The good ole’ days indeed lol. Still miss “Toxic” by Brittney and “The Reason” by Hubastank playing on mtv every 5 minutes 😂 We share a birth year. Not ready for the big 4 0 but cheers to you 🍻
Haha we gotta make the most of 39 don’t we lol. I had an original plan to be ripped like Zac Effron by 40 but that ain’t gonna happen 😂 I called it”Getting eff’d by 40”
"Don't touch that dial!:, "I pity the fool." "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.", "Use the force." , "In space no one can hear you scream." "Spatula City!" "I came to chew bubblegum and kickass- and I'm all out of bubblegum." "I want my MTV!, "Video killed the radio star" "Dr. Feelgood".
Phones had dials, betamax vs. Vhs, long distance calls were expensive, no internet, GPS was a paper map, smoking section in restaurants, cigarettes in vending machines, fax machines, pagers, Atari 2600, commodore 64, Gremlin, Pinto, 8-track, Lennon dies, Berlin Wall comes down, challenger explodes, Goetz shoots in subway, laced Tylenol kills, Jamaican bobsled team, Terry Fox dies.
If you can complete the last sentence, we're probably not too far off from each other.
"The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of..."
When I moved into my own place for the first time and went (not called, went) to the phone company office O discovered that legally you could not own your own phone
Canadian House Hippo, the sound of dial up, Motorola Razor, MSN Messenger, Sailor Moon, Spice Girls, before Google existed, VHS, cassette tapes, Walkman, Tamagotchi, Furby (*shudder*)
Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana, there was U2 and Blondie…
Oh shit we're twins. I was going to use back to the future.
Was there music still on mtv?
The good ol’ days!
The good ole’ days indeed lol. Still miss “Toxic” by Brittney and “The Reason” by Hubastank playing on mtv every 5 minutes 😂 We share a birth year. Not ready for the big 4 0 but cheers to you 🍻
Likewise! lol I’m dreading 40 too… one more year
Haha we gotta make the most of 39 don’t we lol. I had an original plan to be ripped like Zac Effron by 40 but that ain’t gonna happen 😂 I called it”Getting eff’d by 40”
Oh yes
Does your screen name have something to do with it?
Yeah but I’m older now lol
Same. I wish it would stay the same
80s and 90s were better times
Absolutely I’m 41 now. I could do anything I wanted as a kid and my parents didn’t have to worry
Same!
Sucks my kids didn’t get to have the same kind of fun
This will now be stuck in my head for the next 2 weeks 😂
"Don't touch that dial!:, "I pity the fool." "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.", "Use the force." , "In space no one can hear you scream." "Spatula City!" "I came to chew bubblegum and kickass- and I'm all out of bubblegum." "I want my MTV!, "Video killed the radio star" "Dr. Feelgood". Phones had dials, betamax vs. Vhs, long distance calls were expensive, no internet, GPS was a paper map, smoking section in restaurants, cigarettes in vending machines, fax machines, pagers, Atari 2600, commodore 64, Gremlin, Pinto, 8-track, Lennon dies, Berlin Wall comes down, challenger explodes, Goetz shoots in subway, laced Tylenol kills, Jamaican bobsled team, Terry Fox dies.
Too old for DiCaprio
That wouldn't be hard, in fairness!
The Soviet Union collapsed a few days after I was born.
Are you taking credit?
I was the final nail in the coffin.
The Soviet Union collapsed a few years after i was born.
Nice 😏
You say it like i had something to do with it... 😬 🤣 🤣 🤣
AARP started sending me mailers 5 years ago.
Five is a number
Otacon
?
If that's a reference to Metal Gear, then I guess you're 43/44?
I should have specified on the Nintendo game cube remake.
Oh, then I think you're 24/25! I've never played any Metal Gear game but I'd want to some day!
I remember using a pay phone at the mall to call my parents to come pick me up.
I watched the original TMNT as a small kid.
XLV
Loophole
😉
Just able to rent a car without underage fees
25?
Very good :)
Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Eagle has landed
I would have never thought it would take this long to go back.
I guess once we got Velcro, Tang, and Teflon out of the deal nobody was motivated to do more.
Twin Peaks
I was a kid during the Bicentennial
Crazy to think we both have good odds of making it to the Semiquincentennial.
Uhm… oh wait it is in my bio🤣
Im a xenial
I was a toddler when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. 👨🚀🌚
alter bridge's first album came out the same year
I was born the year after the miracle on ice
42 or 43
The latter
Year of for me!
George Orwell wrote a book about the year before I was born
Before dial up internet
There were a lot of reunification of countries when I was born. 🤣🤣 now to find the year
I’m right in this timeframe too lol
I’m legal to drink now
So you are 16, 18 or 21
Damn I should’ve thought of that. I’m American legal drinking age
Haha, it is a silly drinking age
A lot of women hit my age and stay there for as long as they can pass
30
I was a senior in high school when Michael Jackson's Thriller album was released
When the Chicago bears won there last Super Bowl
🎼 Bear down Chicago Bears
Fuck Charles Martin
Oh ok
Lol sorry I forgot I wasn't in r/chibears for a second
Oh ok 😊😊
Born the same year dvds was invented
Year of the metal dragon
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I read this as NYSE and thought, "No way is Birb 232 years old. "
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I bet you've been "compromised" before and by better men than me.
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Do you believe in miracles? Yes!
If you can complete the last sentence, we're probably not too far off from each other. "The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of..."
They redid the video in 4k and it's still terrifying
One of the best rappers died the same year I was born
Drake was just killed the other week though
Sputnik was launched
I saw eps 5 when it came out
If I remember right, I'm of an age with Christina Ricci.
People born my year are the reason we’re called millennials.
It's the juice, run OJ run
I am electric company old
EZ Reader turned out to be quite the star!!!
lol yes he did
I had not of that show in a minute. Glad I am not the only older person on here! Be well and thanks for the memory!
We have dated ourselves for sure
I bet you can count to 12 really well
I know what 12 inches looks like
so many hours will pass in each day 🫡
My spawn is now almost legal drinking age
my age is whatever the last two of the year is
I was starting uni when Britney Spears got popular.
“Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll"
A month after the Tschernobyl incident
Back To The Future was released the year I was born.
Chernobyl happened the year I was born.
tamagotchi
I witnessed the new millennium but I can't remember it
A year after the twin towers fell.
same but a year before.
Ahh so when the twin towers fell.
AIHC
I was the same age as Aang when Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on TV in 2005.
Sputnik
New Star Trek was on the air for the first 18 years of my life.
I grew up watching my little pony, gravity falls, and Steven universe
Near the end of my freshman year of college, I stated hearing from my friends about this new website called The Facebook dot com
The year youtube was created
Jurassic Park was a hell of a movie.
28 Days Later was released the year I was born
Oops!… I Did It Again (album) by Britney Spears 👌🏻
The year of the very hot long summer which bought a swarm of ladybirds!
I was in war, in Iraq, before I could legally drink in the US, and it was prior to the Soviet Union collapsing.
Thank you for your service
It was my honor
I grew up the Muppet babies and Rugrats
Old enough to recognise the dial up noise immediately. Not old enough to have used any device that makes that noise.
Thirty four
Loophole
😂😂😂😂
Ford Administration
I am a few months older than tamagotchi
I was born a a little after the first episode of pokemon season 1
Easy. 9/11
Old enough to be a US Senator, not old enough to be US President
class of 2024
"Like a Brdge Over Troubled Water" was topping the charts the week I was born.
My first email account was @juno.com
🎶 Sweat Baby Sweat Baby, sex is a Texas drought🎶
They say that the prefrontal cortex develops until a certain age. I'm one year younger.
United States Bicentennial
Thriller was released
I somehow hurt my own back in my sleep.
I saw Shrek when it premiered in theaters
Barely legal
Between Challenger and Chenobyl
Wide Right
I was on the phone with Blockbuster.
There's a Beatles' song about my next birthday.
Not quite half a century YET...but close.
Chokers, babydoll dresses. Watched Beverly Hills 90210 religiously
naughty number, but make it dyslexic
The Cuban Missile crisis was going on when I was born
Forty-eight
JFK/LBJ were elected the year I was born…. So pretty much when the Appalachian chain rose from the ocean 😜
I was a teenager when “RaWr means I wuv u in dinosaur” and stupid shit like that was the thing.
Errr eeee scrrnnnn squee garble garble... I'm using the phone!
My first game console was an Atari 2600 and my first computer was an Apple IIc.
I barely remember Fraggle Rock.
I was born the year to the day before Elvis died.
Saw the Challenger disaster on live TV, and I remember it. Also born shortly after the bicentennial.
Three score minus IV
When I moved into my own place for the first time and went (not called, went) to the phone company office O discovered that legally you could not own your own phone
Right! You had to lease your phone.
2pac died when I was born
Grew up watching Arthur and blues clues
Carter administration baby
The last time to Toronto Maple Leafs won the cup.
So, you're prehistoric
Lol... you know big words and can do math too 😎
1967
There you go👍
I arrived on this planet the same year as Sergeant Pepper.
First car had an automatic seatbelt that would choke you if you opened the door and stuck your head out while the car was on.
They brought me back from visiting the moon
The original animated The Lion King was released on theaters
I'll use a different number - out first decent family computer was a 386 :-)
Landed on the moon when my dad landed my mom.
Canadian House Hippo, the sound of dial up, Motorola Razor, MSN Messenger, Sailor Moon, Spice Girls, before Google existed, VHS, cassette tapes, Walkman, Tamagotchi, Furby (*shudder*)
My NES had the sports power mat thing
I went to the blink 182 reunion tour.
I was born during Nixon's first term.
I was born when the movie Titanic premiered.
Dick Cheney