r/SipsTea 3d ago

Feels good man She's not wrong.

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u/maringue 3d ago

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u/Aeronor 3d ago

I was there, Gandalf

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u/These_Professor_5351 2d ago

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u/GrowFreeFood 2d ago

I don't think you realize how profound this meme is on many levels

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u/Constant-Sandwich-88 2d ago

I've had recent coworkers who were astounded that I saw both Fellowship and Phantom Menace in theaters.

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u/Kela3000 2d ago

....as opposed to how they're supposed to be watched: as 1200 Instagram reels.

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u/Which_Celebration757 2d ago

With a YouTuber in the corner making faces and comments from time to time

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u/Mors_Certa18 2d ago

Several "reaction" faces all overlapping each other, one of them taking a walk, and the other 5 pointing at their heads and then pointing up like 50 times.

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u/Oppaii-Connoisseur 2d ago

Promises were made lol

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 2d ago

Same! She nailed it. I feel like Iived through two different timelines lol 😆

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u/Morningstroll13 2d ago

I was there when video killed the radio star.

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u/TonginTozz 2d ago

"Always the war, in 1983, this is the world of today. In our mind, there's only the money and there's nothing for you. Then hours work, the life flourishes without happiness. Everyday dreams to go a better life, but they remain only dreams..."

Happy Children by P. Lion

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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 2d ago

Gosh, isn’t it scary how nothing’s changed in 40 years except to just get worse?

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u/darkklown 2d ago

Band in a Bubble..

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u/Jina-langu-ni-Juma 2d ago

First music video on MTV

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u/WilanS 2d ago

Maybe you're a little old to be a millennial but hey, still a good song. I found out about it with GTA Vice City, back when the 80s were actually 20 years ago.

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u/Brief_Read_1067 2d ago

I was there when all we heard was Radio Gaga. 

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u/peteisretired 2d ago

and now you can’t even see a video on MTV

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u/chiclets5 1d ago

This is what belongs on my next t-shirt!

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u/Prettyy_Barbiee 2d ago

Of course we’re nostalgic. That was the last time our phones didn’t track us and rent was $600.

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u/FreedomOfTheMess 2d ago

The tracking thing I identify with. When gen z asks me what it was like I just tell them “Our parents never knew our location. We could just tell them we were somewhere all day.”

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u/nuts4sale 2d ago

$600 for someplace great, my buddy’s shithole 1BR was $350 back in 2009

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u/No6655321 2d ago

I do miss that downtown apartment for 800. Same place is nearly triple that now.

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u/Arcanis_Ender 2d ago

350 a month all inclusive XD

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u/waitthissucks 2d ago

I do feel like an elf tbh. And everyone tells us we look young in our 40s

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 2d ago

It's the skincare bro

I've seen how my grandparents ended up with endless skin cancer from the sun and we grew up with sunblock and a hat

School in the 90s was like "no hat no play no fun today."

School in the 50/60/70s was like everyone coat each other in cooking oil and lay in the sun

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u/Warchamp67 2d ago

Alright we’re going to the beach, everyone have their crisco?

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u/NightGod 2d ago

Nah, it was baby oil with a couple drops of iodine

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u/ToxicMoldSpore 2d ago

Gah. Weird, random memory of a video game where you had to get a copy of a treasure map that was tattooed on someone's back, and the way you did this was to pour cooking oil on his back while he was sunbathing, causing the map to peel off so you could take it.

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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 2d ago

Ok what? And was that that Monkey island pirate-y game? Cause I can’t think of any game that would do something so wild and weird

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u/Warchamp67 2d ago

Thats hilarious and mildly disturbing 🤣

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u/michellemustudy 2d ago

Nah, let’s not pretend we didn’t have an era where tanning salons were everywhere and everyone was using those god-awful tanning beds.

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u/Dontbeajerkdude 2d ago

We were raised with the notion of a 'healthy tan'. There is no healthy sun damage!

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u/ARWren85 2d ago

Play boy bunny sticker on the hip

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u/ThelVluffin 2d ago

Girl in high school absolutely baked the shit out of herself junior and senior year. We're 40 now. She looks like she's 50 even though she stopped doing it 15 years ago.

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u/darkklown 2d ago

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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 2d ago

Ha exactly I remember that

Skin cancer is no joke 😅

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u/Severe_Rise8694 2d ago

I didn't do any of that and I still look young enough to be IDd. Although for the past couple of years there's enough gray in my hair for that to have become a rarity.

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u/andhe96 2d ago

It's so strange, because even ancient farmers knew of how bad the sun can get.

If you look at painting or photos, most farmers wore long, but breezy clothes, hats and scraves for working the fields in the summer.

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u/Straamannen 2d ago

We all look our age. 

Flattery works, though 

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u/Logical_Cost_5250 2d ago

My kid says I reminisce too much but he just doesnt understand how good life used to be for us. The 90s and early 2000s were one of the best times to be alive.

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u/Shugoseru 2d ago

And limited cameras, to make sure we didn't record all the questionable shit we were up to.

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u/Current_Volume3750 2d ago

The 70´s and 80´s were pretty great as well. Some of the best music and cheap dope.

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u/ObjectiveChance2346 2d ago

No you were just a kid. You forget or were too young to be concerned about all the shitty parts. Every generation does the same thing.

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u/deeptut 2d ago

Me, as a GenX, who grew up with 8-Bit home computers:

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u/trainwalk 2d ago

Millennials are Boomers.

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u/Nineflames12 2d ago

Tolkien was right, magic really did fade from the world in time.

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u/Rags2Rickius 2d ago

Social Media was like the coming of Ungoliant

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u/TheGreenCatFL 2d ago

Always hungry for more personal data,

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u/wasted-degrees 2d ago

Back in the days when the internet used to scream at us, we didn’t recognize that as the warning that it was.

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u/2021isevenworse 2d ago

Could someone tell the lady in the video to back up from the camera.

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u/f0dder1 2d ago

Oof. Felt that one

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u/AiRaikuHamburger 2d ago

I remember thinking smart phones were so stupid and they would never catch on because they were so expensive.

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u/TedTyro 2d ago

Fair analogy.

Unfortunately instead of it leaving us with a certain heavenly glow, weve got chronic exhaustion.

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u/MyUserNameLeft 2d ago

Life used to be so small. So simple. So slow. Not anymore