Quote Originally Posted by ineedskillz
When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with tedious diatribes about how hard things were growing up; what with walking 25 miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they mantained 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!!

BUT!!!!

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of thirty-something.I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.You've got it so dam easy !!

I mean, compared to my chidhood,you live in a damned Utopia!!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't even know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was kid we didn't have The Internet - we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourseves!

And there was no e-mail!!

We had to actully write somebody a letter with a pen!!

And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in a mail box and it would take a week to get there!!

And there were no MP3's or kaza!

You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself!!

Try sticking an LP Album under your jacket,buddy
Or we had to wait all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usally talk over the beginning and screw it all up!!

You want to hear about hardship?

We didn't have fancy 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 picked it and take your chances,

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!! Your guy was a little square!!You had to use your imagination!! And there where no multiple levels or screens, It was just one screen forever!! And you could never win the game,the game just kept getting harder and faster till you died!!!

Just like life!!
And sure, we had cable TV, 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 im saying!?!

We had to wait a ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!!
That's exactly what I'm talking about!!

You're spoiled, I swear to god!!
You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1987!!

I thought I'd share this with all the 30something people on these boards

sometimes not having internet and going to the library would be more convienent, i mean, there is no pop up adds, no IM distracting you, and its right there plain and simple in the book, not on a screan with a comp freezing up or contracting viruses from uncharted territory, and also i write letters with the us postal service pen and paper all the time, i never e mail..i dont have kazaa or anything, i buy my music legit becuse im a musician myself and i wouldnt wanna get ripped off....i still dont have call waiting, and caller ID is accually a nusence because everyone now adays has private lines and nothing shows up....also the best nintendo ever made was regular ninteno in 1987 and id take that over a god damn x-box or ps2 any day....finally, i didnt even have cabel TV untill about 4 months ago. i spent the first 15 years of my life cartoonless also....


i dont think you could make it a day in 2004 my life

you spoild bastard