Poll: Do you like those "When I was your age" statements?!
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Give some examples of either statements you endured from those older then you, and/or the ones you handed out with glee to the younger people.
For example,
When I was your age, we used to have to get up to change the channel on the TV.
(kids horrorfied shrieking NO)
Answers: As per the norm lately, I have indeed been given the Yahoo award of: No similar questions found
Give some examples of either statements you endured from those older then you, and/or the ones you handed out with glee to the younger people.
For example,
When I was your age, we used to have to get up to change the channel on the TV.
(kids horrorfied shrieking NO)
The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
If you are 30 or older, you will think this is hilarious.... If not, send it to your parents. They'll think it's funny.
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 heck 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 (ahem...waaaaay 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 dang Utopia. And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it.
1. When I was a kid, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the dang library and look it up ourselves... In the card catalog.. (Do you even know what a card catalog is? Didn't think so.)
2. 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.
3. There were no MP3's or Napsters. If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the dang 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 mess it all up.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics. If we were lucky, we had Video Pong and later on the Atari 2600. With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics were horrible. 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.
7. 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 hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed.
8. Some of us had no cable...only 3 stations (maybe) that you had to go outside and turn the antennae to be able pick up. Later on, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu. You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on.
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.
9. And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove or go build a fire ... Imagine that. If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid JiffyPop thing or a pan with HOT oil and Real popcorn kernels and shake it all over the stove forever like an idiot.
10. When we were on the phone with our friends and our parents walked-in, we were stuck to the wall with a cord, a 7 foot cord that ran to the phone - not the phone base, the actual phone. We barely had enough length to sit on the floor and still be able to twirl the phone cord in our fingers. If you suddenly had to go to the bathroom - guess what we had to do..... Hang up and talk to them later.
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 1960 or 1970 or 1980.
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
"To get to school I used to walk five miles uphill -both ways." I've heard that one a lot.
"When I was your age, I cook, clean and took care of my siblings all by myself."
Yeah, that's 3 decades ago, mum.
Boy when I was your age we didnt have fancy pants video games, just pong
"When I was your age, we didn't have cellphones."
When I was your age, I ate egg salad sandwiches wrapped in newspaper barf
No most of the time I don't like them because they say it like life was better then not like these days or like they were better!
My parents used to give me the "when I was your age" line until I started cutting in and saying dinosaurs roamed the earth.
^^^
The same thing she said.
When I was your age...
We didn't have a "Planet Earth" to live on...
We just floated around in a slimy ectoplasmic cosmic goo, and hopped about drooling radioactive stardust from one dimension to another...and we only had 2 dimensions...
You 3-Dimensional kids living on the surface of a planet are so lucky...
I love that statement! I use it all the time, It's even in my profile!
As my neices were getting ready for college I used it all the time. "Daaad, I need an iPod for college!" I but in with "When I was a kid we didn't have no iPods, I had a rock and was damned glad to have one! Other kids couldn't afford a rock and had to make do with dirt. You kids have it so easy today with your ePods and iMail. In my day, if you wanted to talk to someone in the next village you beat your log. Eventually someone would catch you and you'd ask them to take a message.
Oh, yeah it's belittling. But what's condescending and really obnoxious is when people do it who are like a year or two older. They say it to seem bigger than you, and it just gets on my nerves. There's other ways to say it, so I don't know.
EDIT: I forgot to put one!!
-"When I was your age, if we talked to grandma like that, pup-pup would have beaten us with the belt!"
When I was your age i didnt have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out..
Grandma says: When I was your age we had to wash diapers by hand using a scrub board. Your friend has it too easy with those plastic diapers.