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50 Funny And Relatable Posts By People Who Just Realized That They’re Old Now (New Pics)
As you're growing up, politicians, teachers, and pretty much everyone around you keep repeating that you are the future of this world. The person who will shape the way it looks tomorrow. But before you can take it all in, it's already the day after, the echo of those words has faded, and the only thing you're left with is that annoying back pain that doesn't go away no matter what mobility exercise you're doing.
But don't worry, this realization is part of maturity. To make it easier to accept, the subreddit 'Heck I'm Old' shares posts from people who are in the same position and choose to reminisce with smiles and giggles. So let's scroll through what they have to offer and maybe, just maybe, knowing that the past is still alive in our collective memory is exactly what we need to feel better about our wrinkles and graying hair.
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#1
Who Is Old Enough To Remember All Of These?
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#2
I Feel Personally Attacked
While the inevitable passage of time certainly takes a lot of things away from us, it does provide quite a few as well. One of its most important contributions is to the way we feel.
Positive and negative affects (mood) seem to operate independently of each other: you can have a lot or a little of either or both.
"High affect" people score above average on both positive and negative mood levels, while "low affect" people score less on both.
No matter which type you start out with, you can expect your affect levels to change in a favorable trajectory over the course of your life.
#3
Nuff Said
Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
“Billy Jean is not my lover and the CHAIR is not my son!” This lived in my brain for far too long! 🤣
#4
Let's Start Telling It Without Telling Your Age LOL Let's Who Will Win
Trillian 1 year ago
Also an immense hatred of the radio DJ who would then talk into the song
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Liz The Biz 1 year ago
You had to get up, walk to the tv and press a button to change the channel. Sometimes you had to move the aerial to get a picture.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Rabbit ears wrapped in tin foil for crystal clear reception. Kids today with their skinny HD TVs. Not even enough room for a good pair of rabbit ears!
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JoMeBee 1 year ago
At the tone the time will be... Hour--minute and seconds. BEEEEP!
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T Barth 1 year ago
That my house had a party line telephone and 2 long rings meant that the incoming phone call was meant for our house.
S Bow 1 year ago
With nosy neighbors listening to your call. Hang up Gladys, this call is for me.
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Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I typed a letter then realized I left something out, so I had to retype the whole thing over again.
Cougar Allen 1 year ago
If you woke up early and turned on the TV you saw this: 1950s-tv-t...egelle.jpg 
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Putting a penny on the tone arm to keep the record from skipping. BTW, that meant you needed a new stylus
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago (edited)
I have an old 70's era Bakelite rotary phone that I use as a bookend because it's so heavy (it's also great for cracking coconuts and driving tent stakes.) I had to explain to my goddaughter that not only was it an actual, functional telephone, but that's where the term "dialing the phone" came from
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Pronouns - he, she, him, her, etc - have always identified gender.
Load More Replies... Dawn Marie 1 year ago
A phone that you had to dial, in the kitchen attached to the wall with a long cord and there was only one in the house!!
Bowie 923 1 year ago
And gas wars! Intersections with gas stations on all four corners and those flip signs with gas prices flipping lower and lower
Load More Replies... Cathy G 1 year ago (edited)
Phone booths on streets, in stores, the courthouse. The home phone was attached to the wall, usually in a hall or the kitchen and there was a long cord that attached the handset to the phone. If you were rich, you had a second stand-alone phone in the master bedroom or the husband's office/den.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
The antenna on top of the house that moved every damn time the wind would blow. Having only one wall to plug our wood console TV into because that was the ONLY one in the house connected to the outside antenna. Having Cable was a pipedream because that s**t is still expensive.
Bidango Smith 1 year ago
Video games cost 25 cents and you had to go to an arcade to play them.
Sarah Jones 1 year ago
Programming the start and stop times into your video recorder, and missing the end of the film because the TV channel was behind schedule
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
If you've got a brand new pair of roller skates, I've got a brand new key.
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Gracie Mae 1 year ago
we called a specific phone number (per location, before '800' #'s) to find out what time it was! (Came in handy when the power had been out for any length of time)
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
I remember watching the first ever programme to appear on Channel 4. It was Countdown.
Linda Riebel 1 year ago
Telephones were owned by the phone company and were permanently attached to the wall. Also black and heavy.
On the right side of the turf 1 year ago
Calling up the pictures to hear a list of what films were on
Baali Venomax 1 year ago
breaking the speed limit to get back from the toilet before the ads ended and the show you were watching came back on.
Philippa Davies 1 year ago
Using MS DOS to access a computer used solely for one game that my sister and I were allowed to play
DP Nerill 1 year ago
Had to buy a book of BASIC games we had to type in ourselves, save to a cassette tape, load the game on to a 16-bit TMS9900 CPU running at 3 MHz based computer to play. Most were short little games mostly using the RANDOM code to change things up a bit. AND we thought we were all being on the forward point of technology. At the time I guess we were.
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Vacuum tubes in TV's. My son was watching some stupid anime c**p earlier and it said something about a vacuum tube. I told him kids today have no idea of what that is
Manic Mama 1 year ago
There was no air conditioning in cars, no music, and no radio between towns. And if there were seatbelts in the car, wearing them was optional.
Susan 1 year ago
Not just Sega. I remember getting to one of the final levels in the original Mario Bros on the first Nintendo and having to pee so bad. I handed off the controller to a friend to play till I got back with threats to their life if they messed it up.
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Kristine Pena 11 months ago
TV that stopped broadcasting at midnight and all you got was that stupid test pattern
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Hey, you're too young - we only had 2 channels (BBC and ITV) and no videos.
Dusty's mom 1 year ago
I used a circular slide rule and paper charts to plan my flights, and called in my flight plans by rotary phone.
Grey Beard 1 year ago
When I talk about Battlestar Galactica and young people say it's a really old show, then I say "no I'm talking about the original version" .
Lihi Porat 1 year ago
I was a kid when the transition from VCR to DVD was happening, so I learned how to use both
highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
Isn't video games only working on channel 3 just the same as having to switch TV source to HDMI input X?
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
Channel three…..? BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV… What’s a video game?
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
Literally dialing the phone....and there was a party line so there was a chance you'd pick up on a neighbors conversation.
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
HAHAHHAHA omg. Yeah, I've known I'm old for... well... a while. This confirms it. Even funnier, this is one of my fonder memories of childhood.
#5
Yall Remember
According to research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, both men and women see an increase in positive affect as they get older (women, in particular, see a greater and accelerating increase).
On average, negative affect does not change for women predictably with age, but it decreases for aging men (with the caveat that the decrease is more pronounced for married men; for unmarried men, negative affect is elevated at every stage of life).
#6
Are You This Old?
#7
Does Anyone Remember This Movie?
#8
If You Can Tell What This Is, You Might Be Old
Many theories have been proposed for why this happens. But a 2013 review of research indicates that older people develop at least three distinct emotional skills: 1) they react less to negative situations, 2) they are better at ignoring irrelevant negative stimuli than they were when younger, and 3) they remember more positive than negative information.
Basically, it's like knowing your negative emotions won’t last so you disregard them when they do arise and get a head start on the good feelings.
#9
You May Be Old, But Are You This Old?
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Someone's fancy with their wall phone. Mamaw had a desk telephone you could use as a weapon.
#10
You’re Old, But Are You This Old?
#11
Never Failed
#12
Some Of You Can “Feel” This Door In Your Mind
Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago
Pfft, please, that belongs to a 4 door. Only us real ones know the weight of a 2 door, the door was taller than you and weighed more than the engine....
Arthur Brooks, who is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness, thinks that when we're talking about growing old, we also have to mention changes in personality.
"Personality is generally separated by psychologists into five parts: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism," Brooks writes, discussing a paper by two researchers in which they summarized ... a voluminous literature on how these dimensions of personality change as we move from childhood to old age.
#13
You’re Old But Are You This Old?
#14
Driving Stick
#15
How Many Of You ‘70s Kids Can Feel This Picture?
Lost Panda 1 year ago
Not a 70s kid, but yes... Just because it wasn't red did not mean it wasn't hot
"Some of the changes are not necessarily either good or bad. For example, people tend to become less gregarious after their mid-50s; they become more assertive from adolescence through their mid-30s and stay at this higher level; their openness to experience rises into early adulthood, stabilizes, and falls after their mid-50s."
But other changes are unambiguously positive. "Agreeableness tends to rise throughout adulthood, probably as we see its benefits and establish more emotional equanimity," Brooks adds. "Neuroticism usually falls, at least until one’s late 60s. And conscientiousness rises continuously. If you follow the typical development, you can expect to be nicer and kinder, and less depressed and anxious, when you are old."
#17
Who Else Made Their Own Popsicles?
#18
Remember When You Opened A Band Aid By Pulling A String?
#19
This Always Seemed To Appear On My Parents Coffee Table Between Thanksgiving & Christmas
#20
Who Remembers Changing A Channel By Turning The Knob
Our self-esteem also tends to rise as we move through adulthood, all the way to age 60.
It usually stays at a high level until about 70, then slightly declines. This last downward section could be connected to the accumulating death toll of elderly friends and spouses, but even so, we can expect it to be better at age 80 than 30.
#21
I Loved These And Used To Read Them At The Dentist's Office. It Was Standard Waiting Room Stuff For Kids
#22
If You Remember Seeing This Machine You're Pretty Old
Midwest Mike 1 year ago
And getting them as a kid for your parents/grandparents and NO ONE CARED!!!
#23
If You Ever Operated One Of These You're An Old Sob
#24
Who Dares To Admit That They Liked These Guys?
So now that you know things are likely to get better as you age, we invite you to dive deeper into 'Heck I'm Old' and fire up our earlier publications on the subreddit 50 Painfully Funny Pics Of People Who Are Getting Old Faster Than They Expected and 40 Funny Posts Of People Grasping The Reality That They’re Old Now.
#25
Anyone Else Grow Up With These?
#26
I Bet Future Generations Won't Understand This Immensely Frustrating Experience At All
#27
This Takes Me Waaay Back
#28
Did Anyone Else Sleep In One Of These? I Think I Would Have To Be Helped Out Of It Today
#29
The Kids Have No Idea
#30
Really I'm Old Enough ,who's With Me
#31
How Old Are You… This Old
#32
The F**k Is This?
#33
These Guys Were The Best -
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Ah, but how many of you remember 'Spy vs Spy vs Spy', with the lady Grey Spy playing Black and White off against each othet?
#34
Dont Even Try To Tell Me You Dont Know These
#35
Who Had One Of These?
#36
You Can’t Hear A Picture?
#37
I See Your "Tales From The Crypt," And Raise You Elvira
#38
I’ll See Your Paddle Ball And Raise You A Cheap Airplane
#39
Could This Movie Be Made Today?
#40
Who Was Around When These Two Became Famous And Then Infamous?
#41
This Is What 30 Year Olds Looked Like In The 80s
#42
The Older I Get, The More I Identify With These Men
#43
If This Was Your First Live Action Joker, You're Old
#44
If You Get It, You Get It
#45
If You Remember This Boat
#46
Did You Ever Win Anything Other Than A Free Pop?
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
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#47
Are You Old Enough To Remember When Wendys Had Cool Old Fashion Tables?
#48
The Golden Age Of Education
#50
It Really Wasn't Difficult
Maggz Bennett 1 year ago
Have young people really never heard of maps?? What do they do in geography classes, it can't all be oxbow lakes and types of rock.
#51
When You Were Thirsty
#52
Remember What Show This Came From?
#53
The 80’s Really Were A Different World
#54
I See Your Big Wheel, And Raise You A Tonka Dump Truck!
#55
Anyone Else?
Schmebulock 1 year ago
These were like a train wreck. Everyone watched intensely waiting for a kid to fall, usually onto a 2-inch mat. Or the stupid kid that would slide down the rope too fast and get a huge rope burn. LOL, those were the days!
#56
If This Brings A Chuckle To You... Then Yeah, You're Old
#57
Remember These
Midwest Mike 1 year ago
OHHH my GODDD....the ABSOLUTE FEEL OF USING THIS UNIT.....that was the best part!!! STILL love going over to my folks house and using theirs to make labels!!!!
#58
Old School Coffee Vending
#59
Best Halloween Costumes Ever
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
LOL my parents let me and my brother watch those movies when we were about that age. We couldn't watch Robocop or Terminator, but Cheech and Chong were OK.
#60
Who Remembers Being Fed This Delicious Pink Medicine With This Spoon As A Kid?
#62
These Were Fun
#63
If You Remember This Guy…
#64
I'm Telling Them
#65
If You Remember What Movie This Scene Is From, You Probably Cancelled Your Canoe Trip To Georgia, And…you’re Old
Miracle Max 1 year ago
If Ned Beatty can't get down that river, how is a Frenchman in a Speedo going to make it? = J. Foxworthy. Deliverance was filmed on the same river used for Atlanta Olympics kayaking!
#67
When You Looked Forward To A Bath
Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
Unless you were a girl… https://www.glamour.com/story/rememer-mr-bubble
#68
More And More With Each Passing Day!
Jeff Gabrisl 1 year ago
He was a good guy, All he wanted to do was to warn us about the effects late stage capitalism would have on us, and he killed a Nazi sympathizer. D-Fense¡
#69
If You Grew Up Back In The Day You Have A Definite Opinion On This Gum
#70
If You Remember This Guy Yelling At You…
#71
You Are Definitely Fecking Old If You Remember This Guy
#72
You May Be Old, But Are You This Old?
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Or the HP ones where you had to enter data in reverse Polish notation
#73
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Checking Out The Back Of The Store
#74
Critics Didn’t Like It. It Bombed At The Box Office, But I Liked It. Who Else?
#75
If You Know What This Is Or Browsed The Catalog, You Are Old Af
#76
Never Forget
#77
Wise Beyond His Years
#78
But Are You This F**kn Old?
#79
Anyone Else Have To Sell World's Finest Chocolate For School?
#80
Who Remembers Bozo The Clown?!
#81
Old Enough To Remember Smoking In Grocery Stores
#82
Remember When Air Was Free?
#83
My 27 Year Old Son Didn’t Understand The Significance Of This Place
#84
Anyone Ate At The Woolworths Counter?
#85
Definitely Mad Max
#86
Are You Old Enough To Remember Getting "Rained On" At The Grocery Store?
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 1 year ago (edited)
Huh. I don't know about anyone else, but they still do this at all of the grocery stores I go to. My little brother gets "rained on" all the time.
#87
Did You Know: These Spaceships Are Actually Guitars?
#88
I Was 11 Years Old. A Much Simpler Time. I Really Miss The Hot Apple Pies
Midwest Mike 1 year ago
Deep Fried!!! When arteries were more under attack from Big Tobacco. So Mc'D's was golden!!! And yes they were better!!!
#89
Who Remembers This Gem Of A TV Show?
#90
Geeeeeez
#91
Haven't Thought About These Since The 80s
#92
Anyone Else This Old?
#93
What Classic Shows Would Never Get Made Today?
#94
Who Remembers?
#95
Can You Hear It?
Orange Mum 1 year ago
Well, that's now going to go around my head for the next week, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 do do do do
#96
If You Ever Got Bogged Down By One Of These, You’re Old
#97
Were You One Of These Kids?
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
My mom was an electrician in a nuclear plant, she bought this and taught me everything on it.
#98
If You Know What This Small Half Circle Ring Is For, You’re Old
S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
The horn ring and it looks like a column stick shift. Three on the tree! Did you notice the headlight bright beam switch on the floor?
#99
This Stuff Smelled Like Heaven: Bike Chains, Skateboard Wheels, Baseball Gloves
#100
Crazy How They’ve All Aged So Well… Well Most Of Them
#101
Are You This Old?
#102
Pew Pew! Pewpew
#103
I See Your Pop Snaps And Raise You This.. Are You This Old ?
#104
Are You So Old That You Participated In Hands Across America?
#105
I See Your Cap Bomb & Raise You…
#106
You Old Enough To Know Who These Guys Are?
#107
If You Had One You Are Old
#108
Are You This Old?
#109
If You Have Opinions On These Guys You're Pretty Damn Old
Heir of Durin 1 year ago
Nah! You can still play this game today on the Switch. My 12 year old loves this game!
#110
If You Get This You're Pretty Old
#111
Who Remembers This Movie?
#112
What Was That One Thing You Always Wanted And Never Got?
The Doom Song 1 year ago
Gonna show my age here but I wanted the entire "Sylvanian" town and all the families
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
A bit too American for me. So many of those never made it to Europe, where every country had their own stuff. Different now with mundialization, I guess.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
I feel like we deserve it because we always take a beating on here.....just let us have this one thing, LOL.
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BoredHouseKitty 1 year ago
I'm in another part of the world where the majority of these wasn't part of my childhood despite me being an old millennial. So, nope, don't understand either.
Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Most of these were gone by the time that even the oldest the USA Millennials were old enough to play with them. Most are Gen-X, older Gen-X, and there are even some younger Boomer stuff. Back To The Future was from 1985, Elvira's Movie Macabre started in 1981, The Village People released "Y.M.C.A." in 1978, etc, etc, etc.
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Nerd Groupie 1 year ago
There's like at least 3 generations of old in this list. Plus a few things are still very much around.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Yeah, calling Napster and Windows 98 old makes me feel REALLY old! My first music was on 8-track tape.
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Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
So we’ve got another negative BP post about the U.S. that Americans want removed and then we’ve got this lazy piece about ‘you are old if…’ but it’s so American that it’s painful. What do you want to be BP?
David Paterson 1 year ago
Excellent, BP. At least 80% of the items on this list made it to my country, Australia, so not too American. And no specific decade which is a big plus for the list as well. Nothing on the list is too old for me to recognise, and it brings back almost a dozen things from my childhood that I haven't seen in many decades. A really good list.
Faramir10 1 year ago
How could they leave out mercurochrome (otherwise known as monkey blood)?
Shelley Dawson 1 year ago
The real question you ask of Brits is, do you remember eating fish and chips out of real newspapers!
Robert Veitch 1 year ago
Alas, I remember when many of these things were brand new.. I be really old.
Kathlena Deles 1 year ago
I just relived my entire childhood. Yep. A last of the Boomers for sure. Thank you for some great memories!
Vera Kostadina 1 year ago
Well, as baby boomer, I remember most of it. Apart from strictly American stuff. Windows 98? I remember DOS. Call directory.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
Label me both American and older than dirt because all of these were familiar, lol.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
There are things called maps, people used to be able to read them to decipher directions.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
A bit too American for me. So many of those never made it to Europe, where every country had their own stuff. Different now with mundialization, I guess.
Cathy Roberts 1 year ago
I feel like we deserve it because we always take a beating on here.....just let us have this one thing, LOL.
Load More Replies... BoredHouseKitty 1 year ago
I'm in another part of the world where the majority of these wasn't part of my childhood despite me being an old millennial. So, nope, don't understand either.
Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Most of these were gone by the time that even the oldest the USA Millennials were old enough to play with them. Most are Gen-X, older Gen-X, and there are even some younger Boomer stuff. Back To The Future was from 1985, Elvira's Movie Macabre started in 1981, The Village People released "Y.M.C.A." in 1978, etc, etc, etc.
Load More Replies... Nerd Groupie 1 year ago
There's like at least 3 generations of old in this list. Plus a few things are still very much around.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Yeah, calling Napster and Windows 98 old makes me feel REALLY old! My first music was on 8-track tape.
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
So we’ve got another negative BP post about the U.S. that Americans want removed and then we’ve got this lazy piece about ‘you are old if…’ but it’s so American that it’s painful. What do you want to be BP?
David Paterson 1 year ago
Excellent, BP. At least 80% of the items on this list made it to my country, Australia, so not too American. And no specific decade which is a big plus for the list as well. Nothing on the list is too old for me to recognise, and it brings back almost a dozen things from my childhood that I haven't seen in many decades. A really good list.
Faramir10 1 year ago
How could they leave out mercurochrome (otherwise known as monkey blood)?
Shelley Dawson 1 year ago
The real question you ask of Brits is, do you remember eating fish and chips out of real newspapers!
Robert Veitch 1 year ago
Alas, I remember when many of these things were brand new.. I be really old.
Kathlena Deles 1 year ago
I just relived my entire childhood. Yep. A last of the Boomers for sure. Thank you for some great memories!
Vera Kostadina 1 year ago
Well, as baby boomer, I remember most of it. Apart from strictly American stuff. Windows 98? I remember DOS. Call directory.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
Label me both American and older than dirt because all of these were familiar, lol.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
There are things called maps, people used to be able to read them to decipher directions.
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