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My twin daughters will turn ten in 2 weeks, and just recently, one of them sincerely asked if I watched Mr. Beast as a kid, and was incredibly surprised when I admitted that this guy is actually a whole generation younger than me. Yes, kids sometimes make us feel like dinosaurs - that is, incredibly ancient.

If you needed proof - here's this viral thread on X (former Twitter), where moms and dads share stories about how a normal conversation with their kid turned out to be another unnecessary reminder that we are all 'fossils.' However, if we put aside the slight sadness, then all these tweets just look really amusing.

More info: X

Image credits: Andrea Piacquadio (not the actual photo)

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WindySwede
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why "when I was your age it was uphill both to and home to school!" now seams more likely.. 🙃

Jaimie Wilson
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

😂😂 my Dad used to add that it was snowing and they had no feet 🙄😂

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GhostlySnail (she/her)
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Until I was around 11, my mom wouldn’t let me use google if I had a question, she would make me check every single book we had on the subject, then try to find out myself if that failed. Then if I could not find anything she would look it up. I hated it but looking back I’m so glad she did that.

Kaddiss Ventorum
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahahahahaha my grandma would spend ALL afternoon taking to her sister's in Arkansas and I wouldn't be able to use dial up. Remember ADSL? Remember when computers looked like giant plastic typewriters?

Jayna Mooney
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived near "The 2 Steves" when they invented Apple (PCs, etc)

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Charlene
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter asked if it was black and white when I was a kid. I was born in '85.

Glen Ellyn
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Respect your parents. They passed school without Google." 😉 🤭

Jaimie Wilson
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arrghhhh....I remember any damn time I had a question re homework and my Dad would go look in encyclopedia 😂🙄

Jaimie Wilson
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg he would tell me to go look...why is there no edit on here...lol

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CORGI QUEEN
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1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I (a fourteen year old) as a child would sit down and read our encyclopedias and dictionary for fun. we had separate books in alphabetical order and I would read for hours. I don't know why I did it but I did and if I went back in time I would rip up the s book because that was how my sex ed started

Potato patato
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't share your age online. Didn't you take an Internet safety Anything?

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Marilyn Russell
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, they wouldn’t know how to use a library.

Kare Deter
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*I* no longer know how to use a library - they got rid of the card catalog system!

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    #2

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    Owen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Coasters are nice. Get yourself some coasters, use them and feel proud of yourself. They're super cheap.

    Lunaofthenest (She/they)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure why, but this comment just really had me rolling. Delightful.

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    Kaddiss Ventorum
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's funny till you realize a lot of the aviation industry in this modern era STILL USE FLOPPY DRIVES. Go look it up. It's a modern age horror story.

    WFH Forever
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked at a large US university that was running an accounting and payroll DOS based system from the mid-80s until 1/1/2021.

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    Deson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find some old AOL cd's. They make great coasters.

    Roxy222uk
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow. I paid a typist at a typing shop to type up my main dissertation! Very, very few people had personal computers. Because of my dad's job we had a BBC Micro, and I was able to type up and print out a smaller dissertation (that I wrote by hand first) to save myself some money.

    Katherine Forrestall
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ALWAYS save ...that is..if you feel it's worth it...

    Greg
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder why they call them coasters.

    InfiniteZeek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thesis on a floppy disk in 2018?!

    Cat Chat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The post is from 2018. Doesn't mean the thesis was done that same year.

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    Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Robin Williams as Peter Pan: "Are you related to Mighty Mouse?" Random internet reviewer: "Who is Mighty Mouse?" Me [screaming internally]

    Tigara Akimoto
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My 13yo soul crumbled and died when the 4yo beside me in the theater asked this question...

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    Realist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's Indiana Jones? Isn't that like, a state? Or like a city in a state, Jones?

    Michael Largey
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An Indiana jones is an addiction to the Hoosier state. It was the breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches that got me hooked.

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    SCP 4666
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact: The guy was Julian Glover and he once reported to Vader that commscan has detected an energy field 😉

    Jared Robinson
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    1 year ago

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    poor brittany. We gotta get kids away from disney and nickelodeon and all the gross child acting garbage. We don't really need child actors do we? like use a doll who really cares that much. childrens safety should be far mor important than your "immersion in the movie"

    Anonymous Anomaly
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even when you have nothing to say, you manage to make up some bs...

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    If we abstract from the fact that we really are getting older with every single day, then the whole point is that children, whether ours or not, often tell us the truth - or what they consider to be the truth, to our face. Various social boundaries and restrictions haven't yet become entrenched in their minds - so we get funny dialogues and scenes like these when adults do realize their age.

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    Zoey Rayne
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can top that. I was teaching preschoolers about dinosaurs, and a three year old asked me if I was there when the asteroid killed them all! I'll give her points for thinking I could somehow survive a mass extinction event.

    Heather Lent
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad likes black and white westerns and all the pictures of him as a kid are black and white. When my daughter was about she looks at him asks Papa when did the world get color? I died my dad was shocked.

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    Luis Hernandez Dauajare
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When teaching them about the Cold War, one of my high school students asked me how I managed to dodge the draft. I was puzzled. He was asking about the Vietnam War... Dude, I am 40...

    Ugh_What_Now
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NO STOP! When I was little my little smart a*s self said "Hey mom, you were there, how were the pyramids built?" 😂👏

    Charlene
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My kid asked if it was black and white when I was a kid. I don't think she meant the TV. I guess she thought I was older than color. I was born in '85.

    Music Eating Fox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of a story my Latin teacher told us. She had a student who thought she was alive during the American Revolution. 🤣

    Andy Cran
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm that old that when studying history at school it was called current affairs

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    #5

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    Cecilie Hammershøy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the movie going from the expensive to the more affordable category

    Bob Keating
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Searching the returns cart to find the popular movie before it's put back on the shelf.

    imjustexisting
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    but i sorta wiII, because I borrow books from the Iibrary and it's a pain seeing it not in the sheIves

    Crybabyartist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's a real thing though... I borrowed this book... pub. in the late 60's.. it was obviously a hand made book... silk clothe over the cover leafs... obvious local or one of a kind paper with all the marks. Everything is this is a hand made book... in this library in this city ... heres the thing that pushed me. No one... NOT ONE PERSON.. no one NO ONE have ever taken it out until me... it had languished there from the 60's for decades...no one had read it.. no one cared for it. so... I decided to keep it. anyone want to know the circumstances can .... make an inquiry... it's not for sale

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    Kare Deter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Late fees that could add up to more than the movie would cost to purchase.

    Marilyn Russell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember going to a video store maybe 10 years ago when we still did that and the kid behind the counter didn’t know who the late great John Candy was. I mean, you work in a video store so how do you not know some of the greatest classic 80’s comedies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Uncle Buck?

    Renegade
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in my day you had to go to the cinema until you got lucky and it was on TV. No cable either. My dad just got cable a couple years ago.

    Mikey Kliss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I liked in the boonies and my mom worked in the nearest town. On fridays she would rent a game for me and I'd general have to give her a list of 3 games in case one or 2 was already rented

    Katherine Bachus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the real pain of someone in line ahead of you destroying a movie by giving away the ending, and it's the movie you have in your hand.

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    TiNaBoNiNa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard several teens say they wish they were still taught cursive in school.

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    Red PANda (she/they)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the new version of Dora, Dora has a phone and instead of having a map, she has a map app 😔

    WindySwede
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like the youtuber who said "you must be so old to have used a vacuums with bags" 🫠

    L Terr
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Micheal Mouse! You are OLDER THAN COLOR! You don't get to call a record player old.

    Baali Venomax
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That *ancient* machine made a come up in the last few years :)

    Crybabyartist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    woah thats only just mean!! there is no reason for that kind of attack!

    El Howard
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hieroglyphics? You mean emojis?

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    “Many people say that the subjective perception of time differs between children and adults - and this is true,” says Irina Matveeva, a psychologist and certified NLP specialist, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. “And it’s not just about some mental factors, often about ordinary arithmetic.”

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    “Just judge for yourself - if, let's say, for a 40 Y.O. person one year is 1/40 of their life, then for a 4 Y.O. kid, a year is a whole quarter of their life. Accordingly, everything that happened before - especially if it was long before their birth, is history. Ancient history. Even more ancient, the younger the child. Well, only then do various psychological factors come into play, such as differences between generations..." Irina summarizes.

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    mcdadstuff Report

    Peppy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahh the late 1900’s ,good times

    K-Hey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a 19 yo coworker talk about a couch she had found at a thrift store. "It's, like, really old, like, from the 90s" 😳

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    ILoveMySon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son in 2004, "You know, back in the olden days in the 1980's."

    pineapple87
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, today's kids dress like it's the 90s every day.

    BrownTabby
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s awesome. The 90s aesthetic was great.

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    Hmmm hmmmm
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ay yes 19AD I remember it well

    Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heard a 20 year old coworker say “the late 1900s” I said you do realize the 1900s ended only 3 years before you were born right?

    Ansi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read a similar one where a professor got the question if they (student) could use an really old source from the 1900s. Or just Tom Hollands spiderman: have you heard of that really old movie Alien? (While Ironman and Dr.Strange looks like ❓️) 🤣

    Bryoney Blakley
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love that the 1900s are just one time span🤣😍🤣

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    thedad Report

    Eat Dirt Crow
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I asked my wife to hand me a newspaper, she called me silly because we only use tablets these days. That fly never knew what hit it.

    Lunaofthenest (She/they)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Soon you'll be able to call them the paper dinosaurs bc they'll be extinct before long 🥲

    Ansi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is the funniest thing I read all day. 😄

    Freddy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, they're not wrong...

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    Naomie Moore
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remind her when she is in labor with a grandchild . . . Should she decide to have kids.

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    Ansi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time to watch the movie Mean Girls and take notes of how to be a cool mum .

    Mary Peace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to know what you'd (supposedly) do if you were that 'cool young fun mom'. Maybe you would NOT do some stuff she needs that you do at the moment!

    Aisha Crenshaw
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man f**k these kids! They ain't "sugar, honey, ice, tea"😮‍💨😄😄

    Crybabyartist
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A six year old is that sophisticated he he he get her into a rocket science program dreamer/ liar

    The Original Bruno
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    1 year ago

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    Your daughter is a six-year old Kamala Harris? Is your sister her funt?

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    Well, in the end, you and I are really old, aren’t we? Chris Columbus, while filming Home Alone, tried to specifically “erase” any obvious “time markers” so that his creation would look “out of time,” relevant to any viewer (perhaps the only obvious marker there is the cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan at the McCallisters' house). But he also miscalculated.

    For example, my friends’ child, having watched the movie for the very first time, was so surprised: “Why didn’t Kevin just text his parents that he’s okay?” And what can adults tell him, since any explanation will simply be a recognition of one’s own 'antiquity'? Well, somewhere between the dinosaurs and the pyramids of Egypt...

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    Six_Pack_Mom Report

    ILoveMySon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor child will never know the joy of checking the coin slot and actually finding money.

    Alicia M
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when there was some urban legend scare tactic c**p about used needles being left in coin slots, so when you would reach in, you would get pierced. Scared a lot of people away from checking coin slots for a while, and 30+ years later, I'm here talking about it. 🤣

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    Snorkeldorf
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my daughter was young, we were visiting a friend and were in their garage. They had an old rotary-dial phone hanging on the wall and my daughter took the receiver and asked "What is this?". We laughed and I said "For goodness sake, it's a phone." She said "I know that, I mean...how does it work?".

    AnnwylTheBloodyLovesFerghus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was so excited when I got my first push button phone! In those days, we couldn't own the telephone. They had to be rented from the phone company. And push button ones cost more. I had a rotary for years. The ugly green color because it was the cheapest the company rented. I miss my push button telephone! Also, it was heavy enough to double as a personal safety device.

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    Gustav Gallifrey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Valid question in Australia these days. The law says that there must be a public phone system. The operator (Telecom Australia) decided that the effort of collecting coins from the phones was not worth it, and now what were once pay phones are simply free phones. Use them at no charge.

    Alicia M
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Old school hack: Call collect when you need a ride, and avoid any charges at all. You used to record your voice for the person being asked to accept charges, and you would simply say "mom pick us up at the mall." She would decline charges and know exactly what to do. 🤣

    Jenny Galbraith
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I commented to my 19 yr old daughter that in the olden days we had to call long distance to talk to our grandma. Her: What's "long distance" mean?

    LauraDragonWench
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember when you had to call at weird times to get the cheaper long distance rates? Don't miss that! 😁

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    Kaddiss Ventorum
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahahahaah remember when grandma's house had this ancient thing in a wall with a horn you talked into, another one you listened from, and no rotary dial device unless they upgraded it cuz you had an OPERATOR.

    Ashlie Dearest
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are three Bell pay phones in the mall across the street from me.

    Tams21
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's frightening when you see things like early mobile phones in museums. Something in a museum that you not only remember using but remember being excited about when it came out. And I wasn't even that bloody young!

    Crybabyartist
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Will you eccept a toll call from Beep...ZZZZZ : "I'm alright mom". "Ma'am will you accept the call?

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    DomesticGoddss Report

    Captain Kyra
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm so happy someone knew it's true name, I love this kind of trivia

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    Jared Robinson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and we played tic tac toe on that mother f****r.

    Steve Allingham
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the UK it was never used as a 'number sign' (we use 'No.') , # was rarely used at all, but when it was (usually when calling an automated switchboard) it was called a 'hash'.

    Mary Peace
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a UK person I was a bit confused, thank you for explaining.

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    Gustav Gallifrey
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was rarely (almost never) used as a 'number' symbol in English speaking countries outside of the United States (and maybe Canada). I've never seen it used as a 'pound' sign (in reference to weight) anywhere other than the US.

    Tigara Akimoto
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And most kids of our generations knew them was "Tic-Tac-Toe Boards" before we knew they were used for anything else...

    Marilyn Russell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still don’t know what this hashtag nonsense means.

    Lucky 8969
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    1 year ago

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    Monica Alderson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before that it was called a hash mark.

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    thedad Report

    Phill
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn’t MTV first song “video killed the radio star” or was that something else?

    Red McCormick
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched the 1st video as it aired & it was - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

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    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I produced an animated self-promo commercial for MTV in 1995. Sadly, I no longer have a copy of it because the files were on an external hard drive that failed. I looked on YouTube and other video sites hoping that someone had uploaded the commercial but didn't find it. So, remember to back up your files.

    Brindle Nutter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when Thriller debuted, it was a serious event !

    SCP 4666
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those were the days...*sigh*

    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when MTV played good music.

    Oscar2541
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It still does tho? Am I missing something?

    Sam Cook
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I at least knew that MTV and Nickelodeon were sister channels, and MTV aired a more mature Spider-Man show in 2003 with Neil Patrick Harris as the voice of Spider-Man.

    Leesa DeAndrea
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm American Bandstand era. In black & white.

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    In any case, this is nothing more than philosophy, but now just take a break from reflecting and feel free to scroll this list to the very end - because it really deserves it! As they say, any similarities with real people are random - although, damn it, symptomatic. And well, maybe add your own stories in the comments if you have experienced something similar while talking with kids too.

    #13

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    Cheeseboy22 Report

    David Martin
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If this were true, which is questionable, that's not an age problem...I'm sorry to tell you, that's a Your Child Is Stupid problem

    Israel Martinez
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always tell people how smart phones today can surf the internet, control home devices, take and send pictures, play music and remind you of your appointments … oh, and they can also make calls …

    Tele
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds made up. Has your kids never seen you make a phone call?

    #14

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    Cheeseboy22 Report

    Ace
    Community Member
    Premium
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well yeah, he's got a point.

    Owen
    Community Member
    Premium
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun Fact: Tome Cruise was who Christian Bale based himself on for American Psycho. Lots of smiling, but nothing behind the eyes.😐

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    Justin Tyme
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a boy, we all pretended to fight like Bruce Lee.

    Virgin Panda
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a kid I wanted Tom Cruise. I was obsessed with him after Top Gun

    pineapple87
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the early 2000s, my mom said she'd always had a crush on Bruce Willis, aka, the bald old guy from Friends and The Sixth Sense.

    Bored something
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My 14yr old has no idea who Tom Cruise is.

    Ira Knotreahl
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you want to stop growing at 14?

    Jaz
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never knew anybody that wanted to be Tom Cruise.

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    #15

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    PetrickSara Report

    Astro
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love telling people that I was born in the 1900s (1992)

    tresgatos72
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Astro, I am literally half a century older than you are... 😳

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    Bryoney Blakley
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how kids today seem to just group the entire hundred years of the 1900s as one thing! It could be seen as a sad commentary on the state of education in our country.. that hundred years saw more drastic, radical change in every area of our lives than any other

    Lucca Wenner
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Find me a kid that knows what the 1900s are and I will be delighted.

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    #16

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    outsmartedmommy Report

    A girl
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom was 40 when she had my brother. She was sited in the school newsletter as having been part of PTA for 21 years. I always joked my parents were Vulcans. Every 7 years, they had a kid. 10/56, 1/64, 12/70.

    Alicia M
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had my youngest when I was 40 too. First son was born when I was 20, second born at age 30, and 3rd born when I was 40. I don't recommend doing it that way. I'm ready to be done with all the little kids stuff and can't wait for my youngest to become more independent.

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    PHOTOBOB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. As a matter of fact when God said :let there be light" daddy was the one that flipped the switch.

    BluKatTheBlueCat (BluKat)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I was learning about the revolutionary war in 7th grade and I meant to say "You were born in 1976, right?" to my mom and since we were going over the dates to all the acts (sugar act, tea act, etc.) i accidentally said "You were born in 1776, right?" 😳

    pineapple87
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my parents turned 40, I was 12. This is another thing that has changed in the world.

    Crybabyartist
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah I really believe that stupid a*s

    Scott Wilkins
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure...would you like to meet him?

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    #17

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    GrantTanaka Report

    WindySwede
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *average age (≠ maximum age 'back in the days') 🤓

    K-Hey
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that number was heavily skewed by infant mortality. Omit that data and it's more like late 40s to 60s. If one could survive childhood, all they had to worry about was war, hygiene and diet

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    Jared Robinson
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    grumbles under breath "people just might start dying at your age right now, if you aren't careful."

    Cat Chat
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and yet, two entries ago you were going off on the danger Disney poses to child actors. Now you are promoting violence to youth of the same age. Yep, you have issues.

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    Keith Lancaster
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd donate him to medical science to be honest.

    Marilyn Russell
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I almost want us to go back to a time when kids didn’t sass.

    sara fulmer
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They "use to" sell their children to

    TiNaBoNiNa
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plenty of people lived past 70 pre-modern medicine. It was surviving childhood that was a gamble since their immune systems are not fully developed.

    Justin Tyme
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People still live as long now as they did hundreds or thousands of years ago. The maximum lifespan of humans has not changed.

    Astro
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t forget to mention that many, many, many more people are living into their 70s, 80s and above these days compared to hundreds or thousands of years ago :)

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    BrownTabby
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think what you meant to say is “I am grateful to have modern medicine”.

    Ansi
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think old crones like above should sowing rooms, not pool halls. 😉

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    #18

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    DomesticGoddss Report

    Ansi
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Midlife crisis sneak attack brought to you by your own ruthless children...

    Bob Keating
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember my midlife crisis. It was, like, a generation ago.. :-/

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    tresgatos72
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My students asked me how old I am. When I said 51, one bright spark said, "Wow! My grandma's only 38!" 😱 (He wasn't joking, either.)

    David Nicoll
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It could be worse. I remember my mum complaining when she hit 60, that it made her feel old. HER mum just turned round and said "If you feel old, just think what it is like to be the MOTHER of a 60 year old!"

    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they hit 25 just remind them about saying that. Then ask them how it feels to be 1/4 century old *if they say you should know; remind them of your ancient ancientness & tell them you forgot 🤣🤣😉

    Ashlie Dearest
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of many reasons I don't have any children.

    Mary Peace
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd like to agree, but the real reason I didn't was cancer, half my life ago!

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    Eunice Bentley
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my sweet and adorable baby girl turns 50 this month. I realized that last night, did NOT get a good nights sleep.

    April Pickett
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it takes being 50 to realize what you can/can't do and don't care.

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    #19

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    danicounselor Report

    cadena kuhn
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fact that this is right under the comment of someone asking what a VHS is is hilarious

    Laura Gillette
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love when kids are like "This photo shows an old phone... but why is it plugged into itself??"

    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hell's bells, I couldn't find anything CLOSE to cassettes, 8tracks OR vinyl (records, for you youngsters) in the emogis!!😲🥺👵

    Angie Falzarano
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lose another hour after explaining the vcr to explain a beta max.

    Maranatha Schraag
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A while back, my niblings asked me what movies I used to watch on Netflix. I had to explain video stores. And VCRs. And then I pulled the "and Netflix used to come in the mail!" I also got into tangents about betamax and laserdisc before their eyes started to glaze over.....

    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or more📼 After that, try cassette tape to ease into 8tracks & vinyl 😂

    Scott Wilkins
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, they HAD a clock but it just blinked "12:00" all the time...

    Mary Peace
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't you just say, "The person that invented what we have now/what you're using, hadn't been born then."?

    WindySwede
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    VCR: https://youtu.be/KfuARMCyTvg?si=G4D_QXtyLzcEN2Uc

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    #20

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    thedad Report

    pineapple87
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was never really a fan of bouncy houses. The other kids would always bump into me, giving me anxiety and all the bouncing gave me a migraine.

    Ansi
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fear not, as an adult you bounce and the kids bounces off in every direction. 👍

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    Bad Mole
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend used to run one of the big nightclubs in my city. When they had employee parties he'd rent a huge bouncy castle and have it inflated in the main dancefloor.

    Astro
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That sounds like so many risks and liabilities 😅 but also fun

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    LavenderHippoInAJar
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was like 3, I had a friend who had a birthday party with a bouncy house, and there were a bunch of like 2-3 year olds in there. My dad went in, and all the toddlers tackled him, sat all over him, one had his hair.... poor dad

    Lara Elliott
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s when you buy your own damn bouncy house and give them the bird!!

    LauraDragonWench
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never got to do a bouncy house, so I told myself, "When I'm an adult, I'll buy my own bouncy house to have all to myself!" I'm (technically) an adult now and couldn't even afford to rent a bouncy house, let alone buy one. Ah, life.

    Never Snarky
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As adults, a friend and I found an unused bouncy house and had a ball!

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    #21

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    MidgardMomma Report

    Capybara With a Cat
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶Do you have the time, to listen to me whine about nothing and everything all at once🎶

    Anonymous Anomaly
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am one of those, melodramatic fools. Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it....

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    Nettie Davis
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it helps, my 12 yr old is STOKED to see Green Day in concert this summer.

    KatSaidWhat
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Off topic but today I had an American professor in my office. Guess which song came on radio. I think we both died a bit before I thought to hit mute. And btw, that station doesn't censor.

    Baali Venomax
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that's dumb. With the internet you can access music from any era, so its irrelevent what era or genre you pick.

    Sam Cook
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "21 Guns" was my second-most-listened-to song of last year, with DragonForce's "You're Not Alone" in first and "Wake Me Up When September Ends" in third.

    Tiffany R
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    1 year ago

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    #22

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    thedad Report

    cadena kuhn
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently Pog means cool now. I told my daughter every time she says it I want to throw a slammer at her

    pineapple87
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I resort to urban dictionary in cases like these

    Lori Rommel
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So do I, and I try not to be obvious about it!

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    Rae Rory
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work in school so I'm pretty well apprised of the new slang. Nothing makes me happier than using current slang in front of my own kids and watching the light leave their eyes.

    minji
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 22 and I have no idea what "bussin" means either

    Renegade
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My coworker is 22. All my kids are older than her, but she thinks I'm cool because I know what "cap" means.

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    Phill
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My nephew uses Bosch a lot No idea what it means But I keep thinking he’s talking about the power tool company

    Jennifer Potter
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you think that's funny, imagine being an artist and remembering the creative painter Bosch, and loving his stuff, but not being able to go on a tangent about him because then your conversational partner would REALLY be confused!!!

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    I'mSemperFine
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to annoy my family with things like rizzin and gyatt.

    nottheactualphoto
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Bussin'" means the kid will pick up his dirty dishes and wipe down the table.

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    #23

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    KatieDeal99 Report

    Jay Scales
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, the dagger concealed in the rose... :)

    Me
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yesterday my five year old daughter said to my mom: "If you pick me up from sport, they will think I have two moms"- "Oooh sweetie, but they will see that I am much older " "Oh no, you don't look THAT old..... just kidding!!!"

    Sunny
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Family friends, kid who was about seven or eight at the time looked at my mom who has completely white hair and said " your face looks young but your hair looks old"

    elissa
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my daughter was around 4 or 5, she told me, "your are not fat, just wide." 🤣

    #24

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    thedad Report

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know how it works with your own kids, but my little sister loves playing the N64 of my brother's that came out before she was born!

    Alicia M
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This may be true but they love the characters. Super Mario bros, Sonic. Come on. These are characters from my time that kids still love today.

    Red PANda (she/they)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I played some of the old games my dad introduced me to. Older games have a simple charm to them cuz they don’t have checkpoints and complicated life systems, usually it’s just you die 3 times you lose (talking like Atari old). I think my favorite old arcade game is probably Galaga or Dig Dug (idk if I spelled those right). My mom introduced me to the newer old games, like on the supernintendo, and those games are fun too! They’re a bit more complex and can have really cool stories. But I don’t think I would pay too much attention to these as a little kid.

    FionaStriker
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in 2000 and started out on my Dad's Nintendo. Very sad when it died, but I made him happy when I found a modern day version of it.

    Ashlie Dearest
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have my Gameboy from 89 and Nintendo from the 80's with everything included as well.

    Cheesenacho
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m 62 and two of my adult kids are ALWAYS after me to play something with them on Steam or XBox. I stink at it now…

    Oskar vanZandt
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mario Kart on N64... Fun for all ages.

    Zimphella
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son loves to play old school mario on an old school nintendo, but then he also will play it on his switch.

    CryingChildKinnie
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I LOVE old consoles and old games. Simply adore them. I'd actually love to play SA2 on a Dreamcast if I could find one.

    bill marsano
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not always that way. My daughter, who taught herself to use my old Kaypro computer (this was in the '90s), was absolutely thrilled when she found my old Underwood typewriter. She loved, particularly, its 'neat sound.'

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    #25

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    sarcasticmommy4 Report

    30ninjazinmybag
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then they hit teens and they listening to a "new" song and you knows the words because it's a remix 😆 🤣.

    Laura Gillette
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when this happened when the Fugees 1996 cover (we didn't know it was a cover) of "Killing Me Softly" came on the radio when my mom was driving me and some friends somewhere, and SHE STARTED SINGING TO IT and we were all shocked. How does this ancient crone know a cool song?? She explained it was originally written by Roberta Flack in the 70s. Our minds were all blown. LOL

    Alicia M
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found myself singing along to the Humpty Dance, word for word. This was a hit song when I was a kid. 😂 Ice Ice baby too.

    Jennifer Potter
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahahahaaaa - i feel you!!! Lets do the Kid n Play dance!

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    TotallyNOTAFox
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Skills, because we also didn't have easy access to the actual lyrics

    Diane Rice
    Community Member
    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    LP liners usually had the lyrics.

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    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @MushroomHead22 Is your pisspoor excuse of a life SO HORRIBLE that you have to read articles so you can go to comments and act like a Karen/snowflake?? PLEASE, for all of society's sake, GET. A. LIFE!!!

    Brian Droste
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they think you are old, then they would think I'm ancient. I'm 64.

    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "🎵 I wanna be Bobby's Girl!" *forgot the singer * "Girl Don't Tell Me You'll Write" & "In My Room ", both by the Beach Boys ... I could go on for days, & I'm *only* 54😂🥰

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    She_was_a_sk8er_Bratz
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got into Avril Lavigne last year: was so happy to learn that my parents liked her music too

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    #26

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    AngryRaccoon2 Report

    Rastilabo
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A cassette is a rectangular hollow in the ceiling. My parents bought an encyclopedia that told so.

    Jayna Mooney
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sincere condolences and prayers during this tragic time 🥺😢🙏

    MushroomHead22
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    1 year ago

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    this type of s**t isnt funny. "ohh my kids doesn't know what an obsolete item is that was so prominently used in my day" like f**k off, you didn't show them what it was, so hang your head in shame for yourself.

    Anonymous Anomaly
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yikes. 😬 Show me on the doll where that post hurt you

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    #27

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    AnniemuMary Report

    Midnight (she/her)
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one legitimately confusing me. Like actually. What's VHS and what's "tracking"?

    Tim Fawcett
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can explain if you have the odd hour or so

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    Ione Decep
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IIRC, tracking was when you had staticky (sp?) lines on the top or bottom of the video. You had an adjustment on the VCR that you could use to "track" the actual tape up or down so the lines disappeared.

    Lindsey or Something
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That reminded me of being in a store with one of my friends. We saw a copy of blade runner and he said, "that looks like a young Harrison Ford." And then looked to me for approval. I stood there for a second and then very slowly said his name and he went, "It is Harrison Ford isn't it?" "Yup." "I'm sorry... How old is that movie?" He and I are the same age, but he makes me feel ancient daily.

    Ian Robinson
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've only had one model which supported auto tracking. The rest were manual and you adjusted by taking the cover off. Great opportunity to get out the isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs too.

    Cheesenacho
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excellent movie! Saw the release on Base at Torrejon AB in the 80’s!

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    Terry
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love that it's a 2014 tweet. Kids today would ask "what's an iPod?"

    Elio
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was surprised to learn iPods were considered retro by one of my younger coworkers. I had just bought a refurbished one from the internet because my old nano from 2010 broke.

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    Terry Rex
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You actually bought a single on cassette? I got those things for free on the street.

    Marilyn Russell
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes I remember buying cassingles. Before that, 7” singles.

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