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WAIT TILL YOU'RE 50!

theHippySeedCo

theHippySeedCo

WAIT TILL YOU'RE 50!



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... barefoot... 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 my 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 catalogue!!


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! Stamps were 10
cents!




Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a
matter of fact, the parents of all my friends
also had permission to kick our ass!
Nowhere was safe!


There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If 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! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd
play our favorite tape and "eject" it when
finished and the tape would come undone. Cause -
that's how we rolled, dig?


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
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!





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! NO REMOTES!!!


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! Imagine that!


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 or
before!


Regards,

The Over 30 Crowd
 
:lol: Nice one mate - it's funny coz it's true! When I tell my daughters (17 and 20) about what things used to be like, they look at me as if to say "yeah right". When I tell them that when I was a kid there were only 3 TV channels and that they didn't run 24 hours a day, they think I'm making it up. When I tell them that my first computer (Commodore Vic 20) had 3.5 kbytes of RAM they laugh. So do I, but that's not the point. The point is that kids nowadays are spoilt for choice in every facet of life, but are they any happier for it? Are they f**k as like! My youngest goes to see a mate of hers in the evening for a few hours, then she comes home and spends hours online talking to her as well. She's just been with her for hours! What the hell can they have left to talk about? I don't get it, but it's all down to the generation gap. But get this - the other night she couldn't get online and she was getting annoyed. I suggested she phone her mate - you should have seen the look she gave me! She said "that's just stupid". ?????????
 
"Its funny because its true"
I remember when every kid on the block would play sports together, whether you liked each other or not. These days all I see are empty ball fields and tennis courts etc. and it makes me remember how long we'd have to wait for our turn. Even video games, we had to wait in line at the arcade just to play pac-man frogger or donkey kong. Actually wizard of war was my favorite:)
 
Well its funny in perspective, BUT, if our parents had written about how easy
we had it coming up, it would probably read very similar, with a TV that actually showed pictures, in Color no less! Telephones! Wow, Transistor radios that you could listen too where ever you went! Cars! and so on ! BTW there were "Radar Ranges" in 1972 ( a first generation, overpowered microwave!)
 
See, I am only 23, but I grew up on a farm in RURAL Alabama. Up until I was in the 10th grade, when I moved out, we only had three channels on tv. God forbid the wind blew and shifted the big "Bird's Roost" antennae. One of us would have to go outside and turn it until my dad yelled that the picture was good.

My step-brother and I would have to walk a mile to the paved road to catch the bus every morning. Well, until the neighbor's kid almost got hit by a log truck. After that, the bus drove onto our road and turned around in our spare pasture. That knocked about 100 yards off our walk.

Speaking of school, if you acted up you got a paddling. We didn't have the option of getting detention or suspension.

After a twister took out our old house and WE built the new one, we had to dig a new well. There was no well digging augger or any power tool... We had a pick, a shovel, a rope tied to a bucket and a block and tackle hung on a tree limb. Luckily, we only had to dig about 75 feet to hit water.

That same summer, we had a barn raising.

In the winter, out only source of heat was a wood stove. My dad would fell a tree, I would go out with the tractor and haul it back, cut it to length and chop it up. We took turns getting up at 3am to make sure the fire was lit. We had to start walking at 530 to catch the bus at about 6.

Lets see, in the summer, I worked on a watermelon farm and a hay farm to earn extra cash.

My first truck had an AM radio and an 8-track player... Still had the single speaker in the dash. 1971 Ford F-100.

Sorry for the life story.

Before you "old guys" say "kids these days have it easy", think for a second and rephrase that to "most kids these days have it easy". Again, sorry for the long post, thats just a pet peeve of mine.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I never had a computer, game system of cd player until I was a junior in high school and bought them myself.
 
Ratman667 said:
Before you "old guys" say "kids these days have it easy", think for a second and rephrase that to "most kids these days have it easy". Again, sorry for the long post, thats just a pet peeve of mine.
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Relax - this was posted in "Fun Zone" ;) Otherwise I would challenge your statement "most kids these days have it easy"...
 
Too funny.

In theory, so much available information should have some kind of impact on the general IQ world wide.

I'm standing here,
twittering
learning about growing chili's
roasting coffee
watching two different channels on the boob toob (motorweek and starship troopers)

No way in hell people were doing this same kind of thing 20 years ago...
 
Ratman667 said:
See, I am only 23, but I grew up on a farm in RURAL Alabama. Up until I was in the 10th grade, when I moved out, we only had three channels on tv. God forbid the wind blew and shifted the big "Bird's Roost" antennae. One of us would have to go outside and turn it until my dad yelled that the picture was good.

My step-brother and I would have to walk a mile to the paved road to catch the bus every morning. Well, until the neighbor's kid almost got hit by a log truck. After that, the bus drove onto our road and turned around in our spare pasture. That knocked about 100 yards off our walk.

Speaking of school, if you acted up you got a paddling. We didn't have the option of getting detention or suspension.

After a twister took out our old house and WE built the new one, we had to dig a new well. There was no well digging augger or any power tool... We had a pick, a shovel, a rope tied to a bucket and a block and tackle hung on a tree limb. Luckily, we only had to dig about 75 feet to hit water.

That same summer, we had a barn raising.

In the winter, out only source of heat was a wood stove. My dad would fell a tree, I would go out with the tractor and haul it back, cut it to length and chop it up. We took turns getting up at 3am to make sure the fire was lit. We had to start walking at 530 to catch the bus at about 6.

Lets see, in the summer, I worked on a watermelon farm and a hay farm to earn extra cash.

My first truck had an AM radio and an 8-track player... Still had the single speaker in the dash. 1971 Ford F-100.

Sorry for the life story.

Before you "old guys" say "kids these days have it easy", think for a second and rephrase that to "most kids these days have it easy". Again, sorry for the long post, thats just a pet peeve of mine.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I never had a computer, game system of cd player until I was a junior in high school and bought them myself.
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Great story! Not sure if it was meant as a brag - I doubt it - but I wish I could offer my kids the same or similar. Might not be fun, but it's a damn sight better for them than much of the worthless crap that society in general is offering kids these days.

OP - I loved that diatribe, man!

BTW, I was an 'Asteroids' legend in my own mind!
 
MrArboc said:
Relax - this was posted in "Fun Zone" ;) Otherwise I would challenge your statement "most kids these days have it easy"...
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I forget that everyone doesn't know my personality. The "old guys" and "kids have it easy" statements were me joking. :)

huntsman said:
Great story! Not sure if it was meant as a brag - I doubt it
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No, it wasn't bragging. Well, the part about digging the well was, a little. ;)
 
We were gone from daylight til dark.
Riding our bikes all over town, wiffle ball games, touch football, fishing, swimming.
Mom didn't know where we were unless it was meal time, then we were home.

If we got paddled in school, well, expect another when you got home.

Missed very few days of school due to weather.

Black and white TV with no cable.

And yes, I am over 50. Just barely, but over.
 
theHippySeedCo said:
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!
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With the exception of Adult Swim, i'm glad i waited a week for the cartoons then. Because all they played were the GOOD cartoons, not this bullshit the cartoon network plays non-stop now.
 
I posted this on another forum and someone replied with this

Gawd I feel old.

*Sighs*

I can still remember the days of no internet, no email, no spam, no virii.

Those were the good days.

Only rules, be home before the street lights came on, then it was dinner.

I remember my first Viatel unit. You were charged per page (>5c) to view content!

Then an old DX4-100 with an acoustic coupler. 1200/75 baud was the ducks guts! You could type faster than you could upload!

Good old dialup days where you measured a good line as 1meg every 6 minutes!

Only two TV channels (Capital and ABC)

Only two types of fuel (Super or Diesel)

Summers were long and bloody hot, winters were long and bloody cold. Now we have just mild and dry.

Endless summer days of water fights with the hose. Never heard of water restrictions!

First got my license, L's at 16 and 9 months, full license 3 months later. Got done once with no full driver in the vehicle, was just told to go home by the copper or he would tell my parents. (Those were the days you were shit scared of your parents finding out about ANYTHING!)

Your parents actually KNEW what you doing.

You could jump into anyones backyard and grab your cricket ball. 9 times out of 10 there is another kid who would then join you in a game of street cricket.

You could leave your bike out the front of the shops/school/house/friends place/park and it would be still there when you got back.

The local copper was friendly and actually cared! (And KNEW your parents!)

Riding home in the back of a ute/boot after footy, covered in mud, in the middle of winter, without a second thought! (Wave to the local copper at the intersection as you go past)

Was actually cool to go to Scouts, cause you got to go places, camping and having fun.

Frozen Sunny Boys!

Being sunburnt almost every weekend down at the local swimming hole.

Piling 20 kids into the back of a stationwagon and not thinking twice.

You respected other peoples property (Cars/house) cause if you broke/scratched it, your parents would kick your ass untill your nose bled. Or worse! Leather belt/wooden spoon!

50c and you were rich! 50c got you a HUGE bag of lollies! Jaw breakers so big you had trouble trying to get it into your big gob, and then once in, you were afraid of actually biting down on it just in case it did in fact bust your jaw!

McDonalds was a VERY special treat, once in a lifetime visit. Fish and chips from the local was a once every 2nd month experience.

Brussel sprouts were a everyday reality!

We ate dinner at the table, with the TV off!

Tuffs on my BMX! (If you know what I mean, you are as old as I)

If you hurt yourself, it was your OWN DAMN FAULT! You were shit scared of telling your parents you got hurt, cause they would cause more pain, so you wouldn't do it again!

Kids of today, they have it easy!
 
Computers? I first saw one when I was 16 - at college. It took up half the room.

AC - I think I was about 15 before I knew such an appliance existed.

8-track tape player - yeah, I had one just before my 19th birthday.

Color TV - we watched a B&W for maybe an hour a night, just before going to bed.

Showers? I was lucky because I was the oldest one. I got to get into the bathtub first. The first shower I took was in college. We didn't have a shower in the bathroom at home for a couple years after that.

McDonalds? Again I was in college before I ever saw one of those Arches.

Video Cassette Player? I did have a 8mm film projector and even a camera, way back when I was in the 8th grade.

Call waiting? Yeah, we had it when I was young. We had to wait until someone on the "party line" hung up so we could make a call. And the person talking didn't live in our house.

Play sports - every day, all day, unless we had to work. Red Rover, Fox and Chickens, Wiffle Ball, Kick Ball, Hide and Go Seek. Then once it got too dark - as early as 8:30 in summer as there was no such thing as Daylight Saving Time - we would catch lightning bugs.

Cold weather - have to go out, take a stick that had a towel wrapped around it, dip it in coal oil, light it and hold in under a copper line that ran from the outside tank to the furnace to un-thall the fuel.

And I really had it easy compared to my parents - they were kids in the Great Depression.

Mike
 
For those of us who have the wisdom of a few more years on this earth consider the following.

1. The people who started university this year were most likley born in 1991.
2. Star Wars is older than them.
3. Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
4. Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
5. They have always had an answering machine
6. They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
7. They have always had CD's, never records.
8. Ray Martin has been on Channel 9 their entire life.
9. Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
10. They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
11. They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
12. They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
13. They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even was.
14. McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
15. They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
16. They'll never know what life was like B.C. - before cellphones.
 
Every single word true mate! If I may I'd like to add to the list;

16. They'll never know what life was like B.C. - before cellphones.
 
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