when I was a lad........

xern · 16-01-2003 9:14pm #1

when I was a lad........

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 butchers where they worked for tuppence 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 five, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so f**kin' easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a goddamned 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 f**kin' postbox 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 damned record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape music off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the Beginning and f**k it all up! You want to hear about hardship?

You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless guy to buy you a copy of "Fiesta" at the newsagent! It was either that or pull off to the lingerie section of the Shaw's catalog! These were your options!

We didn't have fancy sh*t 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 mum,
a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!!
You just had to pick it up and take your chances.

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation 2 video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics were pure sh*t! 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 theatre there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If 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 on screen 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 the f**k I'm saying!?!
We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little b*****ds!
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 last five minutes back in 1989!

ShayK1 · 17-01-2003 2:22pm

mmmmm LIKE ITS OUR FAULT!!

YOU GOT ISSUES MAN!!
WE DIDN'T ASK TO BE BORN WHEN YOU WHERE STARTING PUBERTY..........MAMMY AND DADDY JUST HAPPEN TO GET A LITTLE DRUNK OK!!
NOW STOP YOUR MOANY MOANY B1TCHINESS AND GET BACK TO WORK YA DAM SLACKER!!
(i do realise you may not be slacking off work right now but it just seem appropriate!)

zAbbo · 17-01-2003 2:26pm

Originally posted by xern

You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1989!

You wouldn`t last 5 minutes in 2003, u uber fúcknut

TomTom · 17-01-2003 2:38pm

i'm a child of the 80's and i seem to be doing fine in 03.
God bless the days of wonderly waggon and scrap saturday.

I would not like to grow up in this day and age.

DeadBankClerk · 17-01-2003 3:02pm

TomTom, bazH and ShayK1; you guys are such retards.

roffle xern

strat · 17-01-2003 3:26pm

im with marc on this one

hehehe gg xerm

Dazzer · 17-01-2003 4:09pm

I think they just have thier sarcasm detectors turned off.

ykt0di9url7bc3 · 17-01-2003 4:25pm

Dont look back in anger.......?

I enjoyed growing up so i'm not going to sock it to the next generation just coz they have a greater access to technology...

You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1989!

i could live without TV, computers, phone, music..... as long as there is women, food and sport i''ll be happy but presently i'm enjoying all the advances this world has achieved!

deezoid · 17-01-2003 4:44pm

1989???? You wanna try 1979 guys. No computers, only Tom and Jerry Cartoons, internet (what the fu<k is the internet)! 1989, you had it lucky!

JessieG · 17-01-2003 4:59pm

ahhhh soon 2019 will come and the little hormone bags of today will be bitching about how the kids of the future wouldnt have lasted five minutes back in 2003 . one big circle really their time will come my friends .....their time will come