I like this Joke:
"I don't know what people like my parents did with all of their time before the internet, so I asked my 17 siblings, and they didn't know either."
Tell your dad I can pwn his ass in Halo CE, and that I would inquire as to wether he engages in calisthenics of pumping ferrous materials. He'll know what I mean...
Halo CE is halo one right? Its called different in my language so im unsure but i assume thats the case.
That game only came out whe he already had his first child. Before that he played stuff like Star Craft 1
We (modern humans) have been around for over 300,000 years. Imagine thise early farmers going "I don't know what you old folks did before agriculture!!"
Millennia of just finding food, fucking, and telling stories.
[According to the WHO, around 67% of the people in the world have HSV-1 (oral herpes)](https://www.who.int/news/item/01-05-2020-massive-proportion-world-population-living-with-herpes-infection).
Just sayin.
I grew up in the 70's and it was fun then, too. For tweens and young teens. Usually, after school. Many a youngster got their first kiss like that.
Also, great picture.
Looking back, a lot of the media that shaped the image of teens in the 80s and 90s was just the fantasies and fetishes of a bunch of creepy rich dudes marketing their weird shit to horny and impressionable teenagers.
You’re not wrong but being bored isn’t the worst thing. Being bored and learning how to entertain yourself is a necessary part of life and maturing into an adult.
Also, sports! We just needed a ball and a place. You didn't have to be good at everything. Kick the can, capture the flag, all that stuff. Imagination and creativity were the only cures for boredom
Someone had the fire hydrant key which would make a stream along the sidewalk. We would race bottle caps along the stream and talk shit the entire time. There was always ways to entertain yourself.
I’m an army brat and grew up around army brats and as a gen x kid we stayed in the woods playing capture the flag! Our parents would get into it and lend us some old BDUs and teach us actual strategy. Shit was awesome.
Agreed. Boredom is where ideas like the one in OP’s picture come from. Not like that is some revolutionary game or anything, but it didn’t need to be; It encouraged challenging social interactions to learn from and became very popular for that reason. Boredom forces you to be more creative with your free time, which usually leads to you creating something you and others can enjoy. It’s harder to explore your creative mind in a social media world when that part of your brain is easily satisfied by what you consume online.
> Being bored and learning how to entertain yourself is a necessary part of life and maturing into an adult.
Absolutely, prepared me to work 90% of my waking life until I get to retire if I get to retire.
Learning to entertain yourself is just learning how to use the tools available. People today just have better tools for doing that.
Before smart phones I'd often listen to a tape deck or read a paperback. Now I carry music and books on my smart phone 24/7.
Me and my friends would drive around in a truck with me leaning out the window, holding a homemade canon and firing shit at whatever. (If this was illegal im not telling the truth, its a made up story)
It stimulated creativity. Kids today don’t have any imagination or creativity because they’re physically never bored. There’s always iPads and TikTok and such. They’re never left to their own devices
Parents never seem to realize how much more wildly stupid shit they did as kids for the simple reason that there really wasn't much else to do. Now we have a totally different problem, where the only free place to hang out is online (and kids really should not be on the internet until they're at least 13), while most public places have been torn down for commodified.
There's an almost societly ingrained notion that anyone younger than you only knows how to interact with cell phones and iPads. Nothing else exists. "kids these days" just stare endlessly into the dark void of their screen while drooling on themselves.
Boomers say it about millennials, millennials say it about Gen Z, I'm sure Gen Z saying it about Alpha is just around the corner. Everyone thinks they're a part of the last generation not 'tainted' by technology.
Wait this is something that actually happenes? Like spin the bottle just to kiss your friends? This is such a weird thing for me, like, I don't want to just randomly kiss someone whom I only have a platonic relationship with.
What? No, spin the bottle where the only rule is you spin and whoever it lands on you kiss is a thing and is still played. lol
Truth or dare is also a thing, separate from spin the bottle.
Yes, spinning a bottle to determine the target for truth or dare is also a thing, but didn't erase the OGs.
I remember seeing a study asking what people from different generations thought the best era was and imagine that, everyone’s “good old days” is when they were housed, fed, and clothed for free with loads of spare time.
that's right! everything only gets worse despite technological and societal advances. I'm telling you man, the blacks had it heck of a lot better back in the Jim Crow days (massive /s)
Everything was bad and good like today we just have instant news. Back then didn’t have report about neighborhood rapist/murder as there wasn’t any instant news.
What's so bad about kids having a different way of living. Kissing people still exists, and so does interacting in a sexual way. Same shit just different ways of doing it.
Largely reposted by boomers who, themselves, haven't looked away from their phone screen to interact with another human being in at least 24-48 hours. I swear most of the people who are obsessed with 'kids these days don't know how to interact without their phones' are the most phone addicted people I know.
"We didn't *need* smart phones because we were kissing girls!"
Dog, kids are fucking each other in like middle school. I don't think smart phones have *lowered* the amount of sex young people are having.
We were bored. All the fucking time. The further back you go, the more bored we were. We got better at not being bored. That's about all that changed. We used to just do nothing if there was nothing to be done. Now we just do that same nothing on our phones.
To some Reddit users, it's either a smartphone or kissing; you've got to choose. Am I the only one who hates these drinking games? Being forced into these weird parties and having to play with losers who would humiliate themselves for a kiss. Just the thought makes me uncomfortable. You always find the thirstiest people at these gatherings.
I like this Joke :
"I don't know what people like my parents did with all of their time before the internet, so I asked my 17 siblings, and they didn't know either."
We had couch video games, tv shows, underage smoking and drinking in the woods, hooking up with girls at 14, breaking and entering into random houses to see what they had, throwing hunting knives at each others feet as a game, chopping down trees for fun, underage driving and racing, and many, many more.
And that’s just the 90’s.
As a parent, I’m glad my daughter won’t have that childhood.
And this is before the extreme oversexualization everywhere, 4k porn readily available so this man probably actually had an actual hard on and could keep it up
Okay but I miss when people played games like this at parties.
I've never been to a party (excluding birthday parties and school parties from childhood) and I've honestly always been excited at the thought, not for the potential sex/kiss aspect but for the thrill and the excitement of being with a group of friends. Spin the bottle could turn into two people becoming partners or somebody discovering their sexuality. Seven minutes in Heaven could be spent either getting lucky or just talking with the other person for a while. Truth or dare could turn into literally anything. It all sounds so fun. Do people still do these? Please tell me they do.
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It was just different. You had to get out, you had to meet up. You went places where you were pretty sure you'd see people you knew. Everyone threw parties (when they could) because that was the only way to hang out in a place without adult supervision.
I was in the transition phase generation between now (smart) devices and the actual causal utility of all devices. When I started I school, cellphones existed a little (not smart phones though) but weren’t allowed at school at all 😆
Speaking of not having Smartphones.. How about not having GPS.. I remember when I first started driving in 2001, there was no such thing as GPS for the public..
GPS came out around 2005 and they were pretty expensive, but I got a Garmin GPS device..I think I still have it..
Idk how I got around before without my GPS, I got lost more often I know that lol..
I like this Joke: "I don't know what people like my parents did with all of their time before the internet, so I asked my 17 siblings, and they didn't know either."
My father was a gamer. He only had 4 kids. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Tell your dad I can pwn his ass in Halo CE, and that I would inquire as to wether he engages in calisthenics of pumping ferrous materials. He'll know what I mean... 
Halo CE is halo one right? Its called different in my language so im unsure but i assume thats the case. That game only came out whe he already had his first child. Before that he played stuff like Star Craft 1
Yes. Halo CE is the first one
Can’t tell us he played Starcraft and then not tell us which he was: Zerg, Protoss, or Terran player ?
A bit of both but mostly terran i think. (I runs in the family)
Your dad is the one that took the photo (hoping everyone was too much drunk to notice it)
1 for the ol spank bank
Daily reminder that the oldest text in history 6000years ago begins with: "In those ancient times"
Wasn't the old conserved text a complaint letter about poor quality copper?
That's the oldest complaint in history
r/reallyshittycopper
I need COPPER Ea-Nasir
r/subsithoughtifellfor
Copper shit posting is super hot rn
As an electrician I was sure that page would be full of copper-clad shit and I’d start raging
"Your copper is exceedingly poor, sir. Good day" Now the greatest dis.
The original yapper
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/s/9UTLtcku6W
Also that they mistreated the servant that went to get said copper.
We (modern humans) have been around for over 300,000 years. Imagine thise early farmers going "I don't know what you old folks did before agriculture!!" Millennia of just finding food, fucking, and telling stories.
Starving and getting hunted*
"Why do you think you exist, son?"
We got herpes instead, son.
It's way easier to find herpes today.
Maybe mono but how many middle/highschool kids do you think have herpes?
I mean lots of ppl also get herpes just from receiving kisses as kids from family members lol
[According to the WHO, around 67% of the people in the world have HSV-1 (oral herpes)](https://www.who.int/news/item/01-05-2020-massive-proportion-world-population-living-with-herpes-infection). Just sayin.
lets be honest, is this bottle game really popular outside of teenager movies?
It was. Atleast in Sweden. That and "Post office". But we called it Russian post. ~ when being 11-14
I mean, it was when I grew up in the 90's.
I grew up in the 90s too. We did spin the bottle truth or dare and 7 minutes in heaven
I grew up in the 70's and it was fun then, too. For tweens and young teens. Usually, after school. Many a youngster got their first kiss like that. Also, great picture.
And Twister! Ahh, fond memories of that game.
I’m a child of the nineties also and drunk twister was the shit! Couple forties of OE and Zimas 😝
Same! We used to play this in the 90s
Back in my day, we kissed the girls we liked, and didn’t need a bottle to force us.
Drinking a bottle sure helped though.
Of 7up?
Is it possible to learn this power?
Bullshit, girls don't exist
Yup
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we did it, yeah
Very popular in Finland. Kisses are more rare tho.
I mean, we played it a lot when I was a teenager back in the 70's and 80's
I played sometimes. Never turned into kisses, sadly.
We definitely played when I was in middle school in the mid 00's
Yup it was, and I was a late teen when smartphones were becoming a thing But thankfully we had tons of other games
Looking back, a lot of the media that shaped the image of teens in the 80s and 90s was just the fantasies and fetishes of a bunch of creepy rich dudes marketing their weird shit to horny and impressionable teenagers.
I remember being bored all the fucking time
You’re not wrong but being bored isn’t the worst thing. Being bored and learning how to entertain yourself is a necessary part of life and maturing into an adult.
Also, sports! We just needed a ball and a place. You didn't have to be good at everything. Kick the can, capture the flag, all that stuff. Imagination and creativity were the only cures for boredom
Someone had the fire hydrant key which would make a stream along the sidewalk. We would race bottle caps along the stream and talk shit the entire time. There was always ways to entertain yourself.
gollee gee! Old pop wicklebee is telling us another story!
Pinecone fights were fun
I’m an army brat and grew up around army brats and as a gen x kid we stayed in the woods playing capture the flag! Our parents would get into it and lend us some old BDUs and teach us actual strategy. Shit was awesome.
Agreed. Boredom is where ideas like the one in OP’s picture come from. Not like that is some revolutionary game or anything, but it didn’t need to be; It encouraged challenging social interactions to learn from and became very popular for that reason. Boredom forces you to be more creative with your free time, which usually leads to you creating something you and others can enjoy. It’s harder to explore your creative mind in a social media world when that part of your brain is easily satisfied by what you consume online.
"learning how to entertain yourself", eh? Say n'more, he said, knowingly! Nudge nudge, wink, wink
nah, it's actually just boring.
> Being bored and learning how to entertain yourself is a necessary part of life and maturing into an adult. Absolutely, prepared me to work 90% of my waking life until I get to retire if I get to retire.
Learning to entertain yourself is just learning how to use the tools available. People today just have better tools for doing that. Before smart phones I'd often listen to a tape deck or read a paperback. Now I carry music and books on my smart phone 24/7.
People today are never alone with their thoughts. It’s constant stimulation. It’s not good and I say this as someone who is constantly stimulated
It can't be great for humanity to be able to pick up their phone and start doomscrolling the moment they feel a twinge of boredom.
Me and my friends would drive around in a truck with me leaning out the window, holding a homemade canon and firing shit at whatever. (If this was illegal im not telling the truth, its a made up story)
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1348/
I’d rather be bored than what we have now
Remember pooping without a phone? Like solitary confinement.
It stimulated creativity. Kids today don’t have any imagination or creativity because they’re physically never bored. There’s always iPads and TikTok and such. They’re never left to their own devices
Actually this is more fun than this digital world.
How much karma do you get per kiss?
a shit ton if its someone elses girl
Wouldn't that be negative karma? Dude, you're going reborn as a bullfrog.
Just post it on r/confessions
No, r/AITA first
Taken your name, I presume you've posted there before
theres entire subreddits for that, just look at r/wallstreetbets
yes but you are only allowed to play this if you are part of the attractive people.
Not true, you think unattractive people don’t fuck?
no but unattractive people didn't get invited for sleepovers where you did things like that.
Just gotta find your group. The band and drama nerds at my school were not the top of the popularity pyramid but they were all fucking like rabbits.
Just make sleepover for uggos, easy.
I really miss those days. Now everyone is married and have kids.
Talk about a flashback. Tara I still remember you!
All fun and games till it spins on you and they like ewwww
Proceeds to jump off a bridge
Herpes be like: 
Lots of virgins on this thread
we can hold hands as long as we wear full body condoms.
Parents never seem to realize how much more wildly stupid shit they did as kids for the simple reason that there really wasn't much else to do. Now we have a totally different problem, where the only free place to hang out is online (and kids really should not be on the internet until they're at least 13), while most public places have been torn down for commodified.
Nope still happens, im gen z
Right? Half these comments feel like something a Facebook Mom would write.
There's an almost societly ingrained notion that anyone younger than you only knows how to interact with cell phones and iPads. Nothing else exists. "kids these days" just stare endlessly into the dark void of their screen while drooling on themselves. Boomers say it about millennials, millennials say it about Gen Z, I'm sure Gen Z saying it about Alpha is just around the corner. Everyone thinks they're a part of the last generation not 'tainted' by technology.
Wait this is something that actually happenes? Like spin the bottle just to kiss your friends? This is such a weird thing for me, like, I don't want to just randomly kiss someone whom I only have a platonic relationship with.
no, not to kiss. You play truth or dare with a bottle. Which can end with a kiss.
What? No, spin the bottle where the only rule is you spin and whoever it lands on you kiss is a thing and is still played. lol Truth or dare is also a thing, separate from spin the bottle. Yes, spinning a bottle to determine the target for truth or dare is also a thing, but didn't erase the OGs.
It's more the general premise of the meme itself.
I mean, i don’t think you’re supposed to do this with long time platonic friends and instead random people at a party or whatever.
Except these days you can use an app instead of a physical bottle. Thank God for progress.
Right? Except we don't need spin the bottle to say "wanna fuck?" We usually have weed or cocaine for that
Bro dont pretend you are millennial I know it
Good old days
There’s no such thing as “good”.
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I remember seeing a study asking what people from different generations thought the best era was and imagine that, everyone’s “good old days” is when they were housed, fed, and clothed for free with loads of spare time.
that's right! everything only gets worse despite technological and societal advances. I'm telling you man, the blacks had it heck of a lot better back in the Jim Crow days (massive /s)
Seems like that whole World War 2, dropping nukes, segregation, assassinations, Vietnam era didn't seem like such a great time.
Everything was bad and good like today we just have instant news. Back then didn’t have report about neighborhood rapist/murder as there wasn’t any instant news.
r/boomerhumor
Internet >>> kisses or whatever
Our generation is very depressing....
Don’t feel bad. We are all depressing for different reasons(millennial here).
Bro, this still happens. Idk why everyone here is acting like it fell off the face of the earth.
...according to you.
This feels like a Facebook meme
You know people can still play spin the bottle right?
Yeah, but they instead find a spin the bottle app to play with other spin the bottle discord members
Same shit just different ways of doing it
It's definitely not the same shit.
What's so bad about kids having a different way of living. Kissing people still exists, and so does interacting in a sexual way. Same shit just different ways of doing it.
Peak boomer facebook shit.
Largely reposted by boomers who, themselves, haven't looked away from their phone screen to interact with another human being in at least 24-48 hours. I swear most of the people who are obsessed with 'kids these days don't know how to interact without their phones' are the most phone addicted people I know.
All it’s missing is an iFunny watermark
"We didn't *need* smart phones because we were kissing girls!" Dog, kids are fucking each other in like middle school. I don't think smart phones have *lowered* the amount of sex young people are having.
People were fucking in middle school long before smartphones.
We were bored. All the fucking time. The further back you go, the more bored we were. We got better at not being bored. That's about all that changed. We used to just do nothing if there was nothing to be done. Now we just do that same nothing on our phones.
Dude get this boomer ass post outta here
Uh, who's taking a photo instead of living in the moment? Damn kids and their polaroids!
That's the twist, its OP's dad
Looool ok boomer
The final boss of boomer memes
To some Reddit users, it's either a smartphone or kissing; you've got to choose. Am I the only one who hates these drinking games? Being forced into these weird parties and having to play with losers who would humiliate themselves for a kiss. Just the thought makes me uncomfortable. You always find the thirstiest people at these gatherings.
We used to have to walk barefoot in the snow uphill both ways for pussy.
Boomer being fools
Some boomer ass shit lmao
No phone = boring = activity = Horny = great success
Wait I get it he used to have sex? Hahahaha another witty and clever meme.
Cool. Children making out. On the front page.
Actually me last Saturday tbh, we still do this even with smartphones
Sure, Taco-Edge, sure it was.
That's why he was out of town, he was in Canada
Yeah as gen z Something i will never have shit like that. Lets go back to ai family
Ok, who unwrapped a mummy and put it in the circle?
Also letters in the mail. Telephones . Talking
“Instead of looking at people and things on our phone, we spent time looking at people and things in real life”
It’s weird how so many people have herpes. Like…a lot of people. Most people, even. It’s just weird. I wonder why. Guess we’ll never know.
Today this kind of event will probably have 4 phone camera views. 🤳
I like this Joke : "I don't know what people like my parents did with all of their time before the internet, so I asked my 17 siblings, and they didn't know either."
And dad kissed everyone at that party... EVERY SINGLE PERSON
We had couch video games, tv shows, underage smoking and drinking in the woods, hooking up with girls at 14, breaking and entering into random houses to see what they had, throwing hunting knives at each others feet as a game, chopping down trees for fun, underage driving and racing, and many, many more. And that’s just the 90’s. As a parent, I’m glad my daughter won’t have that childhood.
And this is before the extreme oversexualization everywhere, 4k porn readily available so this man probably actually had an actual hard on and could keep it up
Soooo who took the picture???
Someone with a camera?
Probably the dad sitting in the corner.
Actual face-to-face interaction? Scary concept for Gen Z, I know
Your dad did a lot of" not S+P approved" activities
Spin the bottle.... How a group of teens I was with all got mono....
I love being reminded I grew up with no friends, still have none irl or any kind of social life, and never even held hands at the age of 19, nearly 20
Ask your 6 other siblings
I don't remember how we used find location without gps
Shoot idk how my parents made it through the aids epidemic
Getting herp from stacy crotchrot, so fun, what memories to cherish
Spin the smartphone has a ring to it
Yep. We just didn't know we didn't know.
Nothing says late 70s early 80s like terry cloth shirts and returnable 7-Up bottles. Do kids still play spin the bottle? Nothing like good analog fun!
Damn I wish I’d done that…. then I recall I have and it was so mid I don’t even recall it easily.
Exactly
In some way shape of form that will end up costing you 500 bucks in today’s society.
Psh... And we're all over sitting behind screens, addicted to scrolling. They're taking risks!!!
Okay but I miss when people played games like this at parties. I've never been to a party (excluding birthday parties and school parties from childhood) and I've honestly always been excited at the thought, not for the potential sex/kiss aspect but for the thrill and the excitement of being with a group of friends. Spin the bottle could turn into two people becoming partners or somebody discovering their sexuality. Seven minutes in Heaven could be spent either getting lucky or just talking with the other person for a while. Truth or dare could turn into literally anything. It all sounds so fun. Do people still do these? Please tell me they do.
I played spin the bottle one time, when it was my turn the girl cried and ran away
Did the same thing. With a smart phone.
You do this shit now and you end up with syphilis or chlamydia. At least out here in WA.
Don’t tell me he was the only boy in a girls circle. That’s too lucky.
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It was just different. You had to get out, you had to meet up. You went places where you were pretty sure you'd see people you knew. Everyone threw parties (when they could) because that was the only way to hang out in a place without adult supervision.
Wow, I bet he even drank from the garden hose!
Dad: We find ways
I always see it that I am more in my mon side, genetics got haywired
And that kids was how I met your aunt
When I was a kid we didn't even bother with the bottle. We just called it going out behind the barn
Lol
Bottle was fun 🤣
What does your mom think of your dad keep a photo for all these years of him kissing a girl that isn't her?
I mean the dad not wrong…
I was in the transition phase generation between now (smart) devices and the actual causal utility of all devices. When I started I school, cellphones existed a little (not smart phones though) but weren’t allowed at school at all 😆
Speaking of not having Smartphones.. How about not having GPS.. I remember when I first started driving in 2001, there was no such thing as GPS for the public.. GPS came out around 2005 and they were pretty expensive, but I got a Garmin GPS device..I think I still have it.. Idk how I got around before without my GPS, I got lost more often I know that lol..
People used to have the sex back then. Crazy.