For the over 30's

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:27 pm

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 usually

talked 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 cou ld 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

mikeinie · Post by **mikeinie** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:05 pm

Ya

And we did not have personal computers, if you had to do an essay you needed a typewriter and you needed to pump out 35 to 40 words per minute or you would be forever typing. If you made a mistake, there was not delete or undo, you needed tip-x or had to start over.

suzy_creamcheese · Post by **suzy_creamcheese** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:38 pm

FIFTEEN CHANNELS????

You americans dont know you're BORN

Brits only got four!!

and we were grateful

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:46 pm

suzy_creamcheese;836362 wrote: FIFTEEN CHANNELS????

You americans dont know you're BORN

Brits only got four!!

and we were grateful

Excuse me - we finally bought a TV when we had a second channel to chose between!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:04 pm

fuzzy butt;836368 wrote: Uh huh ...Right ................okay............... we were so poor that we used to have to get up half an hour before we went to bed And lick the road clean with our tongues. :wah::wah::wah:

Eh bi gum, that reminds me o'the time we 'ad to walk five 'undred miles to get to t'shop afore we could buy the tea bag that'd last us all month. :wah:

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:50 pm

YOOOOOOOO were lucky.

We 'ad to get oop 'alf an hour before we went t' bed, oor Dad beat uz to death wi' pickaxe 'andle and then we 'ad to crawl forty mile t' school on all fours ower broken glass. Tea bag? We dreamed of tea bags. We used to 'ave to lick exhaust pipe of trucks at car park. THAT was nearest we got to tea! Young of today doan't know nowt...(etc etc;))

911 · Post by **911** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:21 pm

My allowance was so small (how small was it?) that when I bought a pack of gum, I would chew it all day and then I put it in the fridge over night so I could get all the juices out of it the next day before I threw it away. I even used to put orange flavored gum in orange juice over night to try to get more mileage out of it the next day.

Sheesh, kids today!:-5

911 · Post by **911** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:31 pm

fuzzy butt;836399 wrote: does your chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight?

You had a bedpost???? Spoiled brat!!:wah:

I bet you have screens on your windows too, didn't you? Even if we had bedposts, we were too afraid a skeeter would lay eggs in our gum overnight.