For the over 30 crowd

[acasas4]

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!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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 catalo! g!!

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 would 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 gameswith h igh-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600!
With games like " Space Invaders" and "asteroids"
and the graphics were horrible! 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 was 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 onscreen 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 could only get cartoons on Saturday
Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to
wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up, we had to use the stove or go build a
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

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by mmaddog

The first time I saw a color TV was when I was 19....and bought my first remote control when I was 24...

I remember the TV my granddad had back when I was a kid (he got it in the late 60s or early 70s) that had a remote control. The RC was a box about 3x5 inches and about an inch and a thick. It had 5 push buttons - the kind that you press it, it stays down until you press another one then it pops back up. This box with the 5 buttons was attached to the TV by a 20' cord. You couldn't adjust the sound and you couldn't turn the tv on and off. Two of the buttons never worked - they only had 3 channels in that town.

[Frosty]

The TV we had when I was a kid had a remote control - me. If my dad wanted the channel changed, he would tell me to get up and do it. I also usually got in trouble for changing the channel too fast, since it would supposedly break the dial.

I tell my kids that now and I get this look -

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I remember the TV my granddad had back when I was a kid (he got it in the late 60s or early 70s) that had a remote control. The RC was a box about 3x5 inches and about an inch and a thick. It had 5 push buttons - the kind that you press it, it stays down until you press another one then it pops back up. This box with the 5 buttons was attached to the TV by a 20' cord. You couldn't adjust the sound and you couldn't turn the tv on and off. Two of the buttons never worked - they only had 3 channels in that town.

Bob Dole's dad had a TV remote for the family b&w back in the late 60's.

It was about 4' tall and you had to feed it. He called it "Bob Dole".

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by GoBobDole

Bob Dole's dad had a TV remote for the family b&w back in the late 60's.

It was about 4' tall and you had to feed it. He called it "Bob Dole".

We must have had the same model of TV.

[InChiefsHeaven]

My dad wouldn't buy a dishwasher...he used to say "what for, I have 4 perfectly good one's right now?"

...yeah, we didn't get cable either. He hooked up cable after all us kids moved out, in about 1991.

...deprived childhood. I had to go over to a buddy's house to catch all the cheesy videos on Headbanger's Ball! Oh, how I envied them for they could watch Adam Curry or Riki Rachtman and I had to get permission to spend the night just so I could have that opportunity...

...'twas hell I tell you, hell. These kids today have NO CLUE what it's like to suffer like that...

[Skip Towne]

I used to have to walk to school 5 miles. Uphill both ways. In 3 feet of snow. Dodging cannon balls.

[Rain Man]

We couldn't afford a TV. We had to hire a courtroom artist to watch his own TV and then make drawings of the shows for us. For years, I thought Captain Kangaroo was on Death Row.

[ZepSinger]

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I remember the TV my granddad had back when I was a kid (he got it in the late 60s or early 70s) that had a remote control. The RC was a box about 3x5 inches and about an inch and a thick. It had 5 push buttons - the kind that you press it, it stays down until you press another one then it pops back up. This box with the 5 buttons was attached to the TV by a 20' cord. You couldn't adjust the sound and you couldn't turn the tv on and off. Two of the buttons never worked - they only had 3 channels in that town.

We got our first color TV in '66- I was 10. The shows were all still in B&W, but some of the commercials were in color. I remember clearly all of us running excitedly into the living room to see a butter commercial with butter melting on an ear of corn. We were all gasping and ooohing and aaaahing, then my dad shouted 'Would you look at that! It looks so real you could reach in and eat it!!!! "

[alpha_omega]

Originally Posted by cardken

Have you all forgotten the Mircowave sized VCR's thet loaded from the top and had a "remote" that was teatherd to the unit.

Nope....our first VCR was a top loader. It actually was two pieces. And yep....the remote had a cord.

[melbar]

We had a ceiling fan and it was awesome. I put my bed under the window and it would pull cool summer air in at night and swirl the hot air in the summer.

When Nintendo came out, it was like a national holiday. I got mine about 3 yrs after it came out...lol

Super Tecmo bowl and Baseball All-stars were sweet!

I'm currently working with an 80's band and I cant wait to play out!

[sd4chiefs]

Using a typewriter was pure hell.

[chiefsfanintx]

As a kid I lived for Saturday morning cartoons! The only day of the week us kids got the t.v for a couple of hours.Then it was do your chores and get your a** outside and play.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by GoBobDole

Bob Dole's dad had a TV remote for the family b&w back in the late 60's.

It was about 4' tall and you had to feed it. He called it "Bob Dole".

I couldn't be the remote on our TV, I was too busy being the antenae holding the coat hangers with foil on them in both hands at different directions to get a good pickture for mom and step dad.

[PastorMikH]

Originally Posted by chiefsfanintx

As a kid I lived for Saturday morning cartoons! The only day of the week us kids got the t.v for a couple of hours.Then it was do your chores and get your a** outside and play.

Saturday morning cartoons with cereal commercials - PAY ATTENTION THE THE COMMERCIALS, they told what prizes were in which cereals. You had to make sure you told your parents the right cereal to get at the store for that week.

[Rain Man]

Why do women not use those big space helmet hair dryers any more? I remember being a little kid and I'd sit at the beauty shop while my mom and the other women sat under those little head domes. In fact, my sister had a portable one that she used at home. What happened to female hair and/or styles where those aren't used any more?