IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

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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. 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 mailb ox and it would take like a week to get there!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! 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'd usually talk over the beginning and messed it all up!


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! 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 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 Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With g ames like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ! 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 likeLIFE!

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 or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just
screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little b ook 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 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 bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up ... we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing andshake it over the stove forever like an idiot. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.

You guys wouldn't have l asted five minutes back in 1980!

[NATE]

TweetI remember when saturday moring was a big deal for cartoons. it was the only day when you'd get a few hours of them in a row. You had to get up early but it was worth it. Friday night was almost as good as x-mas eve bc you knew upon waking fun was to be had. More times than not it was the same old cartoons as the previous saturday but it really didn't matter.

Those were the days...

If only Spongebob, Ed, Edd and Eddie and Jimmy Nuetron was around back then...that would have been PERFECT!

[kite]

Tweetlol, so true.

[daved150]

Tweetlmao!! i say that stuff to my kids all the time. you should see the look on their faces! the best was when my 7yr old said "dad, tell me about the olden days...did you really have to get up to change channels?!!"..little sh*t!

[supasaiyan99]

TweetFunny!!! I wonder when I have kids what would I tell them about the 90's and 2000's?

[daved150]

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Funny!!! I wonder when I have kids what would I tell them about the 90's and 2000's?

you'll remember when you actually had to type the words on a keyboard.

[supasaiyan99]

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you'll remember when you actually had to type the words on a keyboard.

lol...true!!!

[mick-G]

TweetLol, good to see the tradition still lives on.

[chaos]

Tweetthat is some funny shit,,,lmao

[Lily]

TweetLOL good one and so true!

[Lily]

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I remember when saturday moring was a big deal for cartoons. it was the only day when you'd get a few hours of them in a row. You had to get up early but it was worth it. Friday night was almost as good as x-mas eve bc you knew upon waking fun was to be had. More times than not it was the same old cartoons as the previous saturday but it really didn't matter.

Those were the days...

If only Spongebob, Ed, Edd and Eddie and Jimmy Nuetron was around back then...that would have been PERFECT!

I couldn't wait for Tom & Jerry and Scoobie Doo!!

[Lily]

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lmao!! i say that stuff to my kids all the time. you should see the look on their faces! the best was when my 7yr old said "dad, tell me about the olden days...did you really have to get up to change channels?!!"..little sh*t!

olden days...lololol

[mick-G]

TweetI feel soo sorry for you guy, lol! When i was growing up we didn't even have live animation. Ever see the animation that is like flipping thru a deck of cards and you see each step of movement? That what i had to deal with! Then they didn't even have air conditioning. Think about spending all summer with no air and on top of it i had to cut 7 acre of grass a wk, and wit one of them damn roll cutters, not even gas power!! Damn poooceees!!

[DJDIGGLER]

TweetFunny stuff I remember all of that! I still get to say I walked through 5 feet of snow being that Buffalo often had blizzards and I walked to school in it. In buffalo there would have to be unbelievable amounts of snow to close school.

Buying games or toys meant going around the neighborhood asking if you could cut peoples grass in the summer, rake the leaves in the fall, and shovel the driveway in the winter. And our lawns weren't these new crappy 1/2 acre lots! They were 2-3 acre lots so when you did 3 lawns in a day you were tired as shit!

The cartoons were actually entertaining and contained good ol fashioned violence. Unlike these new school dorky cartoons like Pokemon etc etc.

I agree these kids now are spoiled brats!!

[superdog]

TweetJustice League
Transformers
GI Joe
Thunder Cats
He Man

and

Dungeons and Dragons oh yeah baby DND...