For the 30 and over crowd

[Sailor Steve]

I turned 30 twice today. Can I take one back?

I used to tell my kids how wonderful Southern California was. I used to ride my skateboard a half-mile to school, and it was downhill both ways!


I also remember a Hagar the Horrible cartoon, where Hagar is telling his son Hamlet how when he was that age the snow was over his head. "You believe me, don't you, son?" "Yes, sir!" replies Hamlet from behind. We can't see him because the snow is over his head!

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

yeah and you always had that friend at school who had a huge stash, and he was going to show you one day.

but always came up with an excuse why he couldnt

Then you had to be happy with National Geographic!

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Then you had to be happy with National Geographic!

not the kind i wanted to see though!!!

[Onkel Neal]

30? 30!!?? Damn kids. The 70s and 80s were not hard at all.

[STEED]

Back then...

No all day TV.

No PC's and Internet.

Better law & order back then.

No liberals and there Political Correctness.

Kids went out and had a good time...football (US Soccer) in the streets.


Now look at kids...always on there mobile phones and twittering on twitter & face book, hours and hours on the net. Using strong language which in my day get you grounded for six months, the list goes on.

[Oberon]

30?! I'm 26 and can remember all those things. There were mobile phones but only yuppies had them and walked around the city with them glued to their ear yelling at their investors or booking a lunch at a restaurant for their 'darling'.
Top loading VCRs, remember those? And the nightmare of the damn thing eating the tape and having to fish it all out of the runners inside it
I remember when CD players were stupidly priced (some still are) and only those who were flush could have them, the old crackle and hiss of an LP vinyl brings back memories of the Pet Shop Boys, Tina Turner and Ultavox.
Happy Shopper, who in the UK remembers that? And Beejams.
Saturday morning cartoons, Timmy Mallet and Whackaday!

If I feel this old now, how the heck am I going to feel in another 24 years!!

EDIT: Oh, and this one is for you STEED:

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Oberon

If I feel this old now, how the heck am I going to feel in another 24 years!!

EDIT: Oh, and this one is for you STEED:

Your love being in your 40's its all down hill.

I know.

BTW: You forgot this one.



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[AVGWarhawk]

Each generation has it's trials and tribulations.... I did find the 80's easy living...I would do it all over again in a heart beat.

[GoldenRivet]

Funny thing is that it seems so recent.

it seems so recent that i would vanish for an entire day into the woods, or on our bikes on the streets of the neighborhood and just hop from house to house.

going over to the vacant lot to play baseball or football...

dont see much of that any more.

i remember so clearly the call of my mothers voice over the silence of the neighborhood... or another mom calling her kid home by stepping outside and calling out his name.

now days, when mom wants the kid to come home... all you would hear in the middle of sand lot baseball is this...



if we heard that in my day... everyone would have dropped everything mid ball game and run looking for an ice cream truck.

no more though.

ahhhhhh the good old days

[AVGWarhawk]

Yep, gone all day on our bikes or at the pool. At five it was time to go home for dinner. I would eat fast and head out again as they daylight was good until 8-ish. To me, TV was just that boz that news and some cartoons played on....I had a black and white TV. Cable never reached my neighborhood...not until I left for college. If you had cable you were liv'in! We would swipe a beer or two from our neighbors garage and generally attempt to stay out of trouble...which we accomplished. It was good time...like I said, I would do it all over again.

To me, today's kids have it a bit tougher concerning peer pressure. So and so has a cell phone and I don't. So and so go to see the PG13 movie and I didn't. There is peer pressure coming from all sides....text, phone, facebook, myspace and on it goes.

Like I said, each decade has it's trials and tribulations. One just hopes all survive to talk about it.

[Oberon]

Upstairs in my bedroom I have a television (a little rare pleasure I enjoyed in my youth due to my father being in quite a well paid job with LT) which was second hand in 1986 so must have been made in the late 1970s or early 1980s and the thing still works!! For a spot of nostalgia I watched the recent celebrations of the coming down of the Berlin wall on the same television that I watched the wall come down on back in 1989, wonder how many can say that?
The sad thing is, with the switch over to digital coming within the next two years, my television will become out of date and unable to receive television channels. Still usable for DVDs, Playstation and VCR though.

And STEED, nice one, look forward to tomorrows episode

[GoldenRivet]

my brother in law is 13... (dont worry... he was 5 when i married his then 20 year old sister)

he has text messaging, instant access to information via google etc... everything is immediate for him.

want to know what movie is on?

there is an "app" for that LOL

not only can he tell me what is playing and what its rated, but he can get instant reviews, show times, and turn by turn navigation to any theater within 50 miles.

I CAN"T WAIT

to see what his generation bitches about when they hit 30+

"In my day... friends couldnt read your thoughts! you had to send something called a text message!"

And 2 hour the round the world suborbital flights?! forget it... we had to board something called an airliner and spend the next 13 hours flying!

and forget sight seeing tours on the moon... if you wanted to see the moon in my day you had to look up! that was as close as you could get!

and STDs like gonorrhea and herpes and aids... you risked a deadly disease every time you screwed a hot chick. - we didnt have all that gene therapy and overnight cures for that sort of stuff!

[Sailor Steve]

I can remember when the TV show Disneyland became Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color. I used to watch Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. Had my own coonskin cap too.

My dad bought one of the first color TVs on our block, and had to adjust the color all the time. He told me that the best time to do it was during a commercial or a football (American) game, because they were the ones who spent the most money to make sure their broadcast was perfect.

I was also lucky enough to see a Pan-American 707 land in Los Angeles after the first US transcontinental jetliner flight, in 1958.

[GoldenRivet]

Someone born in 2010 turns 30…

Here is what they would bitch about to the “kids these days”!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with tedious blogs and facebook posts about how hard things were when they were growing up
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 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 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 damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
so, here goes...
when I was a kid we didn't have holographic projections of educators to instantly tell us anything we wanted to know.

If we wanted to know something, we had to spend 30 seconds tediously typing it into a keyboard on something called “google”.

There was no Thought mail!!

If we wanted to communicate with friends on the other side of the country, we had to actually write somebody an e mail, and it could take upwards of 5 minutes to get a reply from them! We didn’t have these mind implants that allow you to instantly and silently communicate with friends anywhere on Earth.

Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents counted to three.

As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to count to three! Nowhere was safe! Of course parents never actually got to three… it was always 2, 2 ½… 2 ¾ and so on! Imagine listening to that! If we got disciplined we got taken away from our family and put into an orphanage… now the government supplies you brats with a home and a $250,000 a year stimulus check! Back in my day that was like working all week long just to make $30,000 a year!!!

There were subdural music implants. If we wanted to listen to music we had to use ear buds, if you had long hair you could hide them and listen in class without the teacher knowing. Now… you guys just sit there and nobody can tell whether or not your rockin!

We had massive iPods that weighed several ounces… and they would only hold about 5,000 songs, unlike you guys... with yottabytes of songs on your little music players no bigger than my thumb.

We didn't have any fancy holo-room video games with high-resolution 3-D environments that surrounded us! We had the XBOX 360 or the PC! With games that required you to be constantly connected to the internet in order to play them!
And inertial dampers - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you buckled into a car seat. If you were lucky, you just got slightly jolted in a car accident… you damned kids could drive 40 miles per hour into a cement truck and never feel a thing.

see! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled ass rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back the mid 2000s!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd (or Close To It!)

[Lionclaw]

Even though I'm 25 going 26 this year, I can relate to some of the things.

Getting a spanking if I did something bad or getting my mouth washed with soap when I said a bad word. ( Blaerge!! )

Being outdoors most of the day, having fun. Riding the bicycle, "jumping" with the bicycle. Not serious jumping, just enough to get the tires of the ground for a split second. Learned a lesson to actually use a helmet, luckily it was just a few scratches.

Mother telling about when she was young having to ski several kilometres to school during winter times with -40C temperatures.


The tape eating VCR, yep we had one of those.

No cellphones when I grew up. I only got my first only a few years ago.


Has anyone else experienced that weird chain link fence illusion when you're looking through the fence? When it for a moment looks like the fence is really close to your face.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Lionclaw

...or getting my mouth washed with soap when I said a bad word. ( Blaerge!! )

"Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand... "