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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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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.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
It totally sounds like the plot of a bad movie that could exist.
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.
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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."
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.
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Manndy Fisher 4 years ago
Buhahaha, the literal translation from other languages is always brilliant!
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iblowsheep 4 years ago
yeah but by that age it;s more likely they have done something to deserve the torture.
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Kevin Erdős–Bacon 4 years ago
No, don't argue about who's going home - revel in being on the same wavelength!
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Manndy Fisher 4 years ago
You forgot left in random places glasses with vodka so kid would think it was a water
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California Jones 4 years ago
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...?
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
and then phone their wives about everything that they actually needed in their bags for the day
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Jessica Rabbit 4 years ago
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
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
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.
Annina Pasila 4 years ago
My hubien got to WW2, he cannot cook, so had only one option here. 😂
John Montgomery 4 years ago
Neither. I'll stick with geeky stuff like transformers, superheroes, and Star Trek.
JitkaBlitka 4 years ago
My husband was always into WW2 history, now he is 34 and started thinking about buildind big garden grill with a smoker... is it genetic??
Freddy Martin 4 years ago
So after WWII all men over 35 were really into smoking meats? Or did they have some sort of future sight into WWII?
Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
Or moving to a completely different city for grad school (finally) and joining a roller hockey league (playing goaltender).
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
I went with smoking meat. Got a good slab of brisket prepped right now.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
Waaaiiit... I fell into that second category (and didn't KNOW it was a category!). On a plus side, fear my smoked southern style pulled pork and racks of ribs!
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Manndy Fisher 4 years ago
And now if you will be lucky to get house like this you won't be able to afford family or shoes..
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Monic Krugell 4 years ago
lol - I could feel the uncomforted need for someone to wake up, but the want for them to stay asleep.....
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iblowsheep 4 years ago
HOLY S**T. I do not want to know how much money that dude spent that day.
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Christophe D 4 years ago (edited)
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!
jk nbt 4 years ago
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).
Christophe D 4 years ago (edited)
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!
jk nbt 4 years ago
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).
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