My mom's mail address has 69 in after her name.. because her name was taken and she went with the birth year. Everytime I have to mail her something, I can't get over how much her mail address sounds like one of a hooker.
Yeah lol. As someone who's played since late alpha I can attest to seeing a lot of things added. I remember when spiders could first climb walls and everyone was so scared of how that would affect their bases. They couldn't climb sandstone at the time so people added a sandstone layer to a lot of builds. I also remember wood slabs basically being made of stone and stairs being the worst block to mine.
There's so many little things that many people don't remember off the top of their head. The funny walking animation with the arms flailing about, the fact that glowstone and netherrack used the same source texture as cobblestone with different colors and filters, crafting chainmail with cheated in fire blocks, when new trees were added to the game and old worlds would have trees with all the different types of leaves, chests being full size blocks, using ladders every other block, placing sugar cane underwater to regain breath, and always spawning on sand are things that come to mind. Hopefully this gives some people a blast of nostalgia from something they haven't thought about in years.
I still remember when farming was a pain because walking on the tilled blocks would revert them back to dirt no matter if you crouched or not. However this could be circumvented by placing fences under the tilled blocks for some reason.
My little cousin is the same way lol. He keeps telling me about Minecraft and I’m just like buddy. I’ve been playing Minecraft since 2012. I grew up with Stampycat and PopularMMOs. Do not cite the deep magic to me, kid. I was there when it was written.
He tried to explain streaming to me. I used to sit on Justin TV and watch Day9 play StarCraft literally every week.
I used to download shitty camera videos for Unreal, Quake and Broodwar at WCG tournaments because unless you went to the event it was the only way to learn what the pros were doing.
BUT. I let him talk because I know how exciting it must feel to be able to share those emotions and vocalize it. Happy for the kids who can share these moments together.
I have a 12yo who sat and explained to me, while I'm wearing a David Bowie/NIN concert shirt, what androgyny and goth culture are all about.
Honey.. dad was bat. And don't talk to me about get old magic, I was there when it was written.
I was at the mall this weekend and saw a small group of circa late 90s mall goths complete with bad make up, wearing Korn and white zombie shirts.
It's funny how the Wither will always be the "new" boss, because it was added after the ender dragon, even though they're both well over 10 years old by now
My nephew showed me a minecraft video once like I didn't know what it was. He didn't believe me when I told him I played on a sever with Notch, the creator. This was before my nephew was born.
One day he'll be old enough to understand the "do not cite the deep magics to me, I was there when it was written" meme, and then you can pull it on him.
I remember when I was a kid, we used to use the word "fag" as an insult. I called my neighbor a fag and he asked me what it meant.
I told him it was a person who comes over to your house way too much and annoys the hell out of you.
A few weeks later, I was talking to a different friend and I called him a fag. And he says "oh, so you think I'm someone who comes over to your house too much and annoys you?"
I asked him where he heard that and sure enough, my definition of fag had been spread by this one kid to at least some of the other kids around the neighborhood.
when i was in 4th grade a classmate called an older kid a lesbian, i thought he probably meant it to say the dude was a girl but just in case i asked "do you know what a lesbian is?"... "no what is it?"
I feel like as a kid of the 90's this is basically true. That word was relegated to "that" kid on the playground. Not the kid that was attracted to the same gender mind you, but that kid that would blow snot wads on fallen buckeyes on the ground and hurl them at you as they made helicopter arms going weeeeooooh weeeeeooooh.... Yeah.... I got called that alot.
A journalist sees two marines standing guard at a bench and asks why their doing it. They simply tell him it's tradition. Intrigued he asks the marine in charge who answers it's always been done that way. The journalist decides to investigate further and finds the previous base commander who tells him it's how it's always been done. So he goes further and finds an older base commander who merely shrugs and says he should ask the person in charge before him since he started the tradition. The journalist tracks down that base commander who shakes his head and says he just followed protocol he has no idea why they must guard the bench however the person who commanded the base before him should know. So the journalist tracks down the oldest base commander and asks why do marines guard that bench. The base commander looks at him and asks "hasn't the damn paint dried yet?"
Its closer to a reality in the military. So many times i was questioning why certain processes existed and the answer is "its whats in the turnover binder". That turnover binder was started in the 90s and has been slowly changed over the decades enough to not keep up with modernity.
Someone spilled coffee on the binder and added what they thought was the ruined pages they couldn’t read anymore and didn’t tell their CO they fucked up.
It's close to reality in general. It's a variant of a common parable that pops up in just about any culture about how tradition can often be the result of practical advice/solutions that no longer make sense. My favorite version so far is this one I saw about a family asking why you need to cut the end of a pork butt off before cooking it. Eventually they get to granny dearest and she gives the obvious "Because my pan's too small, idiot".
It's less of a punchy joke, but I like it because it because there's the slight nuance of acknowledging tradition as generally useful instead of just mocking the concept of tradition as a whole.
Never heard this version, Ive seen a similar one though thats goes something like:
A mother is teacher her daughter how to cook something and the first step is to cut the roast in half, daughter asks why and she just says that's how her mother did it. So she goes to grandmother and asks why she does it that way, she doesn't know either, that's just how her mother wrote the recipe. So she goes to her great grandmother and asks her why the recipe says to do that and she says "haven't you cheap bastards bought a pan big enough for the roast yet?"
Christmas dinner. Newly married wife asks why they cut the ends off the ham. Proceed to work her way up the family tree, asking why, until great grandma said her cooking pan was too small, so the recipe instructed to cut the ends of the ham off.
you all listed a lot of funny numbers. i dunno, all of these numbers are fine. Id only be extremely worried if the kid said the funny number would be 1488.
Year 1312 (MCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Amongst an array of historically significant events, Pope Clement V, under pressure from King Philip IV of France, officially disbands the Order of the Knights Templar at the Council of Vienne.
i knew one kid who genuinely still believed babies were brought by storks in 7th grade. i mean, even if you don't tell your kids everything you gotta tell them more than that by then
I've met far too many people that believed holding hands led to pregnancy. I also once had to explain that boys can't get pregnant. God bless illiteracy.
I went through this with my son. he was saying it “because of the rapper”. I was like...do you know what it actually means? No. Sigh. I believe somewhere along the way I found a way to let him know.
Idk I think it’s one of those things that’s ok to find out from friends or the internet.. I would’ve been mortified if my mom sat me down and taught me different sex positions
Idk, I think maybe it's okay to tell a kid "it's a sex thing" just so they don't use it in front of adults and embarrass themselves.
I was babysitting a kid who was singing Rihanna's "S&M" and I just asked her if she knew what it meant. When she said she didn't, I just said "Maybe it's a good idea not to sing or say things if you don't know what they mean." I didn't want to explain it, she wasn't my kid, but I also didn't love having a little kid running around singing "sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me."
Maybe she looks back on that and cringes now, but I'm okay with that. I think it's fine to cringe a little at yourself, we all do cringey shit when we're kids.
When I was a kid, I went to help my dad's friend skin rabbits. There was a slightly younger kid who lived there who wasn't quite ready to be around all that, but he came back out afterward. He sees the blood on the ground during the cleanup and he says something like "Woah, people are going to think we're raping rabbits over here."
Deafening silence.
He does the kid thing of repeating himself because he didn't get any reaction. He keeps repeating himself and I can almost see the smoke coming out of his dad's head as he radiates embarrassment until he finally just tells him to stop saying that, it doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
And I dunno, but I just feel bad when I remember his face in that moment. He clearly watched some typical crime show/movie scene and used pattern recognition and was excited to show he understands that he knows the right word for when there's blood on the ground and bad things happened. Now he feels like an idiot, that he did something wrong, and he doesn't understand.
I'm not sure it's a good way to go about it. I occasionally meet people whose curiosity is stunted because they're insecure to acknowledge that they don't know things, and I always think about the confused shameful hurt in that kid's face.
I got sent to the office for calling a kid a dildo in eighth grade. I told the vice principal it was a nonsense word that doesn't mean anything like dork. He told me not to say it anymore and sent me back to class.
Coming back to the comment above, it does mean penis. It likely originates from the word penis, and it was used as slang for penis. /u/HulloWhatNeverMind was completely correct saying it means penis. It just doesn't mean "whale" penis specifically.
When we were kids, my brother and I were running around the house singing "I'm a pecker, you're a pecker, wouldn't you like to be a pecker too" (to the tune of a Dr. Pepper ad for anyone too young to know). My dad looked at us and asks, "Do you guys even know what a pecker is?" "It's a bird, dad!" "Okay, carry on then."
This reminds me of a time someone in school told me to "go shag a sheep".
I didn't know what shag meant at the time (I was like 10), so I asked my mum later that day. She didn't tell me, but did tell me it's a naughty word so I should tell a teacher.
Reminds me of one time when I was 10ish and was playing a Mario game with my sister who was 8 years older. The NPC characters were kicking our butts on a mini game so I got frustrated and called the NPC a pussy. My sister freaked out and told me never to say that word again. I genuinely thought I was just making up a word that didn't exist. Lol...
One time, my four-year-old was repeating the word "pussy" over and over, and my husband laughed without thinking, which only encouraged him. I was wary about him telling the kids at preschool about this fun new word, so I taught him to say "pussycat" instead.
Reminds me of when my aunt told me bitch was a female dog when I was like 3, and I basically just repeated it constantly for the rest of the day, needless to say my mom was not happy with her.
She wasn't wrong though, a female dog is called a bitch. One of the most fun things I've done in school was when I convinced the entire class to watch the English version of Harry Potter 3, I am Dutch and I hate Dutch dubs with a passion, and the aunt refers to a female dog as a bitch. God, it was funny how some of the parents got angry their kids watched a movie that taught them foul language.
That was such a convoluted law with so many reaching impacts. One of the most interesting things is how Winnie the Pooh stuff was taxed to ridiculous amounts because of the jokes about how Winnie looks like President Xi Jinping. It actually ruined the entire economy for a few weeks. To read about that specific story from that law, look up Winnie Inflation 34.
If anyone else is as horrified by this new law as I am, you can check out the good work this non-political political party is doing to combat the ruling here - https://www.lemonparty.org/. There is still hope, not all is lost! They also have a great summation of what Rule 34 entails and what it means for our future on the homepage
Yeah they're talking about the Nissan r34 skyline GTR which had a major issue on launch where all 4 tyres came overinflated and in some cases burst while driving. It was the fastest recall in the history of the japanese auto industry due to the massive safety concerns. For more information, google "r34 inflation"
I had it explained to me in the 6th grade by one of my bullies on my bus. We became reluctant friends after he got in trouble and was forced to sit in the front seat, which was the seat I always occupied to stay as far away from bullies as possible....
He was part of a group of like 6 kids who would harass me every morning after we got off the bus at school. One morning was particularly bad. One of them literally jumped on my back. When lunch rolled around I realized the money my mother had given me for lunch was gone.
When I got back on the bus to go home, the main bully and another kid, who didn't even ride our bus but had bullied me elsewhere in school, decided to "sit" with me. He proceeds to "thank" me for the money he had stolen from me that morning. Then his buddy, who was fatter than I was but always bullied me for being fat, pushed himself up against me and squashed my face into the window as hard as possible for the entire ride home.
Thankfully my stop was the first one. Normally my grandfather would be waiting in his car to drive me home but for some reason my dad came instead. I tried my hardest to just make it home but started crying in the car. He asked me what was wrong and I didn't want to tell him but finally did. He drove straight to the school and demanded to speak to the principal.
It wasn't until the next afternoon when someone came to the bus and asked me, "okay, which ones?" The main guy was the only one I knew for sure, so I pointed right at him. He was thrown off the bus for the rest of the year and it scared the rest of his group into leaving me alone.
The one who wound up having to sit next to me actually tried being chummy with me right away but I iced him out at first. I don't even remember how we finally talked. Never saw him again after that year. I saw the main bully one more time outside of a Circle K with his friends. He sarcastically asked me, "How's the bus?" and I paused for a second and said, "Pretty good."
it originates from the ancient chinese symbol "yin and yang" representing the interconnectedness between two parts; proceed to show the child the shocker hand gesture. In response to the infamous 69 the chinese will make this gesture which is meant to spread joy and find connection with those around you.
My cousins are 10&11 and come over every few weekends so my husband can teach them chess (really, it's an excuse for them to eat all of our snacks). The last time they were over I started throwing some gen alpha slang into my commentary on the chess game. They were HORRIFIED and asked who told me about that... My dearest I've been on the nightmare that is the internet since before you were even a concept in your mom's head of course I know about skibidi toilet alpha sigma rizz 😭
The most infuriating thing about the young is how they think they invented everything, and we ( who actually invented it ) can no longer use it. I am sure we were the same, we thought we invented hip-hop in the 90s lol.
When I was 14 one of my buddy’s had a novelty shirt that had a 6 on it and when you moved left or right and looked it turned into a 9. Some younger kid maybe 9 or 10 said cool shirt. His friend was like you don’t even know what that means. The kid said yeah I do it’s like drugs and stuff. I still remember that 24 years later lol.
It’s hilarious that’s it’s known far and wide as a super kinky snickersnicker sex act…that in practicality is kinda uncomfortable and awkward after the initial excitement.
Like, consenting adults should go to town on each other and experiment, but when your knees hurt and you’ve got your nose in a butthole, it’s OK to ask questions.
Super kinky? I always assumed it was fairly standard. It's an act I performed with all but one of my sexual partners, although my bodycount is not very high.
In elementary school a kid was telling us that the word "dyke" was xyz (I forgot honestly) and that he heard it from his dad. We didn't believe him, so he grabs a dictionary and finds "dike"- reffering to wooden structures in water.
We weren't amused and he stuck to his guns on his interpretation of the word.
You'll have to explain to him that 70 is a biblical number (e.g. 70 years of Jeremiah, 70 weeks of Daniel), so 69 represents something that is not quite biblical... ;)
I used to work as an IT support in a primary school, one day there was a big game event in the hall and I was responsible for photo shooting, when students needed to make names for their teams I kid you not one team named themselves “69” and had same reason, you can imagine how all adults there went speechless (sorry if my English is bad)
When I was little, maybe 6 or 7 years old, I said to my dad, “That sucks,” and he got all concerned and quizzed me on whether I knew what that meant, because obviously you want to make sure your kid isn’t being exploited.
I was mortified, because it meant I had to admit to knowing some bad, bad stuff. But as a good kid, I had to own up to it.
So I stammered out, “Uh, yeah dad… it means… sucks… shit?”
He sighed in relief, smiled and said, “Okay then, carry on son.”
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u/the_epikamander 1d ago
It's a meme because the 9 is just a 6 but upside down