Boomers 'Epitaph'

[First_Lexus]

12 hours ago, HighlandJohn said:

Snap!!  The 2nd office/branch I was transferred to 6 months after joining was a 2-man one, the Manager and me.  There wasn't even an adding machine, you had to list all the account balances once a week by hand and add them up in your head to agree that the books balanced.

Changed days indeed......

Hard to imagine what the youngsters of today will be saying in fifty years time…

“…I remember when we didn’t have these computer chips put into our brains at birth, and we used to actually hold a separate device…”

Let’s hope they’re not saying;

”…I remember the days before the war / asteroid / pestilence (delete depending on level of pessimism) when we had devices that would do all sorts of things for us. Now go and hunt squirrels if you want to eat tonight.”

Remain indoors.

 

[Bluemarlin]

19 hours ago, HighlandJohn said:

Snap!!  The 2nd office/branch I was transferred to 6 months after joining was a 2-man one, the Manager and me.  There wasn't even an adding machine, you had to list all the account balances once a week by hand and add them up in your head to agree that the books balanced.

Changed days indeed......

Funnily enough my second "proper" job was in a bank. I remember being a bit surprised that you had to spend months stuck in the machine room, tallying the day's takings, before progressing to the dizzy heights of being a cashier. I stayed six months before deciding it wasn't for me.

Those were the days though. Getting a loan depended as much on your ability to charm the bank manager and how easy or tough his judgment was, as it was your financial position. It felt like going to a public school headmaster (without the caning though).

[Boomer54]

1 hour ago, Bluemarlin said:

Funnily enough my second "proper" job was in a bank. I remember being a bit surprised that you had to spend months stuck in the machine room, tallying the day's takings, before progressing to the dizzy heights of being a cashier. I stayed six months before deciding it wasn't for me.

Those were the days though. Getting a loan depended as much on your ability to charm the bank manager and how easy or tough his judgment was, as it was your financial position. It felt like going to a public school headmaster (without the caning though).

There seems to be trend developing here. A strange and worrisome correlation between having worked in a bank and then becoming a Lexus Owner. Is this really a motoring forum, or is it a secret society for retired bank robbers ! 💥dynamite

[Malc1]

1 minute ago, Boomer54 said:

There seems to be trend developing here. A strange and worrisome correlation between having worked in a bank and then becoming a Lexus Owner. Is this really a motoring forum, or is it a secret society for retired bank robbers ! 💥dynamite

Maybe Bank Managers might have driven Ls400s back in the day ……. had we been allowed to have a “ foreign “ car as a “ bank car “ 

Remembering one of my bank manager bosses actually had his own RR ….. and probably a private income too …… those were the days ……. When cars was cars and petrol was shillings and pennies a gallon 😄 …… and Mr Mannering bank managers existed along with their branches ……. long gone I’m afraid …….. along with the waistcoat 😂

Malc 

[First_Lexus]

3 hours ago, Bluemarlin said:

Those were the days though. Getting a loan depended as much on your ability to charm the bank manager and how easy or tough his judgment was, as it was your financial position. It felt like going to a public school headmaster (without the caning though).

I think the local bank manager had to tread a fine line though. I remember my Father telling me about the manager of the Midland Bank in the town where I grew up, who had quite the reputation aka Cpt. Mainwairing in Dad’s Army.

At some point, I assume in the 1950s or early 1960s he upset one of the local business owners once too often. It turned out that said businessman knew somebody high up at Midland ‘Head Office’ - probably Freemasons, Rotarians or similar as was the fashion back then. The Bank Manager pretty much vanished overnight and was replaced by a much younger and more modern chap…ironically my Father (who had his account there) never got on with the new guy, and shortly afterwards left Midland never to return. 

There was an episode of Dad’s Army when Sgt. Wilson got his own branch - briefly before it was bombed - mainly through his public school education and connections which were from the ‘Upper Classes’ rather than Mainwairing with his Grammar School and aspirational ‘middle class’ background. Every time we watched that episode (my Father lived with me in later life when he wasn’t in good health) the story about the manager of the Midland bank would be told…😂

[DavidCM]

[Barry14UK]

11 hours ago, Boomer54 said:

There seems to be trend developing here. A strange and worrisome correlation between having worked in a bank and then becoming a Lexus Owner. Is this really a motoring forum, or is it a secret society for retired bank robbers ! 💥dynamite

Have to hold my hands up and say I spent the majority of my full time employment working for a Bank, although in several Head Office Departments.  So that's another added to the list. Goodness knows how I tolerated the early years but the last 20 or so were in the Premises Department which I found interesting, gave me the opportunity to visit branches and work with Architects, Surveyors and other disciplines on projects. Only a small number of staff were were highly paid, although it was a reasonable living with the added attraction of subsidised house loan and good pension.  Also, there was the sports possibilities such as playing cricket and tennis if like me you were based in the London area, a number of the Banks having their own sports grounds.  Some of these grounds have now been sold including the one owned by the Bank I worked for. When potential employees were interviewed the men were asked what sports they played and doing so counted in your favour.  Nowadays they couldn't care less what, if any sport you play, and instead of being a member of staff, you are a 'Human Resource', one of many changes that have taken place in the Banking Industry.

[Boomer54]

Like to insert another line in the Epitaph , because for someone a little unfiltered like me the world is now a minefield to be negotiated.

[GMB]

Very apt......

One of today's issues is the need to avoid angry people. There seems to be a lot of them about. Not just drivers but in supermarkets and on the streets.

Such a shame that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

It might seem odd but we do not go out after dark nowadays, especially not driving, due to the preponderance of nutters.

[dutchie01]

30 minutes ago, GMB said:

t might seem odd but we do not go out after dark nowadays, especially not driving, due to the preponderance of nutters.

Thats why i moved to the countryside many years ago. Peace and quiet. Lived in city centre in my early days had my private wino sleeping in the street in front of my house. Drug dealers everywhere. I decided to leave.

[dutchie01]

5 hours ago, Barry14UK said:

you are a 'Human Resource',

Not really, you are a cost that will be thrown overboard the moment it is possible.

[Bluemarlin]

5 hours ago, dutchie01 said:

Thats why i moved to the countryside many years ago. Peace and quiet. Lived in city centre in my early days had my private wino sleeping in the street in front of my house. Drug dealers everywhere. I decided to leave.

The specialist who dealt with my previous car had a private car park a little way down the road from their premises, where they kept customers cars overnight. It was inhabited by a few winos, homeless etc, who they use to give food to, as they were seen as a theft deterrent.

[Bluemarlin]

6 hours ago, GMB said:

Very apt......

One of today's issues is the need to avoid angry people. There seems to be a lot of them about. Not just drivers but in supermarkets and on the streets.

Such a shame that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

It might seem odd but we do not go out after dark nowadays, especially not driving, due to the preponderance of nutters.

Apparently there's been a notable rise in personality disorders in recent years. Various causes are given, such as an increase in dysfunctional family backgrounds leading to emotional issues; along with the rise of social media, which encourages a sense of self entitlement and dissatisfaction, as well as isolating people more from human social interaction.

There's a lot to be said for the latter, as previously people with negative, or even paranoid, thoughts would be told not to be so daft by friends etc, and would get over it; whereas now they simply go online and find thousands of others who share their delusions and magnify them, leading to ever increasing frustration and anger.

Doesn't help that we have dishonest leaders and politicians, who only serve to fuel the fire.

[Boomer54]

30 minutes ago, Bluemarlin said:

Apparently there's been a notable rise in personality disorders in recent years. Various causes are given, such as an increase in dysfunctional family backgrounds leading to emotional issues; along with the rise of social media, which encourages a sense of self entitlement and dissatisfaction, as well as isolating people more from human social interaction.

There's a lot to be said for the latter, as previously people with negative, or even paranoid, thoughts would be told not to be so daft by friends etc, and would get over it; whereas now they simply go online and find thousands of others who share their delusions and magnify them, leading to ever increasing frustration and anger.

Doesn't help that we have dishonest leaders and politicians, who only serve to fuel the fire.

If the level of noise was also matched by a level information (see dictionary) the modern world of instant connection would be of very real value. Instead it has created an almost pandemic in mental health.

Once upon a time my mantra for post business was I wanted to live halfway up a mountain somewhere far removed from the intrusive noise. Instead, I just learned to switch it off.

In that clip I posted I would never use that word 'stupid'. I would have substituted it with 'overly sensitive', because I find many people could find offence even if they lived on a desert island. Unfortunately , society has chosen to reinforce that and as usual the unforeseen consequence (in my view), is a marked drop in resiliance for a couple of generations of people. You don't get resiliance, or strength, by not being tested !

I could point to a raft of work in behavioural psychology that would back up that viewpoint just by looking no further than work in behavioural conditioning.

[Rabbers]

6 hours ago, GMB said:

One of today's issues is the need to avoid angry people. There seems to be a lot of them about. …

I must admit that I often get angry with myself for more and more often feeling angry.

[Boomer54]

3 minutes ago, Rabbers said:

I must admit that I often get angry with myself for more and more often feeling angry.

There was a time. Somewhere along the way I learned how to laugh at myself instead. When the fuel started to simmer I found a way to switch my awareness of what was happening to ON, and laugh at my own reaction instead. Don't know if it can work for everybody, but next time you feel yourself starting to get angry try to stand outside the moment and ask 'what are you doing , and why are you doing this to yourself'.

Might as well try, because I struggle to remember when getting angry ever really helped me in any way.

[Bluemarlin]

4 minutes ago, Boomer54 said:

In that clip I posted I would never use that word 'stupid'. I would have substituted it with 'overly sensitive', because I find many people could find offence even if they lived on a desert island. Unfortunately , society has chosen to reinforce that and as usual the unforeseen consequence (in my view), is a marked drop in resiliance for a couple of generations of people. You don't get resiliance, or strength, by not being tested !

I could point to a raft of work in behavioural psychology that would back up that viewpoint just by looking no further than work in behavioural conditioning.

Indeed. In much the same way that too much cleanliness can lead to allergies.

Fortunately I came from a generation where people were less concerned about causing offence, and so I'm virtually immune to even the worst kind of insult 🙂

As a result, I've always felt that we have no god given right to have our choices, decisions or feelings validated, so that we feel good about whatever we do. Feeling bad is sometimes a good thing, as often it's a reliable indicator that you're doing something wrong. Consequently we should be thanking people for a bit of appropriately given "tough love", and not trying to block out or cancel them.

[Malc1]

Damnably amazing that Society has got itself into a crackpot situation where the taxpayer, you and me, are paying stupid money to keep kids and others mental health in a state of stupor, from age 5 say, coz the crappy parents haven’t a clue how to bring up their families …….. bring back the olden times when deep analysis of kids affectations resulted in a simple and effective “ wallop “ and then forthwith all was amazingly Well ….. no cost outcomes eh ! 

Society has gone stark raving nuts  🥵

Malc 

[Rabbers]

26 minutes ago, Boomer54 said:

…. I struggle to remember when getting angry ever really helped me in any way.

Which goes some way to explaining why I get angry about getting angry.

[ganzoom]

20 hours ago, Malc1 said:

Damnably amazing that Society has got itself into a crackpot situation where the taxpayer, you and me, are paying stupid money to keep kids and others mental health in a state of stupor, from age 5 say, coz the crappy parents haven’t a clue how to bring up their families …….. bring back the olden times when deep analysis of kids affectations resulted in a simple and effective “ wallop “ and then forthwith all was amazingly Well ….. no cost outcomes eh ! 

Society has gone stark raving nuts  🥵

Malc 

I can only hope you are a nicer person in real life versus the internet persona :).

[Malc1]

6 minutes ago, ganzoom said:

I can only hope you are a nicer person in real life versus the internet persona :).

I am who I am and see real life dreadful outcomes at first hand, right now,  from this pussyfooting society in the UK where Social and other Services seem to be causing irreperable harm to kids thinking they are doing good .......  saying it needs an overhaul would be an understatement .  sadly those doing any overhaul would be the incompetents that are running it all right now ........  they are causing direct harm to many by their gross incompetencies and lack of sensible " real world " training ....... .  and the cost to the taxpayer, you and me is beyond belief .......... 

One day it all might be analysed BUT what we desperately need is a simple ££££££ analysis to be put before Society and then watch the likely Revolution !

Enuf is Enuf ...........  bring on the Stocks, Whips and Chains  ............ hanging would be too good for some of 'em !😇

Malc

[dutchie01]

Try Saudi Arabia Malc, could be the country of your dreams!

[Malc1]

Saudi has some amazing credentials with in-humanity issues 🥵

OMG.  just reading  Qatar is about to execute some India nationals, secret trial as spies 

Modi will probably impose some severe degradation on Qatari peoples in India but won’t execute them, devout Hindus rarely do so  …… chuck out all the ambassadors no doubt and freeze trade and bring back all the Indian workers in Qatar …… bring Qatar to its knees probably with zero imported workforce to develop that nation’s aspirations …… on the back of its Gas sales …… hot hot air  😂

AND ban all Indians shopping at Harrods  🥵

And the Hamas global HQ in Qatar will continue unaffected no doubt …….. well done Qatar ! 

just a tad more serious than the dreadful state we’re getting into with the gross incompetencies seen in our Social welfare regimes ……. The Social Lunatics running the Asylum ……. in England anyway ! 
…… from my first hand close current,  running experience of Social Services gross incompetencies putting a child’s life at peril ……..

Rant over !  I’ll quietly go underground now-on-in 😇

Malc 

 

 

[dutchie01]

Hang on... just found out the price of 1 litre of petrol in Saudi, guess what? 0.57 euro/litre!

[Boomer54]

Just  a bit funny for grumpy old people.