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If not for the three grey hairs peeking out, I’d feel as fresh as new. It seems like only yesterday we’d drink Capri Sun, burn CDs and listen to the Smashing Pumpkins. Speaking of the latter, kids these days call it “dad rock,” and how can you blame them?

The oldest of Gen Z, aka the newest generation that was born between 1997 and 2012, is now 24. No, it’s not you who are 24, it’s the kids who have no clue what “pick up the phone'' means.

So today, we’re diving deep into the world of no illusion, ready to face one fact we all dread (hence the booming skincare industry among millennials!)—we are old. Thanks to the corner of Reddit ‘Heck I’m Old,’ we have a collection of posts to make you feel not just old, but rather ancient. “When you look at kids nowadays and see their music you can't help but think of how everything is old,” says the group’s description and from what you see below, they ain’t lying.

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If you ever feel like time is passing at the pace of a hadron collider, you can be sure you’re not the only one. Most of us feel that the passage of time is inevitable, and that it only makes us older (but also wiser, more confident and happy overall!).

Having said that, it's no secret that our modern society is obsessed with freezing and even turning back time. This ageing paranoia that’s sweeping across our society has been heavily fueled by social media, where young folks constantly put pressure on achievements, looks, and everything, really. Its competitive nature shows that someone is doing better and has accomplished more by your age than you have.

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Just Pause Duh

Just Pause Duh

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes, spilling the juice while running back to the tv and constantly bumping your knees or toes when jumping over the furniture... but thanks to the adrenaline: no pain felt!

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Being scared of ageing is not only nothing new, it seems like it creeps into the minds of younger generations obsessed with anti-ageing life choices earlier than ever in history. In 2018, a report from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) found that millennials felt the most negatively towards ageing, viewing it as a steep decline and assuming dementia and loneliness as inevitable.

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I'm Old I Remember Having One Thinking It Was So Cool

I'm Old I Remember Having One Thinking It Was So Cool

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the 16 colour version. It was a bitch to write with because it was so fat.

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I Feel This Deep In My Soul

I Feel This Deep In My Soul

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That cashier was just jealous that you got to experience Blockbuster and they didn't lol

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I Consider This A Small Victory

I Consider This A Small Victory

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In some extreme cases where fear of getting older interferes with your life, doctors diagnose people with gerascophobia. “Gerascophobia sufferers have very frequent thoughts about changes in their appearance due to ageing and increasingly losing control over their life as they get older. These thoughts trigger panic attacks, shortness of breath, sweating and shaking," Dr. Rose Aghdami, a consulting and coaching psychologist, told Refinery29.

"Their behavior is affected too, as they often avoid certain activities which remind them of ageing, withdraw from social contact, and become more isolated."

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You Might Be Old...

You Might Be Old...

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Doc Brown And Marty Mcfly Still Here, Together, In 2021

Doc Brown And Marty Mcfly Still Here, Together, In 2021

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The RSPH has also urged people to stop using the term 'anti-ageing' popularized by the beauty industry, since it could be putting pressure on women to see ageing as something inherently detrimental. Another 2017 study found that 30% of women under 35 were regularly using anti-wrinkle products, a fact that’s so obvious when browsing through social media that you don’t need a survey for it

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"I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack

"I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And still have no idea how to play minesweeper 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Beware This Man

Beware This Man

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks, Macaulay. I wish you would look up to Bart Simpson, he doesn't age like that.

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This Feeling All Of The Time

This Feeling All Of The Time

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What Else?

What Else?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UK specific but when I was a kid in the 80's we had a grand total of 4 TV channels to choose from.

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In The ‘80s, TV Stations Just Turned Off Late At Night. No Infomercials, Nothing. Just This

In The ‘80s, TV Stations Just Turned Off Late At Night. No Infomercials, Nothing. Just This

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, they played a nifty tune first, and then some nice white noise to fall asleep to...

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70's Kids Checking In

70's Kids Checking In

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Well, This Is The New Metric For How Old We Are, I Guess

Well, This Is The New Metric For How Old We Are, I Guess

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Stolen From Facebook

Stolen From Facebook

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember a time before McDonalds. And %$#@ smoking was allowed everywhere. Going to the theater and the projector beams lighting up the smoke.

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bumble bee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You could smoke in the hospital, planes, public transportation, college class rooms, dorms, everywhere. It was a paradise for smokers

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Mystery Egg
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our school buses had ashtrays attached to the seat in front. Always overflowing. No one cared.

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S. Tor Storm
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ohmygod going to a macdonalds where you can smoke is a dream of mine. same with smoking on an airplane. good ol days

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HillieJ
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone out there remember McDonald's coffee stirrers with the tiny spoon end? Rumor has it they were discontinued due to their usefulness to cocaine users. They existed in my childhood. We used them to avoid touching worms when feeding various creatures. Wished I'd saved one years later when I was introduced to cocaine.

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Glen McMurray
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me feel like getting a $.29 cheeseburger, a nine cent coffee and having a smoke at Mickey D’s

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Vasana Phong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As I remember they had the smoking section in the back area somewhere

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Barbara Vandewalle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember when at the the check out there were the match books advertising the business

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Pudgy Panda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m so old that I remember my doctor leaning across his desk to light my cigarette before he lit his own.

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DruidsRock 2025
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How 'bout those ashtrays on the airplanes we flew in? Smoking, non-smoking?

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Adam Young
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's hard to believe but almost half the population smoked in 1980

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Sheila Stamey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were a thing. I remember mom's and dads smoking away and kiddies running around like little nutso sugar fueled crazy people, because back then you could actually get ice cream!

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Matthew Schreck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember these. Funny thing is I remember people smoking everywhere, but it never bothered me. It was just a normal thing.

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Amy Taylor
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm "the coffee stirrers are little spoons?!" old lol A favorite with the high school cokeheads,lol

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Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

McDonald's is only 2 yrs older than me. We've both seen and gone thru a lot of changes.

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Flabuless-Jaye
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked at McDonalds when they used them. It was disgusting and it had been known to set fire to the bins. Bad times. Thankfully they stopped allowing it not too long after I started. A much more pleasant.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where can I get one for my husband? I’d like the spoon for me

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Shreeky
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those went bye bye back in 2007, it hasn't even been 20yrs yet... My 19yr old remembers those when we used to take her to Micky D's when she was little. Her dad and I would smoke outside at the play area while she would play.

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Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have ashtrays from all sorts of fast food outlets and restaurant chains. They will be seriously collectible for my grandkids.

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

I can't even fathom anymore that people could smoke indoors almost everywhere. I graduated high school in 88 and there was a senior lounge where we could smoke. I remember my dad saying, "Pretty soon, the only place you're going to be able to smoke anymore is you're own backyard."

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Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you remember the tiny white plastic spoons for stirring coffee? They discontinued them in the 1980s because too many were being used to snort coke.

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Mya Lugar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Used to be so many ashtrays at the thrift store. My brother collected some with recognizable logos for several years. Onlt a few special ones now.

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Magoomba
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back when you could smoke at work I had one of these on my workbench for years.

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marnidarr
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have one from Burger King. It's gold. I'm hoping one day it will be a collector's item.

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Linda Robinett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, I remember the fight to not have smoking in restaurants and bars. McDonalds was one of the first to ban it. Made it popular with me.

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Vicki Perizzolo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh yes... when I smoked a bazillion years ago I had quite a collection of ashtrays..

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Sheryl Thompson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aah the " smoking section " right next to the door , so every time the door opened it sucked the smoke out !!😁😁

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Bron
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My 15 year old just asked what it was 😂😂😂 my 20 year old and 22 year old didn’t know either

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jane don
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still see smoking as just as healthy as eating at McDonalds

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Chanelle Knapp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm 43 and have never seen one of these in a McDonalds. When were they a thing?

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TheAnimalLady
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a friend who, while pregnant, was told by the obstetrician to smoke because she "had a small pelvis" and the "doctor" wanted to limit the baby's size. She's about 5'/ 1½metres tall, like an elf, and her husband was about 6'/ 2m...so maybe 🤷

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Colby Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Truthfully, I worked in McD's when I was in HS in 1991. I do not remember they had ashtrays at all.

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memyselfandI
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mini tart tray? Ash tray? Weird metal drink lid? What am I looking at?

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Wayne Gallop
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this, I would been 5 but some older told me they used to make Cone pieces out them!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We used to bend them into throwing stars and get kicked out for running around chuckin em at eachother.

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Donna Reynolds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m older. I first thought this was a pie tin from Table Talk.

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El muerto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

good days, when mom and dad had a cigarette while you ate your fries, like. yeah kid "get to know this, life is s**t" also getting cigarette burns at the club

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had tones of these! The brown ones, some plastc you just could NOT, by any means, set on fire, I still use. They must be like 20...22 years old...

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Phoebe’s Baby Is A College Grad

Phoebe’s Baby Is A College Grad

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahaha, I actually thought to myself: wow, she actually kept in touch with him even tho it wasn't her baby?

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Was It A Nokia Or A Razr You Had?

Was It A Nokia Or A Razr You Had?

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a Nokia c2 when I was 10 or 11. Used to feel quite smug typing fast without looking at the keyboard.

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We All Knew This Day Would Come

We All Knew This Day Would Come

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a great imagination right there!! I remember the young person that saw a real floppy disc and asked his dad why he has 3d printed the save icon!!

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Anyone Else??

Anyone Else??

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then you go to the actual store and those young whippersnappers rearranged it again.

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An Ancient Artifact From A More Civilized Time

An Ancient Artifact From A More Civilized Time

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Pretty Much!

Pretty Much!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh crap, i totally have such location in my home town, the realization hit me like ton of brick

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Old School Uncool

Old School Uncool

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Some Redditor Is Mocking His Dad For This 80's Handset That's Plugged Into His iPhone. All I Can Say Is, That Looks Amazingly Comfortable....

Some Redditor Is Mocking His Dad For This 80's Handset That's Plugged Into His iPhone. All I Can Say Is, That Looks Amazingly Comfortable....

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I Was 20 When It Aired And God, Do I Still Feel Old....

I Was 20 When It Aired And God, Do I Still Feel Old....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

me, 35, in march 2021 : for vaccination too young, for gynecologist 'geriatric' :D

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Afv Anyone?

Afv Anyone?

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After 9 And On The Weekends Plus $.10 Texts

After 9 And On The Weekends Plus $.10 Texts

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Pink Floyd::pride

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This Cut Me Deep

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yesterday i was watching the next top model of my country! And i kid you not but the models(18-19 years old) didn't know Sharon stone, Michelle Pfeiffer and CHER!!!!! How can you not know Cher????

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Never Failed

Never Failed

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use to have a fake 8 track player to fool my car into playing cassettes. In 1992.

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That's Relatable

That's Relatable

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly: I did see this picture in a different BP post and: yes, I was absolutely thrilled and thought I need to get this for my little recreation cabin in the mountains!

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Internet Is For The 1 Percenters

Internet Is For The 1 Percenters

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