the youth of today

[Biglamb]

I lifted this from another forum..


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
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 child hood, 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 3 pennies!

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 favourite 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!

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-*******s!

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

[Lambchop]

Aint that the truth........................

[20 : 20]

well sead biglamb

[BOD]

A lot of things were so much better though,

Channel surfing wasn't a problem, there were only 3 channels until 1982.
And it didn't matter about the lack of tv choice as you always outdoors playing and getting into mischief.

Unless you were an inner city kid you had plenty of places to go and play, empty unused fields which quite often had ponds in where you could catch newts and things, derelict buildings and all the places that are now built on.

When they did start building houses in the fields you played in, you had building sites to play in, and a new game, hide from the security man on his occasional nightly visit.

Once a year you got to build a big fire on the nearest bit of open land, it was called a bonfire. It wasn't dismantled by the council or fire brigade, the only thing you had to be concerned about was the neighbouring gang who might set it alight before bonfire night if yours was bigger than theirs.
Yes there were neighbourhood gangs back then but any fights were mostly restricted to stone throwing.

You could buy fireworks that you could light in your hands then throw, a packet of bangers for a few pence. Bangers were also good for blowing up your old plastic toys with, that you'd grown tired of.

You could buy dangerous toys, clackers which apparently could break your wrists, you could thread a piece of string through a conker and quite happily waste a few hours hitting each other in the face with them.

You could buy realistic looking toy guns and play with them in the street.

You could buy sweets from big jars and just get what you could afford.

Walking or cycling to school wasn't a problem, there was hardly any traffic on the roads and pedophiles hadn't been invented then.

When you were at school you learnt things, you learnt that if you misbehave you get punished. Once a year you had a sports day where everybody took part in competitive events and no body was bothered about hurting the feelings of kids who weren't as good as others. Occasionally you'd get a surprise field trip out of the class room, no forms needed to be filled in by parents giving consent.

There were a lot less exams to worry about.

Chlamydia and aids hadn't been invented and were of no concern.

When you were 16 and left school and got a job, you could go into pubs and drink, provided you looked right, and if you were asked how old you are all you had to do is remember a false birthday.

[Dexter]

if thats the case i think i would have been fine

[Young-Paintball]

Being a kid my self I do have to agree with biglamb most of the people at my school don't care about money most don't even no the cost of living really. I meen I'm not poor but some kids go into town to go shopping with £200 maybe £300 in there back pocket and when I ask them isn't abit much? And they reply ''it's only £200....'' I really do feel sorry for these parents just being pushed about like rag dolls but on the other hand it is sort of there fault for letting them get away with it in the first point.

[Pob]

I think you lot are letting yourselves get old by thinking stuff like that what happened to looking to the future and forgetting the past I'm 24 and refuse to accept it in my head I'll allways be 16.

[biscuit]

pob i,m 43 and still think i,m 16 especially when my daughter(18) and nieces(23,24,26) bring their mates round

i know bad boy ,bad boy

but what can you do when your nieces and your daughters mates are walking round the house in just their underwear

[__KENDY__]

Got any pics ? ( just so we can see how your suffering)

[biscuit]

private collection

all mine ha ha ha ha

[D3ath ADder]

If you wanted to pull in a nightclub you had to ring their house number and possibly speak to their parents!. No text flirting just awkward hangover conversations about possibly meeting up again sober. You also can't remember her name or if she is hot or not.

[Pob]

Ha see your thinking about the past now you have to try remember there name in the morning when you want rid of them

[20 : 20]

Got any pics ? ( just so we can see how your suffering)

ha ha ha what a thing to ask lol

[Ginge]

I think you lot are letting yourselves get old by thinking stuff like that what happened to looking to the future and forgetting the past I'm 24 and refuse to accept it in my head I'll allways be 16.

Thats because you have a mental age of 16

[Ginge]

ha ha ha what a thing to ask lol

Hes not wrong. Pics or it never happened