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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… Blah, blah, blah. 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 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 we 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!!! Stamps were 10 cents!!! Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!!! 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!!! There were no CD players. We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and then the tape would come undone cause that’s how we rolled, dig? 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 Play Station video games with high resolution 3D 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. 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 or before!!! Regards, The over 30 Crowd |
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I was the remote control for the tv
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Not 30 yet! Born 1980 and I made it alive!
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I was the remote control for the tv
WHo wasn't and for all three channels, too!! UHF/VHF
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I was the remote control for the tv
WHo wasn't and for all three channels, too!! UHF/VHF
My father use to yell at me " stop turning that thing so damn fast you will break it"
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Oh & getting sent to your room was bad, there wasn't a damn thing to do back then!
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I was the remote control for the tv
WHo wasn't and for all three channels, too!! UHF/VHF
My father use to yell at me " stop turning that thing so damn fast you will break it"
 
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I would have to disagree with you...and say this about the over 40 crowd.
I'm damn close to 30....and growing up, my folks had a microwave. And as far as video games....it may have not been a playstaion....but it wasnt atarti...it was nintendo. |
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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… Blah, blah, blah. 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 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 we 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!!! Stamps were 10 cents!!! Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!!! 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!!! There were no CD players. We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and then the tape would come undone cause that’s how we rolled, dig? 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 Play Station video games with high resolution 3D 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. 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 or before!!! Regards, The over 30 Crowd That was the good ole days.........  Us kids, our excitement was watching the corn grow after we had just planted it.....Thank You for the laughter.......
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I would have to disagree with you...and say this about the over 40 crowd. I'm damn close to 30....and growing up, my folks had a microwave. And as far as video games....it may have not been a playstaion....but it wasnt atarti...it was nintendo. Ah you was a rich kid then, huh? I had atarti in the early 80s! |
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I would have to disagree with you...and say this about the over 40 crowd. I'm damn close to 30....and growing up, my folks had a microwave. And as far as video games....it may have not been a playstaion....but it wasnt atarti...it was nintendo. Ah you was a rich kid then, huh? I had atarti in the early 80s! I am close to 40 myself and there was not a nintendo for me. My parents did not want to buy me Atari bcs it was too expensive. I had a bike, a playground, and my imaginagtion. |
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How about before there was tv? the phones were on party lines and had cords on them. And how about 8-track tapes. We had board games. The paper was delivered in the evening. Nothing but the radio. The Green Hornet, Big John and Sparky, Howdy Doody. Ahhh...the memories.
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I would have to disagree with you...and say this about the over 40 crowd. I'm damn close to 30....and growing up, my folks had a microwave. And as far as video games....it may have not been a playstaion....but it wasnt atarti...it was nintendo. Ah you was a rich kid then, huh? I had atarti in the early 80s! Right!!
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Maybe I should print this out and give to my kids.....but then again, they would probably laugh at me.
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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… Blah, blah, blah. 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 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 we 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!!! Stamps were 10 cents!!! Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!!! 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!!! There were no CD players. We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and then the tape would come undone cause that’s how we rolled, dig? 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 Play Station video games with high resolution 3D 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. 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 or before!!! Regards, The over 30 Crowd That was the good ole days......... Us kids, our excitement was watching the corn grow after we had just planted it.....Thank You for the laughter.......
You're Welcome!! |
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Oh & getting sent to your room was bad, there wasn't a damn thing to do back then! Except to open a book and read it.
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So what do you want me to comment on, Ms.Seakolony?
What you wrote, is just another fact of life. The proof to how hard we work to improve the standards of living for our future generations. |
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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… Blah, blah, blah. 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 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 we 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!!! Stamps were 10 cents!!! Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!!! 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!!! There were no CD players. We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and then the tape would come undone cause that’s how we rolled, dig? 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 Play Station video games with high resolution 3D 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. 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 or before!!! Regards, The over 30 Crowd
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Edited by
Seakolony
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Tue 06/16/09 12:58 PM
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So what do you want me to comment on, Ms.Seakolony? What you wrote, is just another fact of life. The proof to how hard we work to improve the standards of living for our future generations. Sorry you found no humor.....hope one day you do. Glad my funny bone is different from yours, but then again you are barely 30!! |
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I would have to disagree with you...and say this about the over 40 crowd. I'm damn close to 30....and growing up, my folks had a microwave. And as far as video games....it may have not been a playstaion....but it wasnt atarti...it was nintendo. Ah you was a rich kid then, huh? I had atarti in the early 80s! Right!!
Ha ha...I'm not saying I had a nintendo...but it came out in 85. Which is right about the time kids that are around 30 now, would have started to pick up video games. And you know some kids are spoiled. I as well had an atari...and to this day, I still have the original "pong". I didnt get a nintendo until it had been out for awhile. |
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