I am not the author of this post.. I just came across it on another forum and had me laughing quite a bit.

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When I was a kid, advlts 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 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 my 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 forty, 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 catalog!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter-with a pen! and no spell check! 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.

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3's, Napsters, iTune, or ipods! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#% it all up! there were no CD Players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

And talk of hardship? You couldn't just download porm! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or the lingerie section of the JC Penny catalog those were your options!

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!

There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You Actually had to be out of touch with your "friends" OH MY GOSH!!!! Think of the horror... not being intouch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! you kids have no idea how annoying you are.

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had Atari 2600! with games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics svcked ***! 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 a movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy ore some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!

You had to use a little called the TV Guide to find out what was on TV! 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!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh,no what is the world coming to?!?!

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 bastards!

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 to pop popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy POP thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.

And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside.. you were doing chores!

And car seats-Oh, please! mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. And if you were lucky you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids have got it too damn easy! You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1987 or any time before!

This is rich btw, I think its funny how a lot of older folks complain about kids texting constantly, like they'd rather have us talking loudly on our cell phones constantly instead, oh wait, we kids do that too

Not so much a funny rant as it is the 20,363rd nostalgic rant I've read on the internet. :shrug:

(^slight exaggeration^)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk&feature=related

Should be glad they have prozac for kids.

Haha.. Oh my that's funny and brings back a lot of memories. The video's also great! Thanks for sharing.

I hate those old people that rant like that. -.-

Especially when they say "You little kids and your technology are a bunch of pansies! When I was your age, I didn't stay home and text or listen to music all day. I actually went outside, skinned my knee, I became a man! Now you guys are sitting there burning day light in front of a screen!"

Seriously, it's like, unless we have a skinned knee or some kind of injury from outdoor activity, we're worthless and 'have it easy'.

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I'd also like to say, they think it's easy to use electronics how we do. Kids like myself spent every day since the day they were born learning how to do these things. I've spent my life learning how to use a computer and old people think you just hop on and everything is done for you.

Rants like this just goes to show that age isn't an effective measurement for wisdom.

Indeed... for some folk dont recognise whats clearly tongue in cheek.

Funny how first he/she says that we live in an utopia and later rants about what the world has come to.

I love how old people pretend to hate the world they live in today, but when they're in trouble they use OUR young people's technology to call for help.

Yes, I clearly missed that. :rolleyes:

Gotta say, I laughed pretty damn hard at that bit. Though it's clearly just poking fun, I do agree that people always take what they have for granted. No matter how convenient our lives get, we'll always find things to [censored] and moan about.

and then order the book, because it was never there, wait a month before it got to the library..

example:
Highschool history project on early Renaissance, due in two weeks. The only book on the subject in the library.. due back after everyone else in class has had it.. :facepalm:

unless I was sending it to the us.. which seemed to still travel by Mayflower..

Child who? Oh them, they were created in the 80s to deal with kids from crack addicts. We just got the [censored] beat out of us..

fun times rollin' stogies by the kitchen radio B)

either that or National Geographic with pictures of naked pigmy's with boobies down to their kneecaps

Yooo 'ave leached da numbel of tliade mafia... Yoooooo velly bad pehlson.. we come to get you now! [then hang up]

at least we still had phone pranks

Superman would be lost as [censored] in the twenty first century..

"Quick citizen, where are your phone booths? I must change!!"

"Hangin' bro, gotta bail... BRB. There's a mad dude in front of me in blue tights.. and you don't wanna know where he has his little red speedo's at."

pong rulez..

me asleep on the backseat bench, my brother on the hatrack above.. dad brakes, he rolls off and onto me...

embarrassing moments in life.

or 60s





although, being 'grumpy old guy' suits me.. B)




now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs, ya slack-jawed, long haired, non workin', recalcitrant, dope smokin', hippy kids listening to rock music all day and bad mouthin' the government :swear:



aaaahhhhh, I feel better now

I'm 20, and I lived through all of that :shrug:

Kids aside, its pretty hard to be an advlt these days...

I don't know about that. We younger folks DID have to deal with Windows Vista.

And the new Smurfs movie.

Heh I was expecting to not laugh but this was kinda funny :laugh:

Right, and we didn't have a problem with Vista because we're all dead. Or something.. dunno.

My son wanted to go, so I showed him where all the episodes are on youtube. This way he can wear headphones.



'expecting not to laugh'


dude, that's depressing.


less depressing:
waddaya call a vampire with a flat tire only four miles from the blood bank?

That was my thought as well. It's not like we could actually afford any of that stuff until recently...

Why does that sound familiar? :rofl:

And the kids of today, will say the same tomorrow.

My favorite from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"....the mother says something like, "Eat up! You should be thankful....we didn't have food when we were young",

I'm 16 and:

I don't use cell phones, I didn't always have my high resolution 3D gaming graphics, the internet wasn't always that great and there was a point where I always had to use library books, there's no stadium seating in my local movie theater to this day, I don't have an MP3 player of any kind, my dad beat me and, in general, many of those things were familiar to me, so... :shrug:


On the flipside, us kids these days have to deal with pretentious advlts who stereotype and think their age provides automatic superiority, we have to deal with the world we inherited from them (including the now changing climate and upcoming energy crisis provided by the shortsightedness of generations past), and we have to deal with each other... including the other kids who do follow stereotypes while we others may not.

Even though it's meant to be funny and I am only 21, I can seriously get behind some of these points to a certain degree. I just hope that by the time I'm an old fart we still have lawns, so that I can tell you youngsters to get off it!

"You silly kids and your Holographic Video Interceptographs. When I was your age I had to actually SIT on my computer and TALK TO A WEBCAM. Now you guys just go as you please talking to miniature versions of everybody. I remember the good old days where my touchscreen 3D cell phone actually HURT my eyes! And now they're wired to you as if you were born with them. Gosh, you little kids don't know how easy you have it. I remember when I would actually talk to friends on the phone, get error pages on my internet. You guys and your holograms and 300G speed don't know the half of what it's like in the real world!"

xDDD I can just picture it now!