i think just a 'few' of us will enjoy this..just had to share!

[Merc]

THE SPOILEDUNDER-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

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 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 mailbox 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 @#*% 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 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!

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 on screen menu and no remote control!
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 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 rat-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
and shake 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 lasted five minutes back in 1980!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile, whether they are under 30 or not.)

[Kangaroo]

that amused me even though im only 20

[~phoenix~]

Thing is, i'm only 23 and i get angry at today's teens or sometimes younger. So by the time i'm thirty plus, i hate to imagine how bitter i'd be!

[blondiebear]

Jiffy pop was too expensive for us to use at home. We only spent money on it for convenience when we were camping!

[butterfly525]

Pfft well it's a wonder all you old geezers have survived this long, if life was THAT hard for you.

[Swallow The Knife]

I'm only 20, but I found that hilarious.

I feel I might of heard most of that before from my mum tho. Lol.

[Stellata]

Well, we just had black and white TV!
And no phone until I was about 8.

[Snorkmaiden]

Ha! I remember those days! My "computer" was a zx spectrum. Took 20 mins to load a game from a cassette tape then it wouldn't work cos it was set at the wrong volume!?! We had 4 tv channels - no cable - and going to the movies was a real treat, happened once a year for a special occasion. Kids today have everything handed to em on a shiny silver plate. Listen to me.... I'm 29, but sound like my mother!
*shakes head and sighs*

[DUNFERMLINEBOY]

This is all so true! Lol am assuming the contributor isn't from Scotland or Englad cos we didn't have cable tv in the 1970#s early 80's!

Better than that up until 1982 there were 3 channels , BBC2 was part time, and BBC1 And ITV frequently closed down before midnight, there was no breakfast tv until early 1980's so stations sometimes didn't open up til the back of 9!

Radio stations closed for the night too! Cd's only came about in the mid 80's Video Recorders early 80's!

But yeah the ZX Spectrums were good for their time BECAUSE THEY WERE IN COLOUR !!!! AZtari brilliant 2!

Awe those were the days!

[random.swirls]

I may not be 30 but most of that was true for me!

[Love_Wombat]

Over 30 pfft try 40 on for size... You young uns eh?

[Tears of Solitude]

Im 34 and remember the ZX81 Having to key in the programme from Magazines and it still not working. hehehehehe

Jet Set Willy was my fave game in the 80's and Attic Attack on the ZX Spectrum.

Them were the days hehehehe

[Snorkmaiden]

Yeah I still make normal popcorn. And Attic Attack was cool! Would still play it now but the tape player ate it about 20 years ago...