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1984
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 through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
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've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so fuckin' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned 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 - we wanted to know something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! - and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the fuckin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jackoff to the lingere section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames 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 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 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! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... D'ya hear what the f**k I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy!! You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
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Re: 1984
« Reply #1 on: Mar 10th, 2004, 2:12am » |
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 Could not help it here..you nailed it on this one!!!!
Nice job there.
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Re: 1984
« Reply #2 on: Mar 10th, 2004, 11:52am » |
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Oh how did we survive the 80's????
You forgot to add the part about dot matrix printers that took 2 hours to print a 10 page paper vs. today's printer/fax/scanner/copier/shredder.
What about th 70's?
Do you remember mimiograph machines? (The copy machines that you had to hand crank and then you'd end up with blue ink all over your hands.)
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Re: 1984
« Reply #3 on: Mar 10th, 2004, 2:18pm » |
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"mimiograph machines", how about no computers and having to type your papers, and heaven forbid you found a mistake after you took the paper out. You could never line it back up and would have to start all over again.
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Re: 1984
« Reply #4 on: Mar 10th, 2004, 2:39pm » |
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ewww, I remember having to make copies for my teachers using those nasty machines in school. That blue ink would never wash off.
I like the thing about the video games. We had an atari. God that was annoying. One screen forever. You would go blind looking at it.
But then again I remember being excited because I got a Duran Duran record for my birthday. Hell my daughter doesn't even know what a record player looks like. 
And I still give my older sister crap because she had a Shaun Cassidy poster up in her bedroom.
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Re: 1984
« Reply #5 on: Mar 10th, 2004, 3:21pm » |
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I'll have gotten it easier then I was puerly an 1980 kid! Tough times back then!!!
No Allowences
Playing was outside only houses were for the adults to talkin unless the snow was up to the windows!!!
If we wanted to speak to our friends we went outside (We weren't allowed near the phone till about 1996 adults only)
The Kids just don't know how lucky they are!!
No ATARI Remembering the SinclairZX 3 hour load time for 20minutes playing (got that when i was 11)
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Re: 1984
« Reply #6 on: Mar 11th, 2004, 1:31pm » |
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LMAO!!!!!!
You are so right I am 30 with a 15 year old brother ! He has no clue !
Mom use to not let us in the house after school we played outside till dinner did home work and then back out for flash light tag. If we tried to come in for a glass of water she would tell us we needed more hose water in our diet !
My bro sits up in his room on his x - box thing a ghig all day!
I remember smelling the blue ink !
Did anyone else have the cable box with the cord ? It had a dile you could whip back and forth really fast, with like 30 stations on it ?
I have a tricked out '85 Firebird for sale and I had a chick about 19 years old come look at it. I gave her the keys and she tried to put the driving key in the door to unlock it. she didn't uderstand the concept of 2 keys one for driving and one to unlock the door ! She had never seen a car with a tape player in it ! I don't want to sell my classic to her just on principle !
Kids !
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