And you thought you had it bad?

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

But....

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-two, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so freakin’ easy!

I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damned 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 damned 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 freakin’ mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! And there were no MP3s or Napsters! If 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'd usually talk over the beginning and screw 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 with high-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 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 the fuck 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!

repost..............:frog:

Originally posted by taranaki
repost..............:frog:

SHIT! :D

Originally posted by Polygon


SHIT! :D



:D not your day is it :rolleyes:

Originally posted by ragt20




:D not your day is it :rolleyes:

As it would seem. :p

Originally posted by Polygon

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu!

we STILL only have 5 channels over here. So now whos hard done to?!:D

Originally posted by Polygon
Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-two,

....

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! 22 now = 4 in 1984. :lol2:

Originally posted by jay@af
22 now = 4 in 1984. :lol2:

Yeah, yeah, I know. Glad someone caught it.

Originally posted by Polygon
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu!
I only get 9 channels.:(

Originally posted by jay@af
22 now = 4 in 1984. :lol2:


I remember 1984, damn I feel old. :(

I remember 1969..........fark,I feel ancient!

Remember watching the first moon landing as a 6 year old,and thinking where's all the laser guns and jet backpacks and coloured flashing lights and shit?they've got it all wrong,space isn't black and white and all jerky!

Remember watching the first moon landing as a 6 year old,and thinking where's all the laser guns and jet backpacks and coloured flashing lights and shit?they've got it all wrong,space isn't black and white and all jerky!

That was back in the Flash Gordon era:D

Hey, Caterpillar and DigDug on Atari rules!!!!!!!!!! We even got PacMan in my house!

I remember the A-Team and MacGuyver.

I feel old all of a sudden. :bloated:

anyone else remeber thundercats, gummybears, gijoe, he-man, ..those were afterschool cartoons! ohh and darkwingduck, DUCKTALES.

threes company..

i miss those days, when it was so easily ammused.. now its like alias, fastlane.. all these movies like shows

Originally posted by ultraxduce
anyone else remeber thundercats, gummybears, gijoe, he-man, ..those were afterschool cartoons! ohh and darkwingduck, DUCKTALES.

threes company..

i miss those days, when it was so easily ammused.. now its like alias, fastlane.. all these movies like shows

man im 14 and i used to watch all of those showes.................i hate all the alias and fastlane crap too much of it

I kinda like the Shows with a continuing Plot-

Voyagers/Farscapes series-long quest to get home...
Buffy's season long quest to identify, learn about, and defeat the "big bad"
Dark Angel's quest to....wait...what exactly IS her quest anyway?

See, unlike most humans, I ENJOY my brain. LOL...;)

Originally posted by saturntangerine
I remember the A-Team and MacGuyver.
They aren't that old....

Ahh yes 1984: a time when the A-Team couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a Chinese made AK-74. When He-Man ran around in tights trying to protect his backside from the savage beating Beast man was going to give it. A time when Lionel Ritchey was trying to seduce a poor blind art student in his college art history class (Hello is it me you're looking for?) A time when Duran Duran was hungry like the wolf (messed up music video). A time when you could Come on Eileen, and not get in trouble for it (that's a really bad punn). A time when we were all Dancing on the Ceiling (thank you Billy Ocean). When kids actually played street hockey, and touch football, and didn't sit in the house all day downloading porno on the internet (we actually had to buy books, you know with words in them) to look at dirty pictures. We prayed that the National Geographic had naked tribal women in it for that month's issue.

Ah well, it's time for me to Rock on to Electric Avenue.....oh sorry sometimes get lost when I remember my child hood.

Silver Spoons, Facts of life, Good times, Muppet Babies, Different Strokes, Perfect Strangers, Gimmie a Break(R.I.P Nel Carter), I could go on..... Man I miss the 80's and early 90's.... I feel old

I can remember 1980 :( Also as for telly channels I get 73 through the dish- but before I spent 1000 Euros on it I only had 6 :p

1984 was a very good year indeed.

Originally posted by Dustin_S
I kinda like the Shows with a continuing Plot-

Voyagers/Farscapes series-long quest to get home...
Buffy's season long quest to identify, learn about, and defeat the "big bad"
Dark Angel's quest to....wait...what exactly IS her quest anyway?

See, unlike most humans, I ENJOY my brain. LOL...;)

Same here, I like those kindof shows. I dont watch Dark Angel, but I like the rest. Gives you something to hope for in the next episode.

1984 was a very good year indeed.

Wow in 1984 I was 4 years old:right: