People Are Cracking Up At These 40 Memes And Jokes From This Instagram Page Exploring Stereotypical Habits Of Middle-Class Dads
Most men can be fathers, but it takes special effort to be called a dad. And a rad dad? Well, that's just a next-level accomplishment in the dad community.
Instagram page Rad Dad posts memes about stereotypical upper-middle-class American dads, e.g. Middle-aged dad who refreshes himself with a can of cold beer after mowing the lawn in his New Balance sneakers. The fact that they are described as rad and not cool or lit adds to the homage for today's middle-aged dads, as it is '80s slang, the decade when many of them were youngsters. Bored Panda selected the pinnacle Rad Dad TM memes from the page for you to chuckle at.
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No, don't apologize for that. It's perfect.
Load More Replies...No way was that a mistake. Guy is just flashing his deck around, hoping to snag some attention! XD
The page has merchandise: their designs of t-shirts, marble grey sweaters, and caps masterfully capture the style of rad dads and since they are illustrated with stuff like grills and embroidered New Balance sneakers, the whole apparel becomes super meta. Middle Class Fancy, the company that sells the merch, has its own meme page we recently wrote about. Middle Class Fancy and Rad Dad content sometimes overlap, as many of these dads do cookouts in their back yards, suggesting they are middle class.
Amusingly enough, there is a Manbat in the DC universe who is an adversary to Batman.
And interestingly enough, my sister has a fictional character named Wayne Bruce, and he is indeed a superhero named ManBat.
Load More Replies...Wow...finding Batman on here just after I finished reading a couple Batman comics...quite a Spin
It totally sounds like the plot of a bad movie that could exist.
I'm imagining will Ferrell and Adam Sandler! Would be horrible
Load More Replies...I can't tell, but no one is holding their ears, and I don't see any burling stones cracking LOL!
Should be a thing. We have Andy's Man Club here in the UK but I don't think they award badges, unfortunately.
Load More Replies...I have definitely earned the "Hold on a minute, I think I have one of those in the basement." badge, with oak leaf cluster.
My Dad just got his 'Number of pats on the back during one month' badge. 👍
Wait a minute.. what do you mean "too many HDMI cables" is that a real thing?
Older dads of today might have noticed that not only is their youth slang back in right now, but fashion too. It seems that gen Z and alpha kids have found and brought back their dads' clothes from the eighties and nineties in secondhand stores, got bowl or mullet hairstyles, and started vlogging. Or flooded the streets, creating flashbacks into their youth for these rad dads. Just try to imagine a 55-year-old today teaching their son how to keep their mullet pristine or what bomber jacket goes with which basketball shoes.
The logic is flawed. Blacksmithing skills were not widespread. Only a few people dedicated their time to that. While DIY'ing is somewhat of a skill born out of necessity mediocrely mastered by the masses. Also millenial dads, and moms may I add, have youtube, if we want to, we can do pretty much anything. Much better than the generations before us even. So. Meh.
Load More Replies...Boomers taught their Gen X kids, and were possibly grandparents to Millennials
Load More Replies...It is because boomers did not teach them. They were given everything then they f****d-up, so their opinion does not matter.
I would say that comes from boomers not teaching their kids how to fix anything
Boomer fathers have pathetic parenting/nurturing skills compared to millennials. And everyone.
thats a large leap, millennials are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Boomers
More children and grandchildren, but nevermind. I'm comfortably in the middle of millennial demographic, my mother had me young and she was born just barely into gen X. So a hell of a lot of millennials have boomer parents.
Load More Replies...I was going to make a joke about the application form, but sadly, it's tearable.
Load More Replies...And that is the start of the 1st epic water fight, hopefully the whole family will join in! Ours ended up with the hose, super soakers and garbage can lids!
100 percent! Had my 5 year old look at the air compressor nozzle while I was doing his bike tires. It’s broken, is something stuck in there? Cue spray of air right into his face. He cried, I felt bad took him for ice cream.
Interestingly, the style of rad dads is not tied to a specific decade or generation so strictly. It appears that many dads just develop the same sense of casualwear style as they turn middle aged and these trends haven't changed much for over two decades now, much like middle-aged women cutting their hair short.
With anything English slang, the authoritative source of explanation is user contribution-driven Urban Dictionary. Here is the top explanation of a "Rad dad": "1. any dad who spends quality time with his kid as much as possible. 2. dads who surf, skate, snowboard or any extreme activity and teach their kids. 3. dads with long hair, mohawks or body piercings and dont give a shite what anybody else thinks."
Im a people watcher and have done loss prevention and can see two people at different ends of a store and know whos together and who isnt.
The world needs more people like you. In crowded places, had too many times people rudely come between my husband and myself just because I wasn't literally hanging on him. All because.... we look very different (me - Mediterranean/Slav European, him - Korean). Almost held hands with the wrong guy once because some other entity manifested there where my husband stood just a second ago.
Load More Replies...Same. The pain is indescribable. I always hear 'How come the ugly guys get all the hot girls?' I'm just looking forward to old age levelling the playing field.
That is so rude! Why people don't mind their business?
Load More Replies...Our Walmart manager is so into cutting expenses so he/she gets a bonus - There is about one divider for the entire store. We customers have to use a box of spaghetti as a divider!
my missus and i got the bus into town she got on first and I paid bus driver said to me is that your missus i said yes he said your punching well above your weight there
"Mmhm, you don't say. Really, that's interesting. Oh my." Anything she says while talking to her mother will do
Load More Replies...NOTHING!!! You do NOTHING about it. Unless you feel like divorce papers today
Am I the only one who thinks Seth's big brother looks like a young Ryan Renynolds?
hopefully he grew up to be an astronaut or pilot - the kids a natural
This made me laugh even harder. Good one!
Load More Replies...it looks like he's gonna hit either the doorframe or the kitchen any second and it scares me
What makes dads rad for you? Do these stereotypes apply to dads in your culture? What elements of dad culture have you adopted? Is it starting to take double chin selfies with a great view of salt and pepper nose hair? Growing a beer belly over the quarantine's baby boom? Share in the comments below, let's make it a safe space for rad dads.
Buhahaha, the literal translation from other languages is always brilliant!
and I thought its something master yoda would tell
Load More Replies...I made sure to vacuum when my kid was a baby. I didn't want him to get used to only sleeping in perfect silence. He can sleep through anything to this day.
I know he probably meant to say something like "you don't have to worry about the kid" or something like that but damn, it sounds so ominous and cool.
Makes sense, you wanna expose the baby to as much noise as possible as soon as possible. It'll eliminate the problem of them waking up at the slightest noise.
I'm picturing this Dennis as a Frank Gallagher type (from the series Shameless).
Me too - EXACTLY like that, wearing a parka and everything....
Load More Replies...please tell me your father has trouble sleeping and wakes up at 5 am like mine
$20 says dad bought the bee suit entirely for that joke.
Yeah, I'd dig a moat and fill it with alligators to keep my a$$hat neighbor away from me. Meanest and most nosy sumbitch in our neighborhood.
yeah but by that age it;s more likely they have done something to deserve the torture.
How old does he think movers are? Does he think they retire at 30 or something?
Movers are going to be accustomed to the task of moving so are more efficient plus the odds are pretty good that either the friends don’t have physical jobs or if they do, need their off time for their bodies to recuperate. (Speaking as someone over the age of 35 who does physically taxing work.)
Load More Replies...That said, I still offer the paid movers a meal and drinks like they are friends. (not alcoholic, of course) First thing in the morning, "I'm making a breakfast run, want some? My treat!" After arriving at the destination about lunchtime, "What type of pizza do y'all like?" ...and once it was all done, send them off with a tip because I am old (and petite) enough to appreciate all of their work.
I helped my friend move and decorate his new house. He can make himself useful for me.
No, don't argue about who's going home - revel in being on the same wavelength!
I can't stop laughing. Like the time my sister and I both bought our Dad a really cool insulated shirt...same color and everything, and she bought hers 2000 miles away!
This happened to two friends of mine at a party last weekend. Funnily enough, they were wearing the same thing as this pic!
This happens with my sister and myself. We both turn up with the same t shirts on
You forgot left in random places glasses with vodka so kid would think it was a water
Yup me and my brother would spit it out and like nothing grab a towel to clean it up and say I got one with dads water in it
Load More Replies...And then they say that this generation is the worst! Can you imagine how many things we survived from?
I seriously thought this was me, but since my name is not Michael I’m 90% it’s my cousin.
And then going back home with DUI parents with no fastened seatbelts, on that rusty car that would badly bend if hiting a pole at 15 mph
lol, Mom didn't DUI but that Oldsmobile wouldn't lose a fight with a damned pole
Load More Replies...I grew up in the 70s. I remember my Grandpa blowing cigarette smoke into a medicine bottle, capping it and giving it to me. I thought the smoke in the bottle looked so cool. When I was maybe 4 years old, my Mom gathered the four kids around (oldest would have been about 10) and offered to let us smoke a cigarette ... supposedly so we wouldn't grow up to smoke later. Didn't work. Half of us smoked later. I remember when I had a bout of insomnia at 10 or 11, I think, an Uncle told me alcohol would fix that, and spent the evening giving me watered down cocktails. Didn't work. I remember even at age 3-4, my Dad would let me have a sip of his beer. I can't remember how many times I rode in the back of a pickup. That's illegal now. A lot less rules back then.
When I was teething (1971-72) Mom would rub paregoric on my gums, bc that's what her mother did. Paregoric is tincture of opium and you could buy it OTC from the local pharmacist!
Load More Replies...It's a cigar cigarettes still s cigarettes? . Cause that looks kind of like the ones like Cheyenne's
I think the cigar is actually Moore's Cigarettes. They were brown like that, and if you didn't puff on it, the cig would go out, I know this because my dad smoked theses because he would always fall asleep with a lit cigarettes, they helped not burn down the this house, and this was in the 80's
Whoever wrote this must be young lol bc that is not a cigar lolol back in the early '80's cigarettes looked like this lolol so that is an actual cancer stick.
Been there. 🙄 Then he told me I was being lazy, I just needed to focus, and eventually I was just useless. Wonder why I have a panic attack when I see equations, and failed algebra...?
My dad does this to me but for algebra. He's so good at math that he doesn't understand when other people don't get it. He doesn't mean to, but he does.
I up voted this post and down voted #21 so it will be above :)
Load More Replies...I’ve been sent to the kitchen because I got the giggles and couldn’t stop. Some people are so bad at math they get punished for other things.
and then phone their wives about everything that they actually needed in their bags for the day
...or quietly suffer in the name of manliness. No shiver must be shown, no lick of the chapped lip (also because he is dehydrated and must conserve fluids), and loudly proclaim that dirt improves the immune system as he eats a burger with filthy hands.
Load More Replies...Men have pockets big enough to put stuff in, can touch work surfaces and drink out of cups in the office kitchen without gagging at the level of filth and get to set the thermostats at work set to their comfort level.
Yeah right, my husband always ask me to put something in my purse…
Load More Replies...First half yes, second half no --- there's a leatherman, keys to multiple places, some string and assorted batteries, and various & varying other bits and bobs; and probably a tamagotchi.
Everyone needs to hear this. Your HVAC system works at 100% until your set temperature is reached. Don't be that guy who turns the heat up to maximum because "that'll make it go faster" who then opens a window because it's too hot. I hate that guy.
Oh god, my husband does this. And I had coworkers do this (in a room that was too small for the actual airco there, so if you did turn it down, it actually got to 15 degrees, celsius of course, in no time, only for them to turn it up to way higher and to have it get uncomfortable hot in just as short a time...). Stahp already.
Same when you want it warmer and so people crank it up high then when it gets too hot, they open windows!
truth be told, I didn't know this until I was 26 and my friend in HVAC explained air conditioners and heat exchangers and how they talk to the thermostat...and I was a master tool and die guy by that time.
This made me laugh really hard. My husband and I have always liked to BBQ, but once he turned 35 we got a smoker and have been into it since hahaha
If you haven’t had those hobbies in 35 whole years, chances are you won’t randomly pick them up. The person who wrote this is stuck in the past where 35 year olds liked that stuff. But those 35 year olds are like 75 now. Today’s 35 year olds pick between things like, as an example, some video game or something to do with coaching.
My hubien got to WW2, he cannot cook, so had only one option here. 😂
And now if you will be lucky to get house like this you won't be able to afford family or shoes..
Nah, Peggy had a number of sidelines, I'm sure. That's The Bundy Residence from Married With Children.
Yeah, no. TV is not real. By 1980, that could not happen. It could have happened anytime before 1972, but after that real estate got expensive. Almost every single living arrangement displayed on TV from 1980 on could NOT be afforded by the people that are supposed to live there. NYC apartments are just the best example of it.
TV isn't real???? You are LYING!@!!!!!
Load More Replies...lol - I could feel the uncomforted need for someone to wake up, but the want for them to stay asleep.....
Overly muscular arms/shoulders/chest due to being paralyzed and wheelchair bound for years leaving his legs incredibly scrawny.
Load More Replies...Can we talk about what the guy in the background is wearing?! Those pants...eek.
Is this photoshop? I had to google his height and he’s 6’1” yet here he looks deformed
This man is amazing! He visits over 500 sick kids a year for Make A Wish. A beautiful person.
put cobbled together extension cords on everything and add a dangling cigarette and you'd have me and mine
Load More Replies...My father and I put up aluminum siding on the house when I was 8. I held the sheets up and he used the gun just a few inches from my fingers. No safety glasses. I climbed the ladder and he handed me the sheets and I held them up, he climbed the same ladder and balanced in back of me to use the nail gun. Oh yes, he drank beer and smoked cigarettes the entire time.
Replace the beer with, maybe an ashtray, that would be my father and I.
They must have done my bathroom... when we remodeled, there were 3 of those beer bottles in the wall behind the shower. NOW I KNOW!
Ventilation, always have a window where possible.
Load More Replies...im a guy and i played with trains barbies superheros and nail polish when i was 4
Yup! My little guy had no concept of gender until he went to school. He loved having his nails painted cool colors (I used to buy the insta dry crayola colors). One day he came home from preschool and told me to take it off because it’s for girls. Broke my heart. We never played with makeup or nail polish again. BUT I bought some face paint and he was back.
Load More Replies...😂 my brother was obsessed with construction when he was 4. Three words- Bob the Builder
My son really loves Ninjas. And dragons, dinosaurs and sharks. And 'My Little Pony' 😊
With what looks like mashed potato 'frosting' and bacon 'ribbons' with garnish for color. I'd have killed for a cake like that (although maybe not at that young of an age).
I made a cake of cheese for my mother's 80th, she prefers cheese to cake or pudding. Stilton, brie, and peppered goats. With candles, 1 candle for every 5 years. She still talks about it.
personally id need mine cooked to oblivion but other than that its looks amazing
Someone when they order a diet coke with their meal at Mcdonald
I disagree, but I'm the odd one out in my family on this too, so maybe I'm wrong
I do not understand why people pay $2.99+ a lb for mostly bones when leg quarters are $0.89
I knew my boyfriend was the one when we got wings for the first time and he offered me the stupid leg shaped one. I told him I liked the flat ones better. He was happy. He said, "I was trying to be nice. The flat ones are terrible" So we are the perfect pair. I am right, he is wrong and yet we don't have to argue about it.
We found him! Fastest growing army on the internet, assemble!
Load More Replies...Only an enemy of Greg's in the states. I have never understood why you people pronounce this name as "Creg". As an British person who's brother is named Craig, (and it's a Scottish name, so yes, we say it right, and you say wrong) it is NOT Creg. I don't even know how to phonetically spell it because "Craig" should give you that... h but it's pronounced so that it rhymes with "The Hague" or "William Haig". Cr- aaa-g. Emphasis on the A. No E. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk America. You're welcome.
Something about that font makes me super uncomfortable. I have no idea why.
HOLY S**T. I do not want to know how much money that dude spent that day.
Okay I had to google… According to a study from Statista, the average price of a beer at an NFL games in 2020 was $9.12.
i was trying to see why the panthers logo was so interesting until I looked at the whole picture JESUS CHRIST
I'm guessing the authors definition of middle and upper middle class, covers a broader spectrum in the U.S. than it does here in the U.K!
you forgot the worst of all... so evil it is typically only practiced by the evil uncle that comes to visit every now and then. Evil Uncle to unsuspecting five-year-old: "Pull my finger!" (I will leave the rest to your imagination, air freshener needed afterwards).
I'm guessing the authors definition of middle and upper middle class, covers a broader spectrum in the U.S. than it does here in the U.K!
you forgot the worst of all... so evil it is typically only practiced by the evil uncle that comes to visit every now and then. Evil Uncle to unsuspecting five-year-old: "Pull my finger!" (I will leave the rest to your imagination, air freshener needed afterwards).
