joe2cool
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Anyone That Was A Kid In The 80's Will Get A Kick Outta This
Got This in the email today. Found it funny
Subject: How Tough
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've reached the ripe old age of thirty-five, I can't help but
look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so ****in' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned 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--we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up
ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write
somebody a letter--with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way
across
the street and put it in the ****in' mailbox and it would take like a
week
to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it
yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and
the
DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and ****ed it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to
buy
you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or j****** to the
lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections
agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just
had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation
videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***!
Your guy was a little ****ing square! You 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 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! A tall guy
sat in front of you, you were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use
a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ... D'ya hear what the **** I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL
WEEK, you spoiled little b*******! That's exactly what I'm talking about!
You kids today have got it too easy You're spoiled, I swear to God! You
guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
Got This in the email today. Found it funny
Subject: How Tough
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've reached the ripe old age of thirty-five, I can't help but
look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so ****in' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned 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--we wanted to know
something, we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up
ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write
somebody a letter--with a pen!--and then you had to walk all the way
across
the street and put it in the ****in' mailbox and it would take like a
week
to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it
yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and
the
DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and ****ed it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?
You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to
buy
you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or j****** to the
lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy **** like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections
agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just
had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation
videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ***!
Your guy was a little ****ing square! You 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 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! A tall guy
sat in front of you, you were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that
was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use
a
little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on!
And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday
morning... ... D'ya hear what the **** I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL
WEEK, you spoiled little b*******! That's exactly what I'm talking about!
You kids today have got it too easy You're spoiled, I swear to God! You
guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!
