People Tell Their Age In Non-Numerical Fashion

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Eric Lund
Jul 31, 2021 10:00 AM EDT

Like anyone else, our best years are behind us. Or at least they seem that way, since human beings are pretty much psychologically incapable of remembering things accurately. We all want to look back at our VHS tapes and dangerous toys and say that's when we had it all figured out or "young people could never understand this," but in the end it's really just a way of dating yourself. But hey, that's nostalgia, baby.

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    Human body - Jizzicamydude- 16h I watched blockbuster close and remember when netflix mailed movies and videogames
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    Smile - Opselite - 14h S E Would you like to accept a collect call from MomWe'reDoneComeGetUs?
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    Mammal - Throwaway-3305 - 16h Chicken pox parties
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    Rectangle - CatMilkHotel 16h · edited 5h I got in trouble in kindergarten because my tamagotchi kept telling me it was hungry
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    Font - clever-assh le - 17h I was the first person in my high school to have a cell phone
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    Human body - grombleduke · 16h When I was a kid the big playground argument was Sega vs Nintendo.
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    Smile - CaregiverMan - 14h e Went to computer labs in elementary school to Paint and play pinball.
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    Font - Jabber-Wookie 16h · edited 3h I played the all green Oregon Trail.
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    Font - FormerElf - 16h I saw Disney's "The Lion King" in theaters when it came out.
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    Font - LightlyStep - 16h Why buy DVD's, we have everything on videotape.
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    Font - stef2go · 16h We actually "dialed" a 7-digit phone number.
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    Human body - Dog-treats · 16h My parents have never admitted it, but I'm pretty sure I was named after Princess Jasmine from Disney's Aladdin.
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    Rectangle - beigereige · 16h e I've had experience with these ways of listening to music: 8 track, vinyl, cassette, CD, and mini disc.
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    Font - tilt-a-whirly-girlie · 16h · edited 7h Drop dead Fred, Little Monsters, Ghost Busters, The Last Unicorn, & Labyrinth were my favorite movies as a child.
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    Font - beigereige · 16h - edited 14h There was only one newscast at 11pm, and before it started, a booming voice asked, "it's 11pm. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE????" and after it was over, there was an hour of maybe an infomercial, then a test pattern, and TV was OVER for the night. And there was only 7 channels
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    Font - Communist-thelastone - 16h I had a furrby as a kid
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    Font - Own-Cupcake7586 · 17h I remember Back to the Future in theaters.
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    Font - that-1-lame-kid - 17h I was the only kid in elementary school with a Game Boy
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    Mammal - pradmlv · 14h I'm "had to make a mad dash sprint to the cassette player to mash the record button when your favorite song came on the radio" years old.
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    Font - excitom - 16h · edited 1h Until I was in pre-school there were 48 stars on the US flag.
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    Font - shmallory 16h I remember physical keys for hotel rooms.
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    Human body - iwant2saysomething2 - 16h I remember Baby Jessica and I was afraid something like that might happen to me too.
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    Font - TheRavingRaccoon · 16h · edited 9h The Soviet Union was still called the Soviet Union the year I was born.
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    Mammal - qg314 - 15h I was conceived when my mom was so overcome by her romantic feelings after seeing Ghost in theaters, starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
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    Eye - Wolverine2397 · 16h Toby McGuire is my favorite Spider-Man
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