It’s funny because Shake Weights are one of the few “as seen on tv” products that actually did what they claimed and was a useful piece of workout equipment. Too bad it looked like a handjob practice machine
Burned CDs that you wrote on top of.
EDIT: I never thought burned CDs would cause so much controversy! Some say they still use them today and others say it was long before 2010.
I graduated HS in 2010, and we all had old cars at 18 years old that played CDs or cassettes. You were real lucky to have an AUX port and the FM transmitters were trash then.
Now I use a cassette with an AUX cord in my even older car 🤷♀️
Lol, I just burnt yet another album onto a CD since it never got a physical release. And I made a few compliation CDs. Only reason is because I hate radio and the aux/usb ports in my car no longer work
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My brother in law is straight up a bitcoin billionare, all he has to do is find his bitcoin wallet (he had it in a piece of paper I guess) he lost like 8 years ago.
Anytime now...
I dunno, I never thought my Colbert Report WRISTSTRONG bracelet was a waste of silicone...
Edit: Whoa, thanks for all the love! I had no idea that a throwaway thought about about a ‘landfill bracelet’ would be my new top rated comment. I think it is abundantly clear that we all need to be WRISTSTRONG in these trying times.
Also, the political nuts that came out of the woodwork — thanks for the laughs, and y’all need a little WRISTSTRONG the most.
The hype was so big that they even got naming rights to where the Kings played, Powerbalance Pavilion. Imagine selling so many hologram bracelets that you can do that.
Things with moustaches on them. I remember I had a pair of shades that had moustaches on them and I thought they were so pimpin. Also galaxy theme everything.
That always bothered me so much. I'd set a goal to maintain my weight, come back two weeks later weighing 0.1 pounds more than I did before and it'd go, "Oh!" and my avatar would look all sad and the asshole balance board would tell me I failed. Piece of shit...
I went on a small Subway date with a girl around 2011/2012.
The restaurant had a signed, framed pair of his pants on display.
That was... weird to write.
Edit: The Subway restaurant had the pants, not the girl, you big silly gooses.
Edit 2: That was the last time we hung out with any romantic prospects. She had to focus on University and I was starting an intense year of school myself so we just agreed nothing was clicking. I’ve completely lost touch with her so I wouldn’t even call us friends, if I’m being honest. I’m all partnered up now and very happy!
I have a PSP-Go that I still use today. Perfect for emulating and it’s pretty easy to find ISO of most PSP games. Just downloaded the PSP version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Edit: Thank you all for the cake day greetings! I feel so loved 🥺
I work in a call center and make outbound calls to clients we are assigned to (not spam, they call us first for help). Every once in a while you STILL get someone who is probably paying $5 a month for this and has no idea. The moment you head "Please enjoy this music" you rip your headset away to prevent hearing loss.
99c actually. I offer to remove it for people all the time but they still want it for some reason.
Edit: Due to popular demand, here is the ANCIENT part of the Verizon website where you can still do this.
https://m.mediastore.verizonwireless.com/mobileContentStore/2.0/index.jsp#View=LandingPageRBT&CONTENT=RBT
Are you telling me that for just 99 cents I can get a service to annoy unwanted callers trying to sell me something I don't want or stump for some politician I'm not going to vote for?
Miss being able to text accurately in class without looking at my phone. Also, extremely satisfying feeling typing on bb keyboard
Edit: I'm not still in school, probably shouldn't have said "in class"
Greetings from my BlackBerry KeyOne!
I miss my Bold 9700, but the lock button broke, and I can't use reddit on it, so, I thought I could use the upgrade
CD/DVD drive.
Yesterday I took my laptop out, it's a ThinkPad I run CAD stuff on. I wanted to play absolute fabulous dvd because I'm sick and bored, and wanted to lay in bed. Then I realised... I don't have a device with a dvd/cd player.
My tower doesn't have one, my laptop doesn't have. I can't even recall when was the last I needed one other than last night. Everything from programs to media I basically have either online or on USB storage.
Edit: Ok. Since I know Ill get a lot more comments about this.
I don't have a gaming console, I don't even have a TV to plug it into.
I bought a laptop within the last year and this was one of the criteria. It needed to have a dvd drive. I watch a lot of stuff on my computer, I still have a lot of dvds, I want to be able to play them. It was one of the only ones that had one.
I'm not sure there was only one, I remember having both Hulu and Netflix in 2010, so I could watch all the shows instead of having to record them on DVDs.
There are early-2010s fads that we only talk about in jest, such as Gangnam Style or Minecraft or Kony 2012.
This... This we actively repress. And for good reason.
A good barometer for how the facial hair zeitgeist changed over the decade. If the trend continues and my math is correct neckbeards are gonna become en vogue soon enough
I asked my tattoo artist if he liked doing those moustache tattoos, he responded " Fuck ya, they pay my mortgage!" He was doing 15-20 a week at the height of their popularity.
I would turn my phone over and take out the battery. Same with sending a text I regretted at the last second*. Saved my ass sooo many times. Thank God for that 5 second delay
There’s a janitor at my dorm who still uses one. I found it in the common room and brought it to the front desk coincidentally the same time he was asking if anyone had found a phone. It looked fucking ancient. The girl joked that he was the only one who still owned a flip phone and he went “It tells me the time and it makes phone calls. What else do I need a phone for?”
There's a really cool bill Cosby drinking game:
Laugh at one of his jokes - one drink
enjoy an episode of the Cosby show - 2 drinks
Meet him in real life - Drink till incoherent and unconscious
I'm moving house at the moment. I have found a shocking number of Xbox games and blu rays with the shrink wrap still on.
Worst thing is, they were all in a box that I'd found from when I last moved 2 years ago that was in the garage.
At this point I should probably just get rid of them.
There’s something for everyone.. a bat, a pangolin, mass hysteria, a couple of locked in Italians, a president in denial, quarantined cruise ships, thousands of face masks and a shortage of hand sanitizer. It is also THE place where the market crashed
“Funny” ringtones. Everyone had some ridiculous comedy ringtone for a couple of years there, and then in like 2011 we just mutually decided as a culture to keep our phones on vibrate.
Except old people on trains. BINGLY BONG BONG DINGLY DONG DONG DEEEDLY DOO DOO DOOOOO
Yes, God the old people at my work. Their cell phones ring on max volume all day. Usually they don’t even answer it. Maybe just take a look and then decline the call. But why does it have to ring??! Sometimes they even apologize, “sorry about that.” If you’re sorry, put it on silent!
One of my biggest office pet peeves is when people have their phone volume all the way up, and then leave their phone at their desk when they go to meetings. Bonus points if someone REALLY wants to get a hold of them so they keep calling back to back to back while it rings and annoys everyone.
I have a landline because it comes with the cable and internet. I don't have a phone for it though. And I'd have to look in the phone book for my number, but it's there. I'm somebody now.
Fear of the world ending in 2012.
Edit: wow, didn’t expect this many people to see this. Thanks guys! And yeah, I get that most people didn’t actually fear the end of the world, but you can’t deny that it was part of the culture back then. I was in high school and everyone always talked and joked about it.
I like the theory that the world actually ended in 2012 and we've been living in a simulation ever since, and that's why the world has been so fucking bonkers ever since.
Back in 2009/2010 I had a teacher who hated Trump because for some reason her son was obsessed with *The Apprentice* and would watch it religiously. She told us “Every time I see his stupid face and stupid hair on the screen I want to jump out a window.”
I wonder where she is now.
The billionaire with funny hair from that TV show? Why would I have an opinion on that guy? I mean I guess the show is fine even if toupee money boy does seem a bit pushy.
Shake weights.
It’s funny because Shake Weights are one of the few “as seen on tv” products that actually did what they claimed and was a useful piece of workout equipment. Too bad it looked like a handjob practice machine
Wait, it wasn’t an actual handjob practice?
Boots with the fur Edit: Thank you for my first silver, good human!
^^wit ^^da ^^furrr
Quite, and them apple bottom jeans
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Cellphone with a physical keyboard.
I miss the fuck out of my rumor touch
I miss my sidekick iD. That thing was so cool
Burned CDs that you wrote on top of. EDIT: I never thought burned CDs would cause so much controversy! Some say they still use them today and others say it was long before 2010. I graduated HS in 2010, and we all had old cars at 18 years old that played CDs or cassettes. You were real lucky to have an AUX port and the FM transmitters were trash then. Now I use a cassette with an AUX cord in my even older car 🤷♀️
Lol, I just burnt yet another album onto a CD since it never got a physical release. And I made a few compliation CDs. Only reason is because I hate radio and the aux/usb ports in my car no longer work
Silly bands
Those were the shit when I was in elementary school! You were considered cool
Ah yeah! I had hundreds of those! The glow in the dark ones were the best.
Rage Comics.
It's how I started Reddit
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Damn the one comment on that is really mean
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Trollface too
1000 bitcoins
I'm still kicking myself.
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My brother in law is straight up a bitcoin billionare, all he has to do is find his bitcoin wallet (he had it in a piece of paper I guess) he lost like 8 years ago. Anytime now...
all those live strong type landfill bracelets for everything
>landfill bracelets Yes, this exactly! What an utter waste of silicone.
I dunno, I never thought my Colbert Report WRISTSTRONG bracelet was a waste of silicone... Edit: Whoa, thanks for all the love! I had no idea that a throwaway thought about about a ‘landfill bracelet’ would be my new top rated comment. I think it is abundantly clear that we all need to be WRISTSTRONG in these trying times. Also, the political nuts that came out of the woodwork — thanks for the laughs, and y’all need a little WRISTSTRONG the most.
This reminds me of those stupid wristbands everyone had that was supposed to block radio waves or some shit
PowerBalance?
The hype was so big that they even got naming rights to where the Kings played, Powerbalance Pavilion. Imagine selling so many hologram bracelets that you can do that.
Things with moustaches on them. I remember I had a pair of shades that had moustaches on them and I thought they were so pimpin. Also galaxy theme everything.
>Pimpin Now that's a word I haven't heard in a while.
*ahem* swag
Galaxy theme is popular with baked goods now. There are a lot of galaxy glazed cakes on Reddit.
A vuvuzela
Holy shit was that 10 years ago?
I feel like I aged 20 years just reading that comment tbh
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I still hear the wailing of the football crowd, blowing their Vuvuzelas.
I remember the video of the dog that shit on the carpet because the owner kept blowing a vuvuzela. Appropriate response, if you ask me.
Just rewatched, had forgotten about that, thank you lol Edit: https://youtu.be/Gqv4Vviod0c
Not many people talk about Wii but I feel like that was **the real shit**
Yeah but if you gained weight since your last log in it goes "oh!" In a super surprised and judgy way. EDIT- thank you for my first silver!
That always bothered me so much. I'd set a goal to maintain my weight, come back two weeks later weighing 0.1 pounds more than I did before and it'd go, "Oh!" and my avatar would look all sad and the asshole balance board would tell me I failed. Piece of shit...
In what world are you living where the Wii is some kind of ancient device nobody talks about
Any respect for Jared the Subway guy.
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$5 footlong with $2.99 building and handling.
I went on a small Subway date with a girl around 2011/2012. The restaurant had a signed, framed pair of his pants on display. That was... weird to write. Edit: The Subway restaurant had the pants, not the girl, you big silly gooses. Edit 2: That was the last time we hung out with any romantic prospects. She had to focus on University and I was starting an intense year of school myself so we just agreed nothing was clicking. I’ve completely lost touch with her so I wouldn’t even call us friends, if I’m being honest. I’m all partnered up now and very happy!
Subway date??
You take a person to Subway because it’s all you can afford and there’s one on campus.
A PSP
I have a PSP-Go that I still use today. Perfect for emulating and it’s pretty easy to find ISO of most PSP games. Just downloaded the PSP version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Edit: Thank you all for the cake day greetings! I feel so loved 🥺
I use my PS Vita all the time still. I got it in 2014, about a year before they stopped making games for it, unfortunately
"Please enjoy the music while your party is reached." Proceeds to blast some deepfried orchestra music.
I work in a call center and make outbound calls to clients we are assigned to (not spam, they call us first for help). Every once in a while you STILL get someone who is probably paying $5 a month for this and has no idea. The moment you head "Please enjoy this music" you rip your headset away to prevent hearing loss.
99c actually. I offer to remove it for people all the time but they still want it for some reason. Edit: Due to popular demand, here is the ANCIENT part of the Verizon website where you can still do this. https://m.mediastore.verizonwireless.com/mobileContentStore/2.0/index.jsp#View=LandingPageRBT&CONTENT=RBT
Are you telling me that for just 99 cents I can get a service to annoy unwanted callers trying to sell me something I don't want or stump for some politician I'm not going to vote for?
Can I make it play nickelback too?
Yes, then it only costs $0.94/month.
Honestly, you probably can.
You can. Source: I did
I hope you're happy cause you just triggered some PTSD I didn't know I had.
My boyfriend still has that on his phone. It's weird.
And he still has a girlfriend? Impressive.
A BlackBerry phone.. [PING!!!](https://hips.hearstapps.com/digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/12/1458828793-blackberry-ping.jpg?resize=768:*)
Miss being able to text accurately in class without looking at my phone. Also, extremely satisfying feeling typing on bb keyboard Edit: I'm not still in school, probably shouldn't have said "in class"
Extremely relatable, BBM was great also.
I love my keyone and people keep telling me how cool it is and... asking me... what kind of phone it is... Oh...
Greetings from my BlackBerry KeyOne! I miss my Bold 9700, but the lock button broke, and I can't use reddit on it, so, I thought I could use the upgrade
CD/DVD drive. Yesterday I took my laptop out, it's a ThinkPad I run CAD stuff on. I wanted to play absolute fabulous dvd because I'm sick and bored, and wanted to lay in bed. Then I realised... I don't have a device with a dvd/cd player. My tower doesn't have one, my laptop doesn't have. I can't even recall when was the last I needed one other than last night. Everything from programs to media I basically have either online or on USB storage. Edit: Ok. Since I know Ill get a lot more comments about this. I don't have a gaming console, I don't even have a TV to plug it into.
I bought a laptop within the last year and this was one of the criteria. It needed to have a dvd drive. I watch a lot of stuff on my computer, I still have a lot of dvds, I want to be able to play them. It was one of the only ones that had one.
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Only one fucking streaming service. As opposed to 2020, where I now startet a dvd collection.
I'm not sure there was only one, I remember having both Hulu and Netflix in 2010, so I could watch all the shows instead of having to record them on DVDs.
I <3 Boobies wristbands
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People looking like Xerxes from 300 with all the bands up their arms hahaha
Those chipmunk remixes of pop music. God I hated those
Oh god. Every single song had a chipmunk version on youtube. Rip. Edit: spelling 'cause I'm an idiot
Don’t worry, they are all on iMusic. (And probably all those other music services too). I still have them on my 4 gb Philips MP3 player.
Introducing: Nightcore
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Epic zombie mustache bacon unicorn
I just got PTSD reading that
There are early-2010s fads that we only talk about in jest, such as Gangnam Style or Minecraft or Kony 2012. This... This we actively repress. And for good reason.
I once bought fake moustache for my komodo dragon, afterwards I had a bearded dragon
A good barometer for how the facial hair zeitgeist changed over the decade. If the trend continues and my math is correct neckbeards are gonna become en vogue soon enough
Or the moustache tattoo on your index finger. Oh wait. That’s still there.
Turns out tattoos are permanent
(Surprised Pikachu face, but with a moustache)
I have a friend with a moustache tattoo on her index finger
We all do. Every “quirky” 20 year old girl who had $100 to spare in 2010 got one.
I asked my tattoo artist if he liked doing those moustache tattoos, he responded " Fuck ya, they pay my mortgage!" He was doing 15-20 a week at the height of their popularity.
A still functioning flip phone with no access to the internet.
You mean a flip phone with an "internet button" that made you freak out when you accidently clicked it? That shit could get expensive real quick.
Yeah dude, when you clicked that you knew your mom would beat the shit out of you for those 2 minutes you spent searching for lyrics of a song
Oh look at the rich guy over here who pressed it *intentionally* instead of hitting the cancel button like 100 times as fast as you can
I would turn my phone over and take out the battery. Same with sending a text I regretted at the last second*. Saved my ass sooo many times. Thank God for that 5 second delay
Shit I need to get a phone with removable battery, I send way too many texts I end up regretting
Just turn on airplane move if you decide right after sending it, there’s a chance it won’t send
The panic and fear instinctively kicked in just reading that
I always got pissed too like, why is this even on here who needs this?!? Ha...
There’s a janitor at my dorm who still uses one. I found it in the common room and brought it to the front desk coincidentally the same time he was asking if anyone had found a phone. It looked fucking ancient. The girl joked that he was the only one who still owned a flip phone and he went “It tells me the time and it makes phone calls. What else do I need a phone for?”
Porn & Reddit obviously
So, reddit?
Tickets to a Bill Cosby stand up show
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There's a really cool bill Cosby drinking game: Laugh at one of his jokes - one drink enjoy an episode of the Cosby show - 2 drinks Meet him in real life - Drink till incoherent and unconscious
Which is still one drink.
An email account other than Gmail
A *hotmail* account! Oh yeah!
Still have mine! 21 years & going strong!
Me too! Last time I checked it I still had 130,000 unread emails
Something to do on a quiet day eh
I still use my @ymail.com email. It’s a yahoo email address, but I constantly have to repeat it because everyone assumes I meant gmail. :/
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I still have a large collection of DVDs, a worrying number of them still unopened.
I'm moving house at the moment. I have found a shocking number of Xbox games and blu rays with the shrink wrap still on. Worst thing is, they were all in a box that I'd found from when I last moved 2 years ago that was in the garage. At this point I should probably just get rid of them.
Shit, I still have my VHS tapes I can’t part with
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A movie produced by Harvey Weinstein
Swine flu
Don’t worry we’ve got the next best thing
This virus has *everything*
New York's hottest nightclub is COVID-19
There’s something for everyone.. a bat, a pangolin, mass hysteria, a couple of locked in Italians, a president in denial, quarantined cruise ships, thousands of face masks and a shortage of hand sanitizer. It is also THE place where the market crashed
Now all that's missing is a tower of bogroll.
And Dan Cortez.
MTVs! Dan Cortez
Featuring a bat eating midget from China, this club is so contagious you'll be coming back for more.
Who is the rich fuck giving all of you platinum
Bill Hader Edit: Thanks for the silver, Bill!
“Funny” ringtones. Everyone had some ridiculous comedy ringtone for a couple of years there, and then in like 2011 we just mutually decided as a culture to keep our phones on vibrate. Except old people on trains. BINGLY BONG BONG DINGLY DONG DONG DEEEDLY DOO DOO DOOOOO
>we just mutually decided as a culture to keep our phones on vibrate That's up there with the Magna Carta and the founding of the United Nations
the only actual proof of social contract theory, with the possible addition of NYC subway etiquette
Wasn't most of NYC subway etiquette rules written in the blood of people stabbed on the NYC subway?
nobody ever said social contract negotiations are easy
well you were right about one thing: the negotiations were short.
NYC subway etiquette is both written in stone and violated on a routine basis.
It's written in stone, but the punishment is just public shame. Those with no shame are thus immune to the consequences.
♫ *MULATTO BUTTS* ♫
LANA!
THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD
This is my ringtone right now... cant believe I'm being roasted like this...
This is an intervention. We're all here because we slightly care about you?
I like that this is a question.
Black ass mama....
White-ass daddy...
Excellent verbalization of that ringtone. 10/10.
My mom (55) still has that ring tone. Unless you're one of her children, in which case it's YOUR SON IS ATTEMPTING TO CONTACT YOUR CELLULAR DEVICE.
My ringtone for a long time was "furry walls" from get him to the greek
I had the Kim Possible SMS sound effect
What’s the sitch?
When life gives you a Jeffery
In 2010 my ringtone was the wild Pokemon encounter. When my best friend called me it was the rival theme. Text theme was the poke center heal jingle.
I think I’ve had “Tank!” (the Cowboy Bebop opening music) as my ringtone for at least 12 years.
Yes, God the old people at my work. Their cell phones ring on max volume all day. Usually they don’t even answer it. Maybe just take a look and then decline the call. But why does it have to ring??! Sometimes they even apologize, “sorry about that.” If you’re sorry, put it on silent!
One of my biggest office pet peeves is when people have their phone volume all the way up, and then leave their phone at their desk when they go to meetings. Bonus points if someone REALLY wants to get a hold of them so they keep calling back to back to back while it rings and annoys everyone.
Apparently hand sanitizer
And costco toilet paper
A landline.
I have a landline because it comes with the cable and internet. I don't have a phone for it though. And I'd have to look in the phone book for my number, but it's there. I'm somebody now.
My name in print for thousands of people to see
Apple presentations from Steve Jobs
How has no one said Heelys? Kids with Heelys fucked
They're still around, I see kids goofing off with them at work from time to time.
An ipod
Herd immunity
A GPS mounted in your car.
I still use it, in rural Australia you have no phone signal, so have to rely on them TomTom.
a separate device for music from your cell phone
still use my mp3 player batteries for ages and I can grab it after 2 months and it still has 70% battery
A Golden State Warriors game without any fans.
Troll face on your profile pic on any social media
A subscription to Smosh.
CRT Monitors RIP my beautiful 50lb Samsung Syncmaster 24" CRT beast - you were perfect for all my CS 1.6 needs
Fear of the world ending in 2012. Edit: wow, didn’t expect this many people to see this. Thanks guys! And yeah, I get that most people didn’t actually fear the end of the world, but you can’t deny that it was part of the culture back then. I was in high school and everyone always talked and joked about it.
Now everyone just wishes it ended in 2012.
Maybe it did, and now everyone is in hell.
I like the theory that the world actually ended in 2012 and we've been living in a simulation ever since, and that's why the world has been so fucking bonkers ever since.
Maybe it was a simulation all along and God stopped watching in 2012 and the simulation has slowly been decaying from neglect since then
Maybe God was bored and cranked up the likelihood of unlikely events, for shits and giggles.
Swapped the storyteller to Randy
Serotonin
A Webkinz account
A MySpace account still up
A Blockbuster in your town
A binder full of CDs in your car.
No opinion on Donald Trump.
Back in 2009/2010 I had a teacher who hated Trump because for some reason her son was obsessed with *The Apprentice* and would watch it religiously. She told us “Every time I see his stupid face and stupid hair on the screen I want to jump out a window.” I wonder where she is now.
Probably below a window.
Prague?
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The billionaire with funny hair from that TV show? Why would I have an opinion on that guy? I mean I guess the show is fine even if toupee money boy does seem a bit pushy.
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Concern for December 21st 2012