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“Um, actually…” Whatever follows these words is usually uncalled for. Some people just can’t resist pointing out the mistakes of others, regardless of who it is and how trivial the error is. While they might be meaning well, correcting the wrong person can put them in some uncomfortable situations.Case in point are these stories, in which know-it-alls fact-checked the not-to-be-messed-with people and completely embarrassed themselves when they got shut down. Scroll down to find them below, and be sure to share similar scenarios you’ve experienced!
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#1
My teenage son turned on Eminem in the car thinking it wasn't my style and I wouldn't pay attention and instead, I rapped along to every word of it.
Then I told him if I ever heard him call a woman literally anything Eminem just said in the lyrics of that song, he was grounded until he turned 18.
glowworm2 5 months ago
This one is cute. I love how the parental instinct kicked in at the end and a tiny lecture broke forth.
UKDeek 5 months ago
Did something similar a couple of years ago with my step-son. Picked him and his (then) girlfriend up and he started bad mouthing my choice of music I had on at the time, so he fired up "his" music from his phone. Not only did I know every artist, I knew most of the lyrics to the songs, regardless if what he chose - rock, rap, pop, etc. What was more beautiful was he tried some stuff he thought was obscure and I still managed it, and his girlfriend thought it was highly amusing. Needless to say he wasn't impressed with either of us...
Auntriarch 5 months ago
My brother, 8 years my junior, in his late teens decided my music taste was hopelessly antiquated. Unfortunately his first suggestion for updating my cassette collection was Albatross. When I finished laughing I told him it was a year younger than him and he was listening to the third release. It was days before he spoke to me again.
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Trophy Husband 5 months ago
My daughter won't let me play any of my music for her, but she keeps "discovering" bands I literally used to play on my radio show back in the day... The latest are Weezer, Nirvana and The Cure. Then she tries to introduce me to "her" music...
Anders Jackson 5 months ago (edited)
Well, you had an opening to long conversations there, if you had let here "show" you some music she discovered. But you missed it. Sadly, I have done the same mistake myself...
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The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Haha my son did this with Kitty. Was like "oh have you heard of this band? They just came out with a new album" and I showed him a pic of me at one of their shows when I was in high school 😂
LinkTheHylian 5 months ago
Eminem isn't to be taken seriously. It's a fact that feminist women love him.
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#2
My kids know I'm a gamer but I trend towards RPGs. A decade ago my oldest was really into this new game he and his friends got for the xbox - Street Fighter V. He had a bunch of friends over and they were doing the usual mid-teens trash talking and competitive one-upmanship when I came home from work.
"Hey Dad, we're having a tournament! You want to play?"
"What game? Street Fighter? Yeah, I think I've heard of it." As in yeah, I played in SFII arcade tournaments back in the early 90's on a daily basis. I wasn't god-like but I could hold my own with said god-like players most times. He and his friends proceed to bet me that if I win, they'll mow the yard and do yardwork for a week. If I lose, I have to buy them pizza.
"You know what kids, there's a lot of characters, why don't you pick one for me. Oh, 6 attack buttons? Nah, I'll just use one - I'm old and my RSI is acting up - which one do I use? Oh, okay this is the jab? Alright."
I proceeded to annihilate each and every one them. Didn't matter which character or which single button I was allowed to use. B*tch, I've got that frame data tattooed in my DNA... now go get on my lawn.
It's been a standing tradition over the years for my kids to introduce their new friends to Dad by seeing if anyone can beat my Street Fighter 1-button blind character pick kung-fu. Still undefeated.
Scott Rackley 5 months ago
I did something similar to my nephew and his friend in Tekken. Just mopped them.
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
Oh man they had absolutely no idea of what they were getting themselves into. As you said you annihilated them and you got yardwork out of them!
G.G. Canuck 5 months ago
The first time my kid played Guitar Hero on my old 360, he got pretty frustrated. I got to say "Let your old man show you how it's done!"
Kira Okah 5 months ago (edited)
Done similar with my three younger (by about 10 years) cousins and this cool older game they found, though in my case it was Tekken 3. I am still barred from playing Eddy Gordo and Bryan Fury in any Tekken game at my uncle's: my cousins didn't know how either worked so let me have them, only the characters that I am best at in Tekken 3, that I roundly thrashed the lot with, maybe I should have told them that I was a Tekken fan before they started bragging about me being an rpg player.
#3
My coworker, "Jim," was delivering products to a company we work with often. The guy at the other company was complaining about the products and insisting Jim had made mistakes. He then pulls out a manual he had and starts walking Jim through it, explaining everything he did wrong. The manual was a step by step guide to the variety of products, compete with drawings and a bunch of pictures of a young man with a working on the parts.
Jim finally stops the guy, points to one of the pictures and says, "Do you see that name tag on this guy? Jim? I am Jim. *I wrote this manual twenty years ago.*".
Michael Largey 5 months ago
A new principal had found a proposed policy in his predecessor's files and wanted to know what I thought about it. When he began reading it to me, I interrupted him and said "Look at the bottom of the page. That's my name there. I wrote this." Absolutely no effect on him. He continued to read my own proposal to me down to the very end. (The policy was adopted.)
Littlemiss 5 months ago
Some newbies are just that dumb. Never heard of the adage don't teach your grandma to suck eggs
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Moira 5 months ago
Jim is epic boss... Jim would bang your wife, in your house, in your bed, and spit on your face when you found out. Jim will slay your tires in front of you, replace them for flashy new ones, get into the car, with your wife, and drive to the sunset while smoking dynamite. Jim can ask you which career are you pursuing, go to college, master your career, get a PhD, be hired by your company, became the CEO, fire you, then set you on flames. Jim can end single handed the Ukrainian/Russian conflict by winning a staring contest with Putin, then slap Putin with a rotten salmon, then throw him into the Baltic sea. Jim went down to hell, kick Satan butt, then turned the AC, now hell is cold and Satan look under his bed every night hoping Jim is not there. Jim was waiting for Neil Armstrong when he first stepped on the moon. Hitler invaded Polonia because it was easier than invading Jim's house. USSR fell because Jim asked so. Don't mess with Jim...
David Castro 5 months ago
I've been a technical writer for 30 years. I could absolutely see myself messing up a process that I documented twenty years ago....
#4
When I was in college in the late 90s, I took a class in astrophysics for fun. The professor was extremely arrogant and often talked, over the top, about his educational background and experiences. One of my fellow students (can't recall his name), was an older, retired gentleman, who was taking the class for fun as part of a program where seniors, over the age of 65, could audit classes that interested them at no charge.
at the time NASA had a program where they would loan collections of items related to space exploration, memorabilia, and moon rocks, to universities. One of our lessons was on the items and we spoke heavily about the moon landings, specifically Aldrin.
The professor spoke on things about the mission, the rocket, the lander, etc. And my fellow student began to say to him that some of the things that he was saying was not accurate. They argued back-and-forth for several minutes on different topics mainly involving the technical aspects of the mission until finally, the professor asked why my fellow student was so adamant about these things and his response was. “ because I’m the one that designed it.”, or something along those lines.
we all just looked at him and the professor, not really sure about what was going to be said next. And before the professor could even say anything, my fellow student pulled out the textbook and opened to a page that had a picture of Aldrin and a series of the engineers and ground crew from Johnson space Center. Sure enough, standing right there was the guy from my class.
He had been an engineer for NASA for years. He was retired at that point and decided just to take the class to see what was new. It was great.
Thee8thsense 5 months ago
I guess Professor Know it All had to come down off of his high horse.
Trophy Husband 5 months ago
I remember correcting computer teachers... I'm old enough that I know more than they did. Turns out it's not the best way to get an A in a class... I once literally had the teacher take me to the department head who had written the book. I showed her it was wrong on her own computer and was told I'm not being graded on knowing how to do it, I'm being graded on memorizing the book. Only corrupt college teacher I can remember.
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
Have taken some courses and talked to some teachers that actually wrote the text book while teaching the course. It was great as student (we got the chapter after the lecture, and later instances of the course got it before the lecture), and if one could point out an error, they was thankfull. So one got some small bonus. Like Donald Knuth do with his books about Algoriths. So I got inspired by that and have done that myself. Not anything advanced, like my first professor, but suitable for the courses.
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I knew what was coming instantly on this one , omg hilarious 😂that put the prof back in his box didn’t it 😂
#5
A few years ago, my wife and I started a small non-profit that focuses on getting businesses to incentivize beach cleanups. Fill a container with trash from the beach and exchange it for a free ice cream cone, bar if surf wax, coffee, etc. The initial concept took off and it grew a ton! We're not so involved these days, but we still keep tabs on the team and the initiative.
They were having an event at a brewery and we went to go check it out. While in line for beers the woman in front of me had one of our shirts on. I made a comment about how cool it was that there was a good turnout. She agreed and talked about how she got involved, which turned into her talking about how she connected with the org, which turned into her explaining the origins of the organization to me. She wasn't patronizing or anything, just kind of on a roll and kept going.
Anyway, she wrapped up and asked how I first came to know about the organization. I told her I probably first came to know about the organization as I sat at my kitchen table creating it. She was like "Wait. What? This is your thing? Really? Did I just tell you your own story?"
She was a little embarrassed, but it was super funny. She handled it well and we couldn't have done it without passionate volunteers, so no shade at all.
We passed the organization over to the Surfrider Foundation a few years ago, which they took on as one of their flagship environmental stewardship programs - the [Better Beach Alliance](https://www.surfrider.org/pages/beach-cleanup-activist-guide).
The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
His reaction is sweet, but that woman would've driven me up the wall. Like, read the room lady! Maybe open with that question before going on a 20 minute diatribe 🙄
The Abe 5 months ago
"Hey great turn out at this event!" "Yes it is! Hey do you happen to be the guy that founded this initiative?" Really, Opossum?
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#6
My teenaged kid, in 2005ish, telling us "I just found this cool new band."
Sweet. Who?
"The Red Hot Chili Peppers. They just put out their first album."
Boy, you were probably conceived to RHCP.
Rachel Reynolds 5 months ago
My oldest wanted to share this cool new band he discovered...My Chemical Romance. Bro, your mom had an emo phase.
Gingersnap In Iowa 5 months ago
This reminds me of the time my son told me about this really cool band called Guns n Roses.
Mel in Georgia 5 months ago
Our teenage son thought he was exposing my husband to amazing new music. It was Bob Marley.
Rikki Kay 5 months ago
My brother came over with his boys. The older boy, Andrew, was extremely excited to share with my daughters, his cousins, his CD of a new group. It happened to be Night at the Opera, by Queen. I didn't have a CD player at the time, and the kids were all disappointed but I told them to hang on, and went into my room. Wish I could have taken a picture of their faces when I brought out my vinyl of Night at the Opera. We listened to it on my turn table instead of a CD player.
Cindy Brick 5 months ago
Daughter in high school raved about this "new band" she'd just found -- and knew I would like them, too. Who was it? The Beatles.
Regina Holt 5 months ago
How could anyone not know The Beatles, to think they were new?
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#7
I’ve been having a few of these lately. I’m an international trade attorney. My specialty is trade agreements and tariffs.
Cathy Null 5 months ago
The country of origin pays the tariff, right ? Not the consumer. :-) Just like Mexico was going to "pay for the wall". LOL
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
He really really does , n I’m not even in USA lol thank god j
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 5 months ago
And in the US the rules change every two weeks now by the 'two weak' POTUS
David McKendrick 5 months ago
Do MAGA's try to tell you that import tariffs are paid by the exporting country?
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Oh boy , maybe time for a job switch methinks , your gonna be working in a living hell now poor lad 🙈,
#8
Young people trying to explain what "Star Trek" means like I didn't exist at a time when there was only the original crew.
Tango Wox 5 months ago
and BP uses a TNG still... Lets ignore that I think I know what episode that is.
Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 5 months ago (edited)
Ensign Ro Laren is visible in the background so that significantly narrows it down! Just explaining why I am also fairly sure I have a good idea.
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Luke Branwen 5 months ago
The funniest people are those complaining that Star Wars / Trek have become "woke" even though both were "woke" since the very beginning.
cj be like 3 months ago
what even is the definition of "woke" anymore??? conservatives just use it to describe anything they hate
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Upstaged75 5 months ago
I was forced to watch ST because my dad is a massive sci-fi nerd. He traumatized me early on when we went to see The Wrath of Khan. But I ended up being a big fan of TNG. In fact I still watch reruns of it all the time. I had a thing for Wil Wheaton. 😄
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
I loved TNG, but I hated the Crusher boy - mostly for the German voice actor's intonation.
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Don't listen to me 5 months ago
But this picture is with Patrick Stewart, so not the original crew. That was William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy et al.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
I was there in 1966 when 'Man Trap' went on the air. (If you want a taste of those days, find a copy of Bjo Trimble's book "On the Good Ship Enterprise".)
Pyla 5 months ago (edited)
This is the one where they are knocked out and when they awaken personnel files are hard to find, Worf thinks he’s in command and Ryker and Roe spawn a bit, but the guy in back is the alien bad guy getting then to wipe out his enemy. Can’t recall the title.
#9
I was talking to an old Navy vet. Like closing in on 100, WW2 old. And my lil 13 year old a*s starts nerding out about Iowa-class battleships. He proceeds to get out a box full of manuals, reports, and various memorabilia. Turns out he was ACTUALLY ON the U.S.S. Iowa from her trials until the end of the war.
Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 5 months ago
thats less of a know-it-all and more of a man glad to share his knowledge
Roberta Surprenant 5 months ago
Missed the point. OP was saying that his 13 year old self was being know it all.
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Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
This is lovely , here in uk there aren’t many vets of that era left now god rest their souls , n those that are left , have so many stories to tell n most of them adore telling them , always make time for them , ❤️
#10
I have to write employee accomplishment documents to move them forward in their career. They have to go before a HR review board who decides if the document is written properly and justifies the change (a raise and more vaca) for the staff member. I've been doing this for years so I can crank out these documents in my sleep. A new HR person joined the company and started kicking back my documents for arbitrary b******t "not enough content", "too much irrelevant information", "needs more insight", etc. After the third time one of my documents got kicked back the reviewer emailed me an example of what she considered a well written employee accomplishment document with the names redacted. I emailed her back "Thanks for sending me this example, it helps a lot. Since I wrote this example three years ago is it okay if I just fill in the current staff's name?".
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
They are in all trades. And new bosses usually want to make a mark, useful or not. Been there, feel the pain.
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Phantom Phoenix 5 months ago
Why the downvotes? This is simply a jab at BP's ongoing censorship ridiculousness, and they fŭckıng deserve it
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JL 5 months ago
Isn't it possible that OP just isn't writing the docs as well as they did three years ago?
Kit Black 5 months ago
Some people don't like the flavor of the Kool aid until they pee in it
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Don’t tell me that your computer takes forever to boot up or that your internet connection is slow.
I grew up with a computer that took 5-7 minutes to boot up and screamed at you while it was doing so.
And if someone needed the phone you had no internet because they were connected to the same thing.
Sue User 5 months ago
Long ago i used to know what the different sounds were: oh, there is the request, there is the handshake.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 5 months ago
In the morning it takes me 50-70 minutes to boot up and, yes, I am screaming most of the time.
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
That dial up sound. Had 2 phone lines for a few years 1 for the phone and the other for the computer.
Paul C. 5 months ago
I grew up with a shared line, where you would often pick up the phone and a random woman down the street was yacking to her friend!
Mike F 5 months ago
The good old party line. We had one in the early 60s but it didn't last long. Mom got tired of the old woman on the other end being on the phone constantly.
Load More Replies... Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Omg , I just heard the sound of the dial up , I had my first pc at 30 yrs old , so 30 yrs ago now lol n mention old internet n that sound is an ear worm for the bloody day , and the phone bills jeez sky high (n as I type this , we have gigaclear in village here closing the bloody road in n out , there is only one ! To put mega fast mega expensive WiFi in , I’m using sky , cheap mega on a social tariff , fast VERY reliable , ) if they bloody dig up the immediate bit of my garden the road side of my hedge I’m going full witch on em , there’s 300 bulbs planted in it )oh the changes since dial up 😂dam that sound 🙉🙉🙉
Joanne Long 5 months ago
I remember a time when you actually had to turn your antenna they had rotors, or you could manually turn them. Then you had to walk to the TV to change one of the three channels available at the time
#12
My youngest child telling me that they don't know if I should be wearing a d&d tshirt, then I showed them my first edition d&d books....
Phantom Phoenix 5 months ago
I think it must've been 1st edition that my dad sent me for my birthday in 1985 or 86 but I'll never be 100% sure as my mum sent it all back because our church taught the bullshıte that it was Satanic, and responsible for multiple teenage suıcıdes in the US...
Katiekat 5 months ago
I am so sorry to hear she sent your books back! And about the propaganda, infuriating.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 5 months ago
First Edition? The three little books that weren't even hardcover yet, just with brown cardstock paper covers? In the white box with the Player's Handbook, the Monster Manual, and 'God, Demigods, and Heroes'? I don't think there was even a DM's Guide yet... Man, I remember those days. Got into it in 1977 at the Disclave convention in D&D. Someone invited us into a game because the Con's film program was shut down - all the projectionists had gone off together to see this new movie that had just come out - 'Alien'.
Freddy M. (He/Him) 5 months ago
I still play it, it's my preferred edition. It was before my time but my dad introduced it to me as it's what he still plays
Data1001 5 months ago
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only person in the world who has never played D&D, and has no desire to.
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
Therer are other simular games, if you are not into D&D. :-)
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When my younger cousin was in his “I’m 16 and I know everything” era, he kept bragging about some old bands he rediscovered. One of them was the Beatles. Talked about how influential they are, all the music they had that barely anyone knew about, and how he knew so much more about them than anyone in his “uncultured” family.
Unfortunately for his ego, me and the rest of the family he was lecturing had been living in Liverpool for nearly 2 decades by that point.
Upstaged75 5 months ago
I grew up listening to my parents' Beatles records. And there was no "kid music" in the car. We had to listen to classic rock. Between the both of them I received an excellent music education. I still need to listen to James Taylor any time I go on a road trip. That was the sound of our vacations. 😊
Auntie Mim 5 months ago
I'm SO THANKFUL that my parents were eclectic and that they basically let me listen to anything I wanted to, so long as it was NOT kid music.
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Mikaya 5 months ago
I hated watching my younger cousin because he was extremely spoiled and evil. He enjoyed kicking and humiliating me. Tossing things at me. I was a kid too, and didn't have the spine to rebel against family. Plus, they came to visit us at most twice a year, so I endured it. At one visit he bragged about how he was fluent in English (we're European) and I had a lightbulb moment. I started speaking English to him. I wasn't fluent, but far ahead of him thanks to my age. He didn't know what to say and looked like I slapped him. Then he got red and started crying. It was a small but sweet victory.
Debby Keir 5 months ago
I remember getting a Beatles LP for 30/- (30 shillings = £1.50) with my first wage from a Saturday job.
Diane Business 5 months ago
My mother was in the hospital giving birth to me the day the were on the Ed Sullivan show February 9th 1964. I've been a fan ever since! :)
Caroline Nagel 5 months ago
Obladi oblada was the first song I 'sang' along with whenever it was on the radio. I was five at the time and it was a brand new song.
GalPalAl 5 months ago
But why do they think they invented everything? You should consider it a blessing that your knowledge of popular culture goes beyond the nose on your face. Geez. When I worked at an Art Institute years ago, the kids there had no idea who Janice Joplin was. That blew my mind and made me very sad. She was before my time... These kids need to be ashamed of themselves and knocked down a few pegs
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
She was bloody brilliant nd bob dylan around slightly before I was born to (1965) but I know them n love their music , not a fan of the Beatles tho , more a rock , or country n western kinda girl , oh n 70.s Bowie queen n the like just not the Beatles lol
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Thomas51 5 months ago
In the mid-1980s the design office I worked in was a short distance away from the town's shopping centre (UK) and there was a small record shop between the two. One lunchtime a colleague had stopped in there to pick up a record he had ordered and overhead some late teen girls from the local school chatting: "Oh no! Paul McCartney has split from Wings and joined a group called the Beatles!" We sat around the office peeing ourselves with laughter. Yeah, that was 40 years ago, some of those girls are Grandmas by now.
David McKendrick 5 months ago
I started High School in 1963 (I'm 74 now) and our Latin teacher translated the lyrics of "She loves you" into Latin.
#14
I was training a new file clerk at my firm and I was explaining the system we have for checking out physical files and that we have asset tags with scannable barcodes that you have to scan after your ID badge to log who took the file and is ultimately responsible for it. She turns to me and says, "God, whoever came up with this is an a**l retentive nightmare and all you need is a sign out sheet." I just kinda stood there, because I developed this system after years of having to dig through attorneys offices and hunt down important stuff because they ignored the sign out sheet that was there when I got hired... Sigh.
LittleTeapot 5 months ago
I feel this in my bureaucratically tired bones. People are so optimistic and trusting of other people until they deal with those people. Bless.
Sue User 5 months ago
Also, you can search a comouter quicker than a stack of papers to find who checked out the Conner v USA file.
Load More Replies... JL 5 months ago
Keep an eye on her. She is obviously not on board with the process and will most likely try to cut corners.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
N u just know lol she’s the one that will be the reason op is going for zillions of bloody dusty flies trying to find the dam sheets in a yr or so isn’t she
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 5 months ago
I feel like this is one of those comments that people should keep to themselves. Until you have to do the job and be responsible for it, shut up and do what you get paid to do. Often, people who do this are often don't have any idea what they are doing and think they are showing how smart they are. Just the opposite
#15
A friend of mine is from a less privileged part of Dublin, and went on to study Theatre and Russian in the very prestigious (especially if you ask them) Trinity College.
In one of her theatre classes she put forward an opinion on Chekov, and a posh student promptly disagreed, and pretty heavily implied that someone from that part of Dublin probably didn't know much about theatre.
So my friend cheerfully quoted the original text in perfect Russian.
Itsmeagain 5 months ago
The sheer arrogance and snobbery to suggest that where you come from is an indication of your intelligence and knowledge!
Strahd Ivarius 5 months ago
A French friend of mine, in a "French" restaurant in Lake Geneva, was telling the maître d' the dishes he had selected, and that important person told him he couldn't understand what he was saying; my friend answered in perfect French (of course) that he was only reading the menu, before saying it again with perfect bostonian condescending tones...
#16
People who are surprised that you have an email address with your name and no numbers .
Tabitha 5 months ago (edited)
Same, except mine is lastnamefirstname@gmail.com, created in 2014. Don’t use it very much because of that. My most used is the same as my very first email address, created in 1999 (on the now defunct NetZero, btw), just with the @carrier name changed.
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Lyoness 5 months ago
This is when having an unusual name helps. I figure it's the least the universe can do for a lifetime of explaining how to spell my first name (thanks mom and dad).
Manic Mama 5 months ago
This is SO ME! I have the same 'unusual first name'@hotmail.com. I've never even had junk mail there, coz the bots can't figure it out.
Load More Replies... Debby Keir 5 months ago
And I remember when e mails were 12345678@compuserve - no names, just numbers......
Kathleen Pearlman 5 months ago
My user name at gmail is first generation - in that you needed an invitation to get one.
Karri Kalpio 5 months ago
I was working briefly at Nokia before mobile phones - and Nokia - were a big thing. So, my address was simply [surname]@nokia.com. Eventually, I ended up back almost 10 years later. My old address was still in their systems - and I got it activated. It aroused some astonishment...
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
I have 2 with numbers, 1 is my work email and the other is from when we first got Internet in the 90's. I use it when I don't want my real name on something.
#17
Last year my wife's boss, who is new, got mad at her for misinterpreting/misapplying a policy that doesn't come up much, but is very important. After trying to explain it several times and getting nowhere, she finally said, "Look this policy has been in place a lot longer than you've been here. I wrote the policy. I trained everyone on it. If you want to change it, fine, but this is what the policy says.".
JustABored1 5 months ago
New managers always have a "better" way to do things that have been working perfectly fine forever! 🙄
Joe Reaves 5 months ago
She probably knew she was misinterpreting it but changing it under the table by applying it her way instead of as it was written is a lot less steps than actually changing it and she was hoping because she was the boss no one would argue.
AsylumWalker 5 months ago
Or, more likely, she wasn't misinterpreting it at all, but her boss is just bad at comprehension
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Irl there was that job offer asking for ~~10~~ 5 years of experience in some programming language
*one of* the creators of said language was refused the job, because he only had 1.5 years experience in the language, because it was only 1.5 years old.
StarCrossedFriday 5 months ago
On that basis, wouldn't everyone be refused the job? Super weird.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
HR and Hiring Managers are all too often *very* wet behind the ears.
T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
I tried to get one with just my nickname, but it was taken. So added the planet and boom!
Miki 5 months ago
Wrong post, but for me it was one above so I know what are you talking about :D
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Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 months ago
Job posting in the paper (internet was available, but before it was more common to post online) for 5 years experience in a operating system that had just come out 6 month ago. I didn't apply as I didn't want to work for anyone that stupid.
#19
My dad explaining how to peel a hard boiled egg to my mother. Both were in their 70s at the time. Mom had been cooking since she was 14 years old. Neither of them had dementia.
She about c*****d that egg on his head for that EPIC instance of mansplaining.
Jay Scales 5 months ago
When my dad retired, he started to explain to my mum how to do all sorts of household tasks. She would listen, say 'OK, you do it, then' & go in the other room :D
Jac Carr 5 months ago
Same with my parents but bless my dad, he did actually do them
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 5 months ago
Because cråck is also a drüg. Welcome to the wonderful world of Bored Panda censorship
Load More Replies... JusticePanda 5 months ago
I would have c*****d the egg on my husband's head if tried to mansplain that to me.
Robin Roper 5 months ago
Daddy would be doing the cooking from then on; he's such an expert, he should have no problem.
•XxWillowxX• 5 months ago
Oh nooo crącked is a BaD WoRd (crąck is also a drůg tho so thats kinda why)
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Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Almost the literall definition of teaching your grandmother to s u c k eggs lmao
#20
My teenage son came home from work as a lifeguard at a pool and said “Mom, you know, some parents don’t parent “
Yes, I know, son. I know.
LinkTheHylian 5 months ago
The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad!, South Park... all satirical in design... all feature absolute c**p parenting... and yet somehow real life is worse.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Yup cos unlink Kenny they don’t come back safe n well the next week do the💔
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Jane Hower 5 months ago
Other things too - my son came home from babysitting two little girls whose mom was a nurse and the first thing he did was run to the kitchen and open the frig to look inside. I asked what that was all about. And he said he just had to see a CLEAN ONE!!!!!
Joe Reaves 5 months ago
Get used to it kid, you're going to be dealing with this in every public facing job you have, whether kids are meant to be there or not.
#21
I run a small business. I was struggling and lost a key employee... made a call for help and brought my dad in on the business. We shall call him Steve.
Steve is still part of the team now, about 2 years later. He has 3 people reporting to him and he runs a tight ship. One of his team members came to me the other day.
"I don't know if you know this, but working for Steve can be hard. He is very demanding and sets extremely h**h expectations."
... you sweet summer child, would you like to go back in time and meet my 15 year old self?
Michael Largey 5 months ago (edited)
The job of a manager/teacher/parent/leader is to set high expectations for you and then help you achieve them.
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Nothing what so ever wrong with having high expectations business , as long as you aren’t a d**k with it , which sounds like Steve isn’t , but that reply was pure class 😂
JusticePanda 5 months ago
Such low eexpectations that working for someone makes them demanding.
#22
I work in software. I had a client during a meeting where they were beating up on my company stress with absolute confidence that our software couldn’t do some given thing. I gently let him know that it did do that. He literally shouted that it did not. He knows this software, he’s been using it for the past three years and it has never done the thing.
I immediately hit share on my screen, showed him the setting that turns it on (the setting whose name and description I wrote eight years ago), turned it on, and clicked through all the buttons that I had personally designed in the given release in 2016 or whatever it was, and asked him if he had any questions. He did not unmute his microphone.
Papa 5 months ago
Before it became defunct, I was one of the top two or three contributors to a forum dedicated to the software I use at work. Occasionally we'd have a newcomer ignore my advice and say I obviously didn't know much about the subject. I wouldn't have to reply, because other members would shut him down so fast it would make his head spin.
Joe Reaves 5 months ago
Client should have apologised. But also this is the moment to check the manual for the software and see if it explains it as clearly as the OP did.
Eric Rossman 5 months ago
This happens to me fairly regularly. I'm the architect for a certain product and also the person who adds about 1/3 to 1/2 of the actual code every release (with a 6-person development team). I cannot count the number of times I had to tell someone, "You know, I wrote that part of the code 15 years ago."
Miki 5 months ago (edited)
So it basically means it's badly designed UI, and it's not clear enough.
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
No, it could be the case. But that is not always the case. And you as a user SHOULD ask the manual for things you don't understand. There are no ONE way to design user interface. And what is useful for you would be counter intuitive for the other.
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One of the QA guys at the factory I work at was out sick, so I got sent in to help out for the day. The remaining QA person insisted on "training me" and took something like 5 minutes explaining what inspection points to look at before he took a breath, just enough time for me to say "you know I'm the one who wrote the QA book, right?".
Bert van Aalsburg 5 months ago
Don’t know when I learned the lesson, but, for a long time now, when I begin a training session, my first question to the trainee is, “What do you know about the job at hand?”
geezeronthehill 5 months ago
When I (engineering tech) went to the production floor to electroplate a new circuit board prototype, the new training department wanted to test me on the work instruction document that I wrote.
#24
I hadn’t played Magic: the Gathering for decades and asked a friend’s kid to teach me the new rules (no interrupts now?) including Commander. He gave me a simple control deck.
I looked at my first hand and my old brain creaked awake. This card lets me draw an extra card every turn for one life, and I have forty life? My old brain whispered “card advantage” to me and I proceeded to lock down the table.
I was the head judge for the French national championship in 1994 and judged the semi-final of the first World Championships. I was the first lvl3 judge in Europe and worked for WotC UK from 1993-1998. I was literally there when the deep magic was written.
Freddy M. (He/Him) 5 months ago
There was an older card that let you do that that I had in a deck for a while, but it was too expensive to use and prevented you from drawing during the typical draw step. It was a black card that cost like 6 or something
#25
My newly moved out 24 year-old telling me groceries are expensive.
Tom Nagel 5 months ago
My 12 year old daughter's current favorite saying lol
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The fun part is where they discover that you have to buy cleaning stuff as well as food.
Kris “ADHD_Carrier” Dudoich 5 months ago
That's when you just pat them and say "sweetheart, you have NO idea"
Rebecca McManus 5 months ago
Dropped daughter off at uni last year, took her shopping to stock up for her first week, all the way round Asda (a really cheap supermarket here) she kept saying everything was really expensive.
The Darkest Timeline 5 months ago
And now you know why I wince every time I heard, “There’s no food in the house!”
#26
I cited the deep magic.
I was probably about 8 at the time. I had just learned how to play chess. My father was getting a degree in comp-sci and we were visiting his uni- supervisor. There was a chessboard so I “explained” the rules of chess to his supervisor.
His supervisor was some level of grandmaster, and was actively designing a computer program that took on and tied Gary Kasparov iirc. He later “solved” checkers and chess iirc.
He was very good natured about it, and absolutely waxed 8 year old me in chess.
David McKendrick 5 months ago
I used to be a psychiatric nurse. One of my patients challenged me to a game of chess. I explained that I was actually very busy so I would have to make it a quick game but he insisted. I beat him in two moves with "Fool's mate". He didn't ask again.
Richard Pennington 5 months ago
The story may indeed involve a chess grandmaster, but the picture shows a position with the queens and kings on the wrong colour squares.
Scott Rackley 5 months ago
For a male player there is only one level of Grandmaster, Grandmaster. For a female player there is Women's Grandmaster and Grandmaster. Also, chess is only solved for a 7 piece endgame.
Wild Cream 5 months ago
Chess to me doesn’t seem to be something that should be split by gender 😅 I get why physical sports are, but why chess?
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"I bet grandma never took your phone away."
I was born in '74. I didn't see my first mobile phone until my late teens and it was a 20lb brick with a shoulder strap. .
LinkTheHylian 5 months ago
Well yeah, but only because that much weight would have played havoc with her arthritis.
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 5 months ago (edited)
No, but my mother would take away my phone privileges, so in a way, I was there when it was written, before the OP was born!
Catherine Spencer-Mills 5 months ago
My mom wouldn't buy me a touch tone phone. Had to use the old dial up one.
ROSESARERED 5 months ago (edited)
I remember selling the first Motorola mobile phone...it came in a briefcase, and a ton if paperwork to fill in...we only ever kept 2 in stock. Now we have 100s of phones in stock, thankfully no briefcase required, and the purchaser has to do the paperwork, when and if any is required, which is rare these days
Dogcat vet (retired) 5 months ago
My first work phone in 1982 was a 24 hour pager for vet emergencies
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
Lmao 1965 born here , n I didn t see a phone till I was late 20,s like 29 lol little Nokia , n my gran I grew up with had passed when I was 15 soo nope can honestly say nope she never took my phone off me 😂
Laura Williams 5 months ago
This mother didn't play. Before everyone had a mobile phone, probably late 90s, I certainly did take my daughter's phone away. I took the receiver to work with me.
#28
When my 13yr old cousin asked if I even knew what a meme was. Like look here you little f**k I've been on the internet since Newgrounds, don't you dare talk to me about memes.
Eternal Progress 5 months ago
..... Maya hi, maya ho, maya ha, maya ha ha *nostalgia intensifies*
Stygtand 5 months ago
I bumb into it from time to time. And it stil brings a smile to my face. Happy memories.
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geezeronthehill 5 months ago
I'm old enough to know the original definition of 'meme'. It predates the internet and its not what you think.
L.V 5 months ago
I've been in the internet since you could use either the phone or the internet😄
Kenneth Smith 5 months ago
We had memes in the 80's when we were kids, too. We just didn't call them that and they spread "in the wild".
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Catherine Maven 5 months ago
Hamsters Dancing!! first animated meme!! (that I know of) ... I can still here the moronic music ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEH2fk0ONag
#29
About 6 years ago, my daughter told me 'Panic at the Disco we're the first ones to bring theatricality to rock music'.
You sweet summer child.
Michelle C 5 months ago
She is in for quite the education, then! Hopefully she enjoys the work of their numerous predecessors, including, but not limited to Queen, Alice Cooper, and KISS!
Jeff Hunt 5 months ago
And of course we mustn’t forget Pink Floyd and The Who.
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Introduce this child to Bowie, Queen, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, The Who's Tommy, Meat Loaf.......
Crystalwitch60 4 months ago
My 21 yr old son was bought up on that music lol as was my 24 yr old they love it , oh n gins n roses quarterflash fleetwood mac lover boy Hanoi rocks , n the like
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The entire glam rock era would like a word (and I know they didn't originate it either)
#30
Had a service running at work. Someone said something like 'We don't want to mess with that service, it was written before any of us got here, and no one knows how it works'
::raises hand::
"Uhh, I wrote that. I still have the code. It's probably due for a rewrite anyway.".
#31
I'm a lobbyist - I, and an elderly colleague were in a meeting with Congressional committee staff. We were having a spirited discussion about what a provision of a decades old law actually meant. I was doing most of the arguing on our side.
Eventually, I directly informed the staffer that this was not a debate and that we were correct. When she asked me how I could possibly have that level of certainty, I turned the conversation over to my colleague. I got to watch as he informed her, as I already knew, that he was sure about the provision because **he wrote it.** When he was a staffer for that very committee. In 1962.
Delicious.
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
It's always fun seeing incidents like this play out, again and again. But once in a while... Isaac Asimov once had a German Philosopher tell him "Just because you wrote that story, what makes you think you know anything about it?" Asimov was left speechless.
#32
When I was in grad school, I wrote a Wikipedia article on a species I was coauthoring a paper on. I also did a class project in genetics on the same species, which wasn't related to the publication.
I got fine marks on the class paper, but the professor chided me for not describing all the interesting things known about the species for background. He told me I could start by just "reading the Wikipedia article." .
Judes 5 months ago
Your professor can only mark what you put in your assessment. If you don't inlude something that you know in your assessment, then that's your fault, not the professor's.
Zena 5 months ago
That wasn't the point of the story; OP wasn't complaining about being marked down for not having included the additional information. The point was that the professor told OP to READ the Wikipedia article, obviously not having noticed that OP WROTE the article.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 5 months ago
Okay this sort of happened to me. I had someone copy and paste from Wikipedia in an argument with me and it was literally what I had just edited on the page. Like....🤦🏻♂️
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
at least we've moved on from the time when wikipedia wasn't considered a credible source for a paper
#33
For me, it was happening upon a video game booth at a South Florida flea market about 15 years ago.
Two early teen boys were playing Golden Eye multiplayer. I stopped to watch for a bit before the owner offered up a third controller.
The two kids grinned and stage whispered plans to g**g up in me.
What they weren't ready for was my 006 playing a*s to run literal circles around them, firing the entire time, shooting ammo crates away from their initial start points, and my detailed knowledge of the layout of The Stacks.
After the 10th k**l, they both just gave up and left.
Joe Reaves 5 months ago
I'm betting the owner saw the OPs age and made an educated guess that this was going to be fun to watch.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
gang is censored now? BP, this is ridiculous, please either screen your post submissions and just don't include them, or tune your g*****n censoring algorithm.
Ron B 5 months ago
006 is Trevelan, Sean Beans character from the movie, a playable character in Goldeneye n64
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Mike Arclight 5 months ago (edited)
So long as you didn't pick that cheaty bast ard Oddjob alls good
crashthegreenhat 5 months ago
My favorite Goldeneye story is we were player 4 player multi, and one was going around prox mining the spawn points. What none of knew is one of the others one saw him doing this, stalked him from the second mine placement to the last until all spawn points were mined, and then shot him in the back of the head, instakill. He told us that the guy he shot was prox mining the spawn points so we all stopped playing and forced the miner to respawn until all the mines were used up. They never did it again.
#34
I honestly don’t know if this fits the question perfectly….
Years ago I was in the “mall” in Elizabeth City, NC, in one of the corner stores and the Eurythmics song “Sweet Dreams” was being piped over the stores sound system. I overheard a couple teenagers near me loudly saying, “What the f**k, man? They stole this from Marylin!”.
Mabelbabel 5 months ago
Same with my kids a few years back-I had an old CD playing in the car, and on came Personal Jesus. Cue complaints about Marilyn Manson being ripped off and what an awful remake it was and he shouldn't have given this band permission to ruin his song. Other way round, boys. Depeche Mode did it first...
Judes 5 months ago
I would have made those kids listen to Depeche Mode on endless loop!
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Robin Roper 5 months ago
My 35 year old is a total classic rock nerd. I'd pay songs but not let him see who was singing to help him identify the singer/group. One such song I played although not classic rcck is a classic early Jackson 5 song with little boy Michael singing. He was stumped so I let him see the video. His response, "Michael Jackson was black!" "Yes dear he was black and he's still black, he just doesn't recognize it anymore." A funny memory.
Paul C. 5 months ago
Always remember my know it all BIL playing George Michaels Waiting for That Day and saying how disappointing it was that The Rolling Stones needed to steal his music! He was referring to the end of the track where he sings You Can't Always Get What You Want. I had to break it to him gently, they wrote that about twenty years before!
Doug Moyer 5 months ago
Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt' came on while driving with my son (teenager at the time). He told me that he preferred the original. I said, buddy this IS the original! (Don't get me wrong - the Johnny Cash version (especially once you've seen the video) is heart wrenching...)
Bill Swallow 5 months ago
Proper (and only valid) Response: "Look, just because Marilyn was the first version of this that *YOU* heard, does NOT mean that was the first version that existed."
Lynn Drew 5 months ago
Every time my husband hears a Bob Dylan song that's been covered by an artist he likes, he says "I didn't know Bob Dylan covered this" At this point, I'm pretty sure he's just going for the reaction. 😅
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
And Dylan have even covered himself. :-) And if he is anything like me, he is definitely going for reaction now..
Load More Replies... LinkTheHylian 5 months ago
My cousins and I went to the cinema to watch the first SpongeBob movie (don't ask). For those of you who don't know, there's a scene where SpongeBob proves himself by singing a parody... of sorts... of Twisted Sister's 'I Wanna Rock' (Goofy Goober Rock), and right after the first "I'm a Goofy Goober..." I timed the "ROCK!" perfectly. My cousins were baffled that I seemingly knew what was coming as they were aware it was my first time seeing the movie, and I try to avoid trailers. All I could muster was "Who tf doesn't know Twisted Sister?" as I finished my popcorn.
#35
I had a young molecular biologist say to me once, "Can you imagine what it was like doing this stuff before PCR was invented?" I had to break it to him that I not only remembered that time, I spent a very long day as the escort for the a*****e who invented it.
The kid looked at me as if I told him I remembered when the wheel was invented.
#36
I went into a meeting at work about some kind of problem our software development team was having and a somewhat new young cocky developer started explaining what the problem was, how things are supposed to work, etc. I'm the most senior person in the room, but not a software developer per se as I'm more of a people and project manager at that point.
He starts describing the system our software interfaces with, and says something not quite right about it. I tried to very gently correct him, going out of my way to avoid saying 'you're wrong' and keep the story/explanation coming. He responds kind of dismissively and briskly explains why I'm wrong.
I now start to see his misunderstanding is important to the issue he's having. I say a little more strongly that "I'm pretty sure that system behaves like 'this' and expects you to do 'that' and... he cuts me off. This time he's a little more condescending and brushes off my input as he confidently pulls out a big document about that system. I guess to show me he's done his homework. I recognize this document. I'm very familiar with it (though most in the room are probably not.)
I respond by saying "I think if you look at this part of that document, you'll see..." He cuts me off, tells me he knows what it says and how it is supposed to work. Then I ask him if he knows who wrote that manual. He does not.
Someone else in the room (that knew me better) asks if I wrote it. I say yes. In fact, I didn't just create that document. I also designed the whole system and wrote all the software that was the subject of that manual. This was done 5-7 years earlier, when I was in a completely different party of the company.
We continued on with the meeting and it gradually became clear to him and everyone that his misunderstanding of my old system (and how his software was supposed to work with it) was the core part of the problem he was having, and it ended up being a productive meeting.
If something has been in place that long, and it's called from a thousand different places, maybe don't assume it is the problem. I think he gained a little respect and humbleness toward us all that day.
Lyone Fein 5 months ago
Reminds me of this line from “Waiting for Godot”: Always blaming the shoe for the problems of the foot.
Mary Peace 5 months ago
How do I say in a very humble manner that the word at the end is 'humility' not humbleness?
#37
I'm 33. A 10-year-old mentioned Pikachu in conversation and then backtracked and started trying to explain what Pokemon is.
Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 5 months ago
child, i was there when the tomes were written
Delicate Fcuking Flower 5 months ago
I remember when my daughter was in the first or second grade came home from school and asked me if I had ever heard of Pokemon. When I started talking about it in detail, she looked at me like I was the coolest adult she'd ever seen. Which was the last time she looked at me like that....
Huddo's sister 5 months ago
Pokemon, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Beyblades are all very popular with my students at the moment. They always get surprised when I know what they are talking about.
Kris “ADHD_Carrier” Dudoich 5 months ago
I blew a teenager's mind the other day when I told her that Hello Kitty had been around since 1975. :)
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
my nearly 70-year-old mom knows what pokemon is, because i got into it the second it hit the states, and she had to endure me being utterly obsessed for what felt like twenty years but was probably more like two (and then continuing to like a lot of the designs and products to this day)
SheamusFanFrom1987 5 months ago
Kid, I was there (spiritually and somewhat literally) when Ash got stuck with Pikachu because he got up late and Gary was busting his chops for it... XD
#38
My nephew, with all the condescension of a 6-year-old: "there's this movie. You probably haven't heard of it. It's called Aladdin..."
Me:"DID YOU WAKE ME UP? DID YOU RUB MY LAMP?"
(I happened to be in the US in fall of '93, when Aladdin came out on tape).
Michelle C 5 months ago
I’m only slightly older than the movie and that was one of my favorite movies growing up! The world lost an absolute treasure in Robin Williams!
Anders Jackson 5 months ago
We did, and need him now. But at least he didn't needed to experience Trump...
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"Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, 'Empire Strikes Back'?" "Jesus, Tony, how old is this guy?"
Original Kinkster 5 months ago
"Well, there was this woman that was married to an Arabic king and he threatened to k**l her so she told him fairy tales for thousand and one night to distract him.. You probably haven't heard of it. It's called 1001 Night...'
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
I took 4 yo at the time (36 now) to see Aladdin. Tried to get my husband to go and he didn't want to. When we got home I told him you're gonna regret not going. We got a on VHS ANNNNND he just looked at me, I should have listened to you. LOL
Vicki Perizzolo 5 months ago
great movie -- Robin Williams was just amazing. Miss him so much.
#39
My kid tried to explain to me that you could make a smiley face by typing “:)”.
Michelle C 5 months ago
I’m curious if the child knows any other ways to make smiley faces. There are plenty!
#40
When my 19 year old colleague started discussing this new film franchise he'd found to me (41F) and explained it used to be a TV show on something called MTV.
The franchise he was talking about was Jacka*s.
#41
My oldest child (now 17), trying to educate me on the d**n Gorillaz, as if that wasn't a part of my youth.
Ge Po 5 months ago
The day my 12-year-old discovered M. C. Hammer. Then Mr Jackson. Then Wham. Then Queen ....
SheamusFanFrom1987 5 months ago
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in bag, I'm useless, but not for long, The future is coming on...
Philly Bob 5 months ago (edited)
My then 17 year old rap infused son, came downstairs one Sunday and was raving about an artist he "discovered" on the radio who had an amazing voice and style like he's never heard before. Now, not only do I work in music and have done so with some very big national and international bands and artists... I ask who this amazing guy is? He's like eh, you probably never heard of him... this guy FRANK SINATRA! (I was born in 1958) You shold have seen the look on his face when I showed him my whole Columbia 78 RPM collection that is not only older than him but older than ME! Frank? Yeah, never heard of him! Wait until he learns about Dino and Bing! LOL!
Ge Po 5 months ago
Tel him about Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Barbara Streisand.
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Wendy Neumeyer 5 months ago
My daughter came home from school (grade 5) and was bursting with excitement, saying she heard the coolest song, and proceeded to play it on her phone for me... I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman...I was born in 1960. I laughed a bit, then we sang it together.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
i always wondered how live shows with them worked, i guess i know now
#42
My younger coworkers try to talk about anime to me like I wasn't passing around bad bootleg VHS tapes with my friends in h**h school to get my hands on more than just Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z.
UKDeek 5 months ago
I was talking to a co-worker about anime, and they were shocked when I (52 and male) knew of some of the older stuff, and that I used to watch nth generation VHS copies with dodgy fan subtitles. They were even more shocked when I told them I helped organise the UKs first anime convention back in 1991.
Rebecca McManus 5 months ago
I watched Akira when Channel 4 first showed it in the 90s
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Dusty's mom 5 months ago
Speeeeed Racer! I couldn't understand why the characters never seemed to take a breath when speaking.
Colin Roach 5 months ago
Along with Astro Boy. Classics that can never be topped.
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#43
Let's just say I'm an IT professional who got his first computer at the turn of the 80s. Son gets a new gaming computer and wigs out because he can't get Minecraft Java edition to work. I suggested he needed to install the java runtime environment only to get snottily told that java is write once run anywhere and that wasn't the problem. He ended up having a meltdown.
When he eventually calmed down I put the jre on and it ran. .
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
Fine then you won't ever be able to play it. Temper tantrums like that didn't get my kids anywhere.
Nicole Weymann 5 months ago
I babysat my cousins from age 12 on with the same philosophy. Still holds true for my nephews 30 years later 👍 I'd had a bad example early on with my OTHER cousin - my age - whose mother liked to try and empathise with her, and spend hours in the middle of the night trying to talk her down and ALWAYS ended up giving in. Taught my cousin to be really persistent in her tantrums - it pissed me off mightily, even at a young age.
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Kid who was probably about 19-20 explaining to me that the Star Wars prequels were universally beloved when they were first released and people only realized they were cringey when they started getting memed in the 2010s.
I saw all of those movies multiple times in the theater. I participated in SO MUCH bashing of Jar Jar and Padme hanging out brushing her hair and Anakin’s terrible line deliveries. It was all over pop culture at the time too. Nothing I said would convince this kid, he just kept saying no, everyone loved them when they were first released.
Tropical Tarot 5 months ago
Still don't like them. Jar Jar bashing was so much fun. I do hate that it affected the actor's job.
Daniel Atkins 5 months ago
He has showed up in recent Star Wars movies and shows. He is actually on screen and not just the voice.
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Robin Roper 5 months ago
No one loved them when they first came out and they continue to not love them now.
Boo 5 months ago
I personally love them, so your take on "no one" is wrong.
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I saw Phantom Menace in the cinema. I quite enjoyed it. JarJar was annoying, but as a 20 year old woman, having Ewan MacGregor and Liam Neeson together was enough to make me happy. Also while I realise it is utterly impractical and possibly the silliest weapon ever, I coveted Darth Maul's double ended light sabre.
Admiralu 5 months ago
Double bladed lightsabers are awesome and were used in the Extended Universe before the prequels, notably by Bastilla and Satele Shan
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Luke Branwen 5 months ago
The eternal cycle of Star Wars. Something new comes out, it's the worst thing ever, then even newer thing comes out and suddenly it is the worst ever and the previous worst ever is remembered with fond nostalgia.
michelle neugebauer 5 months ago
My husband and I did a rewatch of 4,5&6 and decided after to have a look at the prequels. I only saw the first and thought I’d give them a go again. Turned it off just after Jar-jars first scene! That voice, fingernails on a blackboard! Never again!
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
i still love episode 1, including jar jar! episodes 2 and 3 were garbage though, for the most part. 2 was utterly terrible, 3 had general grievous and boga and some cool fights.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 months ago
Jar Jar was THE most annoying creature. I did my fair share of bashing.
#45
Someone tried to argue the plot of movie with me that I worked on and was in most of the devlopent/creative meetings for.
Graham Berry 5 months ago
To be fair that can mean nothing as many movies get changed after release. Not even just talking director cuts either. Highlander 2 as an example has one version where they're aliens and another where they are not. I even know of one movie about a honted room that kills people that ends 4 different ways depending on which release you are watching.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
i feel like a lot of these are just cautionary tales about don't talk s**t about a person unless you know for sure that the person you're talking to isn't that person or isn't some other person who would know these things better than you
#46
The guy that tried to mansplain a scientific paper to the woman that wrote it.
Zena 5 months ago
You'll have to be far more specific than that; there are too many instances of this.
Khavrinen 5 months ago
"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
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The Abe 5 months ago
Oh honey, mansplaining is when an unjustifiably arrogant man gives an obvious explanation to someone who knows better...oh...wait...I see what you did there ;)...
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A few years back my step daughter was super excited to show her Mom and I this awesome new song she had "found." Song in question: Black Hole f*****g Sun. She was shocked we knew it.
nottheactualphoto 5 months ago
I was the kid in that scenario. I told my mom about this awesome artist I'd discovered, Dave Brubeck. Mom says "oh yeah, I was a big fan of his when I was in high school."
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
still the weirdest g*****n music video i've ever seen
#48
Back when I was a h**h school teacher, my buddy and I put on an extra life event overnight at the library. The kids put Halo CE up on a projector. I walked in and asked to play and they said they'd take it easy on me.
It was Slayer on Hang Em h**h, and we called it at 25 to 8 between the 3 of them.
Teutonic Disaster 5 months ago
I don't understand the last sentence at all, but I guess OP wiped the floor those cocky students?
John Purves 5 months ago
Could someone at BP please readjust the censorship software? The word high has more than one definition.
#49
When my kindergartener came home from school and asked me to spell “I cup.” .
Auntriarch 5 months ago
Next on the list, get someone to look down their neckline and spell 'attic'
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
i'd not heard that one before, i like it
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Magna Linnevers 5 months ago
I always ask for ID 10t lube or a battery for my chem light…
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AP 5 months ago
I noticed many elementary and playground games, songs and pranks haven't changed in the last 40 years...they just keep getting passed down and around to the newer generations
Paula Carr 5 months ago
My niece and nephew grew up in a town in Ventura County CA called Moorpark. I can still remember my niece being SO excited to tell me what Moorpark was when spelled backwards.
Forrest Hobbs 5 months ago
I hope that picture's AI generated. If not, there's a scary kid out there.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 5 months ago
kids have weird teeth sometimes, what's the issue
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Kiddo trying to school me on Mario Kart. 😎.
#51
Friend's teen telling were old, uncool etc as we pull up old music videos on YouTube.
Whines for a chance to pick a video.
Chooses video with clickbait title "You won't believe what happens during this solo!!".
Gets all smarmy, crowing about how we might have thought we were cool, but even way back then THESE were the cool guys.
I says, "Omg -teens mom- that's you!"
Mom pulls out photo album of polaroids.
Sure enough, different angle of 16 yo mom t**s out crowd surfing on a boogeyboard being pissed on by Green Day.
Oh ya, your dad took that pic, that's how they met. Hunted the f****r down to get the photo.
Kid died a little inside. Actually went outside to avoid the cackling.
JusticePanda 5 months ago
All the girls gone wild videos. Some poor kid is going to Google grandma and get TMI.
UKGrandad 5 months ago
Am I misunderstanding this or were the band really urinating on the crowd?
Norm Gilmore 5 months ago
Couldn't find anything confirming this. Seems to be an urban legend. Billie Joe has been in trouble for exposure on stage with authorities though.
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My student: “Do you know Sailor Moon? It’s an anime.”
Me: *deep inhale* Child —.
Beth Wheeler 5 months ago
My son gets mad when I call anime cartoons. I don't care if it's drawn by hand or computers. It's STILL a freaking CARTOON
SkyBlueandBlack 5 months ago
He's probably irritated because you mean it condescendingly. Like, it's a cartoon so it's trash. My mother has the same problem.
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My son’s friends (18/19) tried to explain to me (46) who sang the Sweater Song. I dusted off my CD collection, and their eyes lit up like Indiana Jones finding the Holy Grail!
oktopus 5 months ago
D**n, how am I old enough to live in an era where people use phrases like "dust off a CD collection"?
Felecia_1986 5 months ago
"Dust off" a CD collection?!?! CD's weren't a thing until after I was out of high school and I am NOT that old!!! (time to take my centrum silver and go to bed before sundown....)
#54
Lol drinking with some young locals at a bar in Dublin (I’m an older American) last year. The band played I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles and I sang every word. They told me I was the GOAT and asked how I knew that song.
The 80s were my formative music years my good dudes.
(Edit I was in Dublin last year for the FLA/GA college football game).
#56
My 12 year old nephew not wanting to play rap music around me because the lyrics are to explicit.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 5 months ago
Well, a 12 YO shouldn't be listening to explicit rap music.
#59
I'm in my 30s, last Fall my 21 year old coworker asked me if I had seen the "new christian girl fall" outfit inspos on TikTok.
I pulled up my Instagram outfit pics from ~2010. It was so funny to see her face when I showed her that, leggings, knee high boots and circle scarfs are not a "new" thing just because TikTok discovered it recently lol.
#60
A personal one. I use data that you have to buy from a specific agency, that is essential to my industry.
Had a guy come in from that agency trying to tell me I was using it wrong. I've been using that data longer than he's been alive. Turns out, I wasn't using it wrong.
#61
A Young man born in 2004 tried to explain some 9/11 conspiracies to me, oh sweet summer child.
#62
My daughter told me that I didn’t know anything about anime because I didn’t know anything about One Piece or Attack On Titan.
I started telling her about Fist of the North Star and Maison Ikkoku and Legend of the Galactic Heroes. And then I literally told her not to cite the deep magic to me….
#63
I had a work meeting regarding a specific internet based phone system, I was on the pilot team that tested it when it rolled out. When I got to the meeting I introduced myself as a system expert to the guy next to me. He just kind of grinned but didn’t say anything to that. I asked him what his role was for the meeting. “Oh I was the lead designer for the system” was his response. We both took it well and laughed about it.
Tim Fawcett 5 months ago
Two experts in slightly different fields - design and implementation/roll-out are different and an expert in one is not always an expert in the other. One knows how the system works the other how it is used.
#64
I went to Shakey’s pizza where a local, very large and social BBS wood meat every Saturday. There was a kid there with a “Battle Tech II: the Crescent Hawk’s Revenge” manual. It was a really thick booklet because it had the stats of all the mechs. Him and his friends were flipping through the pages discussing the various stats when I walked up and asked what they were doing.
This kid never liked me.
He gave me some dismissive answer as I took the book from his hands and flipped through the pages. I stopped on a page in the very back, pointed to one of the people on the development team, and said something like, “who’s that idiot?”
It was a picture of me.
#65
My nephew, in the midst of a heated philosophical debate with me, blurts out "Asphinctersayswhat?".
#66
A student, 18 in 2022, telling me I'm wrong about how dialup worked.
Later in the year they'd also tell me I mispronounced Myspace.
[Mice Pace, like a computer mouse at speed. This student hadn't read the material or seen MySpace written. They often leaped to how great their idea is].
#67
Was hanging out with kids at a county fair. Told a kid I could make his hand smell like strawberries by scratching it. When he put it up to his face to smell, I slapped his own hand (gently) into his face. For the next 30 minutes he pulled the prank on others and it spread like wildfire. Eventually a little girl comes up to me and says " I can make your hand smell like strawberries!" So of course I went along with it. Instead of bringing my hand in front of my face to "smell", I held it under my chin and sniffed before saying "Wow! It worked!" The little girl was confused and pulled my hand to her face to smell.... which is when I slapped it with my other hand. She never saw it coming lol.
#68
I’m a 37 year old millennial but I have some gen z coworkers ages 19-23 who were shocked I knew about memes and I knew what Wojack and Pepe’s are. I’m like dude I literally grew up on 4chan. I am unc.
Judes 5 months ago
Oh look, someone who thinks memes began on 4chan! People now in their 50s (and older) were emailing memes before 4chan existed, and that's not even the origin of memes. The term 'meme' was invented by Richard Dawkins back in the 70s to describe behaviour that **already existed**.
#69
My teenager cousin (i am 8 years older) starting to go out at 17-18 telling me i should drink lightly and be careful with shots cause i can't handle how they drink.
I have the "good guy" reputation in my family.
#70
My best friend’s 10 year old daughter who always seemed a little afraid of me approached me a while back and said in the shyest of voices “My dad said you like WWE”.
She’s now my wrestling buddy, we’ve been to three live shows and are going to a Raw/SmackDown dual show next month.
Lyoness 5 months ago
Depends on the age. I wouldn't take a 5 year old but at 10 she's old enough to understand it's a performance, not a true sporting event.
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oktopus 5 months ago
Probably not quite the same thing, but I once left a job, and a few months later got an email from a recruitment company asking if I was interested in an interesting new job which fitted my profile. As you might guess, it was my old job. For added bonus, the recruitment company was the one which recruited me for it in the first place, and I had literally written the provided job description myself shortly before leaving.
Lizzy Lizzard 5 months ago
My 10 year old tried to explain to me that Fallout Boy was actually a really famous band and I got to enjoy his shock when I explained I'd seen them in concert *twice*
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 5 months ago
The kids in my class are aware that I'm in my 30s, but they still seem surprised that I know about One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, etc. A few weeks ago (when there was some time to talk), a couple of the students were referring to the first Pokémon movie. Student 1 was whispering. Student 2: Mewtwo was really angry. Me: yeah, he was. Both of them were shocked. Student 2: wait. You've seen the first Pokémon movie? Me: seen it? Child, I was THERE!
Philly Bob 5 months ago
And Toriko, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Death Note, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Gintama, ,Bleach, Elfen Lied, Ghost in the Shell, Evagelion, Vision of Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, xxxHOLiC... I have them all! I'm 67 BTW!
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Beak Hookage 5 months ago
Admittedly this was a kid, but we were looking at some books and I said "oh, I used to be friends with the author of that one". Kid immediately yelled "No you weren't, he's FAMOUS!" Reader, I am also a published author. We went to each others' book launch parties. We did interviews together. I was as famous as he was. I just didn't stay famous, unlike him. (It turned him into a right arrogant bully, which is why we're not friends any more).
Mike F 5 months ago
Well, that's their frame of reference. If you have any to contribute, post away.
Load More Replies... oktopus 5 months ago
Probably not quite the same thing, but I once left a job, and a few months later got an email from a recruitment company asking if I was interested in an interesting new job which fitted my profile. As you might guess, it was my old job. For added bonus, the recruitment company was the one which recruited me for it in the first place, and I had literally written the provided job description myself shortly before leaving.
Lizzy Lizzard 5 months ago
My 10 year old tried to explain to me that Fallout Boy was actually a really famous band and I got to enjoy his shock when I explained I'd seen them in concert *twice*
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 5 months ago
The kids in my class are aware that I'm in my 30s, but they still seem surprised that I know about One Piece, Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, etc. A few weeks ago (when there was some time to talk), a couple of the students were referring to the first Pokémon movie. Student 1 was whispering. Student 2: Mewtwo was really angry. Me: yeah, he was. Both of them were shocked. Student 2: wait. You've seen the first Pokémon movie? Me: seen it? Child, I was THERE!
Philly Bob 5 months ago
And Toriko, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Death Note, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Gintama, ,Bleach, Elfen Lied, Ghost in the Shell, Evagelion, Vision of Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, xxxHOLiC... I have them all! I'm 67 BTW!
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 5 months ago
Admittedly this was a kid, but we were looking at some books and I said "oh, I used to be friends with the author of that one". Kid immediately yelled "No you weren't, he's FAMOUS!" Reader, I am also a published author. We went to each others' book launch parties. We did interviews together. I was as famous as he was. I just didn't stay famous, unlike him. (It turned him into a right arrogant bully, which is why we're not friends any more).
Mike F 5 months ago
Well, that's their frame of reference. If you have any to contribute, post away.
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