If You are 30 or older...you'll dig this!

This is a great email I recieved at work today!

 

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'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 damn 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 damn library and look it up ourselves!

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 MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and f@# it all up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! 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!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station 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 no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you and you couldn't see you were just screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 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 screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning... .D'ya hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!

We didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up .. we had to use the stove .. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn ... we had to use that stupid jiffy pop and shake it over the stove like an idiot forever.

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!

Yeah, that ain't no shit.

 

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i feel old now. lol

That

anyone remember putting foil on the rabbit ears to watch tv?

saying bye to mom early on a sat. and disappearing on your bike?

thinking those football and basketball games with the red dots were cool?

vibrating football?

 

 

anyone have to use a outhouse?

split wood to cook?

going to the switch bush so your granny could beat the shit out of you?

priming tobacco?

your first taste of granpas moonshine, fresh from the still?

Ohhh those were the days!

Sling shot and beebee gun fights.

Travlin around in the old pink Rambler Station Wagon with my folks, brothers, dog, bird, tent all that other shit stuffed in every orifice in the old wagon.

Thems was the daysss

I was always into collecting GARBAGE PAIL KIDS and PAC MAN collectables

 

Remember those old baseball card sized stickers that had a little PAC MAN game you could scratch off ?? I still have a SHIT LOAD of them, one of these days I might scratch them off and play the game.

 

And my GARBAGE PAIL KIDS cards go for ONE HELL OF A PRICE now on eBay since I probably have 10 sets (or more) of the first edition cards.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=60235&item=6183403764&rd=1

 

And I also have an old Coleco Pac-man game in MINT CONDITION

http://www.miniarcade.com/img/games/coleco/pacman_game1.jpg

 

Guess that might explain my sons facination too.

 

I built him his own arcade machine using alot of the ideas from the ARCADE PARADISE project, and MAME. I converted an old "Nintendo Playerschoice 10

anyone remember putting foil on the rabbit ears to watch tv?

saying bye to mom early on a sat. and disappearing on your bike?

thinking those football and basketball games with the red dots were cool?

vibrating football?

 

 

anyone have to use a outhouse?

split wood to cook?

going to the switch bush so your granny could beat the shit out of you?

priming tobacco?

your first taste of granpas moonshine, fresh from the still?

Damn did all that but sucker tobacco, you guys must have been rich or had contacts to have a tobacco allotment.

 

My mom used to tell me and my brother go cut me a keen switch and we would always crack it so it would break fast and she whould smack us all the while saying wait till your daddy gets home and there was no cure for that folded belt.

 

I pushed a lawnmower to cut grass for free without a motor in fear of the above and usually the reason for the above. Weed eaters used to look a lot like sissors.

 

My dad had a tractor but would borrow a mule and plow to plow the garden every spring just to show us kids how easy we have it compared to him when he was a kid.

Remember when MTV used to have MUSIC on it!

computer games that where three version of the same game on one console!

phones with rotories

****** was a bad word

mailmen didn't shoot people!

Iraq was our Ally

DNA was some impossibly small crap we could only theorise about

France was our ally

Germany was still nazis rather than us!

damn I miss that government cheese... still the best to make gilled cheese!

pizza was considered 'ethnic food" LOL

classic coke was just coke

windows 3.11 wfw ! ! ! laugh!

 

more to come! got to thing about these longingly!

damn I miss that government cheese... still the best to make gilled cheese!

 

Oh HELL YEAH, Cheese sandwhiches with a can of Cambells tomato soup... shut the fuck up, your making me hungry, I already have the munchies, dog.

 

Guv'ment cheese fucking ROCKS !!

 

It always made THE BEST SCALLOPED POTATOES

 

and shred it up for TACOS TOO !!!

 

Hell EVERYTHING tasted better with Guv'ment cheese.

 

Guv'ment cheese was mainly produced by Land-O-Lakes foods in WISCONSIN !!!

 

Everybody knows thats the fucking best and only true CHEESE STATE in America.

 

I was given a 3 pound block of it this last year by a friend ... actually I bought it from her...

 

After kissing the package of cheese, and blessing it with my love, I decided to slice 1/3 of it off and shred it up for Friday night Tacos.....HEAVEN....

 

Then I used the remaining 2/3rd (shredded) for Scalloped potatoes with a nice amount of chunked PICNIC HAM in it....BLISS !!

 

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I'm going to start a religion with US guv'ment cheez as the cornerstone....

 

damn that shit was good! What ever happened to that anyway... I can't find any...

I'm going to start a religion with US guv'ment cheez as the cornerstone....

 

damn that shit was good! What ever happened to that anyway... I can't find any...

 

Quit your job, your Guv'ment will hook ya up still in some states.

 

Or do like I did, have a friend in another neighboring state or local state who is on Welfare and gets commoditys and pay them a PREMIUM for this most wonderful food of cow milk !!!

 

I'll pay $10 a pound to anybody on welfare for there Guv'ment CHEESE !!!

 

Usually they come in 3 or 5 lb blocks

 

an EASY $50 (could buy even more groceries, or some crack/alcohol ), just for taking me back to my childhood of poverty...ah those were the days....

 

TOP THAT FRANCE !!!

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Well hell...."******" has always been a bad word coming out of a honkey's mouth!

 

Remember when MTV used to have MUSIC on it!

computer games that where three version of the same game on one console!

phones with rotories

****** was a bad word

mailmen didn't shoot people!

Iraq was our Ally

DNA was some impossibly small crap we could only theorise about

France was our ally

Germany was still nazis rather than us!

damn I miss that government cheese... still the best to make gilled cheese!

pizza was considered 'ethnic food" LOL

classic coke was just coke

windows 3.11 wfw ! ! ! laugh!

 

more to come! got to thing about these longingly!

I was always into collecting GARBAGE PAIL KIDS and PAC MAN collectables

 

Remember those old baseball card sized stickers that had a little PAC MAN game you could scratch off ?? I still have a SHIT LOAD of them, one of these days I might scratch them off and play the game.

 

And my GARBAGE PAIL KIDS cards go for ONE HELL OF A PRICE now on eBay since I probably have 10 sets (or more) of the first edition cards.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=60235&item=6183403764&rd=1

 

And I also have an old Coleco Pac-man game in MINT CONDITION

http://www.miniarcade.com/img/games/coleco/pacman_game1.jpg

 

Guess that might explain my sons facination too.

 

I built him his own arcade machine using alot of the ideas from the ARCADE PARADISE project, and MAME. I converted an old "Nintendo Playerschoice 10

Space Invaders was the bomb..

"boomba boomba boomba boom"

Dam got me again!

Space Invaders was the bomb..

"boomba boomba boomba boom"

Dam got me again!

 

Space Invaders was pretty kick ass, all black and white vector gaming, fucking give you a headache after a while.

 

We used to play that one alot at the bar when we were kids, the Bar had a game room seperate from alot of the adults and we'd play the shit out of... lets see.. Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Mr. Do, Frogger, Alpine Ski, Ms. Pac-Man, Defender, and I can't remember the other one they had..

 

Ms. Pac-man was the game we'd all slide up the front glass bezel from its base, and stick our hands down into the cabinet and punch up credits.

 

We had a great system too, we knew if we punched up to many, they would hear us at the bar because of the sound the CREDITS made.

 

So we'd slip our hands in and punch up 1 credit, we'd then play the game till he got to the SECOND and longest act, then while that music was playing we'd punch up more credits, since the credit sound would not play during the act 2 sequence... We'd have almost a hundred credits in the machine before act 2 was over, and we'd play the shit out of Ms. Pac Man until we were bored with it.

 

And now with my arcade cabinet here at home, sure is nice to plunk those quarters back in, hear that crashing sound down into the bottom of the coin collection pan, and here that all too familiar KA-DUNK sound of your credit being accepted, ar that little melody at the beginning of GALAGA... YEAH THATS WHAT IT WAS GALAGA...(from the bar).. Fucking kick back with a pack of smokes, a 12 pack of beer, a fucking PAUSE button installed incase you need to piss, and just fire away... Or to play PUNCH OUT with joystick controls like the arcades have and kick some serious ass

 

Simple fucking graphics, simple game play, ALL the old patterns and screens are there, all the old TRICKS, PURE NOSTALGIA !! Fucking ADDICTING as hell to play..

 

Fucking turn on your mp3 player in the back ground with a JUKEBOX interface on your screen that you can switch to, turn down all the lights and get taken back into the 80's.... what fun !!

 

I LOVE M.A.M.E. !!!

 

http://kisrael.com/journal.aux/2003.02.14.pacman.jpg

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I still can't play pacman or "quirk" I think that was the name of it but I can get through the first three levels of frogger with my eyes closed and I could still spend ten bux in a day playing Klax!!!! LOL I can't figure out mario bros or any other nintendo game for the life of me though.

Rampage ! ! ! ! !

Oh HELL YEAH, Cheese sandwhiches with a can of Cambells tomato soup... shut the fuck up, your making me hungry, I already have the munchies, dog.

 

Guv'ment cheese fucking ROCKS !!

 

It always made THE BEST SCALLOPED POTATOES

 

and shred it up for TACOS TOO !!!

 

Hell EVERYTHING tasted better with Guv'ment cheese.

 

Guv'ment cheese was mainly produced by Land-O-Lakes foods in WISCONSIN !!!

 

Everybody knows thats the fucking best and only true CHEESE STATE in America.

 

I was given a 3 pound block of it this last year by a friend ... actually I bought it from her...

 

After kissing the package of cheese, and blessing it with my love, I decided to slice 1/3 of it off and shred it up for Friday night Tacos.....HEAVEN....

 

Then I used the remaining 2/3rd (shredded) for Scalloped potatoes with a nice amount of chunked PICNIC HAM in it....BLISS !!

 

I LOVE GUV'MENT CHEESE !!!!

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My daddy said commodies were for ******s and white trash but when I was 16 dad went under the knife and worse yet he had leased a dairy farm and my brother and I did the deal getting up at 4:00 to milk the cows...clean up and off to school... home from school milk the cows. Summer break more cows, hay, corn and so on... then the lease ran out and dad was still down. Had to move to town and yes we took commodies with that great cheese and salty ham. I worked after school and weekends in a Jewish store to help out... Dad got better and we moved to NJ where we never experienced the cheese again. Damn! I lost my horse when the lease ran out and I don't know which I miss more the tripping guilding or that great cheese.

My daddy said commodies were for ******s and white trash......

Nonsense! The guvment cheez is good! and it is for all! I proclaim on this day that were I chancellor of the United States, every man woman and child would get an allowance of Guv'ment cheez

I remember the govt cheez as a kid and still recall it as the worst cheez onteh planet (then again I am a cheez snob)

I remember the govt cheez as a kid and still recall it as the worst cheez onteh planet (then again I am a cheez snob)

 

You are VERY fucked in the head. Guv'ment cheese should be crowned the fucking KING of cheese, maybe your mom was just a bad cook.

 

So don' be dissin' Guv'ment cheese...aight'

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You are talking to someone who twice asked for and got cracker barrel cheese for christmas. I love my cheez and teh gov cheez sucked!!!!

OMG...that was a stroll down memory lane!!!

 

 

Garbage pail kids...i even went to the store and bought the entire box!!!!(unopened)....Those were the best!!

 

I remember riding my bike with a friend 3 miles into Downtown Elkhorn NE to a bar that had Gauntlet. We would play that darn game ALLL day

 

OK my list of things from the 80's i remember

 

The Games

-Atari Adventure http://www.gamingworldx.com/features/CGOTWAdventureAtari2600.shtml

-Kid Icarus http://www.flyingomelette.com/kidicarus/kidicarusshrine.html

-Rygar http://surf.to/rygar

 

 

The Misc

-Roman Candle Wars

-Being either a Debbie Gibson fan OR a Tiffany fan...you never liked both

-Friendship Bracelets/Pins

-Sticker Collecting

-Getting fed up with my rubiks cube and resticking the stickers to "win"

-Generra Hypercolor T-shirts....that of course didnt work after about 2-3 washes

-Swatch Watches (wearing more than 2 at a time...)

-Beta and VHS (whew we liked vhs much better)

-Was a member of two 8 line BBS's

-Watching Breakfast Club and thinking it was the morst boring movie ever...till i got older that is

-Going to the mall just to look at stuff and hang out (watch a movie, eat pizza...)..and it was fun

-Transformers/GI Joe

-Thundercats/Silverhawks

 

i could go on forever!

And something borrowed...yet it made me think about

http://www.80snostalgia.com/memories/whitedogpoo.html

Its totaly true...i remembered seeing the white dog poo back then..and now i never ever do....

Oh hell, I have that same feeling about kids today having it easy, and I'm only 21.

 

Lets see: We didn't get our first computer until I was about 11, and it was an old 3.1. We had that damn thing until 1997, then we got a Pentium 2 running windows 95 (and later 98). We had that until last year. And we had to share the thing among the whole family. Now I see kids as young as 11 with their own computers and Internet connections. I DIDN'T GET MY OWN COMPUTER UNTIL I WAS 20.

 

 

People talk about tight laws nowadays, funny that I see kids as young as 10 running around shopping malls unsupervised. My parents didn't let me go to

the mall alone until I was about 15. And this was every few MONTHS. (possibly something to do with living in hicksville, therefore getting to the mall required a full tank of gas plus a bit-but that's another story)

 

And speaking of hicksville, no kid nowadays could have went through my childhood without caving. Many a weekend was spent splitting and hauling wood around with an old beat up Yamaha Timberwolf ATV - Again shared with the family when it was used for liesure. Country kids today get their own ATV's when they hit their teens. And usually they get a brand new Bombardier Baja or a Polaras Sportsman. And then me and my brother were running our own egg laying battery. I'd like to see any kid nowadays put up with the stench of chicken shit, and have to haul shit for a few hours. I was about 13 or 14 at the time. What are 14 year olds nowadays doing? They're playing videogames on their X-Boxes, Hanging at the mall all weekend and going to parties. Yes. Getting sloshed at 14. My parents barely let me out of the house.

 

 

We didn't have every new videogame system to come out either. First we had a NES bought back in 88 (I think it still works. Its somewhere in my parent's house) And then about seven years later we had a SEGA Genesis which we had to make do with until me and my brother pooled our money to buy a SEGA Dreamcast.

 

And look at the damn clothes kids have now. Back when I was about 10, we didn't have any designer crap or any alternative styles. It was whatever crap our parents bought us. Usually crappy novelty T-Shirts that had some lame joke on it and blue jeans. And as for Alternative styles, No chance in hell until I moved out then I had the chance to dress in a way that suits my beliefs and feelings.

 

 

Don't get me wrong, not all was bad. I was a kid I had a ton of toys. A few $2.00 G.I Joes and a couple of LEGO sets provided hours of amusement. Do kids play with toys nowadays?

 

The way I also see it is that kids nowadays are also in their own little child/teen fantasy worlds and are oblivious to the outside world. I remember watching Desert Storm unfold on CNN before I headed off to school every morning. I was 7. I also remember asking my parents what the Soviet Union was when I was about FIVE years old. About a year ago I had some younger friends I talk to on the Internet ask me the same Question I asked all those years ago. They were 13. But yet I'm positive they know EXACTLY what pop singer is at the top of the charts, and MTV's entire line up for the season. Or maybe schools don't teach history anymore.

 

 

Times are changing......fast