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The other day, I was rolling down the hill at the park behind my house with Tami and some friends, and a group of high-school aged kids goaded us on. Then one of them said, "Hey, wait, those are old people!" To which my friend Evan retorted, "We're... not... old!"
However, perhaps this link backs up that kid's claim... the members of this year's Class of 2008 were born in 1986.
I have to wonder... those of us born in the mid-70's had Smurfs, Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and the beginning of TMNinjaT... what did this generation have? Besides Pokemon?
However, perhaps this link backs up that kid's claim... the members of this year's Class of 2008 were born in 1986.
I have to wonder... those of us born in the mid-70's had Smurfs, Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and the beginning of TMNinjaT... what did this generation have? Besides Pokemon?
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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 twenty-eight, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so f***in' easy!
I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet-we wanted to know something, we had to go to the 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 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 screw it all up!
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 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 or XBox 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 theater there was 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 1987!
On the plus side, I'm glad to see that whatever I did made all of the Google ads talk about Transformers.
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