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  • hoggy952
    DK Veteran
    • Jan 2010
    • 1229

    #1

    30 or older?

    IF you are 30 or older you will probably 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 five miles to school every morning ...
    uphill BOTH ways...
    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. If we wanted to
    know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up
    ourselves. Ermm you do know what a library is don't you?

    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 postbox and it would take like a week to get there!

    There were no MP3's 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 usually
    talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

    And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download ~~~~!
    You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to
    buy you a copy of "Playboy"! Those were your options!

    We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone
    and somebody else called they got an engaged tone, that's it!

    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 school, your mum, 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" and the graphics
    sucked ass! 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!

    Sure, we had television, but back then some still had black and white and only 4 channels there was no onscreen menu and no remote control!
    You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel
    and there was no Cartoon Network either!
    And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we
    had to use the cooker or go build a fire ... 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
  • barrowmanandrew
    V.I.P. Member
    • Nov 2009
    • 3427

    #2
    you have made me feel really old.....

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    • jmac200t
      Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 49

      #3
      love that one "up hill both ways"

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      • ?nawalsh
        Newbie
        • May 2010
        • 3

        #4
        Thanks, this made me smile.

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        • hoggy952
          DK Veteran
          • Jan 2010
          • 1229

          #5
          Originally posted by barrowmanandrew
          you have made me feel really old.....
          when you give a pretty girl the eye and she turns round and calls you a dirty old man, now that is when you feel old.

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          • patkins
            V.I.P. Member
            • Oct 2009
            • 3662

            #6
            Well put Hoggy but you left out one thing....we were happier...think about it...My lad has a car , a computer,Playstation ,mobile phone,youth,health, a job and money and he keeps telling me that he`s bored out of his friuggin mind. We had Christmas, Easter, our Birthday to get presents --now it`s Christmas every week for this generation.

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            • xant14
              V.I.P. Member
              • Dec 2008
              • 2062

              #7
              Originally posted by hoggy952
              IF you are 30 or older you will probably think this is hilarious!


              Sure, we had television, but back then some still had black and white and only 4 channels
              4 channels!!! Posh coont!

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              • maffyou1980
                Newbie
                • May 2010
                • 1

                #8
                hahaha nice one. makes me feel proud

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                • andystar351
                  Member
                  • Dec 2008
                  • 74

                  #9
                  30? bloody 30?........try 40 mate! according to all the ads on the tv right now, either my winkee is gonna stop working or fall off unless I dance round my kitchen with someone who looks like my gran...and i'd better watch out if i play golf coz that means I'm gonna piddle myself instantly and wet the bed later..........all because i am 40...goddamit.

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                  • tornado
                    Top Poster +
                    • Oct 2008
                    • 218

                    #10
                    had no remote had to get up to turn over and only had 3 channels bbc1,2.and itv then came along channel4 and most went off by 12 do u remember when cable first came out had to turn a knob on the wall i do remember having to go on my roof every now and then when they used to cut me off to put the wires back in. now its wheres the remote

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                    • Tamarc
                      Junior Member
                      • Oct 2009
                      • 23

                      #11
                      @andystar,im there already so they tell me !!

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                      • buzzking5
                        Top Poster
                        • Dec 2008
                        • 146

                        #12
                        i thought that was brilliant...

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                        • shuggie1977
                          Newbie
                          • May 2010
                          • 1

                          #13
                          I remember when they used to play the national anthem last thing on the BBC. And what did we do before mobile phones??? Try leaving yours at home for a day and see if you miss it.

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                          • twoexcel
                            Newbie
                            • May 2010
                            • 1

                            #14
                            Thanks for the laugh

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                            • dannyrp03
                              Junior Member
                              • May 2008
                              • 23

                              #15
                              great read ,that ,gona show my teenage son when he finally gets up.maybe i should hide his phone to make the point

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