Kids today.....

[shmoov69]

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 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! 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 or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! 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!*

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.*

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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!*


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-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!*
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!*
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!*
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

[Chevrolaine]

But they need all that stuff to keep busy as all the unemployed adults are taking the kids jobs! lol

[T_Raven]

I used to get PISSED when I'd over sleep on saturday and miss all the cartoons

[DocJr]

Hmmm...

I'm 22, a recent graduate of College, because of that I'm about 99 thousand dollars in debt.

I currently have no job...(Might have a T-shirt design deal within the next week or so..)

Sure, I have the Internet, but I'd still sooner mail my bills, or walk them to the place because of Identity theft and hacking...but then again, sometimes I don't have the Internet due to late payments...

of course some of this is relatively speaking, I still live with "mom and dad", they pay the bills, and if we get behind on a payment it's because they're having a rough time....I could get a walmart job, but then that seems like a waste of 99 thousand dollars...

we really don't have it that easy...nobody does really...

Now actual kids (still in grade school), sure they "might" have it easy, it's all dependent on what mommy and daddy's circumstances are. Mommy and Daddy's age of today's kids are what? 30s-40s? Do they have it good?...that would be you guys correct? the over 30's?

Are you providing them with the luxuries? cell phones at 12 years old? laptops? All kinds of tech? Most likely....new fasions, Beemer's when they turn 16...etc.

And by all means I'm not calling you guys out lol if your children wouldn't be exposed to the new technologies they would be "Behind the times"...

All in all...Kids these days have what they have because the older generation forces it onto them. (Technology, the design world, peer pressure, etc.)

...and of course the economic hardships we all suffer, can be saved for another post...(actually, let's not even go there, cause it just sucks) LOL

[DocJr]

The invent of the computer is what seems to be hanging you up...emailing and downloading music...it's really out of enjoyment. Are you enjoying it also? Then your time has come, just 20 years later haha

You guys did stuff for enjoyment, just the same really...carrying boom boxes around, hopscotch on the sidewalk, you did what you did for your time...evolution can't be stopped.

Interesting topic....

[Satatic]

You ever check out the saturdy morning cartoons? they are all complete garbage. Even the ninja turtles are now just crap. They are not even teenage.

[ArtosDracon]

I can see and appreciate the disparity between my generation and the ones that have come since, and I can further recognize that technology and digital babysitters and mandated safety are causing our whole race to go soft. I'm as guilty of it as most anyone else. It sucks.

[absintheisfun]

You forgot the most important aspect that differs us(thirtyish) from them(kids)...

Internet v. Library

I remember having research papers due and I had to BEG my Mom to take me to the public library (so I didn't have to walk) so I could research my project.

Hours and hours of skimming books to find the right info....hell, Google can get the same amount of work done in 0.0003 seconds now!!!!
Man I wish I had Google 20 years ago!!
Then, when the blessed internet came out and became publically commonplace we had...hold on...14.4!!! I remember when I got a 28.8 card I was FLYIN' wooooohooooooo!
Now, I have a 15M download speed...I get pissed when it drops to 14!

My family got our first home computer when I was 18 and just about to graduate (that was when it was common to finance a PC because they were $3-4K. When I had papers due in my Physics classes, I had to drive (I had a license then) to my Mom's office to use their computers to type out my papers because computers were not "in every home" and when I got out of wrestling practice, the school labs were closed!

[Pro Stock]

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 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! 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 or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the 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 then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! 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!*

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.*

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 parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!*


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-finks!

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!*
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!*
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!*
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Yeah but when we went to the movies we got two movies and a cartoon! life was good.

Dale

[Pro Stock]

You ever check out the saturdy morning cartoons? they are all complete garbage. Even the ninja turtles are now just crap. They are not even teenage.

Bring back Loony Toons, only thing thats funny now is Sponge Bob.

[DocJr]

heck, I don't even think Sponge Bob is funny, Family Guy either. I'm still a Tom and Jerry fan myself. I'm also a self proclaimed Flintstones nut, just like my Dad haha.

[DynoDon]

Dang man, how do you think us over 50 guys feel????

[novaderrik]

where did you live that you only had cartoons on saturday morning?
i watched cartoons every day as i ate my cereal before school- Robotech, the Real Ghostbusters, things like that- and had cartoons waiting for me to watch when i had my after school snack- GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, He Man, etc.

[absintheisfun]

Anybody remember Voltron? The original power rangers I suppose...I hear they are bringing it back.

[shmoov69]

Cmon guys, it was a joke email I got! I mean some of you are taking it seriously......it was supposed to make you all laugh....but maybe just us old folks! Lol

sorry

[absintheisfun]

Cmon guys, it was a joke email I got! I mean some of you are taking it seriously......it was supposed to make you all laugh....but maybe just us old folks! Lol

sorry

Oh no, don't be sorry...I laughed. I laughed out loud...but, this is afterall a forum for chit-chat, and as you know many topics tend to take a life of their own...

nonetheless, it was funny as hell! Thanks for the smile with my coffee!

[406 Q-ship]

Cmon guys, it was a joke email I got! I mean some of you are taking it seriously......it was supposed to make you all laugh....but maybe just us old folks! Lol

sorry

I caught the light hearted side of your thread. You did forget one thing though, walking to school 35 miles...... uphill both ways ......through the snow.

[Ron.in.SoCal]

heck, I don't even think Sponge Bob is funny, Family Guy either. I'm still a Tom and Jerry fan myself. I'm also a self proclaimed Flintstones nut, just like my Dad haha.

C'mon Nelson....everyone likes Family Guy

[6'9"Witha69]

C'mon Nelson....everyone likes Family Guy

Not me.

[Tony_SS]

That was good stuff.. brought back some memories too!

Ironic and very telling that its a chain email. All us 30-somethings have adopted to these modern ways that it rails about.