Misc For the over 30 crowd - Page 4

acasas4 · 01-05-2008, 01:39 PM

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

**007** · 01-26-2009, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PastorMikH

Local rag here got rid of them last fall and started mailing out papers instead. One of the kids went to our church, got 8 cents a paper to throw them and he was one of the highest paid carriers. Don't see how it could be cost-effective to get rid of an 8 cent thrower for a postage stamp

Possibly the safety issues?

JOhn · 01-26-2009, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigChiefDave

I'm 37. I remember living in Topeka when I was 9 or 10. I saw HBO for the 1st time. It was a little black or brown box with 3 buttons. I think you had to put the TV on 3, then push the middle button for HBO.

I remember getting cable when it first came out(in Liberty MO), back in the late 70's I think.

Back when MTV actually had music on it. I STILL think Martha Quinn was HOT!

**007** · 01-26-2009, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JOhn

I remember getting cable when it first came out(in Liberty MO), back in the late 70's I think.

Back when MTV actually had music on it. I STILL think Martha Quinn was HOT!

Hell, I didn't get cable until 88. The only way I could watch music videos was 11pm Saturday night.

**Bowser** · 01-26-2009, 11:28 PM

First time we nuked the hotdogs in the microvave, we blew them up. Instead of 1:00, 10:00 was punched up.

And I was lucky - central air, atari, and cable in my room. The channel selector was an old wired box with like 15 buttons, but three different settings, so I got 45 channels! Nothing on any of them back then, either.

Mosbonian · 01-26-2009, 11:28 PM

OK.....you've forced me to add mine

I remember when gas was $.14 a gallon and that was when they weren't having "gas wars"...

I remember air conditioning in the car was a unit that was as big as the 8 track tape player and both had to be mounted in the aftermarket....

I WAS the town paperboy and froze and sweated my ass off for unappreciative customers....

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

6 packs of Pepsi (16 ounce) were $1 and you got $.05 a bottle when you brought them back

The best candy was Chic-O-Stix and Banana Bike...and you could get the former for a nickel and the latter for a penny a piece...

I remember NEVER getting a "snow" or "Heat" day...we went to school come hell or high water...

Desktop computers were as big as your complete desktop and the only way to take home a computer was with a set of hand trucks.

mmaddog
*******

kcfanintitanhell · 01-26-2009, 11:31 PM

I grew up in Iowa. I have lived in Tennessee for the last 20 years. If there's even a slight chance of snow, they cancel school. If they had that criteria in Iowa, I'd still be in 5th grade.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 01-26-2009, 11:31 PM

This is all true. There is one thing that was forgotten in the OP though. It's the one single thing that has made me forget my golden rule of never growing up saying, "You kids today. You have no idea how easy you have it."

Porn.

Seriously. I'll be 32 years old in April. When I was kid, spank banks were not yet invented. I mean sure, you had a stash under the bed but it was constantly raided by the enemy. The torture that came along with those raids bore mental and physical scars oftentimes for weeks at a time.

A Playboy was the holy grail. If you could find the kid in the neighborhood that was able to grow a beard at 13 you were a lucky, lucky boy. Otherwise, it was JCPenney catalogs, seductive high school female sports pictures, or good old fashioned spying through the neighbor girls windows. There was always adventure, and it was a struggle to find the nipple through the HBO squiggly lines.

These days, kids need go no farther than google. Simply unfilter your preferences and type the word teen in to see what I mean. These kids today can't sport a hard on, let alone rub one out to a girl unless she's bruised, being ****ed in every oriface, and being choked all at the same time.

They have no idea how good they have it.

Coach · 01-26-2009, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

This is all true. There is one thing that was forgotten in the OP though. It's the one single thing that has made me forget my golden rule of never growing up saying, "You kids today. You have no idea how easy you have it."

Porn.

Seriously. I'll be 32 years old in April. When I was kid, spank banks were not yet invented. I mean sure, you had a stash under the bed but it was constantly raided by the enemy. The torture that came along with those raids bore mental and physical scars oftentimes for weeks at a time.

A Playboy was the holy grail. If you could find the kid in the neighborhood that was able to grow a beard at 13 you were a lucky, lucky boy. Otherwise, it was JCPenney catalogs, seductive high school female sports pictures, or good old fashioned spying through the neighbor girls windows. There was always adventure, and it was a struggle to find the nipple through the HBO squiggly lines.

These days, kids need go no farther than google. Simply unfilter your preferences and type the word teen in to see what I mean. These kids today can't sport a hard on, let alone rub one out to a girl unless she's bruised, being ****ed in every oriface, and being choked all at the same time.

They have no idea how good they have it.

I'm not 30 yet, but I know exactly what you mean.

JOhn · 01-26-2009, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kcfanintitanhell

I grew up in Iowa. I have lived in Tennessee for the last 20 years. If there's even a slight chance of snow, they cancel school. If they had that criteria in Iowa, I'd still be in 5th grade.

Oh so you made it to the 6th now?

**DeezNutz** · 01-26-2009, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

This is all true. There is one thing that was forgotten in the OP though. It's the one single thing that has made me forget my golden rule of never growing up saying, "You kids today. You have no idea how easy you have it."

Porn.

Seriously. I'll be 32 years old in April. When I was kid, spank banks were not yet invented. I mean sure, you had a stash under the bed but it was constantly raided by the enemy. The torture that came along with those raids bore mental and physical scars oftentimes for weeks at a time.

A Playboy was the holy grail. If you could find the kid in the neighborhood that was able to grow a beard at 13 you were a lucky, lucky boy. Otherwise, it was JCPenney catalogs, seductive high school female sports pictures, or good old fashioned spying through the neighbor girls windows. There was always adventure, and it was a struggle to find the nipple through the HBO squiggly lines.

These days, kids need go no farther than google. Simply unfilter your preferences and type the word teen in to see what I mean. These kids today can't sport a hard on, let alone rub one out to a girl unless she's bruised, being ****ed in every oriface, and being choked all at the same time.

They have no idea how good they have it.

We're about the same age, and I hadn't really used an internet (mad props to the homey Herm who might be reading this now, assuming he found the power button on his Apple) before college.

Squiqqly lines.

Mother****er. If you had a push button cable box with one of those rolly thingys that helped focus the screen, you could try to work some magic with Cinemax. Tit for .025 seconds.

**Bob Dole** · 01-27-2009, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

I had those push button boxes for cable also. I remember my first movie on HBO. Animal House. Missed it at the movie theatre. So we had a kegger and watched Animal House. What else was there to do in Springfield in 1980?

Flunk out of Drury?

EyePod · 01-27-2009, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ROYC75

Amazing what wisdom and knowledge does to a person when they grow up ?

Absolutely nothing. You guys are still always hanging out here, just like me, and I'm 23.

EyePod · 01-27-2009, 08:00 AM

I guess you guys that are over 40 should really feel old when these types of jokes don't apply to the people between the ages of 30-40.

jlscorpio · 01-27-2009, 08:08 AM

child abuse = no blackberry

JOhn · 01-27-2009, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EyePod

I guess you guys that are over 40 should really feel old when these types of jokes don't apply to the people between the ages of 30-40.

naw, just gives us a reason to b*tch at the ungrateful whippersnapper's

01-05-2008, 01:39 PM
acasas4 Starter Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Independence Casino cash: $9935265	For the over 30 crowd 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
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01-26-2009, 11:28 PM	#49
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01-26-2009, 11:28 PM	#50
Mosbonian On Hiatus Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $-1160300	OK.....you've forced me to add mine I remember when gas was $.14 a gallon and that was when they weren't having "gas wars"... I remember air conditioning in the car was a unit that was as big as the 8 track tape player and both had to be mounted in the aftermarket.... I WAS the town paperboy and froze and sweated my ass off for unappreciative customers.... The first time I saw a color TV was when I was 19....and bought my first remote control when I was 24... 6 packs of Pepsi (16 ounce) were $1 and you got $.05 a bottle when you brought them back The best candy was Chic-O-Stix and Banana Bike...and you could get the former for a nickel and the latter for a penny a piece... I remember NEVER getting a "snow" or "Heat" day...we went to school come hell or high water... Desktop computers were as big as your complete desktop and the only way to take home a computer was with a set of hand trucks. mmaddog ******* Last edited by Mosbonian; 01-26-2009 at 11:41 PM..
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01-26-2009, 11:31 PM	#51
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01-27-2009, 08:00 AM	#58
EyePod Forgetting 2013 season end. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Around Casino cash: $9995735	I guess you guys that are over 40 should really feel old when these types of jokes don't apply to the people between the ages of 30-40. __________________ I did not believe in Mahomes until week 1. I've been woke ever since. I'm on board this freight train.
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