Back in my day...

More hilarity from /.:

The lead in:

I use a remote control.

The follow up:

Damn. Back when I was a little boy, I had to get up from my seat and walk 40 miles uphill to the cable box. And it was always snowing, at least on TV.

The escalation:

You had a cable box? LUXURY! In my day we had to carry the packets by hand, through blizzards, while being chased by angry dogs! (Packet loss was a REAL pain....)

The punchline:

You had packets? PURE LUXURY
In my day we had the bits tatooed on our backs, where draged over broken glass, up hill. Then once they were read, they were removed with a cheese grator by a blind monk that smelled like old fish!

I was laughing so hard, I was tearing.