2006 vs 1981

[diamondsgirl]

A friend sent this to me. If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! But, if you're younger, you should read it anyway, cos its written TO YOU!! ;)

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. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn 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! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike 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 fuck it all up!

And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, tough shit!

And we didn't have 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, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video games 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 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 big hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just plain screwed!

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 really 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. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fucking fire. Imagine that!

If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like a friggin' idiot. That's exactly what I'm talking about!

You kids today have got it too easy. You're sooo spoiled!!! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1981. :D

[Coyote]

LOL...

[Little Texan]

I'm not quite 30, but I can identify with every bit of that, especially getting up off your ass to change the channel, Atari 2600, and bribing someone to buy you porn!

[DlocRoth]

Hilarious! :D

[frets5150]

Or no Fuckin cell phones where kids are so into the call they walk into poles.Besides my allowance I always kept a dime in my M C Jacket just in case I had to use the payphone. Or if I was on the block playin ball the oldman whistled out the window and I was up the house within 5 min.Ahh the good ole days.

:(



Atari 2600 still have that in the box.

[frets5150]

I just had to take it out of the closet


:D

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[binnie]

It's so true!

Find myself lecturing like that all the time!

[MAX]

I always enjoy these types of posts or emails. They take me back but they also make me feel so friggin' old.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Thanks DG for sharing this. It's both hilarious and so true!... :)

I would exchange my being 11 in 1981 for nothing in the world! The magic of memory gets me back there whenever it fancies doing so, and every time it's just delicious. :)

Basically I think that WE were tougher kids than those of today who will get eveything readymade...
There's no way I would swap my childhood in the 70s for another that would last twice as long today.

What kind of adults will today's children be? At least they're lucky to have us "well-born-and-bred" folks as parents! :D

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by frets5150
Or no Fuckin cell phones where kids are so into the call they walk into poles.Besides my allowance I always kept a dime in my M C Jacket just in case I had to use the payphone. Or if I was on the block playin ball the oldman whistled out the window and I was up the house within 5 min.Ahh the good ole days.



Shit yeah! Forgot about cell phones! Has anyone tried to find a payphone lately? Those things are an endangered species. No one uses that shit anymore and the companies who make them are pulling them because they just don't make money. My cell phone crapped out on me once and I couldn't find a payphone anywhere!

Someday we'll be describing payphones to our grandkids and they'll be like "no shit...phones in booths on the corner of the street??? wtf?"

Also, anyone remember pay toilets?? WTF was THAT all about??? :confused:

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by diamondsgirl
Also, anyone remember pay toilets?? WTF was THAT all about??? :confused:

There still are some here in France, in Paris in particular, but less than there used to be. They're called "sanisettes". :D

There also used to be "pee ladies" in railway station basements who most of the time were tough and would curse you if you wouldn't put any coins in her bowl...
It was close to as if she wouldn't stand behind you to check out if you were pissing straight! :D

You can't find payphones in restaurants or bars anymore either. It really pisses me off, because I've got rid of my cell phone three years ago (couldn't bear being traced by girlfriends above all) and when I have to call somebody it can be a pensum... unless friends are there and lend me theirs and go: "There, you see how convenient it is, eh?" Well, 99% of the time I'm glad I no longer have one! :cool:
There used to be a phone box two steps away from my parents's house, and I soon realized it was very cheap, for in '78-'79 I could call somebody in the area with 40 centimes for half an hour, which is 6 eurocents today (maybe that would be 18 today)...

The turning dial of old telephones is something to show nowaday's kids... The time it took you to dial the number, you could change your mind three or four times... :D

[Little Texan]

You know, even with all the advances in technology and creature comforts that exist in this day and time in present day 2006, I would trade it anyday for it to be 1981 again. There was much better music back then, all the kids listened to rock music and weren't a bunch of yo yo whigger poser assholes like there's so many of today that listen to that rap shit, movies were alot better, people weren't near as evil as they are today, and people weren't as fucking lazy as they are now. What else...oh yeah, McDonald's fries were so much better back then...they were like kiddie crack! I have such fond memories of the 80's...it was such a fun decade...hell, EVERYTHING was better back then!

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise


There also used to be "pee ladies" in railway station basements who most of the time were tough and would curse you if you wouldn't put any coins in her bowl...
It was close to as if she wouldn't stand behind you to check out if you were pissing straight! :D



There were women "spotters" that made sure you were hitting the target? Did they penalize you and charge you extra if you missed and pissed on the wall or in the floor? :D Did they charge extra if you didn't put the lid back down after you were done pissing? :D

[Mr. Vengeance]

And small towns actually had fucking MALLS! Every Friday night, everyone was there in the arcade, having fun, checking out chicks! Now, all you have are giant box stores, on the outskirts of town! The malls are DEAD, and generally have been converted into large call centres. Meanwhile, try finding an arcade! Hell, try finding a pool table! All these retards are at home on their computers all night! (like us I guess)

Our fucking breakfast cereal actually had TOYS in it!!! Now you don't get shit!

Yogourt came in plastic containers, not faggy "tubes". Cheese was in bricks, not "cheesestrings".

We had fucking pudding pops!

Our bikes only had 10 speeds, not 40!!!!!

We were better than they are. period!

And we HAD THE REAL VAN HALEN IN THEIR PRIME!!!! They have the worst music on the planet today!

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by diamondsgirl
And we didn't have 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, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances!

This is the most important innovation, followed by the vids.

Discs of Tron is my shit though.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Great thread DG.

I'm 32 and I can relate to ALL of those things you mentioned when I was growing up.

Funny, I remember taping songs off the radio!!! HA! Because they weren't released on record or tape, radio stations got em first and played it -- and it pissed me off how they talked over the beginning of the song and fucked it up!!

ARGGHHHH!!!

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
Meanwhile, try finding an arcade!

Yeah, what the hell happened to the 'ol Arcade???

Used to have them in every malll -- don't see them nowadays.

[mako_kimura]

Well, over in Rome, Georgia, the Mount Berry Square mall has an Aladdin's Castle in it. Also (I know I'm a kid, but I listen to my parents) CD's were so freaking expensive that your only options were vinyl or cassettes. Another thing, if you wanted an Iron Maiden shirt or something, you had to go to the show and BUY the shirt. Plus, there was no pre-ordering tickets. You had to save up and buy em or win em off the radio

[DlocRoth]

Yeah, right on....

I teach, and I see 10 kids every day wearing the same Zeppelin shirt that they sell at Target?

WTF????

[binnie]

What I'd give to be 18 again.....

[mako_kimura]

Originally posted by DlocRoth
Yeah, right on....

I teach, and I see 10 kids every day wearing the same Zeppelin shirt that they sell at Target?

WTF????

For some damn reason, people my age think Zep is the greatest band ever. Hell, I'm wearing a Maiden Japan shirt right now

[binnie]

Zeppelin is a great band - I think it's good that kids are into them, Sabbath, Cream and all of the rest.

Rather that than fuckin hip hop.....

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by mako_kimura
For some damn reason, people my age think Zep is the greatest band ever.

They are the greatest ever. People your age are right. :cool:


Originally posted by binnie
Zeppelin is a great band - I think it's good that kids are into them, Sabbath, Cream and all of the rest.

I'm afraid it's only because they find Target's T-shirts cool, for many of them. I'm afraid a lot of them don't even listen to Led Zep...

[Mr. Vengeance]

I think you're going to see a groundswell of old classic rock among the kids soon. They'll eventually get sick of the complete SHIT that they are having to listen to now. American Idol/Rockstar stupid reality tv will die soon, and the kids will start digging into mom and dad's album collection for something GOOD to listen to. They'll get back into classic rock. Why bother listening to this NU Rock, Hip Hop, pop idol crap, when you can put on Powerage or Highway to Hell?

Why listen to 50 Cent when you can crank up Toys in the Attic?

Why worry about Kelly fucking Clarkson when you can jam Love it to Death???

Why play Britney or Christina when you can get Beggars Banquet on that stereo????

FUCK NEW MUSIC!!!!! TESTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[binnie]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance


FUCK NEW MUSIC!!!!! TESTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hell Yeah!!

I worked in record store for seven years, and it's surprising how many 18-22 year old picks up old great music!

But the younger ones generally, but by no means always, pick up the radio filler shit.

i'd like to think that they could dig the great stuff, but as long as they keep buying into trends, then we will keep hearing shit on the radio!

[Little Texan]

It is beyond me how these kids today can even listen to that rap shit, let alone like it! I hear that shit blasting sometimes, and within a minute or so of being subjected to it, I'm ready to get out a fucking gun and blow away the stereo and speakers in the car that's playing it. I hate that shit so much it drives me insane within a minute or two of hearing it! I'm very tempted, sometimes.

[Little Texan]

I don't think they like the shit...it's impossible to like something as unlistenable as rap! What I think is is all these kids just listen to the shit to fit in with the other kids because they listen to it, not because they like it, which is really stupid! Another reason is they just enjoy irritating the fuck out of everybody within earshot of their car blasting that shit!

[binnie]

Worse than rap is RnB, IMO, you know girls singing a chorus with a really weak melody in hushed voice in a really high pitch.

Souless

ARRRRRRRRRRHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

[mako_kimura]

We mostly buy into the rap/hip-hop bull because it's "good to dance to". If you go to ANY school dance, that's the bullshit that's blasting over the speakers in the gym or wherever the dances are. I think Dloc can identify with this since he teaches

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
I think you're going to see a groundswell of old classic rock among the kids soon. They'll eventually get sick of the complete SHIT that they are having to listen to now. American Idol/Rockstar stupid reality tv will die soon, and the kids will start digging into mom and dad's album collection for something GOOD to listen to. They'll get back into classic rock. Why bother listening to this NU Rock, Hip Hop, pop idol crap, when you can put on Powerage or Highway to Hell?

Why listen to 50 Cent when you can crank up Toys in the Attic?

Why worry about Kelly fucking Clarkson when you can jam Love it to Death???

Why play Britney or Christina when you can get Beggars Banquet on that stereo????

FUCK NEW MUSIC!!!!! TESTIFY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe well the 10-to-20-year-olds are the ones who could save it all...
A huge majority of the older youngsters have been infected with crap, but so could we be, after all...
My second little sister, who is only 20, has plunged into Led Zeppelin among other golden greats while putting nowaday's shit in the trash - most normal, when you compare... -, and she'll tell me about some of her friends doing the same... Everything is not lost, maybe. Safe when they'll take those rotting turnips Brian Johnstone's Massacre ( :rolleyes: ) for sons of a gun...
Basically, there's no reason why the young, today, would have less good ears than their elders did, as long as they could listen to the right stuff soon enough.
But let's not dream too much here: the majority of people will always remain dumb to "real" music! :cool:

[Mr. Vengeance]

I mean....why listen to Pink when you can CRANK THE FUCK OUTTA VAN HALEN II????!!!!

TESTIFY!!!!!!

[mako_kimura]

You don't listen to much modern hard rock/metal, do you? Cause what you're identifying is mostly pop or hip hop

[Mr. Vengeance]

There is no modern metal...well, there is but no one plays it. And what I hear sucks major ASS!

[mako_kimura]

Dude, watch some MTV 2. Or at least catch Headbanger's Ball (yes, it's back). Not all new bands/groups suck

[BALLYJUNKIE]

to be acurate with the starter of this thread .... there were remote controls in 1981 ...... acuatlly i heard and interview with paul mccartney and he said the 1st time the beatles met elvis ,wich was in 1965 .he saw elviswatching tv with a remote control..... now i never had a remote control until the late 80"s but in im almost positive remote controls were available to the public sometime in the 70 "s

[binnie]

There is some good modern metal out there, you just have to search for it.

There aren't any bands I see with Maiden/ Priest/ Metallica potential tho, I don't see any of these guys selling 20 million records....

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by mako_kimura
Dude, watch some MTV 2. Or at least catch Headbanger's Ball (yes, it's back). Not all new bands/groups suck

Most do.

I often see them TRYING to play a riff that comes accross as boring, strumming, crap.

And then when its time to rip into a solo, these cats stay away from doing one. Almost as if they're 'afraid' to see what more an electric guitar can do.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

For many of nowadays bands, it's all about the big sound: switch it off and then what is left?

[Unchainme]

Some bands are slowy starting to realize that they need to change their style. My Buddy played me this one Band, called Avenged Sevenfold, And this one song sounded like a Nu Metal/Use Your Illusion Era GN'R hybred. Auctually did sound quite well.

The Good Stuff is slowy starting to wedge itself back into Rock, It will take a while though, thanks to Clear Channel and MTV.

[Susie Q]

Originally posted by frets5150
I just had to take it out of the closet


:D

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a83/FRETS5150/000_2724b.jpg

I had one of those! I had a Colecovision too when they first came out. Hell, I MADE the damn things. Coleco had their company here in town.

[ace diamond]

hey,i'm 29, but sure as shit remember those days.i still have my atari
800.i love pitfall and pac-man.i am laughing my head off.

i just wish time travel was possible so we could take some of these spoiled little bastards back in time to the heydays of our youth and show them just how much they don't know shit.

[ace diamond]

Originally posted by Mr. Vengeance
There is no modern metal...well, there is but no one plays it. And what I hear sucks major ASS!


www.myspace.com/acediamondexperience

check it out. i am trying to bring back metal done the old way,with the human factor left in. not only does today's stuff suck shit,it's too perfect.

the 2 songs on the page are me,i recorded 15 songs all by myself in 2 days. nice and sloppy.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by binnie
Worse than rap is RnB, IMO, you know girls singing a chorus with a really weak melody in hushed voice in a really high pitch.

Souless

ARRRRRRRRRRHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

That shite is NOT R&B.

Its got very little proper rhythm and its got no blues feel. Where does it earn the right to be called R&B? And the singers sing with no soul.


R&B/soul is Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin (when she's not "singing the phone book"), Ray Charles (when he's not doing CUNTry music) etc etc. I'll stop now before this becomes a full-on rant.

[Seshmeister]

I was talking to my folks about this just last night.

I think the difference between the kids now and us is every bit as big as us and our parents.

My Dad in 1946 would get a banana and a pencil for Christmas, in 1976 I would get maybe a couple of toys in 2006 it takes 2 fucking hours to unwrap them.

On soft toys I had a panda and a share of a bear, my 3 year old has around 50.

My folks had good jobs and we had a much lower standard of living than people on welfare now.

I was talking to friends with older kids and they were saying that they have noticed their kids always ring door bells with their thumbs rather than their index fingers and they put this down to texting on cell phones. I think for kids though that cell phones or mobiles as we call them are a double edged sword. How many times did you say 'sorry I forgot the time' or 'I would have called but there was no payphone' or 'I didn't have any change'.

It must suck these days as a teenager that you can't disappear...

Cheers!

:gulp:

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by frets5150
I just had to take it out of the closet


:D

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A game had to last you maybe six months until it reached Xmas or your birthday.

I would play Pac Man on the Atari with a game lasting 4 hours holding the joystick upside down so up was down and left was right...

[Seshmeister]

The thing I find amazing is the cost of bikes.

When I was a kid an ok bike would cost $160 so maybe 2 birthdays and a Xmas.

25 years later they are actually cheaper than that ignoring inflation.

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by binnie
There is some good modern metal out there, you just have to search for it.

There aren't any bands I see with Maiden/ Priest/ Metallica potential tho, I don't see any of these guys selling 20 million records....

It's not just us being pricks living in the past though.

Bands only last a few years now.

Most of the stadium bands are in their 50s or 60s.

The promoters are shitting it.

Who is coming up to replace the Stones, U2 and the rest?

[Little Texan]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Aretha Franklin (when she's not "singing the phone book")

Or eating the phone book...