Topic: If you are 30 or older you may find this is hilarious!!!!
uk1971's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:04 PM
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 ...barefoot … 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 Fifty, 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 catalogue!! 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 fÜck 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 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'. 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!
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 ... Imagine that! 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!

All factual and, as the Irish would say, No Blarney either!

frustrated slaphead bigsmile :banana:

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:06 PM
very true, the 70's was worse !

shoesmonkey's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:10 PM
Yep, no microwave popcorn.noway

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:13 PM
we ad three channel's and if the prez. was on your night was blowed !

shoesmonkey's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:14 PM
Remember the old push button cable box?

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:16 PM
that was in the 80's ....:laughing:

shoesmonkey's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:18 PM
My dad used to screw the tv up all of the time. Seemed my mom was calling the repair man every month.

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:24 PM
yup,the old tube type tv's ... just smack them they will work !:laughing:

MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:30 PM
laugh

rebel58's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:30 PM
Remember the 8 tracks? I know I'm old now...bigsmile bigsmile

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:31 PM
wow, i had a bunch of 8-track's ...if they wont play just put a matchbook under the corner -it would work then !:laughing:

rebel58's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:43 PM
I still have some.

chevylover1965's photo
Thu 10/30/08 12:44 PM
laugh laugh laugh

michiganman3's photo
Thu 10/30/08 01:53 PM

Remember the 8 tracks? I know I'm old now...bigsmile bigsmile

I had an orignal release of Derek and the Dominos on 8 track, held on to it for years.

Remember when they ate you tape?????grumble

harrypotter2's photo
Sat 11/01/08 05:17 AM
laugh laugh