[Shasown]

Ah the youth of today, just didnt experience the good old days when Brittania really ruled, when Johnny Foreigner would touch his forelock or doff his titfer to us Brits, simply because they realised their place in the order of things.

You kids probably wont believe half of this but

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 reference section!!

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 postbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!

Stamps were a penny!


Social Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! 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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

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 either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, 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'. 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!


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!

NO REMOTES!!!

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 cooker! Imagine that!

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 the 1970's or before!

Arrrr the good old days.

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Ah the youth of today, just didnt experience the good old days when Brittania really ruled, when Johnny Foreigner would touch his forelock or doff his titfer to us Brits, simply because they realised their place in the order of things.

You kids probably wont believe half of this but

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 reference section!!

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 postbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!

Stamps were a penny!


Social Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! 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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

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 either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, 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'. 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!


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!

NO REMOTES!!!

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 cooker! Imagine that!

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 the 1970's or before!

Arrrr the good old days.

Nice post lol I think i'd of been fine in the 70's haha, it's only recently i've become really attached to the net, and i'm planning to go travelling anyway. I think I was in the last genenration without the net really, it was coming up when I was a kid but nothing like it is today. I used to be able to go out at like 10am and not be back all day and my mum would not even worry. Doubt it's like that now, the media has created too many folk devils and people are scared any paranoid of everyone. Not good really, like people don't even know their neighbours these days in some cases!!! I'd say it's changed alot since you were growing up and you probably saw the most dramatic effects.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by InOne

Nice post lol I think i'd of been fine in the 70's haha, it's only recently i've become really attached to the net, and i'm planning to go travelling anyway. I think I was in the last genenration without the net really, it was coming up when I was a kid but nothing like it is today. I used to be able to go out at like 10am and not be back all day and my mum would not even worry. Doubt it's like that now, the media has created too many folk devils and people are scared any paranoid of everyone. Not good really, like people don't even know their neighbours these days in some cases!!! I'd say it's changed alot since you were growing up and you probably saw the most dramatic effects.

It was like that in the 80's too

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Niamhxo

It was like that in the 80's too

Ahhh yes, you were a 90's teen lol

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by InOne

Ahhh yes, you were a 90's teen lol

yep but we had no internet

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Niamhxo

yep but we had no internet

I'm sure you didn't need it, 90's was loads better for pubs, clubs and gigs ect

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by InOne

I'm sure you didn't need it, 90's was loads better for pubs, clubs and gigs ect

yeah, I loved the 90's

[Wildcat!]

Originally Posted by Shasown

Ah the youth of today, just didnt experience the good old days when Brittania really ruled, when Johnny Foreigner would touch his forelock or doff his titfer to us Brits, simply because they realised their place in the order of things.

You kids probably wont believe half of this but

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 reference section!!

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 postbox and it would take, like, a week to get there!

Stamps were a penny!


Social Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! 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 would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.. Cause - that's how we rolled, dig?

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 either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mum, 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'. 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!


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!

NO REMOTES!!!

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 cooker! Imagine that!

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 the 1970's or before!

Arrrr the good old days.

Epic post.