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Penny Lane · 05-13-2006, 09:53 AM

IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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... 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 @#*t all up!

And talk of about hardship?

You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother
or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the
7-11! Those were your options!

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 Play station video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics!

We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics sucked big time! 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 on screen 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 butt 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 brats!

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!

Mijada · 05-13-2006, 10:25 AM

Or you had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the
beginning and @#*t all up!
I remember doing that and yes it was annoying when they talked over the song

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel
I remember the TV we had had these 2 great big dials. Those things were pretty hard to turn sometimes

And we didn't have microwaves
Actually we had one. My mom bought it in 1984. The thing was almost as big as the regular oven

Penny Lane · 05-13-2006, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mijada

Or you had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the
beginning and @#*t all up!
I remember doing that and yes it was annoying when they talked over the song

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel
I remember the TV we had had these 2 great big dials. Those things were pretty hard to turn sometimes

And we didn't have microwaves
Actually we had one. My mom bought it in 1984. The thing was almost as big as the regular oven

We got our first microwave around 1977. It was so large that we put it in the kitchen closet/pantry which was kind of inconvenient.

Kazza · 05-13-2006, 11:01 AM

Ahhh the memories!!! Love it .

Chad Michael Murray · 05-13-2006, 11:36 AM

I'm not over 30, but I still thought that thing was hilarious.

The thing is, I'm only 21, and I'm already starting to go through things like that. Like I remember when I went with my friend a couple of years ago to pick up this kid at school that she was babysitting, and a lot of the kids had backpacks that were almost like a suitcase, and it rolled on wheels and everything like actual suitcases do.

I mean, what the HELL? Why don't they have to carry 500 pounds of books on their BODY and break their backs like we did?!

retrochick9 · 05-13-2006, 11:38 AM

Someone sent me this before and OMG it's soooo funny and true.

Brian Damage · 05-13-2006, 11:44 AM

Everything in there was so true! LOL What about cell phones? If you were away from your house and you had to make a call, you better have spare change. lol Does anybody remember the Pay Phone?

retrochick9 · 05-13-2006, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

Everything in there was so true! LOL What about cell phones? If you were away from your house and you had to make a call, you better have spare change. lol Does anybody remember the Pay Phone?

OMG, one time when I was at the mall I had to call for a ride or something and I had no money left so I made a COLLECT CALL and my dad chewed me out big time for that, lol. We never would have DREAMED there would have been such a thing as cell phones back then, lol. I remember when my dad got his first car phone, it was huge! He was driving me somewhere and I was like, "what's that?" and he said it was a phone and I was like, "you can't really CALL someone on that can you?" LOL!!!!!

Ireneparalegal · 05-13-2006, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mijada

Or you had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the
beginning and @#*t all up!
I remember doing that and yes it was annoying when they talked over the song

You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel
I remember the TV we had had these 2 great big dials. Those things were pretty hard to turn sometimes

And we didn't have microwaves
Actually we had one. My mom bought it in 1984. The thing was almost as big as the regular oven

Microwave oven????? what is that???? LMAO...we didn't even have that!
the radio and recording thing WAS SO DAMN TRUE!!!!!! God I hated when that crap happened!!!
TV channel changing. You were really screwed if the knob broke!!!!! WHERE ARE THE PLIERS!!!????
Telephones: No caller ID, yes, you were screwed if you didn't want to talk to someone in particular; you were also screwed because of the damn cord!!!! NO CORDLESS PHONE PEOPLE!!!!
ATARI!????? Hell, we had to GO PLAY OUTSIDE TO HAVE FUN!!!!!! No video games whatsoever...we actually played outside and came in when the sun went down, unless we could get away with playing outside and had enough light fromt the street lights! LOL
SEATBELTS: What are those long bulky things in the car for dad???? Who the hell wore those then? NO ONE!!! Me, I used it to hit my brother when he got on my nerves during those long car trips.

TJL · 05-13-2006, 12:43 PM

That's great.

With all the research that is done on the internet nowadays, does any High Schoold student actually need a librabry anymore?

Mr. Television · 05-13-2006, 12:59 PM

Now I feel like I lived in the Stone Age.

Yooch · 05-13-2006, 01:48 PM

Hilarious, and very true...

The first music mixes I made were by holding the microphone from a reel to reel tape recorder up to the speaker on an AM radio. I'd be getting the last note on some Richie Valens or Fabian song--and Cousin Brucie, or some other DJ would break in right when the song was over. One thing I'll say is thank goodness for ipods and MP3 players. It's so much better. In this respect it is Utopia.
I hope the younger people reading this know that our diatribes are partly in fun (if I can speak for myself).

Tuesday Weld · 05-13-2006, 03:19 PM

I'd love to have those days back.

Mr. Television · 05-13-2006, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by musicrocksmyworld

I'd love to have those days back.

Me too. It seemed like a simpler time.

Yooch · 05-13-2006, 07:36 PM

The technology we have is great, and advances in science, medicine & so forth has improved life, but even back in elementary school in the early 1960's doing air raid drills--I felt that the world was a safer place, that people were in general more civil, and somehow all was right with the world, and would be all right, in spite of its problems. Angry people weren't flying jets into buildings within my own country. Something has been lost along the way. I wish we could get that integrity back. I take a walk along the mall nowadays and I see a high percentage of hurried, alienated, unhappy humanity and I'm thinking--we have it made materially and technologically as never before--but happiness and well-being just seems to be diminishing.

05-13-2006, 09:53 AM	#1
Penny Lane Butter Pie Forum Icon Join Date: Jul 03, 2001 Location: Beneath the blue suburban skies Posts: 51,261	If you are over 30.......... IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! 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... 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 @#*t all up! And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! 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 Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked big time! 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 on screen 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 butt 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 brats! 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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05-13-2006, 10:25 AM	#2
Mijada Spencers mom Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 02, 2001 Location: eastern US Posts: 4,093	Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#t all up! I remember doing that and yes it was annoying when they talked over the song You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel I remember the TV we had had these 2 great big dials. Those things were pretty hard to turn sometimes And we didn't have microwaves* Actually we had one. My mom bought it in 1984. The thing was almost as big as the regular oven
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05-13-2006, 11:36 AM	#5
Chad Michael Murray Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 23, 2005 Location: Illinois Posts: 1,493	I'm not over 30, but I still thought that thing was hilarious. The thing is, I'm only 21, and I'm already starting to go through things like that. Like I remember when I went with my friend a couple of years ago to pick up this kid at school that she was babysitting, and a lot of the kids had backpacks that were almost like a suitcase, and it rolled on wheels and everything like actual suitcases do. I mean, what the HELL? Why don't they have to carry 500 pounds of books on their BODY and break their backs like we did?!
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05-13-2006, 11:44 AM	#7
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Everything in there was so true! LOL What about cell phones? If you were away from your house and you had to make a call, you better have spare change. lol Does anybody remember the Pay Phone?
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05-13-2006, 12:43 PM	#10
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,588	That's great. With all the research that is done on the internet nowadays, does any High Schoold student actually need a librabry anymore?
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05-13-2006, 11:01 AM	#4
Kazza Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 17, 2003 Posts: 3,244	Ahhh the memories!!! Love it .

05-13-2006, 11:38 AM	#6
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05-13-2006, 12:59 PM	#11
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05-13-2006, 01:48 PM	#12
Yooch Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 07, 2006 Location: California Posts: 3,180	Hilarious, and very true... The first music mixes I made were by holding the microphone from a reel to reel tape recorder up to the speaker on an AM radio. I'd be getting the last note on some Richie Valens or Fabian song--and Cousin Brucie, or some other DJ would break in right when the song was over. One thing I'll say is thank goodness for ipods and MP3 players. It's so much better. In this respect it is Utopia. I hope the younger people reading this know that our diatribes are partly in fun (if I can speak for myself).
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05-13-2006, 03:19 PM	#13
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05-13-2006, 07:36 PM	#15
Yooch Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 07, 2006 Location: California Posts: 3,180	The technology we have is great, and advances in science, medicine & so forth has improved life, but even back in elementary school in the early 1960's doing air raid drills--I felt that the world was a safer place, that people were in general more civil, and somehow all was right with the world, and would be all right, in spite of its problems. Angry people weren't flying jets into buildings within my own country. Something has been lost along the way. I wish we could get that integrity back. I take a walk along the mall nowadays and I see a high percentage of hurried, alienated, unhappy humanity and I'm thinking--we have it made materially and technologically as never before--but happiness and well-being just seems to be diminishing.