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To those that are under 30 . . . 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 | |
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- U forgot cellphones and text messaging... if U were waiting for a call, U sat your ass in the house! 
- And when I was in college, I wrote papers on a typewriter! U made a mistake and START OVER!!!! 
One more: My sister's b.f. got into it with a salesguy in the electronics store the other day because he was trying to tell me the 32" TV I picked out was too small. William's point was that when we grew up, we all sat around a 19". There were no huge FLAT SCREEN LCD HD, so he told the guy to "stop frontin'" and admit he just wanted me 2 spend more... 
I teach high school... I watch these kids act like they are going 2 die without all their "toys". I was excited when I got my Panasonic 8-track radio backinthaday... and then a Sony Walkman where the batteries died after 20 min.  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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30? Shoooo...that's nuthin'.
We didn't have a color TV 'til I was 5 years old. I walked a mile home from school every day from the time I was 8. My mother set the route - and the time limit to walk it. If I wasn't home within a half hour of school letting out, she tanned me but good. Same if I deviated from the approved route. 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. There were no microwaves, so we couldn't just pop something in. Dinner had to be prepared from scratch. We didn't have a typewriter for papers - they were hand written 'til I was a junior in high school. Everybody took typing - and learned to set margins on a manual typewriter. If you wanted a copy, you made a carbon. If you wanted to listen to music, you had two choices: AM radio or a vinyl LP. All gas had lead in it. People who want to complain about air pollution now need to suck on that for awhile. I could go on and on... We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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i think the world was better off before cell phones, actually. it was one less way people had for being rude and annoying.
and as much as it would have been cool to have the internet as a kid, i feel kind of lucky that i grew up pre-internet. when i wanted to know about something or wanted to get something, it wasn't just a button push away. i had to make an effort to seek out what i wanted. i had to go to the library, talk to people, write letters. it made me resourceful. i'm glad for that. and as for video games, why is it that even with all these ritzy-titzy game systems, they still sell titles like "classic nintendo arcade collection" that are designed to look just as wonky as the originals? i guess that's for the gen-x dad who can't figure out junior's crazy videogames, i dunno. but i dig on playstation just as much as i dug on my atari 2600. it's all the same thing, it just evolves. 
kids today don't have electro woman and dyna girl. they didn't get to experience the first star wars movie hitting theaters for the first time. they likely weren't around for purple rain mania in 1984. there are a lot of perks to being a gen-x geezer.  | |
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Genesia said: 30? Shoooo...that's nuthin'.
We didn't have a color TV 'til I was 5 years old. I walked a mile home from school every day from the time I was 8. My mother set the route - and the time limit to walk it. If I wasn't home within a half hour of school letting out, she tanned me but good. Same if I deviated from the approved route. 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. There were no microwaves, so we couldn't just pop something in. Dinner had to be prepared from scratch. We didn't have a typewriter for papers - they were hand written 'til I was a junior in high school. Everybody took typing - and learned to set margins on a manual typewriter. If you wanted a copy, you made a carbon. If you wanted to listen to music, you had two choices: AM radio or a vinyl LP. All gas had lead in it. People who want to complain about air pollution now need to suck on that for awhile. I could go on and on...
I'm 41... I get it! 
One of the reasons I'm such a big baseball fan is because after church on Sundays U had 2 choices: go out & play or watch a double-header on the ONE FAMILY TV. Sometimes U weren't given the outside choice, so U sucked it up or played somewhere in the house. I got into baseball. "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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chocolate1 said: Genesia said: 30? Shoooo...that's nuthin'.
We didn't have a color TV 'til I was 5 years old. I walked a mile home from school every day from the time I was 8. My mother set the route - and the time limit to walk it. If I wasn't home within a half hour of school letting out, she tanned me but good. Same if I deviated from the approved route. 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. There were no microwaves, so we couldn't just pop something in. Dinner had to be prepared from scratch. We didn't have a typewriter for papers - they were hand written 'til I was a junior in high school. Everybody took typing - and learned to set margins on a manual typewriter. If you wanted a copy, you made a carbon. If you wanted to listen to music, you had two choices: AM radio or a vinyl LP. All gas had lead in it. People who want to complain about air pollution now need to suck on that for awhile. I could go on and on...
I'm 41... I get it!
One of the reasons I'm such a big baseball fan is because after church on Sundays U had 2 choices: go out & play or watch a double-header on the ONE FAMILY TV. Sometimes U weren't given the outside choice, so U sucked it up or played somewhere in the house. I got into baseball. You had baseball on TV? 
We had to listen on AM radio. And if there were thunderstorms within 50 miles, there was static galore. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Genesia said: chocolate1 said:
I'm 41... I get it!
One of the reasons I'm such a big baseball fan is because after church on Sundays U had 2 choices: go out & play or watch a double-header on the ONE FAMILY TV. Sometimes U weren't given the outside choice, so U sucked it up or played somewhere in the house. I got into baseball. You had baseball on TV?
We had to listen on AM radio. And if there were thunderstorms within 50 miles, there was static galore. I listen to it NOW on the radio- better play-by-play.  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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| This thread cracks me up! I'm 29 so I'm sorta on the cusp of what you guys are talking about.
It's weird because I think mine is the last generation that knew a world without internet, cell phones, etc. | |
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I'm 23, but my family's always been pretty slow to pick up on new technology so most of what you said applies to me too. Except microwaves. I've never known life without them. That said, the microwave our family had when I was a little kid was this huge, 50 pound wood-panelled monstrosity. I think my parents had gotten it as a wedding present 10 years before I arrived.
To this day I still don't have an MP3 player or digital camera of any kind, and a blackberry to me is still a tasty fruit. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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Anxiety said: i think the world was better off before cell phones, actually. it was one less way people had for being rude and annoying.
and as much as it would have been cool to have the internet as a kid, i feel kind of lucky that i grew up pre-internet. when i wanted to know about something or wanted to get something, it wasn't just a button push away. i had to make an effort to seek out what i wanted. i had to go to the library, talk to people, write letters. it made me resourceful. i'm glad for that. and as for video games, why is it that even with all these ritzy-titzy game systems, they still sell titles like "classic nintendo arcade collection" that are designed to look just as wonky as the originals? i guess that's for the gen-x dad who can't figure out junior's crazy videogames, i dunno. but i dig on playstation just as much as i dug on my atari 2600. it's all the same thing, it just evolves.
kids today don't have electro woman and dyna girl. they didn't get to experience the first star wars movie hitting theaters for the first time. they likely weren't around for purple rain mania in 1984. there are a lot of perks to being a gen-x geezer. one of the old time Sisters said to me once that in the beginning days 79-83, they could get the entire order together for a protest or whatever in an hour with no email or cell phones. now in my house it takes 5 to 6 days of emails and cell phones to get us together to go out. You CANNOT use the name of God, or religion, to justify acts of violence, to hurt, to hate, to discriminate- Madonna
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Gawd I remember those days. Kids today get things on a silver platter.
It's too easy!  
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My kids will probably NEVER use a PAYPHONE!!
They won't know what a cassette is... How about a phone with a dial... 
They barely know VCR's it's nuts... A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon |
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SCNDLS said: 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 This almost had me embarass myself at work, I wanted to laugh so hard. Too true. The days when t.v. when off at a certain time everyday. Pressing you cassette player against the radio. I just got rid of my dad's "state of the art" record player and reel-to-reel tape player combo. There was actually a go-cart, kite flying season every year in the neighborhood. Jiffy pop, was something special. | |
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RenHoek said: My kids will probably NEVER use a PAYPHONE!!
They won't know what a cassette is... How about a phone with a dial...
They barely know VCR's it's nuts... Hey! There is a working one of those in my parents' basement!  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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I was in a second-hand store the other day and came across the most BEAUTIFUL antique wall phone that was still in good working order. I almost bought it until I remembered what a useless waste of space it would be in a touch-tone world.
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chocolate1 said: RenHoek said: My kids will probably NEVER use a PAYPHONE!!
They won't know what a cassette is... How about a phone with a dial...
They barely know VCR's it's nuts... Hey! There is a working one of those in my parents' basement!  I still have a dial phone hooked up at home, not like that one. It's a permanent part of the house, would have to have someone come in and literally remove a long wire to get it out, but I like it. It's nostalgic. | |
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Oh sheesh, not this shit again...
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FuNkeNsteiN said: Oh sheesh, not this shit again...
Thanks for taking us back.....   adorable1
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Graycap23 said: My kids looked at me a few years ago and neither of them knew what an album was. I was amazed at that.
when my kid was little she called one that she saw that big black cd thing  
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meow85 said: I was in a second-hand store the other day and came across the most BEAUTIFUL antique wall phone that was still in good working order. I almost bought it until I remembered what a useless waste of space it would be in a touch-tone world.
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ehuffnsd said: Anxiety said: i think the world was better off before cell phones, actually. it was one less way people had for being rude and annoying.
and as much as it would have been cool to have the internet as a kid, i feel kind of lucky that i grew up pre-internet. when i wanted to know about something or wanted to get something, it wasn't just a button push away. i had to make an effort to seek out what i wanted. i had to go to the library, talk to people, write letters. it made me resourceful. i'm glad for that. and as for video games, why is it that even with all these ritzy-titzy game systems, they still sell titles like "classic nintendo arcade collection" that are designed to look just as wonky as the originals? i guess that's for the gen-x dad who can't figure out junior's crazy videogames, i dunno. but i dig on playstation just as much as i dug on my atari 2600. it's all the same thing, it just evolves.
kids today don't have electro woman and dyna girl. they didn't get to experience the first star wars movie hitting theaters for the first time. they likely weren't around for purple rain mania in 1984. there are a lot of perks to being a gen-x geezer. one of the old time Sisters said to me once that in the beginning days 79-83, they could get the entire order together for a protest or whatever in an hour with no email or cell phones. now in my house it takes 5 to 6 days of emails and cell phones to get us together to go out. i used to hang out with my friends EVERY DAY without the need of a cell phone. we just knew where to meet and we had a general idea of things coming up that we all wanted to go to. we didn't need a little metal bee stuck to our ears to make it happen! | |
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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! My Legacy
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NDRU said: 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!
if i wanted to see full bush, i had to wait until my parents were fast asleep and sneak into the living room and watch cinemax after dark with the volume all the way down! | |
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SCNDLS said: 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 Reminds me of Dana Carvey and his "Grumpy old man" on SNL.
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Anxiety said: NDRU said: 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!
if i wanted to see full bush, i had to wait until my parents were fast asleep and sneak into the living room and watch cinemax after dark with the volume all the way down! you're so jaded! I never had Cinemax! My porn consisted of Sam & Diane's sexual tension. My Legacy
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Whoa, I'm 23, but my family was way behind the times I don't think that my parents got a microwave until I was 20 years old We never had a dishwasher or any of that shit. And I didn't get a cellphone or an mp3 player until I was 21
I am happy that I didn't have to live without Caller ID for long. That's the best 
SCNDLS said: 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
LMAO. Hell yeah. I've heard many stories of walking 15 miles to get to the only school that was nearby and there was only one donkey for about 10 kids to share and they'd take turns riding it so they wouldn't have to walk the whole time. My parents are so jealous that we had school buses | |
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Anxiety said: NDRU said: 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!
if i wanted to see full bush, i had to wait until my parents were fast asleep and sneak into the living room and watch cinemax after dark with the volume all the way down! Fuck that! I remember trynta watch that shit through all the squiggly lines cuz we didn't pay for Cinemax. You haven't lived til you've watched Lady Chatterley's Lover through static. You remember that sliding channel changer? I figured out that if you could balance the slider between two channels you could get a lil bit betta picture. [Edited 10/1/08 14:38pm] | |
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SCNDLS said: Anxiety said: if i wanted to see full bush, i had to wait until my parents were fast asleep and sneak into the living room and watch cinemax after dark with the volume all the way down! Fuck that! I remember trynta watch that shit through all the squiggly lines cuz we didn't pay for Cinemax. You haven't lived til you've watched Lady Chatterley's Lover through static. the woman who played lady chatterly was a little long in the tooth, i don't think she looked too much different unscrambled.  | |
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TMPletz said: SCNDLS said: 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 Reminds me of Dana Carvey and his "Grumpy old man" on SNL.
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