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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 25, 2008 11:48:15 GMT -5
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
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 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
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 25, 2008 12:02:08 GMT -5
Dang Sands you youngster you! I remember no TV, no microvave, phones you had to put your finger in the dial and spin it around, no video games, our first computer in college which required them to tear out my favorite college cafe because they needed a huge refrigerated room for it. I remember one car in your single car garage if you were lucky, walking to school, watching for Spudnik, and my neighbors first colored TV where he stuck a colored plastic strip over the screen to make bands of color ( we thought that was so cool, Bonanza with blue sky only sometimes blue faces too) *L*. Lots of great things too. Walking out of the back of our new track to hunt pheasants in the fields back of the houses. Few stoplights( no traffic cams), few people, Macy-D burgers for 12 cents, 18 cent a gallon gas, and the birth of rock and roll...Great times...Mel
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Post by krazydiamond on Feb 25, 2008 12:13:42 GMT -5
haha, hey, Mel, don't forget doing creative things with aluminuim foil and rabbit ears to improve that TV reception.....
KD
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Post by WyckedWyre on Feb 25, 2008 12:20:54 GMT -5
I remember no TV, no microvave, phones you had to put your finger in the dial and spin it around, no video games, our first computer in college which required them to tear out my favorite college cafe because they needed a huge refrigerated room for it. I remember one car in your single car garage if you were lucky, walking to school, watching for Spudnik, and my neighbors first colored TV where he stuck a colored plastic strip over the screen to make bands of color ( we thought that was so cool, Bonanza with blue sky only sometimes blue faces too) *L*. Lots of great things too. Walking out of the back of our new track to hunt pheasants in the fields back of the houses. Few stoplights( no traffic cams), few people, Macy-D burgers for 12 cents, 18 cent a gallon gas, and the birth of rock and roll...Great times...Mel ...AND NO GLOBAL WARMING! ;)S
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Post by Titania on Feb 25, 2008 12:42:48 GMT -5
LOL!
The internet one kills me. I can't imagine how much easier it must be to write school papers these days!
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 25, 2008 14:17:36 GMT -5
Susan *LOL* Yep, when I took weather and climate classes in college, all the hip and up and comer young profs were talking about how we were going to have an ice age in about 30 years. Uhhh that would have made the "Ice Age" start like 10 years ago when folks first started talking about global warming *L* And these were a bunch of smart guys too! See, the global warming saved us all from the ice!.....Mel
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 25, 2008 20:53:01 GMT -5
hell i remember we had a round screen b/w tv with a metal case haha and the real bozo the clown that usta come on sat morn haha or was his name lorenzo the clown had his own dance and popeye on capt kangaroo and the guy even as a kid i didnt trust mr rodgers neighborhood --- i usta think to myself you just stay in your own neighborhood hahaha how about soupy sales and fang -- who was the other guy usta have a magic chest and told stories didnt like him eather hahaha -- and i liked chief halftown
gene london his name was haha
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 25, 2008 21:06:17 GMT -5
anybody remember geno's they where around before mc-donalds i remember gettin cheese burgers for like 23 cent -- i remember bummin a quarter from pop for gas for my first mini bike and it was only like 23 or 24 cent a gal
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Post by Cher on Feb 25, 2008 22:25:16 GMT -5
Back in the 80's? I had jiffy pop popcorn when I was a kid like back in the 60's and I had a microwave back in the 80's too. I do remember phones you had to dial, my neighbor still has one she uses in her house. And party lines, we had conference calls going all the time ... lol ... one ring and a hang up was the signal to get online. Remember having names for phones prefixes instead of numbers, like ours was Amherst 2 ****. And Sands, I remember Bozo the clown and Captain Kangaroo with Mr. Greenjeans. LOL Now those were the good ol' days.
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 26, 2008 1:20:59 GMT -5
mine was saratoga-7-2320 -- cant believe i remember that haha
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Post by krazydiamond on Feb 26, 2008 8:59:38 GMT -5
Redwood 61167.
i can't remember what i did yesterday but i can remember my parents phone number when i was little.
i, too, disliked Mr. Rodgers. i wasn't fond of Capt. Kangeroo either. i was a road runner and coyote fan. and Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian and Yosemite Sam!
KD
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Post by MidNight~Rocksi3 on Feb 26, 2008 9:41:55 GMT -5
LOL that's too funny!!!! Sands I didn't like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood either.. It reminded me of something out of the twilight Zone.. I do remember when the t.v stations used to only go till midnight and then play the anthem and shut off.. I was telling my lil sis that because she can sit up and watch t.v all night if I don't make her shut it off.. .. And I loved the Bozo show where you threw the ping pongs into those buckets? that was my favorite before school show! and the cartoons now suck compared to the cartoons I used to like to watch ... like tom and jerry.
Oh I remember the first (cell) phones were Satalight phones back then or something big ol honkin phones and then the first flip phone was bigger than my dads wallet! lol crazy I thought that was the coolest phone ever! lol
Ugh...ok.. I don't want to think about how far back that was anymore.. lol
*smiles*
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Post by bobby1 on Feb 26, 2008 10:20:03 GMT -5
I remember the wood cased phone hanging on the wall. Our ring was a long and a short. Moved to a newer house that had a "regular" phone. The number was 832. Also, climbing on the roof and twisting and tweaking the antenna trying to get a good picture. Taking the rifle to school (but leaving it in the car unless you wanted to show it to your freinds) so we could go deer hunting after school. Making BB shooters in shop class. We used bolts that had a hole drilled in them for the barrels. Used black powder to fire the BB. Shot at each other across the shop when the teacher left the room. Remember "reefers"? Elvis was a newcomer? Crowded out Tennessee Ernie's Sixteen Tons on the hit list? Such were the dangerous times! Bob
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Post by RockyBlue on Feb 27, 2008 0:56:09 GMT -5
Ah The goodtimes!The 50`s the greatest ever,Rock&Roll came of age and i went to every sock hop that my school had and some other schools too,i loved to dance to Rock & Roll. But before then i remember getting a RCA transistor Radio 4 yrs. before they became available to the public because my aunt worked there, making darts out of needles and match sticks with paper fins and laying on my bed throwing them up and sticking them in the ceiling and wainting until they dropped down and move out of the way very quickly.I took my fenders off of my bike because i thought it made it faster,skip school and sneak off and go to river and go swimming{mom never did find out}Yeah i remember all too well...........Rocky
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Post by stefan on Feb 27, 2008 11:49:40 GMT -5
Man I remeber so much of that too- I remember our first color TV (Bill Cosby and Fat Albert- first show I ever saw in color)- I remeber my dad MAKING us watch Niel Armstrong walk on the moon (YOU are witnessing History- and You will remember this for the REST of your life- He was right) I remember the Oil crisis of the 70's and waiting in line for gas- I remeber when they used to put salt down on the streets in the winter- I would run out and pick up the crystals and eat them (THAT explains a lot!). I remember cable TV and the Box with all the buttons on it- and the little tuner dial- and the lock for the HBO station (only 1 Movie station). I remeber BEfore Burger King- there was Carols. There used to be a guy who walked around town pushing a Peanut cart and selling fresh roasted Peanuts (oh man were those things HOT). I remember when Milk was delivered in Bottles! I remember playing Baseball and SPUD in the Summer, Football in the Fall, Hockey in the winter- and NOTHING in the Spring (cause the yards were just to wet!) Hide and Go Seek in the Late summer evenings- Boy I miss the good old days.....
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Post by Cher on Feb 27, 2008 12:30:49 GMT -5
Hey Stefan, where you been hiding? What is SPUD?
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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 27, 2008 19:25:40 GMT -5
Okay I remember space invaders and a color TV that was HUGE and set in a piece of furniture!
I remember card catalogues and the finger dialing phone - I had one of those phones where you had set it to tone or pulse and it "chirped"
I remember party lines but never had one personally and I remember - also remember making Barbie furniture out of little milk creamers (for a lamp shade) and wooded spools of thread (for an end table) and a stove top made by drawing circles & lines on a piece of material & laying that over a tissue box.
I was a teen in the 80s so maybe I'm still too young for those kinda things! hehe I wish!
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Post by bouldergal on Feb 28, 2008 15:05:26 GMT -5
Geez. This all sure makes me feel OLD! I remember Howdy Doody Time, the Mickey Mouse Club (yes.....the FIRST one including Annette Funicello), The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Lassie, Mitch Miller, Lawrence Welk, being in love with Little Joe on Bonanza (I was probably 10 or 11), Alfred Hitchcock introducing his TV show with that spooky voice, and yes it was all in black and white. My parents weren't about to get "that dangerous, radioactive COLOR television in our house! I remember when most of the country and western singers could yodel! I remember being put to bed so my parents could watch Peyton Place. My dad used to play Dinah Shore and Patti Page 78 rpm Albums. Yep, a record player. Not a turntable. Not stereo but MONO! Or that he was on cloud 9 with his first reel to reel tape player!!! Let's see... what was that sequence? Reel to reel, 8 track, cassettes, CD's, MP3s, and on. And what did we carry around so we could listen to AM music....transistors, of course. Remember those 49 cent round flat things we bought with a song on each side? The whole "hit parade" available on 45 rpms!
Yes, my mom made me a poodle skirt and forced me to wear saddle shoes UGH. Families went to drive in movies and the kids watched from blankets in the back of station wagons.
When Bell Telephone introduced "Princess phones" (yes, you still had to dial them with your finger) in PINK - we were really getting modern.
I remember the first McDonald's I went to. They were all walk up, no indoor dining. Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, soft drinks, and shakes. That's all. Hamburgers were 19 cents.
I got spanked by the principal in elementary school with my mother's permission. Imagine.
We played with yo-yos and the moves we made with them were based on moon trips. I remember the news reels in elementary school during the Cuban missile crisis, I was on safety patrol when JFK was assassinated.
Things sure were a lot simpler then.
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Post by larrywyland3 on Feb 28, 2008 16:04:43 GMT -5
LMAO. I was the remote control for my Dad. Hey Larry could you change the channel to 3 or 8. We only got about 6 channels and there was only one tv.
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Post by BAZ on Feb 28, 2008 21:52:57 GMT -5
...and it was better that way. We are going way too fast.
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