The boomers ate all the avocados
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It's not difficult to buy a large run down suburban house and replace it with a slightly larger building containing 5 or 6 dwellings. Then there are the empty commercial buildings. As mentioned repeatedly, the blockage is the planning system which is near meltdown due to endless budget cuts. And breaking down the entrenched resistance to change of any sort.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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But there ain't no avocados any more, coz the boomers ate them all... or have I got it wrong? 🤔
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Its an extract from the ordnance survey showing the border of Kent. Beckenham hasn't been in Kent since long before I was born.
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Ah, sorry. Guess it's my fault all along, although I have only rarely eaten avocados.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
It is. My old postcode was BR3. And your point is what?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Yeah, will somebody think of the Avocados 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Well people were replying that it's in greater London (obviously) and you seemed confused what point they were making.
What were you getting at?
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That it's a fair way out of the centre.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Apparently boomers grow them in their huge gardens on the grounds of their vast under-occupied dwellings. That’’s why they are not keen to have affordable houses built in their backyards.
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And that might cause an avocado shortage which would piss off the millennials even more.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
That's good, for a minute I thought your point might be that you lived somewhere 20 years without knowing which county it's in 😄
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Postcodes don't relate to what county you are in. The GL (Gloucester) code extends into Worcestershire for example. Beckenham has not been part of Kent since the creation of the county of London in 1888.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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The BR3 postcode is in Kent so not sure what Gloucester has to do with it?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I have a York postcode despite living 28 miles from it. Sometimes our postal address is classed as North Yorkshire despite living in East Yorkshire.
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I'm 59 today and had an avocado with my breakfast . . . does my age or my choice of breakfast make me a boomer??
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Happy birthday, you can identify with whatever you feel inside, irrespective of your birth status.
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It was an example to illustrate that postcodes don't relate to county boundaries. Nor do postal counties relate to administrative boundaries. Richmond claims to be in Surrey and historically, Kent and Surrey extended right up to Southwark and Greenwich, but that's not been the case for over a hundred years. I have the same silly situation where my postal address is "...,Carshalton, Surrey", but Carshalton hasn't been part of Surrey since the 1880s.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Depending on your source Boomers end in 1964, making you Gen-X, and the predilection for avocados confirms this. 😉
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Happy Birthday - you are Gen X which means:
a) you are entirely ignored in all these intergenerational threads and
b) you don't really care about being ignored
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imo avocado is a lifestyle choice rather than generational
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OOI, what's the next generation... do we go back to A and start all over again?
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Alpha apparently so kind of, yes.
I am gen X (although someone the other day told me that I am an Xennial, which seems like an unnecessary complication), my kids are gen Alpha - seems like someone missed out a whole lot of letters along the way somewhere and switched to Greek so we have a few to work with before we get back to gen W.
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Sounds like you got a free upgrade 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I am currently re-reading Joan Didion's 'The White Album'. The one thing we haven't talked about with regards boomers (thinking specifically of those born in the late 1940's, early 1950's is just how significant a role they played in shaping the latter half of the 20th Century (particularly in the US/UK). Counterculture movement, Civil Rights Protests, Anti-Vietnam War, women's rights, voting rights, New wave in cinema and music. The 1960's must have been one of the most turbulent decades in modern history but also one of the 'richest' decades, both culturally and socially.
And probably not an avocado in sight....
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Gen Alpha sounds cool. Maybe it means people are going to start toughening up again.
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i'd go for generation s, screwed
but if it's 'alpha', surely it'll be in the sense of alpha product 😀
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I know 2 ladeez who include 'alpha' in their email handles, and they're def not Gen Z +1.
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The whole thing is just stupid. The idea that an entire generation has the same or even similar behaviours is ridiculous. I like the idea that today's 'Boomers' are supposedly bemoaning youngsters for being woke or workshy are the same cohort that were once apparently workshy hippies according to the 'Greatest / WWII Generation' and who were probably more involved in social protests such as civil rights or peace demonstrations than anyone. Have opinions changed massively as they got older or could it be they are different sub-sets of the same generational cohort?
I remember in the late 90s my colleague, who falls right in the middle of the Boomer timeframe but was very liberal leaning, went out for lunch and there was a student demonstration on College Green in Bristol. He started giving them grief - not for protesting but because of their lack of effort. He told them to get in the road and do it properly.
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I'd have more sympathy for this if, at a national level, age wasn't the the most important factor in working out which party someone is likely to vote for.
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