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71produster

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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 yada, yada, yada! 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
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
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
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 a 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 broad with a hat sat in front of you and you
couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable
television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and
there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! 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 a$$ 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 bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging
fire.... 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. 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! Oh yea, and a seatbelt was Mom throwing her
arm across your chest every time she hit the brakes.
 
71produster said:
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
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!

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hahahahahahahahahaha
 
I miss my Atari 2600. That combat game was the ****! I also remeber getting my butt paddled in school all the time when teachers could still beat your ***. I never swiped tapes, but I did have quite the Hotwheels collection:-\"
Oh, and we only had 4 TV channels](*,)
 
That's funny, but I'm so old we had no cable, one channel and a black and white tv, yeah everything was black and white, no color, can you imagine? Same with camera's, all black and white pictures.
 
We had three channels, but ya had to actually get up to change them, and turn the dial on top of the TV until Dad yelled STOP !!! I didn't know until years later that it was connected to the antenna on the roof..:confused: My kids don't even believe we didn't have remote control and 150 channels to choose from..
 
Thanks for the "time machine". My dad had his 55 Buick and my first car was a 1948 Plymouth. Now my daughter says she is embrassed when I tell her she will drive the 72 Duster. Years from now, she will have fond memories when she tells her kids she "had" to drive the Duster and they will say COOL because it will be a really COOL car by then.
 
We had three channels after a while, but I remember when we only had two. Black & white. We didn't get cable TV until I was almost in High School. We got our first color TV when I was in Junior High. We bought it from the estate of a family friend who had died & the main reason my folks bought it was because it was cheap & our old TV had quit working almost a year before that. No remote control.

We had a party line when I was a kid. Sometimes you'd pick up the phone & hear other people were already using it. When I was in grade school I remember that when we went to my Great Aunt & Uncles' house their phone would ring & they wouldn't answer it. When I asked them why they said "That's not for us, it's not our ring." And I'm only fifty. I could go on, but I'm sure their will be others on here with stories to tell.
 
Kids today dont have it so good financially.
My generation didn't use disposable diapers exclusively. We struggled to pay life insurance premiums, something with tangable value.
Todays kids have a programed mindset to need "pay for tv"
cellphone minutes, personal computer.
I honestly believe my generation would have stood in line to use internet, and Napster, at the library.
Bottled water is fine government distriution for disaster aid but 1.00 plus per liter retail ?
The government sets a fine example too by trying to provide ICE to those in need. I can't think of any substance more perishable.
Fresh meat and produce will keep at 40 degress but ice will not.
Sorry but you got me started on a rant.
"Ignore that little man behind the curtain."
 
I'm 33 so that applies to me!
I remember only having 12 or 13 channels on the TV and my Mom yelling at me for turning the dial to fast when i changed channels.
I was 13 or 14 when we got our first VCR and around the same time we got our first microwave,it felt like we were rich to have those things!
 
Party line, I forgot all about that 64 Cuda, too funny, I do remember that, you must be an old fart too :-D
 
We had channels 2, 5, 7, 9, & 11 in Chicago when I was growing up (channel 11 was PBS, does that count? lol!). My parents didn't see the need for a TV with color or UHF until my freshman year in high school. Probably because they figured I'd be out of the house in three more years anyway. I spent most of my time outside so I really didn't care that much.

That, and we were all really fit because if we wanted to go somewhere, we rode our bikes, and man, we rode everywhere!
 
I remember those channels ramcharger. I grew up in the burbs
of Chicago. We had the party line. I thought it was great when
dad bought a color tv. One of the first on the block.
We even played outside till late at night in the summer. And
you knew you had to be home by dark. I kind of miss those good
old days. Yeah I'm 54 years young.
 
>>Oh, and we only had 4 TV channels

Hey, here in Australia we still only have 4 TV channels - 2,7,9 and 10 :)

Dean.
 
I almost forgot, when they first walked on the moon (Yeah, I'm one of those people who doesn't think the whole thing was faked in a studio) we went over to the house of some "rich" people we knew so we could watch it on their HUGE 25" COLOR CONSOLE TV!
 
We had three channels when you had the rabbit ear antenna in the right position. I had a single speed bike I rode it all over the place ,because we
lived outside the city and my best friend live a mile and half away on a gravel
road.Know wonder my legs looked like tree trunks.
Vinyl records and a record player with the different speeds.
And the play station was the sand box in the back yard.
Those were the good old day. :hippy2::afro:
 
Back up... I am only 22 (soon 23) and I had a lot of the before mentioned. 30 years old might be pushing it a little. I will shoot for 25 ish...
 
I have five free TV channels. (watching LOST). No cell phone.
I have public water only because the well went dry.
 
OK here goes this old lady again...
Folks twenty and under will never know what it is like to own a TV without a remote. My (rich) Uncle bought a digital watch in 1977. It cost $300. Kids under 15 have a hard time reading the face of a clock to tell the time. All of these modern devices cannot replace memories of playing catch with my dad. :cheers:
Now kids "text" and E-mail each other. :computer: What ever happened to passing notes in class? Oh, yeah and if the teacher caught you doing that, you got your a$$ busted.:bootysha: back when I went to school. And it was uphill both ways! There were no " time-outs". Your parents took time out of their busy day to bust your a$$.:butthead:
I remember having to use a pair of needle-nosed pliers to turn the channels on our old black and white T.V. and it sat on top of the other TV that did not work. :banghead: :eek:fftheai:
My brother and I lived to watch Saturday morning cartoons with Bugs Bunny. :headbang:
Sunday nights brought Mom popping popcorn on the stove with a pan with a lid and real butter and drinking grape kool-aid while we watched The Wonderful World of Disney. :happy1:
I remember the late 70's when my Mom and Dad bought our first video game...PONG ( still have that BTW) .
My kids are lost without a game boy in their pocket. I carried a sling shot in my pocket for when I got bored, and that resulted in Dad taking time out of his busy day... #-o
I still have rabbit ears on the T.V. I am watching "LOST". :cool:
My kids laugh at me when I tell them about the " Good Ole Days".
We didn't have a lot of things back then by today's standards, but we did not know what a couch potato was either.:shock:

Surfing? That is what they did at the beach, and the net was used in volleyball.:fball:
 
briankaplan said:
I remember those channels ramcharger. I grew up in the burbs
of Chicago. We had the party line. I thought it was great when
dad bought a color tv. One of the first on the block.
We even played outside till late at night in the summer. And
you knew you had to be home by dark. I kind of miss those good
old days. Yeah I'm 54 years young.
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You got me beat by a few years Brian, I'm 42. I remember when the street lights came on we had to be heading home. Much simpler time.

Remember 52 scatter or "500"? How about when you got a good road rash from the bike and you would spray "Bactine" on it, jeez I swear that stuff was made of acid.
 
What about rotary phones and pong. Playing guns with a piece of wood that had a clothes pin nailed to it, so it could shoot rubber bands. Making go-carts with your dads lawn mower wheels (boy did I get it for that one). Building forts using rusty nails and 'found' wood in the woods out behind the school.
Actually spending more time playing outside than in.
 
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