'Dem darn kids got it easy!
Hier noch die amerikanische Ausgabe 
This is from a 30-something year old
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've reached my thirties, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so damn easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a darned Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't even 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!
And there was no e-mail! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen(!) and 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!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Try sticking an LP Album under your jacket, buddy! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and screw it all up! You want to hear about hardship?
We didn't have fancy stuff like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal! 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 boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn't have cell phones! If you wanted to meet up with a friend and they didn't show up you'd have to use a public payphone often with a chewing gum contaminated receiver and you would have to stick a quarter in it, dial the number, which you had to memorize, on a rotary dial to ask your friends where the hell they were!! You also couldn't send a text message to ask your friend next door what they had for breakfast, if you were creative you used two bean cans and a string.
And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames 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 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 faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
And we didn't have PCs with word processors, noooooo, if we were lucky we had electric typewriters! When you had to prepare some paper for school and forgot a word in the first paragraph you'd have to type the whole darn page again, dammit!!!
And we didn't have a fancy GPS navigation system in our cars!!! We had an old-fashioned Rand-McNally road atlas, where you at least had to know in which state you were to use it!!!
Taking pictures was a one-week business!! We didn't have digital cameras that babies can use! We had high-price low-quality disc cameras with crappy films that you had to take to the store to have them developed and you'd have to wait five days to get them back and PAY for them before you knew that the pictures sucked and that you had a perfect portrait of your buddy's nose hairs instead of the Eiffel Tower behind him or that you had accidently put your fingertip in front of the lens when you took the picture!!!
When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed! And we didn't have fancy computer enhanced special effects, either. I mean, look at E.T.!! (and I mean the original version, not the sell-out-directors-cut re-release). Our "special effects" (the glowing finger) was a little lightbulb covered with play-doh and there was an actual person sticking in the alien costume and if you carefully looked at it, you'd see the zipper on the back!!! AND HECK!!! We had to wait SIX DARN YEARS to find out who Luke Skywalker's dad was.
Two words: Anna Kournikova!!! We had Martina Navratilova!!!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 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! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning......
.........D'ya hear what the hell I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
And of course... don't get me started!!! We didn't have weird quiz shows on TV where you could win a Million dollars just for knowing what color the Smurfs are!!! If you were good at Jeopardy you'd bring home maybe some fifteen hundred bucks!!!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy! You're spoiled, I swear to God!
You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in the 80's!
Genau meine Meinung! Auch wenn die Kodak Gold Filme nicht wirklich so schlecht waren - bis auf die Vorschau ist die gute Analog-Technik den digitalen immer noch weit voraus :p
