Noears711XI Posted December 5, 2011 Member ID: 238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 189 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1940 Achievement Points: 19609 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 8, 2022 Birthday: 07/09/1957 Posted December 5, 2011 If you are 40, or older, you might 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 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 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! 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 our ass! Nowhere was safe! There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would 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 rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! 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! There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. 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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! 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-finks! And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before! Regards, The Over 40 Crowd Awards
Paperman Posted December 5, 2011 Member ID: 207 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 18 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 790 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 263 Achievement Points: 5015 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 21, 2015 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Posted December 5, 2011 Hell yea! I remember all this. Lol the safty arm oh yea.
Super Max Posted December 5, 2011 Member ID: 558 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 59 Topic Count: 578 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3796 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1504 Achievement Points: 29188 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 17 hours ago Birthday: 06/09/1964 Device: Windows Posted December 5, 2011 Ha hahahaha nice one Awards
Lunkster Posted December 6, 2011 Member ID: 1374 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 61 Topic Count: 183 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1358 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 1737 Achievement Points: 10716 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 12/10/1971 Device: Windows Posted December 6, 2011 Yep - Remember most of that over in the UK too... I can remember riding in my Mother's car, in the front, with no seat belt on!! We didn't have namby pamby laws telling us to strap in - Our strap line here came in the '80's and was "Clunk, Click, Every trip!!" We were talking about this kinda stuff at the weekend, the kids couldn't believe I would go to the woods ALL day with a pack of sandwiches and would only come home a) it got too dark to play or I got hungry... And imagine going to your friends and you walked or rode your bike?? Holy crows!! If I asked Mum for a ride to school or into town... I would walk with a hand print on my ass for the cheek of asking!! Awards
tsw 8.5 Posted December 6, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 539 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 17628 Content Per Day: 3.10 Reputation: 42738 Achievement Points: 152587 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 693 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 26 minutes ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted December 6, 2011 how true .. Awards
Spartacus Posted December 6, 2011 Member ID: 1387 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 30 Topic Count: 52 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2540 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2486 Achievement Points: 19555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/02/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15 Birthday: 06/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted December 6, 2011 I'm 43 Noears.... So I'm Right There With Ya!!!!!!!! Awards
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