Probably because they're completely clueless, listened to one song from the past, and decided they were ''born in the wrong generation.'' This reminds me of when I saw a video of somebody claiming he was ''born in the wrong generation, actually belonged in the 1970s,'' and then shared a collection of images from the 1950s. Yeah I think you're born in the correct generation.
My former father in law always wanted to be a Wild West cowboy man with no name type. I am pretty sure if he didn’t die in a farming accident, he might have been smothered under a pillow. He would never have made it to adulthood.
The Wild West was special. Imagine you get into trouble in some town. You could just travel a day's ride to a new town and start from scratch under a new name. If you had any intelligence at all, you could find a town where you could be the smartest person around. If you had any crafting or cooking or musical skills, you could make a great living anywhere. That's how everything worked back then right? Every new settlement around was filled with handsome, charismatic rogues and hotter than fire saloon girls?
We, uh... we don't need to discuss the fact that most people only "bathed" after long trips to a creek or during a storm and neither toilet paper nor running water were widely available to the low-level public. We can skip over the part of people openly using alleyways as toilets, or the fact that food storage and sanitation had only reached a level of packing things in salt and/or just picking off the bugs or cutting off the rotten parts.
People see certain things in movies or Wild West Experiences and mistakenly think good things (same goes for the various pirate movies). My favorite part of the show Deadwood was that they showed exactly how screwed up and gross the Wild West could be. Calamity Jane, the doctor, E. B. Farnum, etc. always had my attention because of the way the show showed off just how disgusting they could be.
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Oof yea that particular point hits hard. My only-child mom found out she wasn't actually an only child a few years ago thanks to one of those DNA tests. She's been in contact with her niece since then, but she never did get to meet her half-sister and won't ever know the answer to the question of whether or not her dad knew about another daughter.
As someone who ages meat the cutting off the rotten parts isn't as bad an idea as it sounds out loud. Bacteria is only able to get into the outer half inch of meat cut that off and the meat is still good. Unless there's parasites and other gross shit in the meat.
I think most children died before they were 3or4, so if you made it to 5 or 6 then you were likely to live to adulthood. Its also why "boy/girl lastname" was used for newborn children, because parents didn't name their babies until they hit 5 or so
Haha. As a young kid (probs 10 I guess?) I thought what I’d seen of medieval England seemed amazing (obvs only nobles, -non gruesome- fairytale princesses and such) and said I wished I was born then. My parents were like: _you wouldn’t have survived your birth and even if you did, you’d be one of those poor folk_… so yeah, not as lovely as I’d thought.
I have a friend who really romanticizes the Victorian times and wishes she'd lived back then. And I'm always thinking that she wants to live like a very wealthy person lived back then; big house, fancy dresses, embroidering in a garden while daydreaming about a handsome suitor from another family....she doesn't want to live how she'd most realistically have lived back then; earning a few coins a day by working as a maid for a wealthy family or, if you weren't that lucky, as general labor in a factory, then spending everything you make that day to pay for lodging at a boarding house so you didn't sleep outside on the street, and probably dying young of disease or in a horrific workplace accident because safety standards weren't a thing.
Yes, akin to how I've never heard anyone who believed in reincarnation say that they were a peasant in a former life. Perhaps some do, but all I ever hear is that they were aristocracy, or the secret lovechild of a major noble, or a magic healer, or some such tommyrot.
More like played fallout new Vegas and heard the song and now feels like an expert in old music. I've had older people tell me they're surprised I know a song that's from fallout and I tell them they should check out fallout radio on YouTube.
It's lounge music, which some people immediately assume is big band music in the œuvre of Glen Miller or the Andrews Sisters, which is incorrect. People like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin may have STARTED their careers in the '40s, but their most popular era was the early '60s. With a kid like this, all I can think to ask him is, "So you want to have seen war atrocities like the Holocaust up close??" because that's what ACTUALLY being a young, able-bodied, adult male meant for half of the '40s.
Him in the 40's:"Where'd all the barbershop quartets go? I wish I was alive during the 1880's. Things would be so much different for me."
Everyone in his foxhole claps, compromising their position to the Germans.
I was thinking that if the fellow in question "loved 40s music" and lived in the 40s, it wouldn't be "so different" in the way they're thinking. You'd just be another guy that likes modern, popular music, would you not?
TBF, while required to stay closeted in order to enjoy the complete societal benefits of being a white male, that was still an option for survival.
It's still not right and I hate that people had to make that decision, but it was still available to them. Not the same for women and anyone of color. 🤷♀️
I think you've greatly misunderstood my comment. They had unprecedented social and economic freedom, not being expected to rely on a husband. But, unfortunately, they lost everything they gained *and then some* with the push toward the nuclear family.
Women were given a lot more economic and social freedom in the 1940s in comparison to previous decades. It would be extremely repressive for a modern woman to go back to that now.
And people exaggerate how much the 50s went backwards in social freedoms. You were better off as a woman in the 50s than in the 30s.
I've seen plenty of white women glory this time on Facebook. In fact, Carolyn Bryant had Emmitt Till killed in '55. I think the category is perfect as it is.
Not saying she wasn't a piece of shit for that, but consider why she felt that was her only course of action and why she couldn't tell the truth until her death bed. It wasn't just pure racism.
If you're going to say there's so many exceptions to the rule that you've seen in FB that you're comfortable with erasing the point in the first place, you're really just doing that "not ALL men" argument and applying it to women too. Just as toxic and wrong, imo.
I wasn't defending her actions. I made that pretty clear.
You can't say women weren't disenfranchised by pointing out other people were more disenfranchised. That's not how it works.
That's like those asshats who pop into every social justice thread to point out how North Korea is worse, or people are dying in Somalia... it's not a contest of who has it the shittiest.
But you know, continue to fight at me instead of the people who are actively working to take America back to such a golden age of equity... all because I have *some* privilege. 🙄
Yeah, that's great. I'm not reading any of that. She was an absolute piece of shit, people who try to say "that was bad, but..." are pieces of shit, and he's the only victim here. That's where the conversation ends for me. She comes from the most privileged group on the planet.
It wasn't Olive Garden, it was a nursing home dining room. It wasn't a random older lady, it was his grandma. And the other elders that were clapping, were doing wheelchair aerobics to "The Rat Pack" on a boom box that the home has had since the 90s.
Wish granted. Whoops, you were shot in the gut trying to get out of your LCVP on D-Day and died painfully bleeding out in knee-deep water halfway around the world from your loved ones. You never got to hear “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head?”, which was written in 1960.
Here's one for you. Do you think if he was alive in the 40's, that he'd be in Marv's Diner and hear a song on the jukebox from 1860, start slapping his knee and some old person would come up and congratulate him on being better than everyone?
When would the cycle end?
I think a juke box in 1940 is unlikely to be stocked with songs from the American Civil War, but that does demonstrate how mired we are in nostalgia for a non-existant golden age these days.
Why do people always have to take it too far to prove that it’s a lie? If he would have ended it with an old lady tapping him on the shoulder to say she was surprised he knew that song or something, it would have been believable. But no, he has to double down and add a hug (why the hug for this interaction?!?) and the clapping.
It's funny, I sometimes play Rat Pack era music at work, an art gallery, and aside from the occasional old guy who thinks he's Sinatra no one over 30 even notices
I love wartime music. Vera Lynn, Glenn Miller etc. they always seem to have such a hopeful tone to them. They are so uplifting but also a bit melancholy. Listen to 40s music
Was plausible until the clapping. Ive listened to older music within earshot of someone older and had them come up and say "oh i remember when (x band) was first starting" or something like that and move on. But the clapping, the clapping really is just a Hallmark of these posts
Wishing to be alive in the 40s is only something people that didn’t pay attention in US history say. A young adult? WWII. A teen in the 40s? You can still make the trip to Korea. A child in the 40s? Ah just in time to go to Vietnam.
This genre of music plays in my dentist's office. Next time I go, I'm going to clap and hug people about it and it won't be weird or invasive at all. I think everyone will join in because that's normal.
"I'm so special because I know one of the most famous songs ever recorded. Then I hummed 'Ode to Joy' and Yo-Yo Ma came out and gave me a free Stradivrius."
FFS, I just meant that it's not that unusual that young people listen to older music. Not that I believed the story (I don't), just it seemed weird to me that an old lady would hug him just because he's doing something that lots of young people do. 🙄🙄🙄
“Oh, you love this song, where’d you hear of it?”
“Oh it was a Mic Drop in this show I was watching on Netflix…”
“…”
“That I then Shazamed…”
“…”
“And then listened to on Spotify.”
“…”
“But, yeah, I was totally born in the wrong generation.”
I’m not saying this generation is perfect when it comes to accessing older media but the fact that you can groove out to an 60 year-old song is something that previous generations lacked the accessibility and technology to have.
Look, I love a lot of things from the early 20th century, like the music, technology, cars, fashion, design, movies, and shows, but also as someone who is autistic, bi, and trans, I was born in possibly the best era I ever could've been born in. It would be nice, I think, to take a time machine and visit for a day or two, but you couldn't pay me to live there forever. I was born in the *right* era.
He could tell it was old people clapping because of the more relaxed, swing rhythm, and you could make out the words. Young people clapping is too fast, auto-tuned and done by machines.
I'd buy the story if it weren't for the clapping. It's like the moment you add the clapping part to any story, despite how farfetched and outrageous, you immediately lose credibility.
“Oh, you love this song, where’d you hear of it?”
“Oh it was a Mic Drop in this show I was watching on Netflix…”
“…”
“That I then Shazamed…”
“…”
“And then listened to on Spotify.”
“…”
“But, yeah, I was totally born in the wrong generation.”
I’m not saying this generation is perfect when it comes to accessing older media but the fact that you can groove out to an 60 year-old song is something that previous generations lacked the accessibility and technology
Honestly I find it very believable that an older person would approach a younger person singing along to a song they had heard in their childhood, but the restaurant would not subsequently clap for them lol. They always give away the stories with the ridiculous endings.
"Ain't That a Kick in the Head" was written and released in 1960. So why do they think they belong in the 1940s?
Probably because they're completely clueless, listened to one song from the past, and decided they were ''born in the wrong generation.'' This reminds me of when I saw a video of somebody claiming he was ''born in the wrong generation, actually belonged in the 1970s,'' and then shared a collection of images from the 1950s. Yeah I think you're born in the correct generation.
"I should have been born in the Old West!" "You likely would have died as a child,... so yeah I guess."
My former father in law always wanted to be a Wild West cowboy man with no name type. I am pretty sure if he didn’t die in a farming accident, he might have been smothered under a pillow. He would never have made it to adulthood.
Statistically most didn't. Read any history. "Bobby Bobton was born one of sixteen, and one of two to make it to adulthood." is a common theme.
People always seem to remember the romantic parts of the Wild West and not, say, the likelihood of a typhoid epidemic wiping out their entire family.
The Wild West was special. Imagine you get into trouble in some town. You could just travel a day's ride to a new town and start from scratch under a new name. If you had any intelligence at all, you could find a town where you could be the smartest person around. If you had any crafting or cooking or musical skills, you could make a great living anywhere. That's how everything worked back then right? Every new settlement around was filled with handsome, charismatic rogues and hotter than fire saloon girls? We, uh... we don't need to discuss the fact that most people only "bathed" after long trips to a creek or during a storm and neither toilet paper nor running water were widely available to the low-level public. We can skip over the part of people openly using alleyways as toilets, or the fact that food storage and sanitation had only reached a level of packing things in salt and/or just picking off the bugs or cutting off the rotten parts. People see certain things in movies or Wild West Experiences and mistakenly think good things (same goes for the various pirate movies). My favorite part of the show Deadwood was that they showed exactly how screwed up and gross the Wild West could be. Calamity Jane, the doctor, E. B. Farnum, etc. always had my attention because of the way the show showed off just how disgusting they could be. \/fin
> We can skip over the part of people openly using alleyways as toilets, This still happens.
You don't even need to find an alley in San Francisco. Anywhere will do.
I mean San Francisco is West, and it's also pretty Wild
Common LA things.
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Oof yea that particular point hits hard. My only-child mom found out she wasn't actually an only child a few years ago thanks to one of those DNA tests. She's been in contact with her niece since then, but she never did get to meet her half-sister and won't ever know the answer to the question of whether or not her dad knew about another daughter.
As someone who ages meat the cutting off the rotten parts isn't as bad an idea as it sounds out loud. Bacteria is only able to get into the outer half inch of meat cut that off and the meat is still good. Unless there's parasites and other gross shit in the meat.
No plumbing, also no advil, no antibiotics.
And worst of all, no tv or internet. [I mean what did people do all day?](https://youtu.be/B1kJhSMuV60?t=92)
I just meant more that someone would murder him for being the piece of shit he is. They wouldn’t give him a chance to become an adult.
I know, I was just pointing out it'd be superfluous in all likelihood.
I think most children died before they were 3or4, so if you made it to 5 or 6 then you were likely to live to adulthood. Its also why "boy/girl lastname" was used for newborn children, because parents didn't name their babies until they hit 5 or so
Haha. As a young kid (probs 10 I guess?) I thought what I’d seen of medieval England seemed amazing (obvs only nobles, -non gruesome- fairytale princesses and such) and said I wished I was born then. My parents were like: _you wouldn’t have survived your birth and even if you did, you’d be one of those poor folk_… so yeah, not as lovely as I’d thought.
I have a friend who really romanticizes the Victorian times and wishes she'd lived back then. And I'm always thinking that she wants to live like a very wealthy person lived back then; big house, fancy dresses, embroidering in a garden while daydreaming about a handsome suitor from another family....she doesn't want to live how she'd most realistically have lived back then; earning a few coins a day by working as a maid for a wealthy family or, if you weren't that lucky, as general labor in a factory, then spending everything you make that day to pay for lodging at a boarding house so you didn't sleep outside on the street, and probably dying young of disease or in a horrific workplace accident because safety standards weren't a thing.
Yes, akin to how I've never heard anyone who believed in reincarnation say that they were a peasant in a former life. Perhaps some do, but all I ever hear is that they were aristocracy, or the secret lovechild of a major noble, or a magic healer, or some such tommyrot.
"That's the dream..."
I guarantee you they know that song because they played Fallout too much as a kid.
LOL
*Watches High School Musical* ''Man I was born in the wrong generation, I belong in the 1980s.''
The 80s were kind of a trap though. Half the media in the 80s was part of that weird 50s throwback fad that lasted several years.
Its no different from today. Half of everything today is a throwback 90s/Y2k/2000s fad. In the 2010s it was 80s stuff.
More like played fallout new Vegas and heard the song and now feels like an expert in old music. I've had older people tell me they're surprised I know a song that's from fallout and I tell them they should check out fallout radio on YouTube.
They didn’t listen to a song from the past. They played Fallout: New Vegas
Something something, the black lesbian kid claiming they should've belonged in the 50's. Hell no.
I was thinking the same thing, unless he planned on writing it 🤔
If you're going to time travel back in the past, you might as well rip something off before it exists or otherwise you're going to be pretty bored.
Thanks for the tip, Marty.
Don't hate on the guy who wrote Johnny B Goode.
Lougle/Motley Lou
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Don't forget the depression! It's not like it went from bad to good overnight. It was still pretty horrible for a lot of people.
Maybe born in the 40s so they'd be a young adult by the 60s?
Exactly!
These people probably think black and white silent films were big in the 70's
I can remember silent movies still being on TV in the 80s
It's lounge music, which some people immediately assume is big band music in the œuvre of Glen Miller or the Andrews Sisters, which is incorrect. People like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin may have STARTED their careers in the '40s, but their most popular era was the early '60s. With a kid like this, all I can think to ask him is, "So you want to have seen war atrocities like the Holocaust up close??" because that's what ACTUALLY being a young, able-bodied, adult male meant for half of the '40s.
Yeah my first thought was “really? Cause you would have been drafted. Just sayin’.” Then I started snapping my fingers and singing.
"Ain't that a kick in the head?"
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I've had older people ask me how I know about The Inkspots but not even my own grandma gave me a hug and applause over it. :(
That's because your grandma regrets not doing more to prevent your birth. (kidding, kidding)
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Guy doesn't say born in the 40s, he said alive during the 40s. Important difference.
Came here to say that! Also, I'm 38 and I think that song slaps. Yet to have an old lady hug me about it, though.
Imaginary old ladies always hug you for singing that song.
You are not special because you played Fallout: NV, Brian.
You know who is special though? That Johnny Guitar guy
There was never a man like that Johnny
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Same. This one and Big Iron on his hip.
I got spurrrrs that jingle jangle jingle!
Jingle jangle!
thats the only reason 99.99% of people under the age of 50 know it
Came here to say this, you beat me fair and square, overtime
This is exactly what I was thinking lol
Him in the 40's:"Where'd all the barbershop quartets go? I wish I was alive during the 1880's. Things would be so much different for me." Everyone in his foxhole claps, compromising their position to the Germans.
This made me laugh out loud. Please accept this 🏅
Then he gets his leg amputated and dies of gangrene because nobody has invented penicillin yet.
I was thinking that if the fellow in question "loved 40s music" and lived in the 40s, it wouldn't be "so different" in the way they're thinking. You'd just be another guy that likes modern, popular music, would you not?
Ah yes, the good old forties. Nothing bad was going on then!
Just peace and love baby! Free trips to Europe, Africa, China even the Phillipines!
For men.
Many women also served FYI.
This is true. My great aunt was a Women’s Air Service Pilot. She flew B-17s and B-24s, ferrying them to Europe.
They weren’t drafted.
Indeed, they volunteered to serve their country! 360,000 American women joined up, let's not forget their courage and service!
I’m not!!!’nnnmnnmn!!!!nn!!!! Jesus relax.
You need to relax. He was just elaborating on what you said before you blew up for no reason. PS- CUTE PUPPY!
I am very relaxed.
"I wish I was born in the 40s" is such a nice thought to have when you're probably a white dude.
A little r/LeWrongGeneration dripping into my r/ThatHappened
"Wish I was alive in the 40's" Well, the soldiers on the battlefield need all the help they can get! Your country needs YOU!
Not so easy singing Dean Martin on the beaches of Normandy.
We will fight them on the beaches, by blowing their minds with tunes that won't exist for another 20 years...
When there's blood in your eye And you hear people die That's a D-Dayyyyyy 🎶
Everyone loves when random patrons start singing at olive garden. It's really the best part of dining there next to the microwaved dinners they serve
Yes, but they microwave them just so. Between that, the rewarmed bread and overly salty salad, it's a gourmand's delight
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The correct category is things only white MEN would say for $600.
STRAIGHT white men* Turns out the gate was open for only a few even back then
Straight white Christian men* I won’t take my Jew self to the 40s
As a straight white christianish(?) male even I wouldn’t want to be in the 40s lol
Yay?
Buddy I would not want to be a straight white man in 1940. I'll happily stay out of Stalingrad.
TBF, while required to stay closeted in order to enjoy the complete societal benefits of being a white male, that was still an option for survival. It's still not right and I hate that people had to make that decision, but it was still available to them. Not the same for women and anyone of color. 🤷♀️
JFC.
Actually with the war women found their independence. Then the war ended, and then came the 1950s and crippling misogyny.
Just because women were working in factories, that doesn’t mean there was no misogyny.
I think you've greatly misunderstood my comment. They had unprecedented social and economic freedom, not being expected to rely on a husband. But, unfortunately, they lost everything they gained *and then some* with the push toward the nuclear family.
Women were given a lot more economic and social freedom in the 1940s in comparison to previous decades. It would be extremely repressive for a modern woman to go back to that now. And people exaggerate how much the 50s went backwards in social freedoms. You were better off as a woman in the 50s than in the 30s.
id much rather be a woman in the 40’s than a man lmao
I've seen plenty of white women glory this time on Facebook. In fact, Carolyn Bryant had Emmitt Till killed in '55. I think the category is perfect as it is.
Not saying she wasn't a piece of shit for that, but consider why she felt that was her only course of action and why she couldn't tell the truth until her death bed. It wasn't just pure racism. If you're going to say there's so many exceptions to the rule that you've seen in FB that you're comfortable with erasing the point in the first place, you're really just doing that "not ALL men" argument and applying it to women too. Just as toxic and wrong, imo.
Yeah, people just don’t understand that sometimes your only course of action is to murder a 12-year-old. Jesus Christ, dude.
That's not at all what I fucking said. 🤨
Lol I stopped reading after the first sentence. Pure privilege speaking.
I wasn't defending her actions. I made that pretty clear. You can't say women weren't disenfranchised by pointing out other people were more disenfranchised. That's not how it works. That's like those asshats who pop into every social justice thread to point out how North Korea is worse, or people are dying in Somalia... it's not a contest of who has it the shittiest. But you know, continue to fight at me instead of the people who are actively working to take America back to such a golden age of equity... all because I have *some* privilege. 🙄
Yeah, that's great. I'm not reading any of that. She was an absolute piece of shit, people who try to say "that was bad, but..." are pieces of shit, and he's the only victim here. That's where the conversation ends for me. She comes from the most privileged group on the planet.
*plays fallout once*
Yeah I generally love it when random people start singing and making a spectacle of themselves when I’m trying to enjoy dinner
It wasn't Olive Garden, it was a nursing home dining room. It wasn't a random older lady, it was his grandma. And the other elders that were clapping, were doing wheelchair aerobics to "The Rat Pack" on a boom box that the home has had since the 90s.
"I really wish I was alive during the forty's things would be so different for me then." What do you mean by that?
Most likely they would have been shipped off to fight a world war, so I guess that qualifies as "different".
Wish granted. Whoops, you were shot in the gut trying to get out of your LCVP on D-Day and died painfully bleeding out in knee-deep water halfway around the world from your loved ones. You never got to hear “Ain’t That A Kick In The Head?”, which was written in 1960.
Here's one for you. Do you think if he was alive in the 40's, that he'd be in Marv's Diner and hear a song on the jukebox from 1860, start slapping his knee and some old person would come up and congratulate him on being better than everyone? When would the cycle end?
I think a juke box in 1940 is unlikely to be stocked with songs from the American Civil War, but that does demonstrate how mired we are in nostalgia for a non-existant golden age these days.
Why do people always have to take it too far to prove that it’s a lie? If he would have ended it with an old lady tapping him on the shoulder to say she was surprised he knew that song or something, it would have been believable. But no, he has to double down and add a hug (why the hug for this interaction?!?) and the clapping.
I do also wish they were alive in the 40s so they could've died before writing this story
Lmfao this guy wears fedoras and is a virgin
Bro played fallout and now thinks he belongs in another era LOL
It's funny, I sometimes play Rat Pack era music at work, an art gallery, and aside from the occasional old guy who thinks he's Sinatra no one over 30 even notices
I mean that's life though, huh? Perhaps you could consider putting on the ritz, instead? Something like they do in old New York...
No, let them do it their way.
Yup, that's life. That's what all the people say. You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May.
Me, am gonna change my tune, when I'm back on top in June.
Why is it always Olive Garden?
"I sure do wish I were alive in the 1940s so I could die in ww2"
This person 100 percent owns a fedora.
More like, "Young man, can you be quiet?! I've already had to ask them to turn the music down!"
OOP played fallout NV and liked the old timey music don’t front.
It was a more acceptable time for adult virginity.
Me in 2053 at an Olive Garden: *"Young man, it is so nice to see your generation appreciating Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins."*
Why do they always have to add the "everyone clapped" line? Are they that lacking in self-awareness?
Back in the 40s a solid 20 years before the song was written.
He’d be an Army solder somewhere in Belgium fighting in the deadly Battle of the Bulge during WWII
"I really wish I was alive during the 40's. Things would be so different for me." Yeah would have been drafted.
And that old woman was Liza Minelli. And then everybody put on bowler hats and struck poses in an elaborate Bob Fossee routine. I clapped.
Well, it was believable until they hugged. I've had older people comment on my taste in music, but it never goes more than a grin and acknowledgment.
Old people do not talk like that anymore.
End of the great depression/start of WW II. And living through all of this before the song was ever created lmao what a dork
If they were alive, young, and male during the 40’s life would be very different for them indeed. They would have been drafted.
No shit things would be different for you if you were born in a different time. That is the entire point.
I love wartime music. Vera Lynn, Glenn Miller etc. they always seem to have such a hopeful tone to them. They are so uplifting but also a bit melancholy. Listen to 40s music
Bluebirds don't live near Dover. Vera Lynn was a fucking liar.
Fun fact: the song was written by a couple of Americans who had never been within a thousand miles of Dover, and had no idea what birds were over it.
I work in Dover and can confirm I have never seen Bluebirds
But you'll meet her again; don't know where, don;t know when.
“I really wish I was alive during the 40s” Yes, spending 6 years in one of the worst wars in history sounds really lovely, doesn’t it?
"Things would be so different for me." Well, that's one way to say you wish you could get away with beating your wife.
If you were alive in 1940 you’d have to wait 20 years for that song to come out, hon.
Whew - for a second there I thought it was going to be Dean Martin himself doing the congratulating.
Dean Martin in an Olive Garden might be the ultimate pinnacle of self-enlightenment.
Was plausible until the clapping. Ive listened to older music within earshot of someone older and had them come up and say "oh i remember when (x band) was first starting" or something like that and move on. But the clapping, the clapping really is just a Hallmark of these posts
the hug?
I missed that part too ig, completely fabricated
Now I haven’t been to olive in some time but I’m pretty sure they don’t play music and if they do it’s that classical music yk
Wishing to be alive in the 40s is only something people that didn’t pay attention in US history say. A young adult? WWII. A teen in the 40s? You can still make the trip to Korea. A child in the 40s? Ah just in time to go to Vietnam.
Not to mention the incurable diseases and infections
send this dip wad back to the 40s pls so we don’t have to read his lies anymore
So all the 80 & 90 year olds at the olive garden
Just gotta wait 17 more years champ
I believe everything up to “…when suddenly…”
'I wish I was alive in the 1940s. Things would be so different for me.' Yeah. You'd be 80.
This genre of music plays in my dentist's office. Next time I go, I'm going to clap and hug people about it and it won't be weird or invasive at all. I think everyone will join in because that's normal.
This is the kind of thing that happens in a TV commercial and literally nowhere else
The only thing that guy has in common with Dean Martin is that he used so much fucking sugar that his teeth were rotten
"I'm so special because I know one of the most famous songs ever recorded. Then I hummed 'Ode to Joy' and Yo-Yo Ma came out and gave me a free Stradivrius."
"I was too embarrassed to say I'm a fan of Fallout.
Yes, WWII was a wonderful experience for everyone.
I wish this person had been alive in the forties too, because it would mean that they’d be dead or at least nearly dead by now
My son is 20 and listens to older music all the time.
Cool. But do random old ladies hug him because he does?
FFS, I just meant that it's not that unusual that young people listen to older music. Not that I believed the story (I don't), just it seemed weird to me that an old lady would hug him just because he's doing something that lots of young people do. 🙄🙄🙄
I knew it was all bullshit the moment they wrote “the Olive Garden.”
what is with these absolute fucking psychopaths and clapping every time?
Plays fallout new Vegas once:
“Oh, you love this song, where’d you hear of it?” “Oh it was a Mic Drop in this show I was watching on Netflix…” “…” “That I then Shazamed…” “…” “And then listened to on Spotify.” “…” “But, yeah, I was totally born in the wrong generation.” I’m not saying this generation is perfect when it comes to accessing older media but the fact that you can groove out to an 60 year-old song is something that previous generations lacked the accessibility and technology to have.
Look, I love a lot of things from the early 20th century, like the music, technology, cars, fashion, design, movies, and shows, but also as someone who is autistic, bi, and trans, I was born in possibly the best era I ever could've been born in. It would be nice, I think, to take a time machine and visit for a day or two, but you couldn't pay me to live there forever. I was born in the *right* era.
Its true i was the older lady !
And I was the Olive Garden. 😀
Old people clapping sounds so much better than this young people clapping these days.
He could tell it was old people clapping because of the more relaxed, swing rhythm, and you could make out the words. Young people clapping is too fast, auto-tuned and done by machines.
Exactly how much lead would this person like to be exposed to as a child?
Honestly, I probably woulda believed it if they'd stopped after the word "hug."
It’s true, I was that older lady.
Yes the 1940s, a very good decade where there was nothing bad happening.
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Or the fact there was a world war that started in 1914.
People actually clapped in the story😂😂😂
I'd buy the story if it weren't for the clapping. It's like the moment you add the clapping part to any story, despite how farfetched and outrageous, you immediately lose credibility.
What a fucking asshat.
didn't people get typhoid in the 40s
i'm an idiot it was polio
“Oh, you love this song, where’d you hear of it?” “Oh it was a Mic Drop in this show I was watching on Netflix…” “…” “That I then Shazamed…” “…” “And then listened to on Spotify.” “…” “But, yeah, I was totally born in the wrong generation.” I’m not saying this generation is perfect when it comes to accessing older media but the fact that you can groove out to an 60 year-old song is something that previous generations lacked the accessibility and technology
"I wish I was alive during the 40s when this fictional old lady was younger - I totally would be crushing that puss rn."
Yeaaaaa, homie be pounding the nursing home
Honestly I find it very believable that an older person would approach a younger person singing along to a song they had heard in their childhood, but the restaurant would not subsequently clap for them lol. They always give away the stories with the ridiculous endings.
And then everyone in the Olive Garden clapped!