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KINGROY
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Copied from an E-mail at work. True and funny as hell.
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... 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
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 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 @#*% 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 or before!
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Posts: 1642 | From: Vallejo, CA | Registered: Jun 2007
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87Fox916
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LMAO. I can definitely relate. You forgot the Dish or cable. If we wanted to record a show, we had to figure out how to program the VHS player and hope that it would work because you probably reused the same tape many times before.
[ December 13, 2008, 02:22 PM: Message edited by: 95GTConvtACE ]
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not to be picky but tv remotes have been around since the late 50's and household microwave ovens have been around since the early 70's...
sad thing is i am only 24 and remember living without most of those things as well shit we got our 1st atari in 91 ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Posts: 481 | From: Tracy | Registered: May 2004
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Daniel50
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ya im 23 and remember living without most this too. it wasnt until i was finishing high school that most this stuff came out
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Posts: 1017 | From: Discovery Bay, CA | Registered: Apr 2005
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I had a fat stack of Samtrans bus guides. And it was only 35 cents to roll. I could take the 5m all the way to san mateo and back to top of the hill for freekin 70 cents. Hopefully I get lucky and a breezy hops on and holla at her.
Yeah thats right hollerin at a chick in person. No myspace or friendster or anything like that. Way different from this day in age.
Posts: 211 | From: Sacramento | Registered: Feb 2006
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saleen_freak
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Eye opening post kingroy!! Got 2 kids and I can see the change in times. I make my son get dirty outside before he can turn on his ds. lol
Posts: 211 | From: Sacramento | Registered: Feb 2006
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KINGROY
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quote:
Originally posted by saleen_freak:
Eye opening post kingroy!! Got 2 kids and I can see the change in times. I make my son get dirty outside before he can turn on his ds. lol
lol, same here. I have two kids also and I do the same thing.
Although I'm under 30, I'm thankful. me being the same age I am now in the 80's would suck. I'll probably be driving 5.0, but I'll be bored as hell because there wouldn't be a cafords around.
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87Fox916
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quote:
Originally posted by saleen_freak:
Eye opening post kingroy!! Got 2 kids and I can see the change in times. I make my son get dirty outside before he can turn on his ds. lol
Crap, I just bought my daughter one for Christmas.lol.
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87 Mustang GT
Posts: 1652 | From: SACRAMENTO | Registered: Jan 2006
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Remember, Microwaves & TV,s with remote were a luxury item back then, some people had them, some didnt.
Posts: 63 | From: Fremont, ca. | Registered: Jun 2008
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92_5.0
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I dont know if you guys have ever done this but, do you remember BMG music? you would get a catalog in the mail, pic 5 cd's, send it in (using the address of the empty house down the street lol) a week or two later they send you 5 brand new cd's with a bill to that address of the empty house and BAM! you get some free music lol
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Posts: 1629 | From: bay area | Registered: May 2007
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excuse my language but you all are bastards im 27 bout to be 28 and was feelin young and then i read all that and i realized i did have to look thangs up at a library and writing a letter atari and ohh i just realized that ive been seein kids a muttering the phrase you lazy shit kids have it easy more and more often i think i even yelled at some freshly licensed youngster for drivin to fast and blowin past the stop sign in front of my house, now my sore and stiff ass is gonna lay down for a nap....ha ha ohhh the memories
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Posts: 1830 | From: 707 vacaville ca | Registered: Aug 2008
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87Fox916
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quote:
Originally posted by 92_5.0:
I dont know if you guys have ever done this but, do you remember BMG music? you would get a catalog in the mail, pic 5 cd's, send it in (using the address of the empty house down the street lol) a week or two later they send you 5 brand new cd's with a bill to that address of the empty house and BAM! you get some free music lol
I was a smart kid with that. I would order all of the CD's and use my information. Little did they know I was under 18. When I was done using them for the CD's, I called them and told them that I was under age. They couldn't do anything because of that. Got a lot of CD's for free.
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