Tillinasia
06-17-2005, 05:17 PM
" Hard Times"
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 ... 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'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...we
wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library
and look it up ourselves!
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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
had to go 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 f@#* 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! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy shit 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 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!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station 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! If a tall
guy sat i! n front of you and you couldn't see you were just
screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
like 20 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!
You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... .D'ya hear
what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little
bastards!
We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up
.. we had to use the stove ... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn ... we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it
over the stove like an idiot forever.
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!
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 ... 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'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...we
wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library
and look it up ourselves!
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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you
had to go 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 f@#* 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! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy shit 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 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!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station 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! If a tall
guy sat i! n front of you and you couldn't see you were just
screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only
like 20 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!
You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... .D'ya hear
what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little
bastards!
We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up
.. we had to use the stove ... imagine that! If we wanted
popcorn ... we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it
over the stove like an idiot forever.
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!