DarrenK
01-16-2003, 08:50 PM
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 textile mill where they worked for 35 cents 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 thirty, I can't
> > help but look around and notice the youth of today.
> >
> > You've got it so friggin' 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 friggin' mailbox 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 goddamned record store and
> > shoplift it yourself!
> >
> > Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio
> > and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and mess it
> > all up!
> >
> > You want to hear about hardship?
> >
> > You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some
> > homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
> > It was either that or jackoff to the lingerie section of the
> > JC Penny catalog!
> >
> > Those were your options!
> >
> > We didn't have fancy shit 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
> > the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your
> > boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you
> > didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your
> > chances, mister!
> >
> > And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames
> > 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 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 no such thing as
> > stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! 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 onscreen 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 hell
> > I'm saying!?!
> >
> > We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
> >
> > 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 1984!
> > 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 textile mill where they worked for 35 cents 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 thirty, I can't
> > help but look around and notice the youth of today.
> >
> > You've got it so friggin' 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 friggin' mailbox 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 goddamned record store and
> > shoplift it yourself!
> >
> > Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio
> > and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and mess it
> > all up!
> >
> > You want to hear about hardship?
> >
> > You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some
> > homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11!
> > It was either that or jackoff to the lingerie section of the
> > JC Penny catalog!
> >
> > Those were your options!
> >
> > We didn't have fancy shit 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
> > the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your
> > boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you
> > didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your
> > chances, mister!
> >
> > And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames
> > 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 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 no such thing as
> > stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! 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 onscreen 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 hell
> > I'm saying!?!
> >
> > We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
> >
> > 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 1984!