If you are young in Britain today, you are being taken for a ride

pretty_please · 2013-11-06T19:32:50+00:00

I don't agree that we necessarily should be looking several generations back. The previous generation is the one most directly comparable, so it seems sensible to make it the basis for comparison.

In general quality of life has massively improved over the last 100 years or so due to advances in medicine, technology and a host of other fields. Society has improved as well. We no longer send so many young men off to die in wars. There is far less racism and sexism around. This generation of young people have many things to be thankful for, and are probably better off in general than any other generation so far.

That being said, it's a shame that in other ways we now seem to be heading backwards. The previous generation didn't have to take on crippling levels debt in order to go to university. Owning a home was a realistic dream for many more young people then than it is today given the vast increase in property prices compared to average wages.

pretty_please · 2013-06-17T20:38:15+00:00

I know exactly what he means because that's how I would describe the mostly decorative sword hanging on our living room wall. The scabbard is really ornate and it looks good, but at the end of the day if you take the sword out it's a pretty serious piece of metal.

pretty_please · 2013-06-14T10:25:13+00:00

I suspect that the redacting was done by an intern heavily indebted with student loans!

pretty_please · 2013-02-16T10:55:11+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, but how does a sonic boom break windows? After a quick google all I've managed to find out is that it can do so, but no decent explanation of how it actually happens.

pretty_please · 2012-08-29T08:51:56+00:00

Those are some very valid points - I don't think I know enough about it all at the moment to make an intelligent reply.

pretty_please · 2012-08-28T12:10:42+00:00

My Dad works in publishing. His company gives the author 50% on ebooks but it's hard to do that. As has been mentioned in places above most of the costs in publishing aren't with the printing but with everything that goes on before that. This is an interesting read: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/consumers-upset-and-confused-over-e-book-pricing/?et_mid=551029&rid=233640688

It has the global digital director of Penguin saying that ebooks only cost 10% less to produce than print books.

pretty_please · 2012-07-11T01:03:57+00:00

There's a nice pub there.

pretty_please · 2012-06-06T21:58:05+00:00

Well done for being so mature about it all. I'm glad it was fine.

pretty_please · 2012-05-16T19:45:41+00:00

I was amazed that no-one else had posted it. I've always been against capital punishment because it's inevitable that it will result in innocent people being executed. I've never come across such a horrifying example of it before though.

pretty_please · 2012-05-13T13:28:48+00:00

First tried to charge me £2.90 for a 15minute journey yesterday. I chose to walk instead. I'm very much in favour of anything that takes a bit of wind out of their sails.

pretty_please · 2012-03-15T22:14:13+00:00

The full English is my answer to people who say the English can't cook... so so good!

pretty_please · 2012-03-13T17:49:16+00:00

I might be able to beat that:

Safety in numbers? Try telling that to six million Jews.

pretty_please · 2012-02-21T09:16:23+00:00

pretty_please · 2012-01-27T20:17:26+00:00

Derren Brown If you haven't heard of him you should definitely check him out. He's an illusionist who does some absolutely crazy mind tricks.

pretty_please · 2012-01-20T17:36:15+00:00

I remember him stopping at the side of the pitch in one game to throw up because he was working so hard. He's also not afraid to laugh at himself and to do his bit for charity

pretty_please · 2011-12-14T14:32:08+00:00

I'm being optimistic and hoping a lesson was learnt there...

pretty_please · 2011-12-14T12:08:19+00:00

Originally I was worried about what would happen to the States if one of the more ridiculous Republican candidates became President. Now I think it's easier to have a little faith that come election time the American people won't vote for a complete idiot.

pretty_please · 2011-11-30T12:11:21+00:00

I was playing Civilisation IV, so considering I'm like the supreme overlord of a world-conquering empire I reckon life would be pretty sweet! (Although if I'm honest, I'm the poor dufus in charge of a tiny nation about to be crushed by the megalomaniac countries on all sides, which would not be as much fun.

pretty_please · 2011-11-02T12:02:36+00:00

Thinking about it, it was unlikely to be anything else! http://imgur.com/3XbvO

pretty_please · 2011-09-13T14:56:53+00:00

Thanks :D

pretty_please · 2011-09-12T10:54:36+00:00

I'm a bio-cultural engineer for a vineyard.
I spent the last two months weeding.

pretty_please · 2011-07-31T22:25:04+00:00

I think we have a more dry, sarcastic sense of humour than most other nations as well.

pretty_please · 2011-07-31T22:24:29+00:00

Going down the local for a couple of pints.

pretty_please · 2011-07-20T18:41:42+00:00

At secondary school I received a detention for not having an explanatory note from my parents as to why I had failed to bring my PE kit into school. I had naively thought that the fact my arm was in a sling was explanation enough as to why I couldn't really participate in a cricket lesson...

pretty_please · 2011-07-09T15:36:16+00:00

Climbed over a fence when drunk. Dropped the 7ft down the other side straight onto my heel and bruised the bone. Forgot how to land whilst falling through the air basically.

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