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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! 🤣
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
"Blinded by the light. Wrapped up like a douche and thrown into the night".
Justme 1 year ago
“The sheep don’t like it. Rock the cash box, rock the cash box. No, the sheep don’t like it…”
mria alternativa 1 year ago
"I just died in your arms tonight, must have been some kind of cheese"... 🙄
featherytoad 1 year ago
Lol, mine was, "Take your pants down, and make it happen." Flashdance, What a feeling.
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The Doom Song 1 year ago
"Cheap wine and a three legged goat" has always been my fave. I still sing this today!
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
There's a series of books that show the true lyrics and the most common mangling of those lyrics. One of them is called "He's Got The Whole World In His Pants".
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
I was 45 years old in 2005, that is when I discovered that it is NOT the age of aquarium…!
Min 1 year ago
"You get your money for nothing and your checks for free" In my defense, I was 9 when the song came out and you paid for things with checks back in those days. I was probably in my late 20s when I found out it was "chicks for free"
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
To be fair, back then the bank probably did give you your checks for free. Nowadays they charge you about$30 a box, for those few freaks who still write checks. (And you can tell I'm old enough to know this firsthand because I just used the word "nowadays".)
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Songbirdcaon 1 year ago
"She's got electric boobs! I saw those boobs!" Yep, Elton...that's what I thought you said growing up.
smugdruggler 1 year ago
"Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard ". I still laugh at my brother about that one 😂.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
'It's been a year since I broke my nose', Message in a Bottle ,The Police. One of my classmates at the time.
Id row 1 year ago (edited)
"I'm not talking 'bout the linen. And the napkins will change your life."
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
"I'm not talking bout M&Ms, and I don't want to chain your wife"
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Empresslockness 1 year ago
When we were young, my younger sister would sing "Sweet jeans are made of these."
René Sauer 1 year ago
Even better when you hear words of your own language in english song lyrics. One radio station in Germany has/had a section where listeners could send in their own misheard lyrics. they called it the Agathe Bauer section, named after the song "I got the Power" from snap. A listener called them to request the song with that name.
ArcanaPanda 1 year ago
🎵 "Michelle, mah belle, someday monkeys gonna play piano songs, play piano songs..." 🎵
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
That's a great theory, but I think a lot of lyrics websites just list the first set of lyrics that some random user comes along and posts. I've seen plenty where the wrong word(s) gets repeated multiple websites while other websites get it wrong. And even liner notes aren't always correct. Bruce Springsteen tells a story about liner notes that say "Mary's dress waves", saying that he's been singing "Mary's dress sways" for almost 50 years and the printed lyrics are wrong. [Google Fu] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E3RtqtyDbcQ
LavenderHippoInAJar 1 year ago
Okay a lot of teens also sang "Starbucks lovers" for far too long before realizing...
Awkward Momma Panda 1 year ago
In your defense, I don’t think anyone knows the *true* lyrics to Even Flow…not even Eddie Vedder 🤷🏻♀️
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Greg Gates 1 year ago
For years I sung, "Cause every girl crazy 'bout a shy best man".... instead of....Sharp dressed man 😆
Jay Rainey 1 year ago
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille. Four hundred children and a crop in the field.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
“Last night I dreamt of potatoes” is what I thought the line was in Las Isla Bonita. It’s not. It’s “last night I dreamt of San Pedro”.
chickpea me 1 year ago
Actually quite cringe what we used to think we heard and sang out loud in those days.
Tonyah Mcanelly 1 year ago
Rock the Cat box... Rock the cat box. ( Rock the Casbaugh) this is how my kids would sing this song
_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
As a person who gets confident in their ears sometimes and doesn't Google lyrics, it's like I'm looking in a mirror but it's being erased was my biggest thing, the lyrics were "like I'm looking in a mirror, but it's rearranged" and I still sing my version
Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
The casette sleeves were there for a reason and you were supposed to run them through the copier. Not getting to the are these legible argument when people did casette copies to the 4th generation
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
"Well since she put me down there's been owls pukin' in my bed." Not my original thought, but I read this in "Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs" which was basically about this very topic. Almost 30 years later, every time I hear "Help Me Rhonda ", thinking of this line still makes me laugh hysterically.
David Bois 1 year ago
i SWEAR: [and yeah, i'm not young...] i thought that Milk Chocolate were telling me that: "I believe in Milk Duds" [tangential Simpsons reference: Mr. Teeny doing "the full monkey" to this song hahahaha see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9Y9RFiHY%5D
#4
Let's Start Telling It Without Telling Your Age LOL Let's Who Will Win
#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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