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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 Brats
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

rotary phones.

pay phones, no cel.

We had a few things better.......cane sugar pops, Bubs Daddy gum, and no aids.

.....AND WE LIIIKED IT!!!!

I had to laugh the other day. Until I found time to run a cable to my shop, I hooked up the small TV in there with rabbit ears to it so I could get local channels. My 8-year-old saw the antenna on the counter when I pulled them out and said "What's that?"

My wife and I were cleaning out a closet several years ago and pulled out an LP. Our daughter who was four at the time said "wow, that's a big CD ROM!"
 :laugh:

How about real to real tape recorders, vinyl LP & 45 records, 3 cent stamps, 20 cents a gallon regular gas, and believe it or not, paved roads were concrete, no black top, a soda was 10 cents, if you wanted something you worked and saved you money until you could buy it. I could go on and on, but I'm starting to feel old. Bummer.

and the only `time shifting`was done by Captain Kirk... if you wanted to watch a show you had to be home... remember no seat belts in the back, lap belts up front, ignition keys on the dash, 8 tracks, going down the street to a friends house to watch `colour TV`...typewriters, metal oil cans that you opened with a spout, full service gas stations, soda came only in bottles, and Apollo launches evey year.... now I`m feeling old...

When I was a kid, we actually had to push or pull to open the door at the supermarket (a "supermarket" by 1970's standards).  I remember, probably in the late 70's, going to a store that had those mats that you stepped on to open the doors. My mother used to get mad at my brother and I for jumping up and down on the to make the doors open.

Then you had to deal with triple backside bra hooks, the correct place for the matchbook for the eight track to play...
Creighton

here`s one of the more addictive pages on the web...

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/1/fpart/1/vc/1

I also remember this large floor model TV. This a pic of me in 1974. We had an antenna, but you couldn't control it from the inside. I guess something was broken. We had 3 TV stations, but they wouldn't all have a good picture at the same time. Our antenna was attached to a pole at the corner of the house that ran from ground level up above the 2nd story. So, when you wanted to change channels, someone would have to go outside and turn this pole by hand. The other person would stand inside and would rap on the window when the picture was good. We lived pretty close to the Ohio Turnpike too and the TV would pick up truckers' CB talk.

now that`s a picture that belongs on that link....

Those all look to be street/car scenes (and pretty neat too). I have some that could go on there. There is one with me and my brother trick or treating and dressed up as clowns. I would say it is about 1977 or so. We are at the curb and the patrol car is next to us and the cop is leaning out the window with a big smile. It is a pretty cool pic with the car, the uniform, etc.

it eventually covers just about every facet of life```` here`s a page of Christmas pics.. sounds like yours belong....

 http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/page/1/fpart/128/vc/1

and when you`re bored, here`s another...



http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

Not going to get much sympathy from us that over 60, try growing up in the 40-50-60's.
If you had a TV it was black and white.  You had one phone, sitting on a table with a cord and a dial.
No Air conditioning, Milkman came every day.  Never heard of a school bus.

No copiers, used mimeograph instead, Typewriters had cloth ribbons.  to open a soda or beer you needed a
church key.  

BG

Those are some really neat shots. I'll have to dig out some pics!

Rotary phones lasted a while. Remember if you made a mistake while dialing...5 (tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,) 4 (tick, tick, tick, tick) 2 (tick, tick) 8 (tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick), 6...o crap!  Start over....5 (tick, tick, tick, tick, tick)...    :darn:

At the grocery store... sometimes mom would LEAVE us in the car as she shopped  ( '68 GTO Dark Green with black interior) my brother and I would dang near sweat to death... Or if we got to go in.. and we were good we got a soda from the square top 56 models in the corner for a quarter ... one was a Coke the other a 7up... beside them was the large basket you brought your return bottles in... I remember badly rolled/recycled Cokes and Pepsi... Wish now we would have just drank them and set the 6 packs on a shelf somewhere...
The TV remote we had was my little brother.... I was the dish washer... I would stand in the kitchen and watch the Muppet Show from the reflection in the oven door as I did the dishes... I walked to school from K to the 3rd grade
about 3 blocks... no way today! You have to check the internet to see where the child molesters live now...
Had a '78 Olds with an 8 track... EAGLES, CCR and Charlie Daniels....
Going to the Library was a good one... look through the slides/or was it called fish slides?.... to look up old news paper articles.... wow... enough...

I remember rushing home from school to watch Batman....the title screen would come on and it said in big words...Batman...In Color....NOT ON MY TV !!   Black and White with channels 2, 4 & 5....then years later we got two more stations in town...thought we were living high on the hog then.

We had one phone - rotary - I must of loved Batman a lot because I put a big batman sticker on it and the phone was bright red...I guess I thought I would maybe get a call from the Commissioner about some trouble with the Riddler or the Joker.

I remember getting real toys for gifts like Tonka toys, matchbox cars, BB guns and stuff that required an imagination to go along with it - not like all these dumb video games these days.

Those were fun days...I hate being a grown-up.

We only had a black and white TV into the early 70's.  My friend down the street had a color console TV with UHF!  That was something!  We walked 6 blocks to school, walked home for lunch and then back to school and then home again at the end of the day.  My sister has 8 kids and one day she was telling them that they needed to get out of the house and be more active.  She told them about our walks to and from school--they did not believe her so she loaded them in the van and took them over to the old neighborhood and clocked the distance.  We were walking almost two miles a day just to school and back!

This thread reminds me of one of my all-time favorite Monty Python skits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Enjoy!

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

Who remembers the first time they saw a garage opened by a remote and not by your hand?  I remember pressing the button on our Genie back in the seventies, as a kid, over and over again.  That was fancy.

I think my kids will tell their kids, "When I was a kid, we had to walk to school.  There was an actual building that you used to sit in, and there were these people called teachers."