December 20, 200520 yr 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! But now that... 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 catalog!! 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'd 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 games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! ;We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked azz! 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 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 azz 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 rat-ba******! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up . we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop 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!
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! ;We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked azz! 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! I still remember the commercial for the new Atari that featured a "pause" switch. The phone rang or the doorbell rang and the guy just flipped a switch and paused the game. How f***ing awesome!
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 08:11 AM) 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! Absolutely.........
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) 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! But now that... 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 catalog!! 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'd 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 games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! ;We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked azz! 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 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 azz 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 rat-ba******! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up . we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop 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! You had me up until the no cartoons or microwaves part. I seem to remember cartoons on nickelodean and on regular cable after school every day. Sesame street has been around at least that long. This is going to turn into one of those "you know you're getting old" threads isn't it? I still remember when arcade games all cost a quarter... Edited December 20, 200520 yr by Iwritecode
December 20, 200520 yr Oh Hell Steff, I don't want to hear it. I remember black and white TV! You think you had it rough? Sheeesh!
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) You had me up until the no cartoons or microwaves part. I seem to remember cartoons on nickelodean and on regular cable after school every day. Sesame street has been around at least that long. This is going to turn into one of those "you know you're getting old" threads isn't it? I still remember when arcade games all cost a quarter... IWC, Sesame Street has been around since 1968 i believe......... Not only do i remember video arcade games costing only a quarter, but i also remember when you could get one play on a pinball machine for a dime, and 3 for a quarter........ DAMN, i must be getting old! Edited December 20, 200520 yr by SoCalSouthSider59
December 20, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:00 PM) You had me up until the no cartoons or microwaves part. I seem to remember cartoons on nickelodean and on regular cable after school every day. Sesame street has been around at least that long. This is going to turn into one of those "you know you're getting old" threads isn't it? I still remember when arcade games all cost a quarter... When I was into cartoons they were only on Saturday's. Sesame Street was on during the day when I was in school. And we didn't have a microwave until I was old enough to use it. The point was that "kids" today don't know any different as they were born with those things. I didn't write this either.. but it applies to me in many ways.
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) When I was into cartoons they were only on Saturday's. Sesame Street was on during the day when I was in school. And we didn't have a microwave until I was old enough to use it. The point was that "kids" today don't know any different as they were born with those things. I didn't write this either.. but it applies to me in many ways. I see it with my three kids everyday. My oldest thinks nothing of jumping on the computer and talking to her friends via instant messages or message boards. (Gee, wonder where she got that from? :rolly) Back when I wanted to talk to my friend I had to ride my bike the four blocks to knock on his door because every time I called him his mom was on the damn phone and they didn't have call waiting.
December 20, 200520 yr YES!!! and if we wanted to play baseball...we went outside and got as many of us as we could and played baseball. We didn't pop in the newest MLB game on PS2 or Xbox or whatever, we got our mits and played!! Same goes for Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc... and the biggest thing missing from the list is cell phones. Every fricken kid has one of those now and I mean every one. Hell...most kids in high school have a blackberry or some kind of PDA. If we were out and wanted to make a call back in the day, it was pay phone time. If you wanted to talk in your car, you had to have a gas station with those phones you can pull up next to. good times
December 20, 200520 yr I remember riding my bike four miles to my friend's with record albums under my arm that we would borrow from each other constantly. And I had a rotary phone as a kid. It sounded better than my parents cordless does now. The one they have in the bedroom still does. I used to play on my Commodore Vic 20 and screw Sim City, I had lego. I was one of those kids that hung out in the library after school til my Mom got home from work to pick me up.
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) I remember riding my bike four miles to my friend's with record albums under my arm that we would borrow from each other constantly. And I had a rotary phone as a kid. It sounded better than my parents cordless does now. The one they have in the bedroom still does. I used to play on my Commodore Vic 20 and screw Sim City, I had lego. I was one of those kids that hung out in the library after school til my Mom got home from work to pick me up. See what happens when you let your kids hang around with those dang librarians.
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) YES!!! and if we wanted to play baseball...we went outside and got as many of us as we could and played baseball. We didn't pop in the newest MLB game on PS2 or Xbox or whatever, we got our mits and played!! Same goes for Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc... and the biggest thing missing from the list is cell phones. Every fricken kid has one of those now and I mean every one. Hell...most kids in high school have a blackberry or some kind of PDA. If we were out and wanted to make a call back in the day, it was pay phone time. If you wanted to talk in your car, you had to have a gas station with those phones you can pull up next to. good times and boy did it suck when you could only find three other kids to play baseball with. One pitcher and one infielder/outfielder just doesn't work... I think cell phones are almost a necessary evil anymore. It's a great way to keep track of someone and the new ICE (in case of emergency) idea is probably a big help in accidents and such...
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) I remember riding my bike four miles to my friend's with record albums under my arm that we would borrow from each other constantly. And I had a rotary phone as a kid. It sounded better than my parents cordless does now. The one they have in the bedroom still does. I used to play on my Commodore Vic 20 and screw Sim City, I had lego. I was one of those kids that hung out in the library after school til my Mom got home from work to pick me up. We all tried to hang out at the ONE kids house who's mom worked and wasn't home after school.... nowadays, I bet that would be 9 out of 10 kids homes after school.
December 20, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) 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! 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! You tell 'em Grandma!!
December 20, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) If you wanted to talk in your car, you had to have a gas station with those phones you can pull up next to. good times Oh hell yes... we thought that was the coolest thing too. We'd rrive around... "hmm.. who can we call.. ??" LOL
December 20, 200520 yr Ahh, the memories... It forgot to include: -ColecoVision -Pop-Top VCR's -Pull-tab soda cans OK, I'll stop now.
December 21, 200520 yr Hell, what about Commodore 64s, Apple IIes and Atari 2600s? No wonder why my mind is still on Pong.
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