The over 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 in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids myabout how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that...
I'm over the ripe old age of thirty,and 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 or Napsters! 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 @#*% it all up!

And talk of 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, 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, your drug dealer, 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 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 wasno 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 screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then there wasonly 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 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 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!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing 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!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

P.S. The latest craze in the lunch time period during school is to go and have there eyes laser re-adjusted beyond the normal 20/20 vision. In the past we had to go to the ophthalmologist and get new glasses, place the new glasses on our nose and hope no one made fun of your new studious look, or be bothered with contacts that made your eyes bloodshot red.

I'm only 27 yet but I remember those days well. :lol:

Everything was pretty much like described, but I had it even worse in a way. In Portugal there were only 4 TV channels before cable showed up, not 15. :icon_rolleyes:

That is all so true.

And my kids still complain they are board.

Next time they complain you should give them a taste of how you had it :) I know I would if I had kids and they wined about it ;) They forgot to mention chores we had to do when we were younger. Like cut the grass, do dishes, weed the garden, milk the cows, etc...etc

Don't forget getting up at 2 until 6am when it was your farm's turn for the irrigation to irrigate your fields. Cutting hay, raking it, raking it again (if it rained), baleing it, hauling and stacking it in the truck and trailer (258 bales per load, 3 loads per day) and hauling it and stacking it from the truck and trailer to the barn (3 crops per year). Feeding the animals twice a day, as Jason mentioned; milking the cows twice a day. Cleaning the milking equipment, barns and stalls daily. Branding cattle in the spring and butchering in the fall. Shoeing horses, repairing fences and equipment. Fertilizing fields - manure spreader on the dry fields and honey-dew through the sprinker system, oh what fun.

Around a ranch or a farm there is always more work than time or weather permits. From before sunrise until after the sun sets - there was always work to do.

Don't forget getting up at 2 until 6am when it was your farm's turn for the team to crunch your WUs. Cutting it fine, raking it in, raking it in again (if it dumped too early), baleing out when the project failed, hauling and stacking the WUs in the folder and stats (258 WUs per load, 3 dumps per day) and hauling it and stacking it from the folder and stats to the site (3 projects per year). Feeding the systems twice a day, as Jason mentioned; milking the teammates you pass twice a day. Cleaning up all the rude comments, and stats daily. Branding the winners in the spring and butchering them in other races during the fall. Shoeing more WUs, repairing old BOINC clients and equipment. Fertilizing Projects - WU spreader on the dry alpha sites and uploads through the broadband, oh what fun.

Around AMDusers with a farm there is always more work than time or weather permits. From before sunrise until after the sun sets - there was always work to do.

Now that sounds like NeoGen :icon_wink::icon_wink:

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Originally Posted by Strongbow

Don't forget getting up at 2 until 6am when it was your farm's turn for the team to crunch your WUs. Cutting it fine, raking it in, raking it in again (if it dumped too early), baleing out when the project failed, hauling and stacking the WUs in the folder and stats (258 WUs per load, 3 dumps per day) and hauling it and stacking it from the folder and stats to the site (3 projects per year). Feeding the systems twice a day, as Jason mentioned; milking the teammates you pass twice a day. Cleaning up all the rude comments, and stats daily. Branding the winners in the spring and butchering them in other races during the fall. Shoeing more WUs, repairing old BOINC clients and equipment. Fertilizing Projects - WU spreader on the dry alpha sites and uploads through the broadband, oh what fun.

Around AMDusers with a farm there is always more work than time or weather permits. From before sunrise until after the sun sets - there was always work to do.

Now that sounds like NeoGen :icon_wink::icon_wink:

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i wondered when someone was gonna type that hahaha

That was awesome Strongbow, you made me chuckle! Steve Lux I feel your anguish in your post, I too worked in the farming arena for many years back in my youth. NO one could say anything about a 14 yr old kid who got up at 3:30 am, walked one mile to milk cows at a neighbors farm because his father fell on some ice and broke his hip. Wake up at 3:30 am, walk approx. 1 mile to farm, walk into field to get loose stragglers of cows into barn to milk them, washing your hands with cold water in January, then milking 55 head of milk cows till just before 7 am. Walk home 1 mile eat breakfast, then walk 1/4 mile to pick up bus for school. After school I would come home and place books at home, then return to milk the second time and then return home, eat dinner late do homework, be in bed by 8pm and repeat for 2 1/3 months till the farmer recovered. A friendship of an honest good day of work makes a man out of you, shows you the hardship of reasoning why farmers were never able to participate in sports, there chores would hog up all there precious time! To this day I still drink plenty of milk everyday! :icon_mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by Strongbow

Don't forget getting up at 2 until 6am when it was your farm's turn for the team to crunch your WUs. Cutting it fine, raking it in, raking it in again (if it dumped too early), baleing out when the project failed, hauling and stacking the WUs in the folder and stats (258 WUs per load, 3 dumps per day) and hauling it and stacking it from the folder and stats to the site (3 projects per year). Feeding the systems twice a day, as Jason mentioned; milking the teammates you pass twice a day. Cleaning up all the rude comments, and stats daily. Branding the winners in the spring and butchering them in other races during the fall. Shoeing more WUs, repairing old BOINC clients and equipment. Fertilizing Projects - WU spreader on the dry alpha sites and uploads through the broadband, oh what fun.

Around AMDusers with a farm there is always more work than time or weather permits. From before sunrise until after the sun sets - there was always work to do.

Now that sounds like NeoGen :icon_wink::icon_wink:

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I could not say it any better even if I tried! That Distributed Computing twist was so funny! :icon_mrgreen: :icon_lol:

Right,

I used to live in a hole in the ground, get up 1/2 hour before I went to bed, lick road clean with tongue, eat gravel for breakfast. Work 25 hours a day.

But we were happy. The kids today, they don't know they're born.

Does everyone remember when staying indoors was considered a form of punishment? LOL

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Originally Posted by 202life

Does everyone remember when staying indoors was considered a form of punishment? LOL

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Yes I do, when everyone in the block wanted you to play whiffleball or baseball, or hide-n-seek. But, those were when I was just a youngin, say 7 thru 10, especially when you were known as the home run king, and your mommie wouldn't let you go out because you were naughty. :( :-(