The spoiled under-30 crowd!

Evil Chris · 11-12-2008, 10:18 PM

If you are 30 or older you will what I'm talking about here....

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious stories 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! If 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 would 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 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 were horrible! 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 was 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 there were 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 bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop 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!

Regards,
The Over-30 Crowd

Mr. Burns · 11-12-2008, 11:09 PM

Yea, your right! That was a super condensed trip down memory lane and its all true. Good one. Kids do have it easier, and they're also worse off for it. They'll never know the joys that we had of doing things for ourselves, enjoying simpler stuff, etc. Interactivity was playing with your friends, not your video games.

Nowadays, kids play 18 str8 hours of World of Warcraft, are having sex in 6th grade, sticking funnels in their asses to mainline booze, beating up homeless people, soaking tampons in liquer, and taking every drug they can find...

Speaking of Atari, they have this joystick unit you can buy that has every single game on it; like 100+, you just plug n play to any tv. I'm gonna get that an relive the 80's, while watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and listening to my Kiss records.

ps- You've become your parents!

Rochard · 11-13-2008, 11:15 AM

I didn't have cable TV growing up. We got three channels, abc, nbc, and something else, and we had to turn the antenna AND change the channel. Imagine that.

Kristine · 11-13-2008, 11:49 AM

Did you really needed to remind me? And I grow up when my country was ruled by communists! They were fukin' brain washers!

Cyndalie · 11-13-2008, 12:08 PM

LOL about the Caller ID.

In some ways it was better when we were growing up. Halloween was more reckless and fun, we had ice cream trucks come by in the summer, our teachers didn't have computers and chat with one another so you could skip a class and get away with more stuff, we could sit up front in the car before the age of 13 without the risk of getting killed by an airbag, lots of fun stuff!

Magnus3x · 11-13-2008, 01:06 PM

Where I was born and for the first 5 years, we had 1 TV channel the good ole CBC, Hockey night in Canada and Peter puck on Saturdays was something to look forward to. Sunday they would play the old Abbot and Costello movies (google it kiddies) in black and white.
On the flip side I was rarely bored, played a lot of sports in both winter and summer. I got a Coleco Vision, played it for about a month solid, then never picked it up again, I game more now in my 30's LOL. I guess I have gadget envy cuz I love all the new toys now.

Crak_JMan · 11-13-2008, 01:29 PM

When I was a kid I played hockey outside every day.

stonegatherer · 11-13-2008, 02:51 PM

When I was a kid I would tell my mom I was going hiking and disappear into the woods for the entire day.

sticking funnels in their asses to mainline booze and soaking tampons in liquer?

Mr. Burns · 11-13-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by stonegatherer

sticking funnels in their asses to mainline booze and soaking tampons in liquer?

Yea. thats what the kids do now so they don't get caught smelling like alcohol in school.

Vid Vicious · 11-13-2008, 08:02 PM

Jiffy pop was for the rich kids ..

We got the "En Vrac/in bulk" un cooked popcorn. Took like 20 min to make!!! Take about roughing it ...

Vid Vicious · 11-13-2008, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I didn't have cable TV growing up. We got three channels, abc, nbc, and something else, and we had to turn the antenna AND change the channel. Imagine that.

Oh God! .. You just reminded me of the endless hours spent as my father's own private TV antenna .. "Move your head to the right...Lift up your right knee, ok, hold it, hold it ..."

FortressDewey · 11-14-2008, 11:10 AM

Card Catalog? dang, that is dating myself. I pissed off my professor for my senior thesis to graduate b/c I refused to use just plain ol' books and that was in 98. Suffice it to say, things have changed.

dyonisus · 11-14-2008, 08:54 PM

oddly I was just thinking about this same topic the other night. I think of all the technology advances, how a home phone is no longer truly necessary, how communication across the glob eis so much easier, how really we dont need a tv to watch our favourite shows, we dont even have to wait until the night happy days is on....