Southerngirl Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious rantings about how hard things were when they were growing up... what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways.. YADDA, YADDA, YADDA And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way 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 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 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! There were NO MP3's & NO Napsters! 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'd usually talk over the beginning and mess 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 Boxes 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' and the graphics sucked! Your 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! When you went to the movie theater There no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old lady with a hat sat in front of you, and you couldn't see, YOU WERE JUST OUT OF LUCK! Sure, we had cable television, But back then that was only like 15 channels And there was no on-screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide To find out what was on! You were out of luck, when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt 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! AND We DIDN'T have microwaves, If we wanted to heat something up We had to use the stove. IMAGINE THAT! If we wanted popcorn, We had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever LIKE AN IDIOT! You KIDS WOULD NEVER have lasted five minutes back in 1980's! Regards, The over 30 Crowd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetucker Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 your right!!! your 100% right.i just turned 30 this past october and everything was just as you said it.a little different if you were a dr.s kid or a promenent family in town.when gramp took me hunting we had build a stand not go to the locale trading post and buy one.there were no food plots or deer cams or all the fancy stuff like they do today yet my gramp always mannaged to get a really nice deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubie Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Hey, your making me sound old. I did all that stuff and I ain't even 30...In fact, I still don't have cable, and I still shake jiffy pop all over my colman stove like an idiot for a snack while camping... Though one thing I notice kids don't do anymore, is go outside to play...You almost never see games of street hockey, or a game off baseball that doesn't have a league schedual. Or kids riding bikes just for the sake of riding bikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michiganbowhunter_SQ2 Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 30? Heck I'm 27 and know all about that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Yep that is pretty funny even though I'm part of the 60's & early 70's generation. You know...the ones that actually had to learn how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without pushing buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Heck, you young punks don't know what you are talking about! That includes the under 60 crowd! LMBO!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I ain't 30 yet either, but I still iked it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tecumseh Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Well said:) jiffy pop is some pretty nasty stuff imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 30? Heck I'm 27 and know all about that stuff. Ditto!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubie Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Maybe we didn't have internet, but I remember taking my first computer (386, with 2 MB ram, and a 20 mb hard drive. We didn't need a giga back then) and a 14k modem, and making a fax machine out of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksbowhntr77 Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Yep that is pretty funny even though I'm part of the 60's & early 70's generation. You know...the ones that actually had to learn how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide without pushing buttons. You mean that's possible......:eek: Jus' kiddin' Wanted to see if I could get a rise outta ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 So are you saying that now that your over the age of 30, you dont take advantage of todays technology??? Actually you are taking advantage of it by typing this post. You adults have got it soo easy now days!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Let's talk a bit about computers! The first one I worked on was at Control Data in Minneapolis! They were building it for the Weather Bureau! It filled, if I remember right, 5 HUGE rooms and was a combination of tubes, transistors and was hard wired together! It didn't have hardly any memory and the only way to input anything was via punched cards! No keyboard and there was not any monitor! Only signal lights for errors! Lots of fun working on that thing! This little thing sitting on my desk, has millions more capability than that computer did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck2 Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 You adults have got it soo easy now days!! Smarty aleck kid!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted February 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 So are you saying that now that your over the age of 30, you dont take advantage of todays technology??? Actually you are taking advantage of it by typing this post. You adults have got it soo easy now days!! I think you need a spanking for that one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU_man_84 Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 23 here and when i was a kid we really didnt have much of these things either, i had an atari, that was about it, had the tv i had to get up to change the channel or the volume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 I think you need a spanking for that one!! oh, nick. you lucky guy you:p:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubie Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 oh, nick. you lucky guy you:p:D I had a witty reply to put here...but now I can't stop laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Cable came out when I was a kid. Can remember our first vcr too, the thing was huge. Amazing how far technology has come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davetucker Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 VCR!! Cable came out when I was a kid. Can remember our first vcr too, the thing was huge. Amazing how far technology has come. like i said i'm only 30 and i remember befor they even had vhs it was a thing like a record was to young to remember what it was called but i do know my aunt still has one and watches it every once in awhile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowin_in_illinois Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 ........Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio And the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up!....... That's my favorite one! I used to sit in front of the radio all day waiting to get my favorite songs on tape, and when the DJ would talk until the very last second before the vocals started I would get so aggravated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 That's my favorite one! I used to sit in front of the radio all day waiting to get my favorite songs on tape, and when the DJ would talk until the very last second before the vocals started I would get so aggravated. Show you how old I am, I did that with an 8-track before a cassette. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowin_in_illinois Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Show you how old I am, I did that with an 8-track before a cassette. What's an 8 track????? (wow, you must be old...lol ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubie Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Show you how old I am, I did that with an 8-track before a cassette. I bought an old Ford Thunderbird once, still had a factory 8-track that worked in the dash. However, the automatic seat didn't work, and ended up crushing me into my seat belt so tight I had to cut it off to breath again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 What's an 8 track????? (wow, you must be old...lol ) hehe --------- just a few weeks ago, my 12 year old daughter saw a bunch of old 8 tracks I have stored in a box and she was like :eek::eek: "What are those !" :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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