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Oh damn... I sound so old.

Ok, I'll elaborate.

I've noticed that since I've become an adult, that the generation after me is very spoiled. They have many of the luxuries my generation never had and they never seem to be happy. And what happened to the good old days when you acted up you got a good old fashion spanking - damn, my ass still hurts from when my parents did and I learned my lesson.

Why am I complaining?

Simple... I've been seeing these annoying ads on TV. One in particular is for a mini-van - which on its own is a sin against natuer along with the gaz guzzling SUV (I'll rant about that another time). Now, the mini-van is already an unnecessary invention, but this damn thing was equipped with a TV and a DVD player. I mean, I've seen the stupid mini-vans with this crap before, but the fact that it's now being included for free is really irking me.

Whatever happened to the days when we (as kids) had to sit in the back and shut up, and if we didn't, the parent driving would turn around and go back home if we didn't behave? When we have to amuse ourselves by actually talking to our siblings, or in my case, my cousin...

Or, if it was a long trip, you brought a couple of books and a small toy or two and played in the backseat, and if you were lucky, you had a walkman, or if you were really lucky a CD player (which usually skipped).

But, what was wrong with playing games like "A my name is...", "I went on a pinic and in my basket I brought...", or "I spy with my little eye...".

Or, am I just being really whiney?

What ever did we do before computers became mobile, and phones did too.

Wait, what did we do before computers?




/me feels really, REALLLLLLLLY old.

Want the good old days? Try America in the 30s-40s. A few years of depression, social democracy and international war would do your Neocon attitudes some good.
Social and technological progress is thankfully inevitable. Just because something is different, doesn't mean it is worse.

Mikorlias of Imardeavia

It would be hilarious to imagine what my generation is gonna say to the next one.

"When I was your age, we had to drive to get places, and we were happy to suck up all the smog."

"You know, when I was your age, we had to go find the remote and hit buttons to use the TV."

"When I was your age, we had to wait for web pages to load, and we were happy that the internet was just there."

i appreciate your feelings of age and i agree when i was younger i was happy to sit in the backseat and play agameboy on the long road trips my family used to take to florida every year i would sit in the back surrounded by my brothers and sleep or play gameboy or play with my barbie dolls and that satisfied me now kids are so spoiled that they are getting very annoying if they dont get what they want....... keeping in mind that i myself am still a teenager thats how fast technology has progressed and i agree with kelptonis it will be amusing to hear what im end up saying to my kids!

A few years of depression, social democracy and international war would do your Neocon attitudes some good.
WTF? Dude, both Kryozerkia and Katganistan are quite liberal . . .


Anyways, I thought 'the good old days' were referring to the time on the Old Forum before that one huge spam ban. Those were good times

Well, try this on for size ...

In May of next year, I'll be eligible for optional Social Security! OMG! TELL me I am NOT that old, PLEASE! LOL!

When I was growing up, we use to play marbles, read comicbooks, go "exploring" places we had no business being, play with chemistry sets, build "clubhouses," go to the Saturday movie matinee ( fifteen cents! ), and sometimes just hang out and talk.

After TV came along, we watched some of that until the novelty wore off ... the programming ( except for cartoons ) sucked!

Old.... What I miss about the 'Good Old Days' was the fact that my Parents paid for everything. [Sigh]

[sits down on rocking chair and sets cane aside]

"listen here sonny, In my days, we didn't have fancy cable, we watched what the rabbit ears could catch... and to improve reception, we used tinfoil or Clothes hangers, which were made out of metal, not this weak plastic crap."

"And forget all them hundreds of channels, we only had five. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and KIKU (Hawaii only)."

"And when Cable did appear, it was only on from 5:00 pm to midnight with only a few stations added on."

"And on Seseme Street, Mr Hooper ran the store like an organized ship. No siree, he didn't take flap from nobody."

"Morgan Feeman was Easy Reader on Electric Company... with Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby, Irene Cara (she was cute as a child), Joan Rivers, and Gene Wilder."

"Cartoons were well drawn and the looney tunes had explosions in it."

"Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor were the heirs to Bob Hope and Bing Crosby when it came to buddy films"

"We respected the President... even if we didn't vote for him, we still respected him."

"And we didn't have any of this PC Crap... no hyphmatated words."

"and if we got outta line, we got a spanking... none of this wasted 'time outs'"

"I tell ya, Kids today got it all soo.....zzzzzzzzzzz"

When I was growing up, we use to play marbles, read comicbooks, go "exploring" places we had no business being, play with chemistry sets, build "clubhouses," go to the Saturday movie matinee ( fifteen cents! ), and sometimes just hang out and talk.

Hell, that's about what I did growing up too, except for the chemistry set and going to the movies. The former was too dangerous and the second out of the question because the closest movie theatre was rather far away. The thing is, I'm only twenty years old. Some things have not changed, clearly.

"And we didn't have any of this PC Crap... no hyphmatated words."

Um... http://www.bartleby.com/64/C006/038.html

hyphenated Americans:

Naturalized immigrants to the United States and their descendants are sometimes referred to as hyphenated Americans, a term that dates to the end of the 19th century

Exactly HOW old are you? :)

Us?

Spoiled? Not me personally, but the rest of us...yeah.

But we're just used to this day and age and technology. Heck, the generation AFTER us will be even MORE spoiled and idiotic.

Wait, what did we do before computers?




/me feels really, REALLLLLLLLY old.

Do you mean before computers became small enough and cheap enough for an average person to own, or before they were invented? If it's the latter, then you are really old.

Just because something is different, doesn't mean it is worse.

What's that suppoused to mean? It doesn't mean is better ither I guess, so we come to the conclusion that because something is different... it is different... what a mind blowing thought.

Now, if you were trying to imply that because something is different is better, then I just have to call the looney house for you.

Broked. thats the awnser. Yeah fine my generation and Im 19 and I knw that each on gets more extreme, got lots but we didnt think its enough.

Its not our parents, its not us.

Its the media, advertising, we have to have this, we need to have acheived this by then. Its put in magazines and as children we are made to think we need crap. As teenagers its worse, so much more pressure, we have to dress a certain way, have sex ASAP, smoke ASAP, get drunk ASAP. Either that or the media takes the other extreme which is as rediculous as "abstainance is the only way for young people " or whatever Bush said re applied to every developed nation. There is a middle road and we dont know about it. Because there is less profit to be made from taking the sensible path, or the church says this. There is no middle ground any more.

I mean I know I cant talk on drink, but I only ever drunk in the privacy of my own home until I was nearly 17, and mature enough not to go out and cause trouble. I would get drunk in public at 15, becuase Id have got in to trouble.

But no, thats not good enough. Everyone has sex by 16, everyone does this this and this, and while few dont those that do are made to boast about it. Or thats how it feels. It isnt, but thats not what our media tells us.

ANd you know, I know its crap, but Ive bought it. I feel useless and inferior to other people because I dont have a sex life. I feel shitty when I see T.V programs that normalise things I dont do becuase I dont do them. I know its rubbish, but its too late. Im depressive and the world just seems to rub it in my face.

Oh and five channels? I still only get four where I live in the UK!