The UNDER 30 crowd

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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!

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!

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
 
just think though, many of the over 30 crowd experienced long-term jobs too back in the day of no cartoon network! us under 30 are lucky to get one

Oh yes, us under 30 folks have it easy....
 
that's pretty good stuff. i'd say you need to be over 40-45 for some of it though. the late 70's, early 80's arcade games were the shit. wallclimber and berzerk, were my faves. cassette what? 8-tracks, or an fm convertor were standard issue. or hell, CKLW was pretty good am radio. fm was mostly underground shit. the one constant is the cars. we street drove (on occasion) our 10-sec. car like it was nothing. every night was a cruise night in the warm weather, and a good race was only a fifty spot away.....

aahhh yessss.....the good old days.....:thumbsup:
 
doeas 28 count?..i never had thaqt shit growing up lol
fuckin kids today have toys that play with themselves lol

i had transformers that didnt transform? lol
 
Street racing was way more fun and if you got caught it was just a ticket. none of the rest of the BS that you have to go thru today.
 
lol I dont have kids but I tell all my friends kids the storys that my uncles and dad used to tell me and I always tell them when I was there age I had a full time job its all in good fun.
 
you forgot punishment for the close to 30 and up group was to stay inside and sit in our rooms that didnt have a tv or telephone... now their punishment is that they have to go outside without their video games... im only 28 but if you ask me the youth of today are a bunch of whiney little bitches that are afraid to talk to people and wont look others in the eyes like they are constantly lying
 
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LMFAO!!!!!!!


This is a story out of grumpy old men...

Old fuckers had secure jobs an income, retirement, low crime, better heath, loyalty,trust worthy women, and teachers that gave a shit, low cost college, and lower STD statistics. Until you fuckers got lazy and greedy and deceitful... Yeah we got it so easy fixing YOUR fuck ups!!!

Signed the under thirty crowed...
 
LMFAO!!!!!!!


This is a story out of grumpy old men...

Old fuckers had secure jobs an income, retirement, low crime, better heath, loyalty,trust worthy women, and teachers that gave a shit, low cost college, and lower STD statistics. Until you fuckers got lazy and greedy and deceitful... Yeah we got it so easy fixing YOUR fuck ups!!!

Signed the under thirty crowed...


umm thank you????:headscrat:headscrat:headscrat:headscrat
 
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!

You are still allowed to beat your children, but you can't break bones anymore and they would prefer you keep bruising to a minimum. Only about 5 states have outlawed corporal punishment on the school level and neither is Michigan or Florida. I'd be one of the parents who would definitely tell the teacher it was OK to beat my kid if he's out of line.

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?

My '67 Chrysler had a realistic FM converter in it to go along with the AM radio. This was in 1981-82. I also had a 8-track tape deck, but I can't remember the maker. When I got my '73 Buick Regal, I moved the tape deck to it. Cassettes were just starting to get big, so I got a Sparkomatic AM-FM-Cassette for the next car ('71 BMW 2002).

For my '64 Studebaker Daytona, I've bought a Fleetwood FM Converter and a Realistic 8-track tape deck to add to the factory AM radio. I've started buying some old 8-tracks (Beatles, Moody Blues, Buffalo Springfield, etc.) that fit the period of the car (late '60's). I'm trying to find a good reverb unit for it as well.

I've actually started looking at vintage stereo equipment, including turn tables and 8-track players. Some of this stuff is expen$ive. I was looking at a refurbished Pioneer stereo with 120MWZ per channel and it's $700!!!

If I get a GarageMaHal or large Man Cave, I might start being more serious about the equipment. I am looking for an 8-track recorder so I can make my own tapes for the car (click, click).

By the way, if anyone car find me a good copy of the "Don't Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina" 8-track tape by the Left Banke from 1967 you'd be my hero.
 
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I'm 27 and most of that is all true except we played Nintendo instead of Atari and we had microwaves. Other then that it's true. Damn I remember actually having to go out and do something to have fun, not sit and play X-box or anything like that.
 
im only 24 and didnt really have any of that until high school. the internet had barely started. I didnt have an on screen guide growing up, nor were Mp3's big at all. I think that little story is more targeted to the 40+ group
 
LMFAO!!!!!!!


This is a story out of grumpy old men...

Old fuckers had secure jobs an income, retirement, low crime, better heath, loyalty,trust worthy women, and teachers that gave a shit, low cost college, and lower STD statistics. Until you fuckers got lazy and greedy and deceitful... Yeah we got it so easy fixing YOUR fuck ups!!!

Signed the under thirty crowed...

Things that matter most - Must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. - Von Goethe

nuff said.
 
For my '64 Studebaker Daytona, I've bought a Fleetwood FM Converter and a Realistic 8-track tape deck to add to the factory AM radio. I've started buying some old 8-tracks (Beatles, Moody Blues, Buffalo Springfield, etc.) that fit the period of the car (late '60's). I'm trying to find a good reverb unit for it as well.


My dad's 67 Satellite project had a delaer installed reverb. They've had the car as a driver forever. The reverb broke and dad had it fixed but I think it may have died again. I'm sure it isn't going back in the car when dad is done, I can ask if he still ahs it, if it works, and what he would want for it if you want?
 
“If it is true that children pay for the sins of their fathers, then is it also true that fathers pay for the sins of their children?” Sherman Alexie
 
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