Baby Boomers, Gen X, millennials

mexico1970 said:
Watching On The Buses the other day it showed that back then there were generation after generation living under the same roof so there isn't anything new in that at all mate.

Stan (The bus driver) was saving up to rent a flat so he could get married he couldn't afford the rent even with the help of his clippie girlfriend.
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Ye but I think there was a period certainly my generation late 80s early 90s who broke that mold and were able to get away, seems we have regressed now like you say to those earlier days. Many Asian families do this anyway, that’s why they favour the bigger houses and extend and extend them, they have 3 maybe 4 generations in one property and who can blame them.
 
mexico1970 said:
They broke the toilet and Compo copped off with their mum :)
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You mean Steptoe right? Random bit of trivia about that film. The scence where Bulter falls over and had to a plaster cast wasn't supposed to be in the film. The actor Stephen Lewis did actually have an accident while on set and had to be set in plaster for real. Due to Pontins only giving the film crew 14 days to film there they had to make up that scene and every you see Butler in plaster it's actually real.

Apparently Pontins told guests that filming was happening but due to budget the studio couldn't afford extras.

The indoor pool scene is a classic example of that. The actors were just put in there to film and the everyone else was just a paying guest. That scene always makes me laugh when Olive loses her swimsuits. The blokes who jump into the pool aren't actors they were guests at the camp
 
Blue Maverick said:
Ye but I think there was a period certainly my generation late 80s early 90s who broke that mold and were able to get away, seems we have regressed now like you say to those earlier days. Many Asian families do this anyway, that’s why they favour the bigger houses and extend and extend them, they have 3 maybe 4 generations in one property and who can blame them.
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There was a blip from the early 80's most definitely where people had their own space, the cost of social care and the mistrust of care homes etc will mean the resurgence of the granny flat IMHO.

Council flats for everyone only lasted a short space of time it soon disappeared as a concept.
 
kippaxwarrior said:
You mean Steptoe right? Random bit of trivia about that film. The scence where Bulter falls over and had to a plaster cast wasn't supposed to be in the film. The actor Stephen Lewis did actually have an accident while on set and had to be set in plaster for real. Due to Pontins only giving the film crew 14 days to film there they had to make up that scene and every you see Butler in plaster it's actually real.

Apparently Pontins told guests that filming was happening but due to budget the studio couldn't afford extras.

The indoor pool scene is a classic example of that. The actors were just put in there to film and the everyone was just a paying guest. That scene always makes me laugh when Olive loses her swimsuits. The blokes who jump into the film aren't actors they were guests at the camp
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No mate On The Buses although Steptoe was superb sitcom viewing too. The magic in both instances was casting and boy did they get it right back in those days.

EDIT: Ahh I get you, it was Steptoe wasn't it that copped off with his mum :)

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Compare that generation to the generations we have just respected in the Remembrance period.

The World War 1 and 2 generations on the whole were a different level, particularly the latter, in my experience the World War 2 Gen were the most incredible group in my lifetime,they fought for our freedom, sacrificed their best years for their country and once the war was over came back to a broken, bankrupt nation that gave them nothing.

Did they moan? Did they fuck, they got their heads down, worked to rebuild the nation and did so with a smile on their face.

And our generations that followed have destroyed their legacy and insulted them.
 
mexico1970 said:
No mate On The Buses although Steptoe was superb sitcom viewing too. The magic in both instances was casting and boy did they get it right back in those days.

EDIT: Ahh I get you, it was Steptoe wasn't it that copped off with his mum :)

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It's definitely Wilfrid Bramble who played Steptoe who kopps off with Butlers mum
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Feel sorry for alot of them - bought up in a iPhone addicted social media society and getting brainwashed by disinformation and hate, plus having to go through the covid years. Ugly society at times and mainly driven by the older generations.
 
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