THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

[Canuk Pepperhead]

I recieved this as an e-mail and found it funny so I figured id shair it


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 diatribes 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 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'. 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 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 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 screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off
Your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
Channel and there was no
Cartoon Network either! You cou ld only get cartoons
On Saturday Morning. Do you
Hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK
For cartoons, you spoiled
Little rat-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!

[Omri]

:lol:
Hmmm... I have a working Atari 2600, and Pong, too...

[Pepperfreak]

:lol:
Hmmm... I have a working Atari 2600, and Pong, too...

That was great...I missed the part about us wearing belts, was that in there? I just can not understand how or why you would want to wear your pants the way they do.

Heck, Atari was great!!! All we had was Colecovision, use to walk 2 blocks to go to a friends house who had Atari..

[DevilDuck]

I had an Odyssey2.

I also remember cable TV meant you had a big brown box with a red button and a black button. You had to tune your tv to channel 3 and hit the red button. Then you could watch HBO and that's all.

...And I did walk to school uphill both ways. My house was on the crest of one hill and the school was on the crest of the next hill.

I also remember gas prices at $.56 a gallon and listening to my dad bitch about how expensive it was.

Cigarettes were $.25 a pack and if you got them from a machine, you'd also get a free pack of matches.

A $9,000 car was a really nice car. It had air conditioning and cruise control, too! No computers either. If it broke down, you could probably fix it with a crescent wrench and a screwdriver.

Kids also played outside, got banged up, didn't wear helmets to ride bicycles, got dirty, and didn't get sick all that much. Scheduled "play dates" didn't exist. You simply walked to your friends house and knocked on the door.

[ring sting]

For memories of growing up in the late 70s and 80s nothing beats Eddie Murphy's Delirious (the one where he wears the red leather pants).

"You dropped your ice cream!"

I remember riding bikes w/o helmets, building cubby houses and after reading "It" by Stephen King, wandering thru the local forest park where the storm water drains ran thinking that there's a scary clown down there somewhere.... Now kids don't need to imagine it, it's on their friggin computer games and they get to shoot the guy.

The other big thing here was these weird frozen ice blocks that were shaped like a three sided pyramid, they were good on a hot day.

Oh, and I remember our first computer, the Apple IIe, and actually knowing how to program the sucker as a 7 yr old. Dos 3.3 WTG!

RS

[JayT]

For memories of growing up in the late 70s and 80s nothing beats Eddie Murphy's Delirious (the one where he wears the red leather pants).

"You dropped your ice cream!"

I remember riding bikes w/o helmets, building cubby houses and after reading "It" by Stephen King, wandering thru the local forest park where the storm water drains ran thinking that there's a scary clown down there somewhere.... Now kids don't need to imagine it, it's on their friggin computer games and they get to shoot the guy.

The other big thing here was these weird frozen ice blocks that were shaped like a three sided pyramid, they were good on a hot day.

Oh, and I remember our first computer, the Apple IIe, and actually knowing how to program the sucker as a 7 yr old. Dos 3.3 WTG!

RS

The only way we got to shoot people was with thos cap guns. Imagine some kid took one of those to school today. He'd get expelled, arrested, and possobly even shot by the school's security guards. I had an Atari 2600 as well remember Q-Bert???

[AlabamaJack]

DD you must be a little younger than me...I remember 10 cent cokes (thats the 6 1/2 ounce ones), 75 cent gallons of whole milk delivered...I could take a date to the movie my freshman year of college on "special" night for a dollar...that was both of us in the movie and a medium coke each...gas...during a gas war on the corner of old palafox and alternate 90 in Pensacola it got down to 14 cents a gallon...didn't stay there long...went back to 21 cents...when the new 10 ounce coke bottles came out, they were 5 cents but the 6 1/2 ounce ones were still 10...the old saying RC cola and a moon pie was 25 cents...heck, the pie cost more than the RC did...I could go on and on....but I have gone on and on enough

[bowhunter]

DD you must be a little younger than me...I remember 10 cent cokes (thats the 6 1/2 ounce ones), 75 cent gallons of whole milk delivered...I could take a date to the movie my freshman year of college on "special" night for a dollar...that was both of us in the movie and a medium coke each...gas...during a gas war on the corner of old palafox and alternate 90 in Pensacola it got down to 14 cents a gallon...didn't stay there long...went back to 21 cents...when the new 10 ounce coke bottles came out, they were 5 cents but the 6 1/2 ounce ones were still 10...the old saying RC cola and a moon pie was 25 cents...heck, the pie cost more than the RC did...I could go on and on....but I have gone on and on enough

Look out AJ you are showing both are age
Dan




LET IT BURN

[AlabamaJack]

i figured we were pretty close Dan...

[Canuk Pepperhead]

lol in my basement in storage I have my old commodore64 and vic 20 about 350 ish floppys of games like jumpman and donkeykong lol

[rainbowberry]

I had an Atari with Pac-man, Space Invaders and the best racing game ever on it, I've never found another racing game again as good as that was. Until Sky came along though everyone had 4 channels on the TV, channel 1,2,3 and yeah you guessed it, channel 4.

[Pepperfreak]

I almost forgot about...All of the TV channels also signed off at night. I can't remember what time but remember the national anthem being played with still picture of something, I think it was the man on the moon. Kids today would freak out big time if TV still signed off.

[rainbowberry]

We used to get a picture of a young girl sitting by a chalk board with a clown I think.

[Canuk Pepperhead]

this makes me want to fire up my commodore 64 and play some jumpman jr

[ring sting]

On the rural networks here, I think they still have the mascot bear come on at 6.30pm, just before the news, to tell the kids it's bedtime, and to sleep well. Not in the cities tho'.

I almost forgot about...All of the TV channels also signed off at night. I can't remember what time but remember the national anthem being played with still picture of something, I think it was the man on the moon. Kids today would freak out big time if TV still signed off.

They may as well switch off the transmitters, infomercials (I still don't know where the "info" is) and xtian preachers for about 6 hrs.

Does anyone else remember waking up on Saturday morning at about 4.30, and watching the snow with the volume down until the cartoons started?

[bentalphanerd]

In my day I had to walk 14 miles to school underwater wearing a horse on my head because that was the school cap.

Anyone else here used to watch Kingswood Country lol

Oh & I had an Amstrad with an audio cassette built into the keyboard...that was the hard-drive lol

[ring sting]

Anyone else here used to watch Kingswood Country

Leave the money on the fridge!

[Canuk Pepperhead]

I still have the casette player for my vic 20 with assorted cassetes..I remember being in grade school and pet computers were the biggest thing..gotta love that monotone green lol

[POTAWIE]

load"*",4
LOADING.................
insert side 2 of tape
LOADING................. lol

I loved Jumpman too, and loadrunner, and boulderdash, and........

[bentalphanerd]

Leave the money on the fridge!

I just shampooed the hubcaps

[DevilDuck]

load"*",4
LOADING.................
insert side 2 of tape
LOADING................. lol

I loved Jumpman too, and loadrunner, and boulderdash, and........

You were lucky...you had a tape drive.

I had to manually type in all of the code and save it to an.................. 8 inch floppy! What was that magazine, anyway? The one that published all of the code.... ah, I can't remember.

[POTAWIE]

Compute's gazette? or something like that
The floppy was much better than the casette.

[bentalphanerd]

yeah - if i spent all day typing onto a cassette i could get a little car game on the green screen lol.

[POTAWIE]

Remember "I am Sam the talking computer". I think Stephen Hawkings stole the voice. lol

[Canuk Pepperhead]

You were lucky...you had a tape drive.

I had to manually type in all of the code and save it to an.................. 8 inch floppy! What was that magazine, anyway? The one that published all of the code.... ah, I can't remember.
I remember that..you would spend s good few hours typing in the code only to find out they published it wrong but hey!!it killed a few hours lol

[the_haunted]

I almost forgot about...All of the TV channels also signed off at night. I can't remember what time but remember the national anthem being played with still picture of something, I think it was the man on the moon. Kids today would freak out big time if TV still signed off.

Ha ha, we got the 'goodnight kiwi'. I feel old now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H2BOGGUbm4
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/GoodnightKiwi-grab.png

[rainbowberry]

We had this

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/tuliptwinkle/channelfourtestcard.jpg

[Philipperv]

Lived in Uxbridge near London from 84-86. Only 4 channels on the TV. Sad to say that I remember most of the things previously mentioned here:

Commodore vic 20s and 64s.
Radio Shack TRS-80s.
Cap guns, bottle rockets, lady fingers, m-80s
PONG and Atari.
Played Defender and Dig Dug (was champion at both).
Saturday morning cartoons till noon.
My Grandparents had their milk delivered in the bottles.
$.55 gas.
$.45 cent cigarettes in a vending machine at the mall!

Saved up my pocket $ till I could get 1 of those packs of cigs out of that machine. Was about 4 yrs old at the time. :lol:

[POTAWIE]

Anybody else have a timex sinclair 1000 computer?
And who had a modem on their commodore? My first one was 300 baud and it was one of the first that you didn't have to put your telephone into.

[Canuk Pepperhead]

I used to have a modem on the back of my commodore 64 and used to run a procram called c-base and had a bbs site I personally liked c-base over dmbbs and I installed a fancy toggle switch on my modem to turn off the speaker

[cheezydemon]

We had this

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/tuliptwinkle/channelfourtestcard.jpg


That is freakish.:)

Did it beep or make any noise?

[xgrafcorex]

funny thing is, i'm not 30 yet, and i remember a lot of those things on the list. :P i remember one of the first computer games we ever had..it fit on a floppy disk! the last game i bought takes up over 6 GB on my computer. :lol:

[POTAWIE]

Remember when Zaxxon was revolutionary 3-D?:lol:

[Canuk Pepperhead]

Crap I remember that game..I always got my ass kicked lol.All this talk is making me want to pull out the old c-64 and play old school style

[rainbowberry]

That is freakish.:)

Did it beep or make any noise?
I know it is, I don't know if it's the clown or the slightly evil look on the girls face. It had background music. If you stared at the screen for too long it sent you trance-like :)