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lmaorof;thanx everyone for brightening up my day and bringin back some good ole memories....
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Thank you. That was funny and takes me back
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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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Someone sent me this the other day and it did remind me of how my folks would go on and on about how hard they had it. And it's funny, because I now do it to my kids.
That "walking in the snow uphill five miles each way" thing.... Is that in some old parental training book??? 
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DAMN 10 CENTS STAMPS !!!! I remember gas 27 cents a gallon.
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This thread is great! Reminds me awhile back my 11 yr old came home and said he seen an old fashinoed telephone....He said "You had to put your finger in it and twirl it to dial!"
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This thread is great! Reminds me awhile back my 11 yr old came home and said he seen an old fashinoed telephone....He said "You had to put your finger in it and twirl it to dial!" |
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It brought alot back for me too! You are welcome!
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Edited by
uk1971
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Tue 06/16/09 06:39 PM
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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 Wait till you reach 50, and then look back! There was no such thing as cell phones. You had to use the heavy black thing that was attached to the wall. If you wanted to see a movie outside of the cinema or drive in, you had to wait until it came on tv. About 3 years later. There were no CDs. There was 45rpm 7"single 33rpm Long Player records[Didn't ya just cry when your favourite track got scratched)? There was no such things as calculators. You had to do your Math homework by using your brain. Ask a kid these days what 10 + 44 is, they'll pull out their cell.  Yep Over 50s also have a reason to gripe. lol  
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This thread is great! Reminds me awhile back my 11 yr old came home and said he seen an old fashinoed telephone....He said "You had to put your finger in it and twirl it to dial!" Dang! When we were teens we thought we were so cool because we had a super long cord that could stretch all over the house even to the yard and out to the front porch! My house was great though, we were one of the firsts to have HBO! (nowadays 9,000 channels to choose from and still nothing on!) |
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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 You forgot the whole rant on VCR vs DVR, Can actually remember getting our first VCR when I was about 10. A movie I can watch anytime I want, HOT DAMN! Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and all of the corny old time musical/dancing movies that my mom brainwashed my sister and I to watch (since it was the only thing we could watch since we didnt have reception). TM |
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I was the remote control for the tv I was the dishwasher and the trash compactor and the Roomba. |
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Not to mention there was rarely childhood obesity as we were outside playing or trying to outrun our parents with the belt when we'd gotten in trouble.
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Wait till you reach 50, and then look back! There was no such thing as cell phones. You had to use the heavy black thing that was attached to the wall. If you wanted to see a movie outside of the cinema or drive in, you had to wait until it came on tv. About 3 years later. There were no CDs. There was 45rpm 7"single 33rpm Long Player records[Didn't ya just cry when your favourite track got scratched)? There was no such things as calculators. You had to do your Math homework by using your brain. Ask a kid these days what 10 + 44 is, they'll pull out their cell. Yep Over 50s also have a reason to gripe. lol Dom't forget the 8-track tapes. I was 20 when I found out what AC was. Cartoon of Marlboro was $2.10. A lot has changed, and not for the better. |
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Edited by
earthytaurus76
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Wed 06/17/09 04:34 AM
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LOL, one of the worst things you could do in my house was change the channel without permission, and of course Id "speed turn" the channels.. I was the youngest of five, so I was the remote, and My Mom would get pissed, cos one of my guilty pleasures was walking up to the tv, and changing it real fast... and it make a sound like BAP! BAP! BAP!
My mom would RUNNNN in the room if she heard me doing that.. couldnt believe when I got older, they called it "surfing" I used to get beat the hell out of for that.. lol. *shakes head* Just to piss my mom off as I got older, and faster, id walk up to my mom, and go BAP! BAP! BAP! real loud in her ear just to mess with her head. Shed haul butt after me, but by then she couldnt catch me. I still have an impulse to do that to her, but now, shed probably have no clue what the hell I was doing, but to me, its just hilarious. AHH ALL 13 CHANNELS! Alvin and the chipmunks on Saturday mornings.. priceless. |
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Edited by
Seakolony
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Wed 06/17/09 05:02 AM
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You had 13?? We had 3!! I remember our phone number was 436-8724. We had one of those huge long telephone cords, that stretched everywhere. When we picked up the phone all you had to dial was five numbers, 4-8724. That was in the 70's and early 80's.
NOSTALGIA 
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I've seen what Stretch Armstrongs made of, LOL.
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Rotary phone
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I am too young for this
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WHAT ABOUT THOSE HUGE CAR/CELL PHONES, THAT ONLY STAYED IN YOUR CAR
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