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I was the same a dozen years earlier. I used to wonder what the point was in having it. It just sat there unused. The central heating wouldn't be allowed on until we turned blue and had to go off by 1 march whatever the weather. As for double glazing, what the hell was that for ? We just...

And they've remade Thunderbirds and it's absolutely rubbish. My grandkids say so. You can't see the strings for a start.

Absolutely same here. I went in 1980 and the ration was the same.

I recall that 10% seemed to be generally the norm for a very long time. Then it dropped to 5%. When buy to let mortgages were more freely available that seemed to distort things more and you could buy a property to let based purely on potential income and not on the borrower's salary. Then it...

I think around 1980 it wasn't much more than 10 % went to uni.

Hahah. You see, it's never been so easy to change from one lousy programme to another. ...and it's in colour.

I loved those kind of programmes. They literally don't make them like that an more .

I jest about phone boxes, but many people used them into the 1980s even though landline phones had been around for yonks. And the smell of piss was extraordinary. As for having only 4 channels on TV I've never thought that today's generation have benefited . Now they have 600 channels of...

I like your last paragraph. I think the overwhelming change has been communication. I think the younger generation have, to some extent, been marginalised by the very technological advances that should be beneficial to them more than any other generation. I remember a series on TV a few years...

Yes, Coventry fortnight everyone went BOAC to the Isle of Wight. Or was it Freddie Laker ? Is there still a Coventry fortnight ?

Haha. Good for you. You won't go back, the pull of home is too great Get a car instead. You can't go to school on a bus. Too many books to carry unless you're a goody goody and do all the marking on the premises.

What went on in 2014?

Your generation ? I think you're getting too old . Why do you stay in Brighton if you want a mortgage and you have to rent there? Brighton is the playground of Londoners . Its overpriced and hasn't even got a proper beach. Move away, find a teaching job elsewhere where property is affordable...

100% mortgages ? Who said there was no money for going out ? You're contradicting yourself because surely life in the 1950s and 60s was an absolute piece of piss compared to today. That's the whole point of the discussion isn't it ? They were loaded compared to today's poor Costa coffee...

The option for car leasing didn't really exist in the form it does today. Most people had to buy a car and it was unusual for any family to have more than one car because of the costs involved. They had no option but to keep that car until they fell apart, literally. Rust buckets were...

They complain that the previous generation had it easy. You obviously agree. So far you've failed to say anything that proves the point. Which generation that is, I'm not actually sure. Everything post WW2 I assume. That's two generations, my parents' generation and my generation. I know about...

So what's your point ?

That's because what he said was complete bullshit.

People rented TV etc because they couldn't afford to buy them. Its not rocket science. What's Carnaby Street got to do with the real world ? Do you think people in fashionable Carnaby Street were financially at the same level as those working in shops, offices and factories around the UK ? Yes ...

...and what a bloody waste of money 4K TVs are !