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Discounts for OAPs

How about living costs , I was told by my dad when I left school, me and your mam have kept you for 16 years so get out and get a job , best advice he gave me , never out of work until I retired.

The younger generation don't have that chat today as they don't have the kid at all because they know they can't afford it...

Obviously they have avadado toast for tea every night though.
 

The boom generation didn't give birth to me.
I didn't say they had. I said they gave birth to ungrateful fuckas like you.
Few weeks back there was another one slagging off his parents as spoilt boomers who had life handed on a plate. I'm willing to bet they had the exact opposite of life on a plate. Unless they had rich parents who left them everything. Or they sat on the dole all their lives while bringing up their kids.
It amazes me that anyone slates their family on here just for likes, giggles and point scoring. I'd never do it.

 
The younger generation don't have that chat today as they don't have the kid at all because they know they can't afford it...

Obviously they have avadado toast for tea every night though.
Is it smashed avocado?

And sourdough bread.
 
I’m half listening to the telly reporting on a study that the Pension Commission have published a study expressing concerns that people aren’t saving or contributing enough to workplace or private pensions - especially and unsurprisingly in the lower to middle earner category.

Soooo

After I’m dead and gone there’ll be a large number of people who are no longer working but, due to the inevitable ever-rising state pension age, don’t have enough set aside to cover the gap after retirement until state pension age. And then will be largely reliant on state pension.

And discounts probably.
 
A retiree has paid more in tax and NI than a currently working nurse I'd wager. Nugget.

Depends on their respective circumstances. At the extreme end,
A senior nurse in their 50s will have paid a hell of a lot more tax & NI than say my inlaws.
 
How about living costs , I was told by my dad when I left school, me and your mam have kept you for 16 years so get out and get a job , best advice he gave me , never out of work until I retired.
That was provided in the grant you received unless your family was loaded where you had to make a contribution.
 
Aye but the housing was only like 2.5x someone's annual salary compared to today when it's like 22x or something crazy so people just can't afford the mortgage full stop.

It'll be interesting, as right now things are looking a bit bleak in a way. High pension pot, loss of jobs to AI, housing prices that no-one can afford, no-one having babies as they can't afford them so no future tax revenue. Seems a complete recipe for disaster long term.
Seems an odd offset though.

Take people born between say 1950 and 1975, tell private businesses they can not give them discounts. Older people who were war time fine, then people who tried to get on the housing ladder after 2000 get them when they are OAPs.

Just because of house prices at the time.
Religion isn’t permanent. I could convert to any religion I like, today if I so choose.

It’s funny you talk about a fair chance of getting them, when the free prescriptions and bus pass (that I currently pay for) will have long, long gone by the time I’m 67. The state pension might have gone the journey too.
I said usually permanent. In reality discounts aimed at Christians will exclude almost everyone (unless they change which is not massively common) not Christian for life.

Then obviously there are logistics issues. I can prove my age. I can not prove my religion or lack of.

Surely you are not trying to claim being over 65 is the same as being Christian?
 
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Seems an odd offset though.

Take people born between say 1950 and 1975, tell private businesses they can not give them discounts. Older people who were war time fine, then people who tried to get on the housing ladder after 2000 get them when they are OAPs.

Just because of house prices at the time.

I said usually permanent. In reality discounts aimed at Christians will exclude almost everyone (unless they change which is not massively common) not Christian for life.

Then obviously there are logistics issues. I can prove my age. I can not prove my religion or lack of.

Surely you are not trying to claim being over 65 is the same as being Christian?

I’m just saying age is no justification for a discount. I’ll never agree with it, you always will. It’s where we are. Somehow it’s become the latest topic on which you and others tell me how much better than me you are :lol:
 
Religion isn’t permanent. I could convert to any religion I like, today if I so choose.

It’s funny you talk about a fair chance of getting them, when the free prescriptions and bus pass (that I currently pay for) will have long, long gone by the time I’m 67. The state pension might have gone the journey too.
So you are saying OAPs should not get discounts, because various benefits they get, might not be available to you when you are an OAP? Is that the crux of it?
 
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