The sheer amount of things here that are still common is wild to me, like payphones still exist in most places, heads down thumbs up is a common game, AND THOSE WEIRD SPINNY PLAYGROUND THINGS ARE STILL AROUND.
Sat on a spinny playground thing last week, small child wanted to go on but bigger kids went mach 9 so I had to hold her so she wouldn't fly off. I almost had trouble staying on wtf kinda crack were those kids taking like damn
EXACTLY!! Like- how are some people so blinded by reality that they have no clue about common things? Like photo albums, or pay phones. Both of those things still very much exist and are still very much being used (maybe not as much for the pay phones but you get it, I hope 😅😅)
@@motionless_horizon2007 baby (or, well, not baby anymore. Freshly 18.) here. I may know most of these things mainly because I was raised in a poorer household with way older siblings, and my mom who had me at 42, so I don’t know. Just tossing in my couple cents.
@@pawchiima I was also raised in a poor household, but oldest child and my mom was in her 20s when she had me. It’s interesting thinking about some people who grew up with the new stuff of the time lmao
42:22 the expectation that I, 16, shouldn't know what that kind of doorstop is or have the sound it makes permanently etched into my brain because of my cats......
1:20:40 This is a disk defragmenter. Platter-based hard drives used to have a lot less care about where they put all the segments of each program or file you stored on them, so there would be little pieces of program scattered all over the drive. This helped organize all of those pieces of each program into the same relative space on the disk. Modern-day hard drives have a lot less trouble with this problem, thanks to the operating system being more picky about telling the hard drive where to store files, but it can still help to run defrag every year or so, especially if you still have a platter-based drive, as opposed to an SSD.
The other reason is that starting with Windows 7, it would automatically run defragmentation in the background without telling you. It still does in fact. SSDs technically don't require defragmentation, but Windows still does it anyway.
16:16 Not only can we *hear* this computer, but remember the smell of the heat from the back and sides?! It's so funny how we can see an image from the past, and remember the sounds and smells that accompanied them!😄
The thing about being 35 is, everyone you interact with that "should be" older than "the main character" in your life STILL IS (a police constable, librarians, bus drivers...), so as long as you're childless and still wearing hoodies and t-shirts, you really do go around still thinking you're 23 until specific things like these hit you.
20:57 ADHD version: We had personal phone/address books &/or only memorized a few phone numbers other than our own. We knew our way around our own town but had no clue what most roads we traveled down were called. We wandered off in stores or places we weren't familiar with. We had no way of calling anyone in an emergency, if we didnt know where we were, & no one could call us if we werent near a phone. We were lost a lot, had our names called over store speakers to reunite with our family, & missed out on a lot by waiting by the phone or missing out on being invited to fun things if we were outside all day. Most of us neurodivergent girls also missed out on a good, trauma free childhood because no one noticed we were struggling from undiagnosed ADHD/AuDHD.
they did that from my first year to now, and I'm currently in that Gen Z and Gen alpha area, like 2009 or smth, and I have siblings, they still do the game. never head of the other one Kenny put up
10:45 I feel the need to say this even though it wasn't technically on this vid since Robin did kinda invoke the topic, and I've heard him rant about FRIENDS a few times now and how he doesn't care if you think it's the most unfunny thing out there because he likes it. So I've had some stuff on my mind for a while I wanted to get off my chest. There's some things you need to understand objectively in regards to FRIENDS: •A show can, first and foremost, be funny to someone even if it's not funny to you. Not everyone is going to laugh at the same joke, not everyone is going to have the same type of sense of humor. •Laugh tracks are pretty much psychological warfare to force you to laugh. We are for whatever reason mentally programmed to mirror certain behaviors when we witness them (whether seeing or hearing). You may be more familiar with this when it comes to things such as yawning and sneezing, but you may have also heard the turn of phrase "an infectious smile" or a "contagious grin" etc. When someone else is in a good mood genuinely, you may be in a better mood just seeing them, even if you have no idea why they're happy. This does not mean FRIENDS isn't funny, but it does mean the laugh tracks are in the show for a reason and I'm sure we can all acknowledge that much. •Long awkward pauses will always be long and awkward. All those compilations where they take the laugh tracks out of FRIENDS to "prove" it's "not funny" ARE going to be cringe and awkward and make you feel like it's not funny because *anything would make you uncomfortable and not be funny* if you added a long pause even if someone just told the most hilarious jokes. If you took any video you think is "funnier" than FRIENDS and made a compilation where you added extended pauses with white noise or something after any joke in the show *it would make you feel just as uncomfortable as the FRIENDS without laugh tracks compilations.* Long non-responsive pauses have a psychological effect on us and are used during police interrogations to make people uncomfortable in order to get more information out of them. Want to make someone uncomfortable? Stare at them emotionlessly when they say something, as if you're waiting for them to finish the sentence they just said or add more. All of these things can be simultaneously true. Humor has morphed, the way humor is delivered has morphed. When FRIENDS started airing, the thing to do was to add laugh tracks after joke deliveries as a sort of cue that "hey this was a joke". Now the thing to do is be fast paced, drop the joke and move on with the plot. Fit in as much plot as possible in that 20 - 40 minutes or so of an episode. I do not watch FRIENDS, I have never watched FRIENDS. But I can understand, objectively, someone finds it funny. Someone enjoys it. And I never really understood browbeating someone for finding something largely popular funny or accusing people of not having a sense of humor was ever a trendy thing people did. You're allowed to dislike FRIENDS. You're allowed to hate it even. You're allowed to not be interested, and you're allowed to love it. All these opinions are valid. You don't need to justify to anyone why you don't like it, and you *really* don't need to craft reasons about why your choice not to like it is valid and anyone else is *wrong* for thinking otherwise. Just say you don't like FRIENDS and go. Bottom line: FRIENDS is funny. FRIENDS isn't funny. It is simultaneously both, because no one has the same sense of humor, and no one is more valid for thinking so, nor is their sense of humor broken, nor do they have bad taste in shows. Similarly to how these days we don't understand how Gen-Z and Gen Alpha finds a lot of their brainrot funny, comedy is constantly changing and evolving and we are shaped by our environments and time to enjoy and find humor in what we do.
As a former pizza delivery guy, you developed a mental map of your delivery area. It's weird, but I just had a discussion about this with a coworker. We would have people stop and ask for directions to a place and I could give explicit directions down to how many buildings from the corner any given address was. I quit and a year later I got lost in the same area. LOL. 1:11:08 No, just no. The feral kid was a boy and is a man, Emil Minty. And no I am not denying a trans woman by dead naming her. He currently looks roughly like Donna's dad from That 70s Show, except with short hair and not the perm. THAT is not him.
21:30 ngl, I wish that dvds and such were as common as they used to be, didn't have to worry about streaming services tossing them out, could search by the scene, rather than fast forwarding forever, and sometimes they would even have a lil game or two to play, sometimes being as good as the games online
Same, I still get them for my favourite shows if they get released. I want to be able to watch them whenever, not just for as long as the streaming site deems them relevant enough.
5:11 so fun fact, this still happens with long downloads and updates on Xboxes. Like I set down my controller, go draw in my room, come back like 5 minutes later and the update time that said 1 hour 14 minutes now says 2 hours 17 minutes.
I was born in 1950, and I’m here to inform all of you whippersnappers that cold water out of a garden hose is the best and most refreshing beverage of all time. Fight me!
Little known fact, but molding is the male equivalent of periods. Every year, our body starts to get moldy for a few hours. The infrequent nature of molding is why this subreddit’s subject and name are what they are.
19:40 New slang I can adopt and will use if it doesn't disappear in a year. But this, this is the opposite of punk. I understand the meaning of things change, but this is the exact antithesis of its former meaning. This would be like calling saggy pants, gold bling, and a backwards cap, classical music attire.
Heads up Seven up is the name, Heads down Thumbs up is the instruction. Also it wasn't being played for fun, it was a tactic for the teacher to see who the cheaters were
38:25 * whoosh * The sound of the joke going waaaaay over their head. For context, this is Nena, singer of the song 99 Luftballons / 99 Red Balloons - about an apocalyptic world war breaking out over a bunch of innocuous rubber balloons.
I didnt expect someone from not Germany to get the "she warned them from chinese ballons" thing...but its still funny (nena-99 luftballons is a song about 99 red ballons that get shot and strat a war. Its still played at partys)
And it was a massive hit in the U.S. in the '80s that anyone 35 years old and older should recognize. I know she also made an English language version of the song that was a bigger hit in the UK, but here in North America the German original was what we loved best.
As for the payphone, there is one in our post office. I am not sure if it works, but it is still there since the 20 years me and my parents have been here in rural Riverside County, California, maybe ever longer.
The “I’ll paint any car, any color” slogan was used when the majority of the population (US) drove a Ford Model T which was exclusively painted in black enamel so this dates back to the 1910s to 1920s
@@missing_link918 no the cheapest color would’ve been the color of the metal used to make the car. They didn’t have to paint it. And it wasn’t even painted black because it was cheap they did it for efficiency and uniformity (they didn’t want to hire painters)
11:44 aw man, that’s reminding me of an old and rusted metal playground area in a park, and the thing had so much scratched into it, broken pieces, overall very dangerous, but still fun- just recently-ish they removed it and i’m sad
You would be considered a god to be picked as one of those lucky seven to put the thumbs down.. but then those dirty cheater who looked at your shoes made the game no fun.
I was born in 1960, I remember when "cassette tapes" were all new and magical. Schools banned the use of "electronic calculators" as they were considered cheating. I asked what about an abacus.. that's a calculator, is that cheating.. got told to stop being a smart arse and got sent to visit the Principal. When you filled up your car with petrol (gasoline to you 'Muricans) you could put in "super" (with lead) "standard" (no lead) or some pumps had a selector where you could "mix and match" (always used 50/50.. I'm like that) $5 filled the tank to the brim. Now.... over $100. Colour TV being introduced was biggest thing ever (Now I haven't turned on a TV for over a decade....) they used to show a "test signal' at the end of the days viewing and before the first program (programming stopped around 10pm to midnight usually) At about 7:30pm they would play a lullaby and show a child being put to sleep. Then they could program shows with some naughty words and slightly suggestive themes for the "grown ups". All the kids shows and cartoons were full of punching, hitting, shooting, blowing up, dropping anvils on heads... Now all banned, because of violence and young minds you know.. Can't say the ban helped much. But "Teletubbies" is a thing now WTF?... I want some of the drugs they were on when they came up with that. Remember buying Commodore Vic 20 computer in the '80's... displayed on a TV, everything had to be manually typed to get anything to work. If you wanted to save a file/program.. it was to a cassette tape. Yep, same ones used for music. All the telephones were attached to walls with wires, or bolted to the inside of a box on the footpath (Ok sidewalk..'Murica) I went everywhere by foot or bus until I joined the Army at 16 I actually survived for decades without having to have a mobile constantly available. Don't get me wrong, I love the GPS, Music and Camera they all have. The thought of a small, portable device that let you see and talk to another person, across the other side of the world, in real time no less was the stuff of science fiction I like to imagine how someone who saw the birth of heavier than air flight feels in a modern passenger jet. Imagine leaving work and there's next to no chance that the boss would try and contact you.. because for most of the time they couldn't. And yet business and the country were thriving. You could go to the movie theatre and see a full feature movie plus a "support feature" for a couple of dollars. (Hands up who remembers "Cisco and Pancho"... nope.. nobody?) Drive in theatres were a thing... and awesome thing at that. F^ck I'm old. But they weren't all the "good old days', al lot of it was pretty shitty to be honest.
Lots of people still drank from the garden hose in the summer well past when Gatorade was made. I was a kid in the 90s and that was common where I lived. Gatorade was an extra expense that people weren't going to shell out for. You'd drink from the garden hose while still outside, and when you came in there'd be a big pitcher of koolaid or iced tea or lemonade to drink from. Something dirt cheap to make
I do indeed remember the Snorks and the Solid Gold Dancers ;_; I did read and love Encyclopedia Brown, the hardy boys and nancy drew. I liked Encyclopedia Brown enough to dig up (via pirating) a collection of the books just afew years ago. Sadly they dont hold up. I watched 'you cant do that on television' long before it was on nickelodeon
18:04 Kenny it’s heads up seven up and you can’t convince me otherwise also if they don’t play this anymore then it must be pretty recent (I played it in 4th grade fresh fresh man now) EDIT:fourth grade was 2019 for me
27:00 oml that caught me off guard so much 😂😂 I saw the “top” and instantly knew what it was! “I still don’t see the sailboat” all I’m saying it’s defo not a sailboat.
22:10 oh my god.. not only do I remember that guy, my younger brother had one and I would be willing to bet our dad might still have the direct-to-VHS movie hiding among the hundreds of VHS tapes from the long long ago.. He probably also still has several movies that he recorded off the Disney Channel and HBO and others, ads and all, during free preview weekends when the cable company would turn off the signal scrambling on some of the premium channels for a few days so that us plebs with basic cable could see what we were missing.. good times. 26:59 it's a uh... rooster.
I remember when it was 2010, my dad still had an old Windows 98 model computer, and he told me, "Back in the day, the computer hurt you when you hit it. Now, the computer hurts you, and you hurt it"
50:50 Yup, that was a thing in Europe too. One of the first instances of an automated answering system - reading off the current time every few seconds.
As the “young guys”, all you need to do is watch some movies or shows and if you still can’t figure it out then look it up. Still surprised that some people don’t know a pay phone despite the fact it still exists and historical shows are still being made. It was also in the first Sonic movie.
The show was 'You Can't Do That on Television' not Mr. Nickelodeon. . . the person on the screen was one of the main characters. Her name was Christine but everyone called her Moose.
11:44 I remember those, my dad spun me around on one so fast I flew off and ragdolled onto the ground, I got up, took a second to breathe, and hopped back on. I was 7 and didn't want to look like I was too young for it in front of my 3 older siblings.
as a gen z myself to burn a cd you need a desktop with a cd drive and you have to download the songs onto the disc from online it used to take hours to burn one song onto a cd
Nah, not a regular cd-drive, you needed a special one, and it did not take hours to burn one song, lmao. If it did no one would’ve burned whole ass albums and movies.
4:53 Sadly the Gen Xer in question got it wrong. Typically a Karen is a late in the generation Boomer. Anyway there was a movie with Christian Slater and Winona Ryder that came out in the late 80s called "Heathers" about two outsiders who kill the popular kids, especially the mean girl clique "The Heathers" who were three girls all named Heather. For a slightly more recent reference they were like The Plastics in Mean Girls. In fact, imagine Mean Girls if the main character killed Regina George, One of her sidekicks and their boyfriends, making it look like a suicide pact. The post is saying that if you really understood Gen Xers A Heather is a more appropriate term for that personality type to our generation. It really was amusing how confused it made you.
Nice, "Heathers," reference. Great Winona Ryder movie from like '89. Man, your talk about the Danny Glover meme, really sunk in and hurt my soul. I'm 43 and I. A walker and a cane already. Need a hip replacement and a major spine operation. Damn drunk drivers. I love this video though. Laurel screws Yanni, lol. What do u do if you heard both at once?
14:24 The calculator literally did take the jobs of the calculators. Considering calculators used to be a group of people doing math in a room. Yeah their jobs are gone and they were replaced with a machine.
If we go back to manual transmissions, maybe it would stop millennials and gen Z from texting and driving. BTW, I was born in 1959. My house was a Mecca for kids. Not only did I live on a dead-end street with few cars to interrupt Red Rover but my Dad installed a little water fountain on the backyard spigot. We didn’t have to drink from the hose! Going inside for a drink was never an option.
3:22 I once found pictures of me when i was like 6, 7, idk. They were negatives. I still keep them, even though i have no idea how to play them. I am 15 now and right now i have them on my shelf.
1:16:21 That is a headlight button, that was on the floor of most older cars, to the left of the brake pedal. You would press it with your foot, to turn the high-beams on.
13:03 I still have those. Am planning to install it for fun when i stop procrastinating and just swap the caps on that motherboard. And put the PC together. It's going to be so dang nostalgic. I hope they all work. Will see. Someday. I could be doing it right now and here i am just watching youtube again..
31:53 When I was growing up, the main network channels shut down for the night. Channels 15 - 60ish, were on the bottom dial. (uhf) usually, one of those channels would still be broadcasting at 3am, when you couldn't sleep.
26:35 I needed *3* Swanson dinners to be satisfied, and I was a skinny girl! My older brother added so much bread and extra hotdogs and cheese, because the meal portions weren't filling enough for after school snacks, let alone dinners lol😅
1:20:42 that looks like a program that copies floppy disks. Before computers had hard drives, you'd have to run a program if you only had one disk drive. The computer would read the source disk for a while, and then prompt you to change the disk in the drive to the target drive, then write to that disk. I don't remember how many times you had to switch back and forth. I didn't really use it, but I remember watching my brothers doing it to share Commodore 64 games with their friends.
11:26 I mean he is a _sociology_ prof and beyond the practical use of actually getting what your students say (even if you're not supposed to), there might even be scientific value in a history of teen slang.
42:27 I remember those they were so much fun, those are door stoppers I'm pretty sure I never learned the actual function of them , I'm closer to the older half of gen z
Oh my gosh I love the end! I'm 17 and I have some old VHS tapes (Shows like Zaboomafoo, and Bear In The Big Blue House) that have similar ends to them!
47:25 I want to say 2005-2008. I remember having the apple pies and then they got seasonal ones, like pumpking or birthday cake. Then they just stopped.
I think that a lot of people have this idea that those continuous towel dispensers dispense out the towel in the top and then it goes into the bottom and somehow gets magically cleaned and it comes right out the top. This is one long continuous towel which one spool feeds a clean length of towel out the top slot and it comes around and goes into the bottom where the dirty towel is wrapped around another spool. At some point, the towel will be removed and washed and replaced with a clean towel on the top spool again.
Even as a gen Z, I get nightmares of people saying 'okay Zoomer' and good god, I don't think I'll ever recover if it actually happens.
Okay Zoomer. :p
ok zoomer 💀 (same though)
🤔 I’m x and for some reason, to use the modern vernacular, it just “hits different”. Yes I know the lingo. Now get off my damn lawn!
Jesus Christ
I don't think i would either
my brain: "f**k I mold
Same
Oh no, green stuff from month old sandwich grows faster than expected
That was me
being moldy can be a sign of age, so it works
Same lol I was just about to comment that
I will personally create time travel and alter the future the day anyone officially considers Coldplay "classic rock."
if coldplay becomes classic rock, what will the already established "classic rock songs" become?
@@CAT3_V1 golden oldies? and then golden oldies will become...who even knows...
@@mikelwrites prehistoric preludes
@@CAT3_V1 Ancient anthems?
@@CAT3_V1 B.C rock?
The sheer amount of things here that are still common is wild to me, like payphones still exist in most places, heads down thumbs up is a common game, AND THOSE WEIRD SPINNY PLAYGROUND THINGS ARE STILL AROUND.
we called it heads up 7-up.
Pay phones still exist in some places, but are they functional?
I don't think iv'e seen one in 20 years.
Sat on a spinny playground thing last week, small child wanted to go on but bigger kids went mach 9 so I had to hold her so she wouldn't fly off. I almost had trouble staying on wtf kinda crack were those kids taking like damn
Where do you live that pay phone are in most places.
As a member of gen z I see a lot of these and my immediate thoughts are: “wait people don’t know this” I’m not even 20 and still feel old
EXACTLY!! Like- how are some people so blinded by reality that they have no clue about common things? Like photo albums, or pay phones. Both of those things still very much exist and are still very much being used (maybe not as much for the pay phones but you get it, I hope 😅😅)
Sammme
I’m a 2005 baby and it’s like.. what age are the people not knowing what these things are??
@@motionless_horizon2007 baby (or, well, not baby anymore. Freshly 18.) here.
I may know most of these things mainly because I was raised in a poorer household with way older siblings, and my mom who had me at 42, so I don’t know. Just tossing in my couple cents.
@@pawchiima I was also raised in a poor household, but oldest child and my mom was in her 20s when she had me. It’s interesting thinking about some people who grew up with the new stuff of the time lmao
I thought this was a subreddit with a bunch of mold cleaners talking about how much they hate mold
I read it as f*ck i mold lol
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42:22 the expectation that I, 16, shouldn't know what that kind of doorstop is or have the sound it makes permanently etched into my brain because of my cats......
Im 20 and my mom would get really pissed off at me laying on the floor repeatedly pushing it back and forth
@@NeonBeeCatSame here, and I'm 17!
I’ve seen them in a recently constructed place
I played with that for hours at my beachhouse
19 and I still have those in my home, the “thwunununung” sound will never leave my mind lmao
1:20:40 This is a disk defragmenter. Platter-based hard drives used to have a lot less care about where they put all the segments of each program or file you stored on them, so there would be little pieces of program scattered all over the drive. This helped organize all of those pieces of each program into the same relative space on the disk. Modern-day hard drives have a lot less trouble with this problem, thanks to the operating system being more picky about telling the hard drive where to store files, but it can still help to run defrag every year or so, especially if you still have a platter-based drive, as opposed to an SSD.
The other reason is that starting with Windows 7, it would automatically run defragmentation in the background without telling you. It still does in fact.
SSDs technically don't require defragmentation, but Windows still does it anyway.
16:16 Not only can we *hear* this computer, but remember the smell of the heat from the back and sides?! It's so funny how we can see an image from the past, and remember the sounds and smells that accompanied them!😄
Oh, to be so young to think that is a computer with a hard disk...
Makes me think about the lab in high School when I was learning dos on an IBM 5150.
Im gen z, i stopped keeping up with slang when “slay” became a thing, and no way in hell am i going to use “skibidi” in every day lingo 💀
No way in hell am I using Gen Alpha slang
No way in hell man, even goddamn "bogus" is better
what the sigma r u yapping about
@@deleted_handle i experienced one of those in the wild 💀
Same here
I thought it said r/fuckmold
I thought it said fuckingmold
Lol
Down with mold! Hate that guy!
-people to penicillin probably....
True though
Someone should make that subreddit though
9:01 I love MASH!!!!!! Awesome show🖤 love watching it as a family.
The thing about being 35 is, everyone you interact with that "should be" older than "the main character" in your life STILL IS (a police constable, librarians, bus drivers...), so as long as you're childless and still wearing hoodies and t-shirts, you really do go around still thinking you're 23 until specific things like these hit you.
20:57 ADHD version:
We had personal phone/address books &/or only memorized a few phone numbers other than our own.
We knew our way around our own town but had no clue what most roads we traveled down were called.
We wandered off in stores or places we weren't familiar with. We had no way of calling anyone in an emergency, if we didnt know where we were, & no one could call us if we werent near a phone.
We were lost a lot, had our names called over store speakers to reunite with our family, & missed out on a lot by waiting by the phone or missing out on being invited to fun things if we were outside all day.
Most of us neurodivergent girls also missed out on a good, trauma free childhood because no one noticed we were struggling from undiagnosed ADHD/AuDHD.
27:00 It's definitely not a sailboat. It does have a "mast" and 2 "fenders" tho. LMAO
Ah! Came to the comments to see if anyone else tried to see what it was.
Bro same 😭
I thought it was a canon. Fully locked and loaded.🍆🥚🥚
Millennials and Gen Xers say "back in my day we didn't have phones or spotify" and expect kids to be shocked
Milennials and gen x out here acting like they arent raising gen alpha on tiktok right now
"Yeah grandpa let's get you back to bed"
The moment the “Heads Up/Seven Up” bit came, it hit me super hard, that was THE classroom game to play when I was in school…
they did that from my first year to now, and I'm currently in that Gen Z and Gen alpha area, like 2009 or smth, and I have siblings, they still do the game. never head of the other one Kenny put up
Good God, I remember playing Heads Up/7 Up in kindergarten... damn I feel old
10:45 I feel the need to say this even though it wasn't technically on this vid since Robin did kinda invoke the topic, and I've heard him rant about FRIENDS a few times now and how he doesn't care if you think it's the most unfunny thing out there because he likes it. So I've had some stuff on my mind for a while I wanted to get off my chest.
There's some things you need to understand objectively in regards to FRIENDS:
•A show can, first and foremost, be funny to someone even if it's not funny to you. Not everyone is going to laugh at the same joke, not everyone is going to have the same type of sense of humor.
•Laugh tracks are pretty much psychological warfare to force you to laugh. We are for whatever reason mentally programmed to mirror certain behaviors when we witness them (whether seeing or hearing). You may be more familiar with this when it comes to things such as yawning and sneezing, but you may have also heard the turn of phrase "an infectious smile" or a "contagious grin" etc. When someone else is in a good mood genuinely, you may be in a better mood just seeing them, even if you have no idea why they're happy. This does not mean FRIENDS isn't funny, but it does mean the laugh tracks are in the show for a reason and I'm sure we can all acknowledge that much.
•Long awkward pauses will always be long and awkward. All those compilations where they take the laugh tracks out of FRIENDS to "prove" it's "not funny" ARE going to be cringe and awkward and make you feel like it's not funny because *anything would make you uncomfortable and not be funny* if you added a long pause even if someone just told the most hilarious jokes. If you took any video you think is "funnier" than FRIENDS and made a compilation where you added extended pauses with white noise or something after any joke in the show *it would make you feel just as uncomfortable as the FRIENDS without laugh tracks compilations.* Long non-responsive pauses have a psychological effect on us and are used during police interrogations to make people uncomfortable in order to get more information out of them. Want to make someone uncomfortable? Stare at them emotionlessly when they say something, as if you're waiting for them to finish the sentence they just said or add more.
All of these things can be simultaneously true. Humor has morphed, the way humor is delivered has morphed. When FRIENDS started airing, the thing to do was to add laugh tracks after joke deliveries as a sort of cue that "hey this was a joke". Now the thing to do is be fast paced, drop the joke and move on with the plot. Fit in as much plot as possible in that 20 - 40 minutes or so of an episode.
I do not watch FRIENDS, I have never watched FRIENDS. But I can understand, objectively, someone finds it funny. Someone enjoys it. And I never really understood browbeating someone for finding something largely popular funny or accusing people of not having a sense of humor was ever a trendy thing people did. You're allowed to dislike FRIENDS. You're allowed to hate it even. You're allowed to not be interested, and you're allowed to love it. All these opinions are valid. You don't need to justify to anyone why you don't like it, and you *really* don't need to craft reasons about why your choice not to like it is valid and anyone else is *wrong* for thinking otherwise. Just say you don't like FRIENDS and go.
Bottom line: FRIENDS is funny. FRIENDS isn't funny. It is simultaneously both, because no one has the same sense of humor, and no one is more valid for thinking so, nor is their sense of humor broken, nor do they have bad taste in shows. Similarly to how these days we don't understand how Gen-Z and Gen Alpha finds a lot of their brainrot funny, comedy is constantly changing and evolving and we are shaped by our environments and time to enjoy and find humor in what we do.
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0:00 Robin
29:01 Jack
45:18 Robin
Robin continues until the end of the video.
As a former pizza delivery guy, you developed a mental map of your delivery area.
It's weird, but I just had a discussion about this with a coworker. We would have people stop and ask for directions to a place and I could give explicit directions down to how many buildings from the corner any given address was. I quit and a year later I got lost in the same area. LOL.
1:11:08 No, just no. The feral kid was a boy and is a man, Emil Minty. And no I am not denying a trans woman by dead naming her. He currently looks roughly like Donna's dad from That 70s Show, except with short hair and not the perm. THAT is not him.
21:30 ngl, I wish that dvds and such were as common as they used to be, didn't have to worry about streaming services tossing them out, could search by the scene, rather than fast forwarding forever, and sometimes they would even have a lil game or two to play, sometimes being as good as the games online
Same, I still get them for my favourite shows if they get released. I want to be able to watch them whenever, not just for as long as the streaming site deems them relevant enough.
57:55 Wrong. The network was called Nickelodeon, it was on cable. The show was called, "You Can't Say That On Television".
5:52 legit an ad popped up when the mouse clicked
5:11 so fun fact, this still happens with long downloads and updates on Xboxes. Like I set down my controller, go draw in my room, come back like 5 minutes later and the update time that said 1 hour 14 minutes now says 2 hours 17 minutes.
5:49 I may not be that old, but if you find me in my room, you’ll be watching me play 3-D space pinball
Edit: I’m 12
The Windows XP one?! I'm just 17 but now I feel 30.
58:02 The show was “You Can’t Do That on Television,” and a young Alanis Morisette was on it briefly
I was born in 1950, and I’m here to inform all of you whippersnappers that cold water out of a garden hose is the best and most refreshing beverage of all time. Fight me!
As a generation Z girl born in 2003, I sadly cannot relate.
Lol whippersnappers.
As a Gen Z person born in 2002, I can relate. Nothing hits quite like garden hose water.
fuck i mold moment
Glad I wasn't the only one who read it like that lol
Little known fact, but molding is the male equivalent of periods. Every year, our body starts to get moldy for a few hours. The infrequent nature of molding is why this subreddit’s subject and name are what they are.
Fuck my mold
19:40 New slang I can adopt and will use if it doesn't disappear in a year. But this, this is the opposite of punk. I understand the meaning of things change, but this is the exact antithesis of its former meaning. This would be like calling saggy pants, gold bling, and a backwards cap, classical music attire.
12:07 We may have been born a time when Gatorade existed, but our parents were too *Honk* Cheap to get it, so we were forced to use the hose.
Heads up Seven up is the name,
Heads down Thumbs up is the instruction.
Also it wasn't being played for fun, it was a tactic for the teacher to see who the cheaters were
38:25 * whoosh *
The sound of the joke going waaaaay over their head.
For context, this is Nena, singer of the song 99 Luftballons / 99 Red Balloons - about an apocalyptic world war breaking out over a bunch of innocuous rubber balloons.
I didnt expect someone from not Germany to get the "she warned them from chinese ballons" thing...but its still funny
(nena-99 luftballons is a song about 99 red ballons that get shot and strat a war. Its still played at partys)
And it was a massive hit in the U.S. in the '80s that anyone 35 years old and older should recognize. I know she also made an English language version of the song that was a bigger hit in the UK, but here in North America the German original was what we loved best.
As for the payphone, there is one in our post office. I am not sure if it works, but it is still there since the 20 years me and my parents have been here in rural Riverside County, California, maybe ever longer.
The “I’ll paint any car, any color” slogan was used when the majority of the population (US) drove a Ford Model T which was exclusively painted in black enamel so this dates back to the 1910s to 1920s
Because black was the cheapest color to make a car in lmao
@@missing_link918 no the cheapest color would’ve been the color of the metal used to make the car. They didn’t have to paint it. And it wasn’t even painted black because it was cheap they did it for efficiency and uniformity (they didn’t want to hire painters)
Fun fact, the "black is the only color" only applied for a few of the 20 years that the Ford T was in production.
1:23:32 Holy crap, my childhood rushing back at me. I loved those stickers. They would get scratched so much the ink and scent would wear off.
High five!! I was a smelly sticker child myself. And puffy stickers!
10:02
The meme is about push-starting a car with a dead battery.
You can push-start a manual.
You can't push-start an automatic.
Thank you for saying this, sometimes i actually do get irritated with his comments 🥴
but watch on your valve train, it could potentially break down when you try to push-start too many times
11:44 aw man, that’s reminding me of an old and rusted metal playground area in a park, and the thing had so much scratched into it, broken pieces, overall very dangerous, but still fun- just recently-ish they removed it and i’m sad
Don't worry, Heads up Seven up is still a thing
I never played it. I heard of it, though.
@@baliyae i played it in 2016
You would be considered a god to be picked as one of those lucky seven to put the thumbs down.. but then those dirty cheater who looked at your shoes made the game no fun.
29:55 Does Jack seriously not know what juice concentrate is? They still make it.
I READ THAT AS R/FUCK MOLD WHAT
r/fucky mold
I was born in 1960, I remember when "cassette tapes" were all new and magical.
Schools banned the use of "electronic calculators" as they were considered cheating. I asked what about an abacus.. that's a calculator, is that cheating.. got told to stop being a smart arse and got sent to visit the Principal.
When you filled up your car with petrol (gasoline to you 'Muricans) you could put in "super" (with lead) "standard" (no lead) or some pumps had a selector where you could "mix and match" (always used 50/50.. I'm like that) $5 filled the tank to the brim. Now.... over $100.
Colour TV being introduced was biggest thing ever (Now I haven't turned on a TV for over a decade....) they used to show a "test signal' at the end of the days viewing and before the first program (programming stopped around 10pm to midnight usually) At about 7:30pm they would play a lullaby and show a child being put to sleep. Then they could program shows with some naughty words and slightly suggestive themes for the "grown ups".
All the kids shows and cartoons were full of punching, hitting, shooting, blowing up, dropping anvils on heads... Now all banned, because of violence and young minds you know.. Can't say the ban helped much. But "Teletubbies" is a thing now WTF?... I want some of the drugs they were on when they came up with that.
Remember buying Commodore Vic 20 computer in the '80's... displayed on a TV, everything had to be manually typed to get anything to work. If you wanted to save a file/program.. it was to a cassette tape. Yep, same ones used for music.
All the telephones were attached to walls with wires, or bolted to the inside of a box on the footpath (Ok sidewalk..'Murica) I went everywhere by foot or bus until I joined the Army at 16
I actually survived for decades without having to have a mobile constantly available. Don't get me wrong, I love the GPS, Music and Camera they all have. The thought of a small, portable device that let you see and talk to another person, across the other side of the world, in real time no less was the stuff of science fiction I like to imagine how someone who saw the birth of heavier than air flight feels in a modern passenger jet. Imagine leaving work and there's next to no chance that the boss would try and contact you.. because for most of the time they couldn't. And yet business and the country were thriving.
You could go to the movie theatre and see a full feature movie plus a "support feature" for a couple of dollars. (Hands up who remembers "Cisco and Pancho"... nope.. nobody?) Drive in theatres were a thing... and awesome thing at that.
F^ck I'm old. But they weren't all the "good old days', al lot of it was pretty shitty to be honest.
I'm old enough to remember when the hotwheels cars in happy meals were actual hot wheels cars you could also buy in stores
40:13 i just have a "You unlock a childhood memory" moment.
I'm not that old but gosh i love that show.
Mold only belongs on food
DPD!... You're under arrest for making a bad pun.
Lots of people still drank from the garden hose in the summer well past when Gatorade was made. I was a kid in the 90s and that was common where I lived. Gatorade was an extra expense that people weren't going to shell out for. You'd drink from the garden hose while still outside, and when you came in there'd be a big pitcher of koolaid or iced tea or lemonade to drink from. Something dirt cheap to make
born in 2010, still had to learn cursive. useless as it gets, never used outside of elementary school
same
"Born in 2010" 👶
eh cursive is pretty cool, and not that difficult
I do indeed remember the Snorks and the Solid Gold Dancers ;_; I did read and love Encyclopedia Brown, the hardy boys and nancy drew. I liked Encyclopedia Brown enough to dig up (via pirating) a collection of the books just afew years ago. Sadly they dont hold up. I watched 'you cant do that on television' long before it was on nickelodeon
11 MINUTES BABY!!!! EMKAY IS THE BESTTTTT
18:04 Kenny it’s heads up seven up and you can’t convince me otherwise also if they don’t play this anymore then it must be pretty recent (I played it in 4th grade fresh fresh man now)
EDIT:fourth grade was 2019 for me
27:00 oml that caught me off guard so much 😂😂 I saw the “top” and instantly knew what it was!
“I still don’t see the sailboat” all I’m saying it’s defo not a sailboat.
18:04 I've played heads up 7 up more times than I can remember, and im 14.
Same
You're repeating yourself grandpa.
22:10 oh my god.. not only do I remember that guy, my younger brother had one and I would be willing to bet our dad might still have the direct-to-VHS movie hiding among the hundreds of VHS tapes from the long long ago.. He probably also still has several movies that he recorded off the Disney Channel and HBO and others, ads and all, during free preview weekends when the cable company would turn off the signal scrambling on some of the premium channels for a few days so that us plebs with basic cable could see what we were missing.. good times.
26:59 it's a uh... rooster.
88 views in 2 minutes? Fell on? Fell on.
11:40 Mine had little notches on the records because the tone arm had metal teeth in it that were plucked by the notches like a music box.
They stopped making Royal Crown a couple years ago. There was a big protest from like... five people that actually wanted to drink it still.
Government cheese is still very much a thing. It doesn't come up at the foodbank all that much thankfully, but yeah, tastes like velveeta
Its cuz its all going to waste lol!! People used to get moldy blocks of it back in the day. Its a shame, cuz i lowkey miss it!
So much repetition
1:25 I love how I’m probably younger than this person yet I understand burning cds :3
42 secs ago😩👌
I remember when it was 2010, my dad still had an old Windows 98 model computer, and he told me, "Back in the day, the computer hurt you when you hit it. Now, the computer hurts you, and you hurt it"
657 views in 8 minutes, fell off
Very mean D:
@lecamoufleur I’m sorry, a cookie to for give my sins? 🍪🍪🍪
Stop begging go touch grass and get a life
@@moeclomoit’s a joke
5 likes in 11 hours, fell off
50:50 Yup, that was a thing in Europe too. One of the first instances of an automated answering system - reading off the current time every few seconds.
As the “young guys”, all you need to do is watch some movies or shows and if you still can’t figure it out then look it up. Still surprised that some people don’t know a pay phone despite the fact it still exists and historical shows are still being made. It was also in the first Sonic movie.
3:46 For me it is Encino Man...I saw that before Goonies, though Goonies is older.
1:03:02 That button is for headlights. My parents had an Olds 88 Cutlass from the early 80s, '82 I think.
The show was 'You Can't Do That on Television' not Mr. Nickelodeon. . . the person on the screen was one of the main characters. Her name was Christine but everyone called her Moose.
11:44 I remember those, my dad spun me around on one so fast I flew off and ragdolled onto the ground, I got up, took a second to breathe, and hopped back on. I was 7 and didn't want to look like I was too young for it in front of my 3 older siblings.
This country has zero attention span, and no appreciation for history.
The woman in the picture titled "She was ahead of her time" is the singer Nena who is famous for the song "99 Luftballoons".
as a gen z myself to burn a cd you need a desktop with a cd drive and you have to download the songs onto the disc from online it used to take hours to burn one song onto a cd
Nah, not a regular cd-drive, you needed a special one, and it did not take hours to burn one song, lmao. If it did no one would’ve burned whole ass albums and movies.
4:53 Sadly the Gen Xer in question got it wrong. Typically a Karen is a late in the generation Boomer.
Anyway there was a movie with Christian Slater and Winona Ryder that came out in the late 80s called "Heathers" about two outsiders who kill the popular kids, especially the mean girl clique "The Heathers" who were three girls all named Heather. For a slightly more recent reference they were like The Plastics in Mean Girls.
In fact, imagine Mean Girls if the main character killed Regina George, One of her sidekicks and their boyfriends, making it look like a suicide pact.
The post is saying that if you really understood Gen Xers A Heather is a more appropriate term for that personality type to our generation.
It really was amusing how confused it made you.
Nice, "Heathers," reference. Great Winona Ryder movie from like '89.
Man, your talk about the Danny Glover meme, really sunk in and hurt my soul. I'm 43 and I. A walker and a cane already. Need a hip replacement and a major spine operation. Damn drunk drivers. I love this video though. Laurel screws Yanni, lol. What do u do if you heard both at once?
14:24 The calculator literally did take the jobs of the calculators. Considering calculators used to be a group of people doing math in a room. Yeah their jobs are gone and they were replaced with a machine.
If we go back to manual transmissions, maybe it would stop millennials and gen Z from texting and driving. BTW, I was born in 1959. My house was a Mecca for kids. Not only did I live on a dead-end street with few cars to interrupt Red Rover but my Dad installed a little water fountain on the backyard spigot. We didn’t have to drink from the hose! Going inside for a drink was never an option.
6:08 JENNY I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER
I NEED TO MAKE YOU MINE 😭😭😭
3:08 OREGON TRAIL CD??? NAH THATS AWESOME!!! WHERE CAN I GET ONE???
50:50 I remember that, you would dial the numbers to spell “POPCOR” 🍿
1:20:40 Disk defragmentation for magnetic hard disk drives. Checked for corrupted sectors and improved efficiency.
3:22 I once found pictures of me when i was like 6, 7, idk. They were negatives.
I still keep them, even though i have no idea how to play them.
I am 15 now and right now i have them on my shelf.
If this is not bait (am autistic), you're supposed to take them to a photography shop and have them developed.
Me: "We both get it" ... Robin : "I'm 27" Me: "YOU DONT GET IT!"
4:45 Can someone explain the zebra to me? What measurement of time does the zebra represent?
“Fuck I mold”
I was so confused for like 2 minutes 💀
1:16:21 That is a headlight button, that was on the floor of most older cars, to the left of the brake pedal. You would press it with your foot, to turn the high-beams on.
13:03
I still have those. Am planning to install it for fun when i stop procrastinating and just swap the caps on that motherboard. And put the PC together. It's going to be so dang nostalgic. I hope they all work. Will see. Someday. I could be doing it right now and here i am just watching youtube again..
31:53 When I was growing up, the main network channels shut down for the night. Channels 15 - 60ish, were on the bottom dial. (uhf) usually, one of those channels would still be broadcasting at 3am, when you couldn't sleep.
26:59 oh my, well I never
26:35 I needed *3* Swanson dinners to be satisfied, and I was a skinny girl! My older brother added so much bread and extra hotdogs and cheese, because the meal portions weren't filling enough for after school snacks, let alone dinners lol😅
1:20:42 that looks like a program that copies floppy disks. Before computers had hard drives, you'd have to run a program if you only had one disk drive. The computer would read the source disk for a while, and then prompt you to change the disk in the drive to the target drive, then write to that disk. I don't remember how many times you had to switch back and forth. I didn't really use it, but I remember watching my brothers doing it to share Commodore 64 games with their friends.
11:26 I mean he is a _sociology_ prof and beyond the practical use of actually getting what your students say (even if you're not supposed to), there might even be scientific value in a history of teen slang.
Government cheese is still around though
18:06 Yeah, 7 up is still played. It used to be nationwide, but now only a few schools play it. I looked it up last night and it is fun
42:27 I remember those they were so much fun, those are door stoppers I'm pretty sure I never learned the actual function of them , I'm closer to the older half of gen z
10:34 I noticed my town has at least one more Payphone that I saw.
Oh my gosh I love the end! I'm 17 and I have some old VHS tapes (Shows like Zaboomafoo, and Bear In The Big Blue House) that have similar ends to them!
42:26 You know these things are still being built in modern houses? The obsession among kids with these things barely even dwindled:P
1:20:21 WAIT HE DIED!? WHY WAS I NEVER TOLD ABOUT THIS?! 😭
47:25 I want to say 2005-2008. I remember having the apple pies and then they got seasonal ones, like pumpking or birthday cake. Then they just stopped.
I think that a lot of people have this idea that those continuous towel dispensers dispense out the towel in the top and then it goes into the bottom and somehow gets magically cleaned and it comes right out the top. This is one long continuous towel which one spool feeds a clean length of towel out the top slot and it comes around and goes into the bottom where the dirty towel is wrapped around another spool. At some point, the towel will be removed and washed and replaced with a clean towel on the top spool again.
So it's a towel cassette.
@@necrotorium yeah, basically. For those of us who are familiar with them.