RedCountry
Well-known member
All true. Those little #$#@!!! :steam
Subject: Kids Today
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 thirty something, I
can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. They've got it so
easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damned Utopia! And I
hate to say it but you kids today 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 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 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 damned 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!
We didn't have fancy stuff 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 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 I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL
WEEK, you spoiled little brats!!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! Those kids today have got it too
easy, They're spoiled, I swear....they wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1984!
Subject: Kids Today
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 thirty something, I
can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. They've got it so
easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damned Utopia! And I
hate to say it but you kids today 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 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 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 damned 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!
We didn't have fancy stuff 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 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 I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL
WEEK, you spoiled little brats!!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! Those kids today have got it too
easy, They're spoiled, I swear....they wouldn't last five minutes
back in 1984!
