Funny rant

[Muskieman]

E-Mail sent to me by my older brother...

 

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

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! We used to go play outside for hours without any parents around and all year around. You kids you're going outside for one hour and you're too cold or hot or you're bored. You would rather play video games or watch tv sitting on your ass all day.

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 screwing 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-buggers!

 

And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! And make good popcorn in a pot on 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

 

 

RFS

[limeyangler]

[tightline]

LMAO...I never considered myself to be old (35) until I just read your rant...lol Atari 2600...break out the mineral oils ma looks like the rheumatoid is actin up again...dammit!!

[Rich Clemens]

 

Yeah - they don't make cartoons like they used to.

Bring back the old one-button / one control joy stick.

It was the simple life.

 

 

I'll bet even ole GCD remembers the days when there was no such thing as 'CHAT' (Deja vu Glen ?)

Edited January 21, 2010 by Rich Clemens

[crappieperchhunter]

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!

 

 

Enjoyed the whole rant...but that part really put a smile on my face.

 

Thx for sharin.

[mbac31]

LMAO. To funny. I guess I'm old.

[solopaddler]

Funny 'cause it's true.

Kind of Andy Rooney-esque.

[bigugli]

I feel sooo sorry for the under 30's cause they don't know what they are missing. They're all plugged in, connected and bored to death. 2525 is happening too soon( have to be 50+ to understand that one).

[Hud]

Remember when Tom and Jerry was considered violent?

[Spiel]

Like I need a reminder of how old I'm getting....LOL Thanks randy.

 

 

2525 is happening too soon( have to be 50+ to understand that one).

 

Well I'm not yet 50 Bruce I'm wondering if you were alluding to this....?

 

[dave524]

Remember when Tom and Jerry was considered violent?

 

I remember before it was considered violent, probably because nobody worried about stuff like that yet

[lew]

I'm starting to feel REALLY old, cause I still remember when I was a kid in the 50's and everything was delivered right to your door, bread, milk, ice for the ice box and coal for the furnace, and it was delivered by HORSE & WAGON ... and that was in Toronto.

 

Even the sheenyman came by horse & wagon to pick up your junk....for FREE

 

Us kids were friends with all the drivers and they'd let us ride the horses down the street while they made their rounds. Today if a driver took the kids for a ride in his truck he's prolly get sued

 

I guess we were the rich folks on the block cause Dad made a whopping $25 a WEEK so we could actually afford a black & white TV........with a huge 6" screen

 

As for the new electronic world, I feel like I've been left behind because I don't even know what 1/2 the gadgets are that folks talk about anymore....what the heck is a Napster ??

[anders]

Remember when Tom and Jerry was considered violent?

 

Hahah I love it.....Wylie Coyote and the roadrunner weren't violant at all either, just wholesome childhood grooming.

 

Love that post Randy,

 

thanks

[shane]

We never had an Atari. We had a deck of cards.

We had a tv but we didn't have a tv guide. Didn't really need one because we only got two channels.

You 'under 50' guys had it too easy

[DRIFTER_016]

Funny 'cause it's true.

Kind of Andy Rooney-esque.

 

 

Yep!!

 

 

Us kids were friends with all the drivers and they'd let us ride the horses down the street while they made their rounds. Today if a driver took the kids for a ride in his truck he's prolly get sued

 

 

No, he would be hauled in as a suspected pedophile.

Edited January 21, 2010 by DRIFTER_016

[dave524]

I'm starting to feel REALLY old, cause I still remember when I was a kid in the 50's and everything was delivered right to your door, bread, milk, ice for the ice box and coal for the furnace, and it was delivered by HORSE & WAGON ... and that was in Toronto.

 

Yep, put out an empty milk bottle with the correct change in it for however many actual glass bottles you wanted on the front porch, like that would really last today

 

Bread man , think we had a card to put in the front window if we needed him to stop. I do remember on Sat morning he used to bring a tray of different sweet type buns to the door

 

Dad wore a suit to work, same job is now more casual, cleaners used to stop and pick up white shirts for laundry and a suit if it needed drycleaning. Man, she was some POed if she forgot to put the card in the window, she'd have to wash and press a shirt

 

We lived in the country, had to take our own trash to the dump. But that could be a lot of fun, never knew what sort of good stuff you'd find and then on occasion Dad bring a .22 and a box of shells and we have a blast shooting rats

Edited January 21, 2010 by dave524

[Jonny]

Let's haul our asses back to the 60's (which is not all that far back to me ).

 

Two channels on TV, both CBC, one of them French. If you wanted to see a movie, you had to stay up for the Late Show. After the Late Show you got the old Indian-head test pattern.

 

If you wanted to see a new-release movie in Sudbury, you went to the Capitol or Regent theatre. If you wanted a double-bill of second-run movies, you went to the Empire or Plaza theatre. If you wanted third-run or B movies (and some private necking), you went to the Notre Dame drive-in theatre, or the the 69 Drive-In (what a name!) on Hwy 69.

 

(Later, I got my first VCR in about 1976 and paid $800 for it - figure that out in 2010 dollars! About that same time, the first video game was "Pong". Atari's "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" was a big step up.)

 

If you wanted to get together with friends, you actually planned ahead when you were at school. If it was spur-of-the-moment you phoned them at home. If they weren't home then you went out and tried to find them at the usual haunts.

 

Man, the more I think about this, the more I think I sound like my grandfather if he were talking about the switch from silent movies to "talkies", or my Dad reminiscing about listening to "Amos and Andy" on the parlour radio!

[motion]

Nice piece. I remember when our parents bought us "safe" toys like lawn darts. Now that was a safe game. Wouldn't be able to do that now. And what ever happened to "real" wrestling on Saturday night? There was none of this WWF, WWE, IWF..............

[POLLIWOGG]

I remember reading about the internet in the 70's, they didn't say it would be over 50% porn, and Al Gore wasn't mentioned.

 

We used to hunt the neighbors farms and they didn't call their lawyers and insurance agents.

[Vtucciarone]

Bring back Tiny Talent time and the Commander Tom show. Oh ya and .02 double bubbles

[tdotfisherman]

I'm 23 and I wholeheartedly agree with that. What a good read.

 

There is a reason why I spend my free time playing sports, fishing, boating and at the cottage, instead of wasting my life on an I-Phone or Playstation.

[Tybo]

Kids have it so good thees days. Is because they get every thing free.

[Whitespinnerbait]

Also back in the days when we needed some energy = glass of milk and 1/2 bag of chocolate chip cookies ....Now = redbull ...

[crappieperchhunter]

In the late 60's we lived out in the country about 2 miles out of town. Walked around with pellet guns all the time. Every kid in our neighborhood had one.

 

Back in those days for fun we would go for bike rides and look for empty pop bottles in the ditches. Throw them in our carriers on our bikes and when we had enough pedal are butts across town to the corner store. The pop was stored in a cooler full of water. 25 cents worth of return bottles would get you a pop, bag of chips or pink elephant popcorn and a pack of Bazooka Joe bubblegum, with some lame arse cartoon in it to read.

 

Simpler times for sure. But I wouldn't trade it for anything though.

[Slop]

Thanks for the chuckle.

 

Back in the day we had snowball fights.....now there are drive by shootings.

 

Back in the day we played nikki...nikki nine door....now we have home invasions.

 

Back in the day food had real nutrients......