times, changing

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tankboy:

You know what? I went to high school in the ’80s. I had a computer. I read sci-fi. I was super fucking smart. And I was what one would call a huge fucking nerd. The day “nerd” became sexy was also the day I realized everything that had caused me pain from age 0-19 had been coopted by jocks and diluted past the point of fucking no return.

Everyone’s adolescence is painful, but the “nerds” of today have ZERO to fucking complain about. Try actually growing up in the days when everything you now find cool was absolutely the most uncool thing in the world.

People’s kids are going to be so unimpressed by these new versions of “I walked ten miles to school, uphill, both ways.” They will shed more tears when we tell them we had to go home to use the telephone.

We are dangerously close to telling “it was so hard back then” stories where we describe how hard it was back then to tell “it was so hard back then” stories. “You kids will have it so easy… you’ll be able to tell your grandkids how hard it was to fight off the nuclear winter and the mutated slavering hordes. In my day, we never had it so rough, so I never had any stories like that. You kids are so lucky and you don’t even know it!”

(Source: staceyjoy)