r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Yolo0o • 7h ago

Back in the days

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u/bannanaisnom 6h ago

Not stupid, just really funny

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u/ChelsieShort 2h ago

LOL I know right

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u/Far_Effective_1413 1h ago

Yeah that girl is sassy

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u/iceyed913 32m ago

Gonna be a real hoot when someone tries to court that one.

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u/RainsWrath 18m ago

What a strange and creepy thing to say.

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u/iceyed913 16m ago edited 15m ago

You lack the imagination to conceive emotional intelligence as being an exponentially growing force with age?

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u/MyOtherCarIsAHippo 14m ago

You lack the intelligence to know talking about dating children is creepy.

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u/iceyed913 13m ago edited 12m ago

I lack for nothing but the ability to make myself understood to people like you. edit: obviously you have never mused this coming from a parents perspective

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u/ToothZealousideal297 6m ago

What I don’t get is that Netflix stopped sending DVDs way back in….. September 29th, 2023. Not even a year ago.

Almost everyone just kind of collectively actively unsubscribed from the physical disc by mail service at some point and then assumed it ceased to exist from then on. Anyone who didn’t unsubscribe kept getting discs when they wanted the whole time.

Now, Netflix definitely didn’t help matters when they did those hijinx with Quickster several years ago where they started to split their disc by mail and streaming into two separate businesses and charge way more, and the backlash was so bad they backtracked on it, but the fact is they never stopped discs by mail until last year, and it didn’t have a limited catalog like the streaming, just a wait list.

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u/OliverOyl 1m ago

Also true, AOL free internet trials baby!

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u/Effective-Painter815 6h ago

She's not wrong.
The internet did used to come in the mail. Anyone remember AOL?

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u/tacocollector2 6h ago

Oh come on, you didn’t need to make it worse

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u/wearing_moist_socks 5h ago

What about ICQ

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u/tacocollector2 4h ago

I am barely too young for ICQ, so you can keep that one to yourself.

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u/Hotchocoboom 2h ago

i even remember my number... it was 293 043 123

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u/ThomasAltuve 1h ago

Ha! The invention of Internet 2.0, Reddit and high-speed internet was all an elaborate plot to steal your ICQ number. You’ve fallen right into the trap.

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u/Hotchocoboom 1h ago

Too bad ICQ got finally shut down in the end of june this year, so no idea what the internet overlords want with that number.

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u/Flomo420 1h ago

Omg ICQ was still a thing up until last year??

Damn that's literally like the internet equivalent of a living dinosaur (or was)

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u/Objective-Chance-792 4m ago

That was just to lull you into a false sense of security. It’s so hush hush they’re not even on the deep web, it’s on the even more secret internet. The Outernet.

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u/cbih 1h ago

DeadAIM

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u/SnollyG 1h ago

I was around for all of it, but I’m only just realizing that ICQ is I SEEK YOU.

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u/Munnin41 2h ago

All I know is XcQ

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna 1h ago

Nobody talks about IRC anymore T_T

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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 13m ago

GET OFF THE FUCKING INTERNET I NEED TO USE THE PHONE!

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u/-___0_0___- 6h ago

Remember when getting online meant tying up the phone line for hours? Good times!

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u/Abnormal-Normal 6h ago

“Get off the internet, I’m waiting for a call!”

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u/Root_the_Truth 5h ago

My Smartphone still does that. An incoming call will cut the data off until the call has ended. Nothing changes just opposite directions, I suppose

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u/anon_simmer 39m ago

You need a new provider and/or phone. Wtf.

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u/Root_the_Truth 37m ago

Meh, that's the phones being sold in Europe.

When it rains, I can't type lol

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u/Flomo420 1h ago

Dude my buddy back in like '97 had a program (remember when 'apps' were called programs? Lol) that would tell you when and who was calling you while you were online so that you could decide in the moment if you needed to take the call or not

Blew my fuckin mind lol

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u/phluckrPoliticsModz 5h ago

Remember when it meant hanging the clothes up outside to dry?

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u/Old-Reserve1476 6h ago

My nephew sometimes just walks up to me and asks me to explain old technology. he listens attentively and then just bursts out laughing. today it was cassette tapes. yesterday it was dial up internet.

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u/LadyBug_0570 6h ago

I swear at one point I had 20 of those damn CDs.

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u/sighfun 5h ago

CDs?? Young pup! They used to send floppy disks!

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u/facw00 5h ago

That was handy, free floppies to reuse (sometimes you had to tape over the write protection thing to make them writeable again, but mostly it just worked IIRC)

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u/born_again_atheist 20m ago

Yep! They came in handy when you needed a floppy in a pinch!

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u/LadyBug_0570 5h ago

I forgot the floppies

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u/Wintergreen61 5h ago

I knew a person in college that wallpapered (wall-cded?) their entire dorm room with them.

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u/Flomo420 1h ago

I did that in high school lol

A whole wall of AOL trials, PSM demos discs, and whatever else random shit discs you'd get in the mail or like from a cereal box or whatever lol

Though I only had it done to one wall

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u/SuchCoolBrandon 5h ago

My cousin arrayed them on her bedroom wall for a cool mirror effect.

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u/AlignedMonkey 3h ago

In high-school I had collected so many of those damn cds I fashioned them into a chandelier and won best in show at my towns summer fair.

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u/Debalic 1h ago

My mother, who was born in 43, took up a project where she started paneling the walls in her home office with AOL CDs that were mailed to her, even though she already had AOL and it was the only thing she ever used.

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u/UltimaCaitSith 31m ago

My username exists because, at some point, they stopped letting you redeem free months regardless of how many CD keys you had.

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u/magikot9 16m ago

Still got a bunch of those as coasters at my desk.

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u/jnz9 4h ago

So. Many. Trial. CDs. 😆

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u/Flakester 2h ago

And once you got your Internet in the mail, you could get your mail in the Internet.

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u/iWin1986 6h ago

Remember dial up? lmao and they annoying sound it would make and take 15 mins to connect

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u/eat1more 1h ago

Annoying?? That was a beautiful symphony of success. 😃

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u/iWin1986 1h ago

That’s true your now connected! lol

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u/SenhorSus 5h ago

I remember my ten hours a month of free internet from net zero CD's!

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u/drunkashhole 1h ago

My mom and sister still have AOL email accounts lol

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u/MrAverus 1h ago

Then AOL would turn around and be the one to say "You've Got Mail!"

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u/Ash_Cat_13 1h ago

You’ve got mail

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u/emlgsh 1h ago

Remember? I was still using my enormous reserve of solid-metal AOL trial CD tins for drug storage as recently as the late 2010s!

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u/bypatrickcmoore 58m ago

It also came in cereal boxes, magazines, and for free in checkout lines.

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u/born_again_atheist 32m ago

I think I still have some of those disks in some junk boxes in my garage.

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u/jimmyhoke 15m ago

That’s what I thought of too.

Of course technically the “internet” came through a phone line but all the software came in the mail.

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u/Upper_Budget7821 5m ago

Ha, was about to say, did that little girl say that knowing it or just lucky. Also this is not a real conversation.

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u/GirlieLadyGal 6h ago

I literally spoke the words with the (old lady voice) and laugh after. lolll

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u/MNWNM 1h ago

My 10 year old daughter loves to put on her old lady voice and mock me for being born in 1975.

Every time I mention something from my childhood, she'll say, "Welll back in the 1900s..." I laugh, but I'm crying on the inside.

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u/dngerszn13 13m ago

Welll back in the 1900s...

Me, born in the '90s

https://i.redd.it/hs4kqlmws0rd1.gif

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u/CicadaHead3317 6h ago

Same. That kid is funny.

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u/Bisonfan1 6h ago

Or aol

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u/Cuntmaster_flex 6h ago

The CDs literally did come in the mail

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u/Bisonfan1 6h ago

You mean the music cd s

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u/Quirky_Inspection 6h ago

No AOL used to actually send CDs in the mail. There are stories of people who collected piles of them.

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u/AssiduousLayabout 6h ago

And before that AOL sent floppy disks in the mail. Enough that you almost never needed to buy them, just put a piece of tape over the write protection slot so you can reformat it and reuse.

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u/Quirky_Inspection 6h ago

I've got so many floppies from way back that I've reused.

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u/Plenty_Run5588 6h ago

Phrasing!

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u/Quirky_Inspection 6h ago

Oh you know what I mean

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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 12m ago

“dad! look! they 3D printed the save icon!”

😐

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u/Plenty_Run5588 6h ago

I wouldn’t call this stupid! She’s being sarcastic, with voice impersonations and her punchline delivery was impeccable! Comedy is a sign of intelligence!

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u/Igot1forya 6h ago

I used to order the floppies by the dozens just so I can format them and add them to my stockpile of disks. I'd order the CDs with crazy names on them for example "Move-your Damned-truck" was mailed several times to my neighbor for parking in my space.

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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 12m ago

we literally did this.

it was like, 40 hours or some shit of internet for free per disk. my dad hoarded them for years

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u/Robotic36 36m ago

That is the internet this fake conversion written down as a humorous joke is referring to.

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u/TokugawaShigeShige 6h ago

Then why were they called Netflix back then instead of Mailflix? Checkmate, atheists.

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u/Robotic36 37m ago

Because you managed your queue on their website.

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u/Firewolf06 4m ago

mail network

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u/Appropriate-Buy965 6h ago

LMAO💀💀💀💀💀

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u/kai333 6h ago

more like "kid's are fuckin hilarious"

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u/IHobAnOst 5h ago

Of cours a 6 year old said that

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u/BOOMBOOKLAT 6h ago

Mhm, yeah, the kid definitely said that… for sure

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u/wearing_moist_socks 5h ago

I dunno man, my friend has an 8 and a 4 year old and they say funny, clever shit all the time.

They also say a lot of dumb shit too, though.

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u/whtevn 4h ago

Most people don't know that children just say "googoogaagas" for like 16 years before they ever have their first coherent thought

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u/Den_Bover666 4h ago

Nah at 6 kids figure out how to be sassy, but the part of their brains responsible for empathy is still not developed enoug, leading to them being absolutely brutal lil shits.

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u/Thoughtful_Name 3h ago

Yeah its such a millennial joke lol

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u/airblizzard 4m ago

“Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don’t die.” -My son, 3, who is a lot smarter than I am.

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u/goddesslove50 5h ago

This kid’s already talking like a grandma at 6, someone needs to explain to her that DVDs weren't that long ago

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u/08-24-2022 1h ago

When was the last time you watched a DVD? 2014?

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u/SvenTurb01 32m ago

That's just a couple of years ago, still counts as recent.

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u/RepublicansEqualScum 3h ago

I mean, wait until she learns about the endless supply of AOL coasters we used to get.

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u/skunding 1h ago edited 1h ago

I just read that hearing Bingo and Bluey’s granny voices

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 1h ago

I slipped on my beans …

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u/No-Coach346 1h ago

Fake parent quotes 😒

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u/cbih 1h ago

I worked as USPS one summer and I delivered AOL disks and Netflix DVDs at the same time

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u/AsaCoco_Alumni 1h ago

Wait till she learns about BOOKS and MAGAZINES.

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u/galan_616_ 1h ago

that 6yr old is right. who remembers AOL cds lol

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u/Educational_Duck3393 47m ago

The crazy part is... The internet did come in the mail! I'm looking at you AOL 9.0 CD with a free 1000 minute credit!

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u/NatsukiNights 6h ago

Wait to they hear about the AOL CDs

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u/sn33kyVI 5h ago

Get roasted

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u/DoNotPetTheSnake 4h ago

When I was 6, each house only had one phone and it plugged into the wall.

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u/drhagbard_celine 4h ago

Wait until she hears about encyclopedias.

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u/Frequent_Funny3784 3h ago

Used many of free AOL hours from the mail!!

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u/Fatfade2020 3h ago

I mean she is not wrong the internet just to be the encyclopedia set our parents bought and it took a lifetime to payoff.

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u/Maxed_Zerker 2h ago

A 6 year old did not say that lol

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u/wtfsamurai 2h ago

Sick burn, and she’s not wrong lol

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u/Jolly_Rutabaga1260 1h ago

That's actually a very clever joke to mock as something absurd. I like this kid and I'm doubtful about the tread.

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u/laggyx400 1h ago

She had AOL?!

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u/-Vogie- 1h ago

My 12 year old asked me if YouTube was in black and white when I was a kid.

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u/montybo2 1h ago

The days of netflix porch pirates. That shit sucked.

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u/Milo-Jeeder 1h ago

😂 😂 😂 That kid is funny!

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u/JosephMadeCrosses 1h ago

Laundry detergent, too.

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u/captainmagictrousers 54m ago

When I was your age, internet speed was measured in buckets. You’d throw the download switch and the ISP employees would form a chain and pour your data from bucket to bucket until, several weeks later, you had a new Sugar Ray song. And it was the worst thing you’d ever heard.

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u/CarneDelGato 54m ago

What was really wild was how when they started streaming, there were a whole mess of people going, “streaming? That’ll never work!”

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u/itmytech 51m ago

Wait until she hears we used to rent movies by actually leaving the house!

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u/Viva_Da_Nang 35m ago

This would be a proud moment for me if my kid responded with that kind of sarcastic wit.

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u/eccentricbananaman 27m ago

But it did... It did come in the mail. Kind of.

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u/Gordofski 26m ago

Not stupid, that's a legitimate roast.

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u/Next_Pudding385 23m ago

Floppies to reuse

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u/Sagzmir 16m ago

"I was there, Gandalf."

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u/yesbutnoexceptyes 13m ago

I remember when my 6 year old once told me "Father, verily, the years have run afoul of you."

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u/Find_Spot 11m ago

Well yeah, of course it did. Anyone here remember getting AOL in the mail?

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u/l3ane 4h ago

Wrong sub. This kid is quite clever.

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u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH 2h ago

Solid burn.

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u/Zealotteen 2h ago

And the paper, remember those days?

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u/Jmac0585 1h ago

ITP: Something funny from a kid. Nothing stupid.

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u/PlainOGolfer 4h ago

This belongs in kids are sometimes hilarious.

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u/S1MPL3YR4G3 3h ago

Smart Kid Why U Hating?

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u/StupidSparkyLJ 3h ago

At this point, the sub should just change it's name to KidsAreFuckingHilarious