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growin up in the 80s

FISHTALES

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If you're over the age of 21 this will crack
you up... 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 twenty-nine, 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

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 beginning 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! 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

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!
 
LOL

The 80s sucked.

But being in the first wave of computer users and programmers was cool as hell.

And cartoons and Saturdays only SUCKED!! No sci fi channel either!

man life was rough back then.
 
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