jodhpurman
03-14-2008, 02:13 AM
> THE SPOILED UNDER - 30 CROWD !!!
> > >
This is so true, and I am just weeks away from no longer being in this crowd http://forums.dsstester.com/vbb/images/smilies/cry.gif
> > > 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the
> > > youth of today. So here it goes . . . . .
> > >
> > > 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'. 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 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.
> > >
> > > 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 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!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > The over 30 Crowd
> > > (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under
> > > 30
> > > or not.)
> > >
This is so true, and I am just weeks away from no longer being in this crowd http://forums.dsstester.com/vbb/images/smilies/cry.gif
> > > 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 forty, I can't help but look around and notice the
> > > youth of today. So here it goes . . . . .
> > >
> > > 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'. 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 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.
> > >
> > > 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 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!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > The over 30 Crowd
> > > (Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under
> > > 30
> > > or not.)