People Over 25

[Jana]

I found this entertaining:

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People over 25 should be dead.

To the survivors:

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who
were kids in the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's probably shouldn't have survived. Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention the risks we took hitchhiking.)

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as
we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones.
Unthinkable.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of
scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We went outside and found them.

We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and
there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the
door, or rang the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and
problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we
learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them!


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It's amazing how the world has changed....

[Shane@DBPerformance]

I think that was written a while ago, I should probably say people over 30 now.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal computers, or Internet chat rooms.

This guy ever hear of the Atari 2600? Cable has been around since the late 70s, I remember mny dad having it in the early early 80s, but year we only had like 40 channels back then. And we had video tape movies, mostly ones we taped ourselves off of the cable that we supposedly didn't have. We had PCs back in the early 80s also. I got my first one from Target or K-Mart for $60. Maybe this is for people who are now over 40.

I think the point of the post, for me anyway, is that kids are now spoiled and overprotected. I mean im only 21 and most of that stuff appiled to me. Sure we had nintendo and crap bit i still spent 75% of my time outside. Walking in crazy gross creaks catching crayfish, bikeing all over hell with no pads/helmet. Hell no shoes some of the time. I can even see it in my little sister, its crazy. When i have a kid im gunna be like...."boy get outside and do some shit".

[Jana]

Yes, -GSX-Falcon is right. Kids nowadays are so fricken spoiled in some ways.

I remember going over to a friends house and we'd be out and about all day long and I'm sure my parents had no idea where I was, but they knew I'd be back when they told me to be (which was usually dinner time - 5 o'clock sharp, everyday). Of course, I grew up in a town of like 500 people. But still.....

[Raptor]

I knew you were older than 35 Shane. Another wise old fossil.

As far as the rest of that goes. Shane is right, we had atari and odysey and some other stupid pong games, but I never was big into them. I was more into the crashng go-carts and motorcycles etc thing this guy was mentioning. A lot of what he said was right on, at least for our family. We didn't go for the cable and we didn't buy a PC until I was in my last years of high school and that was only a stupid Comidore 64 and I never gave a rip about it. My friends and I were too busy trying to pick up chicks, beatup the "jocks" and drive everything we could get our hands on. The guys who were into computers back then were just geeks to us anyway.

[Halon]

Ok, well in that case, our relatives from LOOONG ago rode on the Oregon trail on covered wagons and dealt with lots of hardships, so why don't we all grow up like they did? Things change with time. Just because that's how one generation grew up, doesn't mean that's exactly how the next one has to. Shit, imagine how kids 20 years from now will grow up. There first cars will prolly be a 20 year old SRT4 or sumthin and people will think they're spoiled because of that. Times change. How many of those older people had to attend a college before they went out and started a career? Probably way less then if you compared to how many attend college now. I just hate it when other people think that they had it soooo rough and people now a days have it sooo easy and that since they had to go through it, then others should too. All this coming from a guy who obviously sits on the internet which wasn't around when he was a kid i bet, and he prolly has a color tv and a house with central a/c which i bet he didn't have when he was a kid. And I bet he has a kid too, sitting on the leather couch watching HBO2 or sumthin.

[Jana]

Ummm, this isn't talking about how rough it was back then. I certainly don't believe I had it rough. I'd choose growing up back then, vs growing up in today's society.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Originally posted by Raptor@Feb 22 2004, 08:53 PM
I knew you were older than 35 Shane. Another wise old fossil.

Damn, do I look that old?

[Raptor]

Not really, just heard it. I am just curiuos how you managed to avoid all the old age harrassment Vicious and I seem to get.

[Goat Blower]

Originally posted by ecoli@Feb 22 2004, 08:29 PM
I think that was written a while ago, I should probably say people over 30 now.

This guy ever hear of the Atari 2600? Cable has been around since the late 70s, I remember mny dad having it in the early early 80s, but year we only had like 40 channels back then. And we had video tape movies, mostly ones we taped ourselves off of the cable that we supposedly didn't have. We had PCs back in the early 80s also. I got my first one from Target or K-Mart for $60. Maybe this is for people who are now over 40.

Dude, we had Super Coleco with a cassette tape drive. It was probably a 12 mHz computer but played Zaxxon real well.

According to some people, all normal products are bad and that we should shun medicine and anything that isn't all natural. They believe they'll live longer and have less diseases. Funny thing is that when we were all natural 100 years ago, the average life expectancy was 30 years less than what it is now. Hmmm.

And yes, Shane looks older than me.

[Super Bleeder!!]

i don' think shane is dat old, he's still in his 20s i bet

[Goat Blower]

On this board, comparatively, he's damn near an octogenarian. Of course that would put Raptor just a few years younger than Methusalah.

[Raptor]

I don't think so, compared to the rest of you fossils, I am starting to look younger all the time. I think we should list ages again just so I can see how many of you are older than me. Steve, arn't you like 40 or something.

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

Man, all you ancient people are grampa's. I'm old, and I'm 19!

[npaulseth]

Ha, I'm 19, suckers! (I suck I can't drink w/o someone buying for me)

[AJ]

I'm 26, look 17, feel 42, and make as much as a 10 yr old popin tricks at the lemonade stand for 10 cents.

[SlowWhite]

My personal dislike for todays society:

1)customers are no longer always right (ie: it's all about the $$$ now adays)
2)law makers have made so many laws that any given situation could probably been found Illegal. And the cops feel free to use all of them.
3)Laws now changed to Guilty first inocent 2nd. (at least in every situation I've ever been in when the law was involved)
4)There's no such thing as Job security.
5)Law Breakers have more rights then people who Obide them. (ie: someone breaks into your house and gets hurt. You better kill them or expect to be paying them for the rest of your life)
6)There's no such thing as your property anymore. (I thought when you buy a house you could do what ever you wanted to it. And also what ever you wanted to put in your front yard you could.. I guess I can't even park a car in driveway anymore with out getting hastled by Mr. MN Attorney Geneal Neighbor of mine and his friends officers brown noiser 1 and 2. Along with there other friend Mr. City Inspector.
7)People can charge you what ever they feel like - wait till you figure it out and then give you the run around for months mean while still charging you for BS stuff you never signed up for. and what not. (ie:credit card company's, banks, etc)
8)some how there isn't enough money for schools though yet. more and more people are born every day meaning that there is more parents/ people who pay school taxs as well. (I want to know how did we do it in the past and why can't we know) I mean no money for sports, books, libraries, etc. WTF? Tell the damn polititions to suck it up and stop giving them selves pay raises then. Put a damn salary cap on there shit! I always have the belief. That costomers are always right (for the most part) And that the people should come first.
9) The motor "to protect and to server" Should still apply to more then just traffic situation. (Police never helped me or even tried to help me when I was getting robbed) All they said was "You shouldn't have put that stuff in your car anyways" meaning 16K stereo system got stollen and there were hand prints all over the freaking car because i hadn't washed it in a month. But they said this isn't miami Vice and we dont' do things like that.

basically although we still have the best country in the World IMO... I still think it going down hill.

[npaulseth]

Originally posted by DSMStyle@Feb 23 2004, 02:30 PM
I'm 26, look 17, feel 42, and make as much as a 10 yr old popin tricks at the lemonade stand for 10 cents.

I'm sure you probably won't make any money till the 2nd quarter at the earliest. My mom started her own business like a year ago, and she's only been paid two or three times since then. Good luck to you though! :dsmrule:

That costomers are always right (for the most part)

RANT

I used to think that. My past 3 years working at Burger King has taught me different. I would say all HONEST customers are right. 50% of the customers lie out their asses and i fucking hate them for it. I mean, i will KNOW 100% that thier sandwich was made how they said, but they bitch it wasnt made right. I will KNOW that i put that chicken tender in there, but they claim i didnt. And yet i have to give this shit to them for free. Sometimes i fuck up and i know it, but some of the time people are just bitches wanting free food. People will call out of the blue saying we missed whole meals that they were charged for, and no they dont have a reciept. Sometimes if they are nice we will give it to them, if they bitch we basicly say F you stop lying out your ass. I mean yes companies go for the almight dallor, and have for along time. But more and more individuals are becoming greedy and wanting shit they didnt pay for.....sorry...

/RANT

[SlowWhite]

That is true honest customers.

I was at a BurgerKing once and watched a guy get a free lunch.

The guy said he called up a phone order "Yesterday" picked it up and went back home but when he got home he found it was completely the wrong food.

So he threw it out. And because of that he was ranting that they owed him a lunch.

they asked for a reciept, they asked what time it was ordered, what all it was.

And the guy couldn't answer the questions in a "Straight way" but because he was basically causing a huge scene they gave him a lunch.

anycase I was at the mcdonalds on uni and I bought 3 cheeseburgers and a large fry. I asked for ketchup. They only gave me 2 packets when i asked for more they said it's company polisy that you can only get 2 or something like that.

I was like WTF? Anycase that point being I hate how the law breakers out there effect the honest people who work hard.

Another thing is freaking Unemployment. I know people that flat out made me think WTF when I heard there unemployment stories.


1) single mother - 1 kid. This person was dating a friend of mines brohter. She Get's a town home bigger then Jana and Allan's in Apple Valley (just for refernce since most of you probably have been there) She gets a car, all bill related to both, food, and allowance paid for by the state and she doesn't work.

2)There was a girl that used to work for me back when I was an Area manager of RGIS. She was a single mother of 5 kids. She worked 60hrs a week as a Team lead for us but all her money she earned from us could only cover child day car. So she seeked help through unemployment and get this she was turned down because she works to much. WTF?

Here's a lady who's working more then full time. But still can't cover her expensese and gets turned down for help because she works so much. But the other girl gets everything for free and doesn't have to do anything but site at home.

My feelings for solicitors or those people that go house to house are even worste. I hate it. Sometimes just makes me want to get a big ass dog so that then next damn person to ring my door bell trying to sell me magazine subscriptions will be like "HELL NO" and move the fuck on!