Monday 8 April 2013

Taken From Facebook...................Spoilt Generation



I saw this on Facebook and liked it so much that I had to share it...........why because it is so bloody 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... 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 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 fifty, 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!


1) 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!!


2) 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!


3) 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!


4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!


5) 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. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?


6) 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!


7) 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 GOSH !!! 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.


8) 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, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!


9) 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!


10) 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?!?!


11) 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!


12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!


13) 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 1970 or any time before!

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    1. Good to hear I am not the only one who things it is so bloody true

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  2. That is funny. I can relate to each one. I also still do with out a cell phone except when I'm travelling. Have no extras's on my landline either.

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    1. I have no extra's on my landline can't see the point

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  3. Haha. I'm a "young" person and I can't stand to see where things are heading. I kinda hope the internet crashes for a month or something so people can get back to loving people, not technologoy.

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    1. It is nice to hear that younger people can also relate, if the internet was to crash we would go bloody crazy...........no internet means no bloging

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  4. So true! But we didn't even have a tape player in the car. Nor did we have a radio. My dad would put a transistor radio on the dashboard if he wanted to listen to a baseball game when we were driving (that was in our second car -- my mom's car had a radio). I had a friend whose teenage daughter slept with her cell phone in case she got a call or text. I had to use the one telephone in the house and if I talked to long, my mom snatched the receiver out of my hand and hung up the phone.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. I can't imagine having a car with no radio, all our cars had them but then my parents always like to have the latest mod con........

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    2. My dad was a very nice man, but he was kind of cheap. Maybe it was because my mom spent so freely.

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  5. LOL you have a very valid point!

    I do think the youth of today have a few things harder... With the rise of the internet it also brings out new dangers and a sronger need for parental supervision and guidance (which sadly some parents just don't provide). I also do not remember having the kind of access they do to the bad things like drugs and alcohol as a kid... Seriously, when I hear my honorary niece talk about what she sees just from her 16 year old friends it shocks me!

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    1. Yes I agree todays youth doesn't have it all they also have some bloody hard things to deal with, when I was at school drugs and alcohol were around but it wasn't so in your face like it is now days........I also agree some parents are not strong enough to provide the type of supervision and guidance needed and instead let their child kind of run wild.....

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  6. The cell phone differences are so funny! We used to carry around bricks! haha

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    1. Yeah my first mobile was a big bloody thing and look at them now

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  7. How people have changed the times. Interesting reading.
    I remember our first mobile phone was expensive.

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  8. So funny. Had to be tough to grow up. Kids today will probably do the same with their kids. "We actually had to punch to buttons to text. With our thumbs! You can't imagine how sore they got."

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  9. This is so true!! I wonder what the next generation will dicuss with their children and grandchildren. :-)

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  10. So funny and SO true!! We all need to appreciate what we have.

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