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O/T - I remember these stories ....
I recieved this in my e-mail this morning ... thought everyone could relate to it ...
THE WORLD GETS OLDER
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 blizards 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 I 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 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 goddamned 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 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 goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we 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! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" ! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** 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 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 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 theatre there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!
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 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 1984!
Have Fun & Keep on Truckin'
Dean
THE WORLD GETS OLDER
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 blizards 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 I 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 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 goddamned 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 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 goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we 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! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" ! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** 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 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 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 theatre there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!
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 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 1984!
Have Fun & Keep on Truckin'
Dean
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I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned 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 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 goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we 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! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" ! Those were your options!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we 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! You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download ****! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" ! Those were your options!
ROFLMAO!! LoL, that was a good one!
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I am also 29 and noticed these very things. I must add a few things.
There was no rap or techno music. You were required to listen to real people playing real instruments. This means John Cougar, Hall and Oates, Duran Duran, Huey Lewis and the News, and hard rock. No CDs either, you had to buy that Michael Jackson "Thriller" on an LP. which is the huge black vinyl record. You had to keep you needle clean too. If you were lucky enough to have a cassette deck, you had to wait to rewind and keep the heads clean.
None of this going out on Saturday night in your mom's Navigator with a power douche bag either. WE went out in moms station wagon, or Caravan with the 24" stripe of fake wood going down the sides. NO 15inch subs either, you got 6x9's if you were lucky that were powered by $400 Pioneer cassette decks.
No PS II, XBOX or Sega either. You had an Atari 2600 or you went without.
Of course it's not just kids. I remember my stepfather buying a brand new 1983 F-150 XLT Lairat. The Lariat was two tone paint and chrome trim. He was thrilled that it had power windows and locks, cruise and tilt. No signal mirrors, leather seats, and keyless entry like today. Those were hard to find back in 83. It was a SuperCab with a 351, It was gutless too.
Cool Memories. The whole world is spoiled.
There was no rap or techno music. You were required to listen to real people playing real instruments. This means John Cougar, Hall and Oates, Duran Duran, Huey Lewis and the News, and hard rock. No CDs either, you had to buy that Michael Jackson "Thriller" on an LP. which is the huge black vinyl record. You had to keep you needle clean too. If you were lucky enough to have a cassette deck, you had to wait to rewind and keep the heads clean.
None of this going out on Saturday night in your mom's Navigator with a power douche bag either. WE went out in moms station wagon, or Caravan with the 24" stripe of fake wood going down the sides. NO 15inch subs either, you got 6x9's if you were lucky that were powered by $400 Pioneer cassette decks.
No PS II, XBOX or Sega either. You had an Atari 2600 or you went without.
Of course it's not just kids. I remember my stepfather buying a brand new 1983 F-150 XLT Lairat. The Lariat was two tone paint and chrome trim. He was thrilled that it had power windows and locks, cruise and tilt. No signal mirrors, leather seats, and keyless entry like today. Those were hard to find back in 83. It was a SuperCab with a 351, It was gutless too.
Cool Memories. The whole world is spoiled.
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I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet--we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves!
I'd like to see how much success current students would have using my old word processor; the one that got an upgrade by changing the ribbon.
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I'm only in my mid 20's now, but I can tell that not many kids today would be able to survive back in the late 70's and early 80's. Actually, to me, everything seemed so much better back then. Yeah, there were also no such thing as a fast computer. Remember the old commodor and apple computers, where everything was done in DOS. Things have just gotten too easy nowadays.
Anybody ever heard of the song "1980 Something" by Mark Wills, he was exactly right in his discription of that time period.
Anybody ever heard of the song "1980 Something" by Mark Wills, he was exactly right in his discription of that time period.
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Very true
> > This is so true....
> >
> > >
> > > It's Amazing We Made It
> > >
> > > Can't believe you made it. We even got spanked.
> > >
> > > If you lived as a child in the 50's, 60's, 70's, or
>80's, it's hard to
> > > believe that we have lived as long as we have...
> > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
>air bags.
> > > Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was
>always a
> > > special treat. We had no childproof lids on medicine
>bottles, doors,
> > > or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no
>helmets. (Not to
> > > mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
> > >
> > >
> > > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a
>bottle. We would
> > > leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as
>we were back
> > > when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach
>us all day. No
> > > cell phones.
> > > Unthinkable.
> > >
> > > We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really
>hurt. We got
> > > cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no
>law suits from
> > > these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
>blame, but us.
> > > Remember accidents?
> > >
> > > We had fights and punched each other and got black and
>blue and
> > > learned to get over it. We ate cupcakes, bread and
>butter, and drank
> > > soda but we were never overweight......... we were
>always outside
> > > playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends,
>from one bottle
> > > and no one died from this.
> > >
> > > We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, 99
>channels on
> > > cable, surround sound, personal cell phones, Personal
>Computers,
> > > Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside
>and found
> > > them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
>knocked on the
> > > door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to
>them. Imagine
> > > such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out
>there in the
> > > cold cruel world! Without a guardian.
> > >
> > > How did we do it?
> > >
> > > We made up games with sticks and tennis ***** and ate
>worms and
> > > although we were told it would happen, we did not put
>out very many
> > > eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
> > >
> > >
> > > Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the
>team. Those who
> > > didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment Some
>students weren't
> > > as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held
>back to repeat
> > > the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
>Our actions
> > > were our own.
> > >
> > > Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The
>idea of a
> > > parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
>They actually
> > > sided with the law, imagine that!
> > >
> > > We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and
>we learned
> > > how to deal with it all. Pass this on to others who have
>had the luck
> > > to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government
>regulated our lives
> > > for our own good.
> > >
> > > Author Unknown
> >
> > >
> > > It's Amazing We Made It
> > >
> > > Can't believe you made it. We even got spanked.
> > >
> > > If you lived as a child in the 50's, 60's, 70's, or
>80's, it's hard to
> > > believe that we have lived as long as we have...
> > > As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or
>air bags.
> > > Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was
>always a
> > > special treat. We had no childproof lids on medicine
>bottles, doors,
> > > or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no
>helmets. (Not to
> > > mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)
> > >
> > >
> > > We drank water from the garden hose and not from a
>bottle. We would
> > > leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as
>we were back
> > > when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach
>us all day. No
> > > cell phones.
> > > Unthinkable.
> > >
> > > We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really
>hurt. We got
> > > cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no
>law suits from
> > > these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to
>blame, but us.
> > > Remember accidents?
> > >
> > > We had fights and punched each other and got black and
>blue and
> > > learned to get over it. We ate cupcakes, bread and
>butter, and drank
> > > soda but we were never overweight......... we were
>always outside
> > > playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends,
>from one bottle
> > > and no one died from this.
> > >
> > > We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, 99
>channels on
> > > cable, surround sound, personal cell phones, Personal
>Computers,
> > > Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside
>and found
> > > them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and
>knocked on the
> > > door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to
>them. Imagine
> > > such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out
>there in the
> > > cold cruel world! Without a guardian.
> > >
> > > How did we do it?
> > >
> > > We made up games with sticks and tennis ***** and ate
>worms and
> > > although we were told it would happen, we did not put
>out very many
> > > eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
> > >
> > >
> > > Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the
>team. Those who
> > > didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment Some
>students weren't
> > > as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held
>back to repeat
> > > the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.
>Our actions
> > > were our own.
> > >
> > > Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The
>idea of a
> > > parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
>They actually
> > > sided with the law, imagine that!
> > >
> > > We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and
>we learned
> > > how to deal with it all. Pass this on to others who have
>had the luck
> > > to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government
>regulated our lives
> > > for our own good.
> > >
> > > Author Unknown
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From: Central Florida
You don't have too old to remember....
Drivers licenses without pictures
TV before cable
One phone company
All phones had cords, and you leased them from AT&T
Regular gas
One Coke
Organic meant that it contained Carbon
Mimeograph copies
Returnable bottles
Steel beverage cans
Whitewall tires
Motorola made TVs
TV shows were hyped as "IN COLOR"
Quadraphonic sound
8 tracks
Pull-tabs on cans
The Bicentennial
Calculators (when they finally arrived) were not allowed in school
Only Doctors and Volunteer Firemen had beepers
Imported cars were "small,cheap,dangerous"
5 1/4 floppy discs
8 inch floppy discs
**** carpet
Playing albums backwards looking for messages from the Devil
Double album sets designed for turntable changers
45s (the records not the pistols)
Cartoons before movies started
No antilock brakes, auto seatbelts, airbags
No seatbelt law
Jarts
Dart guns with hard plastic shafts
Only one GI Joe
Tonka trucks only came in metal
Banana seat on your bike was cool
The war on TV wasn't short, clean, smart, or over in a few hours
News was on at 6 and 10 pm ONLY
If you missed something on TV you MISSED IT
If you missed a movie at the theater you waited until it was on TV
Movie theaters had one screen
No ATM machines
You had to buy a car, leasing was for corporations
I can keep going, anyone else have a few???
Drivers licenses without pictures
TV before cable
One phone company
All phones had cords, and you leased them from AT&T
Regular gas
One Coke
Organic meant that it contained Carbon
Mimeograph copies
Returnable bottles
Steel beverage cans
Whitewall tires
Motorola made TVs
TV shows were hyped as "IN COLOR"
Quadraphonic sound
8 tracks
Pull-tabs on cans
The Bicentennial
Calculators (when they finally arrived) were not allowed in school
Only Doctors and Volunteer Firemen had beepers
Imported cars were "small,cheap,dangerous"
5 1/4 floppy discs
8 inch floppy discs
**** carpet
Playing albums backwards looking for messages from the Devil
Double album sets designed for turntable changers
45s (the records not the pistols)
Cartoons before movies started
No antilock brakes, auto seatbelts, airbags
No seatbelt law
Jarts
Dart guns with hard plastic shafts
Only one GI Joe
Tonka trucks only came in metal
Banana seat on your bike was cool
The war on TV wasn't short, clean, smart, or over in a few hours
News was on at 6 and 10 pm ONLY
If you missed something on TV you MISSED IT
If you missed a movie at the theater you waited until it was on TV
Movie theaters had one screen
No ATM machines
You had to buy a car, leasing was for corporations
I can keep going, anyone else have a few???
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From: Nu Joizey
How about rollerskate wheels made of metal,
soap box derby cars actually made from soap boxes,
a TV remote only had one button (the clicker really did click),
motorized vehicles had generators or magnetos and alternators were new-fangled things not yet proven to be reliable,
cars had grease fitttings or oil cups on anything that moved,
only one fan belt, a few wires, and oilbath air filters,
manual shifters mounted on the steering column, no such thing as emission controls, no such thing as radial tires, leaded gas,
elctronic devices had vacum tubes and dial controls, ....................
Phheww, I should have taken my geritol. Typing this much gets me tuckered out. Later fellas, it's nap time for me.
soap box derby cars actually made from soap boxes,
a TV remote only had one button (the clicker really did click),
motorized vehicles had generators or magnetos and alternators were new-fangled things not yet proven to be reliable,
cars had grease fitttings or oil cups on anything that moved,
only one fan belt, a few wires, and oilbath air filters,
manual shifters mounted on the steering column, no such thing as emission controls, no such thing as radial tires, leaded gas,
elctronic devices had vacum tubes and dial controls, ....................
Phheww, I should have taken my geritol. Typing this much gets me tuckered out. Later fellas, it's nap time for me.