This is to remind the sOLDr's how easy they got it

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  1. Welshman
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    Welshman OLDr GC

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    This is to remind the sOLDr's how easy they got it

    THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

    If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

    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... 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 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 catalogue!!

    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 damn 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 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!


    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 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 ... Imagine that!

    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
     
  2. WhaCk
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    WhaCk Retired GC

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    How Bloody true that is...LOL

    Bloody lil poof ants..:p
     
  3. Srad

    Srad Spin Doktor

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    I LOLed :) except Atari's weren't even around when I were growing up :p
     
  4. jumphonner

    jumphonner OLDr! Accountant

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    awesome
     
  5. TJet

    TJet OLDr

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    In my day we used to dream about having pen and paper. All we had was a lump of clay and a pointy stick.
     
  6. Ozbrat

    Ozbrat Retired GC

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    roflmao
     
  7. Hoppy

    Hoppy OLDr

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    I agree whole heartedly!!!!
     
  8. Hossy!

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    ROFL!! nice one, true aswell :p
     
  9. Arkon

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    ROFL I like it :D
     
  10. Hicks
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    What's missing is Summer TV back in the days, I remember before Paytv that in summer you had a choice of

    ABC - Netball
    Seven - Tennis
    Nine - Cricket
    Ten - Golf

    And then when I was in Darwin, we only had 2 channels and you were boned if nothing good was on! But I do agree with this post, so, so true.
     
  11. Geeza

    Geeza Retired Mod

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    When Jet was a boy...They had stone tablets and charcoal :D
     
  12. Grandad1953

    Grandad1953 OLDr

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    :eek:You mob think you had it hard, I can rember: having to go down and stand in front of the electrical store to see TV. In 1961 to play a multiplayer game, you would have to walk to the milkbar to play the pinnies it cost a zack to play a game. AAhh those where the days. ;):laugh:
     

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