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Old Jul 31, 2009 | 05:36 PM
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The spoiled under 30 crowd!

THE SPOILEDUNDER-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 itand how easy they've got it!
But now that I'mover the ripe old age of thirty,
I can't help but look around and notice theyouth 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 thecard 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 themailbox 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 ityourself!
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'sit!

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!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
 

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Old Jul 31, 2009 | 05:45 PM
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man that was a good read!!
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 06:21 PM
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^ True dat.
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 06:25 PM
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true! haha. but we, the younger crowd, have it tougher in alot of other ways!
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 06:42 PM
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I thought this thread was about people bragging they had Fits.

I look in here its about some young 30yr old looking at 29 year olds? jk
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by keepitpg
true! haha. but we, the younger crowd, have it tougher in alot of other ways!
OOOOOOOOO REEEEEAAAALLLLY - DO EXPLAIN?? don't tell me "school's harder - bull! you have cliff notes and online help for reports and such, i can't wait to hear this
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 09:25 PM
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I'm 26 but the part that made me laugh the hardest was the taping songs on the radio, I had to do that crap and it always sounded like garbage when you played it back. hahaha
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by vtecfit1
OOOOOOOOO REEEEEAAAALLLLY - DO EXPLAIN?? don't tell me "school's harder - bull! you have cliff notes and online help for reports and such, i can't wait to hear this
you didnt grow up knowing your economy was gonna be shit and your government isnt gonna do anything about it.
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 09:44 PM
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^when you guys were growing up all you had to worry about were the Soviets, we don't really know who our enemy is these days
 
Old Jul 31, 2009 | 09:50 PM
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the easy stuff is easier. thats all. lol
 
Old Aug 4, 2009 | 03:33 PM
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i still type-set and do some graphic posters the old school way: paste-ups FTW! precision and accuracy is key, it's like drawing without an eraser
i think it's fun and it has given me a much higher appreciation for old-school designers.
 
Old Aug 4, 2009 | 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by keepitpg
you didnt grow up knowing your economy was gonna be shit and your government isnt gonna do anything about it.
being 34, I know about the recession in the 80's...my parents lost the house they worked hard for us to have to it.
 
Old Aug 4, 2009 | 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by keepitpg
you didnt grow up knowing your economy was gonna be shit and your government isnt gonna do anything about it.
funny, many have said that the government is doing too much
 
Old Aug 4, 2009 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by chaaree
funny, many have said that the government is doing too much
well lets say theyre not doing it the right way and leave it at that lol
 
Old Aug 4, 2009 | 05:27 PM
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Old Aug 4, 2009 | 10:15 PM
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I remember pulling over looking for a public phone coz someone paged me. I was so darn cool with my Beeper and my first cell phone was a black Nokia and the only game it had was Snake.
 
Old Aug 6, 2009 | 12:10 PM
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too funny (and true)
 
Old Aug 6, 2009 | 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by gimme
being 34, I know about the recession in the 80's...my parents lost the house they worked hard for us to have to it.

I hear ya...
My dad was laid off due to all the deregulation that happened in the Reagan years, almost lost their house (they had to sell it), sell their newer cars, and practically start over with a much smaller house, and a couple of older used cars. I was a sophomore in high school. We had it tough for a few years. Really tough, until my parents got back on their feet. Certainly not what I had been used to prior, which was more of a "middle-class" lifestyle. My high school years were not great.
Politics really haven't changed that much since then in that its still tough for a lot of people.
 
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