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Old 01-10-2003, 11:43 AM   #1
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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-nine, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so flippin' 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 stinkin' 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 begining and mess 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 jackoff to the lingere section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy crap 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 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 theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 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 hell I'm saying!?!

We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:04 PM   #2
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Got me smiling, cheers [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:08 PM   #3
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He he he... a another blast from the past. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:09 PM   #4
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And you try tellin young people that t'day an they wooooon't believe ya .
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:13 PM   #5
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LOL, lots of memories.

But, I think youth today have it harder in some respects. For one, you gotta start working at age 12 if you want to go to college - and you have to make the best grade, be an officer in every frikin club, score 1200+ on the SATs and write a novella by the time you graduate high school or you just get to be one of the herd. Not to mention the fact that once you get your college degree, big deal everyone's got one - so go to the bottom of the ladder.

It ain't all peaches & cream.
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:16 PM   #6
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Rokenn, I read the excatly same post from harmony central forums a while ago. Did you steal that from someone or are you a musician..? [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-10-2003, 12:47 PM   #7
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Originally posted by Rokenn:

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 jackoff to the lingere section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!
It's all hilarious, but this really broke me up. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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Old 01-10-2003, 02:57 PM   #8
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OMG! I so love the 80's, but now I remember why now is nice, too. True, my kids will never believe it.
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Old 01-10-2003, 03:21 PM   #9
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Rokenn, I read the excatly same post from harmony central forums a while ago. Did you steal that from someone or are you a musician..? [img]smile.gif[/img]
Got it via email from a friend [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-10-2003, 03:40 PM   #10
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Yes, I agree. Although, as Timber Loftis said, kids today have to learn MUCH more than we did. I'm teaching 10th graders biology today that I didn't learn until my freshman-sophomore year of college, and that's just the beginning! They do have zero patience and even less of a work ethic, not to mention no remorse (they actually get mad at you for yelling at them).

Just think how bad our parents and grandparents had it!

[ 01-10-2003, 03:41 PM: Message edited by: Gammit ]
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