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I know we see these all the time, but this one hit home with me... enjoy. Quote:
If you are 30 or older,
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning... uphill both ways ...through year 'round blizzards ... carrying their younger siblings on their backs... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time,
after-school job at the local textile mill... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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 ...
we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves!
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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,
you had to go 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 f@#* it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7- 11! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy [censored] like Call Waiting!
If you were on the phone and somebody else called,
they got a busy signal!
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 boss, your mom, a collections agent,
your drug dealer, you didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames 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 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 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 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 20 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!
You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning...ya hear what I'm Saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up... we had to use the stove ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn... we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot...forever.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too damn easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!!!!!!!!!!!
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LMFAO at the Jiffy pop!!!
Does anyone remember the cartoon series that used to air on the USA network? All I can recall is some goofy cartoon bullet-like train in the intro and Grape Ape as one of the shows.
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LOL!
In Australia when I was growing up we didn't even have cable - just 3 channels for my first 10 years, then 4, then 5! Cable started getting around about 15 years ago, and it was only available by satellite, so it wasn't even cable.
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That was the USA Network's Cartoon Express... they used to have all kinds of crazy programming on that channel. Like the original Club MTV, Dance Party USA. They had that Night Tracks show on the weekends late at night when they showed music videos... My favorite part of the Cartoon Express?? Laff-a-Lympics... 
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I'm 24 and I can sadly relate! Then again, it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't grow up with money, or parents that had to have cable and internet. I thought the car phone that my now ex-stepdad had was the craziest thing ever! A phone with no land line, WTF?   Mark
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hey! im only 29 and ALL those things applied to me! lmfao at the Jiffy Pop! Atari was the sh*t! I remember when we bought our first microwave at Sears. It was around $500! and our 27" color tv with REMOTE was around $1k how about when your parents refused to drive you anywhere and you had to foot it or go on your bike?  I remember when I would ask my dad for some money to go to the movies with a friend and he would hand me $.50! i was like wtf?! "back when i was a kid you could buy popcorn, a soda AND a cand bar with those two quarters"  AND OF COURSE, lets not forget HALLOWEEN! we were just talking about this the other day. now they have kid's Batman costumes with built in 6packs. my daughter's costume cost $35 remember ours? for $7 you got those POS vinyl ones that would rip when you raised your hand to knock on the door and that plastic mask that you couldnt breath or see out of! and the stupid little string that held it onto your head which always broke half-way through the night! ahhh....memories 
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Screw MTV. My grandparents were too cheap for cable, so I had to wait for Friday, sneak on the tv to watch FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS, so BITE ME! hahahahaha
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Thanks for makeing me feel old brian. I think it sucks when you see something old they remake and yous sit there and say i rememeber when those 1st came out 
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Originally posted by BP:
I know we see these all the time, but this one hit home with me... enjoy.
Quote:
If you are 30 or older,
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning... uphill both ways ...through year 'round blizzards ... carrying their younger siblings on their backs... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time,
after-school job at the local textile mill... where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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 ...
we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves!
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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,
you had to go 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 f@#* it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7- 11! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy [censored] like Call Waiting!
If you were on the phone and somebody else called,
they got a busy signal!
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 boss, your mom, a collections agent,
your drug dealer, you didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station videogames 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 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 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 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 20 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!
You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning...ya hear what I'm Saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up... we had to use the stove ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn... we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot...forever.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too damn easy. You're spoiled, you guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahahaha. This is so darned funny. LMAO ROFL
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I am only 21, but with Y2KSVT in that I didn't grow up with money, so pretty much all of that applied to me.
I remember in elementary school there were only 4 or 5 computers for the whole school, and they were something like late 1970s Apples with the green monochrome screen. Don't even remember what we did with them... probly not much.
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