Do the old people in your life buy junk..?

[DonPeffers]

1 minute ago, pistonbroke said:

how far do you have to "lean" when learning spelling ?  

Bend over backwards.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

59 minutes ago, Olliebeak said:

I agree with Allan, how come no one can spell these days, even simple words, don't they teach spelling in school these days along with mathematics. The really good part about getting old is the selective memory, and the realization  that nothing really matters e.g Brexit,Trump, Politics etc etc  and dont get me started on Americanisms, I left my recent part time job when I was told to write the date backwards i.e 20170202 ,who thought that was a good idea? I wont buy 'trail mix' either , time for a cuppa and a lie down.  

ps just finished my cooling system upgrade and was short of a hose clip, went to my local accessory shop and asked for a 35mm Jubilee clip, the person behind the counter had no idea, so I had to explain what it was and the function, he then attempted to charge £1.40!.  

I went to a local cycle and car spares shop for an exhaust clamp. He had them on the shelf - he still has because I refused to pay £6.70 for one of these:

[jeff oakley]

3 hours ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

I went to a local cycle and car spares shop for an exhaust clamp. He had them on the shelf - he still has because I refused to pay £6.70 for one of these:

Was that because the last time you bought one was in 1960? Both my parents would say, "they were only X price last time I bought one" that could have been 30 years ago but how many times I heard the Yorkshire battle cry of "bl**** Hell how much" when faced with a product they thought too expensive.

[Steve (sdh2903)]

My old man, well he's not that old at 66, has actually gone the other way. He now buys better quality stuff now than he ever did.

I actually take some blame for this as I bought him an Ipad for his 60th. Fully expecting this to be left in a drawer for me to aquire at a later date. Not so. He's now an apple officianado with an iPhone and an ipad mini in the fleet and he's now researching if he has a space in his life for a macbook. 

This shift in quality is now spreading to other areas of his life such as shoes, clothes and household appliances. Whereas my mother loves her poundshop and charity shop tat

[Yanto]

6 hours ago, Olliebeak said:

"I agree with Allan, how come no one can spell these days, even simple words, don't they teach spelling in school these days"  "the realization"  

oops 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

11 hours ago, jeff oakley said:

Was that because the last time you bought one was in 1960? Both my parents would say, "they were only X price last time I bought one" that could have been 30 years ago but how many times I heard the Yorkshire battle cry of "bl**** Hell how much" when faced with a product they thought too expensive.

Of course! And I have a time machine called a laptop which helped me buy two off Ebay for about £4 including postage!  

[John K]

1 hour ago, Man On The Clapham Omnibus said:

buy two off Ebay for about £4 including postage

Erm... are they Cheap Junk..? 

[Northwarks]

I'll also confess I've never washed a paintbrush after doing gloss  - I buy cheap ones and throw them away rather than clean/dry them. 

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

1 hour ago, John K said:

Erm... are they Cheap Junk..? 

They do the job! Cheap certainly, junk? No, not really. They all rust in that location eventually. The bike shop man was expensive, there's no doubt about that.

[tisme]

On 02/02/2017 at 20:43, sdh2903 said:

My old man, well he's not that old at 66, has actually gone the other way. He now buys better quality stuff now than he ever did.

I actually take some blame for this as I bought him an Ipad for his 60th. Fully expecting this to be left in a drawer for me to aquire at a later date. Not so. He's now an apple officianado with an iPhone and an ipad mini in the fleet and he's now researching if he has a space in his life for a macbook. 

This shift in quality is now spreading to other areas of his life such as shoes, clothes and household appliances. Whereas my mother loves her poundshop and charity shop tat

 

You do realise he's spending your inheritance  

[Steve (sdh2903)]

2 hours ago, tisme said:

 

You do realise he's spending your inheritance  

They are spending the lot by moving out to Cyprus 8 years ago and semi retiring. And quite right too. They asked for my blessing to sell the family home before going too as they saw it as my inheritance. I told them to blow the lot if it made them happy. My dad was just starting to encounter serious health issues from working 70-80 hour weeks for 40 years. I firmly believe if they didn't sell up and go that he wouldn't still be with us. 

And I still can't get an ipad off him!

 

[tisme]

12 hours ago, sdh2903 said:

They are spending the lot by moving out to Cyprus 8 years ago and semi retiring. And quite right too. They asked for my blessing to sell the family home before going too as they saw it as my inheritance. I told them to blow the lot if it made them happy. My dad was just starting to encounter serious health issues from working 70-80 hour weeks for 40 years. I firmly believe if they didn't sell up and go that he wouldn't still be with us. 

And I still can't get an ipad off him!

 

Yes, I can fully understand that and it was good of them to talk to you about it - I'm sort of on the "cusp" of now only having our house as our biggest asset having taken early retirement after 45 exhaustive years in the IT industry. Unfortunately my wife is not a great fan of moving abroad otherwise I would have been off to France years ago (my brother already has). In the next year I'll be breaking the news to our son (only child) that we're releasing some funds from the house so that we can enjoy life a little bit over the next few years - he'll still get a fair chunk from our estate but in some light hearten chit chat recently he's already said that he doesn't expect anything and I read the other day the we (i.e anyone 65 ish and older) will be the last generation to leave anything substantial when we go - I guess that's down to the younger generation being unable to get on the housing ladder in the same way that we did and also many seem to rent these days and wasn't there talk of having to work until they're 74 before getting a state pension .

Sad in a way but I guess every generation thinks theirs is the "best time" but perhaps that's through rose tinted glasses   (contact lenses / cataracts )    

 

[John K]

1 hour ago, tisme said:

but I guess every generation thinks theirs is the "best time" but perhaps that's through rose tinted glasses   (contact lenses / cataracts )    

Can I challenge your comment a little bit, I'm not sure each generation thinks "their time" was the best time. If they do, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time moaning about it.

I got the impression that each generation jealously thought the "previous generation" was the best time ever.

For example I sit here grinding my teeth into dust as to how my taxes are going towards supporting the 'baby boomers' who seem to already have it made with huge houses worth billions that they paid buttons for and gebonking final salary pension schemes.

Whilst conveniently forgetting all the forced deportations, Siberian winters and life before colour TV and Google...

[CraigHew]

27 minutes ago, John K said:

the 'baby boomers' who seem to already have it made with huge houses worth billions that they paid buttons for and gebonking final salary pension schemes.

Just to confirm: life (as a baby boomer) is fantastic....

[John K]

1 hour ago, CraigHew said:

Just to confirm: life (as a baby boomer) is fantastic....

No point in trying to express how I feel, it would just appear as a line of asterisks...

Which bit of your Westie have I funded..?