Those were the days...
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If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
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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 .... up hill 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 ass!
> 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 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 rat-bastards!
>
> 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!
>
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd
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I am not 30 leh.. how?
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you're a soft spoilt brat
Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:I am not 30 leh.. how? -
Disregard and thank your lucky stars.Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:I am not 30 leh.. how? -
Originally posted by jetta:Disregard and thank your lucky stars.
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As technology advancing more and more...darkness would probably tell his/her kids similat "those were the days" stories
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I may only be 24 this year...
... but most (if not all) of that also applied to me, ok?
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I feel like 30
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the writer should be happy, they got it too easy. simply utopia compared to the previous generation.. still dare to kpkb.
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> You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
1980! what about 1960? -
It's true, games these days too many cheats and safe-guards... the games have been sissified Originally posted by jetta:> 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 ass!
> 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!
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other then this one everything else seems to applyOriginally posted by jetta:> 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!
and i'm only 25 -
Originally posted by jetta:If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
>
>
> 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!
>
>
> 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 ass!
> 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!
>
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!
>
>
>
> Regards,
> The over 30 Crowd
They forgot to mention how easy it is to get porn from the air-conditioned comfort of your room and internet connection.
Last time we actually had to take the risk of smuggling VHS tapes ok
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Concur x 1000Originally posted by the Bear:you're a soft spoilt brat -
actually, it's obvious the writer never saw a 1st generation Nintendo console.. where you turned the dial for the game you wanted to play
oh well.. my cousin had that.. i had an Apple II to learn about computers.. folks decided to get one.. they went for courses to learn about computers and stuff with it, and i ended up doing their homework for them
in fact, i ended up doing the homework for their whole bloody class -
no leh mmorpgs now also gets harder and harder to lvl up and monsters get faster and faster and hurt u until u die...Originally posted by choco B:It's true, games these days too many cheats and safe-guards... the games have been sissified -
Not comparable. People in the 60s had the benefit of easy access to drugs.Originally posted by skid:1980! what about 1960? 
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Not me! Not me! Not me!!!
I cannot relate!!!!
p.s. anything older than that? that would be me!