Blackie Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 copyed from an email, Some very good observations,Particulaly on the atari 2600 (I had one) sorry about the americanisms 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....Up hill... Barefoot...BOTH ways? 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 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 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! Stamps were 10 cents! 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 or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shop lift 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. 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! 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 GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. 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 parents, your boss, a bookie, a drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen 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!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's 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-finks! And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, 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. 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 was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or any time before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdistc Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Sad but true. I feel so old now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 we were talking at work about 3D tv and i remembered my little black and white portable with a tuning nob on the front with a coat hanger for an arial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyP Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 You've made me feel so old:( B*****d;) It's so true though. I tell my daughter what it was like when I was a kid and I'm not sure she actually believes it. Channel surfing pfft we only had three!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 Channel surfing pfft we only had three!! I remember the first night of CH4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attero Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 Hey, I'm 20 and this was almost very true for me too. I remember playing Atari and coming into the Mega Drive. I remember having to go out and enjoy myself rather than stay in and do nothing. I remember having to wait for the weekend to watch cartoons. I remember not having mobile phones or the internet (even though I had the internet a long time before most people because my dad worked with the internet and it's technologies). I think it accounts for more people than you think. During the end of my childhood, more and more people were staying in as the "chav era" came through... it's a dangerous world which is why I think the age of technology really hit kids and made them who they are today. Besides, it's yet to get easier than this. This is only the start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robzki Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 now I feel truly old thanks m8. I do find myself saying things like that and stopping myself at the last moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritter1 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 being a 'young-un' as some may think of me at 20, I disagree, for one, the things being described as hard in this were easy for those before us/you/whatever, and its always been like that. Its just technological advancment, without which we couldnt have supras and the like lol. Also, as for texting and us being annoying, you know, I must text no more than 10 times per month on average, less if its a month ive got no money for going out for a night or two, whilst my mum sits on here mobile ALL night, EVERY night, forcing us to have what she wants on the TV while she watches, not her show, but here mobile have a full blown conversation or two at once via text. It is very patronising this (not blaming you blackie, as said, copied from an e-mail) but things such as going on the internet rather than the library is a trivial argument also, true, through high school you can use the internet for research but starting at college (and far more seriously, university) while you can still use the internet, if you dont use at least some other references from books, journals etc its kinda looked down on. And besides, who would have, if they could have 'way back when', not used the internet if it was available? and, we are all using the internet right now... arent we .... I could probably argue against all the things pointed out here but no point really. I agree things have been made easier to do, but we all use them. My 60 odd yr old grandparents use DVD rather than video now, as do we all, and I guess, as my family does, some of you will be using blu ray. The advancements have made life easier for everyone, not just those who, by pure luck, were not born a few yrs earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritter1 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 oh, and I also remeber the first night of CH4 and CH5, the noisy channels they were... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriella Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 being a 'young-un' as some may think of me at 20, I disagree, for one, the things being described as hard in this were easy for those before us/you/whatever, and its always been like that. Its just technological advancment, without which we couldnt have supras and the like lol. Also, as for texting and us being annoying, you know, I must text no more than 10 times per month on average, less if its a month ive got no money for going out for a night or two, whilst my mum sits on here mobile ALL night, EVERY night, forcing us to have what she wants on the TV while she watches, not her show, but here mobile have a full blown conversation or two at once via text. It is very patronising this (not blaming you blackie, as said, copied from an e-mail) but things such as going on the internet rather than the library is a trivial argument also, true, through high school you can use the internet for research but starting at college (and far more seriously, university) while you can still use the internet, if you dont use at least some other references from books, journals etc its kinda looked down on. And besides, who would have, if they could have 'way back when', not used the internet if it was available? and, we are all using the internet right now... arent we .... I could probably argue against all the things pointed out here but no point really. I agree things have been made easier to do, but we all use them. My 60 odd yr old grandparents use DVD rather than video now, as do we all, and I guess, as my family does, some of you will be using blu ray. The advancements have made life easier for everyone, not just those who, by pure luck, were not born a few yrs earlier. shouldn't you be in bed sonny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritter1 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 hey you! hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 oh, and I also remeber the first night of CH4 and CH5, the noisy channels they were... lol Not aged 20 you don't: it started in 1982. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 17, 2010 Author Share Posted May 17, 2010 Not aged 20 you don't: it started in 1982. I thought it was really early 80s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradleyh_15 Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 I remember me our tv being coin operated by the old huge 50p's! also you stayed out all day an played but if you came home dirty you got hosed down in the back garden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 I remember going to war, seems like yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robzki Posted May 17, 2010 Share Posted May 17, 2010 I remember collecting glass bottles on a saturday morning to get the 10p deposit back.......I'm only 35 ffs and sound like my grandad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Does anyone else remember when greetings cards (decent ones) cost 20p? Weirdly that's one of my lasting memories of the 80s. As you can tell I didn't get out much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Whoever wrote that obviously isn't as old as me. Back in my day we were taught to end every sentence will a full stop rather than an exclaimation mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritter1 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Not aged 20 you don't: it started in 1982. must have just been CH5 then haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 I remember the days before pick n mix, when my local shop had "the half penny tray" and "the penny tray" sweety selections What did we do in the days before mobile phones?? My ex once said to me when she worked at a fledgling Phones 4 U "texting will be massive, bigger than actual talking" What a preposterous thought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 In my day, I remember when music was original, and used lyrics and sung in a way you could understand. None of this ©rap shite. Also, while I'm on the subject; when did I get old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Whoever wrote that obviously isn't as old as me. Back in my day we were taught to end every sentence will a full stop rather than an exclaimation mark. how about substituting the word 'will' with the word 'with'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 Yeah, that too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 The original post is still too American, it needs further work, 3/10 for effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JnrEast21 Posted May 18, 2010 Share Posted May 18, 2010 god i feel young after reading this post hahaha!!! im just a nipper (only 23 lol) still remember playing a ZX Spectrum... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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