The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd

[TheDirtyDigger]

Just got this email....sorta funny....if you're over 30.


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 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!

There were no MP3's or Limewire! 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 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 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 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!

Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile,

Whether they are under 30 or not.)

[STL]

I'm still a long way from 30 but I see the irony of it. When you're young you think your completely right. When you're old you still think your completely right. :D

But there are actually some things that make you think up there.

[The_Damned]

thats gold

[gamblor916]

It's funny cause it's true

[Bartrim]

"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!"

Pure classic:D

[GoktimusPrime]

Umm... some of that is true, some isn't... I'm about 30 so I'll use myself as an example...


I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.
That is true. The internet didn't really come along until I was in year 12/1st year uni. But we did have local dial-up BBSes before then. Ahh... Telnet. ;)


If we

Wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and

Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

That was true when I was in primary school and early junior high school, but I think they'd changed to computer databases by time I was in senior high school and definitely by uni (in which case the Internet was definitely around).


There was no email!! We had to actually write

Somebody a letter, with a pen!
There was email within local dial-up BBSes. email and pmail! (we call them PMs now) :D But yeah, if you wanted to write to anyone who wasn't a member on the BBS you subscribed to you would have to write snail mail - and back then most people didn't have BBS subscriptions.


...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!
That is true. :)


There were no MP3's or Limewire! 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!
Erm... *shrug* I was never into shoplifting as a kid... I did frequently borrow CDs and copy them to cassette tape though. :) We didn't have CD burners back in my school days.


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!
Yes we did have call waiting actually. Although it would screw me over if I was online because it would kick me off my dialup connection... and back in those days BBSes had limited ports so only a limited number of people could log onto the board at any one time, so if you lost connection you would have to try and reconnect... I would sometimes spend hours attempting to reconnect (I had a program that would automatically redial infinitely until I reconnected... sometimes I fell asleep by time it reconnected and the BBS would time me out and boot me off!). So I would switch off EasyCall (by dialing *10# iirc)... but then of course, people couldn't call in and my parents would get mad because the phone would constantly be engaged when I was online. :p And then I would forget to switch EasyCall back on again. Oops. :p

Naturally by time we got internet (dial-up) my parents decided to invest in a second phone line. :D


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!
I still don't have caller ID on my land line phone. And it doesn't work half the time on my mobile because of all the private numbers. I know someone who refuses to answer calls from private numbers on his mobile.


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!
Is this guy really 30 or 45? I grew up with 8-bit Nintendo (Famicom and NES). By time I was in high school, it was Super Famicom/Nintendo. Playstation came about when I was in senior high school, but only in Japan (we read about it in magazines). It didn't come out here until I was in uni.


You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what

Was

On!
True!


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
That was true for my family, but I knew other families that did have remote controls, so that's not necessarily true. Our VCR had a remote control that could change channels, so we often watched TV through the VCR and changed channels through the VCR remote. Our first VCR was a top-loader with a wired remote control!! Kids these days have wireless! :p (other families I knew had wireless - our family was like the first on the block to get a VCR so it was very old :p)


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 bastards!
That's true. But it's still true for me because I don't have pay TV! :p But of course, we have YouTube now. :D


And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat

Something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
Not true. My family had a microwave straight from the 80s - since I started primary school we had it. Kids of the 80s were the "latchkey generation" - we'd come home after school and babysat ourselves until mum and dad came home after work. The microwave was our cook!

And our microwave was relatively new compared to our neighbours - ours had buttons! Our neighbours microwaves had DIALS! *click click click click click - DING!*
Ours was the first generation of "beep beep beep" touch button microwaves. :)

Ironically we had a dishwasher too... but I don't have one now, so I've gone totally backwards in that department! :( (I hate washing dishes)


P.S.: other "old school" things from my youth:
1/ We never had any fancy graphics when we were online. Everything was in ASCII and ANSI! Emoticons were purely made from keyboard strokes. (:
2/ Now people tend to wrap their actions in asterisks, e.g.: *giggle* - in the old days we used <>, so it was like <giggle> and <evil.giggle> - I suspect that HTML might have brought about the change from <> to **

<vague.shrug> B^)

[Pulse]

That's the exact same tone of voice my weird, old neighbour with a shotgun uses to scare us whippersnappers away... :D

[Gutsman Heavy]

damn kids with their hip-hop music and pac-man videogames!

[kup]

I disagree, particularly for people living in Sydney.

The previous generation had it much easier when it comes to financial security than mine or subsequent generations if they are without support. Back then a 'normal ' home didn't cost a million bucks nor half their wage used to go on just the rent or mortgage.

If you are set with financially stablished parents, that changes it all though but if you don't have that option then bad luck.

However I am not over 30 but I am very close :eek:

[1orion2many]

:confused:Gok the year he mentioned was 1980 and I don't remeber call waiting or Microwaves in the average household, as far as I can remember Video players were only just starting to come into homes but were like about $1200 so it wasn't for the average Joe. The reason I have such a good recollection of that year is because(giving away my age now)I was in year 8:o. Kup back in the mid 80's there was a Global recession(I think) and a lot of small business went belly up, unemployment was pretty high at the time as well, if you got a job, any job you were happy. TV was crap in general, here in Perth we had channel 9, 7 and the ABC. I spent more time down the local swamp collecting various animals than I did at home as this was by far more entertaining:D.

[kup]

:confused:Gok the year he mentioned was 1980 and I don't remeber call waiting or Microwaves in the average household, as far as I can remember Video players were only just starting to come into homes but were like about $1200 so it wasn't for the average Joe. The reason I have such a good recollection of that year is because(giving away my age now)I was in year 8:o. Kup back in the mid 80's there was a Global recession(I think) and a lot of small business went belly up, unemployment was pretty high at the time as well, if you got a job, any job you were happy. TV was crap in general, here in Perth we had channel 9, 7 and the ABC. I spent more time down the local swamp collecting various animals than I did at home as this was by far more entertaining:D.

I was living overseas then so I missed all that. TV was freaking awesome! and I had a BetaMax player. My quality of life was better too so I can't really say how things were in Aus.

I was mainly referring to the Baby boomer generation that bought property for pocket change and are now set for life such as my Uncle who has been living in Australia for like 40 years.

[Bartrim]

I think this was meant to be a light hearted funny email and not really over analysied.

I remember our first VCR player. we got it in 1984/1985. The video cassette was inserted through the top and the remote was connected to the video by a cord. The good old days.:D

[kup]

I think this was meant to be a light hearted funny email and not really over analysied.

I remember our first VCR player. we got it in 1984/1985. The video cassette was inserted through the top and the remote was connected to the video by a cord. The good old days.:D

That's how our BetaMax was :) It also had a giant clock which was a separate box so you can program record times.

[1orion2many]

:)Betamax top loaders(giggles:D), that was a far superior format than VHS but if you can bombard the average person with enough BS then I guess you'll win out in the end unfortunately:rolleyes:. Yes I know it's meant to be a light hearted thread but I'm a crusty old fart:p:D.

[loophole]

Beta is awesome we still had one at our place until about 6 months ago it just didnt die!! although now its in a tip somewhere :D

[Pulse]

I remember our first VCR player. we got it in 1984/1985. The video cassette was inserted through the top and the remote was connected to the video by a cord. The good old days.:D

Remote Controls? talk about technology... :D

(I remember the days when you had to actually walk over to the TV to change the channel... :o)

[jacksplatt11]

I was born in 87 and the first TV I grew up with didn't have a remote, we did have a VCR with a remote though, but if you wanted to FF/REW you had to aim it at the VCR the whole time.. Ahh those were the days

[GoktimusPrime]

I remember our first VCR player. we got it in 1984/1985. The video cassette was inserted through the top and the remote was connected to the video by a cord.
Yes! That's what our first VHS VCR was like!

And remember THIS?

http://www.retrolovedeluxe.co.uk/UploadedFiles/Products/Ivory%20746.JPG
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[STL]

Yes! That's what our first VHS VCR was like!

And remember THIS?

http://www.retrolovedeluxe.co.uk/UploadedFiles/Products/Ivory%20746.JPG
Zzzk-zzzzrrr... Zzk-zzzrrr... Zzzzkk-zzzzzrrrrr... Zzzzzzzk-zzzzzzzzzrrrrrrrr... Zkzr...

I loved those. I was very depressed the day my parents replaced our old one of those w/ that new digital stuff. I loved how the dial turned back and forth. I remember using pens, pencils or lego pieces to turn the dial and watching in fascination as it did.

[Rampage]

I think this was meant to be a light hearted funny email and not really over analysied.

I remember our first VCR player. we got it in 1984/1985. The video cassette was inserted through the top and the remote was connected to the video by a cord. The good old days.:D

and that cord was only 3 feet long so you had to get up to use it anyways:P



And remember THIS?

http://www.retrolovedeluxe.co.uk/UploadedFiles/Products/Ivory%20746.JPG
Zzzk-zzzzrrr... Zzk-zzzrrr... Zzzzkk-zzzzzrrrrr... Zzzzzzzk-zzzzzzzzzrrrrrrrr... Zkzr...

phone banking would be a bitch:D

[liegeprime]

The article/ letter/ email whatever forgot to touch on another thing the kids today have it easy with - Cellular phones. The early phones where the size of pringles back then and cost an arm and a leg and just as heavy. It didnt have text messaging or any other multimedia stuff, now its just everywhere and you can reach anyone anywhere coz lets face it every freakin person owns a celphone. They even made a joke out of it back in Phils. We had a funny home video type gag show. They dressed someone as a hobo/beggar and had him ride one of the public transport jeeps, a loud celphone ring is heard after some time and who do you expect the call is for, yup its the hobo and he's speaking to his "dad" - in perfect english grammar, no less :D:p. You can really see the shocked looks in the faces of the other passenger prolly thinking, Wha?!? a homeless greasy looking , tattered clothed beggar, talking on a latest model mobile, in english ( which is NOT a common thing to happen) no less to his "dad" :p:rolleyes:. hehe Oh I can relate to the humor in this article as I am over 30s

[Bartrim]

phone banking would be a bitch:D

ROFL :D

[i_amtrunks]

I'm only 23 but I clearly remember most of "the good old day" stuff.

Had to use the Card Catalogue system in the libraries, and the Internet was only really starting to become a useful research tool in my last few years of High School. Blacktown Library was one of the first in NSW to get a computerised Catalogue system, but it was terrible for so long it was easier to use the cards! :p

Always had to record music off the stereo onto a walkman (again until the final years of High School), write letters to people and wait for Saturdays to watch Cartoons. I'd say this joke email is more suitable to those of or around 20 years old, as I am sure there are plenty of people in their mid twenties that like me are caught 50/50 in the "old days" and "new days". I know that people in their mid twenties sure as hell didnt get it as easy as those who are now in their teens! :D

[kup]

I don't understand this 'wait for saturday' to watch cartoons.

When I was a kid we had cartoons every afternoon from 4pm-6pm and if I remember correctly they also showed cartoons in the afternoon here in Aus like Beast Wars and Ninja Turtles. There were also weekday morning cartoons with Agro.

Only recently has Saturdays become the only time to watch decent cartoons. Australia was never a star with its free to air broadcast but its a lot worse now than it was 10-15 years ago.

[Pulse]

One thing I can't stand is how "safety conscious" everything has become these days. :D

I mean, when I was a kid, hurting yourself was all a part of growing up. I can remember this one time when I went head-over-handlebars on my bike while on a gravel driveway. Another occasion during the "skateboard era" I had some bad stacks on my street, and then there are trampolines - if you've never gotten your head/arm/leg caught between the springs = you've never experienced real pain! :D

What was the sitcom from the 80's called? "Growing Pains"? :o

[TheDirtyDigger]

What was the sitcom from the 80's called? "Growing Pains"? :o

I was so in love with the nerd sister from that show.:rolleyes:

[i_amtrunks]

I mean, when I was a kid, hurting yourself was all a part of growing up. I can remember this one time when I went head-over-handlebars on my bike while on a gravel driveway. Another occasion during the "skateboard era" I had some bad stacks on my street, and then there are trampolines - if you've never gotten your head/arm/leg caught between the springs = you've never experienced real pain! :D

I know what you mean about the Trampolines, all the kiddies have super padded ones these days, you have to be incredibly clever to get snagged by the springs. Adding insult to (non existent) injury is that weird side netting they put around the edges. Because Trampolines are so small you cant even flip on them anymore. Might as well get the kids a jogging trampoline then, for all the bouncing they can do.

I have never seen any kids in my local area trying to build a bike ramp with flimsy planks of wood and bricks... those and the good old "chicken with glove gun" were the bane of my childhood years. :D

[Bartrim]

I remember one time when I was a kid. I was jumping on the trampoline as my brother and cousin were playing with a totem tennis pole. I was getting real good air on my jumps and as I leap high into the air my cousin swings and misses the tennis ball loses grip on his racket, it soars through the air and catches me straight in the mouth... Now that is REAL pain.

BTW Pulse you now owe me a free TF for bringing up the memories of "Growing Pains"

[kup]

One thing I can't stand is how "safety conscious" everything has become these days. :D

I mean, when I was a kid, hurting yourself was all a part of growing up. I can remember this one time when I went head-over-handlebars on my bike while on a gravel driveway. Another occasion during the "skateboard era" I had some bad stacks on my street, and then there are trampolines - if you've never gotten your head/arm/leg caught between the springs = you've never experienced real pain! :D

What was the sitcom from the 80's called? "Growing Pains"? :o

Remember those large 80s Skateboards? Two friends and I used to sit on one and then roll down this massively steep long hill (I sill remember the name, Prescott st) and we used to reach crazy speeds and we had to jump out onto the grass at the end of the street or we would go into the main traffic and we were going too quick to stop it with our feet.

One time we went down like usual but a car at full speed turned into the street and was heading straight towards us, we had no where soft to jump to and going too fast too stop, the car had seen us but it was too late so he slammed the breaks but there was no way he was going to stop in time, we jump out of the board onto the hard road and rolled to the sides scrapping our knees and elbows badly and the skateboard went right under the car before it stopped. The car break noise was very loud and a lot of people came out to see. We were ok but bloody and the dude started to swear out of his car window and drove off.

[1orion2many]

I don't understand this 'wait for saturday' to watch cartoons.

When I was a kid we had cartoons every afternoon from 4pm-6pm and if I remember correctly they also showed cartoons in the afternoon here in Aus like Beast Wars and Ninja Turtles. There were also weekday morning cartoons with Agro.

Only recently has Saturdays become the only time to watch decent cartoons. Australia was never a star with its free to air broadcast but its a lot worse now than it was 10-15 years ago.

Ah yes, the excitement of the school holidays and 2 weeks solid of cartoons, other than that it was only Saturdays but this was in the 70's and things had improved by the 80's. I used to watch in the 70's The Chatanooga cats, Secret Squirrel, Squidly Diddly, Space Ghost, Captain Nemo(very lame), Spiderman, The Herculoids, Bannana Splits show, Atom Ant, Roger Ramjet, Captain Pugwash, H R Puff N Stuff, The Wacky Races, Scooby Doo, GIGANTOR, the list goes on and on:o.

[Pulse]

BTW Pulse you now owe me a free TF for bringing up the memories of "Growing Pains"

Um, Oh, Ah... :D


Remember those large 80s Skateboards? Two friends and I used to sit on one and then roll down this massively steep long hill (I sill remember the name, Prescott st) and we used to reach crazy speeds and we had to jump out onto the grass at the end of the street or we would go into the main traffic and we were going too quick to stop it with our feet.

One time we went down like usual but a car at full speed turned into the street and was heading straight towards us, we had no where soft to jump to and going too fast too stop, the car had seen us but it was too late so he slammed the breaks but there was no way he was going to stop in time, we jump out of the board onto the hard road and rolled to the sides scrapping our knees and elbows badly and the skateboard went right under the car before it stopped. The car break noise was very loud and a lot of people came out to see. We were ok but bloody and the dude started to swear out of his car window and drove off.

I know that pain first-hand... :o

Sitting on the skateboard gave you a real rush as you weren't only closer to the road, but you also had a shorter distance to fall... :o

[i_amtrunks]

Remember those large 80s Skateboards?

Ah those single kick skateboards that were so wide and short they made perfect luge boards. I remember may a time laying down on them going face first down the steep end of Breakfast Road. (Pulse, Leige and Rampage should know where I am talking about). Although anywhere in Marayong Heights was a good spot for the luge!

Did anyone else ever use to play Trampoline tackles? You tilted the trampoline up on it's side, then two people had to climb up the springs and hold on to them while a third ran in an tackled the trampoline mat. Not only did you have to stay on, you had to avoid the springs too!

[Thanatos]

I'm one of the younger collectors here (19) and I gotta say, there are things there I remember from "back in the old days". I didn't get to use the internet until probably the very last year of primary school, and even then it was fairly primitive (nothing at home and a school that didn't get heaps of funding). I had a penpal in grade 3, 4 and 5 and that was letters. I remember recording to my walkman before kazaa. I Was sort of born into the Super nintendo era, rather than nintendo, but I remember when Mario 64 was nothing short of amazing.

Show this to my 6 year old brother, he'd be telling quite a different story. :D

[Golden Phoenix]

One thing I can't stand is how "safety conscious" everything has become these days. :D

I mean, when I was a kid, hurting yourself was all a part of growing up. I can remember this one time when I went head-over-handlebars on my bike while on a gravel driveway. Another occasion during the "skateboard era" I had some bad stacks on my street, and then there are trampolines - if you've never gotten your head/arm/leg caught between the springs = you've never experienced real pain! :D

What was the sitcom from the 80's called? "Growing Pains"? :o

It is a real shame too. How are we supposed to remove the stupids from the population now?

[gamblor916]

It is a real shame too. How are we supposed to remove the stupids from the population now?

Don't worry, emulating jackass will take care of it.