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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: hazed- on January 21, 2003, 06:20:16 PM
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hehe email i recieved today that made me laugh.......
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-five, I can't help but look
around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so diddlyin' easy! I mean,
compared to my childhood, you live in a whoopeeed 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 whoopeeed 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 diddlyin' 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 whoopeeed 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 diddly 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 jackoff to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!
Those were your options! We didn't have fancy toejam 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
diddly 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
in1984!
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WTG HAZED
amazing thought and worded perfectly, the sick thing is that in 20 years these same kids will squeak about the next group coming up.
example:
Date 01.21.23
You damn kids got it made
When I was a kid, and we need an answer we had the internet,
you kids today have brain implants.
We had playstaion 2
they have hologram station 2
We had internet porn
they have holodeck porn (star trek;next generation reference)
And most importantly!!!!!!!
We have wives who tell us to shut off aces high and pc off,
They will have wives, who they can shut off. ( I can dream can't I)
Thank goodness for progess.
aMan I'm jealous of the future.
doobs (still rubbin two sticks together):pDeutschen Orden (http://www.geocities.com/wulf1177/)
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I'm only 17...and the peeps my age witnessed the birth and growth of the Internet! HA! We lived in a time where the transition took place...so luckily we got in just under the wire.
Hey...if nothing else...we don't have flying cars yet. Don't tell me...you had to walk everywhere because the wheel wasn't invented? :P
BTW...I'm 18 next week...:D
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Originally posted by doobs
WTG HAZED
And most importantly!!!!!!!
We have wives who tell us to shut off aces high and pc off,
They will have wives, who they can shut off. ( I can dream can't I)
Be careful what you wish for,
Remember Harcourt Fenton Mudd (Star Trek TOS reference)
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wow! ... just the other day i was squeaking about the younger generation... as an adult it is my right and duty to squeak! :D
Bastiges, all of'em! Once I get my holodeck, I'll have nothing to complain about.
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You may sound like an old fart Oct but you still cant buy a beer.
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Originally posted by texace
I'm only 17...and the peeps my age witnessed the birth and growth of the Internet! HA! We lived in a time where the transition took place...so luckily we got in just under the wire.
so you were ~5 when the 'net started taking off.
if you're lucky you witnessed bugs bunny...
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not that you're not unusually wise for you age - @18 i didn't know an aileron from an elevator...
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They will have wives, who they can shut off. ( I can dream can't I)
some days I'd settle for a mute button
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..."back in 1984"....LOL! Try 1936, my Dad's entertainment was from Radio, and the Lone Ranger show.
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When I was a kid if you wanted to change the channel you had to get up and grab a pair of pliers and turn the broken knob. No fricken remote!
ra
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I still remember finally getting our first COLOR TV!
It was incredible. You could look through the TV guide to see which shows were "In living color". I think Bonanza was the first color show, but I may be wrong.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I still remember finally getting our first COLOR TV!
It was incredible. You could look through the TV guide to see which shows were "In living color". I think Bonanza was the first color show, but I may be wrong.
I remember ours too, early 60's...I remember not all the stations had color broadcasts, for instance, Ed Sullivan was still B&W when we got our color TV.
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mute
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You guys had TV?!
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I'm not old yet... well almost... but I read that hazed and then I got to the '1984'... and realized I was already 17 then... Guess I shoulda got my first clue from the talk of the atari 2600....
SKurj
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lucky bastard...
it really dfoesnt m atter how many channels you have theres still gonna be nothing on
and as for squeaking about playstation...well guess what with those multi level crap games kids race through em and get bored in about 2 weeks so people have to keep on buying us new games (not me i dont have one...as for my computer...well i still rpefer the c64 you had to wait 5 minutes for a QUALITY game to load...)
my dad (now 52) had to actually GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY when he was a lad...
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As far as i am concerned i would love it if i could get in a time travel thing and go back to the '50s. I do have it easy, but I DO NOT TAKE IT FOR GRANTED . Try to get that from another 9th grader. I doubt u could drag some of my friends off their PS2s for a hour.
What am i trying to. well I really dont know.:p ;) :mad: