BossHogg

Oh so it's another person who has an axe to grind with the mods?

All sounds rather sinister.

I haven't viewed life like that so far but you could be right. In 20 years time I'm sure the cyborg that finds all the krugerrands buried in my garden will be grateful.

It's great. Why give money to other people for rubbish when you can use the same cash to amass actual wealth for yourself?

I'm totally with you Cambon. 25 years ago if I'd have told my wife I was paying £50 a month on a phone contract and £100 a month for TV channels I'd have been lynched. The money went on essential things as you had to really save for everything. I have a rule now. No depreciating assets or servicing fees to be covered out of salary. If it's not PAYG or has a chance of going up in value over the longer term if your spending capital it doesn't get bought.

No is isn't. I hope you had a great day Doc.

A dandy or a conformist.

I'm not qualified to No Tail - I like Pink Floyd, but agree with llap and only really like their stuff from Dark Side on - never saw the 'magic' of Syd. Not slavish about it - didn't even buy their last album and there are tracks on the earlier records I usually skip, although Dark Side, The Wall and Final Cut are superb throughout. Always though Waters was a bit of a champagne socialist bore, but his creativity and input is beyond reproach. Interestingly I think Llap knows a lot about early Pink Floyd for a very young minimum wage worker. I think it all went wrong after Saucer Full of Secrets.

That's bollocks people born 66 - 76 were New Romantics, indie kids and ravers not hippies and punks (well a few born in 66 may have been tiny punks).But it's the memories they carry. Yes, most ended up as blitz kids and New Romantics. I still have early Duran Duran on the car CD. But the punk explosion left its mark to prove that anything was possible and that the establishment was only holding people in their place. And also if you're wearing a frilly shirt and big hair if someone calls you a puff, you don't resort to social media to insult them, you punch their lights out. I don't deny that Punk had a big impact on the music that group ended up listening to but you seemed to be implying someone born in 66 emerged from the womb singing "this is the end, my only friend the end" Not at all but it's in your immediate living memory so it becomes part of the soundtrack of your life. That generation started to a sound track of the Doors, and ended with the Sex Pistols and the Clash then moved on to the New Romantics and Thatchers free market.

That's bollocks people born 66 - 76 were New Romantics, indie kids and ravers not hippies and punks (well a few born in 66 may have been tiny punks). But it's the memories they carry.

The education system wasn't that bad in the 80s. The problem is now you have to go on the dark web to experience interaction with a paedophile. In the 1980s education system if you didn't experience one in geography class, you only had to wait until you went to scouts on a Thursday. The education wasn't bad but the people giving it was the problem.

Generation X is officially 1966-1976 so I reckon probably that's the tail end of all the post war goodness. Starting out with music like the Doors, and ending in the punk explosion and the kick back of the establishment. Then on into the Thatcher years, the free market, the poll tax riots, and then moving on to full on wealth creation, coke, social mobility, a so called meritocracy, and then freedom of personal choice. With the edge coming off by producing boring socially conformist kids who live on Facebook.

Jeffrey Bernard is unwell ..