MeganLove
08-08-2006, 01:13 PM
> > 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 blizzard 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 31, 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 -- 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 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 damn 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 begining and f@#* 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!
> >
> > Those were your options!
> >
> > We didn't have fancy shit 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 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 ass!
> > Your guy was a little 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 I'm saying!?! We had to wait
> > ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
> >
> > 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 have
> > lasted five minutes back in 1980!
:)
> > 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 blizzard 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 31, 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 -- 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 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 damn 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 begining and f@#* 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!
> >
> > Those were your options!
> >
> > We didn't have fancy shit 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 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 ass!
> > Your guy was a little 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 I'm saying!?! We had to wait
> > ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
> >
> > 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 have
> > lasted five minutes back in 1980!
:)