Ah yes, time for a good old fashioned Infliktidian rant - Well, not really - I received this as an email - and it rings so true, I had to take five minutes, and share this.... It's SO true!
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 close to 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 library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! Is there anybody under the age of 18 who actually knows what the Dewey Decimal System is? I mean damn! First off, having to try to get your parents to take you there in the first place, and live with that whining, then trying to actually find the information you need in a 300+ page book!!! Is there actually anybody left who when they have to write a report with a Bibliography - there's actually books on them - and not just websites?
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! Then you had to wait until they decided to mail you a letter back, and if they were lazy about it - you could wait upshy a frigging month before getting a response!!!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! 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! Not to mention, if they ended the song early, and put a really crappy song afterwards - or a commercial? We didn't have XM radio or anything like that back then!!! We actually had to listen to the damn commercials back then! And if and when you had to tape the song (and you always did...) you had to make sure that the tape was in a perfectly set place - or else you were F'ed!!! You had to wait longer to get it again!!! Does any of these "new generation" people actually realize what it's like to have a stiff ass - from sitting in front of the radio for so long - just waiting for that one song???
And if you wanted to mix your own music - there was no CD burners back then... you actually had to sit in front of your stereo all day, listening to the songs, rewinding tapes, and finding good spots to start recording and so on! No computer manufacturing there!!! You'll have a CD burned in a matter of a minute or two - back then it would take six hours or more - just to make a mix tape that you'd listen to for a week or two, and have to do it all over again!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or if you could - your father (or your friend's father - for the really horny) or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! That was it!
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! No conference calling, no call blocking, no nothing!
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 Play Station video games 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 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! Not to mention the floors were stickier than all hell - you couldn't walk without getting that sucking sound coming from the bottom of your foot, and always sitting on other people's dropped popcorn and other gunk always around!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And you also couldn't buy your favorite shows on tape! You either had to tape them off the TV - or you were screwed! Too bad, so sad - you'll have to wait for re-runs twenty years from now!
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 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-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 popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
Also back then - when we were teenagers - we didn't have a choice in crap! School educators, parents, politicians, etc. made all our decisions for us! Nobody would listen to us - We were KIDS to them! Nowadays, you have these teenage losers trying to get involved with politics, telling adults how to vote and all that horse-****, I mean what the hell!!! Back then, if we told someone how to vote - we'd be told to shut up - now there's actually the "Teen Choice" awards (like that means anything...) shows, and so on. It's pathetic!
And another thing - we couldn't sue our parents - we couldn't disown ourselves from them - if our dad beat the crap out of us for doing something wrong - too bad! That's how discipline worked back then. Nowadays, we have all these people suing their parents- hey, back then we had to suck it up, and actually stop doing what our folks didn't want us to do, in order for the beatings to stop. We were actually forced to - follow the rules??? (wow, I can hear a million teens scratching their heads - "what are rules?", they ask..:roll:.)
And one last thing - and I'm sure there's more things I'll think of later (which I will post on here as well - Tavi) - Who are these **** that bring a gun to school? Back then - if we had an issue with somebody - we would actually fight using our FISTS! Not guns, not knives, not friggin sticks, but fists. Whatever happened to "fighting like a man?" Sheesh - you ****!
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 the 1980s!
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