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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:09:46 AM EDT
[#1]
When school was a place you went to to actually learn things.
And an Educated person actually knew things. Edit: Dammit, missed 3 Edited again: The first boobs i saw were in National Geographic |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:19:52 AM EDT
[#2]
Racist actually meant racist
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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:27:24 AM EDT
[#3]
I’m so old I remember customer service. I’d call a company and speak to a person, instead of hearing an automated menu of numbers to press.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:01:20 AM EDT
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I'm so old, STI meant a double stack 2011 frame like an STI/SVI.
(Still used to saying STD regardless if everyone uses STI now) |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:09:24 AM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn! You are old. Even I remember this being how we changed channels.  https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06jv0vx.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That "changing the channel" meant "getting off your ass". Damn! You are old. Even I remember this being how we changed channels. https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/976x549/p06jv0vx.jpg I can still feel and hear that distinctive click of the buttons. I also remember when Gatorade only came in a glass container. When refrigerators had heavy metal doors with rounded tops and latches on the outside so you damn well never got in one because you'd been warned a thousand times you'd die if you did and those babies kept the bottles of Coke ice cold. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 9:41:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A NIKE was a missile. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 9:46:16 AM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: dialing the phone meant dialing the phone, and you could drop a dime on someone  |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 9:49:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was a characteristic of an experienced sailor or marine. "Salty" is an adjective ............. not a noun. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: "Salty" meant an experienced sailor. "Salty" is an adjective ............. not a noun. It’s both. One who is salty would be called “an old salt.” |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 9:53:10 AM EDT
[#9]
Thong was what we called flip flops. I do prefer the other type tho.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:03:58 AM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 'Party lines' on the telephone. I remember that too. A nickel for busfare. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:06:46 AM EDT
[#11]
-I’m so old that I know that laser tag meant Photon
- I’m so old that I know that progress actually meant progress -I’m so old that I know that conspiracy meant real |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:10:07 AM EDT
[#12]
Partner meant coworker.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:12:00 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Phones were gadgets, mounted on the wall, with cords. Not this super computer, connected to every computer in the world, that I'm posting on. That people sit around with, anchored in place, with cords. 
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:20:32 AM EDT
[#14]
I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:29:16 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember when the # symbol was referred to as "pound" . It also stood for " box " as in mail box number in rural America. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 10:43:27 AM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Im not old enough to have used it, but i remember WW2 era guys who used the term "cock" for pussy. As in: "My buddy and me would load up in my cock-wagon and go find some cock about every Saturday night in Anniston. " My brother and i cracked up hearing that. Old dude (Pacific theater fighter pilot) wondered what we found so amusing. Pissed, even. He told us that is what they called pussy "in his day". He was not the only one of that age i heard it from either. Guess it's akin to me cracking up my daughter's friends when i said: "I have remove a bad tranny from my truck." They thought that hilarious. Did you meet those old dudes at Gay Night at the VFW because either those dudes were pulling your leg or they were homos. Nobody ever called pussy cock. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 11:35:15 AM EDT
[#17]
So old father and grandfather both listened to radio programs as kids.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 11:47:27 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant. I still have that button. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:08:45 PM EDT
[#19]
I'm so old crack meant pu$$y and newspapers were delivered daily.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:36:40 PM EDT
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I have vague recollections of two mail deliveries every day, and when I looked it up I found this statement.
"The second residential delivery was discontinued on April 17, 1950" We moved onto a rural delivery route in early 1948, so no more two-a-day mail. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 12:45:07 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I still have that button. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant. I still have that button. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 1:18:38 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 1:49:29 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: He was my Commander in Chief. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant.  Did you know Sitting Bull? |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:01:00 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Did you know Sitting Bull? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: I knew what a "I like Ike" button meant. Did you know Sitting Bull? |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:05:37 PM EDT
[#25]
"Soda" meant beer.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:12:54 PM EDT
[#26]
Racist meant prejudiced.
Today everyone is racist but no one is prejudiced. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:25:01 PM EDT
[#27]
I'm so old, I remember when ATM meant Automated Teller Machine.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:30:39 PM EDT
[#28]
My kids just taught me a new one: "sus" as in suspicious.
"See that creepy guy over there? He's so sus." |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:37:49 PM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You're so old you knew who that was Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Gene Rayburn! Match Game with Charles Nelson Reilly was epic. You're so old you knew who that was I am so old I know why Rayburn used that goofy microphone, and how Jack Klugman's wife Brett Somers made it on the show. You can't mention Match game without mentioning the other regular, Fanny Flagg. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:44:59 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm so old-retarded- meant -genuine medical diagnosis And nobody was offended by "the R word". I'm convinced that every generation comes up with shit to be upset over so they can feel more "refined" than the last. Pretty soon "developmentally challenged" will have the same negative connotation as "retarded" and we'll have to come up with another term that doesn't hurt peoples feels. It's just running from the truth no matter how you look at it. I remember when my grandparents would use the term "colored" and it was totally shocking to people under 60 years old. Now I get it. It was perfectly normal and non-offensive during their lives...why change just because the next generation says so? Even kids my son's age won't say "black" anymore...they'll say "the brown skinned kid over there"...like that's better somehow? We're basically back to "colored". The same thing will eventually happen to Millennials and I'll laugh my ass off when all their made up, bullshit, PC terms are considered offensive. I'm a young Gen Xer so I'll get to see it happen from the comfort of my retirement home. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:45:57 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So old I cut my foot on a pop top Ever make a necklace out of them? |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:48:02 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Phones were gadgets, mounted on the wall, with cords. Not this super computer, connected to every computer in the world, that I'm posting on. Hell, you could be in your 40s with that example. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:52:09 PM EDT
[#33]
Every grade school classroom had a big barrel of toy guns next to the door. At recess we'd all grab one and spend the next 15 minutes "Slaughtering" each other. Turned us all into serial killers.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:53:36 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And nobody was offended by "the R word". I'm convinced that every generation comes up with shit to be upset over so they can feel more "refined" than the last. Pretty soon "developmentally challenged" will have the same negative connotation as "retarded" and we'll have to come up with another term that doesn't hurt peoples feels. It's just running from the truth no matter how you look at it. I remember when my grandparents would use the term "colored" and it was totally shocking to people under 60 years old. Now I get it. It was perfectly normal and non-offensive during their lives...why change just because the next generation says so? Even kids my son's age won't say "black" anymore...they'll say "the brown skinned kid over there"...like that's better somehow? We're basically back to "colored". The same thing will eventually happen to Millennials and I'll laugh my ass off when all their made up, bullshit, PC terms are considered offensive. I'm a young Gen Xer so I'll get to see it happen from the comfort of my retirement home. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm so old-retarded- meant -genuine medical diagnosis And nobody was offended by "the R word". I'm convinced that every generation comes up with shit to be upset over so they can feel more "refined" than the last. Pretty soon "developmentally challenged" will have the same negative connotation as "retarded" and we'll have to come up with another term that doesn't hurt peoples feels. It's just running from the truth no matter how you look at it. I remember when my grandparents would use the term "colored" and it was totally shocking to people under 60 years old. Now I get it. It was perfectly normal and non-offensive during their lives...why change just because the next generation says so? Even kids my son's age won't say "black" anymore...they'll say "the brown skinned kid over there"...like that's better somehow? We're basically back to "colored". The same thing will eventually happen to Millennials and I'll laugh my ass off when all their made up, bullshit, PC terms are considered offensive. I'm a young Gen Xer so I'll get to see it happen from the comfort of my retirement home. I'm so old I've witnessed "disabled" start as a neutral descriptive term, then it became an offensive slur, and now it's come full circle as the best PC choice. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/7591024002 |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 2:54:06 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not quite, but when I was in my 30s there were"old timers" around who remembered those days. I worked with a contemporary who lived in Scotland, CT (I think) who had never been farther that Willimantic and Storrs. He was an oddity. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Him is so old that going to town meant a two day trip on horseback. I worked with a contemporary who lived in Scotland, CT (I think) who had never been farther that Willimantic and Storrs. He was an oddity. My grandfather would go into town once a month, whether he needed to or not. He, like the other farmers, would put on his best bib overalls and a suit coat for the trip. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 3:02:19 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: My grandfather would go into town once a month, whether he needed to or not. He, like the other farmers, would put on his best bib overalls and a suit coat for the trip. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 3:11:48 PM EDT
[#37]
Three on the tree
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Posted: 6/13/2021 3:41:36 PM EDT
[#38]
A keg of musket balls was a buck 99
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Posted: 6/13/2021 3:42:21 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Nike was a Greek goddess. The Winged Victory of Samothrace. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 3:50:49 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Three on the tree 
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:02:11 PM EDT
[#41]
Balls to the wall meant you were maxing out a steam engine.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:19:22 PM EDT
[#42]
I did some research, inspired by this thread, after a couple of posters asserted that "cock" formerly was used to describe the female genitalia, aka "pussy."
Turns out, that was very much a thing, and but it was reportedly used by southern whites and blacks all over, and was in common usage by blacks as late as the '90s. Wow. Had never heard that one before. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:32:14 PM EDT
[#43]
crack was the space between your butt cheeks.
Aids was a diet suplement that expanded when you drank water filling your stomach so you would not eat as much a blackboard was really black |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:33:16 PM EDT
[#44]
“Diversity” and “equity” were financial terms.
“Freedom of speech” was not conditional to specific groups of people. “Thot” (thought) was something that manifested in your head. “Tolerance” meant resigning yourself to merely put up with. “Pride” was either a feeling you get over something you accomplished that others could universally relate to, or a bunch of lions hanging out together. |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:33:49 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Tranny was short for transmission. 
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Posted: 6/13/2021 4:36:19 PM EDT
[#46]
I'm so old that blowing a tranny referred to breaking a transmission not gagging on a lady boy.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 5:10:51 PM EDT
[#47]
I'm so old I remember when they changed from a girl in heat to hot woman.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 6:08:07 PM EDT
[#48]
I have handed the ride operator an "E" ticket.
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Posted: 6/13/2021 7:37:15 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Vaginas are never hairy. Wrong.   |
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Posted: 6/13/2021 7:45:00 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Balls to the wall meant you were maxing out a steam engine. This is "Balls in".  |
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