Remember When?

[Monk]

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 f*ckin' 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 f*ckin' 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
would usually talk over some part of it and f*ck it all up!
You want to hear about hardship?


You couldn't just download p*rn! You had to bribe some homeless dude
to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or
jack-off to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog!
Those were your options!
We didn't have fancy sh*t 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 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 a$$! 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 theater 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 f*ck 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!

[Naughty]

Turning 31 in 3 months, need I say more ...

[Winetalk.com]

Monk, you and your fuckin' technical analysis spooked me out of my XMSR stock
;-)))

30k were left on the table
;-)))

[Nickatilynx]

42 here...so you know I agree!

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 15 2003, 02:00 PM
42 here...so you know I agree!

Nick,
will you send surfers to die at $35 per join?
;-))
http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index.php?a...T&f=1&t=1531&s=

Those are guys from Holland, I though you might be interested...

[Nickatilynx]

Posted on that thread Serge

[dantheman]

42 in 21 days, damn wheres the time going

[Nickatilynx]

We are nearly dead ,dantheman

[dantheman]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 15 2003, 02:22 PM
We are nearly dead ,dantheman

true,true, when that time comes I assume you'll have my spot ready for me
I like it hot

[Nickatilynx]

right by the fire baby

[Almighty Colin]

I remember when my daughter was a few years old, I took her to the physics library at Syracuse University (geek). She said "What's that, daddy?" and pointed at the ancient device we remember as the typewriter.



Last edited by Colin at Jan 15 2003, 02:33 PM

[Nickatilynx]

I rented an appartment in Mayfair in London for a year.

Very nice place,pte elevator v.nice.

I rented it from a member of a famous typewriter manufacturing company.There were antique typewriters under glass domes on display throughout it.Kinda cool.

My neighbours (for the Brits reading were
Paul Gambuchini and David Essex.(again only old brits would know who they are)

On the old front...it is my daughters 10th Birthday today....fuck I'm old.

Thks for putting everything on a downer Monk

[Mike AI]

This is a great post...

I always think of the things kids have now a days.... just think of the video games and computers... it is amazing.

Of course its making al lthe kinds fat and lazy, because they sit on their asses rather then going outside and play.

[Bestat]

Hmmmm, I remember 42....sorta :P But then I remember when "Select TV" first came out and people thought it was a fade!

[Sharpie]

Yeh, I remember when I bought my kids Pong...... and thought it was the latest technology................hahahahaha

You don't wanna know what else I remember.........walking to school barefooted in 6 ft of snow, sounds familiar...ahahahahaaha Ed Sullivan Lone Ranger andTonto, Hopalong Cassidy, Zorro.... in black and white. Oh yes, Inter Santum on the radio with that squeaky door opening.....

What wonderful memories....... Yeh, right

[Nickatilynx]

Bestat,

You are older than me?????

Holy shit!!!

ahahahahaaha Ed Sullivan Lone Ranger andTonto, Hopalong Cassidy, Zorro.... in black and white. Oh yes, Inter Santum on the radio with that squeaky door opening.....

TV!!!?????
You were bloody lucky!
We had to get up,before we went to bed.Had a handful of gravel for breakfast.......

(someone had to do the Monty Python bit)



Last edited by Nickatilynx at Jan 15 2003, 04:34 PM

[Monk]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Jan 15 2003, 02:00 PM
Monk, you and your fuckin' technical analysis spooked me out of my XMSR stock
;-)))

30k were left on the table
;-)))

Serge,

I was going to post when XMSR reversed and did the head-fake but you were in LV. Those can be the strongest moves when they have faked everybody out of their positions and go the other way.

After it started moving more in the last couple days, I was hoping you just wouldn't notice.... hahahaha

Also, is it really 30K or would you have sold early? eh?? eh??

If not..... oops!!!

I'll buy YOU the drink now. Vodka?

Bestat, isn't amazing how well women age and how poorly the men do? We look younger than the lot of them :P

Originally posted by Mike AI@Jan 15 2003, 12:39 PM

I always think of the things kids have now a days.... just think of the video games and computers... it is amazing.

Of course its making al lthe kinds fat and lazy, because they sit on their asses rather then going outside and play.

You mean all kids are webmasters?

...And I'm not old for another 8 days!

[PornoDoggy]

There is a zero in my next birthday. There is a 5 in it too. I don't remember

Inter Santum on the radio with that squeaky door opening.....

but I can remember my grandmother listening to her soap operas on the radio.

[cj]

Originally posted by originalheather@Jan 15 2003, 05:35 PM
Bestat, isn't amazing how well women age and how poorly the men do? We look younger than the lot of them :P

not me!!
a life in the aussie sun without a hat and sunscreen has sealed my fate ...

i've always figured facelifts would be a standard operation with a miracle healing cure by the time i need one ;-)))


monk, your post needs to go into the oprano hall of fame ... is there one of those yet?
I find myself thinking many of those things in your post, but i can never bring myself to say them out loud for fear of sounding like my grandmother!!

i always feel old around lisa's kids ... they tell me about cool toys and video games and technology that *I* don't know about, the latest tv show or cartoon ... i have to bribe them with candy and toys so they'll think i'm cool ;-(

does anyone remember fat albert? i used to love that cartoon ... lisa's 3 kids were staying over recently and fat albert came on cable. i demanded it was left on so we could watch it, and i was doing the fat albert voice 'hey hey hey, its fat albert' ... i looked around and all 3 children are staring at me, saying nothing, with horrified looks on their faces. i started explaining bill cosby, the cosby show, etc ... still, blank looks ... when the cartoon started playing, they started chanting 'this is lame' ... i have to admit, i thought it was pretty lame too ... cartoons when we were young DID SUCK!!

so don't worry old farts, us young ones still feel it occasionally too ...


:P

[Bestat]

Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 15 2003, 01:33 PM
Bestat,

You are older than me?????

Holy shit!!!

TV!!!?????
You were bloody lucky!
We had to get up,before we went to bed.Had a handful of gravel for breakfast.......

(someone had to do the Monty Python bit)

Oh sure, rub it in!!

Thanks Heather, I feel better now!

[Vick]

Fuck being old
I'm kicking and screaming all the way
In fact - I'll go see Vince Neil play again tonight at a local club

[Rox]

Originally posted by Vick@Jan 15 2003, 06:25 PM
Fuck being old
I'm kicking and screaming all the way
In fact - I'll go see Vince Neil play again tonight at a local club

That'll probably make you feel great, Vick, seein' as how Vince is quite the fat old fuck these days. :-)

[kath]

Quote:

Originally posted by Rox+Jan 15 2003, 07:24 PM-->

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