When I was growing up...

[countryboy]

If you are 30, 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 ***! 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 *** 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 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 lucky, 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 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

If you are 30, 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 ***! 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 *** 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 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 lucky, 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 1980 or any time before! Regards, The Over 30 Crowd

And the congregation said....AMEN. Preach on, Preach on.

Although, there are a few kids that know when to be seen and not heard. They'd survive just fine in the 80s.

My mom had eyes and ears all over my town. I was too scared to try anything foolish. Everyone had permission to beat me on sight. And then you'd get it when you got home.

The worst was having to get your own switch for your whipping. And then hear the phrase...."this is gonna hurt me more than it's gonna hurt you" followed by "Stop crying before I give you something to cry about"''

Those were the days.

[bcruise]

I'm close enough to 30 that I can relate to this.

For me, the biggest thing ties several of the above things together, and that is the advent and growth of the Personal/Home Computer.

Yeah, sure, they existed in '81, but obviously they're nothing compared to what we have today in terms of functionality.

[youvalss]

Internet is a wonderful thing. But it totally destoyed all the mystery of the world.

[stlstudios189]

this just made my day.

[Speedy]

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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!!

The internet today is what makes the teenagers of this generation so argumentative and cocky/arrogant.

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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 [beat us]. Nowhere was safe!

You ain't lyin' there. My dad used to whoop me to the point that it looked like he was possessed..he was looking up in the ceiling or something. It was like a short electric chair! My mom would tell me to go outside and get a hickory switch...that's just plain cruelty to ask a victim to choose what weapon he will be hurt with. I still don't get the line "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you"...bunch of hogwash!

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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!

Ahh, Saturday morning. I miss the Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny, Daffy, Foghorn Leghorn, Popeye, even Doug...way better than all the crud on there now.

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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!

We also drunk sodas, ate sugary snacks and still weighed a little more than toothpick. Children today are obese because their entertainment is sitting down watching/playing TV rather than doing physical activity. I used to play roller bat with my siblings all the time, as well as ride bikes as far as my little legs would take me.

[Anavar]

Love this thread.

I used to get the belt when I talked back to my father. And I'm talking like the Henry Hill teenager beating he took from his Dad when his pops found out he was skipping school.

[Jdurg]

Back when I was a kid, if you wanted to beat a videogame, you had to spend time learning about all the secrets and improving your skills. These days, the ADHD kids out there cry and whine if there's no walkthrough posted on the web the moment the game is released, or if the game takes longer than 8 hours to beat.

If you wanted to buy a game when I was a kid, you had to buy it brand new. Used videogame stores didn't exist. Hell, videogame rental stores didn't exist. You had to actually do some research with magazines to find out what games were good. If you didn't like it, oh well. That was your fault for not doing your research. These days, if a kid doesn't like his game, he tries to return it to the store he bought it from. If they won't take the game back, he cries and tries to find a way to sue the store.

When it was time to go to gym class, if you were out of shape and couldn't run the two mile run, tough luck. Suck it up and run fat-***. These days, when a kid can't run the two miles he claims discrimination and states that it not his fault. There's no responsibility anymore.

Kids today are lazy, ignorant, arrogant, fat, and obnoxious. While they can cry and whine all they want right now, just wait until they get into the real world where that type of garbage isn't tolerated. As far as I'm concerned, until you are 18 you have no right to anything in society since you have contributed nothing at that point. Therefore, you just need to shut up and suck it up. That's what I had to do growing up. Thankfully, one thing or another will end up killing me before I get to an age where I have to rely on the kids of this generation to take care of me. Frankly, I don't think they'll be able to take care of anyone, let alone themselves.


Good god I just turned into my father!