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Wow. I just had my mind blown with how lucky we are to have the internet. Like, if I have a question, I can just Google it. If I need to contact someone, I can just DO IT. It takes longer to find out how to contact them, than it does to actually contact them. That was unthinkable even just 50 years ago.

@@MigattenoBlakae I'll blow your mind further, The Internet started to gain momentum for the public in the mid '90s (in the country where I was born it was more late '90s), Google was founded in 1998. This communication revolution has started less than 30y ago. I'll be 50 in few months, and I was in my 20s when I saw an Internet page for the first time. The first thing that popped in my mind was "It's so silent", because all you could have back then was static sites with text and pictures, and I was used to having sounds and music every time I turned something on (TV, radio). 😆

@@MigattenoBlakae Yeah, we used to just _not know_ things, even if we wanted to. Actually that makes for good conversation, when no one knows the answer to a question; search engines killed that, unless you pinkie swear not to look it up.

That's so nice!

@@Naptosis me and my friend are just too dumb to google it and just keep arguing

For real. She got no chill.

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. (I play tuba btw)

@@andrewvoigt4323 Glad you can confirm that's actually a tuba; I thought it was a French horn because there is no scale and it doesn't look like you can drape it around you like the sousaphone/marching tuba my friend played.

my uncle micheal has 15 siblings

That, and there wasn't ready access to birth control (assuming it would have been wanted). And depending on the situation (such as being a farming family), children were an asset and a help, rather than a major expense.

because they are old and we know it is unlikely they will change for the better when they are assholes, and because we are so used to old people being a least low key bigots, that our heart melts when one of them is actually wholesome and nice.

Because they're either Herbert down the street, well maybe not chasing 'em quite so young, or they're grandma baking you cookies and telling you about how she fell in love on her first date with grandpa.

@@ladykoiwolfe Family Guy reference? +10 Swag Awarded if yes, +10 Swag anyway if not lol 😎

@@hannajung7512 Pretty much

they contain multitudes :)

How thick and smooth it was, and all that thick luscious blonde hair sprouting from just one tiny spot

Editing 100

Wait his beard wasn't real?

@@bumblebeeyellowdragon crazy, I know

@@crazcatladeestudios9956 what it actually wasn't real? No way

Yea as a fan of absurdist comedy, i miss the days when my mom could barely use the internet

Autistics tend to have similar trouble with emojis, because 'reading' them intuitively and correctly needs the capacity of interpreting emotional states from expression.

totally couldnt tell XD

@@thinkingcutefanboy087 yes, it was clearly needed Otherwise, how would we know that it’s fake?

Cgi has gone too far :3

@@KaraTheGirlie you got a cute profile photo. Hope you have an amazing day

@@_Daemon_Sultan_ thank you so much, I drew her myself!

I died lmao

I once bought a trombone at a thrift store that had a sticker on on that said: "Clarinet Tuba, €15" Like... Dude. If you're not sure what it is, just put the €15 and be done with it. Don't try to flex you musical knowledge.

Click, years ago in the UK. Nothing sucks like an Electrolux. Honest, that was the slogan for the vacuum cleaner.

As a band kid I'm sad now . . .

Me a trombonist: crying inside

Oh jeez, that sounds like something I'll say when I'm old...

I already say this lol

SAME-

Sometimes I think this if I give my mother a gift, lol. She hoards pretty much everything, so chances are if it doesn’t get cleared out by me or someone else, we’ll be getting almost all the stuff we ever gave her back some day.

That's a ... Violent thing to say when you're a grandma. 😢 But yes, she IS hilarious. It makes mortality sad to think that the people who were here before you won't be here when you're gone. But they'd be sad if they outlived you.

F...for real? Like, people do that outside of jokes!?

@@dmgroberts5471 Sadly, yes they do...

@@germaineeeeeeeee I would _love_ to know how they think it will help. I mean, what is the thought process there?

@@dmgroberts5471 TLDR/ humans are just like that. I find this super fascinating cause there have actually been studies that show humans learn in a very particular way distinct from even our closest ape relatives. While apes can learn by repetition, apes will not repeat actions that are obviously unnecessary to the goal. Humans on the other hand will repeat what their teacher is doing exactly, even if they cannot explain why they do certain parts, or of in fact a part of what the teacher is doing is obviously superfluous. The researchers suppose that this is because once we acquire theory of mind (the concept that people have separate consciousness from our own with their own viewpoint, ect.) that even if we don’t see the point, if we’re being taught to do it the teacher probably knows better. So grandma is just trusting if you told her to do it, it’s probably right, even if there’s no logical way to explain how the heck that would work.

@@isabelmcgaugh711 I am fascinated by the inefficiencies and irrationality of the human mind. Learning how people think is like watching a train crash. We have _really_ specialized ourselves into a dead end.

That's what I was thinking lol

Exactly

Or tide pods bags... I've had two I've had to just cut, I'm sure a child could get into those easy

oh dang I wasn't able to open those things til my age was in the double digits

My Mum used to struggle to open those and always asked me ... from when I was about six. I even appreciated the irony at the time.

Yeah. Those "child-proof" pill bottles have really just become "old-people-proof" pill-bottles.

...I couldn't open those blasted things until much later, but that may be do to my disproportionately tiny hands. I'm 22, and I still can't open some containers because my hands are physically too small to use them correctly... (I can open childproof containers though, just to clarify...)

I’m sorry for your loss.

@@chandranelson2772 Thank you.

Sorry for you loss man. She sounds like she was a wonderful woman!

my mental image of this happening is so funny 💀

My mom constantly asks my siblings and I why we know so much drug terminology if we don't do drugs. Like, the internet does not shelter you from that knowledge.

that's the verb for greeting each other with fist bumps! :)

​@@saintsomnia8030In my case, I know drug terminology because (cough) I do do drugs. But I happily lived into my third decade without knowing what fisting was and I wish I still didn't bloody know.

I’m just imagining the numbers having swirls on each of their ends lol. Expect for 8 😅

Look up calligraphy, curious if that's anything close to what you came up with

@@ZenoSsj4Hero yeah, they were rather curly! I think I ended up favoring Roman numerals, but even that wasn't too great

@@bellablue5285 nah, nowhere near as pretty as calligraphy xD

Based

For some reason my brain will just not comprehend what this is supposed to mean

@@bittercharmer1591 Same. I feel embarrassed.

@@bittercharmer1591 It’s a pun. The famous physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a book called “A brief history of time”. But this time its wine instead of time.

Bad pun, really bad pun. Funny though.

r/BadDadJokes?

My dad was sending friend requests this was to all my classmates :D

I do that, too, but I'm 26, lol. It just depends on how often you use that kind of thing. I hate Facebook and most other social media, so I have no idea how to operate it well.

Facebook's all the worse for sending such things. I condemn FB, not your gran.

Grandma’s got taste

same

I always have that urge.

What did you find

I agree here

God I wish may was here already

I'm 28, I managed to do exactly that, ALSO have no idea how I did it and neither does my computer whizz cousin who fixed it for me. Only difference is I knew it was only my screen that was upside down ;)

There was a keyboard shortcut for that, but it got removed in a Windows Update

yeah i have simmilar story with my dad, my both nephews are both adults now, in their early 20ties, but when they were 16 or 17 they were at my dad ( actually i was surpsised he remembered tha,t coz he is always drunk) and they all watched some movie or tv show and it was something simmilar, they both were laughing and my dad was clueless, later he asked me and i laughed and he was so pissed i did not want to tell him, i kept saying google it, use croatian, does not have to be english, but you know enpugh of englis to google it in english ( coz some terms in our language wich are more modern there is no translation, they just subtitle them as they are). 2 weeks later i came to see him and i am pansexul and in that time i was with a guy and out of the blue my dad says that under any circumstances he does not want to know do i catch, i replied what about if i catch and pitch with evil grin on my face, he was literaly green in his face and i was like well in future just dont start conversations if you dont want to know the answer... good thing was, he asks nothing anyone anymore, he just googles it, wich so often makes a lot of mess....

honestly that poll is exactly like what i see on Tumblr daily since the polls released. "Power" or "Bottom?"

I kept hearing (I was doing chores) "Power button" and I was thinking How does someone not know the button that switches a machine on and off?? I need to come back and look at the screen more often.

I had to explain pegging to a friend who is 55, her 12 yo son had heard something online and asked her what it meant! She'd said to me the next day, "You're in the know on literally everything... what is pegging?" I choked on my coffee. What followed was a very akward few minutes of me explaining. She said "wait till I tell Rob (her hubbie), he had no idea either." I about died laughing.

@@hawkeyescoffee6399 but it is funny that anyone over 50 obviously uses internet, but it is beyond me, how no one, literaly no one rembers to just google for infos from that age group...

Literally scrolled looking for this comment LMAO.

She. Said. DISREGARD THE HORN! 🤣

disregard the croissant

Pay no attention to the saxophone!

@@dmgroberts5471 she said "tuba"

And, they babysit. Very social species

He has a name?

@@VeinyWombat no it's a cover up obviously

@@VeinyWombat No

@@IhaveALLtheavocados good

Older people and computers is endlessly amusing and cute to me (even when they call their friend a bitch on fb lol). In the 90s, when my dad was in his early 50s his work started to computerise everything. He'd never used a computer before in his life, he was ex army and a blue collar worker. They sent him on a course to learn the most basic things like how to turn on the computer, what is a mouse & how to use one, etc. He legit got a certificate to say "Joe is no longer afraid of computers". He was equal parts amused to all hell by it and incredibly proud of it. When he retired due to disability I bought him a computer which he used solely for playing solitaire and submitting his prescription medication requests. It used to boggle my mind that a £350 computer was being used just for that, but he was so happy that I couldn't bring myself to mind (we found it pretty funny to be honest), he was in a lot of pain from his disability that anything that gave him a distraction was great in my book, and that PC lasted him like 10 years or so. One of my last memories was of sitting with him while putting all his prescription medications requests into the form on a new computer that I had bought him for Christmas when his started dying, we laughed so hard and it took ages because he was on so many meds. He had almost finished the list then accidentally hit refresh & had to start over. Instead of getting angry and frustrated he just gave a little sigh, we laughed and started again. He sadly passed away just a couple weeks later, but it's a silly little memory that has stuck with me for 8 years now As silly as it sounds, my one regret was that he didn't learn to text or use social media so I don't have any silly or funny messages between us like we get to see on these, because he was very self aware and knew he would only do something ridiculous on fb. My mum on the other hand cares little about things like that and would happily be one of those people posting a status of her trying to Google Christmas gifts or something. And she does indeed often send me messages on messenger and then reply to herself or send herself a thumbs up. 🤣 💜

@@hawkeyescoffee6399 thank you for sharing that precious memory of your dad. I lost my dad about 16 years ago and still miss him. He had a wicked sense of humor and a ton of common sense and he loved me so much. Good dads are a precious and honestly rare gift. ❤️

@@kimhohlmayer7018 They really are. I was so very lucky to have had him as my dad, he was so wonderfully accepting, kind and funny. It was only once he was gone that I really understood just how lucky I had been to have such a wonderful man as a dad (especially after seeing subreddits like insane parents being covered). I don't think there'll ever be a time when we don't miss them either, but we were so blessed to have had them in our lives. ❤

Oh my gosh. That actually makes sense.

😂😂😂😂 that's hilarious

I scrolled until I found someone else with the same comment as me XD

No for real 😭

Ugh! That and terms like "spam" date back into the 1980s. A quick search on Wikipedia or google-search will prove this.

The amount of times I have to explain what "OTL", or ASCII, are amazes me. Man IRC and Usenet....those were the days.

​@@LunacticInferno I have to admit, I didn't know what the OTL was either, and had to look it up. I'm not surprised that it was invented in Japan to represent kowtowing. A whole lot of ASCII emojis came out of Japan.

Sorry was AFK. :) ;) --(-@ bbl

​@@LunacticInferno i found out about ascii from playing saints row 4 where it was a cheat that changed the graphics to ascii

It could be that what the old person in the reddit post meant by "capital numbers" is, Shift + the number keys. Don't know what your callers meant by lowercase ones though, yeesh.

this is still one of my favorite memories from sitting next to tech support, a tech supporter spending half an hour trying to help the user figure out why her password wasn't working, until she asked if it could because she was "using capital numbers".

My real life name starts and ends with "A," so I was like, welp.

Atilla.

@@JonnaWilharm Now he was a REAL hun.

Ana

Anna, Anastasia, Alexa, Abba, Athena, Aisha, Akira, Alba, Attila....

97 and afraid of authorities? Well here in Germany I'd guess it's having a doubtful past, but where are you from? Btw my Spanish dad is 92 and has a smartphone before me, so maybe it has nothing to do with the council and he's just a late adapter like me. I was late for every social media tech and am still stuck on Facebook. 🙆🏻‍♀️

@@ruzi.the.spider yeah, I’m in England so my grandad is pretty proud of his service during the particular time period you’re probably referencing. I think a big part of it is that he is mixed race and grew up in a fairly small town in a majority white area, I have heard that he and his brother had some trouble from the kids of a local police officer when he was growing up but he doesn’t talk much about any of that.

I'm wheezing

It is amazing 😂

well, "hog" refers only to certain types of motorcycles. Mostly those that are or look like Harley-Davidson's "fatboys" and "lowboys", often with extended front wheel struts. Never any speed bikes and most often not imported motorcycles.

Grass clippings, ive also heard it referring to poo a few times. Grass is a mortal enemy to bikes😂

Horse could also refer to horsepower.

Why is mac n cheese always corrupted... Mine put red and green peppers. Tasted like burnt plastic smells, and I can still recall the flavor 🤢

@@bellablue5285 My sir, I give to you a virtual hug Because jfc I'm so sorry XD

@@Xil_Gon_Give_It_To_Ya nah all good, I really dislike raw onion so honestly both sound equally terrible 😂

Oh no, bless her soul!🤣 IT'S MY DOG'S BIRTHDAY TODAY😏😏

What are dogs then? The souls of them?

i miss it...

Yes, the beard sure was impressive, voretias.

I found you on a ephemeral rift video before

In about 30 years, millenials will be the new elderly and it will be full of toxicity.

Was thinking the same. It's still weird tho

Aww I like that

@@33melonpaws77 It's kinda cute, until you get to a birthday party and you're expected to go around the circle of chairs to shake everyone's hand wishing them happy birthday, or recieving your own happy birthday, depending on how close you both are to the person who's birthday it actually is (and if you're not sure who's closer, or you're both close, you just both say it). And then you join the circle of chairs and have to get up every time a new person enters the party, to shake their hand and determine your relative social standing to the birthday person. Haha, describing a kringverjaardag like that makes it sound like some odd ritual. I guess it is.

I had the same reaction though usually you don't say it when it's your own birthday

@@wingedyera true

Yes!!! He brought me a real dose of dopamine today!

Yeah, that one is pretty sad. It probably happened before the safety tops. It is easy to forget how new they are

Tbh I've felt more or less like that since the day I was born and I dread to think how it can only get worse....

Amen to Cliccyism

True. Fellow Aro Ace?👀

@@cupids_aro7505FELLOW AROACE!!

Well done! :3 You deciphered it!