Jealous of young people, inheriting a world created by the likes of Mr O & Paul, you've got to be kidding

They have a world polluted with greeny madness to start with, not the sensible world I grew up & lived in most of my life.

I could drive my car at any speed I deemed safe, legally. That my judgement was spot on is proven by my still living. Averaging 80 MILES/Hour from Sydney to Melbourne was no problem.

I could walk into a Big W & buy any fire arm I needed to protect myself, family & livestock, no bit of paper needed.

I did not have to support armies of bureaucrats academics & useless local government parasites, & thus paid less than 10% tax.

I could climb on my yacht & sail anywhere without having to have a dozen licenses. When I got my commercial masters tickets they were certificates of competency for life, not some licence requiring renewal annually.

Schools taught real subjects. The average 15 year old kid had enough math to handle an electrical apprenticeship, unlike 18 year high school graduates who need a remedial math course to do the same course today.

Aidan have you been in a Queensland school recently. It's much worse here.

Dan I can't agree. Now that I know that the end is not that far away it actually empowers me. I no longer have to worry about my money lasting my lady & I. I know there will be even a bit left for my kids. I can now indulge in the luxury of building a new 3 car garage for my sports cars & shopping trolley, with an extra bit to keep & work on my remote control planes.

I don't have to keep fighting with a 30 year old pump to have water up at the house, I can buy a new one.

The main thing is to get through your bucket list as early as possible, then you can sit back & enjoy the view with no regrets.

yep an entitled generation who don't know that a baby born with a penis is a boy. They don't know grade 2 biology and think they know how to save the planet.

Everybody should keep in mind that Hasbeen is the only ever recipient of a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Sydney. Even poor old Dr John Bradfield of Sydney Harbour Bridge fame only managed to obtain a Bachelor of Engineering.

Hasbeen

*...then you can sit back & enjoy the view with no regrets...*

I think you've just hit on the problem, which you believe to be the solution.

To be truly engaged in life to the point of empathy towards your fellow man, requires more than self satisfaction with the personal outcome of your hoarding instincts.

That is a too crude approach to life for this black duck. But best of luck with that one.

Dan

Talking to a Yacht woman yesterday, I was told that, when she was up in Caroline Islands some years back, one of the small communities couldn't get any decisions out of the Green type bureaudroids re a new Power station. So, they simply got hold of an old 160' fishing trawler, anchored it in front the of the village laid a cable to shore. Bingo ! There was their power !
Apparently the Russians are doing similarly with some out-of-date nuclear ships.
Plenty of power, no academic "experts" involved to complicate things !
Imagine if this kind of practical sense were available here ?

Dan unless you want to be dependent on the tender mercies of the age care system of today, I suggest you start developing a bit of that hoarding mentality yourself.

I still have a host of friendships developed over a rich & varied life. Unfortunately at this age, some of them are dropping off the perch, & quite a few no longer jump into a car to drive hundreds of kilometers to see each other. I find it better today to chat via the net, but it makes the contact very little less satisfying.

It is difficult for me to find much empathy with the mobile phone brigade of todays younger generation, & see it as pretty pointless. At a gathering recently I looked around & found over 60% of the younger folk were all gazing at a little glowing box in their hand. If this is the empathy you suggest, I can do with out it.