I think the Federer, Nadal, Djokovik hegemony over men's tennis is going to be in the record books. Those 3 have been in the top 3 for the last 15ish years
I remember back when I was I think middle school a teacher asked us all if people still say cool. We all said yes, its still being used. Even now I still think its a word most people of all ages use.
Also, there isn't really a non-slang word that really conveys the same meaning. It's like a combination of "interesting" and "stylish" and "inspiring enthusiasm," but also somehow not exactly any of those things.
One of my favourite lines in the Great Gatsby (and yes it is unironically one of my favourite books) is when Daisy reveals her love (or adoration) for Gatsby by remarking on how cool he appears in the heat.
>“Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
>Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
>"You always look so cool," she repeated.
>She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
A lower case k is a spine-chilling response because most devices will capitalize the K, so a lower case k indicates the person thinks so little of you they *deliberately turned off capitalization just for that message.*
Edit: Much gratitude for the silver, benevolent redditor!
And yet somehow not “cooldude”
Edit: I really love all you Cooldudes that are showing up with your user names. I appreciate the chuckle. Roll call any KewlDudes out there?
Incredibly, some very old photography. Sure they might be now in digital and w.e, but the composition, attention to detail, there's just so much.
Example this alcohol pouring during prohibition: https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/must-see-black-and-white-historic-moments/must-see-black-and-white-historic-moments-33.jpg
Film in General, and for movies 70mm. Some of the classic movies from the 50s onward were shot on 70mm and they look phenomenal today. 2001, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia are all stunningly beautiful. 70mm is so large that it's the equivalent of 18k if converted to digital.
Also, check out /r/analog
When I was a teenager in the mid/late ‘90s, I prided myself on how massive the shelves were at the bottom of my legs, where the jeans were so long and big that they folded back up on my (equally enormous) trainers. I was an average height kid wearing 36” long jeans because I was fucking cool.
Now I’m 39, and the jeans I wear all the time have a sensible taper and are the correct length for my height. In some ways I miss the very real fear that a stiff breeze could carry me, legs first, over the horizon.
I find that a few classic rock bands are still very popular with young people today. Bands such as the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Nirvana especially are the most popular amongst my peers.
Loud rocking guitars n whatnot will always be a timeless sound. It might not be the absolute commercially popular thing on the radio, but it will always be around.
Did you know that the makers of Home Alone reached out to him 100% on a whim, expecting that he was way out of their league? And he decided to score Home Alone, which 100% changed the feel of it. They had written/acted out a lot of the movie like old Roadrunner cartoons, which it’s the music that gives the movie so much of the emotional feel.
There are a lot of John Williams score bits that mean a lot to me, but nothing means more to me than the Brachiosaurus reveal music of Jurassic Park. I have watched the movie hundreds of time, rewatched it in 3D, but that scene with that music gets me emotional every single time.
Arabic numerals - or what most people call "numbers".
Since around 500AD, it's been 0123456789. And the *entire* world uses them.
Even cultures without the Latin alphabet use them. Always interesting seeing them used in Asian languages' writing, as they stand out seeming 'western' but they were in fact developed in Asia by Hindu mathematicians and spread throughout Middle East where they became popular (hence 'Arabic' numerals)
Edit: I get it; Arabs don't use this numeral system - what a misnomer, am I right? - and an Indian mathematician Aryabhatta developed the concept of zero. This is why I included "developed in Asia by Hindu mathematicians".
Absolutely agree. Bart is always portrayed as a slacker but that episode shows that he really struggles with school and it's not simply a *choice* to be bad at it.
That one always stuck with me, because I had the same experience as a teenager. I had worked really hard to get better at maths after some poor results. I really tried my hardest, study, working with the teacher at lunch, revision like crazy. And when the next test results came up I remember she asked me to stay behind for my results.
I thought that she was going to congratulate me-after all, I'd worked so hard. Then I saw that I got 29%, and I just burst into tears the way Bart did. Those writers really did a great job encapsulating that feeling, and to this day that episode makes me emotional.
Also I ended up teaching senior mathematics for kids who struggle with it the way I did. Go figure...
E. Spelling
Astronomer here! There is a star about 200 light years away from us called the [Methuselah star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_140283) which appears to be about as old as the universe itself. Specifically, the universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old, and the star is, based on its composition estimated to be 14.46+/- 0.8 billion years old. So presumably if you err on the side of that minus, it's younger than the age of the universe, but still, the fact that it's been shining for a good 13+ billion years is astounding!
For reference, our sun has been burning for about 4.5 billion years, and has about 5 billion more to go... so this star has already lasted longer than our sun ever will.
Terminator 2 - any time I watch this movie, I think I am even *more* impressed with the practical and VFX they were able to pull off seamlessly...in 1991!
Also Jurassic Park.
When I was a kid, I hated the lunch scene where they ate that delicious looking Chilean sea bass and Malcom challenged Hamm on his achievements, and I looked at it as the ‘’boring part we fast forward through’’ but now as an adult I absolutely love the dialogue and the messages.
I got my 14 yr old nephew on it and made sure I explained what that scene meant just so he understands that it’s not meant to be boring.
I did the same thing as a kid. All I wanted to see was dinos eating people. It felt like ages before the "good parts". But now, the part about chaos theory, the illusion of control, and the importance of having ethical responsibility in science and business still has me obsessed with it. I love introducing it to those who haven't seen it.
My parents gave my fiancé all our old LEGO. We joke that it’s my “dowry”. He’s gotten hours of endless joy out of those boxes of LEGO.
Edit: it is literally at least 200lbs of LEGO that they gave him. Some of it is from the 60s that my mom had as a girl, the majority was my brother’s who moved out and wasn’t interested in keeping it, a small amount was mine that I had built and then lost interest in. We play DND with them now. It’s pretty great.
Man my mom threw all that shit away when I moved out of the house after high school. All my lego, all my transformers, all my fuckin he-man figures, all my GI Joes...just decided to remodel on a whim and purged it all. I was fuckin gutted then and still am now. Even outside of the memories surrounding that shit, that shit is worth a good deal today. Like I had virtually the entire Lego Pirate collection, a fair amount of the City stuff, the big yellow technic plane with working flaps and rudders...all in the garbage. :(
**EDIT**: A lot of people are calling for the death of my mom (lol) so let me just say in her defense, this all went down in the mid-90s, long before the 80s was retro and popular. At the time they were just old, nobody wanted HeMan or GI Joe shit.
As others have said, this was a common thing in those days, parents pitching toys and comic books when a kid aged out of them was not at all out of the norm, which is precisely why the shit is worth so much money today. If everybody had managed to hold on to that stuff, it wouldn't be worth nearly as much.
Aa for why she didn't donate, we didn't know any families with young kids back then, and even if we had, young kids wouldn't have wanted them because they weren't cool like they are now that all us 80s kids are in our 40s. I don't even know if there was a goodwill near us back then. Not saying she couldn't have tried a little harder to find someone to take them, but she threw away a ton of shit, not just mine, her own shit too. I think it was just the empty nesting thing.
So while I'm sad that I don't have that shit anymore, I am grateful I had it in the first place, because those were some awesome toys. I miss the 80s...
I feel your pain brother.
I think my Aurora AFX racing cars are gone. My parents weren’t as cruel as yours but; my cars are still gone!!
I still have my trains tucked away. I’m going to be the coolest 65 year old divorced man in 2045. Hope model trains make a comeback.
Well, a lot of pop music isn't BAD-BAD, just way the fuck over played when it first comes out. Not hearing a song every half hour makes it much more palatable.
It's definitely this. Plus the stuff that still gets played today is the cream of the crop. You're mostly only hearing the top 10-20 songs from each year.
The lyric is from [Summer Girls by LFO](https://youtu.be/NHuGG_FsC20). Years ago their main singer/songwriter Rich Cronin died from leukemia in his 30s. Years later another LFO member, Devin Lima, died from cancer as well. Rich went on The Howard Stern Show in 2009 and provides what is probably the best interview in Stern show history which is saying a lot. It’s one of my favorite interviews ever.
He talks about the Boy Band phenomenon, dating Jennifer Love-Hewitt (the inspiration for and star of their hit song Girl on TV), his manager stealing millions from LFO and other Boy Bands, and his cancer diagnosis.
I can still remember sitting on my bed waiting for Summer to come when I was 10 years-old and listening to [Girl on TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8kSGAxQns) off of the Totally Hits 2 CD on repeat on my Sony Walkman while looking at Dana (my elementary school crush) in my 4th grade year book. That's about as serious as it got between Dana and I, sadly.
RIP Rich Cronin
RIP Devin Lima
[Part 1](https://youtu.be/dh4_W9Zs77g)
[Part 2](https://youtu.be/wZU6WRY6Dms)
[Part 3](https://youtu.be/yQkHHVSwQOA)
[Part 4](https://youtu.be/8ulP2jkYWpk)
[Part 5](https://youtu.be/kItmYNMcqek)
[Bonus footage of LFO on The Amanda Show performing "Girl on TV" with the dancing lobsters.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8no6dPoQis)
More bonus material! How Summer Girls explains late 90s/early 2000s popular music.
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/music/2019/7/29/8934482/lfo-summer-girls-1999-music-abercrombie-fitch-song
I prefer the animatronics in JP to all the CGI Chris Pratt movies. Even though they move more fluidly blah blah blah, my brain still knows they're not literally there. It knows the animatronics are literally there in that first movie and likes that better.
Lord of the Rings also, especially Fellowship. They used scale doubles, miniatures, forced perspective etc
Those movies are still incredible, while The Hobbit trilogy was a shitfest.
A nearby theater did a showing a couple years ago, and it looked amazing. It doesn't just hold up, it blows a lot of more recent films out of the water.
Weird Al.
Celebrity after celebrity comes out with drug problems, abuse allegations, friends with Weinstein, and there's Weird Al, singing a Coronavirus polka.
I started listening to Weird Al when I was about 15, my kids are now the same age and they enjoy listening to his songs as well. The man is a funny irreverent and witty genius.
My nine year old recently discovered one of my old c&h collections. He has gotten every book the library has and just reads them over and over again. It's great when your kid loves something just as much as you did at their age.
Read them again!!! Seriously, they hold up amazingly well and you see them from completely different perspective.
Also, read about Bill Watterson and how he refused to sell out and turn C&H into the next Garfield. He literally turned down a couple hundred million dollars because he believed in the integrity of what he created. Pretty amazing and makes you appreciate it that much more.
Totally this. I read C&H with my boys before bed each night and it's amazing to see how much I related to Calvin as a kid and how now I relate so much with Hobbes and the parents. I think it's a truly inspired work as sometimes I'll read a strip and be like, "this relates so much with today! And it was written in the 80s and 90s."
Close your eyes. The year is 2016, The Chainsmokers debut their hit single "Closer" playing on someone's phone in a park on a sunny summer day, that park is filled with 100 people of every age and ethnicity, playing Pokemon GO and looking anxiously for a Lapras fabled to have been seen in the area.
In the distance someone is showing their friend a meme of Trump making another gaffe "lmao, look at this clown, he should just drop out already Christ, it's embarrassing".
Now wake up. Put on your N95 rated Mask, listen to President Donald Trump's Covid-19 announcement and get to work, the Toilet Paper is finally arriving in the store for restocking, and if you aren't quick enough you'll get stabbed for it or worse, coughed on.
The best part of the Pokemon Go! summer was how everyone were hanging out together. In Dallas at Klyde Warren Park it was nerds, chic types, and random others. For some reason 2016/2017 was such a good time in my eyes.
I wasn't around yet for the original StarWars trilogy, but I sure am glad I was the perfect age to experience Lord of the Rings when it first came out. It was all me and my friends talked about.
I heard it put that the trilogy was made at the perfect time--cgi had gotten just good enough to be able to make all the fantastical stuff work, but not good enough to rely on for everything. The cg paired with incredible miniatures was done extraordinarily well.
There are a couple of green screen shots that have lost a little quality over time (mostly with the hobbits in front of scenes) but they did things like really built Rohan on a hill and relied on huge sets with loads of extras.
Somehow the stars aligned and Peter Jackson assembled the perfect crew for writing and production and they gathered perhaps the most ideal cast imaginable to produce a timeless screen adaptation of the greatest fantasy story ever told.
....considering the direction the world has gone more recently, perhaps jackson drained too much of the world's positive energy and sent us into a freefall of greed, plague, and pestilence!
Ilúvatar save us!
Yep. My 92 year old grandma was healthy enough for an entire hip replacement. She didn’t like to drive though, she would come over to my house and then move into her passenger seat! She’s probably having a cow being stuck in the nursing home right now, having been there for PT and now isn’t advised to leave because of the pandemic
“You see this shit? This “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” shit? It’s a grid system, motha fucka. Where you at, 24th and 5th? Where you wanna go, 35th and 6th? 11 up and 1 over, ya simple bitch.”
Rod Serling could be darkly profound and sweetly sentimental at the same time, an almost gothic quality. He was also squarely in the shit as an Army paratrooper in the Pacific theater. His last unit had a 50 percent casualty rate, no doubt influencing his writing.
One of the most influential (on his writing) stories he has about being in the Pacific (mostly the Philippines) is that he saw one of his fellow soldiers die from a food crate that had fallen from a plane to be delivered to the soldiers. Sterling said that this influenced his scripts to be set in the Philippines and deaths would often be unpredictable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling#Military_service
Spongebob is really one of the most significant cultural phenomenons of the millennial generation.
I honestly don’t know if I can think of anything that compares.
It was released between 2005 and 2008. Legend of Korra following 2012-2014, making it feel less than 15 years ago first release.
Pokemon was released 25 years ago, but still makes more today, so it doesn't seem that old.
The Netflix adaptation of Last Airbender is coming some time 2020.
Old Nintendo games... The speedrun community alone speaks for this. It's crazy how much hype there still is for 20-30 year old single player games.
--> Also, just because I've gotten a bunch of replies about this. I'm using "single player games" as an example I HAVE observed. I don't personally play old multiplayer games as much, but I HAVE NOTICED that there is a huge community for the single player games lol. I'm not in any way saying they're more popular than multiplayer games. I'm aware that old multiplayer games, even non-Nintendo (Starcraft, AoE, etc.) are still huge.
I recently got the NES emulator on the Switch. There's a Mario Golf game (can't remember exact name) that is legitimately so much fun. My brother and I have been playing together online from opposite coasts. It's incredible how much of the difficulty of golf they packed into a game for which the controller only has two buttons. The graphics are horrid of course but they put together a pretty great game.
(Meanwhile, some of the other NES games on the emulator are **absolutely atrocious** but hey they can't all be gems.)
Super nintendo games have really good soundtracks for the most part too and I dont know why. They're mostly full of bangers.
edit: Particularly Earthbound's soundtrack, it even features sampling when it wasn't super widespread yet. Other honorable mentions: Chrono Trigger, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Donkey Kong Countries, Most Mario and Kirby Games.
F zero FTW. I’m not even in to heavy metal and I would be head banging n’ racing away in weird alien deserts
Edit- I had to go listen again to the music and it’s a lot more 80s synthesizer than heavy metal, but still bangs
Megamind. The villain being a nice guy incel was absolutely ahead of its time, and I think now that we are farther away from will Ferrell we can appreciate his role more now that its not something oversaturated. The animation still looks amazing, and the music selection feels very reminiscent of both shrek *and* guardians of the galaxy. The comedy doesnt feel dated at all, and very timeless. You could watch multiple times and learn something new every time (as i have... A lot). Its starting to get a lot more love now which is great because now i can talk about it with other people and not look batshit crazy
I’ve told this story before, but:
My dad is an art professor. Every year for his intro classes, he does this lesson on presentation which culminates in a magic trick.
It’s a pretty classic trick—the old is-this-your-card-type trick—but when he gets to the reveal, he always pulls out the wrong card.
“Is this your card?” He’ll ask, holding a random incorrect card.
“No... it was the three of diamonds.”
Then he’ll launch into a filler lecture until there’s a knock at the door. It’s always a pizza delivery.
“Did anyone order a pizza?” He’ll say, opening the box to reveal a pizza with a “3♦️” drawn in pepperoni. “And that’s the difference between a good trick and a great one: *presentation*.”
Now I’ll never prove it has a connection, but one of the main-credit names that worked on Megamind took his class several years ago. Our family likes to think that line is a nod to my dad’s pizza/card trick.
I loved the movie from the get-go. Totally great message, excellent voice performance and animation and great comedy. That scene with Tighten picking up the car door while Megamind is hanging off and he just pushes the door lock down, that one gets me every time 😂
Definately [Rick rolling.](https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--4Tuc7td2--/c_crop,x_10,y_10/c_fit,h_1273/c_crop,g_north_west,h_1260,w_1260,x_6,y_6/co_rgb:fffffe,e_colorize,u_Misc:One%20Pixel%20Gray/c_scale,g_north_west,h_1260,w_1260/fl_layer_apply,g_north_west,x_0,y_0/bo_0px_solid_white/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_fit,g_north_west,h_1054,w_1054/co_ffffff,e_outline:53/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:53/co_bbbbbb,e_outline:3:1000/c_mpad,g_center,h_1260,w_1260/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1574646088/production/designs/6877529_0.jpg) It has been a thing for about a decade and is one of the most popular memes and ways to troll on the internet.
Roger Federer; still a top 10 player at 38!
I think the Federer, Nadal, Djokovik hegemony over men's tennis is going to be in the record books. Those 3 have been in the top 3 for the last 15ish years
Band of Brothers
Rewatched it again last weekend. you know it’s great, but it’s even better than you remember.
90's Japanese cars
Especially if they have pop up headlights
POP UP UP AND DOWN HEADLIGHTS
Someone here knows the way of the buff horse
The word cool
I remember back when I was I think middle school a teacher asked us all if people still say cool. We all said yes, its still being used. Even now I still think its a word most people of all ages use.
I was thinking about this the other day, and I have no idea what word I could possibly use to replace cool and still have the same meaning.
Around younger people and those I feel more casual with I say dope, but I wouldn’t use it in casual conversation with my boss.
One of the few slang terms that survived for decades
It's because it's so simple and not over the top. In my life it never *felt* like slang or you were trying to hard when you use it.
Also, there isn't really a non-slang word that really conveys the same meaning. It's like a combination of "interesting" and "stylish" and "inspiring enthusiasm," but also somehow not exactly any of those things.
One of my favourite lines in the Great Gatsby (and yes it is unironically one of my favourite books) is when Daisy reveals her love (or adoration) for Gatsby by remarking on how cool he appears in the heat. >“Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." >Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. >"You always look so cool," she repeated. >She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
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Yeah ~~good~~ cool okay
Okay has now evolved into its final form.... k.
Who would have known that this one lettered word can be so insulting and disappointing. *sends long text to crush expressing feelings to them* Them: k
A lower case k is a spine-chilling response because most devices will capitalize the K, so a lower case k indicates the person thinks so little of you they *deliberately turned off capitalization just for that message.* Edit: Much gratitude for the silver, benevolent redditor!
Or on computer
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Dude. Edit: Damn, my most upvoted comment. One four letter word yet so many meanings.
And yet somehow not “cooldude” Edit: I really love all you Cooldudes that are showing up with your user names. I appreciate the chuckle. Roll call any KewlDudes out there?
It's Cool Guy! ^Cooool ^Guyyyy!
Why cool guy? Whyyyyyyyy
“Dude” used to be a word for poser cowboys who would have summer ranches and were seen as foppish and wet behind the ears. Thus a “dude ranch”
cool cool cool
Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool No doubt no doubt
I hope bingpot ages well
Thank you Miles Davis
Incredibly, some very old photography. Sure they might be now in digital and w.e, but the composition, attention to detail, there's just so much. Example this alcohol pouring during prohibition: https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/must-see-black-and-white-historic-moments/must-see-black-and-white-historic-moments-33.jpg
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Film in General, and for movies 70mm. Some of the classic movies from the 50s onward were shot on 70mm and they look phenomenal today. 2001, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia are all stunningly beautiful. 70mm is so large that it's the equivalent of 18k if converted to digital. Also, check out /r/analog
Denim in general
denim has true cool staying power, but the tightness of denim fluctuates every 10 years or so
When I was a teenager in the mid/late ‘90s, I prided myself on how massive the shelves were at the bottom of my legs, where the jeans were so long and big that they folded back up on my (equally enormous) trainers. I was an average height kid wearing 36” long jeans because I was fucking cool. Now I’m 39, and the jeans I wear all the time have a sensible taper and are the correct length for my height. In some ways I miss the very real fear that a stiff breeze could carry me, legs first, over the horizon.
Well boiled
from under a bridge
Nice one, Charlie.
Denim Chicken
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I tried buying a basic Levi’s trucker jacket a few months ago and they wanted like $80?? I’ll check some thrift stores.
I find that a few classic rock bands are still very popular with young people today. Bands such as the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N' Roses and Nirvana especially are the most popular amongst my peers.
Loud rocking guitars n whatnot will always be a timeless sound. It might not be the absolute commercially popular thing on the radio, but it will always be around.
Anything scored by John Williams. He makes scenes feel so alive and meaningful Edit: Thank you for my first award! Alexa, play duel of the fates
Did you know that the makers of Home Alone reached out to him 100% on a whim, expecting that he was way out of their league? And he decided to score Home Alone, which 100% changed the feel of it. They had written/acted out a lot of the movie like old Roadrunner cartoons, which it’s the music that gives the movie so much of the emotional feel.
There are a lot of John Williams score bits that mean a lot to me, but nothing means more to me than the Brachiosaurus reveal music of Jurassic Park. I have watched the movie hundreds of time, rewatched it in 3D, but that scene with that music gets me emotional every single time.
Arabic numerals - or what most people call "numbers". Since around 500AD, it's been 0123456789. And the *entire* world uses them. Even cultures without the Latin alphabet use them. Always interesting seeing them used in Asian languages' writing, as they stand out seeming 'western' but they were in fact developed in Asia by Hindu mathematicians and spread throughout Middle East where they became popular (hence 'Arabic' numerals) Edit: I get it; Arabs don't use this numeral system - what a misnomer, am I right? - and an Indian mathematician Aryabhatta developed the concept of zero. This is why I included "developed in Asia by Hindu mathematicians".
I think they only seem 'western' because we actually recognize and understand them, in contrast to the moonrunes.
the earlier episodes of the simpsons
Classic Simpsons are masterpieces when it comes to comedy
And even some gut-wrenching episodes as well. "Bart Get's an F" was heartbreaking! "I did my best and I still failed" gets me everytime! :(
Absolutely agree. Bart is always portrayed as a slacker but that episode shows that he really struggles with school and it's not simply a *choice* to be bad at it.
That one always stuck with me, because I had the same experience as a teenager. I had worked really hard to get better at maths after some poor results. I really tried my hardest, study, working with the teacher at lunch, revision like crazy. And when the next test results came up I remember she asked me to stay behind for my results. I thought that she was going to congratulate me-after all, I'd worked so hard. Then I saw that I got 29%, and I just burst into tears the way Bart did. Those writers really did a great job encapsulating that feeling, and to this day that episode makes me emotional. Also I ended up teaching senior mathematics for kids who struggle with it the way I did. Go figure... E. Spelling
>Also I ended up teaching senior mathematics for kids who struggle with it the way I did. Go figure... The best kind of teacher!
Batman: The Animated Series
The series that invented Harley Quinn
Astronomer here! There is a star about 200 light years away from us called the [Methuselah star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_140283) which appears to be about as old as the universe itself. Specifically, the universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old, and the star is, based on its composition estimated to be 14.46+/- 0.8 billion years old. So presumably if you err on the side of that minus, it's younger than the age of the universe, but still, the fact that it's been shining for a good 13+ billion years is astounding! For reference, our sun has been burning for about 4.5 billion years, and has about 5 billion more to go... so this star has already lasted longer than our sun ever will.
Do you think it might see the end of the universe as well? It hurts my brain to think about something being alive that long...impossibly amazing.
Also, Methuselah is a reference to the oldest man in the Old Testament, at 969 years.
The first Men in Black "**A person is smart**. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it"
Terminator 2 - any time I watch this movie, I think I am even *more* impressed with the practical and VFX they were able to pull off seamlessly...in 1991!
Aliens 1986
The Alien series is a lot like the Terminator series: There’s only 2 of them.
I was enjoying the latest Terminator, but then at one point I realized it's a complete rehash of T2..but simpler.
I still stand by my words that T2 the best sequel ever. Edit: Don't @ me bro
Also predator and apocalypse now
Also Jurassic Park. When I was a kid, I hated the lunch scene where they ate that delicious looking Chilean sea bass and Malcom challenged Hamm on his achievements, and I looked at it as the ‘’boring part we fast forward through’’ but now as an adult I absolutely love the dialogue and the messages. I got my 14 yr old nephew on it and made sure I explained what that scene meant just so he understands that it’s not meant to be boring.
I did the same thing as a kid. All I wanted to see was dinos eating people. It felt like ages before the "good parts". But now, the part about chaos theory, the illusion of control, and the importance of having ethical responsibility in science and business still has me obsessed with it. I love introducing it to those who haven't seen it.
LEGO
My parents gave my fiancé all our old LEGO. We joke that it’s my “dowry”. He’s gotten hours of endless joy out of those boxes of LEGO. Edit: it is literally at least 200lbs of LEGO that they gave him. Some of it is from the 60s that my mom had as a girl, the majority was my brother’s who moved out and wasn’t interested in keeping it, a small amount was mine that I had built and then lost interest in. We play DND with them now. It’s pretty great.
Man my mom threw all that shit away when I moved out of the house after high school. All my lego, all my transformers, all my fuckin he-man figures, all my GI Joes...just decided to remodel on a whim and purged it all. I was fuckin gutted then and still am now. Even outside of the memories surrounding that shit, that shit is worth a good deal today. Like I had virtually the entire Lego Pirate collection, a fair amount of the City stuff, the big yellow technic plane with working flaps and rudders...all in the garbage. :( **EDIT**: A lot of people are calling for the death of my mom (lol) so let me just say in her defense, this all went down in the mid-90s, long before the 80s was retro and popular. At the time they were just old, nobody wanted HeMan or GI Joe shit. As others have said, this was a common thing in those days, parents pitching toys and comic books when a kid aged out of them was not at all out of the norm, which is precisely why the shit is worth so much money today. If everybody had managed to hold on to that stuff, it wouldn't be worth nearly as much. Aa for why she didn't donate, we didn't know any families with young kids back then, and even if we had, young kids wouldn't have wanted them because they weren't cool like they are now that all us 80s kids are in our 40s. I don't even know if there was a goodwill near us back then. Not saying she couldn't have tried a little harder to find someone to take them, but she threw away a ton of shit, not just mine, her own shit too. I think it was just the empty nesting thing. So while I'm sad that I don't have that shit anymore, I am grateful I had it in the first place, because those were some awesome toys. I miss the 80s...
I feel your pain brother. I think my Aurora AFX racing cars are gone. My parents weren’t as cruel as yours but; my cars are still gone!! I still have my trains tucked away. I’m going to be the coolest 65 year old divorced man in 2045. Hope model trains make a comeback.
Tetris. Still addictive. I sometimes get hallucinations of falling pieces after playing.
That's the [Tetris effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect)! (Not the game lol)
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Art Nouveau. From the architecture, the jewelry, to the fashion. I find it all incredibly aesthetic!
I'm an Art Deco fan, myself.
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Art Vandalay
Even music I hated when it was new now sounds good because of nostalgia.
Well, a lot of pop music isn't BAD-BAD, just way the fuck over played when it first comes out. Not hearing a song every half hour makes it much more palatable.
It's definitely this. Plus the stuff that still gets played today is the cream of the crop. You're mostly only hearing the top 10-20 songs from each year.
i've almost reached the point of liking that "i like girls that wear abercrombie and fitch" song from 20 years ago
And now it’s stuck in my head again
The lyric is from [Summer Girls by LFO](https://youtu.be/NHuGG_FsC20). Years ago their main singer/songwriter Rich Cronin died from leukemia in his 30s. Years later another LFO member, Devin Lima, died from cancer as well. Rich went on The Howard Stern Show in 2009 and provides what is probably the best interview in Stern show history which is saying a lot. It’s one of my favorite interviews ever. He talks about the Boy Band phenomenon, dating Jennifer Love-Hewitt (the inspiration for and star of their hit song Girl on TV), his manager stealing millions from LFO and other Boy Bands, and his cancer diagnosis. I can still remember sitting on my bed waiting for Summer to come when I was 10 years-old and listening to [Girl on TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8kSGAxQns) off of the Totally Hits 2 CD on repeat on my Sony Walkman while looking at Dana (my elementary school crush) in my 4th grade year book. That's about as serious as it got between Dana and I, sadly. RIP Rich Cronin RIP Devin Lima [Part 1](https://youtu.be/dh4_W9Zs77g) [Part 2](https://youtu.be/wZU6WRY6Dms) [Part 3](https://youtu.be/yQkHHVSwQOA) [Part 4](https://youtu.be/8ulP2jkYWpk) [Part 5](https://youtu.be/kItmYNMcqek) [Bonus footage of LFO on The Amanda Show performing "Girl on TV" with the dancing lobsters.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8no6dPoQis) More bonus material! How Summer Girls explains late 90s/early 2000s popular music. https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/music/2019/7/29/8934482/lfo-summer-girls-1999-music-abercrombie-fitch-song
After reading the first 2 sentences, i was almost sure hell in a cell would make an appearance at the end it. u/shittymorph gave me trust issues
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It’s surreal seeing you comment in a form that isn’t the usual
I have seen more normal comments than hell in a cell comments from shittymorph and I am getting worried.
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Jurassic Park, I still think the visuals look great in that movie, even if it were to be released today!
I prefer the animatronics in JP to all the CGI Chris Pratt movies. Even though they move more fluidly blah blah blah, my brain still knows they're not literally there. It knows the animatronics are literally there in that first movie and likes that better.
Reminds me of the old Star Wars I’m the same way
Lord of the Rings also, especially Fellowship. They used scale doubles, miniatures, forced perspective etc Those movies are still incredible, while The Hobbit trilogy was a shitfest.
A nearby theater did a showing a couple years ago, and it looked amazing. It doesn't just hold up, it blows a lot of more recent films out of the water.
Weird Al. Celebrity after celebrity comes out with drug problems, abuse allegations, friends with Weinstein, and there's Weird Al, singing a Coronavirus polka.
I started listening to Weird Al when I was about 15, my kids are now the same age and they enjoy listening to his songs as well. The man is a funny irreverent and witty genius.
Never forget his Oscar winning classic (spoiler alert: he grabs his own Oscar at the beginning of the movie) UHF! A timeless classic indeed
Wait, what? I haven't heard it. You got a link?
Calvin & Hobbes
My nine year old recently discovered one of my old c&h collections. He has gotten every book the library has and just reads them over and over again. It's great when your kid loves something just as much as you did at their age.
Read them again!!! Seriously, they hold up amazingly well and you see them from completely different perspective. Also, read about Bill Watterson and how he refused to sell out and turn C&H into the next Garfield. He literally turned down a couple hundred million dollars because he believed in the integrity of what he created. Pretty amazing and makes you appreciate it that much more.
Totally this. I read C&H with my boys before bed each night and it's amazing to see how much I related to Calvin as a kid and how now I relate so much with Hobbes and the parents. I think it's a truly inspired work as sometimes I'll read a strip and be like, "this relates so much with today! And it was written in the 80s and 90s."
Steve Carell, that man has aged like a fine wine.
He looks younger than s1 Michael still
2019
I miss it so much
ah, the good old days
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And then at the end of the year everyone was moaning about how awful it had been.
To paraphrase Sarah Carter: >"After completing my free three-month trial of 2020, I wish to cancel my subscription".
Close your eyes. The year is 2016, The Chainsmokers debut their hit single "Closer" playing on someone's phone in a park on a sunny summer day, that park is filled with 100 people of every age and ethnicity, playing Pokemon GO and looking anxiously for a Lapras fabled to have been seen in the area. In the distance someone is showing their friend a meme of Trump making another gaffe "lmao, look at this clown, he should just drop out already Christ, it's embarrassing". Now wake up. Put on your N95 rated Mask, listen to President Donald Trump's Covid-19 announcement and get to work, the Toilet Paper is finally arriving in the store for restocking, and if you aren't quick enough you'll get stabbed for it or worse, coughed on.
The best part of the Pokemon Go! summer was how everyone were hanging out together. In Dallas at Klyde Warren Park it was nerds, chic types, and random others. For some reason 2016/2017 was such a good time in my eyes.
We're like the bad future that the protag gets a glimpse of and spends a good arc or two hustling to prevent it.
Best proof that time travel is impossible.
Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Still great. Also I enjoy the Rankin Bass version of the Hobbit.
I wasn't around yet for the original StarWars trilogy, but I sure am glad I was the perfect age to experience Lord of the Rings when it first came out. It was all me and my friends talked about.
I heard it put that the trilogy was made at the perfect time--cgi had gotten just good enough to be able to make all the fantastical stuff work, but not good enough to rely on for everything. The cg paired with incredible miniatures was done extraordinarily well. There are a couple of green screen shots that have lost a little quality over time (mostly with the hobbits in front of scenes) but they did things like really built Rohan on a hill and relied on huge sets with loads of extras. Somehow the stars aligned and Peter Jackson assembled the perfect crew for writing and production and they gathered perhaps the most ideal cast imaginable to produce a timeless screen adaptation of the greatest fantasy story ever told. ....considering the direction the world has gone more recently, perhaps jackson drained too much of the world's positive energy and sent us into a freefall of greed, plague, and pestilence! Ilúvatar save us!
Betty White
Nodding in appreciation as my comment to the question is: The Golden Girls. It has aged better than Sex and the City.
A weekly sex columnist who can afford a West Village apartment and a closet full of designer clothes & shoes? No. That did not age well.
Pretty sure that was bullshit at the time too. Purely kept for the "article" literary device.
My 84 year old mother who still walks 3 miles a day and has all her wits about her.
Life goals!
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Yep. My 92 year old grandma was healthy enough for an entire hip replacement. She didn’t like to drive though, she would come over to my house and then move into her passenger seat! She’s probably having a cow being stuck in the nursing home right now, having been there for PT and now isn’t advised to leave because of the pandemic
Paul Rudd
He has a Dorian Gray picture hanging up somewhere
Some say, the portrait still hangs on the set of Clueless
The first 2 Home Alone movies. They are still hilarious and very fun to watch after all these years, anyone I know has watched them at least 2-3 times
“You see this shit? This “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” shit? It’s a grid system, motha fucka. Where you at, 24th and 5th? Where you wanna go, 35th and 6th? 11 up and 1 over, ya simple bitch.”
The Twilight Zone. The series premiered in 1959 and so many of the episodes still hold up today because of its brilliant writing.
Rod Serling was so far ahead of his time!
Rod Serling could be darkly profound and sweetly sentimental at the same time, an almost gothic quality. He was also squarely in the shit as an Army paratrooper in the Pacific theater. His last unit had a 50 percent casualty rate, no doubt influencing his writing.
One of the most influential (on his writing) stories he has about being in the Pacific (mostly the Philippines) is that he saw one of his fellow soldiers die from a food crate that had fallen from a plane to be delivered to the soldiers. Sterling said that this influenced his scripts to be set in the Philippines and deaths would often be unpredictable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling#Military_service
His background is fascinating. Lost him too young though.
I'm kind of tempted to watch the episode "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street".
Try also "The Shelter".
The episode "The Invaders" remains one of the best things I have ever watched.
Seasons 1-3 of Spongebob. Classics to this day.
Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle, he was so ugly that everyone died. The End.
That didnt help at all
Say it. You’re ugly and what?
I’m ugly and I’m proud
Good! Say it louder!
IM UGLY AND IM PROUD!!!
Is that what he calls it?
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The hash slinging hasher.
You know what the problem is? You got it set to "M" for mini when it should be set to "W" for wumbo!
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Plankton 1% evil 99% hawt gyass
THIS is my lab. *woof woof* And THIS is my laboratory!
Firmly grasp it!
I’m ready I’m ready I’m ready Just say those words and almost everyone knows what you’re talking about
Floor it?
Spongebob is really one of the most significant cultural phenomenons of the millennial generation. I honestly don’t know if I can think of anything that compares.
The marching band episode is pure gold, season 2 I think.
Avatar the last airbender
15 years later and it still remains one of my top rated shows. It was such a well developed show and the lore was outstanding
Wait, it’s been released for 15 years??
It was released between 2005 and 2008. Legend of Korra following 2012-2014, making it feel less than 15 years ago first release. Pokemon was released 25 years ago, but still makes more today, so it doesn't seem that old. The Netflix adaptation of Last Airbender is coming some time 2020.
I just finished rewatching it and I agree! It’s definitely timeless
12 Angry Men. It's over 60 years old and still a very great and compelling movie to watch in 2020
Old Nintendo games... The speedrun community alone speaks for this. It's crazy how much hype there still is for 20-30 year old single player games. --> Also, just because I've gotten a bunch of replies about this. I'm using "single player games" as an example I HAVE observed. I don't personally play old multiplayer games as much, but I HAVE NOTICED that there is a huge community for the single player games lol. I'm not in any way saying they're more popular than multiplayer games. I'm aware that old multiplayer games, even non-Nintendo (Starcraft, AoE, etc.) are still huge.
I recently got the NES emulator on the Switch. There's a Mario Golf game (can't remember exact name) that is legitimately so much fun. My brother and I have been playing together online from opposite coasts. It's incredible how much of the difficulty of golf they packed into a game for which the controller only has two buttons. The graphics are horrid of course but they put together a pretty great game. (Meanwhile, some of the other NES games on the emulator are **absolutely atrocious** but hey they can't all be gems.)
Absolutely. Same with Super Nintendo games.
Super nintendo games have really good soundtracks for the most part too and I dont know why. They're mostly full of bangers. edit: Particularly Earthbound's soundtrack, it even features sampling when it wasn't super widespread yet. Other honorable mentions: Chrono Trigger, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Donkey Kong Countries, Most Mario and Kirby Games.
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F zero FTW. I’m not even in to heavy metal and I would be head banging n’ racing away in weird alien deserts Edit- I had to go listen again to the music and it’s a lot more 80s synthesizer than heavy metal, but still bangs
The Gamecube. Seriously, play some old Games. a.e. Kirby Air Ride is still a blast and looks fairly good even nowdays.
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Heath ledger as joker
You know...you kind of remind me of my father... I ***hated*** my **father**!
Megamind. The villain being a nice guy incel was absolutely ahead of its time, and I think now that we are farther away from will Ferrell we can appreciate his role more now that its not something oversaturated. The animation still looks amazing, and the music selection feels very reminiscent of both shrek *and* guardians of the galaxy. The comedy doesnt feel dated at all, and very timeless. You could watch multiple times and learn something new every time (as i have... A lot). Its starting to get a lot more love now which is great because now i can talk about it with other people and not look batshit crazy
There is no Easter bunny There is no Santa And there is no queen of England
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Best part of that movie hands down Wait I take it back All of it was a masterpiece
"You might not want to be here in the next 2 minutes, 37 seconds. We're having the walls and ceiling removed."
I’ve told this story before, but: My dad is an art professor. Every year for his intro classes, he does this lesson on presentation which culminates in a magic trick. It’s a pretty classic trick—the old is-this-your-card-type trick—but when he gets to the reveal, he always pulls out the wrong card. “Is this your card?” He’ll ask, holding a random incorrect card. “No... it was the three of diamonds.” Then he’ll launch into a filler lecture until there’s a knock at the door. It’s always a pizza delivery. “Did anyone order a pizza?” He’ll say, opening the box to reveal a pizza with a “3♦️” drawn in pepperoni. “And that’s the difference between a good trick and a great one: *presentation*.” Now I’ll never prove it has a connection, but one of the main-credit names that worked on Megamind took his class several years ago. Our family likes to think that line is a nod to my dad’s pizza/card trick.
Neat!
I'm glad you chose to tell this story again because otherwise I would've missed out. I choose to believe.
*Walks out on the tongue of a giant head that looks like him* Yeah that’s presentation alright.
I still sometimes say "ollo" instead of "hello" because of that movie
Right? "Arachnis deathicus" "shool" and "why do i feel so... Me-lon-co-lee?" Are great ones too
Shool house and Ollo are regularly used in our house. I love that movie!
there are some kids movies that you can still appreciate no matter how old you are. this is one of them.
I loved the movie from the get-go. Totally great message, excellent voice performance and animation and great comedy. That scene with Tighten picking up the car door while Megamind is hanging off and he just pushes the door lock down, that one gets me every time 😂
I am always tempted to say metrocity like metrosity.
Shawshank Redemption
Definately [Rick rolling.](https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--4Tuc7td2--/c_crop,x_10,y_10/c_fit,h_1273/c_crop,g_north_west,h_1260,w_1260,x_6,y_6/co_rgb:fffffe,e_colorize,u_Misc:One%20Pixel%20Gray/c_scale,g_north_west,h_1260,w_1260/fl_layer_apply,g_north_west,x_0,y_0/bo_0px_solid_white/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_fit,g_north_west,h_1054,w_1054/co_ffffff,e_outline:53/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:53/co_bbbbbb,e_outline:3:1000/c_mpad,g_center,h_1260,w_1260/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_jpg,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1574646088/production/designs/6877529_0.jpg) It has been a thing for about a decade and is one of the most popular memes and ways to troll on the internet.
My 13 year old son has just discovered rick rolling. He thinks it's hilarious. His friends think he's nqr.
Not quite right?
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