PMSL this a must read

 

If you are 40 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

 

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious shite about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... barefoot... 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 s**t like that on my 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 forty, 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 F***ING 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 bloody library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

 

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!

Stamps were 5 pence!

 

Child Protective 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 the s**t out of us! Nowhere was safe!

 

There were no MP3' s or Napsters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the 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 f**k 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 BA****DS!!

 

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 little ar**holes wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or before!

 

Regards,

Grumpy Gang

 

(Pass this to someone you'd like to make smile, Whether they are under 40 or not.)

Now that was a good read for a Monday morning!! LMAO remembering the times in total agreement. Bring back phones that are......phones and I love the statement about the Atari games, brilliant!

 

 

Thanks for sharing, it has now become the talking point at my work.

i had stuck this on my facebook page few days ago stole it aff one of my mates, is funny but true.

LOL - so true.....

 

.....Not to mention that as children, we were not chubby little lardsters either - whilst we may have liked our sweets and occasional junk food, we were fit and healthy. Because we had real friends - and played outside from dawn until dusk; working off the energy. Not sitting on our fat arses at the PC or playstation..:wink:

 

Thank you for sharing that!!!

 

Richard:bow:

So true. When I was a boy we went out in the mornings played all day and come home at 6 for your dinner then went out again till it was dark.We cycled for miles and ate apples from the trees and drank water from streams. We brought lemonade bottles back to the shop for a few pennies and bought black jacks and sweetie cigarettes. They were the good times.

Those were the day's.... over the woods.... climbing trees..... riding bikes and NO health and safety crap......

Children were children.... we laughed more, fell over and didn't scream and cry..... we just got on with it..... We rode bikes and tried to jump brooks and streams with racers.... No mountain bikes for us....

Many a time I was face down in the local stream, soaking wet, but killing myself laughing.....

So true. When I was a boy we went out in the mornings played all day and come home at 6 for your dinner then went out again till it was dark.We cycled for miles and ate apples from the trees and drank water from streams. We brought lemonade bottles back to the shop for a few pennies and bought black jacks and sweetie cigarettes. They were the good times.

 

Those were the day's.... over the woods.... climbing trees..... riding bikes and NO health and safety crap......

Children were children.... we laughed more, fell over and didn't scream and cry..... we just got on with it..... We rode bikes and tried to jump brooks and streams with racers.... No mountain bikes for us....

Many a time I was face down in the local stream, soaking wet, but killing myself laughing.....

 

Ditto - I had a great childhood just like that too. No pressures, no league tables and no obligation to conform with whatever....... Just the fun of being a kid - which is something I think is sorely lacking in the lives of today's children!!

 

Mind how you go...:wink:

 

Richard:wheelchair:

Ha, ha, you lot sound me talking to my kids! absolutely no doubt in my mind the 70`s was a great era to be a kid, don`t forget Raleigh Choppers and doing the slow run across the playground pretending you were the bionic man!! Fredo frogs were 2 pence! huba buba bubble gum, The Persuaders on tv and The Sweeney, but cannot mention Saturday kids tv without Tiswas! can you imagine the safety police now...oh my god they would close the show down in a heart beat,locking kids in cages and throwing all sort at them, ok so my kids were late 80`s - 90`s era but I made sure they had bikes and roller blades and did not sit moody in their bedrooms and now they have a good childhood to look back on with fond memories...

 

Jeff TT

My ultimate toy as a young boy was the Jonny Seven Gun. A little older and it was a racer bike and home made go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood lol.

 

home made go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood lol.

 

Oh my god I had forgotten about them, remember you would crash at the bottom of hills, but just pick up the pieces and nail them back together for another go!! and climbing trees is a whole topic of its own!!

 

Jeff

We talk about 18" wheels on the front of our zeds and 19" on the rear well that started in my wooden go kart days with the big wheels at the rear and the smaller wheels at the front. Plus no brakes just stick your feet down to slow it up. If you were lucky you had a piece of carpet to sit on to stop getting wooden splinters in your arse.

Were grew up in southeast London we would tell our mum we would be over the school playground all day when we were on our bikes in greenwich park or playing on the woolwich ferry or scateting in cristal palace. all these places would be hours away to get there probly 20 30 miles away. or if we did stay close to home we would jump roofs make dams in streems have made ramsps out of old wood. make carts out of scrap and go down hills at silly speed with no brakes. or go down the sewer in eltham and pope up in leegreen. mad when you think back now im 44 and since you brought back the memory of carts if i had the stuff to build one ill have a go now.

And thanks for putting a smile on me face.

My ultimate toy as a young boy was the Jonny Seven Gun. A little older and it was a racer bike and home made go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood lol.

 

jesus yes the jonny seven best toy out back then me and my brother used to fight over it,and i still have it after all these years,now where is it?

Some of that is relevant to the over 30s too! I had a happy and relatively privileged upbringing, but I can totally appreciate MOST of that! haha. I had a Commodore 64 though! Even though I went through the era of BBC Electron computers and no mobiles, I find it hard to comprehend a life without mobile PCs (smart phones) and all the technology that we now have around us.

You try getting hold of pram wheels now for the go cart, ive built so many carts for the boys, but end up scrapping them as cant get any wheels. Tried old bike wheels but need to make an axle etc for them to fit, so we gave up lol

But i can relate to all of the above :biggrin:

Building Rope swings in trees, the bigger and more dangerous the better !!!!, and sliding down big grass bankings on a piece of cardboard box in the summer when the grass was really dry, falling off your Raleigh Grifter and getting trapped under it because it was that heavy.

Tonka trucks, tomy tronic game thundering turbo's, (I still have it in my sad man drawer). ZX spectrum with the rubber keyboard with a Kempston 2 joystick and interface ( I still have them in the loft too)......Happy Days.

Oh my god I had forgotten about them, remember you would crash at the bottom of hills, but just pick up the pieces and nail them back together for another go!! and climbing trees is a whole topic of its own!!

 

Jeff

So that is where you learned to repair things Jeff......lol.......

My fave toy until my Mum stood on it!

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/steer-n-go.htm

 

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Another..........

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/vertibird.htm

 

loved this cos it really flew! LOL!

One for Jimmer...........

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/johnny_seven.htm

Airwolf. The Professionals. Star Trek. Cortina Mk5.

...and Miss Gomez.

Brilliant:lol:

 

This also makes me smile everytime.

 

Well I'm under 40 and I can relate to this! My parents hardly see me when I was growing up I only went home when I was hungry and to change outfits in the evening! I can remember having a twisty switch on the wall in our house to change the tv channel and it was only 3 channels then and we had to put 50p in the electric meter lol

 

Youngsters have it far to easy altho like I did, my boys only come home when they're hungry :)

LOL!-I remember those, wasn't it Redifusion or something?

Brilliant:lol:

 

This also makes me smile everytime.

 

 

LOL - that sums it up completely mate!!!

 

Have some rep for that one...:bow: