SCNDLS said:

the woman who played lady chatterly was a little long in the tooth, i don't think she looked too much different unscrambled.

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 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 catalogue!!
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!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! 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!

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!

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 mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, 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 the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your I mag ination!! 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 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-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that! 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!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

We were not allowed to watch TV after school (we had to play outside or do homework). We all ate dinner at the same time - and my mom only made one meal. If we didn't like it, we went hungry.

Please just speak for yourself, and not sign "the over 30 crowd". I don't think kids have it as good as you do. They have the gadgets and what-not, but look at all that kids today have to face in school, plus look at the future they're going to inherit.

SCNDLS said:

I thought it was pretty funny, so that's why I added to it.

There is a woman who lives around the corner from me who is 106... we had a LOT of things she didn't have as a teenager!

I need my technology. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to be counter-culture.....completely shut off from society. I know deep down, I couldn't last without gadgets.

eaglebear4839 said:

Uh dude, why don't you relax. This was an e-mail i got today. I didn't write it and it's SOOOOO obviously tongue in cheek so take a

meow85 said:

Things that were in my home as a child are now considered antique!

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!

i looooove my cell phone

DanceWme said:

Your sig absolutely cracks me UP!

I had a shoebox full of tapes like that!

eaglebear4839 said:

Uh dude, why don't you relax. This was an e-mail i got today. I didn't write it and it's SOOOOO obviously tongue in cheek so take a

SCNDLS said:

People under 30 can be such pussies, can't they?

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 catalogue!!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! 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!

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[...]

[...]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-bastards!

Graycap23 said:

when my kid was little she called one that she saw that big black cd thing

I had a shoebox full of tapes like that!

These poor kids watch porn on the internet whenever they want. They'll never know the joys of watching an R rated movie and seeing a breast, or trying to unscramble channel 81 in their minds!

SCNDLS said:

or, y'know, memorize the section of the library in which the book(s) you wanna look up were located.



or worse yet, YOU were the remote control! yeah, your folks would call you from yer room just to change the channel or fix the reception! (my dad used to do that shit, i hated it )


or you'd have to wait till halloween and x-mas for the cartoon specials, and even then there was no guarantee that your parents would give up watching what they wanted just so you could see them. no tivo or youtube back then!


p.s. i'm 27 years old, gonna be 28 in another two months. gettin' close to 30...




edits are the new 30
[Edited 10/2/08 13:00pm]

NDRU said:

or try to look for their daddy's pr0n stash...

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

> > > >but atleast you guys have diligent social workers that will show up with police if you get beat up too bad, in my day mom's would hit you with anything in the street and even use weapons and never worry about the police getting called on them.
> > >
> > > and you guys have automated little cute plastic debit cards so you don't have to pull out old wrinkled weird looking food stamps in a store to buy chips and soda for school lunch and have all the neighbors immediately know your mom's is a broke-ass bitch.
> > >
> > > Now you guys have discount retail stores by the boat loads, so if you needed new clothes you don't have to shop at a church and in old bins at the Salvation Army. Knock offs a plenty too, you can still be broke and in style.
> > >
> > > Now you can't buy liquor for your parents or lottery tickets, those bitches used to make us do that shit for them, and then complain when we told them we was hungry.
> > >
> > > Back then we didn't have home relaxer kits, just s-curls, everyone was greazy that didn't go to a salon. Using Vaseline as a styling product.
> > Now you guys have weave, back then if you had no hair, you just walk around looking like Sidney Pointier, no dating for you if you was too "short n nappy".
> > >
> > > Back then we had to run from our bullies, now a days, people are afraid of wimps because of the fear of them going postal.
> > > >
> > > >

You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,
The over 30 "Hood Rat" Crowd