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RioredGT
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Got this in an email...... thought some of us could relate
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
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 @#*% 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 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!
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 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 or go build a frigging 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
Posts: 410 | From: Bay Area | Registered: Jan 2003
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BUKSING
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damn, there was actually some funny ones...true.
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Hmmm. Cell phones were not mentioned. Seems every kid has a phone these days.
Ipods. What about having to carry around that brick of a thing called a walkman with a bag of your favorite tapes are having to make your own mix tape so you did not have to carry around all the tapes. Problem with that was you still had so many mix tapes to carry around ![[Mad]](mad.gif) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
School work. Kids have it easy with computers and word processors. We had to hand write everything or type it on a type writer. Make a mistake? get the white out. There was no spell check. You had to bust the dictionary out.
I could go on and on.
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Jdub07
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Damn fuckin right. And I still had to walk to school. Uphill both ways because I had a huge hill I had to walk over to get to school.
Fighting was one on one too. Today you little cunts jump in if your buddy just got his ass handed to him. Back in the day it was understood if being pulled off to save a mans life, but not jumping the winner of the fight.
I will admit that chicks today are the same as back then. Easy to land in the sack. 1 or 2 dates sometimes if they are pushing 3 dates before they give it up.
And back then if you didn't get a job by age 15 you were threatened to be thrown out. And if you DID have a job at age 15 you'd have to pay rent. Nowday's you just never leave.
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twisted54
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Pisses me off...my 17 year old step is too lazy to get his drivers license and needs a ride everywhere...even to school which is 3 blocks from our house. KIDS these days!!!
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Chris C.
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quote:
Originally posted by twisted54:
Pisses me off...my 17 year old step is too lazy to get his drivers license and needs a ride everywhere...even to school which is 3 blocks from our house. KIDS these days!!!
hell no, tell him to get his effin license or walk! ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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Jdub07
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Originally posted by Chris C.:
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Originally posted by twisted54:
Pisses me off...my 17 year old step is too lazy to get his drivers license and needs a ride everywhere...even to school which is 3 blocks from our house. KIDS these days!!!
hell no, tell him to get his effin license or walk!
he's hella lazy...you know he's waiting till he is 18 so he wont have to take drivers ed or drivers training all he has to do is take the test.
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twisted54
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quote:
Originally posted by Jdub07:
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Originally posted by Chris C.:
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Originally posted by twisted54:
Pisses me off...my 17 year old step is too lazy to get his drivers license and needs a ride everywhere...even to school which is 3 blocks from our house. KIDS these days!!!
hell no, tell him to get his effin license or walk!
he's hella lazy...you know he's waiting till he is 18 so he wont have to take drivers ed or drivers training all he has to do is take the test.
lazy doesn't even come close to describing his ass...I'm not doing anything for him when he turns 18. He can't do shit for himself and he BETTER get a J.O.B this Summer.
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BlackNGold
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I got my wife an IPOD Nano for Christmas(cheapest IPOD)... I remember spending $160 for the "top of the line" walkman WITH AM/FM stereo!....All these kids have Nano's and "I-fuckin-Phones", I saved 2 years for my shiyit!...lol
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Team SOLO
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Who remembers the time of pagers...and pager codes ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Posts: 3887 | From: Santa Clara | Registered: Jan 2002
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SmokinLX
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quote:
Originally posted by Team SOLO:
Who remembers the time of pagers...and pager codes
Only dope dealer's and pimp's could afford pager's! How about when cell phones came out and You had to carry that case that was the size of a car battery around ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) .
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hahahahahaha!! that was the shit! i remember doing all of that!! haha, i made my own mixtape mixes with my double din tape player!! and oh i thought i was pimp when i had a digital sony walkman with EQ! lol
7415 9057 15 12001!!
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BUKSING
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Originally posted by SmokinLX:
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Originally posted by Team SOLO:
Who remembers the time of pagers...and pager codes
Only dope dealer's and pimp's could afford pager's! How about when cell phones came out and You had to carry that case that was the size of a car battery around .
or the brick phone....model: ultra classic..lol
happy = "this post is cool"...lol and that was texting 10 years ago...lol
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gone are the days of watching scrambled porn now we can DL any porn for free! finding parts on-line(with pics etc) is so much better than looking at the newspaper/hemmings etc etc! and yes i do still have a VCR! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Team SOLO
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Originally posted by Camaro Kid Z/28:
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Originally posted by Team SOLO:
Who remembers the time of pagers...and pager codes
143 666 101!
823 - THINKING OF YOU
177ISS 17 - MISS YOU
187 - I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL U
40 - HO
![[worship]](graemlins/worship.gif)
Then you had your own personal code so peeps knew it was you when you paged. Mine...711.
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