They still have quarters at some places. Even though what they call "quarters" isn't really a quarter. I think the cheapest beer around here is a 50 cent draft. That's what they call quarters on thursday and saturday. Theres another place that has double bubble. That's 2 beers or a doublestrong mixed drink for the price of one.. And it always feels cool to be walkin around double fisting some beers. Anyhoo!
Remember when the "guess what it is" thread was goin strong??
__________________ Motivation. If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots wil be doing soon.
Remember when the rest of the world used to respect the USA and its leader, when it stood for democracy. When leaders like Martin Luthur and JF fought the fights that had to be fought. We loved America we idolised it, no more
I just rcv'd this one emailed today... (I'll have to edit some of the language...)
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If you are 20 or older, you will think this is hilarious!
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
through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings on their
backs...to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained a Straight-A
average, despite their full-time, after-school job at the local textile
mill...where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their
family from starving to death!
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 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 d on'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 library and look it up ourselves in the card catalog!!
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!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! 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'd usually talk
over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to
steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of
"Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options!
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 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!
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," and the graphics sucked! 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!
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!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that were only like 15
channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! 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 butt and
walk over to the TV to change the channel, 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, you spoiled little
ingrates!
And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had
to use the stove or go build a frigging fire. Imagine that!
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake
it over the stove forever like an idiot. 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 1980.
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While so much of that is true, there are pressures on kids in schools that us older people wouldn't know how to deal with.
Back in our day the groups were well defined, and you knew where you fit, and if you didn't look for trouble, you didn't really find it.
Lets here from some of the youngsters about the pressures from peers (I volunteer with kids at church and hear lots of things these kids get from school, and even pressures from parents overwhelmed with their own pressures) or maybe make a "You had it so good back then" thread.
I think you have to be a little bit older than 20 for that one. I'm 22 and it's about half and half... I've never had an atari (kinda wish I did, cause we'd still have it and by now it'd be a collectors item), what we had was the original game boy and the super nintendo. We still don't have caller id or cable at home.. On a nice clear day we might be able to get 8 or so channels. And they're all prettymuch the same.
__________________ Motivation. If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots wil be doing soon.
Remember when there used to be decent (and sometimes even great) fighters in the heavyweight division, and just two respected belts to hold? Now there are 15 different belts to hold and not one decent fighter amongst all of 'em ...
I remember watching Neil Armstrong take the first step on the moon(not in person,on tv).I also remember watching the first tv appearance of the Beatles in the U.S.
Remember when most cops were either 6'6" or look liked they had just inhaled a Dunkin Donut shop?
Remember when cars actually stopped at stop signs or red lights?
Remember when a Toyota was something you laughed at and you thanked God you had a GM?
Remember when you could thank God in public and not start an incident simply by having done so?
Remember when Aximsite was down two weeks ago?
__________________ Learn as much as you can. Do what you think is right. Don't fear losing. When down, pick yourself right back up. Do not give up. Do not give in. Keep going forward. If you can do all of that and like what you see in the mirror, you are where you want to be... and ahead of most.
Remember what you did prior to Cell phones as a kid? You got off your happy butt and got on the bike, and peddled 5 miles to your friends house who was sometimes not there.
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