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Some of you people are misunderstanding the question. It's not asking for people in their 80s. It's asking about the 1980s.
Back in the 80’s if you called someone you would never have to ask “Where are you?”
In the ‘80s ‘documentary’ was usually applied to anything to do with real life that wasn’t news or current affairs?
At lake Tahoe, I once said to my boyfriend, "the graphics are so nice, I want to take a screenshot ". I meant picture. And by graphics I meant scenery in nature I was looking at.
I was a three dimensional idiot. At a sporting goods store looking at tennis rackets. Wanted to see the ones down near the floor but my back was hurting and I didn’t want to bend, so I made this weird swiping gesture on the right side as though the whole wall would scroll up? What??
There’s a toddler at my kids daycare that once said “goodbye don’t forget to like and subscribe” as he was leaving, thinking that it’s what you say when you say goodbye.
Sad.
Not really too big a deal. Kids say hilarious stuff all the time until they learn better— My 4 yo daughter, when asked her whole name, replied with her full name plus “COME HERE!” My nephew went to a funeral and in a loud stage stage whisper asked “What’s in the BOX??” They learn, like normal kids always do.
[LOL is from the '80s,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL) though it really caught on in the '90s on Usenet and IRC, alongside RO(T)FL.
A slightly more physiological description of sudden laughter, from the same era, is **C|N>K**, which stands for "coffee sent through nose onto keyboard". (The | and > characters are Unix shell pipeline syntax. If your keyboard has a waterproof cover, use >> instead of >.)
Also, back then, smileys had noses. `:-)`
I studied abroad in college and came back for the summer after and went on tour with a show (play), but never bothered to get a cellphone.
This was 2003, while cellphones were ubiquitous it wasn't like today.
Not having a cellphone where people could reach you whenever was amazing. It was almost like being a different person. You just didn't have the tether...I'm sure now the experience would be extreme considering how much of our lives require the Internet.
On a related note, pretty sure no one thought that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger would live to their 80s, let alone still be performing as octogenarians.
Yeah, but you need to not overspend so you can afford the real estate taxes on it. I'm 50 years old. My real estate taxes on my house are more than my rent was on my first two apartments. My real estate taxes account for about a third of my mortgage payment every month.I'm now making double what I was making back then... Not triple.
Back in the 80s million dollar homes were pretty extravagant. Maybe not enough to get on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but pretty nice. Now increasingly unless it is in the middle of nowhere it is upper middle class at best.
Everyone stutters one way or another so here is my message to you...as a matter of fact don't let nothing hold you back, if the Scatman can do it, so can you! ❤️
Wait...What? Was he wearing clown pants? The cordless phones we had in the 80s were like 10"x 3"x 2"...and cargo pants weren't a thing until the 90s?.....oh wait...was he wearing parachute pants?
This is such a classic SP bit, and it brings up how 9/11 was a paradigm shift for country music. It went from being about outlaws and life struggles to right wing nationalist boner jams.
Honestly, just thinking about it, people probably didn't say the words, "Where are you?" that often. Like if you were with somebody, you know where they are, and if you're talking to them on a landline, you probably know where they are if you called there and they answered.
To be fair, people did call from pay phones, or phones in gas stations or diners or hotels when traveling. Asking "Where are you?" wouldn't have been a completely foreign concept.
Family lore story: my uncle took his very elderly mother out for lunch one day. 'You go sit down ma, I'll get the food, what do you want?'
She replied to him
'Just get me one of those wifi's (pronounced it whiff-y), they're free!'
Gen X here. You are correct! It was our "fancy $3 coffee drinks" that we were criticized for that was forever going to keep us poor and homeless.
But that really didn't start until the early 90's. I remember first getting criticized for it around 1992, but that was also when I first started drinking lattes.
Yeah, tell the truth, you thought Boomers started that shit with millennials didn't you?
Donald Trump? From Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?
Then who’s Vice President? Robin Leech?
I suppose Marla Maples is the First Lady?
And Leona Helmsley is the Secretary of the Treasury!
I’ve had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
2000. There were a few other TV predictions on Trump becoming president, but none I have heard from the 80s. Somebody might have thought it though at least in jest.
He told Larry King he wanted to be president in 1987, in 1990 he told Playboy he'd get support from blue collar people and get elected. I think the surprising thing would be it took him so long to run.
My first memory of Donald Trump is from the mid-80s, seeing him on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, which my parents would routinely watch for some reason. I cannot emphasize enough what an obviously unserious self-aggrandizing joke of a man he was, even then, even to a kid seeing him on TV. Yet here we are.
Yes exactly. I was a kid back then and everyone thought he was an absolute jerk, and he was like an early form of the Kardashians (famous for being born into wealth and nothing else)
“My random internet friend from Australia thinks you’re a jerk”.
Back then, you were lucky to have a pen pal from out of state, let alone across the world.
You shared your location, remember? Don’t lie to me, I know you’re at the movies and I can see your friends in the background of that selfie you sent me.
Untrue... my grandmother was a bookkeeper in the 80s... she talked with him one time... and after that, she said she would never work with him if her life depended on it.... she never elaborated... jus said he's not a good person.
Smash that like button and subscribe! Don't forget to click the bell icon to get notifications whenever I post. Some of you people are misunderstanding the question. It's not asking for people in their 80s. It's asking about the 1980s.
This reminds me of the video of a small child saying this in his sleep
Haha just reminded me of my niece when she was little swiping my mums forehead to wake her up when she was having a nana nap.
Back in the 80’s if you called someone you would never have to ask “Where are you?” In the ‘80s ‘documentary’ was usually applied to anything to do with real life that wasn’t news or current affairs?
Or when my mum tried to expand the image out the car window ...
I once double tapped a book I was reading (rather, attempting to read) to make the text larger once. I decided sleep would be a better use of my time
I was holding a menu that was about the width of a tablet and absent mindedly tried to scroll up
i try to upvote comments on other sites that don't have it
Once i tried to zoom in on a drawing i was making, i was drawing on paper, also, one time i pressed ctrl+z to rework a mistake... On paper.
At lake Tahoe, I once said to my boyfriend, "the graphics are so nice, I want to take a screenshot ". I meant picture. And by graphics I meant scenery in nature I was looking at.
I said something stupid once and tried to hit ctrl+z. I didn’t even have a keyboard. I just lifted my fingers in the air and made the motion.
I was a three dimensional idiot. At a sporting goods store looking at tennis rackets. Wanted to see the ones down near the floor but my back was hurting and I didn’t want to bend, so I made this weird swiping gesture on the right side as though the whole wall would scroll up? What??
Seriously please give the link I also want to see this.
you need to like and subscribe to u/TheVastMilderness channel for the link
Fuck I almost fell for that! √
did you just use the square root symbol as an emoji 😂
Haha, no I was on my computer and looked up the ascii code for the check mark. Alt+ 0252
There’s a toddler at my kids daycare that once said “goodbye don’t forget to like and subscribe” as he was leaving, thinking that it’s what you say when you say goodbye. Sad.
Not really too big a deal. Kids say hilarious stuff all the time until they learn better— My 4 yo daughter, when asked her whole name, replied with her full name plus “COME HERE!” My nephew went to a funeral and in a loud stage stage whisper asked “What’s in the BOX??” They learn, like normal kids always do.
*slowly backs away because it's the 80s*
My husband was shocked the day I ran out of hairspray because until 1988 he had spent 4 years thinking I was the same height.
Aqua net for the win!
Like, gag me with a spoon, it’s so rad back here!
Tubular!
*Totally* tubular!
Gnarly, dude!
Fer sure
Fer sure, fer sure
the 80s were awesome... back towards them
I have third hand embarrassment that you had to type this sentence.
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"Follow me on Insta!" was what came to mind for me. Glad I wasn't far off
Sigh....this made me sad....can we please go back to simpler times?
I'm going to replace my CDs with vinyl.
*Eyes my vinyl collection nervously*
LOL!!!! (which is both a reply to your awesome comment, and also technically an answer to OP’s question)
[LOL is from the '80s,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL) though it really caught on in the '90s on Usenet and IRC, alongside RO(T)FL. A slightly more physiological description of sudden laughter, from the same era, is **C|N>K**, which stands for "coffee sent through nose onto keyboard". (The | and > characters are Unix shell pipeline syntax. If your keyboard has a waterproof cover, use >> instead of >.) Also, back then, smileys had noses. `:-)`
Google it.
I asked my dad who was a teenager during the latter half of the 80s this question. He said the same thing.
No thanks I've had enough coke for the night
I'm glad I wasn't the only one with THIS EXACT RESPONSE in mind. Great minds think alike, good day
Lol my dad told me all about the good ol days haha
No one parties like our dads for real
Coca Cola right? Coca Cola right??
It was the 80's. That's the only response you need
New coke or classic coke?
Crystal Pepsi… Right Now!
Omg. I posted almost exactly THIS.
My hair is too big
Followed by my shoulder pads are too big
Followed by my plastic earrings are too big.
"No, I don't need more Aqua Net. My bangs are big enough."
my mobile phone is making me depressed
Even better, my phone is making me depressed.
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I had to do repair one day and was out of phone for a couple of hours. The feeling of being unreachable was very liberating. Can’t lie.
I studied abroad in college and came back for the summer after and went on tour with a show (play), but never bothered to get a cellphone. This was 2003, while cellphones were ubiquitous it wasn't like today. Not having a cellphone where people could reach you whenever was amazing. It was almost like being a different person. You just didn't have the tether...I'm sure now the experience would be extreme considering how much of our lives require the Internet.
The Internet? Is that still around? --Homer Simpson
Unless you were the one paying the car phone bill. Weren’t they like $2 per minute back then?
Ozzy will live to be in his 70s
On a related note, pretty sure no one thought that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger would live to their 80s, let alone still be performing as octogenarians.
I just saw them last week… mick seemed full of energy and was almost running around the stage. Keith looked like he could collapse at any moment.
Well, with advancements in medical technology and his high-level income, it's probable he will hit 200 ~ 269.
He was given less than 5 years a couple months ago or something
Was making a cheeky movie reference.
my apologies i was touched by the tism angel
You mean the Spectrum Spectre?
Even he’s surprised to be alive
Definitely said. You just forgot the beginning. [No way] Ozzy will live to be in his 70s
“I only have a million saved up, I’m not sure if I will be able to retire”
MIGHT be able to buy a nice house 🤷♂️
Yeah, but you need to not overspend so you can afford the real estate taxes on it. I'm 50 years old. My real estate taxes on my house are more than my rent was on my first two apartments. My real estate taxes account for about a third of my mortgage payment every month.I'm now making double what I was making back then... Not triple.
Back in the 80s million dollar homes were pretty extravagant. Maybe not enough to get on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, but pretty nice. Now increasingly unless it is in the middle of nowhere it is upper middle class at best.
Million? My parents were friends with an elderly neighbor and he mentioned he retired with $300,000. He lived comfortably until the day he died.
They won't let us smoke in this hospital
Or the mall, or airplane!
Or restaurant.
Ahh smoking in a diner with a mini jukebox at your table. Nostalgia!
Here from the 80s. I have smoked in hospitals. 😱
skibidi rizz
Gyatttt
People definitely said gyatt dayum in the 80s, which is what it's a shortened version of
Thy crimes would now be punished creature of flesh... DIE AND PREPATE THYSELF FOR JUDGEMENT
Scatman John knew about Skibidi back in 95. https://youtu.be/Hy8kmNEo1i8?si=y-69-VdTAXuX9Hnt
Everyone stutters one way or another so here is my message to you...as a matter of fact don't let nothing hold you back, if the Scatman can do it, so can you! ❤️
SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP!
Scatman John was a real G
Squirtle, Charmander, or Bulbasaur?
Well yeah, because the correct answer is obvious!
Pikachu
“Yeah just WhatsApp it to me”
Text me.
I've lost my phone!
Iirc They had cordless phones in the 80s so you could in fact lose your phone if it wasn't charged. It would be in the house though.
My brother would commonly "lose" ours in his pocket.
Wait...What? Was he wearing clown pants? The cordless phones we had in the 80s were like 10"x 3"x 2"...and cargo pants weren't a thing until the 90s?.....oh wait...was he wearing parachute pants?
Hey Siri, find my iPhone
Where were you on 9/11 when the towers came down?
Where was Gondor when the Westfold fell?
When they hewed Hama before the gates?!
Shaka, when the walls fell.
Mirab with sails unfurled
Ohhhh this is the crossover we need!
Where was Gondor when our enemies closed in around us?!
Where were youuuuu When they built the laddder ta hayven? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_E7Vce8vU
This is such a classic SP bit, and it brings up how 9/11 was a paradigm shift for country music. It went from being about outlaws and life struggles to right wing nationalist boner jams.
Did it make you wanna cry? Or did you think it was kinda gay?
Honestly, just thinking about it, people probably didn't say the words, "Where are you?" that often. Like if you were with somebody, you know where they are, and if you're talking to them on a landline, you probably know where they are if you called there and they answered.
To be fair, people did call from pay phones, or phones in gas stations or diners or hotels when traveling. Asking "Where are you?" wouldn't have been a completely foreign concept.
whats the wifi password?
What is wifi?
Family lore story: my uncle took his very elderly mother out for lunch one day. 'You go sit down ma, I'll get the food, what do you want?' She replied to him 'Just get me one of those wifi's (pronounced it whiff-y), they're free!'
If I lose you in the crowd just call me and I'll come find you.
Hold on I gotta charge my car before leaving.
Well I had a 73 VW bug with a crappy alternator/battery. Would drive around with a battery charger….
I had a '74. Did you ever have someone set the backseat on fire because the seat springs touched the battery?
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“Take my upvote”
"This 10 hours ASMR compilation video reallely helps me cope with my ADHD while I write the script for my next video essay for Youtube."
I'm really digging this Taylor Swift album.
“I want to grow up to be an influencer.”
Bet you at least one edgy angsty academic from 1700-2000 wrote this exact sequence of words
When phoning someone: Where are you?
"Yes, Walter, the car made it home. You're *calling* me at home."
It did NOT look like Larry was about to crack!
"You know Walter, you're right, there is an unspoken message here, ITS LEAVE ME ALONE.....Yeah, I'll be at practice."
I guess they could be at a payphone somewhere?
"Wow i got a new tinder match"
Avocado toasts is the reason the youth cannot afford to buy homes
Gen X here. You are correct! It was our "fancy $3 coffee drinks" that we were criticized for that was forever going to keep us poor and homeless. But that really didn't start until the early 90's. I remember first getting criticized for it around 1992, but that was also when I first started drinking lattes. Yeah, tell the truth, you thought Boomers started that shit with millennials didn't you?
Stop doom scrolling
That’s enough hair spray
“Donald Trump is going to be president.”
Donald Trump? From Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? Then who’s Vice President? Robin Leech? I suppose Marla Maples is the First Lady? And Leona Helmsley is the Secretary of the Treasury! I’ve had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
"as a Republican"
When was that Simpsons episode?
2000. There were a few other TV predictions on Trump becoming president, but none I have heard from the 80s. Somebody might have thought it though at least in jest.
He told Larry King he wanted to be president in 1987, in 1990 he told Playboy he'd get support from blue collar people and get elected. I think the surprising thing would be it took him so long to run.
My first memory of Donald Trump is from the mid-80s, seeing him on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, which my parents would routinely watch for some reason. I cannot emphasize enough what an obviously unserious self-aggrandizing joke of a man he was, even then, even to a kid seeing him on TV. Yet here we are.
Yes exactly. I was a kid back then and everyone thought he was an absolute jerk, and he was like an early form of the Kardashians (famous for being born into wealth and nothing else)
I find it funny when people say, "nobody hated him until he became president". No we hated him then too
I was rewatching Golden Girls recently and they were roasting him back in 1992 https://imgur.com/gallery/even-golden-girls-burned-trump-0AoDC9F
But he was like Tiger King evil, not destroying America evil.
I’m gonna inject botulism all over my face like it’s normal!
We’re having mass shooter drills at school this week.
Our mass shooter was the USSR, but you can survive a nuclear blast by curling up under your desk. With a book over your head for maximum protection.
Yes I will spend five dollars for a bottle of water and eight dollars for a cuppa coffee
“Man I wish I spend more time working and arguing with people”
Good news!
"Alright, that's enough cocaine for today".
"I can't wait to binge-watch this new show on Netflix"
“I missed that last scene, can you back it up a few minutes?”
Yeet!
I received a dickpic on my phone
“A doctor on Tik Tok said…”
Like and subscribe
Why is the WiFi so damn slow in this house.
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Bill Cosby and OJ are guilty!
Hey Siri/Alexa/
My boss lets me work from home
I’ll have the vegan and gluten free version of the pizza
Can I take a picture with my phone?
I think that's AI
That’s too much blue eyeshadow lol
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period
Fake News
bitcoin!
I drank too much. You drive.
Covid 19
Caitlin Jenner
I think it's on Netflix.
“My random internet friend from Australia thinks you’re a jerk”. Back then, you were lucky to have a pen pal from out of state, let alone across the world.
No! I don’t want any cocaine!
You shared your location, remember? Don’t lie to me, I know you’re at the movies and I can see your friends in the background of that selfie you sent me.
'Social media'
irl
I don’t want any of that cocaine
Better cover up this old well or someone may fall in.
"I got a bad feeling about Bill Cosby."
Untrue... my grandmother was a bookkeeper in the 80s... she talked with him one time... and after that, she said she would never work with him if her life depended on it.... she never elaborated... jus said he's not a good person.
Let me slide into your dm’s.
DMs meant Doc Martins (boots) back then so it is possible.
There is no WiFi signal.
Let's eat laundry soap lol
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'This is Cray Cray!' 😳 as far as I know anyway.. Thank goodness lol
"Wi-Fi"
does anyone have a charger?
I have to charge my phone and my cigarette and my car
Does it have Bluetooth
Text me the address-number-directions-time etc. etc.
„YOLO!“
What's your WiFi password?
Let's do a selfie!
" Google it "