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Brownbikerbabe
21st May 2011, 13:50
Subject: Growing up without a cell phone




If you are 36, or older, you might 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 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 forty, 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!

Regards,
The Over 40 Crowd



(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile) :yes:

Camshaft
21st May 2011, 22:37
none of that sounds hard, you actually had it much easier, life was simple. we grow up in such a judgmental consumerist society tht were lucky if we make it out half normal, you guys had lax laws, the streets was safe to walk at night, there was no pressure to be any1 but yourself.. id much prefer to grow up back in those days so long as i can take 1 thing with me.....

my GSXR

yod
21st May 2011, 22:41
none of that sounds hard, you actually had it much easier, life was simple. we grow up in such a judgmental consumerist society tht were lucky if we make it out half normal, you guys had lax laws, the streets was safe to walk at night, there was no pressure to be any1 but yourself.. id much prefer to grow up back in those days so long as i can take 1 thing with me.....

my GSXR

speaking from experience are we?

superman
21st May 2011, 22:48
Typical whingers...

FJRider
21st May 2011, 22:49
YOU HAD TV ... ??? :blink: ... :innocent:

scumdog
21st May 2011, 22:53
.. id much prefer to grow up back in those days...

I did.

And I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to all the extra time I was meant to have had with all these 'time-saving' gadgets we have now..:blink:

FJRider
21st May 2011, 22:58
I did.

And I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to all the extra time I was meant to have had with all these 'time-saving' gadgets we have now..:blink:

At "your" age ... things just take longer to do ... :innocent:

Scuba_Steve
21st May 2011, 23:06
No interwebs???:blink: How did you get porn???

FJRider
21st May 2011, 23:10
No interwebs???:blink: How did you get porn???

PLAYBOY covered THAT base ... :yes:

superman
21st May 2011, 23:12
PLAYBOY covered THAT base ... :yes:

Last I checked playboy doesn't provide pregnant foot fetish asian porno :shutup:

FJRider
21st May 2011, 23:15
Last I checked playboy doesn't provide pregnant foot fetish asian porno :shutup:

Did you NOT read the forums ... ???? :angry:

ducatilover
22nd May 2011, 01:51
I grew up with out a TV, computer, radio, video games, music that was hymns only, didn't have a cell phone either, wasn't allowed to stay at mates houses, wasn't allowed out late and got physically disciplined.
I seemed to have turned out okay
I'm only 22 so stick that in your pipe. :innocent:

unstuck
22nd May 2011, 06:55
You forgot the part about having to sit around the albany pub carpark when you were 11-12-13 years old so you could drive your pissed dad home back to torbay.:yes:

wickle
22nd May 2011, 08:00
You forgot the part

Where the local Policeman could boot you up the arse, bash around the ear when he caught you nicking fruit and then tell you he would tell your Dad about it at the pub! Then you would get another belting from ya Dad

scumdog
22nd May 2011, 09:16
You forgot the part

Where the local Policeman could boot you up the arse, bash around the ear when he caught you nicking fruit and then tell you he would tell your Dad about it at the pub! Then you would get another belting from ya Dad

And that, people is what is making so many of our younger ones turn out with a different attitude.:yes:

"Ya can't touch me 'cos..."
"YOU can't say that to me, I know my rights"
"Do that and I'll call the cops on ya"
"I NEED my cellphone, give it to me NOW!"

Camshaft
22nd May 2011, 09:23
speaking from experience are we?

well yea i sorta am, my dad tells me all the time how he culdnt imagine growing up today and that when he was young life was great, he's old enough and humble enough now to realise tht the beating, the compulsary outdoorsness, the self sufficiency was actualy a blessing.

pzkpfw
22nd May 2011, 09:28
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!


1977 and My Parents bought the only brand new car they've ever bought. A golden Holden kingswood station wagon.

First thing my Dad did was take the back seat belts out.

(They were non retracting, and us kids kept getting tangled up in them. Not really sure what the reason was, though. I was youngest, at 7).

MSTRS
22nd May 2011, 09:31
*voice from the future* How did they ever manage back in 2011? I mean, pulease...internet? Cellphones? Personal vehicles? How primitive."

Owl
22nd May 2011, 09:49
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

Yes, but did you have to walk to school in the snow with bare feet because your parents couldn't afford shoes? Sprinting across a paddock from cow shit to cow shit, in order to keep your feet warm?

Thought not!:no:

Though neither did I, but that was the story passed down to me when I was young.:rolleyes:

:laugh:

DMNTD
22nd May 2011, 09:53
No interwebs???:blink: How did you get porn???

Random I know but we actually fucked instead of looking at it! :gob::blink::shit::shutup:

nadroj
22nd May 2011, 16:28
You forgot the part

Where the local Policeman could boot you up the arse, bash around the ear when he caught you nicking fruit and then tell you he would tell your Dad about it at the pub! Then you would get another belting from ya Dad

Dad never clipped me for fruit gathering but I did get a clip if I was caught!

MSTRS
22nd May 2011, 17:05
Apparently, my old man knows what rocksalt feels like....

Geeen
22nd May 2011, 18:16
And that, people is what is making so many of our younger ones turn out with a different attitude.:yes:

"Ya can't touch me 'cos..."
"YOU can't say that to me, I know my rights"
"Do that and I'll call the cops on ya"
"I NEED my cellphone, give it to me NOW!"

Thats why the current generation is called " Generation Me "

skinman
22nd May 2011, 20:46
channel surfing!!!
there were only 3 channels anyway & they shut down overnight, oh the joy of waking up in the early morning to the hiss of no channel on the tv.
That ad on with the test pattern made of books in the bookcase makes me laugh as only over 35s would know what it is.

awa355
22nd May 2011, 21:14
Driving around with a half dozen carton stuck between the radiator and the grille of my mates '52 Prefect. Cause the cops didn't think to look under the bonnet.

AKTV starting at 6.00pm. The Kaimai repeater breaking down halfway through 'Lassie'

c4.
23rd May 2011, 18:50
buying a milk bottle full of petrol to put in the ford standard 10, cost 80 cents,
cruising value, approx 15 miles, heaps. Just don't smoke when yr carrying the bottle back to the car, DAMHIK :facepalm:

unstuck
23rd May 2011, 19:08
Pinching the money out of milk bottles to by your smokes. Damn did i say that out loud. Only had 2 tv channels when i was a kid tv1...tv2.Watching a dog show and disney movies on sundays.