Handforth Parish Council

Didsbury Dave said:
I’m not going to cast dispersions on a whole generation, because people are people whatever their age, but the “boomer” generation bred a lot of this type of person. Gammon is the term often used. They grew up in a booming post-war economy and were put on final salary pensions. They had the NHS on tap. They rode the property price explosions and are all now retired in dull, detached estate houses on avenues where they read their Daily Mail every day and get angrier and angrier at the younger generations who won’t allow them to call a paki a paki or a paddy a paddy. They can’t understand why the media is full of talentless queers and they reminisce bitter sweetly about a time when the summers were hot, the women stayed at home, you could leave your doors open and everybody was white, straight and wore pants and shirts in primary colours.

There’s no fool like an old fool and their arrogance and prejudice was baked into them in the 60s and 70s when the whole family sat around on a Saturday night to watch Bernard Manning or Jim Davidson after their meat and two veg and before they went off alone to tell dirty jokes with the other regulars down The Shepherds.
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You’re not exactly a spring chicken mate.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
but it's ok for you to be stereotypical, rude and patronising about them? Funny how these things only seem to work one way these days.
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Old white people are fair game these days mate but what’s funny is, I would put DD in that category myself, I am fairly sure he’s older than my old man and he’s an old get ;-)
 
Ban-jani said:
You’re not exactly a spring chicken mate.
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We are Generarion X, son. Young enough to be mobile and free, wealthy enough to afford it and wise enough to enjoy it.

You’ll get there one day. In the meantime I’d advise you to lose those blatant gammon tendencies for another decade at least. You’re supposed to be idealistic at your age before the cynicism bites.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
We are Generarion X, son. Young enough to be mobile and free, wealthy enough to afford it and wise enough to enjoy it.

You’ll get there one day. In the meantime I’d advise you to lose those blatant gammon tendencies for another decade at least. You’re supposed to be idealistic at your age before the cynicism bites.
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well I'm a millenial, but as I'm a 90s Blue I prefer D-Generation X.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
well I'm a millenial, but as I'm a 90s Blue I prefer D-Generation X.
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Youve hit on a good point. That’s another reason why why we Generation X’s are special. I started watching City when I was 6, literally a month after we won the league cup in 76. What immediately followed was 30 odd years of shite. Character building shite. We went the hard yards through the lower divisions clinging to the memory of that first couple of late 70s years, when City were still seen to be as big as United, Liverpool, arsenal et al.

When the glory returned we enjoyed it more than anyone. The boomers had already seen success, you millennials were just getting old enough to enjoy it at the right time and today’s youth were just glory hunters who knew nothing different.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Youve hit on a good point. That’s another reason why why we Generation X’s are special. I started watching City when I was 6, literally a month after we won the league cup in 76. What immediately followed was 30 odd years of shite. Character building shite. We went the hard yards through the lower divisions clinging to the memory of that first couple of late 70s years, when City were still seen to be as big as United, Liverpool, arsenal et al.

When the glory returned we enjoyed it more than anyone. The boomers had already seen success, you millennials were just getting old enough to enjoy it at the right time and today’s youth were just glory hunters who knew nothing different.
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Didsbury Dave said:
Youve hit on a good point. That’s another reason why why we Generation X’s are special. I started watching City when I was 6, literally a month after we won the league cup in 76. What immediately followed was 30 odd years of shite. Character building shite. We went the hard yards through the lower divisions clinging to the memory of that first couple of late 70s years, when City were still seen to be as big as United, Liverpool, arsenal et al.

When the glory returned we enjoyed it more than anyone. The boomers had already seen success, you millennials were just getting old enough to enjoy it at the right time and today’s youth were just glory hunters who knew nothing different.
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well to be fair, I committed to being a City fan when I was first taken as we were tumbling down the tiers, my first memories are D1 and the slide into D2 and I used to get playground taunts from Stockport and Burnley fans, let alone being allowed in the conversation with the Rag, Dipper, Arsenal and Newcastle fans in the playground. So I committed to the Blues when we were the most shite we've been and I thought the highlight of my lifetime would be 99 points under Keegan in the 2nd tier (and that it was written in the Gods that in typical City fashion we lost to County and couldn't get 100) with Huckerby hat-tricks and a couple of home derby wins, once Pearce came around I thought that would be the eternal abyss. So I had no success or near-miss cup finals or high placed Prem finishes to hang my hat on, I'd always known shite hence why I'm a perpetual miserable bastard.
 
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