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Oliver is adorable
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100% me
Exactly this
I didn't grow up in the 80s but I imagine maybe a bit of both?
Aww, so cute
Hehe
Happy Wednesday guys!
joevair
#16 here's the truth, If it ain't drugs or a murder, they don't care.
rkingesd365
#15 My friends, cousins, and I all had wood panel everywhere in the 80s. I never personally saw the neon stuff.
Xaror
#20 not only cat shaped, but constructed in a way, that cats can really walk through.
wfo87Stang
#15 2nd one for sure. As I remember there wasn’t a ton of money to deck out your room. Maybe a couple posters and a leaking bean bag chair
Syovere
#14 It's difficult sometimes to resist the urge to shout "We get it, you feel inadequate!" when one of those passes by on my walks...
isetprettygirlsonfire
#15 I was there, it was #2 unless you were a rich kid or something. Also missing is the cigarette smell
Preincarnated
#1 The benefit of choosing Kidnapper Elmo was that eventually you could Stockholm syndrome it into Hug Me Elmo, so it was like two-for-one
Tsamane
Maybe its just me, but "hugging elmo" looks like henis choking the kid
noReallyIamPrincessBob
#11 a tumour or more likely an abscess.
cannoncd
that paneling is straight 70's
UnintentionalMasculineMicroaggressions
More like Elmo the Strangler
Vanish914
#15 Yeah only if your parents were ridiculously well-off probably. Even then most of it was just TV/Magazine renditions of a “cool kids”room
levelor
#15 @OP, no we didn't have all of the icons of the era everywhere. It was mostly 1950s-70s wood paneling. And corded telephones.
3PiecesOfBread
So exactly like the bottom half of the same pic?
levelor
Almost. My family is Trini, so no big crosses on the wall - but lots of Caribbean artwork instead. :-)
Miiaka
According to the most of the comments, I definitely believe you, seems like everyone talks about those wood panels ?
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
#14 depends on the car. I saw a 2015 Dodge viper that was completely decked out in chameleon paint. Look, there's a right way to peacock!
Grevling89
What about a ratty 2004 Civic with spacers and and a leaky second-hand sports exhaust?
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
I think you would be in the first panel of the meme, and road cyclists would be in the second panel. ?
DutchCraft2050
Yeah growing up in the eighties...my walls were purple, i had orange crates as nightstands and my light was a bulb on 2 threads. Best time!!
Avocadoboi69
#14 i used to think that but now I suspect it might be like the tongs thing- an ADHD ritual of sorts. Gotta vroom.
GloomyMP
You gotta figure, if you grew up in the 80s, the house was decorated in the 70s. Pick any three things from the 1st pic but no more.
BeetBoxer
#3 Owliver.
J4nein4ne
Good dump. Many thanks!
Miiaka
jenw
#15 that hallway could easily be my house growing up
isetprettygirlsonfire
#18
scoutkid
#1 How could you pass up "Elmo the Mugger?!"
TinFoilLoon
No you got it right.. the first pic was definitely every cool kid on tv room. But the second was home
TheRedactedTaco
#15 is actually 89 - 95 era
LCMcG
#6 The plot of DOOM if you exchange "cat" with "rabbit"
grayman222
#22 battle bunny!!
ahorseelbowdeepinme
#22
mak10z
Anime - Ghost stories: Watch the Dub. this is not editied.. this is the actual dialog from that scene :p its a fun anime :)
mak10z
OdeToBouncer
Well I had A Bitchin' Camaro!
mak10z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJylb5H_r68
kaeldra
#15 no it was mostly the second one
redstaterefugee
I lived in the second pic, but adult me would love a Rubik’s cube table.
Bunhyung
You couldn't just slide your hands along that paneling, it was sticky with nicotine and tar.
MauroMolinero
yours maybe. my grandma was absolutely neurotic about cleaning. i fucking hated her.
turdswindler9000
KingMagenta
This picture makes me feel like my town was stuck in the past. I was born in 94 and I remember mine and other kids houses looking like this.
NoelleFrost
Definitely the second one. Feel that wall on my fingertips.
jery007
Rich kids vs the rest of us
CatskinnerKeen
I knew numerous rich kids and never saw #2; #1 was ubiquitous.
Lledargo
Yeah, the first one was more like advertisements and marketing materials in the 80s. Nobody actually lives like that.
igglebotato
Needs more ashtrays, but yeah
forgotiwasfine
Of all shapes, sizes and materials
rimoeng
You all are my people.
HeroicSheperd
80s nostalgia can not express enough how much brown there was.
3PiecesOfBread
Even on the side of station wagons.
tibbs3d
My aunt's house in Missouri STILL looks like the 2nd one
SatoriEnligtenmentNow
Same.
OptimisticMisanthrope
You both have an aunt in Missouri with the old wood paneling? Are you related, or does every aunt in Missouri have that paneling?
tibbs3d
Most houses in Perryville are old farm houses with this type of panelling. Dunno about the rest of MO tho
DefinitelyNotCera
Absolutely the second one. The first one is what people who never saw the 80s imagine it was like. The real thing was much less exciting.
TheYoungerChrisEvans
Even if you had the money for the first one, it wasn't displayed like that. It was strewn across several rooms like debris from an explosion
flufflogic
It was in fact pretty much zero the first one, because companies often weren't smart enough to merchandise. Now, the 90s...
DisUsernameAmsDildos
They knew how to merch, but they didn't have zombie kids starting at a computer screen being bombarded with ads and able house deliver.
GeneralWho
If you're old enough to complain about that, surely you're old enough to remember TV ads and home delivery magazines.
pritolus
Even Socrates complained about "kids these days," I'm starting to suspect it was never actually the kids
PhysicsPhill
Ok boomer
wormsinmahspice
Fuck, I can't even believe this one's a boomer, reads like some self hating 20-30yr old.
wormsinmahspice
Because the children have the money to buy things from the ads... Right
3PiecesOfBread
That’s what mom’s credit card + said moms having no clue how their kid’s technology works or has payment info saved on the device, is for.
NachoPete
They had ads during Saturday morning cartoons which were pretty effective.
WoodfolkFae
The cartoons themselves were ads
Avocadoboi69
Eh not all of them
3PiecesOfBread
I don’t know why your comment generated all those butthurt downvotes, but well done.
DisUsernameAmsDildos
Because they think I'm insulting them with my angry old man energy when I'm really just stating that things have changed.
3PiecesOfBread
Imgurians tend to get butthurt very quickly over facts and simple observations that make them feel insecure. I grew up in the 80s and 1/2
GeneralWho
Cuz it's complaining about the same dumb shit idiots always do "oh woe the next generation is ___" Like the newspaper, and the telegram, etc
3PiecesOfBread
So are you saying that most kids (adults too even) don't spend most of their time staring at a screen now and getting bombarded with ads?
GeneralWho
"Kids these days are all about instant gratification, they don't go outside, they don't want to work, wharrgarbl"
flufflogic
I mean, they did, it was just a TV and a catalogue.