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 well 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 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 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!
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!
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 fucked!
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 fuck 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 1987! [ 01-11-2003: Message edited by: Khyron ]
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Adrecia Tru'Ril got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Bahaha.
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We were all impressed when Reverand Del wrote:
[QUOTE]Adrecia Tru'Ril got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
[qb]Bahaha.
Caller ID? Callwaiting? WHAT MOON LANGUAGE ARE YOU TALKING IN?!
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From the book of Jargum, chapter 3, verse 16:
[QUOTE]We were all impressed when Reverand Del wrote:
[qb][QUOTE]Adrecia Tru'Ril got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
[qb]Bahaha.
Yeah, I agree, today's youth sucks!
They have it way too easy! 
(Gonna steal this and repost it on another forum)
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Adrecia Tru'Ril thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Bahaha.
We were kids, and we liked it.
No, Really. Bite me.
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The Burger had this to say about Duck Tales:
when i was growing up we had no game system, we had no cable, we had no call waiting or caller id. We had 6 or so channels that we picked up off the air, we had a rotary telephone, we had a fucking backyard that we played in instead of sitting in a poorly lit room in fromt of some beige box.We were kids, and we liked it.
Sounds pretty much like my childhood.
We made up games. We had fun. We didn't rely on some geek sitting in a dark room deciding what is fun and what isn't.
^_* tee-hee
I agree too, kids do have it good. *shrugs* But a utopia? na, I wouldn't say that. Too many bullies out there.
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We were all impressed when The Burger wrote:
when i was growing up we had no game system, we had no cable, we had no call waiting or caller id. We had 6 or so channels that we picked up off the air, we had a rotary telephone, we had a fucking backyard that we played in instead of sitting in a poorly lit room in fromt of some beige box.We were kids, and we liked it.
And look how you turned out, right?
Give credit where it's due.
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A sleep deprived Baron Von Mortay stammered:
Khy is 29?Give credit where it's due.
I don't know where it's due. I just re-posted it from my e-mail, where it has changed hands probably around 15-20 times
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From the book of Baron Von Mortay, chapter 3, verse 16:
How old are you anyway? I just took a wild guess.
I'm 21.
29?? (I know Khy's only 21, but the 'original' poster of that email was 29..) Geesh, wait until you can remember the 70s boyo... THEN you can come around here trying to say kids have it easy...
Right Callalron, Bloodsage? THEY know what I'm talking bout here...
Darn kids...
*mutters and mumbles as she shuffles off in her walking frame*
heheh.
I have a year and a half of high school left
*remembers atari*
Hell I remember life with no cable. 3-13 was it! No HBO.. no Cinnamax.. no ShowTime..
I even remember having a rotary phone =P
No computer... no, scratch that, my first computer was a commidore.. -.-
/old [ 01-11-2003: Message edited by: Aanile ]
I got a Spectrum ZX some time later, the new one with the integrated tape drive. I was in heaven.
I miss Dizzy.
I wonder who started that. I've heard it from everywhere corner of the united states. Its like in the parent handbook.
And btw! I lived in the 80s!
Ferrel!
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Ferrel was listening to Cher while typing:
"When I was young, I had to walk up hill, in the snow, to school, both ways!"I wonder who started that. I've heard it from everywhere corner of the united states. Its like in the parent handbook.
Eh, you hear it in Germany too.
I used to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, half an hour before I went to bed, walk 27 miles in the snow to work 18 hours in the mill, with nothing to eat but a handful of cold gravel and when we got home our dads used to kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah!".
But you try and tell that to kids today and they won't believe you.
(Please note I used the long words instead of the more popular acronym in an effort to appear more intelligent.)
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There was much rejoicing when Frog said this:
I believe everything Callalron says after seeing him in his Cossack hat holding an Automat Kalashnikov.(Please note I used the long words instead of the more popular acronym in an effort to appear more intelligent.)
You should believe anything Call says because he's Call.
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Callalron had this to say about Captain Planet:
Right.I used to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, half an hour before I went to bed, walk 27 miles in the snow to work 18 hours in the mill, with nothing to eat but a handful of cold gravel and when we got home our dads used to kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah!".
But you try and tell that to kids today and they won't believe you.
Monty Python = 
I spent most of my childhood in a third world country. BAH!
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AbbigailSD's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
ANGST ANGST ANGST!!!
29?? (I know Khy's only 21, but the 'original' poster of that email was 29..) Geesh, wait until you can remember the 70s boyo... THEN you can come around here trying to say kids have it easy...Right Callalron, Bloodsage? THEY know what I'm talking bout here...
Darn kids...*mutters and mumbles as she shuffles off in her walking frame*
Ahem. 41, remembers some of the 60's.
Jimmy's doing pot? Give him a scolding and let it go instead of beating the living hell out of him and killing all his friends.
Little Suzy dresses like a skank, skips school to hang out at the mall and talk on her cellphone to her 3 boyfriends who each gave her a different STD. Daddy keeps giving her a huge allowance and turns a blind eye to the fact that his 11 year old has a good shot at getting pregnant.
Tommy gets into a fight in school and the principal sends him home for a 3 day suspension... Instead of delivering a proper whupping and making him live off bread and water for three days, he gets confined to his room with his playstation, xbox, gamecube, 42 inch plasma tv, 2.5 ghz computer and cable internet, and this is punishment for getting suspended from school?
Parents need to learn how to discipline a child.
When i was growing up i was hit twice, total. Once was a spanking when i was 4 for some stupid shit, and once was a backhand from my mother for calling her a bitch when we were arguing. Other than that, it was lost priveledges as punishment, none of this soft touchy-feely bulshit that seems so popular these days.
No, Really. Bite me.
I predict a sudden plummet in world population... for the better!
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Everyone wondered WTF when Suchii wrote:
Going to be really entertaining when all the stupid potheaded fuckwads all of a sudden have to grow up and live all on their ownI predict a sudden plummet in world population... for the better!
I AGREE.
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Suchii had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Going to be really entertaining when all the stupid potheaded fuckwads all of a sudden have to grow up and live all on their ownI predict a sudden plummet in world population... for the better!
SO True!
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Maradon XP had this to say about Punky Brewster:
I remember when holograms were the coolest thing around, especially on tee-shirts.
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Suchii probably says this to all the girls:
Going to be really entertaining when all the stupid potheaded fuckwads all of a sudden have to grow up and live all on their ownI predict a sudden plummet in world population... for the better!
It's true because the baby boomers are retiring. I'm glad it will happen. We don't want anymore dumb people taking over the world. (Like I'm not already one but hey... Just being honest)
