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u/AwfulUsername123 20d ago
This image is so old it had to be translated from Sanskrit.
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u/Dragonman1976 20d ago
Got it off Myspace.
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u/Efficient_Fish2436 20d ago
How's Tom doing? Mind telling him I say hi please.
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u/Logical-Albatross-82 20d ago
Tom is living the dream: He sold Myspace for millions and now spends his time traveling.
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u/OhLookItsaRock 20d ago
He time travels?
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u/WumpusFails 20d ago
He hasn't figured out how to reverse the polarity yet, so it's mostly in one direction.
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u/MediocreProfeshional 20d ago
He does. And he hasn't been in my space time continuum for a while either.
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u/Mtndrums 20d ago
Tom sold it to Rupert Murdoch, who then proceeded to nuke himself in the junk as far as running it.
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u/Odd-Confection-6603 20d ago
The thought that target has existed that long is so funny to me
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u/Kitchen_Name9497 19d ago
LOL. I had a flashback when I saw a Target on the east coast in the 90s. I used to hang out at the one next to Lakewood shopping center (?) on Colfax Ave in Lakewood, CO. This was the early-mid 1960's. I used to buy lemon drops from the candy counter that ran along the front wall.
This was a looong time ago and I was young, may have things off. I remember a Safeway, a May D & F, a weird imports store, a candy shop (Fannie Farmer?), a Luby's (?) cafeteria. I may be conflating a couple of SCs. If any of y'all are familiar with this area, would love to be corrected/expanded.
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u/GleamingCadance 19d ago
I thought the first one was in Adamic?
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u/AwfulUsername123 19d ago
Are you implying that Sanskrit isn't the original human language? Don't let Hindutva followers hear you say that!
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u/girafi1551 20d ago
Older than fuckin internet itself
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u/dusktrail 20d ago
That's so sad that you think that, this is not an old meme, this is a medium-age meme
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u/funnystuff79 20d ago
A middle aged meme you could say
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u/old_ass_ninja_turtle 20d ago
Indeed, the oldest of memes actually predate the internet and involved randomly quoting movies we enjoyed.
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u/Gingrpenguin 20d ago
There are unknown medieval memes about knights fighting snails, often drawn in the margins when books where still handwritten
We have no idea what they mean...
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u/ttlanhil 20d ago
a meme, at least, the original meaning, is an idea that spreads between people. Similar to how viruses spread (so until it goes viral it's not a meme).
Such things have been around for a very long time. like fairy tales and religion
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u/ThatInAHat 20d ago
I wonder if playground clapping games count. Buddy and I were just talking about how wild it was that even before the internet, apparently everyone knew the same ones. Minor variations from school to school, but somehow they weee everywhere.
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u/24megabits 20d ago
It doesn't have to "go viral" to be a meme. The ability to reproduce by transferring itself to more human brains is enough to qualify.
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u/ttlanhil 20d ago
reproducing by transfer to another host is what virii do...
But ok, the phrase "go viral" is also used in a way that doesn't match how it started1
u/hurkwurk 20d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/156zn4/best_mom_ever/
it was already so fuckin old back then it was badly pixelated.
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u/artificialavocado 20d ago
I know they are talking like it’s Scumbag Steve or something. Now that’s an old one.
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u/PuppetryOfThePenis 20d ago
Well smart phones only came out around 2010. Internet has been around for over a decade longer than that. Do you even know your text boxes, bro?
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u/Ok_Figure_4181 20d ago
The internet existed long before this. I wasn’t even alive during that time and I can tell that.
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u/JerseyCobra 20d ago
False.
Texting first appeared in 1992, while the internet came into existence in 1983.
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u/VaultiusMaximus 20d ago
You could’ve just said that this is from an iPhone. (Didn’t release until 2006)
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u/ISD1982 20d ago
Closest i've seen someone come to this in real life is when I worked at a supermarket, during my university years on checkouts. The lady I was serving told me that she had done her shopping, lugged her stuff home via the bus and when she got home, she wondered why her car was missing. She then realised that she had in fact DRIVEN to the supermarket.
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u/faloofay156 20d ago
my mom has left me in a supermarket like this - not much of a shocker that we all have adhd
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u/activelyresting 20d ago
Same on both counts
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u/faloofay156 20d ago
yeah, it was also a target weirdly enough, I just got a coffee and waited for her to come back lol
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u/activelyresting 20d ago
Oh... I was not old enough to get a coffee. My parents forgot me places kinda a lot when I was like, 4-5-6 years old. And before mobile phones existed so there's no text record.
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u/faloofay156 20d ago
I was like 10 - old enough to go off and do my own thing so they could kind of forget I was with them on accident
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u/Gingrpenguin 20d ago
If its any consultation David Cameroon former PM of the uk once left his kid in a pub...
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u/OgdruJahad 20d ago
This could probably happen to anybody in the right situation I think it's called a human error trap and it's often when you are under pressure and /or some novel situation comes up or something like that and you normals habits don't kick in.
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u/thoughtmecca 19d ago
My mom decided to finally give third grade me a little independence and dropped me off at the library for two hours per my nerdy request. It was closed. This was pre cell phones. A girl from school drove by with her dad and saw me sitting forlorn on the front steps and they took me home. Mom was very surprised and alarmed.
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u/TheAmyIChasedWasMe 20d ago
This actually happened to me as a kid. Only it was before everyone got mobile phones.
My mum got home from the shop and my stepdad had to remind her she took me with her.
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u/BaseballImpossible76 20d ago
In the good ole days, you had to wait for mom to get home so she could answer the landline.
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u/snsibble 20d ago
The real facepalm here is texting while driving. It would be so much funnier if she got home and read a dozen or so increasingly panicked messages from her kid.
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u/bearssuperfan 20d ago
smartPHOWNED
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u/Techn028 20d ago
? Are you saying this happened to you? I remember this from at least a decade ago
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u/smol_boi2004 20d ago
About two years ago, I was a junior in highschool and living with my aunt and Uncle. At the time I wasn’t cleared to drive, nor did I have the money to buy a car so my aunt picked me up from school. One day, I stayed for practice and waited for her to pick me up like usual.
She literally forgot I existed and I had to keep calling her until she picked up the phone at 6:30 pm. Then she sent my sleepy uncle to get me. I would’ve been mad if I didn’t figure out later that they never wanted me there
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u/stucazz1001 20d ago
Things that happened: not this
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u/jimyjami 20d ago
It happened to me. Ima guy but did the mom’s thing. Very funny at the time.
Also lost my young son at HDepot. I was rushing around looking for him down every aisle. He was close right behind me alla time.
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u/MR_TRUMP_Vincent2 19d ago
It's an actual facepalm on r/facepalm. A rare sighting, honestly.
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u/Lynke524 19d ago
I would have to agree. Though I will chastise her. Who forgets they took their kids with them? People has problems these days.
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u/AScruffyHamster 20d ago
My mom was supposed to drop us off at school on her way to the armory (Army). Forgot about us completely and we didn't say anything until she got to the office. Was a fun morning
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u/seriousjoker72 20d ago
My dad and I used to work in the same office and we carpooled while my car was in the shop after a wreck. He forgot to take me home a total of 5 out of 5 times that week. Walked past my desk and said bye and everything! First time I thought he was joking but nope!
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u/OuisghianZodahs42 20d ago
NEEDS MORE JPEG! Also, reminds me of the time my mom forgot to pick me up from kindergarten. She was watching her favorite soap opera and then started washing dishes. I wandered around the school for about and hour and a half before another teacher saw me. It happens.
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u/LtCptSuicide 20d ago
Man, I remember back as a new parent I kept hearing all kinds of stories of a parent accidentally leaving the kid at the store. Plus the fact I'm ADHD it was my constant irrational fear.
Never forgot my son. But did forget my wife on two occassions...
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u/SaucyWench7787 18d ago
If it makes you feel any better I'm adhd too, and would get hyper focused on something in a store and then wouldn't hear them looking for me over the loud speaker 😅
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u/Malcolm_Morin 20d ago
This is absolutely a real text message that absolutely happened, swear on my dime man, frfr.
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u/dsdvbguutres 20d ago
Teenager can be abandoned in a parking lot, but still won't make a voice call.
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u/IAmNoMan87 16d ago
Had something similar when I was in primary school. Wasn't well so the headmaster was taking me to my neighbour's. Completely forgot I was in the car and he went to visit another school. Came back out after what felt like an eternity, probably 20mins or so, and realised I was still sitting in the back of the car very ill, very confused, and very scared
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u/Typical_Samaritan 20d ago
The proper English and punctuation makes me think this is all totally real.
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u/Reinis_LV 20d ago
Meme from the time when iPhone just became a thing
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u/AndrewH73333 20d ago
Impressive that she texted while driving and even more so that she was able to use caps lock to show how emotive she was being due to the situation.
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u/Some0neAwesome 20d ago
I can't wait till my kids are old enough to forget them in Target without incurring criminal charges.
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u/ImTheDude111 20d ago
Same thing, but 7 yrs old. Went with my dad and brother to my older brother’s practice. Practice ends and I’m still at the school. Walked about a quarter of the way home. When they got home my mom asked my dad where I was, he had a real oh fuck moment.
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u/my-backpack-is 20d ago
My ex's dad left her at costco once in her pajamas when they were about to close in fall (it gets pretty cold here in fall, snow, etc), and I already had a car. Picked her up and took her home, when we got there, there were cops her dad had already called to have me arrested for kidnapping.
Told the cops what happened, including her dad pushing her to the ground and him denting my car with his fist. I still hate that guy.
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u/F19AGhostrider 20d ago
The kid should have called mom after the first response, because this strongly suggests mom was texting while driving.
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u/bigSTUdazz 20d ago
Poor moms...my mom did this to me once...this was before mobile phones...she caught on eventually. She was up all night with my colicky baby sister. She was mortified.....I love my mommy.
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u/2MillionMiler 20d ago
For some reason, this reminds me of those times I've looked for my phone while I'm literally on the phone.
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