Why Millennials are financially ruined

[tinhat]

Nothing has changed much in life, 'you get out, what you put in', there is always those who want to find an excuse for the predicament they find themselves in and wallow around in self pity and then there are others who decide they are going to do something about it.
In Australia there is no excuse for starving, if you are handicapped you are looked after, if you are unemployed you are given money, if you are able bodied there are jobs.
Since the Howard years, we had a massive mining construction boom, that we actually had to fill cleaning positions, with fifo 457 workers from Asia.
Even now in the midst of a nation wide disaster, we have to try and import workers to pick produce our entitled unemployed don't want to do, all it appears they want to do these days is bitch about how hard it is to buy a house in Sydney and Melbourne.
Well maybe they should saddle up and head bush for a job, the mining companies are still struggling to get workers, there seems to be a common word in this thread "work", it has become just another dirty four letter word theses days.
The other chestnut is that older workers wont leave their jobs, so younger people can take them, but they fixed that by lifting the retirement age to 67 might as well blame Howard for that as well.
It's about time the millennials realised there is no one but themselves responsible for their outcome, chase the money, not the lifestyle that comes later.

I agree with most of your sentiment but disagree with some. Always there will be the kid from the wrong side of the track. Why? Something weird, like a circus child. Then you realise when you go to to soccer training that you are wearing the second hand boots and all the other kids have brand new boots. The kids at school have new shoes but you have the shoes of your older brother. So old that the toes have already been cut out.

What does any of this matter? Only that the other kids thought if funny because wogs were funny, smelly waps. Immigrants.

 

[sptrawler]

Fancy pants apes. That's what we are. Soon to be dead apes.

Spot on, we want more, untill there isn't anymore. That's humans.
Even those that want to reverse climate change, don't want to change their usage, they just want someone to make it cleaner. ?
That's humans.
They don't want to eat less, they just want better medication, so they can eat more but not have the bad health results. ?
That's humans.

 

[sptrawler]

I agree with most of your sentiment but disagree with some. Always there will be the kid from the wrong side of the track. Why? Something weird, like a circus child. Then you realise when you go to to soccer training that you are wearing the second hand boots and all the other kids have brand new boots. The kids at school have new shoes but you have the shoes of your older brother. So old that the toes have already been cut out.

What does any of this matter? Only that the other kids thought if funny because wogs were funny, smelly waps. Immigrants.

I had exactly the opposite experience when I arrived in Australia, my parents had nothing, but bought me a pair of shoes to go to school in, well when I arrived at school I was the only kid wearing shoes so I binned them.
Well I got a thrashing when I got home, but I was flucked if I was going to be the only kid in school wearing shoes, but it hurt like $hit until your feet toughened up.
Then three years later (1968) we moved to Dampier in the NW of W.A, we still went barefoot with bubbling bitumen, $hit I was tough back then. ? now my feet are as soft as a newborn. lol
I just remembered in Dampier us kids used to have a competition, who could strike and light the most matches and stick them to your heel, now I think about that maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the grandkids for playing electronic games.
By the way, we found the limit wasn't how many you could get to stick, it was how many you could hold in your hand when they were flaring.

 

[wayneL]

I had exactly the opposite experience when I arrived in Australia, my parents had nothing, but bought me a pair of shoes to go to school in, well when I arrived at school I was the only kid wearing shoes so I binned them.
Well I got a thrashing when I got home, but I was flucked if I was going to be the only kid in school wearing shoes, but it hurt like $hit until your feet toughened up.
Then three years later (1968) we moved to Dampier in the NW of W.A, we still went barefoot with bubbling bitumen, $hit I was tough back then. ? now my feet are as soft as a newborn. lol
I just remembered in Dampier us kids used to have a competition, who could strike and light the most matches and stick them to your heel, now I think about that maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the grandkids for playing electronic games.
By the way, we found the limit wasn't how many you could get to stick, it was how many you could hold in your hand when they were flaring.

True

But I can't help thinking about the four Yorkshiremen

 

[frugal.rock]

Aye, that's the spirit laddie, there's noawt to be had from whingin...

True

But I can't help thinking about the four Yorkshiremen

Bloomin Monty bloody Python rip off copycats, bludgers couldn't come up with something original..?

Now, back in my day... we had dried mutton bird soup for tea.

We used to get a 3 month dried mutton bird, throw it in the pan with a couple of river stones, boil it up for a day with a candle, then throw the mutton bird away and eat the stones....aye, ruddy delicious they were.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

It is what it is.

Roof over head, food on table, enough clean water, friends and a lover or not if not inclined.

gg

 

[fergee]

Bloomin Monty bloody Python rip off copycats, bludgers couldn't come up with something original..?

Now, back in my day... we had dried mutton bird soup for tea.

We used to get a 3 month dried mutton bird, throw it in the pan with a couple of river stones, boil it up for a day with a candle, then throw the mutton bird away and eat the stones....aye, ruddy delicious they were.

You do that in Aussie too?........ must have learnt it from a kiwi ay, pretty sure we invented mutton bird(pukeko) soup and pavlova

 

[Dona Ferentes]

It is what it is.

Roof over head, food on table, enough clean water, friends and a lover or not if not inclined.

And once you get in the routine of a soft pillow and hot shower, the Maslow aspiration is hard to retreat from

 

[wayneL]

You do that in Aussie too?........ must have learnt it from a kiwi ay, pretty sure we invented mutton bird(pukeko) soup and pavlova

I did not know that muttonbird and pukeko were the same thing, learn something new every day, eh.

And by the way the correct name is swamphen

 

[frugal.rock]

And by the way the correct name is swamphen

Swamphen, oohhh luxury that is...
I'm talking about the Shearwater... salty as a sea legged varmint.

Looks like the summer dinners are awf n late this year, aye.
I hear thi buggers are holes up in some swanky sleepy hotel in quarantine... not a security guard found awake...

They're one of the world's toughest birds, but where are they?

Every year, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, descend on Victoria's coastline at the end of September or early October after a mammoth journey from the northern hemisphere, but so far this year they haven't shown up.

www.abc.net.au

 

[wayneL]

Swamphen, oohhh luxury that is...
I'm talking about the Shearwater... salty as a sea legged varmint.

Looks like the summer dinners are awf n late this year, aye.
I hear thi buggers are holes up in some swanky sleepy hotel in quarantine... not a security guard found awake...

They're one of the world's toughest birds, but where are they?

Every year, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, descend on Victoria's coastline at the end of September or early October after a mammoth journey from the northern hemisphere, but so far this year they haven't shown up.

www.abc.net.au

Ahhh, yep that kinda about what I thought a mutton bird is.

Of course we had to survive on 3 week old cockatoo carcasses that had been hit by cars, after the crows had been at them, when I were a lad.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Forget McDonalds.

Does anyone else on ASF know how to kill, pluck and gut a chicken before cooking over an open fire.

gg

 

[macca]

Forget McDonalds.

Does anyone else on ASF know how to kill, pluck and gut a chicken before cooking over an open fire.

gg

I know how to kill pluck etc but then my Mum used to put them in the oven

 

[qldfrog]

Forget McDonalds.

Does anyone else on ASF know how to kill, pluck and gut a chicken before cooking over an open fire.

gg

I do but I am a rural guy

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Getting back to the theme, the context . ... I refer to the Adore thread

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Gee, all I'm seeing is a whole bunch of impatience from people (millennials) wanting easy answers. It isn't easy.

 

[frugal.rock]

Forget McDonalds.

Does anyone else on ASF know how to kill, pluck and gut a chicken before cooking over an open fire.

gg

You could walk past them doing on the streets of Beijing not so long ago...

Funniest thing I ever saw out the back of Benalbo, was old mate rooster get the chop.
He ran around like he still had eyes for a minute or so with maybe 3 random spontaneous backflips whilst on the strut.
Funny and graceful really.
Guts were used in yabbie pots in the creek, after a good ole hanging/ ageing out of the dogs reach...

 

[Joe90]

Forget McDonalds.

Does anyone else on ASF know how to kill, pluck and gut a chicken before cooking over an open fire.

gg

Roll it it wet clay and bake in an umu.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I believe we have been manipulated by a vacuous American culture which thrives on consumerism and has in turn commoditised us. Boomers, Millenials, Gen X etc. etc. It's all bull.

We need to work cross generationally to make a better Australia.

gg

 

[wayneL]

I believe we have been manipulated by a vacuous American culture which thrives on consumerism and has in turn commoditised us. Boomers, Millenials, Gen X etc. etc. It's all bull.

We need to work cross generationally to make a better Australia.

gg

I agree.

But having been infected with such Americanisms, can we all agree what that better Australia might look like?

After which paradigm should be model ourselves? Or are we mature enough create our own paradigm?

The problem I see is that we are a collective of really quite disparate subcultures within the greater whole, neither of which the major parties are serving in any great respect.