Older People Take A Swipe At Millennials By Updating An Old-Timey Quote
It's a situation we've all been trapped in. Your eyes glaze over and you let your mind wander. Maybe you can escape through the door, or crawl out the window. Anything would be better except listening to Grandpa say, "When I was your age, we had to walk up a hill, 2 miles, in the snow, both ways, with rocks in our pockets..."
That tried and tested proverb has been used to shut down the woes and troubles of younger generations for quite some time. However, time passes and expressions will soon lose their meaning. Maybe there won't be kids walking to school in the future. Maybe there won't be any more snow. Soon Gen-X'ers will be grandparents, shaming our own grandchildren. Reddit user, r/mike_lets_talk, wanted to know what those sayings and proverbs will end up being when they asked:
What will be the Millennial generation's "I had to walk 20 miles uphill both ways in the snow to school every day"?
Nothing More Stressful Than Talking To Your Crush's Dad
Back in my day, we used to all share a single phone at home.
What if I wanted call a girl I liked you say? Well I had to call her home and ask her parents to speak with her if they answered.
The Greatest Phone Game
I didn't have the internet on my cellphone. I paid by the text. The only game I had on it was Snake.
500 Free Hours?? What???
My internet came on a disk that I got in the mail, and if anyone made a phone call I would lose the internet.
Hollywood Video or Blockbuster?
Back in my day when you wanted to watch a movie you had to go down to the movie rental store and hope that they had a copy left that you had to make sure you could gather enough change to pay with!
Suffering Through The B-Material
I had to buy whole albums of songs to get the one I wanted, even if some of them were bad!
Just Hours Of Your Life, Wasted
Without a cell phone, I had to read the shampoo bottle on the toilet.
"it's .25 For the First 7 Texts, After That It's $3"
"Back in my day, texting prices were so inflated it cost more to send a text message than it took to receive info from the Hubble Space Telescope!"
Too Busy Practicing Our Zs To Notice
Before keyboards we scrawled the characters on pieces of dried tree mush with tubes that had dyed water in them. People used to worry about how many trees we were mushing but we were too busy destroying the atmosphere for it to really matter.
Did We Ever Get To The Bottom Of This?
I had to change the TV to channel 3 JUST to play video games.
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For That Matter...
When I was your age when had to blow in the cartage to get our games to work.
Maybe Even Buy Two Cars
Back in my day my parents could afford a mortgage with 2 middle class jobs.
That's, Like, Forever
"You kids have no idea how hard me and your mother had it when we first got married. We had to wait 2 WHOLE DAYS for a package to come in the mail."
What Do You Mean There Was No Wikipedia?
Back in my day, I had to go to a library and search through books for my research papers
You Had To Wait Until...Next Week?
We had these books called TV guides and had to organize our day by what TV show was on at what time! No seriously! on demand streaming wasn't a thing!
The Trauma Of Nokia Phones...
"if you wanted an S, you had to press 7 FOUR TIMES!"
We'd Never Know!
Back in my day we didn't have smartphones. If you got into an argument about something you never knew who was right. Do emus live in Africa or Australia? Who knows!
If you were taking a trip you had to go to mapquest and print out directions to read in the car. And before mapquest or with a big trip you bought a map, sprawled it out on your car, and plotted a route by hand like a 17th century explorer.
Want to take pictures? Don't forget to bring a camera! The point and shoots were awesome, those could actually fit in your pocket!
Wanna jump off the bandwagon? Then keep reading!
U/lit3rallyuseless asked: What doesn't deserve the hate it gets?
​Film and media are probably the biggest contender for being hated on randomly. It may seem harmless, but not always deserved.
Actors are people too!
Actors who played characters that people didn't like.
Really if you hated the character then the actor did a good job (assuming that was the role).
The best cartoons.
nice day summer GIF by PBS KIDSGiphyChild cartoons. Some are actually really good, even as an adult.
I feel like watching cartoons aimed at generally a younger audience allows for you to be reminded of some life lessons, I know I forget some things, or didn't realise others, or it at least partially renews my awareness of something I should still like or appreciate
This doesn't deserve awards, it's just my opinion that is apparently shared by many.
This man did nothing wrong.
Guy Fieri, he literally is the nicest person in the world but since he looks like he was electrocuted by mountain dew people want to saw his head off.
Even before that, I was witness to his other charitable work. A few years back, Santa Rosa was hit by some terrible fires and he showed up at a few shelters and personally cooked up and served some killer buffet food. No cameras, no massive team of PR, just a dude with an assistant to keep him on schedule to hit up other shelters in the area. Guy Fieri legit earned a lot of respect in my book for that.
You know who DEFINITELY doesn’t deserve hate? Animals. They’re just living their best lives, and need to be left alone.​
The best cats.
Black cats.
We got a black cat for the first time last year. I've since formulated the theory that black cats might get some of their reputation from the fact that people can't see them well in the dark and so they seemingly appear out of nowhere and they might be instinctually cautious because they know people have a tendency to kick them while walking in the dark. Our black cat is the sweetest cat I've ever known.
They get a bad rep.
Discovery Sharks GIF by Shark WeekGiphySharks. They are beautiful, complex creatures, deserving of respect and, like any wild animal should be left alone in their natural habitat, but they get this reputation as vicious bloodthirsty monsters. This is only because every shark attack is news, and only then because they are so rare. More people are killed EVERY DAY by mosquitoes than sharks kill in a year.
Any apex predator that has remained evolutionarily unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, whose existance predates TREES, is deserving or our respect and admiration. Shine on, you crazy cartlaginous fish, shine on.
So cute too!
Opossums. They're neat little critters. They eat tons of ticks that carry Lyme disease, (mostly) don't carry rabies because their body temp is too low, and they're the only marsupial native to North America! They get a bad rap because their first defense is to hiss and bare teeth, but failing that, they just play dead.
If you don't have the predisposition to hate them, you'll find they're pretty cute too.
E: this is about /opossums/, the north American species.
Kiwis, I feel for you, but this comment isn't about your possums.
​Hating on other people for just living their lives also seems to be a big contender for things that don’t deserve to be hated on.
This is so true.
Unemployed people. A lot of people genuinely are looking for work and did not want to lose their last job/it was beyond their control (like a layoff) but they get so much hate and called lazy by most people. I know too many unemployed people that are actually really trying hard. They definitely aren't lazy. (Not saying lazy unemployed people don't exist, but to be fair, so do lazy employed people too lol)
Leave the weather man alone!
Fox Raining GIF by Family GuyGiphyMeteorologists. They try their best to predict the weather based on patterns, models, and data. They're not perfect because predicting the weather is insanely difficult. When they get it wrong, I think we should go easy on them. It was probably an outlier result almost no one could have foreseen.
I've seen people get angry over the meteorologists for getting it right. Like they control the weather - it is their fault we are having rain, that kind of BS. Never made sense to me, but hey, I have plenty of relatives I clashed with growing up.
Please stop being d*cks to these people.
Customer service associates.
I hate when customers think that I, the minimum wage person forced to sit there and listen to them yell, am personally responsible for every policy they disagree with. Like, ma'am, if I had that much power and influence, I wouldn't be sitting here on a Saturday evening serving you.
Wholesome and necessary.
People don't deserve hate they give themselves when they are not doing too good at the moment.
I'm in a weird place and I didn't know I needed to read this. Thanks buddy.
If you haven't heard it from anyone else today, I'm proud of you.
It seems like people hate on things simply because they think they're meant to hate them. But you can always be the change and make an effort to stop being an a**hole about certain things.
No matter what though, sometimes haters gonna hate