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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had To steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a Copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! 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 Play station 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

taken from the bits and piece blogs like a lot of the stuff I put here ;)

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=RiseandShine;458551]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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had To steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a Copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! 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 Play station 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

taken from the bits and piece blogs like a lot of the stuff I put here ;)[/quote] the youth of today are to spoiled.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

the "me" generation...

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla...the youth these days kick ass.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

Love it! It's so true.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=chanty;458573]Love it! It's so true.[/quote]

showing ur age chanty :lol:

but i agree with it as well but i guess the 30 year olds in 1980 could of said that about the young ones @ that time also ;)

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

^^^ when they were born they didnt have tv for example

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[URL]https://mss.aarp.org/servlet/wppdispatcher?keycode=U5HAC3&packageid=&componentid=&whocalled=promo_enroll[/URL]

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

^^ lol

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[/quote]You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!

[/quote]

Sure in the 80's we had cocaine, LSD, The Greatful Dead and Acid House. The over 30 crowd is mad cause all they had was Atari 2600, Members Only Jackets, and The Playboy Channel, plus a poster of Heather Thomas

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

Here's one for you - I remember when we didn't have remote controls either. If you wanted to change the channel, you had to get up walk to the TV and change the channel. I remember how excited I was when we got a remote control. Also, the TVs were really small then. My family had a 19 inch TV in our living room and a 13 inch in the bedroom. And the 13 inch was in black and white.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

wonder whats going to be cool in 20 years from now?

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

pills, lots of pills

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

I grew up with a black and white television and I was around 7 years old when my parents got a color TV.... :lol:

I love this line:

"And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and Harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!" :roflmao:

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

too true.

kids of today have it too easy. little bastards dont have any respect!!!

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

i have considered not having kids because i dont want them growing up in a shit time. war, greed, vanity.... the world seems to be going down the shitter. more and more as a society are we valuing looks and wealth. not to mention kids sitting around on their computers and playing video games all day... raising kids is going to be tough work these days...

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=Dhar_2;458827]too true.

kids of today have it too easy. little bastards dont have any respect!!![/quote]

^^ I doubt the Youth of today has it easier...I think it is more the other way around. Of course we have all the luxury goods and products you could not think of in the 80ties or earlier but on the other side...when I grew up I had way more freedom than kids have today. I was able to ride my bike wherever I wanted and was allowed to play in forests and build treehouses. Even tuning my motobike was ok (not allowed though of course) back in time because we kids knew the cops and they gave us more freedom or better said let things slip without taking actions against us. Nowadays, since even kids can have guns and knifes and because too many douches broke too many boundaries most cops give a damn about them anmyore. Today when kids go to the forrest or somewhere else...there is always somebody telling them it is not allowed and this applies to almost everything they do. Not allowed because of this, forbidden because of that..blah bleh bluh. I would not want to be a kid nowadays especially with all the pressure of brand clothes, ultra cool and newest mobiles, becoming successful at a very young age already and what not else.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[QUOTE]Not allowed because of this, forbidden because of that..blah bleh bluh. I would not want to be a kid nowadays especially with all the pressure of brand clothes, ultra cool and newest mobiles, becoming successful at a very young age already and what not else.[/QUOTE]

so true

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=ShawnD64;458831]i have considered not having kids because i dont want them growing up in a shit time. war, greed, vanity.... the world seems to be going down the shitter. more and more as a society are we valuing looks and wealth. not to mention kids sitting around on their computers and playing video games all day... raising kids is going to be tough work these days...[/quote]

Rasing kids was tough for every generation. There was no time in history where you could say "now is a great time to have kids" because we always had problems like wars, discrimination of minorities, now the problem with climatic changes and many more things. If you want a kid, make one and don't think about tomorrow as far as it is about society problems. Of course you should have a plan how you can take care your kid gets a good education and have to think about the future but most of the rest is not in your hands so why bother about it? Kids survived WWI, WWII and many other wars and some turned out stronger than the generation before.

Sure there can be a war when your kid is 10 years old or earth will explode in 2020 when we have finally blown enough shit in the air. But you can always take care your kid grows up half way safely and has a good life as long as it lasts because most of it is in your responsibilty. If your kid plays too much on his Xbox it is up to the parents to show them alternatives and make them move from the couch.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

You feeling broody Tom?

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

I still remember we got our first VCR, and our first PC. fucking hell those were exciting times!!!

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=superdave;458695]Here's one for you - I remember when we didn't have remote controls either. If you wanted to change the channel, you had to get up walk to the TV and change the channel. I remember how excited I was when we got a remote control. Also, the TVs were really small then. My family had a 19 inch TV in our living room and a 13 inch in the bedroom. And the 13 inch was in black and white.[/quote]

if you remember when their weren't remote controls, you must be really old. As remots came out in the mid 70's. Just not in televisions everyone could afford...they were like the plasmas of today.

We musn't forget about cell phones...when you actually had to be at home to call someone.

I truly think all this technology and the crap coming from the television is a direct action to the failing IQ Americans have. We're more obsessed with American Idol than listening to some real music.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

one word, ipod...the single greatest invention of my and younger generations. yea album art is cool but nothing beats pocket music

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

is it inevitable that everyone at one point will start talking like an old man saying things like "when i was growing up....." "back in the day......" "it was tougher back then......" "i remember when......." oh god.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

oh yeah, i'm looking forward to telling stories about my cassette collection.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

:lol:

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

i might just have to go to a antique store and pick up an old 8 track and a couple Kiss and AC/DC 8 track tapes.

Re: message to the youth of today.. from The Over 30 Crowd

[quote=RiseandShine;458551]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![/quote] Uhhh

Unless the handling of first class mail went through a truly significant change in the past 40 years, which it may well have, then there's no reason it should take a week for a letter to get from A to B within the continental United States.

2-3 days, tops.