Halfamind Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 190 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 23 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 76 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 614 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/04/1966 Posted April 19, 2010 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 t hr ew 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
Caper Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 102 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 10 Topic Count: 201 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1776 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 82 Achievement Points: 10986 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2014 Birthday: 05/06/1969 Posted April 19, 2010 lol so true. my kid being 11, has a PC, TV, XBOX LIVE360 and a Phone in his room.. When I was a kid I was lucky enough to have a record player, and that it only because they bought a new one. I grew up with 8 kids in my house and the word hand me downs was very popolar.. not showing any photos. If we wanted a jacuzzi.. we would have to fart in the tub. thanks for the walk down memory lane.
RuStY Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 1056 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 527 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 2789 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 27, 2013 Birthday: 09/28/1970 Posted April 19, 2010 I think life was more enjoyed in those days.
NightmareXI Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.47 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Posted April 19, 2010 omg I just became 41 and hell ya this is so true.... but I think we all cant imagine how it will be in the future Awards
PigDog Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 222 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 88 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3847 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 1628 Achievement Points: 25635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 1 Birthday: 02/05/1968 Device: Windows Posted April 19, 2010 I try to tell my daughter some of those things too. I tell you what - one of hte best inventions ever is the DVD player in the car. We cannot leave the house in the car without the kid turning on the DVD player...not even if we are just going to the freaking corner store that is only about a mile away. Now that is spoiled..... Awards
GorillaXI Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Posted April 19, 2010 I miss those days. Hell, I even remeber laying on the rear deck of my Dads Olds and looking up at the ske. No damn seatbelt there. Oh yeah, no damn helmets while you wre out riding your bike pretending you were Evil Kenevil. Suck it!! kids of today. Grow a pair and live life.
SHADOOW Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 1126 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 61 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 679 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 4007 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/21/1970 Posted April 19, 2010 that is so damn funny, this is exactly what went on in our time of life. to think of it now is funnier then hell. kids are only spoiled because we get them these things. otherwise it's useless crap. can't take it with you once your gone. so the kids of today should be thankful not little brats
STRETCH Posted April 19, 2010 Member ID: 90 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 6 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 92 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 640 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 31, 2022 Birthday: 03/31/1971 Posted April 19, 2010 Funny but I'm not 40 yet. I'm sure once I hit 40 I will remember it all LOL....... STRETCH Awards
widowmaker Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 632 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 47 Topic Count: 197 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1762 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 1440 Achievement Points: 18213 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 19, 2024 Birthday: 07/30/1977 Device: iPhone Posted April 20, 2010 im only 33 and i can remember them days. i can tell my three kids and they think im telling a story. if they only knew!!! Awards
ShadowLady Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 25 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 111 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2251 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 136 Achievement Points: 12883 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 28 Birthday: 10/30/1969 Device: Windows Posted April 20, 2010 Well I got my 40 T-Shirt last fall....and all those things are pretty much spot on!!! -Shadow Awards
Bama Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 19 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 101 Topic Count: 318 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4445 Content Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 2769 Achievement Points: 29415 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 3, 2024 Birthday: 02/29/1968 Device: Windows Posted April 20, 2010 42 and remember it all very well. LOL.. I remember waiting with my tape deck to record a song off my clock radio.. "SSSSSHHHHH!!! be quiet.. it's coming on.. Im recording". Awards
RuStY Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 1056 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 527 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 2789 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 27, 2013 Birthday: 09/28/1970 Posted April 20, 2010 NightmareXI but I think we all cant imagine how it will be in the future I think we have gone far enough, we will hit the dark ages again I predict when the "system" crashes. its already crashing.
SlowFry Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 97 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 28 Topic Count: 31 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 328 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 54 Achievement Points: 2065 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 11, 2019 Birthday: 01/01/1917 Posted April 20, 2010 Never left those days. Shovel in one hand. Shit paper in the other. Awards
Sweatnbullets Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 213 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 61 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 820 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 521 Achievement Points: 5654 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 06/06/1963 Device: Windows Posted April 20, 2010 Lol makes too much..... Awards
Mazdarati Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 173 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 42 Topic Count: 95 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1398 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 772 Achievement Points: 10006 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 02/08/1962 Device: Windows Posted April 20, 2010 well i'm 48 now and hell yeah i stayed outside until dark or otherwise i was washing dishes , stayed as far away as i could from home as possible , it was safe back then to play in the streets ...... i remember when we got our first tv that was acually in color , oh man what a wonderful day that was ... cartoons on Saturday morning in color HOLY SCHITT ! had a reel to reel to listen to music and OMFG we got an 8 track , how cool was that !!! ..... kids today are lazy and disrespectful and think that they we all owe them something .... got off your ass and work for it !!! Awards
Logan Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 582 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 20 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 361 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 389 Achievement Points: 3272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1, 2020 Birthday: 11/22/1956 Posted April 20, 2010 Bar-B-Qs with black rock called charcoal, squirt on some lighter fluid, throw a match and run like hell! Dad was a man, Mom was a woman and a fruit was an Orange. Bicycles had one speed and you would ride it 40 miles on a hot summer day, no water bottle, no helmet, no brakes, no pads, no sun block. Pink in May, Red and scabbie by June, Multi-colored by July and Brown by August. No Time-outs, the strap was at school and dad was at home and punishment was staying inside. Clouds were puffier and rivers caught fire and the word AWESOME was only used at the pearly gates. Awards
Blackbart Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted April 20, 2010 When I was a kid we didn't have inside plumbing until I was 10 years old...We had a hand pump outside the back door for our water...We had to heat it on the stove for our baths which was taken in a metal tub...our bathroom was an out house about fifty yards out back...In the winter you froze you butt off and in the summer you had to hold your breath...I don't know how I and my two brothers and four sisters survived such a horrible life (being saracastic)...Today my parents would be brought up on neglect and child abuse charges...I can honestly say I wouldn't want to change a thing about my childhood as I think it gave me the desire and drive for something better and thats something todays kids lack...I've been retired for seventeen years and I receive just over 50k a year in retirement funds...I'm not braggin just stating fact...I belive it was the way that I was raised that drove me to better myself Through hard work an sacrafice and a reliance on myself and not the government or others... Awards
sgtsmellyfinger Posted April 20, 2010 Member ID: 193 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 60 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 382 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 11/30/1967 Posted April 20, 2010 I'm 42 and I too have tried to explain to my kids how good they have it. I remember the best times of my life were when we actually stayed outside all day long knocking on all of our friends doors seeing who we could gather up for backyard football or baseball. We only watched TV when our favorite show came on during it's slotted time and only had three channels to choose from. I love todays technology but I wish it hadn't taken over some of the more simpler and meaningful things in our lives.
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