The spoiled under 30 crowd.

Shannow

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Oct 15, 2001
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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

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 Godamned 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 bloody library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!


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 Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damned 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 Boxes 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!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating!
All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote
control! 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 arse 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 rat-turds!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

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

 
I can look at people even 5 years younger and honestly say that, for the most part, they have things a lot easier, let alone looking back a whole generation. I imagine it's the same with people 5 years older than myself as well.

Don't forget digital cameras. If you wanted a photo you'd get someone else to take it then have to pay to get it developed. None of this take-100000-photos-of-myself-at-arms-length-and-put-them-all-on-myspace-without-it-costing-me-a-cent shit.

The big change I'm probably happiest about at this exact moment in time (other than music-related ones) would be internet banking. No more having to go to a bank, get money out, then do a lap around multiple suburbs to pay your water, electricity, rent, phone etc etc. Beautiful.
 
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 rat-turds!

That's actually getting worse. There used to be plenty of awesome cartoons on every morning on multiple channels. Now it's all about 'morning shows' with the same wanky content and token characters. What few cartoons you do actually get still are generic Japanese shit with cheap voice acting.

RIP Cheeze TV, Agro's Cartoon Connection et al
 
I can still remember the first night we got a VCR and dad was tapping Mr Men off ABC. I can remember asking him "what are you going to put on the other side of the tape dad?"
 
I remember when we first got a VCR (actually, it was the second time, but the first time we tried recording on it) and my mum set it up to tape something later that night (a Clint Eastwood film, if memory serves). Thing is, she set it up some six hours before it was due to start, and I assumed you were able to tape stuff in advance.
 
That's actually getting worse. There used to be plenty of awesome cartoons on every morning on multiple channels. Now it's all about 'morning shows' with the same wanky content and token characters. What few cartoons you do actually get still are generic Japanese shit with cheap voice acting.

RIP Cheeze TV, Agro's Cartoon Connection et al

He-Man
Transformers
TMNT
All been made into hollywood movies with actors and CGI. Cant see the same thing for wow wow wubsy and dora!
 
Mighty Mouse
Speed Racer
Some bloke walking on the moon
Pong was our first video game
I spent $1,100 on an Amiga.
 
what about the 70'S ... F-Troop, My Favorite Martin, Gentle Ben, The Goodies, The Beachcombers all on ABC black in white too ... hhaha Balck white TV was GREAT IN "78 hhahahha
 
Back in the 80's if you couldn't get laid you had to go on Perfect Match and make a spectacle of yourself in front of a national audience.
None of this discrete online dating business. Total poser shit.
 
I'm 29 and pretty much everything in that list also applied to me!

Lots of these mod cons we have are a bit superfluous. I was perfectly happy living without a mobile phone until I relented in 2003. I'd much rather have grown up in the 80s and 90s like I did than now, as my 16yo sister is.