So So very true...

Shamelessly nicked from another forum

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 through year 'round blizards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!

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've reached the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so f*cking easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned 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-we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves!

And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter-with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the f*cking mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and f*ck it all up!

You want to hear about hardship?

You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jack off to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalogue!

Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy sh*t like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal!

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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You 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 faster until you died!

Just like LIFE!!

When you went to the movie theatre there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were f*cked!!

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 10 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!!

And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... D'ya hear what the f*ck I'm saying!?!

We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little *******s!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy!

You're spoiled! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1985!

tis true

yeah and no microwaves either

No plug & play then.... anybody IRQ's and DMA's jumpers?

[BillyC]

Originally Posted by argatxa

No plug & play then.... anybody IRQ's and DMA's jumpers?

Some things really are worth forgetting!

[Spiderman]

Even tho i didnt grow up in america i get the point of this. Shane its all in a funny language

Oh and i never bribed some homless guy ot buy me porn.... i just nicked my big bro's!

[timwilky]

And we didn't need mobile phones because

1. there was no such thing
2. there was a pay phone every 200yds. button A

Police beat you up and if you complained to mummy/daddy about it, they beat you up as well.

Schools were approved and you need a JPs recommendation to go. Real bad boys went to borstal not on holiday to the carribean.

Yeah kids today, you tell them. But they just don't believe you

Originally Posted by Diveboy

yeah and no microwaves either

No microwaves? Just how ancient are you? They were certainly around in the 70's.

[tinpants]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

No microwaves? Just how ancient are you? They were certainly around in the 70's.

yup. They sure were. Mind you, you couldn't get in the bloody kitchen 'cos the microwave was so big! AND even if you did have a big kitchen the 1.5 tons of lead shielding you had to carry was usually prohibitive