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andurilmat t1_j6c8jqn wrote

You know your old when you have to scroll to find your birth year

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NotTheBusDriver t1_j6ccozf wrote

…and scroll…and scroll…

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DaniTully t1_j6g5qlg wrote

It's like the showcase showdown, flick my finger full force and hope it gets all the way or close enough to my birth year.

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hemanoncracks t1_j6g954t wrote

Referring to the showcase showdown should be proof enough of your age.

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bentael t1_j6h909y wrote

Hence the game "The Elder Scrolls"

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Mor_Hjordis t1_j6cgd9g wrote

I hate when website's use a calendar that doesn't allow you to select the year..

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happy-cig t1_j6f5i93 wrote

It sucks when they start at the current year thought. Like bro, you think someone born this year is using the internet?

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garaile64 t1_j6fs4oy wrote

For me, a sign of age is when your falls make people worried about you instead of making them laugh at you.

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justadepresseduser t1_j6fplea wrote

I used to lie my age cause I was too young, now I lie my age cause I'm too old and lazy.

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HometownDonkey t1_j6g0xur wrote

…like it’s the Price Is Right’s Showcase Showdown Wheel

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rainmace t1_j6e6yyl wrote

So, above the age of like, 10-15? 🙄

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andurilmat t1_j6e8l2z wrote

for some one making a sarcastic comment you really struggled to identify the sarcasm in my post. looks like you haven't had to scroll yet

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6f4g18 wrote

I see rainmace making a joke and you throwing a fit over said joke.

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andurilmat t1_j6f6wkw wrote

i see rainmace not understanding a joke and me having to explain it

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6f7px4 wrote

I see him making a joke and you being a dumbass who thinks he doesn’t understand it and then throwing a childish hissy fit over said joke and then doubling down on the hissy fit.

I fully expect you to triple down and whine some more.

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andurilmat t1_j6f7vmx wrote

ah the kind or response i'd expect from an american

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6f8lc2 wrote

Not sure what country I’m from matters, but it’s nice to know that people throw childish outraged hissy fits for no reason in other countries too.

I was also right about the triple down.

Will you go for the quadruple down and cry sone more about a guy making a joke you can’t handle?

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andurilmat t1_j6f9p9i wrote

i haven't trippled down on my point yet, so can't quadruple down

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6fc45p wrote

Sorry if I stole your thunder there but I do love narc-baiting. Loved the joke. :)

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6f991o wrote

Okay so you don't get the joke either. Anduril is saying we have flashbacks to almost any year, even toddlers, and making light of that with irony. Rainmace didn't get that and thought he was being dumb and not realising that it's a short time.
The country is relevant because there's a stereotype of yanks being bad at irony. It isn't true, you have brilliant ironic wits, but you also have a lot of loud narcissists who can't reflect on situations to understand irony.

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6f9x1d wrote

“So above the age of 10-15” is a fucking joke and is not him being dumb.

You need to chill the fuck out and stop being a moron.

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6fa8mb wrote

I didn't say Rainmace was dumb. I said rainmace thought anduril was being dumb and made a joke about that because he missed Anduril's irony.
Thank you for proving what I said about loud narcissists though.

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6faluz wrote

You should look up the actual definition of a narcissist. It’s not just whatever you dream it as being. It’s as bad as calling anything you don’t like to hear as being gaslighting.

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6fb0rq wrote

And you're showing entitlement, grandiosity and a total lack of reflective ability. And deceptiveness with that open deflection, implying an inability to hold yourself to account.I know what you are.
Last chance before the block now, engage my original explanation, apologise for your aggressive and incorrect attacks, or prove me right again.
EDIT: Sorry, accounting for your disability. Those are three options to pick from, not a list I want you to follow.

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WutWhoSaidDat t1_j6fgroc wrote

Oh noooo don’t block me over sensitive internet stranger that can’t recognize or handle jokes.

What if we were meant for each other but you’ll never know cuz you blocked me????

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6filzk wrote

Okay, thanks for admitting I was right. :) P.s. two different people. You really wanted to prove a total lack of reflection right?

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rainmace t1_j6e8uue wrote

Oh I see, so you weren’t actually saying what you were saying. Sorry, it’s hard to tell sarcasm on the internet. So what you actually meant was that scrolling to find your birth year ISN’T actually a good indicator of knowing when you’re old

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andurilmat t1_j6eaqh1 wrote

yes, its based on the notion of younger people never having to scroll for their birth year and referring to adults in their 20's and up as 'Old'.

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it did however used to be a good indicator of when you were an adult as lists always had 20+ years before you had to scroll. mobile layouts and better website design have changed that.

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philipp2310 t1_j6ckrsb wrote

Can’t be that old when you were just born in the year of the flashback. You are getting old when you are still older than the protagonist in the flashbacks

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HellStoneBats t1_j6cw678 wrote

The first one I ran into that was Guardians of the Galaxy 2... Marvel using your younger sibling's birth year as a flashback year just makes you feel so much older..

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tapiocamochi t1_j6eyqq4 wrote

Yeah, if you were born in the year of the flashback you’re probably the target audience

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jusbrowsinaroundlmao t1_j6dtzdx wrote

I mean I was born in 2002 and they even flashback to that year now 😭

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InfergnomeHKSC t1_j6f989z wrote

some stories would totally have a flashback to like 2 or 3 years ago, or even just before the start of the story. There's not a law that says flashbacks have to be at least 20 years in the past

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jusbrowsinaroundlmao t1_j6h6iww wrote

True, but I’m referring to the movie “senior year” which was definitely trying to make it seem like 2002 was the olden days 😂

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Curtainmachine t1_j6iwc9y wrote

Well it was my senior year and was the olden days to me. 🤷‍♂️

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hershko t1_j6fjs1e wrote

What do you mean born in 2002? Surely that means you are still in kindergarten… oh. God damn it.

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MoonFlowerDaisy t1_j6h10jk wrote

You are barely older than my oldest child. 2002 should definitely still be kid aged ok?!

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6ffiy2 wrote

You're barely out of the Uterus lol. You didn't write your thesis paper in cursive before typing a final draft, backed on a compact disk + USB. You're just learning how to have good sex, and build credit lol. Wish I could go back to 21.

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_tyjsph_ t1_j6fn7qz wrote

just a tip, random purposeless condescension makes you look annoying

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6frqvn wrote

😂😂😂 What's annoying are the hyper sensitive people on the internet, that are offended on behalf of others... 21 is a good age, and I meant it... However, maybe I wish I was your age, so I can advocate about trivial matters. Pro-tip: Restructure your sentence correctly.

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Supercompositeman13 t1_j6ffufh wrote

Bro, I’m sitting here at 20 with a credit score hovering around 775.

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_tyjsph_ t1_j6fn5hi wrote

can you help me cuss out the company that was supposed to build my credit for paying off their fridge or whatever and then just didnt give it to me

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6g7bnk wrote

Not all Businesses report to the Credit Bureaus regularly, even though it would be ideal, and proper to do so. These type of businesses will report significant situations.
Maybe you should have championed that matter earlier, instead of people's Reddit comments, oui..? Choosing to "cuss out" a business, because they do not report your payments, doesn't build your credit any faster. It is an entitlement. Research how some Creditors operate. They are not obligated to report good standing accounts, it is ideal for them to do so. You'll probably think my advice is also "cOnDeScEnDiNg" #GenerationIAMoffended

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_tyjsph_ t1_j6gv0db wrote

you're going around actively looking for my comments to ramble about whatever instead of doing anything else at all? talk about rent-free. i don't think i'm the offended one here.

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6hlchp wrote

"..talk about rent-free." This is an ironic statement lol. Your 2nd comment is on the same thread where you felt the need to say something to me, so this is just gaslighting on your part.You wanted to give advice, and not receieve it back. Do you know how reddit works..? Learn how to manage your credit instead of being hostile on reddit, and plotting to cuss out businesses. Your life is all over the place, just like the logic you're projecting here lol. I'm truly entertained by your ignorance.

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6fry0w wrote

You're doing well! Financial literacy isn't common.

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Supercompositeman13 t1_j6ftsmy wrote

I’m only doing well because nepotism mainly but thanks

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OntheRiverBend t1_j6g5eix wrote

LMAO..... I respect your honesty.

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Supercompositeman13 t1_j6g7vx3 wrote

I’m just realistic, like I still pay for most of my own bills (housing, phone bill, food, etc) but have my tuition covered (I’m a student) and parents who taught me financial literacy since a young age.

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ZenkaiZ t1_j6cmw2l wrote

:flashes back to 1993 and the main character's parent is shown as a kid: ".........ouch"

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justbiteme2k t1_j6cc5qx wrote

You know you're old when you can describe it like a film narrator: back in the late 20th century

Edit with examples:

I got married last century

My parents were born in the first half of the 20th century

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virouz98 t1_j6cl9da wrote

I mean people born in last century are 23 this year I wouldnt qualify it as old

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justbiteme2k t1_j6cu7op wrote

Yeah, I meant things like, I got married back in the last 20th century... I'll edit though as I can see the confusion

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busdriverbuddha2 t1_j6ei6ve wrote

Countries that existed when I was born:

  • USSR
  • Yugoslavia
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Zaire
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n21lv t1_j6flhtg wrote

Hong Kong was still a British colony back in my early teens

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thebiologyguy84 t1_j6c9m8k wrote

Or you watch older movies set in the future with dates that have already passed!

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skyrimlo t1_j6cjl31 wrote

Like watching Back to the Future 2 where they traveled to 2015. I remember everyone made a huge deal out of it in 2015. Can’t believe that was almost 8 years ago.

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KuaLeifArne t1_j6egs4k wrote

I remember one Norwegian newspaper made a joke article on that date that didn't exactly say it was about Marty McFly arriving in the future, but it was very obvious that that's what they were talking about.

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VampirateV t1_j6cmufx wrote

Nah...what truly makes you feel old is when your kids say "okay, but you were born in the 1900s! You remember Google being invented!" as an argument for basically Parents Just Don't Understand lol

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patient_zero84 t1_j6dhr69 wrote

Or when you sign up for something and have to spin the year wheel like you're a contestant on the Price is Right.

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mom_with_an_attitude t1_j6d4ya0 wrote

I knew I was old one day when I walked into Urban Outfitters to shop for my daughter and there was a whole display of turntables and albums and it was supposed to be this hip retro thing and I was like, "Wait a minute, I remember using these things." When there is nostalgia for a time period you clearly remember, you're old.

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bn9012 t1_j6dbpmd wrote

Do y'all know Demolition man? Simon Phoenix will be decryonised on my birthday

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ALeaf0nTh3Wind t1_j6f3ykd wrote

You're really old when they STOP using your birth year in flashbacks and start using it as "period piece" type movies

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RiC_David t1_j6me6wd wrote

"This is what it must have been like. They probably would have worn something like this..."

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JovahkiinVIII t1_j6efx5d wrote

Seeing the early 2000s portrayed in The Last of Us show is indeed pretty weird, with all the period-specific references and so on. It’s just now become that long ago

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originalchaosinabox t1_j6eocxl wrote

After Captain Marvel made a big thing about it, I’ve noticed that video stores are becoming shorthand for “This takes place in the 90s.”

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dkstr419 t1_j6d5m9c wrote

According to this theory, my high school yearbook would be a cave painting .

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wigzell78 t1_j6dda6q wrote

The music of my youth is on the golden oldies station now. And I'm not that fuc*ing old!

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Runedragonx t1_j6ffsp6 wrote

When Green Day and Blink 182 are on the classic rock station

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LaurenRosanne t1_j6fs3fb wrote

That is when you definitely feel old. Stuff from my Childhood plays on Classic Rock Stations.

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valthonis_surion t1_j6di14x wrote

My son the other day commented about “those boomboxes from the 1900s…”

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Adventurous_Yak_9234 t1_j6ec7ue wrote

In the movie The Mitchells Vs The Machines home movies of the main character (a young college aged girl) as a little girl and the date on the movies is 2005! I was a pre-teen at that time, so showing flashbacks in a movie of someone as a little kid during that time makes me feel super old.

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haytmonger t1_j6gp4tj wrote

I work in a liquor store and a customer turned out to be the child of someone I went to high school with. Kid is 21 now...

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SIRENVII t1_j6dkgf0 wrote

I'm uncomfortable with all these new remixs/samplings of songs I used to dance to at school dances.

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n21lv t1_j6fkx0q wrote

You know you're old when you can say "twenty years ago when I was still in high school.."

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Billy_Rage t1_j6cucqn wrote

Some movies have flash backs from only a couple months prior

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LLuerker t1_j6f2e9b wrote

Even worse when you actually remember the year of the flashback

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Oo__II__oO t1_j6gvuth wrote

And you can vividly remember what you were doing the year of the flashback.

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hernamesgabby t1_j6fka59 wrote

How do you think I felt when The Last of Us show used 2003 as the flashback year ?? 🥲🥲

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AangAndTheFireLord t1_j6fvjl1 wrote

They flash back like 3 years in movies, wtf are you talking about?

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9_of_wands t1_j6en93a wrote

I'm so old the movie can't even have the main cast play their younger selves.

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eightfingeredtypist t1_j6fb5xl wrote

One's birth year being the destination for time travel makes one feel like a time traveler. For example, the movie Back to the Future. I was a baby during the 1950's.

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VIARPE t1_j6fjn0v wrote

You know you are very very old when the current year you live ob starts being used as a flashback in movies

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Maria_506 t1_j6fnm2s wrote

For me it was when I saw some YouTubers I follow are younger than me.

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Professional-Row-605 t1_j6fu7e6 wrote

No.. when your high school or young adult years start showing up on flash backs.

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Reddit_Foxx t1_j6gc9lk wrote

If The Smashing Pumpkins wrote 1979 today, it would be called 2007.

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lceGecko t1_j6ghcf8 wrote

You know you are old when you go and take a quick piss just because you are already up.

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Kissrob72 t1_j6guica wrote

I’ve been recently taking a pissing in bathrooms just because it was there and might as well empty the couple trinkles I got in me

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kumquat_repub t1_j6gm6f5 wrote

Bojack Horseman did a flashback to 2007. Only 16 years ago but it speaks to how much things have changed since then.

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balille t1_j6gxeow wrote

Even if the flashback is set in 1997, it'll be in grainy black-and-white.

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RiC_David t1_j6mdwk3 wrote

People walking really fast when that's not how I remember it at all.

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kupimukki t1_j6h4jjh wrote

No, that happens when you are ten years old if not before. However, there's a kickass HISTORICAL MINISERIES on HBO about my birth year and that DOES make me feel kinda old.

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Bedlemkrd t1_j6h4lf4 wrote

Mine stopped being used in flashback unless the character is a vampire or immortal. Also at the bank the other day mid January I reminded the tellers that we can't trust the weather to get warm and stay warm because of the blizzard of 93 being in March....they told me none of them were born then. I just blinked...I had to have a calculation moment.

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Impressive-Hawk-5609 t1_j6h5kt5 wrote

when a movie you think is old actually came out in your birth year

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Redlikethecolour23 t1_j6hdrdb wrote

It’s my birthday today, so I’m expecting to see mine come up soon

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Significant-Set8457 t1_j6k8nf5 wrote

All the "vintage" outfits from the 80's ffs. I graduated 1985 stop calling me vintage!

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RiC_David t1_j6mdu1r wrote

The year I was born. Thanks for that!

(did I just use "MC Squared?")

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sir-lags t1_j6ktf3q wrote

Literally just happened with The Last of Us. Guess it official

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OneFootTitan t1_j6lecku wrote

I’m so old I remember listening to Never Gonna Give You Up when it was first released.

I never mind being rickrolled, it’s just another chance to listen to one of my favourite pop songs of my childhood

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RiC_David t1_j6mdqrh wrote

That's not that old, come on. Making it sound like the 50s.

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