Baby Boomers

I am not a Baby boomer.
There are 2 reasons:

1: Baby boomers are American - Bush and Clinton are both boomers.
The Brits used the term ‘The Bulge’ to describe the vast increase in the birth rate after the men came home from the war in 1945

2: I’m a bit too old. To qualify as one of the bulge you had to be born between 1946 and 1964. I was conceived during the war and born in 1945 just in time for all the victory celebrations. I thought they were all for me. Yes I am post war - but only just.

So the first bulging baby boomers are 60 this year. No wonder we have a pensions crisis.

Medical equipment maker ‘Smith and Nephew’ has been doing badly recently. But the chief exec is very upbeat about it. He rubbed his hands in glee as he recalled that ‘older people’s wounds heal very slowly’ so his company would make a fortune in sorting out our pain. So glad to be of assistance.

You can’t open a paper without reading about this generation who refuse to grow old. Their habits and preferences are the subject of much research. Recently it has been discovered that they often lie about their past to impress their children, or in my case my students.

Of course, being a chemistry student in the sixties, we could make as much LSD as we needed in the labs…….. I passed some on to Jimi at the Isle of White and later helped Janis out before she hit the stage at Woodstock.


Another recent survey has reported that this generation who ‘took the first contraceptive pill, challenged the institution of marriage and campaigned for women’s rights’ are most likely to be satisfied with their sex lives.

Well you wouldn’t expect me to comment on that would you … after all we tell lies.
KAZ
Footnote:
In this sex survey Austrians (?) are most satisfied and Canadians come a close second!