It’s not uncommon for certain sights, smells or sounds to hit one right in the feels and flood the entire nervous system with nostalgia. And while the things that might evoke such a reaction differ from person to person, the feeling itself is a rather universal one.
That’s why many people can relate to said feeling, which often encourages them to seek those who do, too. Cue online groups and communities. Today we want to shed light on the ‘Right In The Childhood’ Facebook group, sharing—yup, you guessed it—nostalgia triggers intended to take people on a journey through time, right back to their childhood. Scroll down to find some of their posts on the list below and see if they can take you back in time, too.
Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with a Professor of Psychology at Stetson University, Christopher J. Ferguson, Ph.D., who was kind enough to share his insight on the topic.
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If we knew where to find the right products to get us there.
Load More Replies...I can still hear and feel the records tapping against each other as you file through them. Sigh.
Much better than the "death scroll" people are use to now on their phones.
Load More Replies...when I was 17 i worked next door to a record store . I would wander over to hang out with the guy in his 30's that worked there . When new music would come in he would put aside the cassette for me. My husband said the guy was hitting on you & you were too niave to notice. I think he was just into music & liked that I was too
Meh. The amount of money you'd have to spend to buy all that is far more than $10/month.
Yeah, but at least you actually owned it. Not the case for digital subscriptions or even purchases.
Load More Replies...I remember the phone numbers of all places I lived as a kid, and some of my friends from back then... totally useless data stored in my brain forever!
Load More Replies...I remember knowing at least a couple of dozen phone numbers. Of course back then, you only needed seven numbers to dial. Now I know no one's!
If I'd known sooner, I could have asked his daughter. LOL
Load More Replies...I didn't even see him there at first. I'm like, Willie Nelson? Where the heck is --oh.. okay.
“If you want to feel a pang of nostalgia at the center of your core, look no further,” reads the description of the ‘Right In The Childhood’ Facebook page. And indeed, for many people, the posts they share work like magic when it comes to evoking nostalgia; started back in 2020, the page has already amassed over 86K followers seeking such a feeling.
In 3 years, we went from not being able to find toilet paper, to not being able to afford it.
Our small town high school had an entire week devoted to the T.P. a rivals house tradition. We broke up into teams, they called it "Junior T.P. week" and we'd make t-shirts and matching bandana/ makeup/ camo gear & go out under cover of darkness to hit a few houses throughout the week. It was all in good fun but one year, about 10 years ago the police started laying in wait and citing/ ticketing & even arresting people. As far as I know, they've totally shut it down since then.
I have always wanted to get a leaf blower and put a toilet paper roll on the end and turn the leaf blower on
I live on a tree line street in the San Francisco Bay Area that still gets it's trees T.P.ed by friends of our neighborhood teenagers repeatedly now that the TP supply concerns during the pandemic are somewhat over. But eggs are way too costly and not always available to pelt at someone's auto or home in 2024 it seems.
“Nostalgia seems to help root us in a sense of ourselves and our own history. We get a fuller sense of who we are today by understanding where we have come from,” professor of psychology at Stetson University, Christopher J. Ferguson, Ph.D., told Bored Panda in a recent interview.
“For that reason, people can sometimes feel a sense of nostalgia even for experiences or places that weren't entirely positive. In a sense, it is the earlier self that we miss, not necessarily the place or the event.”
But they changed the dough -new & improved. Not. The crust used to taste like the fried biscuits my mom made.
Load More Replies...And pizza was a special treat for sure. Not something being served for 5 meals out of 7.
So when my boyfriend was in university I would make him these on exam/paper due nights. Pre-heat to 425 F, 6" cast iron skillet VERY coated in high temp vegetable oil, press the rested dough into the skillet, makea da pizza, fire it for 12 mins, then sear it for 4 mins on broil. Give my smart boi a personal pan pizza made with love and cleverness <3. The trick is to add 1 tsp of lemon juice to any store bought pizza sauce with a pinch of thyme and oregano. And remember to make it with all the love you can muster
For clarity, love is love, but also, love is extra cheese
Load More Replies...Does anyone remember priazzo? Mmmmmm, sooooo good! Priazzo Milano was my fave
My first thought was the BeeGees. Admit it and the truth will set you free!
I don't give the fur on a rats butt, what year it is, NO MULLETS, PERIOD!
VoKuHiLa! German for "vorne-kurz-hinten-lang" (short at the front, long in the back).
Expanding on the thought that nostalgia can sometimes correlate to experiences one wouldn’t consider positive, Prof. Ferguson pointed out that it might have something to do with a phenomenon known as ‘nostalgia bias’.
“Our memories are far from reliable and we may have a tendency to remember only parts of our past that fit whatever narrative we have about it,” he explained. “For instance, we may remember the times of our youth as having been far better than they actually were, and this can cause us to judge the present more harshly. You can see this in various memes expressing that the 1950s were a ‘simpler time’ where everyone lived happily, forgetting that the 1950s were marked by everything from polio to segregation.”
I liked how DMB would add in some blank tracks so the hidden one is #42 or whatever
Load More Replies...I remember they sold magazine type books with lyrics of the popular songs on the radio. I bought my first one in 7th grade & waited FOREVER for one of the songs in the book to play. Witchy Woman was the only one I think I ever heard that was in the book.
Hard to explain playing records backwards these days. Kids don't get it.
OMG I loved the end of this episode. "Yay, turnip juice" 😁😐
That was irritating to me because that meant there were no lyrics in the liner for that song.
Nah - his Daddy fixed it that he won every time, with secret loans from the bank ...
Load More Replies...In my experience with Monopoly every game ends like this and Risk ends with more carnage
The carnage comes from the anger directed at the ppl who conspired with each other to oust a fellow player.
Load More Replies...Worst. Game. Ever. Even if playing a computer version against computer opponents, players will ragequit. (See also: Risk)
Landed on Boardwalk for the ump-teenth time and there's a hotel and you already mortgaged everything and went bankrupt....I remember those days
Despite the nostalgia bias, the feeling that makes one want to turn back the hands of time is in most cases a fairly pleasant experience, Dr. Ferguson says; unless one is comparing a beloved past against a disliked present, of course.
“Generally, it is a way for us to connect with our past and give us a sense of continuity over time. Rather than merely living in the moment, it places us in the historical arc of our own life, creating narrative and a life trajectory.”
Wish I had those helmets so my dad couldn't thump me for giggling in church.
Exactly, why would I want to listen to someone read out of a old book for 2 hours? Even if I was religious that would've been boring
Man, I remember being 13 and alone AF. My mom tricked me into believing she was sending me to a Big Brothers and Sisters camp but really it was a Pray away the Gay Christian camp. No food unless you took part in the 4 hr per nigh worship service and, you know, pretended to be straight. Dealing with their hatred (sorry, I meant Christian love) was exhausting. I entered that place a 13 year old gay boy, and left a 59 year old bitter gay man
What a horrible, abusive experience... I really hope this kind of places don't exist anymore, but I'm afraid they are still around.
Load More Replies...If God is everywhere, why go to designated places to commune with your deity?
Because it's really more about the community.
Load More Replies...And that's why I don't do church. It's miserable. It's nonsense. I'll stay home and watch How the Universe Works and learn something valuable instead, thanks.
Every Sunday morning and night, Wednesday and Friday. Friday for adult choir practice and "junior Bible Study". Baptists will understand.
Try being a PK (pastor's kid). It was an agonizing eternity. You never got to leave until your parents were done talking to the adults. And there was always that one adult that would hog your parents time. And while other kids were running around after church, being, well, kids, you couldn't because you were an extension of your Dad's calling. So this meme is spot on.
It's funny now to think this was acceptable when I was a kid and also 9yo me legally able to buy cigarettes for my Mom from any store
My mom would call the store and have them ring it up so she could write a check with the tax included. Then, because I was young and didn't really understand, I would run the whole way because I thought they were waiting.
Load More Replies...They still have these except the tips aren't red anymore. They are called candy sticks.
That's awesome! These are delicious! Where do you get them?
Load More Replies...The bubble gum ones had real smoke! (ok, it was gum dust)
Load More Replies...especially good on cold days, when you could see your breath. It was like you were really smoking.
My mom sent me down to the local kiosk every Thursday to get her magazine and a pack of cigarettes, Prince light. Haha! If I was lucky I'd even get a 10 kroner-coin to buy myself some candy! And in the evenings we'd get pizza from the local pizzaria. Every Thursday for years this was our routine. Haha!
Didn't know there were so many "brands". We just had Spaceman brand candy cigarettes (and thought we were the height of cool sucking on them).
The ones pictured are available right now. They are soft and chewable. The ones from the 1960s were a hollow tube of hard white sugar. One end was painted red, and more convincingly than these. You could blow, and get a cloud of powdered sugar "smoke." Some of them had actual cigarette "brand names."
Haha our sailing coaches say you can get anything you want but stuff that explodes and candy cigarettes
Those prone to feeling nostalgic know that sometimes, the sentiment arises over things or occurrences we didn’t even get to experience firsthand, such as a popular video game we never owned ourselves or a TV show we never really got to watching, despite it being the craze at a certain time.
According to Ferguson, it happens because in most such cases, there is some associative relationship between the stimuli and the time period in question. “The thing may look or feel, or show examples of things we remember from the time period or be associated with someone else we knew then who did have that experience. As with all memories, nostalgic ones can find themselves in associative networks.”
At least the f**k around and find out generation is FINALLY facing the consequences of their relentless inaction
Load More Replies...I can't wait to go food shopping at 10am on a Saturday and slowly wander down the aisles, and block people off with my trolley whilst I decided which ketchup to buy. I'll have literally all week to go shopping, but I'll wait until working people are trying to squeeze it in their hectic weekend schedule and make them all spend extra time in the supermarket. Haha!
I wish, lol my bike was stolen three times while I was going up.
Load More Replies...If all these posts bring fond memories to a lot of people, why is it not this way anymore? It could be.
Same reason it does NOT take two enemies to make a war; it only takes one.
Load More Replies...My bike got stolen. I figured out who did it. Dad drove there and said “beat the shithead down then take your bike back.” I did exactly that! Of course I had to pedal home…
When some boy tried to take my bike, I fought him and lost my expensive earring. My mom was more upset that I list the earing😂😭
Load More Replies...yeah, down was easy, up you just prayed the handle wouldn't break off
Load More Replies...Funny thing I was always afraid to get a car with automatic windows. I was afraid I couldn't get out if car was under water. Clearly that has never happened
now they sell you a special tool to break the windows in an emergency. Yup.
Load More Replies...Ah, I remember the day my dad told me not to roll the front seat window down all the way as they didn't roll up anymore and had to be pulled up by hand, so leave a bit of window to grab or you're taking apart the door.... I didn't listen very well.
My 2005 Pontiac Vibe has this. I have never owned a car with power windows.
I still mime rolling up a window when I am talking about it, instead of miming pushing a switch (like I actually do).
While such things as video games or TV shows that were popular at a certain time are common nostalgia triggers, there are way more than two that can make one reminisce over the good old days.
According to a GWI survey of netizens aged 16 to 64 who feel nostalgic about the media, movies are the main trigger of nostalgia, followed by music, TV shows, photographs, books and magazines, video games, advertisements, and radio respectively.
They even have frozen cocktails - stab it with a straw and viola!
Load More Replies...no lunchables are just what charcuterie board companies use to get kids addicted.
...THIS IS SUPPOSED TO MEAN I DON’T EAT RITZ CRACKER SANDWICHES ANYMORE?!?
Well, see, what's on a charcuterie board is usually real meat of some kind, and real cheese; and what's in Lunchables is what they were able sweep up off the factory floor, combined with WWI Russian Army surplus socks....
The version I saw was "Australians are British Texans. Change my mind."
Load More Replies...I remember once reading a guide on movie ratings that said for PG - they could only use the F word once and it had to be in a non-sexual way. "F I stubbed my toe!" = okay. "I want to F you" = not okay. "F, F, F, I stubbed my F-ing toe!" not okay. I have no idea who decided that, but that is the standard I read some years ago.
Load More Replies...Parents weren't watching the shows with the kids and thus not giving any guidance
Load More Replies...Even earlier, Bambi was G. Too frightening for me to ever watch through.
Yup. His mother is murdered, then he's chased by the beasts of the same murderers, then his home is set on fire. Way to traumatise a generation, Disney.
Load More Replies...Basically a rating for movies. “PG” is the second-safest rating, basically for happy cartoons where nothing too bad happens XD it stands for “parental guidance” and implies that parents should make sure they are okay with their child watching said movie. “G” stood for “general audiences” and meant the movie was appropriate for all ages.
Load More Replies...Legend with Tom Cruise, my parents sat me in front of this PG when I was 5. Nightmares for weeks
Reminiscent of the entertainment fashions of ancient Rome... starting with fairly innocuous, though raunchy, and ending with gladiator deaths and Christians fed to lions. The trend does not end well, if you recall. Oh, right, you don't know any history; so it ends with Romans being wiped off the face of the Earth and replaced by Italians- who are NOT Romans.
Now to get a friend to see a scary movie is to convince them you are seeing the new random kids movie. I actually did this but I was not going we tricked one of our friends we were seeing the new kung-fu panda movie but they were seeing the horror movie imaginary I think it was called
Nope, Boomers had the chair arm/desk combo made out of military grade steel, with bomb proof book storage under the seat. It was also used for auditory torture by the shrill sound of scooting it across the floor in your painted cinder block classroom from the 50s .
Load More Replies...sure, if the bomb is in another state, they will protect you
Load More Replies...Duck and Cover - also appropriate for severe weather emergencies. GEN-ers - how did we ever survive childhood?
Yeah, we had the duck and cover drills when I was an elementary school kid in the early 60s (Cuban Missile Crisis time...). Everyone now seems to think that people were taught that "hiding in the basement or under a desk would protect you from nuclear radiation, etc." Nope. We knew what the deal was - being down low helps keep more mass between you and the burst, and twelve half-thicknesses is sorta safe from radiation. But the REAL expectation here was to protect yourself against the blast wave bringing the building down on you. Like with standing in a doorway during an earthquake. First, keep yourself from getting crushed, and put as much *stuff* between yourself and the radiant source as possible. Worry about everything else later.
Mine was enclosed with a flip up desk top. Came with pencil holder not used for pencils but glorious glue gorges. - A Millennial
More BS. Not Gen-X. That was for the Silent Generation and the older Boomers. By the 1970s and 1980s, very few schools were actually doing the entire "duck and cover" thing.
I was taught this in the 80s. Not for bomb, but for earthquakes. Gen Xer here.
Load More Replies...Discussing nostalgia triggers, Prof. Ferguson suggested that for some people, aging often works like one. “Nostalgia appears more common among older adults; of course, they also have more to be nostalgic about.
“It can also occur with significant life change. For instance, both the birth of children and the death of parents may cause people to feel nostalgic about their own childhoods.
“Perhaps our childhood community has undergone significant changes, such that it no longer resembles what we remember from our youth,” the expert continued. “This can give us a sense of the world more or less slipping away from us. We seem to like to think of the universe as being fairly static, and as it moves away from that, it can remind us of our own mortality. Memories of the past can, as such, be soothing.”
Wash it down with General Foods International Coffee and have Jeeves bring the car around
Bought one for my kids last year. Well.... the kids AND ME! I had forgotten how much I hated the chocolate layers cracking when eating this as a kid. Perhaps it's just me being neurodivergent but it just annoyed me so much. And I can confirm.... it still irritates me a lot as an adult. Lol. But it is still the superior ice cream, for some reason. Lol.
There is a very real possibility that I'll get this at my parents place for Easter.
Mini viennetta on a stick. That is bliss. I miss those, I'd get them after class when I was in Beijing.
Yes! I live in Beijing. Love me a personal viennetta.
Load More Replies...we had it once growing up and it was divine. wonder what it tastes like now if it even exists...
I've not noticed a difference in taste as the years have progressed, still divine. Definitely still exists.
Load More Replies...Didn't have doritos but sometimes did it with regular chips. This is what you do when you get a baloney sandwich most days and it gets so boring you try to change it up. I'm pretty sure lettuce had been invented when I was in school but I rarely saw it on my sandwiches. Probably to save money - we were kind of poor.
So were we and I still crave bologna and chip sandwiches sometimes.
Load More Replies...In high school there was always a line of kids waiting to use one of these (yes, I'm that old).
We knew the phone number to our pay phone in school, so kids would regularly get calls on their spare periods, lol Great memories.
Load More Replies...It's believed the ancients used them to communicate with their dead. If you study the attached manuscript, it tells you when the world will end. Check the coin slot for good luck!
They still exist. There are a bunch of these on the other side of the street I'm on. 🤷
If you enjoy immersing yourself in nostalgia and are on the lookout for more triggers to do so, Bored Panda has you covered; once you’re done browsing the images on this list, feel free to continue to this one or this one next.
Nowadays kids here punch each other when they see a yellow car and yell “Cheese on Wheels’, the tradition carries on just in a different way.
And if your sibling "slug bugged" you too many times, you gave the "cadillac whack"!
Punch buggy, no punch backs! Now the kids I drive around do it with Teslas....
I used to play slug bug all the time when I was 8 with my best friend and her dad. One day I decided to do it with my dad in hope to have fun. He screamed at me and spit saying "don't ever hit your father!." This was 1998 -1999.
We do this all the time, and my little sister has started to do “jeep beeps”
It's so disappointing how Volkswagen ruined the beetle with the modern versions.
In Jackson, Wyoming, the 1980s were exactly the same as 1965.
Load More Replies...My friend's mom would always pray to Jesus, Mary & Joseph in the second it took her to arm bar a child in the front seat while braking to a sudden stop. (This was in the '70s)
Are you all so literal that you can't figure out that the date on the lift is from when it was built??? And those could definitely be clothes from the 80's. I grew up in that time period and probably had that same outfit. Sometimes people here make me roll my eyes so hard I see my brain!
The photo is real, the perceived danger, not so much. It's forced perspective that makes it look like they're thousands of feet in the air, when in reality it's probably closer to 50 feet (so yes, dangerous, but not "plummet to your death" dangerous). More info - and an old home movie of the lift in action - can be found here: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/05/04/vintage-photos-of-wyomings-snow-king-chairlift-of-death-has-internet-buzzing-is-this-for-real/
50 feet is definitely enough to kill you. Anything over 30 feet might as well be 30,000 feet.
Load More Replies...The arm across the kid is a nice reflexive gesture but frankly it won't stop them plunging to their death
It was an effective tool my mom used in the car with me. It prevented me going through the windshield when she had to hit the brakes. Every. Single. Time.
Load More Replies...It’s not relevant anymore, so why would young people know this? No point.
just wait until the only used cars available in the US are imported from Cuba - then you'll see. That's about a year from now..
Load More Replies...At least this radio was AM/FM. Didn't get both until I bought a 1980 car.
I heard that FM band will soon disapear in France, I'm sad because I love listening my favorite station on my granpa 1972 Grunding radio, the sound is very warm
I just asked my 15 year old if she even knew what this was... "A radio, only because Baby has one in Supernatural" 🤣
Obviously you've never tried getting through a busy airport, you gotta have the moves.
do-si-do your partner and suddenly you are the one in the front of the security line
Load More Replies...To instil a love for your country (I'm being serious, if only to show just how out of touch schools can be). I was brought up in Scotland and we all had to learn the Highland Fling. This has put my therapist's children through University...
The state dance, yes there is such a thing, for a lot of US states is the square dance. Additionally the state d**k, also a thing, for most states is milk. Our ancestors were very dull.
Load More Replies...Really because all it did for me was make me miserable and nervous
Load More Replies...In high school they taught the girls ballroom dancing but not the boys. Who were we supposed to dance with?
Boy here- we did ballroom with the girls... and.... yup. We were together for 3 years...
Load More Replies...I would have never admitted it at the time, but I loved square dancing. And yes, they made us do it in gym class when I was in grade school during the 80's. The Virginia Reel is still my favorite. :)
It was me. I have this. I also have one in the literal same style (probably by the same original artist) with two wolves XD They were both given to me (separately) as birthday gifts in my childhood.
I loved mine. I think I begged my mom for one because my sister got one gifted to her first and then we went to the aquarium and I bought one with my allowance. Liked the texture and would rub it when I got stressed out. My sister broke it when I was 10 and I beat the stuffing out of her.
Load More Replies...No, but my nan did have one of those dolls with the knitted dress to put over the spare loo roll on the cistern
These are the ones that change color? I had one of these, turned from pale blue into soft pink, depending on the humidity. So impressive back then. Pure magic.
It was me, but not by choice. One day my step mom decided I was going to collect dolphins and so it began. Christmas, birthdays, any gift giving occasion. I got a damn dolphin.
Someone called it the "hoe " of the bread. Why? Because everyone touched it, but no one wants it. :)
My sister called them ankles instead of heels one time, so now that’s what they’re known as in my house.
Load More Replies...But how do you get to the other end when it's new? Dump all the bread out? That's a lot of "work." Lol! 🤣
Load More Replies...Love the end pieces, where all the vitamins are too; so I was always told.
I always liked when I was ready before my mom, because I would get to go back to sleep on the couch.
Me, my daughter, my ex MIL waiting for my ex to be ready to go at the time based on her timetable.
My Dad used to sit in the driveway and honk the horn.."C'mon Martha G Damn it!" didn't know she could move so slow...on purpose
"get off the video games it's time for dinner." *gets off with approx 4-6 minutes left* "Where's dinner?" "It'll be ready in about 10 minutes."
Well, to be honest, 2020 was in many ways amazing year. Many companies found out that homeoffice is an option. Our townhall finally started accepting cards to pay for things like trash collection. Thanks to lockdown we finally got electronic sicknotes and electronic prescriptions. And the first few months were in some way amazing. When people just started making masks at home and giving them to other people for example. The bad year was 2021.
Load More Replies...Because we all miss the existential dread of imminent nuclear war, adults freaking out about imaginary Satanists while ignoring actual sexual harassment and assault, bullying being supported by school staff, and lead in gas and in paint, right?
Yes. You are right. But we were young then and thought the future (the one that is now) would be better :-)
Load More Replies...Wait I had this 10 years ago. I was playing with it during nap time.
I wanted these soooo much as a kid. Never got them. And now I noticed that my kid's day care has them and they use them as "tattoos" for when the kids use the little toilet. And.... yeah, nostalgia for the longing for these pens in my childhood is happening a few times weekly. Lol
He hasn't been schooled in not expressing any negative feelings. The rest have all been broken in.
Load More Replies...The three oldest kids know that this is going to come back to haunt them. Just as well they can't predict social media and have the horror of knowing that one day in the distant future everyone in the world will have the chance to see their shame. The two very youngest kids are just plain scared of the camera. The three middle kids are old enough to know to smile for group photos but too young to realise the full horror of what they're wearing. Your man on the right in blue is living his best life and doesn't give a fig what anyone thinks. Well done that kid.
because they knew the money would get taken away "oh we'll look after that for you" and then convince you that you already spent it while getting mad and yelling at you until you agree or believe them
Load More Replies...Mine hid it under the bedroom carpet, on a corner. She was a cleaning lady, money was tight and work hard, as an adult I realise how kind she was because it was a sacrifice to her saving 50 FF ( 7€) to give to me
I had a great uncle like this. Without fail, every couple years we'd visit, and he's slip us a self-addressed envelope with a $50 inside. All he wanted was to hear from us. So we would use the cash to buy a disposable camera, take weird family pictures, and mail it to him. We found out after he passed that he developed the pictures into slides. Best post-mortem find ever! Uncles Emil and Rudy, love you and the hundreds of pics you left for us to reminds us of your love. <3
Thats because "stuff" in general, loses most of its meaning as the merry-go-round of life slows down. But seeing your grandkid's face light up over what used to cover the down payment on a car is priceless!
The part you didn't know was that it made the class easier for the teacher, too.
Exactly. We only start monologuing if we don't feel like teaching either. 😬
Load More Replies...Herr Fuchs with his paper airplanes out the class window and "strictly from hunger" 8th grade dance date, but also escaping East Germany and having to leave his dogs behind
My math teacher, a single lady world traveler, always regalled us with her exotic journeys. Sometimes took half the class time!
This was an unspoken rule when we had to go to an assembly during classes to see someone who brought in animals or to do an anti-d**g play or something. There were always questions afterwards and we always did our best to make it last as long as possible so we didn't have to go back to class. They probably scheduled in X amount of time for questions lmao
It never helped us! Suddenly they'd realize that class was about to end and assign homework that we had no idea how to do!
Our teacher wouldn't assign it until the next day if there wasn't time to explain it. Which was the best part of strategic time-wasting!
Load More Replies...My dad took my brother and I to see this movie and it traumatized me. Mom was so pissed when she found out which movie we saw. My little brother of course thought it was awesome. :)
"The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together . . . "
To this day still one of my favorite bands. Their music is great to listen to while doing chores.
Isn't there a switch in the back of the jukebox that'll make it play for free?
Those indoor McDonalds playgrounds!! Can still remember the stench of sweaty kids running around.
I have a few friends who know the owner of the local Burger King and they give them free burgers if they clean it they found poop on there once
The kids my wife babysits -- they watch YouTube videos of other kids playing video games -- for hours! And it's not like anyone is playing the games especially well. I tried watching with them, and it's just mind-numbing. Watching grass grow would be infinitely more interesting.
Talentless? You personally responsible for the name of a newly recognized atmospheric phenomenon? Just because of your voice?
William Shatner has probably inspired more astronomers than Galleleo.
One of the clerks at my doctor's office has all the Fraggle Rock ones lined up on her cube divider. It's awesome.
I think these were actually Gobots, the cheap knock off of Transformers
Load More Replies...Does anyone else always pin themselves to check what their hair looks like? :)
I think they probably just want appreciation and gratitude for all they've done
That may be what they want but the kids don’t know any different and may not have any perspective until they’re older, if ever.
Load More Replies...Now I’m having to pay my parents home taxes and insurance so they can still live there. What they worked for can’t afford the rises in both.
I can attest to the fact it costs several hundred thousand dollars to raise a kid. And still counting....
I went back to college for a reunion and wondered who all the old guys were.
As someone now in my 30s, I have a hard time accepting that these parents were all only in their 30s...
It's a repeating scene from Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. Uncle Phil was always throwing Will's best friend Jazz out the house
Load More Replies...Now this is a story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down, And I'd like to take a minute, Just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.
That was Jazz tho, not Will. But I feel ya.
Load More Replies...this is fake people, it's been going around for ages and been debunked a long time ago
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Can we please just stick with one set of slang and acronyms, I can't keep up these days.
Personally, I prefer to eschew obfuscation, but, you know, kids these days, persist in pernickety persiflage.
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translation, ¨oh my gosh laugh out loud¨ dont know kwl ¨got to go sorry talk to you later love TB¨
the whole reason i only buy android phones is because they offer the swype feature. swype is basically the modern version of T9. i have no idea how iPhone users can sit there "typing" with both thumbs. swype is so advanced now that i don't even have to switch languages to switch languages even mid-sentence. i think the kids get predictive text actually still
I remember T-9 texting , and it was kinda like autocorrect. It always wrote the wrong word
This is clearly an American meme 'cos it drowned trying to cross the Atlantic
I have a lot of suppressed childhood memories. I've been told that I've traveled places, but I have no memory of it.
Then they had an argument in a barbershop and Janetty tried to escape through a window
Load More Replies...All I see is four guys making absolutely sure no kid will drown in a garden pool. That is good parenting :D
I still want an old furry, they’re spooky and I would also like to modify it into an otherworldly horror but idk we’ll see what happens Edit: Furby guys autocorrect hates me
I just gifted my 2 year old my old Furby - it still works! She's decidedly uninterested in the thing
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I remember my dad let my friend and I try champagne when we were kids (13-14 maybe?) We thought it was absolutely hideous XD
The martini soaked olives were plenty for me. Irritated grandma though.
Ha! I thought it was “Holland Oats”, as in, oats from Holland, apparently XD
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Load More Replies...I see your H&A on a Vespa and raise you one Lou Reed scooter commercial
They were like shellacked bamboo. The strap had no chance.
Load More Replies...i had those exact platform sandals in that exact color when i was in high school. LMAO
Considering it's from 1969, and remembering the political situation then... yeah, it's from the time of _a_ civil war, almost. Not unlike today, alas.
It is crazy to realize how much we moved in technology. I grew up with cassettes (we still have somewhere older tapes, but that was not something I would use on daily basis) and even with LPs. Then there were CDs, downloadable MP3 and now we have streaming. For other data we use cloud, but carrying a flash drive was common just few years ago, before that we had CDs or DVD and before floppy. And we still have a guy in office that learned how to punch cards in school and installed Telex in the first company he worked for.
I guess it depends on which country's civil war you are referring to. Some have been relatively recent.
Well. Lyynrd Skynryd's #1 song is "Freebird", so....
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Load More Replies...This is such a well known alarm clock I’m pretty sure it’s the one in the fs22 or 19 cinematic trailer
YOU might be eating cake in a bush high, but you'll never be dismantling an armchair with a pocket knife at 3 am because you are 100% certain that someone is trapped inside of the chair.
The D.A.R.E. officer at the school where my wife taught was doing a great job - until she was busted for cocaine.
“Let’s play truth or dare: what was your favorite anti-d**g campaign? Truth or DARE?” - Nick Thune
Same except it was 5th grade and they’re not drinking, they’re vaping & smoking pot… I’m the one drinking…
This is quite new. No film, no waiting to see what you caught in the darkness on that party...blackmail material or just blurry nothing
new? you realize that in technological terms this is old now right?
Load More Replies...He’s a year older than me, is a millionaire and is married to Kate Bosworth. He’s made a fine career out of being the guy that gets killed or the lovable, nerdy type.
We went to the second wedding of one of my dad’s friends and there were kegs of fireball whiskey everywhere. In the first wedding, (when I was quite small) people were so drunk they were falling over. Now guess who’s getting another divorce…
I loved these! Even though I didn´t realize before that I am THAT old :-)
If this is the bar with which you measure BP, you are in for a lifetime of frustration. Me I'm just happy when the posts are happy, or at least evenhandedly depressing :-D
Load More Replies...I loved these! Even though I didn´t realize before that I am THAT old :-)
If this is the bar with which you measure BP, you are in for a lifetime of frustration. Me I'm just happy when the posts are happy, or at least evenhandedly depressing :-D
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