Now kitchen hard man Ramsay has turned soft
UNTIL now I have always thought that the snowflake generation was the millennial one. Wrong. Apparently heaps of parents decline and fall all over the place when youngsters fly the nest, even if it is only to go to university.
That their young will be returning a couple of months later, doubtless accompanied by the washing, is no comfort to the likes of Gordon Ramsay – the TV culinary star famed for terrorising kitchens and robust language – who is so “gutted” by the departure of son Jack, 18, to Exeter University he wears his clothes as solace.
Strewth! It seems some parents cannot wait for the kids to leave and resent it if they can’t afford to buy their own homes as soon as they graduate, while others weep at work just because an adult child spends part of the year being educated in a different part of the country – probably texting and Skyping prolifically, if not every day.
Just how would these wimps cope with a war? Or service life, which involves periods of separation as a matter of course? Or children living on the other side of the world?
I could shake ’em till their teeth rattle. And for the benefit of all those snowflakes who will say I am threatening violence, that is a metaphorical expression of exasperation much used by a more level-headed and infinitely tougher previous generation.