The "Over 30" Crowd

[TokeItUp420]

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


"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 catalogue or in
an encyclopedia, not on Wikipedia!!

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 Napster! If 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 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'. 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!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then it was only channels 2 thru 13, and sometimes if
you were lucky, you got a few channels between 14 and 63. There was no on screen 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. 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-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ...
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!"



Peace...
Toke

 

[OZZ_]

There were no MP3's or Napster! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

LOL ... yup, been there ... done that. I was a little fucking theif for awhile there.

Not a good thing you know. This shit is seriously funny though. Im only 31 so on the "younger" end of the spectrum but cant beleive how much I have changed over the years.

However (and no offense meant here of course) just like you didnt like being judged by the old timers of yesterday (neither did I) its not a bad idea to keep yourself from judging the younger people of today.

Theres pros and cons to everything. I agree 100% with what you said. I remember having to walk my happy ass down to the library and check out the books so I could learn about whatever it was I wanted to read about.

Now .. we have the internet ... and Im a freaking addict. A world of knowledge at your fingertips isnt necessarily a good thing.

As the saying goes "everything in moderation". Now we have kids that cant pay attention to something for longer then 15 minutes, juvenile diabetes from eating to much shit and sitting on the couch "winning" all these video games, and a lack of family bonds because of this vary same technology. Parents stick their kids in front of these video games, or let them spend hours texting friends back and forth, downloading videos off youtube, showing their tits through their webcams... and the list goes on.

My point is .... saying they have it easy is a relative statement. Sure they have all these conviences ... but at what cost?

Fact of the matter is, indulgences always have a price, no matter what those indulgences are.

 

[cocktail frank]

amen brother

 

[Dr Dog]

LOL ... yup, been there ... done that. I was a little fucking theif for awhile there.

Not a good thing you know. This shit is seriously funny though. Im only 31 so on the "younger" end of the spectrum but cant beleive how much I have changed over the years.

However (and no offense meant here of course) just like you didnt like being judged by the old timers of yesterday (neither did I) its not a bad idea to keep yourself from judging the younger people of today.

Theres pros and cons to everything. I agree 100% with what you said. I remember having to walk my happy ass down to the library and check out the books so I could learn about whatever it was I wanted to read about.

Now .. we have the internet ... and Im a freaking addict. A world of knowledge at your fingertips isnt necessarily a good thing.

As the saying goes "everything in moderation". Now we have kids that cant pay attention to something for longer then 15 minutes, juvenile diabetes from eating to much shit and sitting on the couch "winning" all these video games, and a lack of family bonds because of this vary same technology. Parents stick their kids in front of these video games, or let them spend hours texting friends back and forth, downloading videos off youtube, showing their tits through their webcams... and the list goes on.

My point is .... saying they have it easy is a relative statement. Sure they have all these conviences ... but at what cost?

Fact of the matter is, indulgences always have a price, no matter what those indulgences are.

Pretty much what I would have said, just a hell of a lot better

 

[Stinkymutt]

HAHA

HAHA

Great read man , I agree we shouldnt openly pass judgment on the youth but man its fun ! If i had left my house with the waist line of my pants down around my damn crotch my dads foot would have helped put them right where they should be . Video games and cable were a great leverage tool for good deeds not a babysitter . And the biggest gripe I personaly have......when we were kids we knew enough to stay to hell out of the way of traffic on our bikes , not ride down the middle of the road and flip people off because they honk the horn .

mutt

 

[Haps]

Shit, all y'all under fifty had it made. I grew up in the one room school house my old man had to walk miles to go to school in when he was a kid. We had three tv stations. Only home cooked food, home killed and grown too.
H

 

[Dr Dog]

Shit, all y'all under fifty had it made. I grew up in the one room school house my old man had to walk miles to go to school in when he was a kid. We had three tv stations. Only home cooked food, home killed and grown too.
H

you forgot uphill to school both ways in the snow with no shoes

 

[Pops]

There are a few of us oldtimers who were born BT(before television). Coke was a nickel, gas was 25 cents/gal( 4 cents cheaper than milk) and no one was getting any pussy(but everyone lied and said they were).

 

[BOB_HESS]

There are a few of us oldtimers who were born BT(before television). Coke was a nickel, gas was 25 cents/gal( 4 cents cheaper than milk) and no one was getting any pussy(but everyone lied and said they were).

Yes Sir!

Almost done 30 twice now!

 

[Dr Dog]

and no one was getting any pussy(but everyone lied and said they were).

Funny shit man, but does that not happen just as much now

 

[OZZ_]

Not really ...

Nowdays you can walk in a bar, smile at a woman, and if she smiles back have an 80% chance of getting her number, 60% chance of taking her home, and a 30% chance of taking her home.

Sad but true. If your not into that type of thing, it might not matter ...... she might be the one asking you to!



I seriously doubt that would have worked on Marsha Brady.


EDITED: Toning down the sarcasim

 

[Cascadia]

I could have swore there are two or three other threads just like this, a very popular subject.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

when I was 9 years old my Mum got a 9 inch black and white television and we were allowed to watch 'The Avengers'.....sometimes......She banned us from watching 'Monty Pythons Flying Circus' on BBC2 because it was naughty and on passed our 9 pm bedtime.....

At 12 years old I woke up at 5am and had a job helping the local milkman deliver milk from 6am till 8 am when I had to go to school.......when I was 13years old I got a paper round and delivered news-papers instead for 1 pound sterling a week..(about $1.50) for a 7 day week.....I didnt even know what a computer was at that age.....the most important machine in my life was my bicycle......

....and if someone mentioned 'pussy' to me I thought that they were talking about the cat....

 

[hard rain]

Speaking of Monty python, this sketch pretty much sums it up. Enjoy.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

 

[JesusLovesMe]

Great sketch.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

No it was'nt quite as bad as what the 4 Yorkshireman had it hard rain....

we did'nt have to 'Lick road clean with tongue!'......lol!

...great link.....brings back many memories....

 

[DrHydro]

lol.... nice thread

 

[Vetus Fossor]

Gypsy, did you have the basket on the front or over the rear wheel when you were a paper lad? Mine was on the front. It made steering more challenging. lol Here in the states we had baseball cards that we put on our spokes. Do y'all have something like that over there? Soccer player cards? Fish and chip wrappers?
Here in my neck of the world, the local rag did away with kids delivering the paper. That's a damn shame. A lot of folks learned an awful lot about life being a newspaper boy/girl. Responsiblity. Time budgeting. etc. Now we have adults throw out their car window and we pay a year in advance. And the papers wonder why their circulation numbers are in the shitter.

 

[OZZ_]

The best thing in the world was pitfall ... anyone remember that game.... on atari?

...and what about the game where you have to bounce the ball back and forth across the screen, knocking blocks off the screen ... and it just goes faster and faster until you lose?

lol ... that game was the shit.

 

[barletta]

I had a woodgrain sears 2600 with all those games. Prolly breakout or superbreakout.

To fix my asthma my mother moved out to the country where I'd have to walk ~2mi to and from the bus stop.

To get over my allergies, I had to eat the same dairy and wheat as my sisters.

When the docs wanted to start with the ritalin, my sister convinced my mother to have the 'real' weed talk with me.

When I was under 20 and fukking up, I wasn't allowed in my parents' house. When I was 24, and ready to stop running around, they BEGGED me to move back in. When I had a job @25, I had to go...

Shout out to the quality parents out there. We can perceive what we want 'now vs. then', but it comes down to parents that take an interest in their children's success. The people who can see value in the hardships they had growing up will raise kids who do the same.