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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DREDIOCK on August 01, 2010, 08:03:02 PM
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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... Barefoot... 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 my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, 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!
1) 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 catalog!!
2) 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! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!
10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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 brats!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
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Yup im not that old but they all apply to me except number 5) and 12)
The DJs when i was young were even worse in the 80s but you could rent tapes from the library and record them before taking them back.
we had microwaves by the time i was old enough to feed myself.
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aint it the truth.. :aok
THis should be a sticky.. :rofl
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:rofl :rofl the good ole days :rock
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It seems like an attack on the younger generation, honestly we arent all bad.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl 3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
Aint it the truth!!!
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LOL the good old days when you where afraid to swear for fear of mother and father both choosing to slap you across the ear on both side's at the same time. OUTCH. When you go for a lovely drive in the country you F @*&^%$^ Cant see out the car window :( And when the most fun game on the Atari was 2 lines that went up and down the screen and made a square ball go back and forth over a big long white line that went up and down the middle of the screen. ( that's tennis for all the kids under 20 :lol ) And when answering the phone you had to say Hello you have reached the Murphy's residence in your Sunday best Voice for the fear it was your Grandma :lol Thus if unpolitite she would clip your ear when you went to visit the next Sunday. And having to go to school and be a genius or you got the belt or the can even in some cases made to stand in the corner wearing the dunce hat.
And the freedom of early adult hood was not around. as by aged 19 if you weren't married to a woman you where a poof :lol
Ah those where the days :lol
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Well in defense of my generation, I'm 20 and turning 21 early next year, were kinda screwed for the future.
There will be no social security by the time we are ready to retire.
Its actually the older generations that are more guilty texting and driving the younger generations surprisingly. The time the oil supply is empty in our generation, the world economy will be screwed as I dont see a full conversion to a new energy source anytime soon. There is also that pesky ozone global warming situation caused by the older generations. :P
All I can hope for is that we will be living in space in the next 50-75 years.
Not trying start an argument but just thought I would put a defense up. :D
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:rofl :rofl :rofl 3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
Aint it the truth!!!
yup my favorite also.
Matter of fact. Back then if I complained that some adult other then my parents had hit me. I'd get asked.
"Well what did you do to deserve it?"
"nothing" was NOT an acceptable answer
And just about any answer only resulted in me being grounded and possibly smacked again by my parents.
Needless to say. It didnt take long to learn to not tell my parents if someone else smacked me. My larger fear was that that person would tell my parents (which they sometimes did) that they smacked me and why. which again. resulted in me being smacked again by my own parents and /or being grounded.
Gotta admit. it kept me from doing alot of things wrong.
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Yeah agreed here's a story it happened in my local shopping mall about 2 years back.
Well here i was standing in the Que at Stationary box waiting to pay for some ink cartridges for the printer. And i suddenly hear all this wailing and screaming. Now just out front o the shop was this 4-6 year old kid who was wailing and screaming cos he never got his toy. I mean OK that's normal but the kid was holding onto his mums hand trying to stop her from walking on whilst wailing and screaming. My god the kid could make you death. Also with them was his Grandma and baby sister who may i add was Giggling at her big brother. Any way so they where out front for a good ten minutes trying to get him to stop crying and walk on. And i tell you the kid mum was quite verbal with him you know you say things to get them moving but it wasn't working the kid still stood his ground and his Grandma man she looked liked she just wanted to clout him spank him till he stop crying. Any way i said to the people in front of me and behind me in the Que that you know if she gave him a right good old spanking i wouldn't tell or say a thing about it and they all agreed.
Next thing i got a shock the mother looked at me and then she gave him the Almighty's spanking there and then and i was gobbed smacked. But in the end he stopped crying and walked along like the good little boy he should have been.
Now that shows that Spanking and a good clout around the ear should never have been banned it teaches kid's to say whoa i ant going to do that again :)
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Oh and when I was a little kid. the closest thing we had to a "video" game
Was "Winky Dink and You" LMAO
http://www.tvparty.com/requested2b.html
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N2WXM40ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Yeah agreed here's a story it happened in my local shopping mall about 2 years back.
Well here i was standing in the Que at Stationary box waiting to pay for some ink cartridges for the printer. And i suddenly hear all this wailing and screaming. Now just out front o the shop was this 4-6 year old kid who was wailing and screaming cos he never got his toy. I mean OK that's normal but the kid was holding onto his mums hand trying to stop her from walking on whilst wailing and screaming. My god the kid could make you death. Also with them was his Grandma and baby sister who may i add was Giggling at her big brother. Any way so they where out front for a good ten minutes trying to get him to stop crying and walk on. And i tell you the kid mum was quite verbal with him you know you say things to get them moving but it wasn't working the kid still stood his ground and his Grandma man she looked liked she just wanted to clout him spank him till he stop crying. Any way i said to the people in front of me and behind me in the Que that you know if she gave him a right good old spanking i wouldn't tell or say a thing about it and they all agreed.
Next thing i got a shock the mother looked at me and then she gave him the Almighty's spanking there and then and i was gobbed smacked. But in the end he stopped crying and walked along like the good little boy he should have been.
Now that shows that Spanking and a good clout around the ear should never have been banned it teaches kid's to say whoa i ant going to do that again :)
My mother will always talk about how she used to say "Your asking for it. and your not going to be happy until you get it" and how one of us would push and push and carry on until she'd had enough and gave one of us a smack. at which point almost without fail whomever it was that was acting up would calm down and behave.
She also likens occasional discipline action to a story she likes to tell about a man who is trying to get a mule to move.
and the man is pushing and pulling an pleading with the mule to move. but to no avail. the mule wont budge.
Another man sitting on a nearby porch chuckles and calls out. "You aint ever going to get that mule to move that way"
Disgusted the first man tells him that if he knows so much that he should come down there and show him how its done.
so the second guy grabs an axe handle. Walks over to the mule and cracks him in the head with it. Then he grabs the reigns and sure enough. The mule follows him.
then he stops, hands the axe handle to the first man and says "First you gotta get his attention"
LOL
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:lol :lol :lol :rofl :rofl :rofl
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When I was a kid...
You had it way too easy youngster! :devil
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I have an issue for #9 and #13.........
Back in 1970, the atari 2600 didnt exist until 1977
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I have an issue for #9 and #13.........
Back in 1970, the atari 2600 didnt exist until 1977
he was born in 1970, he says he is 40.
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It was the time of cool clothes...
(http://images.70scostumes.com/purple-leisure-suit.jpg)
And...cool cars
(http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/images/car_info/AMC_pacer.jpg)
And...drab toys
(http://www.jesseshunting.com/images/plastic_army_men.jpg)
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You couldn't pay me to be a kid these days.
Back in my day, sex couldn't get you dead.
Back in my day, I'd have had to have fallen a long, long way before encountering drugs that would kill you. Now a bad batch of eccies in a nightclub and you're done.
Back in my day, an ordinary working man could pretty much count on getting a nice, quiet house on a quarter acre block in the burbs and still have the time and money to go fishing. Pipe dream now.
Back in my day, you could tell kids to study hard and the future would be bright. I now know chronically-unemployed engineers.
Back in my day, capitalism worked. Now outsourcing has left just the carcass and derivatives speculation is leaving the bones clean. We all now depend on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.
&^%$ the present and !@#$ the future.
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Some good stuff right there. I'm not quite 40 yet, still got about 4 years to go. The whole thing kind of reminds me of this though... http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/grumpy-old-man/2476/
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You couldn't pay me to be a kid these days.
Back in my day, sex couldn't get you dead.
Back in my day, I'd have had to have fallen a long, long way before encountering drugs that would kill you. Now a bad batch of eccies in a nightclub and you're done.
Back in my day, an ordinary working man could pretty much count on getting a nice, quiet house on a quarter acre block in the burbs and still have the time and money to go fishing. Pipe dream now.
Back in my day, you could tell kids to study hard and the future would be bright. I now know chronically-unemployed engineers.
Back in my day, capitalism worked. Now outsourcing has left just the carcass and derivatives speculation is leaving the bones clean. We all now depend on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.
&^%$ the present and !@#$ the future.
Only way you can get a job now is if your a teacher or a pilot. Im gonna be a pilot.
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The dat tof the table juke box with 45's are long gone.
(http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/5e/95/18/table-jukebox.jpg)
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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... Barefoot... 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 my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, 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!
1) 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 catalog!!
2) 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! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!
10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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 brats!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
number 5......i had a mustang with an 8 track......had the partridge family, beatles, monkees, some johnny cash........all till i drove it into a deeeeeep puddle iin the road.........flooded the interior, and trashed all of my tapes.
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(http://www.carandclassic.com/uploads/cars/plymouth/463222.jpg)
I had one of these, a 67. Had front disc brakes, was a late model 67 because the 68s actually had the front disc brakes and the 67 had the front drum brakes if I recall correctly. Had a 383 mag in it. I had cassette tapes. Wish I kept it now of course. Also had a fastback 67 I had found in a carport the lady would not drive it anymore and paid 100.00 for it, sold it as well many years ago.
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i foresee advanced technology and more political correctness in the future with a nice serving of increased beuracracy to go with it. hooray for children of the future!
year 2060
grampa: u kids got it too easy with your gps watches and transporters, u kids are spoiled!
2nd grade billy: whats gps stand for? by the way another student in class is gonna sue me because my t-shirt offended him.
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I wonder what my kid's lives will be like...
"You kids have it so easy! I remember when I was a kid, if I had to go to the bathroom I had to walk to the bathroom! Now you kids have the bathroom come to you!"
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You had it way too easy youngster! :devil
:rofl :rofl :rofl It's been easy compared to cavemen. :aok
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Well in defense of my generation, I'm 20 and turning 21 early next year, were kinda screwed for the future.
There will be no social security by the time we are ready to retire.
There's none left for them either! What're you complainin' about you whipper snapper! :old:
(22 today) :neener:
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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... Barefoot... 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 my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, 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!
1) 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 catalog!!
2) 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! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!
10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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 brats!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
lol most the thing listed ive never really had (and i have a "normal" life) some of the ones on the list:
5)never had a car (or truck) with a CD player in it,most the computers in my house look like there from 1998!!
6)never had call waiting shocking isnt it
7)aint got a cellular device either (cant pay for one)
9)didnt have a xbox until this year,until then it was a N64 all the way :rock :rock barely touch the xbox now,actually miss the N64 :mad:
10-11) didnt have cable (or TV of anytype) when i was younger only AIR (never woke up in time for saturday mornings :cry)
13)good thing i live on the river then :cool: would have perfered to live in the 70's instead of now!
and you forgot most cars didnt have A/C
&#$% the future (politics and such)
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No way, life isn't hard til you have Asian parents! an bellybutton kicking meant an bellybutton kicking!
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:rofl :rofl :rofl It's been easy compared to cavemen. :aok
Yeeeh.... funny.
1) Our library was in the outhouse and we used it for toilet paper.
2) We got mail when we went to town for groceries. Groceries meant flour coffee lard and dried beans. Only. Mail meant maybe a catalog that would end up in the library.
3) I never got a beating from any adult. We got 'switched' if we were really bad. Once was enough.
4) We didnt have a music store to 'steal' from but I can tell you no one stole anything. Sign of our times I guess.
5) Our radio was for programs that came on after dinner and just before bed. Our television had only two channels and so it was on for the Presidential Address if we knew it would be on. TV Guide was a luxury.
6) Our phone was for emergencies. If the phone rang it usually meant bad news... or that bad news was coming for a visit.
7) Our cell phone was a bell marked '1 mile' which meant thats about how far you could hear it. After that distance you might miss dinner which might happen once and once only.
8) Caller ID was the girl operator talking to you before she connected the call. She always gossiped before and after and probably listened to everything in between.
9) Games? Games were played outside and usually in the woods or down at the creek.
10) The TV channel never changed because there was Dads channel and NOT Dads channel? Remember the switch.
11) Kids dont have anything on TV to watch unless Dad is watching TV.
12) Microwaves? We didnt have a freezer until I was nearly in high school. That meant we could finally stop canning things and until then we canned everything!
13) We played outside when we had time to play. There were times we played all day. Sunday usually. The truck was used for work and getting the mail or hauling everyone to Church. I got up one Sunday and went out to play before church. I had to go to church that day with muddy legs and that led to the switch.
Say what you want but I dont think kids today are lucky at all! Easy? They have it easy but it isnt doing them any good. Far from it!
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Dred, nice post. :aok....Daycare didnt exist from what I remember, I had a stay at home Mom(domestic engineer as she refered to herself) and my dad supported (comfortably) our family of five. I remember when gas was 49 cents a gallon and my dad still thru a fit. Parents paid cash for everything and I still have Steve Miller Band on 8 track and cable tv bill was originally $8.00 a month.
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We did have a really cool "fighting" game though!! :old:
(http://a.imageshack.us/img843/7686/rockemsockemrobots.jpg)
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LOL...I have 2 teenagers in the house, 2 PS2s, a wii, 4 computers, 4 cell phones, digital cable with on demand, 3 televisions and 100 movies on DVD...the most common words from the teenagers daily - "I'm bored".
I'm just a bit older than Drediock but when I was a kid, there was no such thing as "bored". My days started at 0600 and ended at 2230 while school was going on, unless I was going to do something with my dad on the weekend then the day would start at 0430. In the summer, my feet would hit the floor at 0600 and I'd be on the go until I fell asleep. Nobody had time to be bored, there was always something to do and a life to experience.
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You couldn't pay me to be a kid these days.
Back in my day, sex couldn't get you dead.
Back in my day, I'd have had to have fallen a long, long way before encountering drugs that would kill you. Now a bad batch of eccies in a nightclub and you're done.
Back in my day, an ordinary working man could pretty much count on getting a nice, quiet house on a quarter acre block in the burbs and still have the time and money to go fishing. Pipe dream now.
Back in my day, you could tell kids to study hard and the future would be bright. I now know chronically-unemployed engineers.
Back in my day, capitalism worked. Now outsourcing has left just the carcass and derivatives speculation is leaving the bones clean. We all now depend on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China.
The truth is so much less enjoyable than anecdotal retrospect.
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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... Barefoot... 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 my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, 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!
1) 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 catalog!!
2) 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! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
5) 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) 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!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!
10) 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 bellybutton and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
11) 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 brats!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
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1) kids cannot walk nowadays
2) kids cant stay still n be quiet
3) they always yapping back at ya
4) if theres no tissue they wont wipe w newspaper
5) a $1 aint enough
6) 11pm curfew is too harsh <puh in HS i had to be home at 9pm even summer break>
7) kids nowadays are relying too much on parents to house them even after they graduate <GED is the easy way>
8) when i was a kid i watched wiley coyote every sat morn dont see it nemore :mad:
9) ur wrong they are right
10) we parents suck no matter what we get them or do for them
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Haha, I remember back in my very young youth.....
If I stepped out of line once, I got the flyswatter or actual punishment, none of this "go to your room," BS I also had the corner for when my friends were over as embarrassing punishment.
I didn't even know what an iPod was until a couple years ago. Before that I had the Tape Deck in the car to listen to Roy D. Mercer and the Eagles from point A to point B.
I played out in the sun 24/7. Having adventures and picking up bugs and pissing the neighbors off.... Good times indeed
I remember bruises, cuts, broken bones, twisted ankles, grass stains, splinters, faceplants when you tripped on a tree root.
I remember fishing every chance I got and still do. Playing in the creek, shooting hoops in the fall.
My parents got me a gameboy when I was 7 because I wanted one so bad and you know what? I used it for a total of probably 10 hours my entire life.
I think a lot of today's children's problems branch from parents not hitting their kids upside the head when they do something they aren't supposed to. Kinda like that screaming little bast### in the Wal-mart or Big K-mart sitting in the cart baby seat even though he is about 4-5? And the parent(s) just sit there like nothing is happening, shopping and carrying on their daily business?.... I will discipline my children when I get over, not "go to your room." I will bring out the paddle or the flyswatter or the good 'ole hickory beatin' stick. :rock :rofl
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1) kids cannot walk nowadays
2) kids cant stay still n be quiet
3) they always yapping back at ya
4) if theres no tissue they wont wipe w newspaper
5) a $1 aint enough
6) 11pm curfew is too harsh <puh in HS i had to be home at 9pm even summer break>
7) kids nowadays are relying too much on parents to house them even after they graduate <GED is the easy way>
8) when i was a kid i watched wiley coyote every sat morn dont see it nemore :mad:
9) ur wrong they are right
10) we parents suck no matter what we get them or do for them
wile e coyote.......bugs bunny.........all those old loony tunes....i miss them.
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wile e coyote.......bugs bunny.........all those old loony tunes....i miss them.
That sounds like a bunch o todays teenagers CAP1 :lol :rofl
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I consider myself lucky enough to have experienced a lot of stuff in the OP, at least in my early life.
But be careful, remember you are the parents of the generation you're talking about.
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Only way you can get a job now is if your a teacher or a pilot. Im gonna be a pilot.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but a pilot job is one of the hardest to find, even when times are good. Even more so now that we have so many 1500+ total hour guys unemployed and looking for work usually taken up by guys looking for their first CFI gig.
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Only way you can get a job now is if your a teacher or a pilot. Im gonna be a pilot.
I agree with Mensa.
Jobs that you are almost certain to have when graduate are certain engineers, IT specialists, and medical field personal.
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That sounds like a bunch o todays teenagers CAP1 :lol :rofl
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Only way you can get a job now is if your a teacher or a pilot. Im gonna be a pilot.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekedrXxqVck&feature=fvw
Regional Pilots make less than a manager at a fast food restaurant.
And the way things are right now people want to invest in schools, but many state budgets are cutting funding for schools and getting rid of teachers, making fewer teachers teach more students. This is apparent at universities and primary schools.
Not to take away from the original subject. Being 22, several of these even applied to me! I would say the thing that changed the most about my childhood was the advent of the internet, after the internet I was inside a lot more.
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1Boner , I still have my Rock-um sock-um . That thing has to be 40 year's old . That and Mr peanut ..