View Full Version : The spoiled under 30 crowd!!!
Gas Man
12-13-2009, 03:31 PM
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!
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.. And then there's TEXTING . yeah , right. 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 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
101lifts2
12-13-2009, 03:46 PM
....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! ...
LOL
These are all true...but I did have to walk 1/2 mile to the bus in grades 1-3. And one way was uphill and it was always snowing!
Damn life was pretty pathetic back then huh?
Regards,
The Under 30 crowd
-Sent from my Iphone
Librarian
12-13-2009, 03:58 PM
Uh, did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? :td:
Or maybe a 20-something little hottie laughed at you and called you an old fart when you made a pass at her? :dribble:
I'm on the greying and balding side of life and I'm damn glad all those new things are here:
My old-fashioned Motorola Razr flip phone is more compact and gets better reception than Captain Kirk's communicator, and takes videos when I need it to.
My bike has electronic ignition, and fuel injection, not points and condenser and carbs.
My car has 140,000 miles on it without a major mechanical problem, thanks to materials engineering.
Need I go on?
Hey, maybe it's time you got a life in the here and now, instead of worrying that someone else might get something that you didn't. :ts:
Homeslice
12-13-2009, 04:31 PM
Uh, I'm guessing he copy/pasted this.
Fleck750
12-13-2009, 05:27 PM
You forgot that our parents made us go outside and ride our bikes, without a helmet, knee or elbow pads!!
'73 H1 Triple
12-13-2009, 05:36 PM
No bottled water, we just drank out the hose :willy:
WARputer
12-13-2009, 05:36 PM
Great post Gas Man & oh so true ! :lol
HurricaneHeather
12-13-2009, 08:07 PM
Hi there! :D
<---Under 30 and can relate to all of these things(turns out being poor helps you understand as much as you old farts and look at that, I'm younger than you still!! :lmao:)
Thanks for playing though. We have some nice parting gifts for you.
Amorok
12-13-2009, 08:27 PM
TV? I didn't have that when I was a kid. As for music, we only had one radio, and my dad was a Doors fan. Guess what kind of music I dig now. And I was born in 81.
TV? I didn't have that when I was a kid. As for music, we only had one radio, and my dad was a Doors fan. Guess what kind of music I dig now. And I was born in 81.
Damn I really glad I've had my Ipod since 1981 then :gofurslf:
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 09:03 PM
Chris you're retarded, I'm 44 and grew up poor and we had most of those things when I was a kid. I took computer programing and you could email back in the early/mid 80s. I had friends with Intellivision, Colecovision(sp), Commador 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, etc. I bought my first cell phone in the early 90s, could have had fuel injection and electronic ignition back in the 80s, had seen two way pagers back in the late 80s (crude texting), bought mix tapes (Napster), bought a cd player in 1985 or so, we had a microwave when I was a kid, etc... I have no idea what you are talking about...
Particle Man
12-13-2009, 09:17 PM
4 words: The Dewey Decimal System
:eek:
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 09:21 PM
4 words: The Dewey Decimal System
:eek:
One word...microfiche! What's wrong with you guys? We did have computers back in the day...
karl_1052
12-13-2009, 09:25 PM
Chris you're retarded, I'm 44 and grew up poor and we had most of those things when I was a kid. I took computer programing and you could email back in the early/mid 80s. I had friends with Intellivision, Colecovision(sp), Commador 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, etc. I bought my first cell phone in the early 90s, could have had fuel injection and electronic ignition back in the 80s, had seen two way pagers back in the late 80s (crude texting), bought mix tapes (Napster), bought a cd player in 1985 or so, we had a microwave when I was a kid, etc... I have no idea what you are talking about...
Was all of that common? I am with Gasman. good list.
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 09:39 PM
Was all of that common? I am with Gasman. good list.
Research,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_player
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
Oh and btw we had cable TV that came with a wired, sliding remote control back in the 70s...
Fleck750
12-13-2009, 09:42 PM
Research,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_player
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
Oh and btw we had cable TV that came with a wired, sliding remote control back in the 70s...
I was raised by cheap parents. They didn't buy any of that stuff. They had a rotary phone until 1995. :p
Most people couldn't afford all the latest, greatest electronics.
So even if the stuff was available, most households didn't have it.
pauldun170
12-13-2009, 09:43 PM
Tigger with the reality check!!
:lol:
psychochild28
12-13-2009, 09:46 PM
In the under 30 crowd but had one of these growing up and loved it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
racedoll
12-13-2009, 09:58 PM
Great list.
And I'm with everyone else.... some of these things might have been available "back in the day" but MOST households didn't have it.
I've got one to add to your list...a GPS.
My niece will be 16 Dec 23rd and said she needs a GPS to get to my house! LOL. What happened to Atlas and state maps?
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 10:00 PM
In the under 30 crowd but had one of these growing up and loved it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
I hated that controller! The direction control caused major blisters! I think some company made a control stick adapter...
Homeslice
12-13-2009, 10:01 PM
Tigger with the reality check!!
:lol:
Not really. :ws:
How many people were using email in the 80's? Not unless you were a college student using the school's internal messaging system. I wouldn't call that true email. And how about the internet? The vast majority of people didn't start using it until like 95 or so. As for pagers, jigga please, that doesn't even compare to texting. And cellphones, sure you could have had a Motorola flip-phone back in 93, but how much did it cost, $500? Back then like only 5% of people my age had a cellphone. And fuel injection? LMAO, in the early 80's most fuel injection systems were less reliable than carbs.
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 10:02 PM
I was raised by cheap parents. They didn't buy any of that stuff. They had a rotary phone until 1995. :p
Most people couldn't afford all the latest, greatest electronics.
So even if the stuff was available, most households didn't have it.
We didn't have a ton of stuff but I had friends that did. We did have cable tv and a microwave though...
Captain Morgan
12-13-2009, 10:49 PM
Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 11:08 PM
Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.
Yea I know, I was just fucking around with Chris but he never answered... Oh well.
Amber Lamps
12-13-2009, 11:15 PM
Not really. :ws:
How many people were using email in the 80's? Not unless you were a college student using the school's internal messaging system. I wouldn't call that true email. And how about the internet? The vast majority of people didn't start using it until like 95 or so. As for pagers, jigga please, that doesn't even compare to texting. And cellphones, sure you could have had a Motorola flip-phone back in 93, but how much did it cost, $500? Back then like only 5% of people my age had a cellphone. And fuel injection? LMAO, in the early 80's most fuel injection systems were less reliable than carbs.
The joke was that they were unobtainable, not that they were rare. Oh and $500 for a phone isn't all that much if you think about it... besides you're wrong, they weren't that much anyway. I sold electronics in the 80s.
I was trying to have a joke back with the op. You are taking this way too serious. I'm well aware that FI wasn't as good then, I was there and had FI on my car and rode a Yamaha GTS1000... I almost bought it instead of my FZR1000 but changed my mind at the last minute. To say that electronic items now are vastly superior to previous generations is a no brainer but just because televisions, microwaves, computers, phones, etc are better now, doesn't mean that they "didn't exist" or "we didn't have them" when I was a younger.
psychochild28
12-13-2009, 11:54 PM
I hated that controller! The direction control caused major blisters! I think some company made a control stick adapter...
You sure it was a bad controller and not you just playing it to much? :lol:
But I loved pitfall, burgertime and the kool-aid guy game.
Amber Lamps
12-14-2009, 12:21 AM
You sure it was a bad controller and not you just playing it to much? :lol:
But I loved pitfall, burgertime and the kool-aid guy game.
Ha Pitfall ftw! There was this outer space game that I can't remember and a football game. God, those were the days. I remember when the Nintendo came out and it was like WOW, it'll NEVER get any better than this!!!
t-homo
12-14-2009, 01:55 AM
Please keep bitching when my generation's medicine keeps you alive till you are 120.
Mr Lefty
12-14-2009, 07:48 AM
Please keep bitching when my generation's medicine keeps you alive till you are 120.
Why the fuck would we wanna have another 90 years with you fuck tards in girl jeans and flat bill'd baseball caps?
Papa_Complex
12-14-2009, 07:51 AM
Research,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_player
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
Oh and btw we had cable TV that came with a wired, sliding remote control back in the 70s...
Yup, we had a similar cable 'remote' in the '70s. It was in the house when we first got there and my father discovered that the four things he wanted to spend what little money we had on were beer, TV, golf, and beer. And women, but I didn't find that out until later on.
In fact our remote had a rocket switch that got you to a second level of channels. Only half of the second tier channels had anything on them, but they were there. The town I live in (then called Bramalea, which later amalgamated with Brampton) was a model community, that had the latest in 1970s technology installed. Hell, we even had street lights that no one had to flip a switch or set a timer for!
CD players didn't hit the general market until I was in college. Then they cost around $500.00. I only knew one rich kid who had one.
Doctors and lawyers had pagers. Not much of anyone else did.
The gaming box that I got to play a few times, back then, had both Pong and a skeet shooting game.
I didn't see a microwave oven until I was 13. That was around the time that we also got a colour TV.
marko138
12-14-2009, 08:14 AM
Are you guys so mental that you can't figure out that this is a joke? Holy shit, where's the Tylenol?
Why the fuck would we wanna have another 90 years with you fuck tards in girl jeans and flat bill'd baseball caps?
This.
:squint:
Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.
You should see the folks in the other thread where i nuked the middle east. I'm genuinely scared for my life over there
wildchild
12-14-2009, 08:52 AM
You should see the folks in the other thread where i nuked the middle east. I'm genuinely scared for my life over there
well i know what i'm reading next this morning. LOL
Mr Lefty
12-14-2009, 08:52 AM
You should see the folks in the other thread where i nuked the middle east. I'm genuinely scared for my life over there
Really? Ftr I was just pointing out how gorgeous that area was... Still filled with fucktards
marko138
12-14-2009, 09:08 AM
Really? Ftr I was just pointing out how gorgeous that area was... Still filled with fucktards
Welcome to TWFix.
z06boy
12-14-2009, 11:21 AM
Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.
:lol Funny thread all the way around.
Not really. :ws:
How many people were using email in the 80's? Not unless you were a college student using the school's internal messaging system. I wouldn't call that true email. And how about the internet? The vast majority of people didn't start using it until like 95 or so. As for pagers, jigga please, that doesn't even compare to texting. And cellphones, sure you could have had a Motorola flip-phone back in 93, but how much did it cost, $500? Back then like only 5% of people my age had a cellphone. And fuel injection? LMAO, in the early 80's most fuel injection systems were less reliable than carbs.
my parents did for one. My dad used to surf bbs boards on his original ibm pc loong before most people even heard of that shit. We had a ti 99 4/a also which served for video games and programming until 1986 rolled around and we got nintendo. And im pretty sure the us atomic clock is backed up by a dodge 2.5 with throttle body injection.
Amber Lamps
12-14-2009, 04:16 PM
Yup, we had a similar cable 'remote' in the '70s. It was in the house when we first got there and my father discovered that the four things he wanted to spend what little money we had on were beer, TV, golf, and beer. And women, but I didn't find that out until later on.
In fact our remote had a rocket switch that got you to a second level of channels. Only half of the second tier channels had anything on them, but they were there. The town I live in (then called Bramalea, which later amalgamated with Brampton) was a model community, that had the latest in 1970s technology installed. Hell, we even had street lights that no one had to flip a switch or set a timer for!
CD players didn't hit the general market until I was in college. Then they cost around $500.00. I only knew one rich kid who had one.
Doctors and lawyers had pagers. Not much of anyone else did.
The gaming box that I got to play a few times, back then, had both Pong and a skeet shooting game.
I didn't see a microwave oven until I was 13. That was around the time that we also got a colour TV.
Yea but you Canucks didn't have flush toilets until the 1960s...
I'm 30, hell yeah, fuck you twenty something spoiled asshats!
Fleck750
12-14-2009, 04:18 PM
Why the fuck would we wanna have another 90 years with you fuck tards in girl jeans and flat bill'd baseball caps?
I got better pics of him than that. :lmao:
t-homo
12-14-2009, 04:20 PM
fuck my life.
Yea but you Canucks didn't have flush toilets until the 1960s...
i thought they still had outhouses with the moon shaped cut out....well, the house trained ones anyway
Digifox
12-14-2009, 04:35 PM
Damn life was pretty pathetic back then huh?
Regards,
The Under 30 crowd
-Sent from my Iphone
:lol
Gas Man
12-15-2009, 11:07 PM
Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.
Yea I know, I was just fucking around with Chris but he never answered... Oh well.
I just hadn't got back online.
Some people live busy lives.... ya know
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 07:52 AM
I just hadn't got back online.
Some people live busy lives.... ya know
Shit, I work 8am to 10 pm Mon-Sat chief. I just have lulls between assignments sometimes or I break down and use my phone if I'm REALLY bored to post on here....
marko138
12-16-2009, 08:15 AM
Shit, I work 8am to 10 pm Mon-Sat chief. I just have lulls between assignments sometimes or I break down and use my phone if I'm REALLY bored to post on here....
Gas Man spends his free time sweet talking my wife.
Papa_Complex
12-16-2009, 08:17 AM
Yea but you Canucks didn't have flush toilets until the 1960s...
Good thing that I was born in '63 then.
Toilet paper came much later.
Rider
12-16-2009, 09:21 AM
Gas Man spends his free time sweet talking my wife.
Damn, she told me I was the only one.
marko138
12-16-2009, 09:28 AM
Damn, she told me I was the only one.
You two need to step up your game.
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!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
:lol: Oh I remember doing that!!!
I remember the first microwave - my aunt bought one.
I REALLY miss the days when cell phones didn't exist.
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 09:45 AM
:lol: Oh I remember doing that!!!
I remember the first microwave - my aunt bought one.
I REALLY miss the days when cell phones didn't exist.
Yea I really want to go back to hunting for change to make a call when I'm out and about.
Papa_Complex
12-16-2009, 10:21 AM
Yea I really want to go back to hunting for change to make a call when I'm out and about.
Or just not making unnecessary calls....?
marko138
12-16-2009, 10:27 AM
Or just not making unnecessary calls....?
I can pretty much guarantee that most of his calls are unnecessary.
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 11:30 AM
I can pretty much guarantee that most of his calls are unnecessary.
Really? Because I call customers all day for my job AND I have to make three separate calls during installation to register and program their systems. So on a typical day, I make and receive 20 business related calls. How necessary are your calls?
marko138
12-16-2009, 11:31 AM
Really? Because I call customers all day for my job AND I have to make three separate calls during installation to register and program their systems. So on a typical day, I make and receive 20 business related calls. How necessary are your calls?
None of your damn business.
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 11:31 AM
Or just not making unnecessary calls....?
Hey nobody is forcing you motherfuckers to own cell phone you know!
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 11:32 AM
None of your damn business.
Oh but my calls are your business? Whatever cocksucker!
marko138
12-16-2009, 11:33 AM
Oh but my calls are your business? Whatever cocksucker!
You make it my business. You post every goddamn aspect of you life on this forum.
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 11:53 AM
You make it my business. You post every goddamn aspect of you life on this forum.
Hey nobody is forcing you to read my posts...
Oh and not even close, chief. I post about bike shit and about purchases/deals. Other than having cancer, I don't post that much personal crap.
HurricaneHeather
12-16-2009, 11:55 AM
DON'T YOU SEE HOW THE CELL PHONES ARE CONTROLLING US AND MAKING US SO ANGRY!!!
Sorry....are you two really fighting about cell phones/pay phones? :lmao:
Tmall
12-16-2009, 12:02 PM
Wow, the male mods here are douchebags..
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 12:13 PM
DON'T YOU SEE HOW THE CELL PHONES ARE CONTROLLING US AND MAKING US SO ANGRY!!!
Sorry....are you two really fighting about cell phones/pay phones? :lmao:
Nah, I think that we're fighting about unnecessary calls and/or my being a post whore...mainly, I'm just wasting time until my next appointment...
Rider
12-16-2009, 12:17 PM
Wow, the male mods here are douchebags..
If you want to keep posting here I suggest to stop insulting the entire mod team.
HurricaneHeather
12-16-2009, 12:19 PM
:twfix:
I understand this is not a democracy, but if I had the choice between never seeing Rider post again and never seeing Tmall post again.....Bye Rider. :D
Rider
12-16-2009, 12:23 PM
:twfix:
I understand this is not a democracy, but if I had the choice between never seeing Rider post again and never seeing Tmall post again.....Bye Rider. :D
This is for ANYONE. If you have a problem with the mod team, send Trip a PM. I'm not saying you have to stfu. I'm saying don't unsult in the open forum.
HurricaneHeather
12-16-2009, 12:25 PM
This is for ANYONE. If you have a problem with the mod team, send Trip a PM. I'm not saying you have to stfu. I'm saying don't unsult in the open forum.
I got that....but I am pretty sure it was a joke. You know, like those things people say that are funny or clever and you laugh at them. You are familiar with this concept, right?
azoomm
12-16-2009, 12:25 PM
Wow, the male mods here are douchebags..
So, what you're saying is - you love me? :lol:
Rider
12-16-2009, 12:30 PM
I got that....but I am pretty sure it was a joke. You know, like those things people say that are funny or clever and you laugh at them. You are familiar with this concept, right?
I'm quite certain it wasn't a joke. And yes I am familar with laughing, I laugh AT people all day long.
Amber Lamps
12-16-2009, 12:40 PM
I'm quite certain it wasn't a joke. And yes I am familar with laughing, I laugh AT people all day long.
keep it up! I have almost an hour before my next appointment!
Tmall
12-16-2009, 12:43 PM
I suck cock for crack!
Rider
12-16-2009, 12:58 PM
You're fucking with the wrong person asshole. The only swinging dick around here is the one you jammed up your ass.
Papa_Complex
12-16-2009, 01:03 PM
Really? Because I call customers all day for my job AND I have to make three separate calls during installation to register and program their systems. So on a typical day, I make and receive 20 business related calls. How necessary are your calls?
These clients don't have phones?
Hey nobody is forcing you motherfuckers to own cell phone you know!
I make on average about 4 calls a month on my work cell, which stays in the desk when I go home. There are less than 20 people who have my personal cell number and I receive about 3 calls a month. I make about 5. It's essentially my home phone. I could easily do without it, but keep it for possible on-road emergencies. I frequently forget it at home.
HurricaneHeather
12-16-2009, 01:10 PM
I'm quite certain it wasn't a joke. And yes I am familar with laughing, I laugh AT people all day long.
I didn't ask if you were familiar with laughing, I asked if you were familiar with jokes. :wink: I am starting to think you honestly don't understand what those are. :eek:
Yeah, this thread needs a break while we review...
We need to get more in the christmas spirit and go buy something overpriced and heavily commercialized for each other so we can pretend that we like each other and really be thinking about how we want each other dead, just like we do with our families. :lol:
Rider
12-16-2009, 02:09 PM
Yeah, this thread needs a break while we review...
We need to get more in the christmas spirit and go buy something overpriced and heavily commercialized for each other so we can pretend that we like each other and really be thinking about how we want each other dead, just like we do with our families. :lol:
I got your secret Santa gift....... :moon:
Merry Christmas.
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