in cheek fun.
Smashed avo's are overrated anyway.
Take risks - if you win you will become wealthy, if you lose you will become wise
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I would have more respect for the author is he suggested foregoing $22 Avocado toasts for a year will buy a few ounces of gold or more shares in a gold mining company.

But to suggest saving those avocado toast money so gen Y can have the privilege of being an indentured servant for 30 years is just plain loonie.
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Rufus
19 Oct 2016, 08:49 AM
It's a bit of tongue in cheek fun.
Smashed avo's are overrated anyway.
No tongue in cheek here pf. Everytime I here that smashed avocado term , I think you idiot. They think they are getting something special and paying through the nose for it. It is mashed avocado, the spuikers turn it into smashed avocado and suddenly its trendy and everybody has to have it. I have heard a mate of mine say it a few times, " we went down to so and so and had some smashed avocado on toast". Great ,now tell me something interesting.

Then there is the coffee shop idiot. And I am no exception. We have to have our little fix, with little lids that resemble something of a cup we drank out of as a two year old. Maybe that makes us all feel more secure or something. Maybe its just so we dont spill the coffee in the car. Either way, was never the trend when I was younger. Then again either was paying the equivalent of $6 a litre of water at the servo, when eveybody wants to whine about petrol being $1.20 a litre.



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19 Oct 2016, 09:35 AM
No tongue in cheek here pf. Everytime I here that smashed avocado term , I think you idiot. They think they are getting something special and paying through the nose for it. It is mashed avocado, the spuikers turn it into smashed avocado and suddenly its trendy and everybody has to have it. I have heard a mate of mine say it a few times, " we went down to so and so and had some smashed avocado on toast". Great ,now tell me something interesting.

Then there is the coffee shop idiot. And I am no exception. We have to have our little fix, with little lids that resemble something of a cup we drank out of as a two year old. Maybe that makes us all feel more secure or something. Maybe its just so we dont spill the coffee in the car. Either way, was never the trend when I was younger. Then again either was paying the equivalent of $6 a litre of water at the servo, when eveybody wants to whine about petrol being $1.20 a litre.


I take your point Ted, but I doubt that an occasional smashed avocado would make a difference between being able to buy a house or not.

Actually it's a lot easier to save money these days because the cost of everyday items is so low, but there are also a lot of seductive things that people waste a lot of money on that simply weren't available when we were young. I guess it depends on how badly they really want a house and where they aspire to live. there are places where it's quite cheap to buy, but they aren't in Sydney or Melbourne.
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Chris
19 Oct 2016, 08:24 AM

Are they that economically defunct they can't even fathom that if this trend of 'saving' and eliminating all expenditure on consumables took off and 'the younger' generation started saving every penny they would be f***ed. Their businesses would faulted or close, the economy would collapse along with their precious house prices, they would be significantly poorer for it.

Are they that dumb?

Well yes. But this isn't something overheard at the local barbie. It's straight from the mouth of a media celebrity who's supposed to know all this and provide consulting to the suburbanites.
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