Some days, being an adult is just too much of a burden to bear. I have to buy my own groceries, do my own laundry, wash all of the dishes and attempt to find time for my hobbies after the work day ends. It’s exhausting! Where’s my summer vacation and free time to watch cartoons on Saturday morning?
If you’re yearning to be transported back to those simpler times too, pandas, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find some of the best memes from the “Ouch, Right in the Childhood” Facebook page. These images feature a variety of iconic characters and quintessential experiences that might make you incredibly nostalgic. So enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the ones that make you feel like a child again!
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7am. All your friends with different jobs and live across town come get fresh OJ,pancakes, bacon, coffee. Yes that's how life is
My fan theory is that those were a bunch of psychopaths that killed the house owners of these pair of condos. How could they afford that!?
Well, Joey couldn't afford anything, so Chandler paid for everything. Not sure that Chandler's job would let him afford an apartment in NY, but we are going to pretend that it did. The best part is that Monica's apartment (previously her grandmothers) was rent controlled, and she inherited that. Rachel was a spoiled brat until she wasn't, and got a good job in fashion. Until then, I don't know how she afforded anything. And that is how the reality of Friends and TV works.
Load More Replies...My childhood implied outfits made out of foil, flying cars, proper AI in cars, and a big spinning wheel space station thing.
For most of us, childhood was the simplest and easiest period of our lives. Mom and Dad made all of our decisions for us, we had plenty of free time to play sports, hang out with friends and focus on our hobbies. And we felt invincible! There was no such thing as feeling sore after spending a day in the sun swimming or cycling for hours on end around the neighborhood. Now, it’s hard to even remember a day when I didn’t have back pain!
If you had a special childhood, it makes sense to want to look back on those beautiful memories every now and then. But Sam Brodsky at WonderMind pointed out that it seems like everyone has been incredibly nostalgic over the past few years. So why is that? Well, according to existential psychologist Clay Routledge, PhD, nostalgia is actually instinctual.
I'd sell it because I'm poor and my food a*******n is unsafe in a chocolate factory
I never noticed until now that it looks like a razor blade. Huh.
Load More Replies...Every time I see this my first reaction is that's Mary Tyler Moore.
Dr. Routlege notes that nostalgia is often an automatic response when we see, smell or hear something that takes us back to the past. Smells, in particular, have an incredible ability to transport us back to Grandma’s house on a summer evening, your 3rd grade classroom or the home you grew up in.
And when we hear a song that immediately reminds us of a strong memory, we don’t even have to try to think about the past. Our mind instantly goes there because we associate that song with prom night, that film with the first date you ever went on or that character with the Christmas you had the flu.
"I have an opinion so my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - to paraphrase Isaac Asimov.
"If I don't understand it, it can't be done/true!"
Load More Replies...The Ducktales videogames were nice too, with the uncle Scrooge on steroids pogojumping through the levels!
Load More Replies...My mom would rub wax paper on the metal so it was super smooooooothe.
"Slide's ready! "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" *flies halfway around the world*
Load More Replies...I remember being in third grade and the metal slide seemed so tall. My friend, Ryan, fell from the top and broke his arm (went to the doctor, got a cast, etc). We kept using the slide, and the world kept spinning.
When I was a kid, I experienced a third version: the fiberglass pool-slide. You needed to have the little water-sprayer nozzle turned on at the top to help you slide down it into the pool. One day I was feeling brave (which my adult brain now identifies as "stupid") and decided to try going down the slide while it was dry. Let's just say that I regretted it immediately and tried to escape/grab the side of the slide, but ended up going down the slide on my side, and I got a version of "road rash" from my heineken all the way to my armpit XD
There was this playground nearby where I lived that had a ten meter long iron slide... We rode it on the provided doormats, so no skin would be lost.
We had a wooden one in a local playground. It was like the floor of a bowling alley and varnished to a fare thee well.
as a kid i called the metal ones "the lava slide", and the tube ones were "the whale shark slide"
Fast and fun vs slow and staticy. Guess which one they're taking out of the playgrounds.
Nostalgia can also serve a practical purpose when we use it as a coping mechanism. Dr. Routledge explains that it can help us get through tough times, such as the pandemic or the loss of a loved one, if we use it to remember a time when we were much happier and life was much simpler. Watching your favorite movie from childhood might take you back to when you were full of joy and hope and truly believed you were capable of accomplishing anything. In this way, nostalgia can sometimes prevent us from spiraling.
Consider yourself lucky, as they weighed about 1024 lbs. Ridiculously heavy! The fact we can lift TVs with one arm these days is remarkable to me!
Load More Replies...I am "I was the one to change between the 3 channels we had because a remote wasn't invented yet" old
And all 3 were in b&w. Plus probably having to adjust the antenna on top of the TV whenever you changed channels.
Load More Replies...You people are all babies. I remember being the first family on the block to have TV, and there was only one channel.
Top notch. The kind of family that had, "frozen dessert" in the freezer. High dollar.
More like upper-middle class than "extreme wealth". Yes, we used to have a middle class.
Still have one in my basement, and no idea how to get the darn thing out of there!
All depends on where you live. A two bedroom, 1 bath 1000 square foot house will cost you $1 Million in parts of California or New York, while a 5 bedroom 2500 square foot home will cost you $250,000 (or less) in places like Wyoming or Montana.
I bought a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1700 square foot house in Indiana for $44,000 in 2015
Load More Replies...Location, location, location... I live in a 3 bedroom (really 2 1/2) ex council house at the edge of an estate. It's all I could afford in 2006. It's paid off and suits me fine- even if I had a big chunk of cash, I'd live in an equally modest house (but a passiv haus design in a more scenic location).
They did when I was a kid. They still do and we can add a few like the one below to boot!
Even in Wisconsin (some of the lowest cost of living in the US) a million wouldn't get you the top house. Somewhere in between the 2 really
Some of us don't have a choice, depending on where we live. But thanks for the judgement.
Load More Replies...*record scratch**freeze frame* THIS is where my obsession with eating leaves started!
The land before time, came out when my kids were little. I had to start having Colonoscopies early because of a lot of colon cancer in my mother's side of the family. Have to do it every 5 years and have always been clear
bro I'm 17, watched it when I was like 5 and I still know what this is. land before time
At the same time, nostalgia can often bring people together. Just like the memes on this list, being reminded of a childhood experience you loved, and finding out that thousands of other people feel the same way, can make you feel closer to them. You’re not the only person who remembers that specific salty snack or that one episode of Rugrats. It can be comforting to know that you have something in common with all of these other people from your generation.
When I look at a yearbook from my childhood, the kids who were older than me still look old, somehow.
this was me when my 4th and 5th grade teachers kept sending me to another class to do my work because i couldn't concentrate and was being too disruptive. i would be sent to the 6th grade classes and the kids would look like this and the 6th grade teacher would scold me very loudly because i couldn't(and still can't) write fast enough and get out of her class. good times
As a junior high student I should say that they still do but at 10:40 AM
Yes, but this was before there was any such thing as school breakfast. I was lucky, I was given wonderful meals before school but that was at 6:30-7:00 at the latest. Others were not so lucky. By 11:00, I would have eaten anything.
All of ours in the 70s and 80s! Pizza Fridays!
Load More Replies...anyone remember the mandarin orange cups? They were so good, but opening them was like disabling an explosive(i always asked a teacher for help)
I kinda miss the breadtangle of pizza...The chocolate milk, not so much. Sometimes, you'd get one that tasted like it went bad.
Snapping green beans on summer nights with my grandmother are some of my fondest memories of her.
Shelling peas for me, on the back step. One for me, one for the pot
Load More Replies...one of my fondest memories of me with my stepgrandmother was going outside at night and carefully catching toads so she could show me how they looked and acted when in distress because i asked her how they act when something is attacking them
National Geographic also notes that our brains are hardwired to crave nostalgia. “Familiar media from our past brings us emotional comfort, but it also meets a cognitive need: it encourages the belief that things will get better because they’ve been good before,” Krystine Batcho, a psychology professor at LeMoyne College, told National Geographic.
Will always be Androids for me. They are easier to use and cheaper than the overpriced and overrated iPhones. And now you can't even replace the battery yourself anymore. Last phone I had before a smartphone I ordered a Samsung battery online for it
I'm also an android holdout in a family of iPhones. When they hand me one I am so confused.
Load More Replies...I never thought you were supposed to think she's ugly, just weird.
BP tells me that the ideas are even stranger now.
Load More Replies...Same as the absurdity for Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada, among many others with that premise.
No, just like in this example that wasn't the point, is not that Andie was "ugly" is that she wasn't stylish enough, specifically for that job (the ending is very clear how she ends up finding a middle ground)
Load More Replies...I wish these hadn't disappeared. I remember my parents having one that wasn't attached to a battery, that you could use on any AA. I was so young, but even then I appreciated it
You can get a meter to check several different size batteries for less than $10. It’s not a big deal.
Load More Replies...However, when we look back on the past, we have to be careful not to only view it through rose-colored glasses. We tend to focus on the best parts of our own history, whether that be a previous romantic relationship, former job or friendship that fizzled out. But this can make a person feel less satisfied with their current situation, even if there were some terrible aspects of the past and are some wonderful aspects of where they are now.
Jup still use the same hotmail adres that i made when i was about 14 years old, im 37 now. The look on peoples faces when i need to give my email is absolutely priceless.
Yeah, my hotmail address is about 30 years old. It's my name, which is not that uncommon, with no numbers or symbols! I'M SO OLD! lol
Load More Replies...I made one as a young adult that is still true ! I enjoy that for now!
so true. i didn't cry at my great grandmas funeral, but i sure as fck cried during "pokémon the movie: secrets of the jungle"
I knew A League of Their Own was b******t when Tom Hanks said, "There's no crying in baseball!' 60 years after he died, Yankee Stadium would still fill up with 50,000 people to ball their eyes out over Lou "The Luckiest Man On Earth" Gehrig. (If you ever want to know the true origin story of Captain America, watch "Pride of the Yankees.")
When indulging in nostalgia, try to avoid falling into the trap of romanticizing the past (and catastrophizing the present). Be grateful for those experiences, but don’t get stuck in them. After all, you still have a whole life ahead of you, no matter how old you are! Remember that you can make new, wonderful memories every day. And even if you’re in a rough place, things will always get better. One day, you might even be nostalgic for the you that’s reading this article!
They were one of my favorite things to make in school! That, and (this may be a Southern California thing) we all had to make a model of one of the Spanish missions in Cali. I made a model version of Mission San Juan Capistrano out of sugar cubes. I won second place in the whole school and ate some of my model afterwards before my dad could stop me XD
Load More Replies...My daughter had to make one in grade school and I was so proud of the work she put into it. She came home and said it's the worst one. I didn't believe her - it was great! Then I went to the school and saw all the kids' dioramas in the library. Hers was definitely not on par with most of them. Why? BECAUSE THE PARENTS MADE THEM. The next time she had a project, while she did the research, I did a lot of the work. Guess what? I got an A! Still makes me mad.
Me neither. I'm rather jealous. I suppose there's nothing stopping me making one now, I have great nieces for an excuse.
Load More Replies...ohh those were the days. i remember that these were my favorite things to do, too bad we dont do them in high school
Have a cozy meal, a cozier nap, and then lure myself out of bed with the promise of a delicious snack if I get up.
Are these images taking you back to your own childhood, pandas? We hope you enjoy scrolling through this nostalgic list, and feel free to let us know in the comments below what kinds of things you miss from the good old days. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring the same Facebook page, we’ve got another list for you to read right here!
Pretty sure it's supposed to be the barcoad scanner.
Load More Replies...Pee-Wee understood how kids actually think. It set him apart from the other schmaltz of that age
I didn't appreciate that character... also can't stand Mr Bean. Black Adder is awesome, though!
Mr Bean is an international treasure, IMO. So incredibly dumb, but wonderful.
Load More Replies...He was caught m*sturbating in a p*rn theater. Nothing wrong with that. Everyone going into a p*rn theater knows they are going to see public m**********n. It's a victimless crime.
Load More Replies...We had these strange things called maps. They were on paper & everything!!
I remember when I got my driver's permit at age 15, my dad gifted me a Thomas Guide spiral-bound map/atlas of our area! It was huge XD
Load More Replies...The delivery guys were local and lived there their whole lives and knew the area intimately
yeah it really wasn't that hard. I did it for a while. Big map on the wall of our delivery area that we would check really quick after we got everything packed up and ready and off we went. It amazes me that people think you can't survive if you don't have GPS. Using a map is pretty d**n simple.
I worked for Domino's pizza as a delivery driver way before GPS. We had a huge map on the wall of the delivery area, and we used it to find the location while the pizza was in the oven. Then we drove like a bat out of hell to get there within 30 minutes.
It worked. Not messed with, correct , cash tip. And all in 30 minutes.
The old dominos commercial 40 mins or free where the delivery drivers had company trucks and wrecked every d**n one of them. I worked at a Mazda dealer and all of the local dominos bought them from us (B2000 or B2200). Every single truck ended up in the body shop unless totaled. They had to drop the 30 min guarantee because the insurance company was dropping them because of claims and lawsuits.
Back when stores provided the car and paid the driver. Now it " use your car and get tips"
Load More Replies...And they would rong the doorbell and hand it to you. Best part. It was free delivery
I got my first Van's in my fifties. I look super cool, but it's hard to convince my family of that.
The year is 2025. The Pope was k1lled by a Sith Lord at the command of the evil emperor.
Honest question, not trying to be a d-bag: why even post a comment like this?
Load More Replies...I got you one better. My mom bought one of Suzanne Somers' ThighMaster thingamajigs in the 90s XD I used to try to squeeze it together with my arms, imagining that one day I would be mighty and strong enough to do so XD
My mom had all of the Denise Richards DVDs and made me work out with her.
Load More Replies...this looks like something I would get tangled up in upside down while trying to assemble it.
Respectfully disagree. They may not be exactly the same as they were when I was a kid, but I will still consume an entire box of Twinkies, HoHos, Ding Dongs, Zingers, or those chocolate cupcakes with the white loopy squiggle of frosting across the top.
But Hostess always was a step up from Little Debbie.
Load More Replies...Tastycakes were the King of snack food cakes. Entenmanns was a close second. They were relatively small companies who got bought out. Smaller, cheaper ingredients...they tast terrible now.
I loved the Tastykake stuff too! When I was a kid, we didn't have them where I live (Southern California) EXCEPT for this one hole-in-the-wall Philly cheesesteak place. Us kids would bike there as a horde on Saturdays JUST to stock up on Tastykake items XD The place also sold some bottled sodas in brands and flavors that none of us had ever seen anywhere else, either. The best part? I'm 43 now and that Philly cheesesteak place is still there, and they still sell Tastykake products and bottled birch beer :D
Load More Replies...I dont think it will because then we can see how little we are getting for what they are charging $1,800.
Load More Replies...Yet again, the point of a post flies over dim Pandas’ heads. I’m thinking BP needs a sign that says “Your IQ must be this high ⬆️ to read this site.” Or maybe that oughtta be “to comment in this site.”
Load More Replies...My kids roll their eyes when I call it Coco Puffs. (Grandkid):" It's Coco MELON, Papa!"
I can just picture you replying to your grandkid, "Have you ever tried chocolate melon? It's grooooooss!" XD
Load More Replies...I do have a problem with Arthur a little about some of the themes they choose to portray. IDK I never got to watch it my parents never let me. (17 y/o)
I am more fan of his son Alucard. Or Alucarlos as I named my savegame Also, and unrelated: "DAWG MEDAMOPHOSIS" spell... CD quality...And a great game!
Load More Replies...The one on the right is Hulk Hogan, isn’t it? Or did someone just model his Dracula on Hulk Hogan? (It’d be an odd choice, but whatever floats the artist’s boat, I guess.)
I'm almost sure that it was on BP that I learned to use a pistachio shell to lever open the nuts that were aaalllmost closed!
Nonsense! Use your teeth like the rest of us! XD (jk, jk)
Load More Replies...I (somehow) managed to get super lucky with Limewire and Napster - never got a virus, only actual music XD I did, however, create a memorial image for my beloved childhood laptop when it died: https://www.deviantart.com/lakotasilver/art/Little-One-VI-One-More-Try-5262235
Load More Replies...90’s was grunge to me. This pic may have been 90/91 spillover of 80’s fashion
I still dress like I did in the 90s, only my jeans have fewer and smaller holes.
Load More Replies...Gloppy was redesigned seversl times , most notably becoming chocolate in 2002. He is no longer a major character on board.
Load More Replies...There wasn't 10 hours of TV to watch when i was growing up, 2 hours of Saturday cartoons and Sunday Disney show was about it.
I lived in Germany until I was 9, then moved to the UK. In Germany, there was TV all day, every day, for free. Lots of channels. The UK had 4 channels and added channel 5 a few years later. Then sky started being more widespread and suddenly there were lots of channels and almost nothing worth watching
Load More Replies...My sister and I got two hours max on a weekday and three hours max on a weekend day unless the program was educational or for a special event. The same went for video games.
I'm 61. There was all kinds of after school on the UHF stations Wee Willie Webber hosted cartoons Lime Astro Boy and Speed Racer, there was Sally Starr, New Zoo Revue, and the Banana Splits. Stand Alone caroons like The Mighty Hercules, Loonet Tunes, Hanna Barbara...and of course reruns like The Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie. There were multitudes of options on so many fewer channels. I'm the 90's, early 2000's, when my kids were teens, there were no restrictions on cable networks to keep adult content for later hours. I was shocked to see rated R movies and softcore p**n so easily accessible. Had rounds put a lock on my cable box (option on settings that the cable could not be turned on before 18:00 without a password)
I'm your age and watched Speed Racer with my friends every afternoon. I loved that show!
Load More Replies...I was born in the first week of 1950: does that make me a relic? Or a fossil?
Load More Replies...Yup. Had one for dinner this evening. Can confirm burgers have not defied physics in my 38 years of life.
Load More Replies...In my day we had one orange button and a plain joystick. And we were grateful
Load More Replies...I remember reading some book about werewolves in my childhood that referred to 11pm as "the wolf's hour". I love wolves (you may have noticed) and they have always been my favorite animal. When I used to see 11:11 on any clock, I'd be like "YESSSS! Double wolves! That's good luck!!" XD I was a strange child.
Strange kids make the most interesting people 😉
Load More Replies...No fruit snacks compare to these . 20 years and I’m still hunting for ones that stack up !
I remember when I was a kid, there were some that were shaped like airplanes, and when the B-2 Spirit (the "Stealth Bomber") was announced, the packs would have opaque B-2 fruit snacks (Thunder Jets!) The shark-shaped ones (Shark Bites) would have opaque white "great white" ones. I feel like the opaque ones were always a little more special XD I can't even remember what they were flavored like! XD
Load More Replies...The Shark Bites ones for me. It looks like the same texture/ types were used. The solid color gummies in those packs were insanely good.
*bites lip* I had the big one w the handle... God times were so good.
Flintstones from when I was a kid. And the top left might be Courage the cowardly dog. No idea of what the bottom 2 are.
The Powerpuff girls house and Master Roshi´s house (from Dragonball)
Load More Replies...I'm not sure, but I think that is Jerry - wearing an apron.
Load More Replies...Don’t be jealous because he’s been chatting online with babes all day!
Those were the days. I didn't have the Internet at home, so I'd buy a game based on the box, or a friend recommending it. I'd have no idea what I was about to play. And getting a new phone was so exciting: you'd have to charge it for 16 hours. I still remember the excitement and impatience. Everything was just exciting in a way it isn't now
A bit off topic, something about Goku that's bothered me for years is that when he told Bulma how old he was, he could barely count. He could have been younger than he said. Him getting married at 18, given his circumstances, was always so iffy to me, even as a kid in the 90s..
Counterpoint: Master Roshi was over 300 when he competed in the Tournament of Power. So no, it's not even remotely close to 'too late'. Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty; that is the Turtle Hermit Way!
They aren't "stupid cartoons". Signed, a 43-year-old who still watches "stupid cartoons".
Load More Replies...I liked watching Cow and Chicken. My brother asked what that cartoon would do to the children and then we looked at each other.
"Mama had a chicken. Mama had a cow. Dad was proud, he didn't care how." XD
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