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Old 04-04-2009, 12:32 PM
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If you're over 30...

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were then they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .... uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that...I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

There was no email! ! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!


There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! . Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.

You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
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Old 04-04-2009, 01:50 PM
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You said a mouthful their brother, and all the truth! But we only have ourselves to blam for our kids acting the way they do. But again all true.
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I'm too young to be a boomer but too old be an X'r...

LOL!
I can tell you are still younger then I am!
Atari's? heck no--we PLAYED OUTSIDE or made up our own games.

Cable?! Really?
Try 13 channels and UHF with the bunny ears and foil on the tips.
At least our cartoons were more creative then marketing a toy.

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Old 04-04-2009, 04:21 PM
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So true, so true lol!

Remember when you had to go to school ALL day?
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Bike riding, hot box and 5 TV channels...........that was my preteen years!!
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Thank god for technology
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Old 04-04-2009, 07:17 PM
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Um, ONE channel and it was fuzzy...............

Is a cell phone a right or a luxury? Have to admit I have made like 3 calls on mine in the last 4 months, 2 on the ski slope, somehow survive. Pre-paid definitely the way to go, that $800 savings is nice every year.
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So far I guess I had it hardest (or maybe it was better). I had 3 channels, 1 was french. Spent most my time in the woods, biking, swimming, playing basketball, toboganing. I lived in rural Northern Ontario in a neigbourhood of about 100 homes and not even a corner store. Had to walk 2 miles to get to the bowling ally every Saturday.
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Originally Posted by afs9
LOL!
I can tell you are still younger then I am!
Atari's? heck no--we PLAYED OUTSIDE or made up our own games.

Cable?! Really?
Try 13 channels and UHF with the bunny ears and foil on the tips.
At least our cartoons were more creative then marketing a toy.

@ngelita...
Hey Karl and Ang, Very funny and very true! Brought back some memories, thanks.
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Old 04-04-2009, 09:14 PM
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Hope I die before I get old.

Well to put this in some perspective, my new incoming class of university Freshman for 2009 (class of 2013) were born in 1991.

Dang!

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