SO EASY...
#1
03-18-2006, 11:23 AM
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Lotsa places, currently Metro D.C., USA
Posts: 13,574
SO EASY...
Kids to day have it SO EASY!!!
Way back 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 MY 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
Besides, YOU'RE not MY kids...
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 catalog, THEN go and find the freakin book, THEN READ the book to find what we wanted!!! Not type a phrase in Google, damnit!
There was no email! We had to actually physically write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then, you had to walk your *** all the way up 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! If 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!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting, either! If you were on the phone & somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And, we didn't have fancy Caller ID!
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 (DUDE), 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 PONG, and, later on, the Atari 2600! With games like.......
"Space Invaders" And "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***! 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! & 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 onscreen 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 *** 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-bastiges!
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.
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
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!
Way back 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 MY 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
Besides, YOU'RE not MY kids...
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 catalog, THEN go and find the freakin book, THEN READ the book to find what we wanted!!! Not type a phrase in Google, damnit!
There was no email! We had to actually physically write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then, you had to walk your *** all the way up 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! If 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!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting, either! If you were on the phone & somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And, we didn't have fancy Caller ID!
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 (DUDE), 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 PONG, and, later on, the Atari 2600! With games like.......
"Space Invaders" And "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***! 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! & 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 onscreen 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 *** 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-bastiges!
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.
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
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!
#3
03-18-2006, 02:26 PM
RE: SO EASY...
ORIGINAL: AWDaholic
Kids to day have it SO EASY!!!
Way back 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 MY 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
Besides, YOU'RE not MY kids...
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 catalog, THEN go and find the freakin book, THEN READ the book to find what we wanted!!! Not type a phrase in Google, damnit!
There was no email! We had to actually physically write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then, you had to walk your *** all the way up 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! If 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!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting, either! If you were on the phone & somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And, we didn't have fancy Caller ID!
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 (DUDE), 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 PONG, and, later on, the Atari 2600! With games like.......
"Space Invaders" And "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***! 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! & 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 onscreen 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 *** 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-bastiges!
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.
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
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!
Kids to day have it SO EASY!!!
Way back 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 MY 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
Besides, YOU'RE not MY kids...
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 catalog, THEN go and find the freakin book, THEN READ the book to find what we wanted!!! Not type a phrase in Google, damnit!
There was no email! We had to actually physically write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then, you had to walk your *** all the way up 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! If 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!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting, either! If you were on the phone & somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And, we didn't have fancy Caller ID!
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 (DUDE), 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 PONG, and, later on, the Atari 2600! With games like.......
"Space Invaders" And "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***! 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! & 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 onscreen 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 *** 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-bastiges!
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.
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
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!
#4
03-18-2006, 03:55 PM
RE: SO EASY...
ORIGINAL: AWDaholic
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
An iPOD was hoping u had enough batteries for the 50 ft boombox that weighed more than your kid brother. try carrying him on your shoulder walking around with your friends.
#6
03-18-2006, 05:15 PM
RE: SO EASY...
wow, someone is very angry. Can i ask what sparked u to write all this or is it from a website? I know how good i have it, but its always gonna be like this. Ur parents had it better than their parents, and my kids will have it better than me. Its just progression of technology and the times. trust me i am thankfull i live during this time.
#7
03-18-2006, 05:23 PM
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Lotsa places, currently Metro D.C., USA
Posts: 13,574
RE: SO EASY...
ORIGINAL: apg96
wow, someone is very angry. Can i ask what sparked u to write all this or is it from a website? I know how good i have it, but its always gonna be like this. Ur parents had it better than their parents, and my kids will have it better than me. Its just progression of technology and the times. trust me i am thankfull i live during this time.
wow, someone is very angry. Can i ask what sparked u to write all this or is it from a website? I know how good i have it, but its always gonna be like this. Ur parents had it better than their parents, and my kids will have it better than me. Its just progression of technology and the times. trust me i am thankfull i live during this time.
I stole it from somewhere else, and editededed it enuf to be comfortable with claiming it as MINE!!! Whassyur point?
In 20-30 years, or so, when you mature, you'll be sayin the same schitt...
#8
03-18-2006, 05:35 PM
RE: SO EASY...
ORIGINAL: AWDaholic
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to steal it from your brother, or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy Of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your ONLY options!
#9
03-18-2006, 06:02 PM
RE: SO EASY...
my family musta had it good cause we had a tv with the actual "clicker" remote that went up the dial when it heard the click and unfortunately a set of keys gingling would turn away from your afternoon electric company (featuring spiderman, the blue beetle and Morgan Freeman. and we had a microwave, but gramma says "you will grow up sterile and get tumors if you stand infront of that damned nucular oven."
