"Exhibit A"
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Im under 30...and I am on Colin's side on this whole issue
To All The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd On BGOL
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It took 65 posts for Colin to show up
Im under 30...and I am on Colin's side on this whole issue
Quick question - is anyone else here disgusted at the rise of cellphone usage amongst YOUNG KIDS?
I don't have any kids of my own ... but I'm always baffled at parents who try and tell you they bought their kid(s) their own HIGH-END CELLPHONES (as safety measures). Yeah right. You bought it for them so they could KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES and you're more of a friend than you are a parent. They want to be "cool" like their peers. Why in the hell do we see GRADE SCHOOL KIDS (all of 8 - 11 years old) with pricy-ass phones? Taking pictures / downloading shitloads of ringtones / running up TEXT MESSAGING tabs far beyond whatever their plans call for. And in the end parents pay for that shit. I have a coworker who lets her DAUGHTER run up monthly bills of $150 +. Fuck that shit ... I'm damn near 30 and keep my bill under $33.50 a month (taxes included) ... and have a grip of jobs. Shit's just baffling to me. And you wonder why high school and college chicks end up self-posing in the washroom and taking Paris Hilton-type shots of themselves (and ending up all over the fucking internet in "MYSPACE FREAKS" folders and shit)? GTFOH ...
I don't have any kids of my own ... but I'm always baffled at parents who try and tell you they bought their kid(s) their own HIGH-END CELLPHONES (as safety measures). Yeah right. You bought it for them so they could KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES and you're more of a friend than you are a parent. They want to be "cool" like their peers. Why in the hell do we see GRADE SCHOOL KIDS (all of 8 - 11 years old) with pricy-ass phones? Taking pictures / downloading shitloads of ringtones / running up TEXT MESSAGING tabs far beyond whatever their plans call for. And in the end parents pay for that shit. I have a coworker who lets her DAUGHTER run up monthly bills of $150 +. Fuck that shit ... I'm damn near 30 and keep my bill under $33.50 a month (taxes included) ... and have a grip of jobs. Shit's just baffling to me. And you wonder why high school and college chicks end up self-posing in the washroom and taking Paris Hilton-type shots of themselves (and ending up all over the fucking internet in "MYSPACE FREAKS" folders and shit)? GTFOH ...
Damn, I'm only 25 but I remember everything yall talking about, only the popcorn over the stove was a bit before me, I had the popcorn popper where you put the seeds in it and after a few minutes popcorn was falling out the spout. I did have Atari but when Nintendo came out, I was the Duck Hunt King. Then I can clearly recall dubbing off the radio but when high speed dubbing hit the scene I was recording every cassette I had. (sidebar: how many people still have cassettes in their possession?)
I can say tho, back in the days it was so much simpler than now. I can remember fighting with the neighborhood tough guy, then the next day we was playing again, man how times have changed!
It took 65 posts for Colin to show up
Im under 30...and I am on Colin's side on this whole issue
dtown get outta here w/that shit. i could c if it was in a small font. it aint that much 2 read u moe lookin ass nigga.....
hell I'm in between your time and "my" time.
I know everyone remembers blowing in that damn Nintendo game to make it work!!!
I know everyone remembers blowing in that damn Nintendo game to make it work!!!
dtown get outta here w/that shit. i could c if it was in a small font. it aint that much 2 read u moe lookin ass nigga.....
That's Why You A Got Damn Sideshow Mel Lookin Ass Nigga
Classic shit right there, but whats dumb as hell is we all REALLY thought that shit made a difference
I would just cut the VCR on and tape that shyt while i was doing something else.
I still own a VCR (it's 12 years old) and use it every single day. I don't own anything else (TiVO, PVR, DVR, etc).
I watch everything off of the 'net or VHS tape
Where the hell did that idea originate?
It was just something we all did
We all thought the world over that we were ingeniously REMOVING all dust/lint fragments from the cartridges
I graduated in 79, and the world I grew up in is as different from the under 30 crowd, as the Earth is to Mars...the internet is prolly the main thing, the access to information. I didn't grow up in Happy Days, but choices in EVERYTHING was limited. There were three networks, ABC, NBC, CBS. You had a local station or two, PBS...and the dreaded UHF stations, where every show was guaranteed to look snowy. I remember hearing a cassette, for the first time. It was the theme from Shaft. Unfortunately, the cassette player didn't have auto-stop, and some of my buddies and myself broke the tape...sorry I remember the world pre-hiphop. It was new and you didn't know if it was a fad and wouldn't last...disco had just died previously. The first porno I saw was in a theater, hanging out with a bunch of my buddies, drunk on beer, trying to look old enough to get in. I WISH we had vhs tapes when i was a kid. And last but most important...we didn't HAVE TO use condems. never put one on until the 80's...I wouldn't trade places for anything.
I remember the world pre-hiphop. It was new and you didn't know if it was a fad and wouldn't last...disco had just died previously. The first porno I saw was in a theater, hanging out with a bunch of my buddies, drunk on beer, trying to look old enough to get in. I WISH we had vhs tapes when i was a kid. And last but most important...we didn't HAVE TO use condems. never put one on until the 80's...I wouldn't trade places for anything.
I'm 24, I remember no cable having channels 4,6,8, 12, 32, 26,38 and then eventually 54 in maybe the late 90s and channel 10 was the Box Network where you call that number and order videos. The Channels were snowy and basically there was nothing on TV most of the time. I remember having the radio on listening to Q93.
I do remember blowing in Nintendo cartridges or "tapes" as we called them along with alot of other stuff that seems almost exclusive to the over 30 crowd, it just seems as if the first 8 years of my life was like that, then crime flew off the charts and coming inside early and playing inside with video games became more routine.
I do remember blowing in Nintendo cartridges or "tapes" as we called them along with alot of other stuff that seems almost exclusive to the over 30 crowd, it just seems as if the first 8 years of my life was like that, then crime flew off the charts and coming inside early and playing inside with video games became more routine.
better be glad you aint on bgol downloading porn on that muthafucka. you'd have enuff room for 2 or 3 vids. process of elimination like a mug. (unless u zshare of course)
I filled that thing with porn every few days and was CONSTANTLY shuffling/deleting replacing shit.
- Ran Windows 95 on 1GB from 1997 - mid-2003
- Ran DIAL-UP internet access from 1997 - 2001
- Used a pager from 2002 - 2004
- Using a cellphone from 2004 - present
- Running HIGH-SPEED from 2001 - present
- Ran Windows XP Home from 2003 to mid-2008 on 80gb
- Running Windows XP PRO on 600gb right now
= The evolution of this muthafuckin' Helico-pter
Great post propz..
What amazes me even more is how younger katz don't realize how things are really "dumbying" them down.
I spent the first part of this month turning over the soil in my yard and laying down mulch and fertilizer for the winter.
I was amazed at how many young katz would walk by and say what are you doing?...
I'd tell them getting the yard ready for the spring...they looked dumb founded some of these folks where adults!
I thought to myself if the economy took a nose dive and we really experienced a hardcore depression, most people from 16-35 and some older wouldn't know how to survive...grow food, fix up old things so they work like new, or even sell things other than weed, crack or "hot" items...
It is really a new youth thing, even crosses color boundaries...I have met some of the stupidest white folks lately than I ever have in my life...so I'm not just speaking on young brothas and sistas even thought those are who I fear for the most.
What amazes me even more is how younger katz don't realize how things are really "dumbying" them down.
I spent the first part of this month turning over the soil in my yard and laying down mulch and fertilizer for the winter.
I was amazed at how many young katz would walk by and say what are you doing?...
I'd tell them getting the yard ready for the spring...they looked dumb founded some of these folks where adults!
I thought to myself if the economy took a nose dive and we really experienced a hardcore depression, most people from 16-35 and some older wouldn't know how to survive...grow food, fix up old things so they work like new, or even sell things other than weed, crack or "hot" items...
It is really a new youth thing, even crosses color boundaries...I have met some of the stupidest white folks lately than I ever have in my life...so I'm not just speaking on young brothas and sistas even thought those are who I fear for the most.
Funny thread...
Another thing with cable:
No interactive menus, if you wanted to order something you had to actually call the company and order it.
No parental security code, moms had a key, if you wanted to watch something that she had locked out she had to put a key in the box and turn that bitch like she was starting a car. WTF...
Another thing with cable:
No interactive menus, if you wanted to order something you had to actually call the company and order it.
No parental security code, moms had a key, if you wanted to watch something that she had locked out she had to put a key in the box and turn that bitch like she was starting a car. WTF...
SPICE!!!
Shoutout to commodore 64, the dewey decimal system and popcorn that you had to shake over the oven.
edit: Shoutout to watching the Spice channel on that one tv in the house that you could kinda almost make out what was going on.
nigga i used to straight choke the chicken off them lil bits of tits and ass!
We didn't have to buy water either...tap water was fine,as far as we knew.
And if you were heading out Friday night and didn't cash your pay-check,you were fucked.There were no ATMs...
Of course on the flip side...didn't have to worry about condoms,worse that could happen you would get clap.If a woman was on the pill...you were set.
I REMEMBER ALL THAT !
I REMEMBER WHEN TV ACTUALLY WENT OFF
AND THERE WASNT SHIT TO WATCH
EXCEPT SNOW OR A TEST PATTERN.
Were'nt any cell phones either...... Your ass had to use a nasty ass pay phone if you were out. your ass had to remember every dam number of the persons you knew or write that shyt down. I got at least a hundred dam numbers in my phone now and cant remember one by heart.....
MAN I FEEL BED SOMETIMES NOW BECAUSE I DONT KNOW THEM ANYMORE.
I USED TO BE ABLE TO REMEMBER PEOPLES SHIT WITHOUT EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT.
I STILL REMEMBER SOME OF THEM.
I WAS .......
SO WHAT YOU SAYIN ?
Shit I remember drinking water out the garden hosewhen we were kids, lead poison waiting to happen
THAT WAS THE SHIT.
WE WOULD BE OUTSIDE PLAYING
AND WAS TOO LAZY OR TOO FAR TO RUN
INTO THE HOUSE AND GET A GLASS OF TAP WATER......SAME SHIT.
Get a house. You should have been out of the market a long time ago youngin"!
BTW, you ain't gonna be able to retire!
THATS FUCKED UP !
..........BUT TRUE.YOU WILL BE RIGHT THERE ONE DAY
..............IF YOURE LUCKY
GREAT POST !
I filled that thing with porn every few days and was CONSTANTLY shuffling/deleting replacing shit.
- Ran Windows 95 on 1GB from 1997 - mid-2003
- Ran DIAL-UP internet access from 1997 - 2001
- Used a pager from 2002 - 2004
- Using a cellphone from 2004 - present
- Running HIGH-SPEED from 2001 - present
- Ran Windows XP Home from 2003 to mid-2008 on 80gb
- Running Windows XP PRO on 600gb right now
= The evolution of this muthafuckin' Helico-pter
First things first -- Big Respect H-Funk.
I was writing programs in basic to make my TI-99 4A do stuff. I got a cassette tape storage device for a birthday present.
Im a dj and I started out with two tape players with the break for "Good Times" set to 0. And I was funky.
Today I got all this technology (Serato, CDJ-1000, self powered speakers, Loudspeaker management) but I find the young folks don't grasp the basics (of anything) and they miss out on opportunities as a result.
Word, word. Solid reply Grandwiz. For laughs - my dad bought me a YELLOW SONY WALKMAN for my 25th birthday in 2004. I was quietly silent and mad ... and didn't say much. He started yelling and cursing me out ... called me ungrateful and stormed out of my pad like a girl. I had to call him and be the bigger man and apologize. And that wasn't the first time he bitched out on my birthday. Yes - the same dad who bought my brother and I a PINK BARBIE DIGICAM in 2001 for Christmas to save money ("because it does all the same things a real digital camera does ..."). We couldn't even set that thing up and never used it. He returned it.
Word, word. Solid reply Grandwiz. For laughs - my dad bought me a YELLOW SONY WALKMAN for my 25th birthday in 2004. I was quietly silent and mad ... and didn't say much. He started yelling and cursing me out ... called me ungrateful and stormed out of my pad like a girl. I had to call him and be the bigger man and apologize. And that wasn't the first time he bitched out on my birthday. Yes - the same dad who bought my brother and I a PINK BARBIE DIGICAM in 2001 for Christmas to save money ("because it does all the same things a real digital camera does ..."). We couldn't even set that thing up and never used it. He returned it.
I'm in fucking tearz!!!God bless ya dad but that shit is funny as hell!!!
"Pink Barbie Digital Camera!!!"...I'm dying as i'm replyin'
Got me by 3 days brother. 10/13/78 for me
God bless ya dad but that shit is funny as hell!!!
"Pink Barbie Digital Camera!!!"...I'm dying as i'm replyin'
He's as frugal as they come, my man. Put it this way ... he taught me the VALUE OF A DOLLAR (hence the love and appreciation for 'net downloading).
- He uses coupons EVERYWHERE
- His girlfriend of 12 years is a high roller and hates that he ALWAYS has 2-for-1's ... everywhere
- He buys alot of random-ass gifts and shirts/hats for us from Ross, Value Village, and Target when he travels across the line
- Gotta love parents ...
.... HE EVEN TOOK THE PINK BARBIE CAM BACK TO LONDON DRUGS TWICE FOR THEM TO CHECK IT OVER ... BEFORE FINALLY GIVING IN AND REALIZING THAT IT WAS A DEFECTIVE PIECE OF SHIT. - On the other hand - my brother doesn't have money, but spends like a high roller. He decided to go to Europe for 7 weeks in 2005 - and made up his mind 2 days before leaving. Bought himself a $500 digicam (also from London Drugs) and ended up ruining it in 2006. He leaned over at a bar w/ friends and it fell in a pitcher of that lager and shit - he then went and bought himself a $400 camera in 2007. And he also owns 2 Ipods. I don't own any cameras or MP3s. I won a RIOPORT MP3 player from the Warped Tour website in 1999 ... and it had 32mb of storage and held 8 songs !!!!!!!!!!!!!! - I tried to sell it - no one wanted it - and then I used it for one summer playing bball in 2002, and then left it on my dresser counter for 5 years and threw it away this past spring
naw that's not my birthday I'm 1/10/84
I did that to salute everybody 30 and over.
Where the hell did that idea originate?
It was just something we all did
Blowing in the game did work, just like jamming a cigarette lighter on top of the game after u put it in the system (once shit started getting loose)
the whole blowing on cartridges thing..i seen mofos take those out the console and BLOW like they superman using his super breath
I graduated from High School in 1978! I have short patients with today's youth. Excuses for everything!
Co-sizzle My nizzle......................
Originally Posted by actinanass
hell I'm in between your time and "my" time.
I know everyone remembers blowing in that damn Nintendo game to make it work!!!
I did that for Dunk Hunt and for my Sega games. Sonic was the ish.
hell I'm in between your time and "my" time.
I know everyone remembers blowing in that damn Nintendo game to make it work!!!
I did that for Dunk Hunt and for my Sega games. Sonic was the ish.
I remember when the dial on the TV fell off and pops put a pair of pliers next to it and we had to use that to turn the channel...almost no channels. Phone was wind-up so you had to dial each number and then it turns click click click.
cassette tapes - we were pirating shit before the net!
we still had our own shit though...I know I'm not the only one was on BBS's in the early days and usenet and shit
cassette tapes - we were pirating shit before the net!
we still had our own shit though...I know I'm not the only one was on BBS's in the early days and usenet and shit
Cheers to you too mate.