The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas! You joined Marapets on October 18, 2006, 9:48 pmYou joined Marapets on October 18, 2006, 9:48 pm
I am already in a great club..so no I won't be in yours.Mail is always open as long as you are not begging or asking for my pets or stuff in my gallery.People who keep e-mailing me for stuff will be blocked.Sorry.
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 BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of *&+^ 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 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 library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! 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 record store and shoplift it yourself! 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! We didn't have fancy stuff 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 Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, 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' and the graphics were horrible! 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! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just out of luck! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were hooped when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt 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! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that JiffyPop thinggy and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot. 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!
love it, I am well over 30 so we only had 3 tv channels, and they werent on all day and night, tv shut down at around midnight till the next day, childrens programmes only on lunchtime for an hour or two then tv shut down again till around 4pm I actually think it was better without the mobile phones, everyone is on them these days, god knows what they find to talk about
16 years, 9 months & 26 days ago 5th Sep 2019 12:07
you are right that was the way it was. but look what comes along with everything that kids have today. if they get to trick or treat their candy has to be checked. they need to go in groups to walk down the street or go to the bathroom. metal detector to try and be safe in school and much more to bad they can't have all the luxuries without the harm. or maybe just part of the luxuries so they can appreciate them more
112 years, 1 month & 23 days ago 9th May 2014 14:02
OMG...You took the words right outta my mouth. They just dont know. Just like the country song from Bucky Covington called a Different World. If you havent heard it check it out.
114 years, 5 months & 4 days ago 26th Jan 2012 17:39
hehehehehehehe
116 years & 19 days ago 13th Jun 2010 11:18
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! ============= I'm 20 and grew up with 2 channels, now I have 3 or 4. You had it easy.
116 years, 1 month & 27 days ago 5th May 2010 12:13
I could've survived in 1980. It sounded nice there. I have an Atari and it was fun....sometimes. TV isn't a big thing.
116 years, 3 months & 4 days ago 28th Mar 2010 13:00
that was funny i am over 30 myself no atari when i was a kid (lol) those came out later tv had no remote and my step dad ruled it,you either watched what he wanted or else music was a portable record player kids do have it easy my grandson is 2, he has a tv,and vcr/dvd and cable tv
116 years, 4 months & 18 days ago 11th Feb 2010 22:02
I'm 17 and think this is funny =)
Yeah, I can't live without my iPod =(
116 years, 5 months & 14 days ago 16th Jan 2010 11:03
Lol,my parents would love this.But I mean,I dont have my own phone,we dont have cable either,just HD channels.And us kids dont even really watch tv,just us 2 older ones once in a whike on Friday nigts to watch one show.But I'm not complaining.And I dont have to walk or ride to school either.xD
116 years, 5 months & 17 days ago 13th Jan 2010 19:34
I agree that kids have it easier now. Cell phones used to be rare and now almost all kids have them. I don't because my parents say I need to graduate high school first so I can afford one...but yeah. (:
116 years, 6 months & 20 days ago 10th Dec 2009 14:36
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