OT: Kids today are spoiled rotten ;)

[3ric]

Just got this from the net:

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 blizzards 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 had it and how easy they've got it!

But....Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so f*ckin'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 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 f*ckin' 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 record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and f*ck 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 jack off to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!

Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy shit 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 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
withhigh-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 was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were f*cked!

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 f*ck 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 1987!

Being 32 myself, I find myself agreeing with a lot of this!

[Anrhydeddu]

What if you were 43? How about going to college and there were no computers or video games yet? The only arcade entertainment was pinball machines.

[JeeberD]

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 f*ckin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

You don't know how many friend I lost track of because I was too damn lazy to write letters. I would probably still be in touch with them if there was only e-mail back in the day.

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 jack off to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!

Hell yeah, the JC Penny catelog. It was either that or risk getting caught with my old man's porn.

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!

Man, half the time I fucked up my Atari games by putting them in only half way and getting some cool ass colors and graphics that way. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was the best game to do this with. It also fucked up the Atari. I think we went through four of the bastards.

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!

Hell, may dad was too cheap to get cable. I remember how excited I was when Fox was introduced and expanded the number of channels we had to four!

Hell yeah, kids today have it soooo easy...

[WSUCougar]

Don't forget a major one...the typewriter versus the computer.

How many pages did I have to retype because of errors, and no correcting tape? Either that, or face a white out wonderland on the final paper and get ripped for it by the teacher.

[vex]

Oh yes, the catalog.

[DataKing]

I have fond, nostalgic memories of my first computer, a Trash-80. Of course, it's only nostalgia. I'm sure the thing would bore me to tears today.

[Buzzbee]

A post in another thread (MIJB #19 drops out of the top ten) deserves to be here.

Originally posted by Barkeep49:

That's really funny that you bring this up since we just watched that episode but a few hours ago in my Australian History class.

This in reference to a Simpson's episode where Bart drops trou in Australia.

Hell, in my day we didn't have the Simpsons. We didn't even have VCR's in the classroom. We actually had to study and learn. And when we DID get to watch something in class, it was one of those state produced films on how to brush your teeth or how an abacus worked. And it was shown on FILM!!! With that God awful sound and the picture that rolled about every four seconds. Errrrrrrr!!!!!!

Damn whipper snapper! (Hey, I'd like to whip her snapper!)

[Tarkus]

That whole thing is just too funny.

Tarkus

[Lathum]

Ahh the memories, when Nintendo came out it was like finding the lost ark. Now the only place you can find nintendo is on ebay.

[JeeberD]

I've got a good old NES at my parents house. I think I might set it up and play some Tecmo Super Bowl when I go there over spring break.

[Lathum]

Originally posted by JeeberD
I've got a good old NES at my parents house. I think I might set it up and play some Tecmo Super Bowl when I go there over spring break.

Nice

[Craptacular]

My NES is still hooked up.

[JeeberD]

Hmm, you think that I should bring my NES home with me? Nah, then I wouldn't ever make it to school, work, or be able to see my girlfriend...

[Kevin]

We used to live in shoebox in middle of road.

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by JeeberD
Hell, may dad was too cheap to get cable. I remember how excited I was when Fox was introduced and expanded the number of channels we had to four!

Yeah, FOX was great for me as well. When they finally put cable in our neighborhood, the guys actually cracked our driveway trying to bore under it. After a couple of failed attempts, they ended up going across the street. After all that, we never ended up getting cable. It was so sweet when I got to college and could actually watch something other than the networks.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Kevin
We used to live in shoebox in middle of road.

You were LUCKY! We would have DREAMED of having a shoebox! We lived in a thimble at the bottom of the lake. Every day we had to get up at 3:00am, eat a lump of dried poison for breakfast, then go work at the rock quarry, cleaning the rocks with our tongues. When we got home (after dark), our parents would kill us and dance upon our graves, shouting "Glory, glory hallelujah." ...And we LIKED it!

[Qwikshot]

I enjoyed the old atari games...River Raid.
And my cable was like 90 channels, on a big box with a flip switch, and there was no greater joy than hanging around after 9 and getting a glimpse of Playboy channel.

And old computer games, that had no save feature, now that was a challenge...

G.I.Joe kicked ass too...