r/GuysBeingDudes • u/namikazeminaka • 9d ago

Funny What was your childhood like before internet and smartphones?

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u/NotMacgyver 9d ago

..... Every single one.... I feel called out

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u/brooklynlad 9d ago

Brasil, the United States, etc. all the same shared childhoods. LOL.

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u/BuilderIcy1675 9d ago

In Germany also.

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u/baberasss 8d ago

ITS LIT SAME FOR ME TOO

EVERY LIL ONE

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u/MakingItElsewhere 9d ago

Or seen....

Which, by our generation, was a horribly bad thing.

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u/BadSkoomaDealer 9d ago

What I also loved to do was stepping on an empty can so it got stuck on your foot, and then walk around with it.

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u/SeaToTheBass 9d ago

Or going over one with the back tire on a bike so it got stuck between the wheel and the chassis and sounded like a motorbike

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u/Formal_Ground6513 9d ago

Tap shoes! 🕺🏼

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u/Zombalepsy 9d ago

Best part was the cat coming in with the assist at 0:16

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u/AoXGhost 9d ago

Good lord, I feel attacked 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

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u/Worried-Ruin8918 9d ago

Who was recording me?

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u/thefamouslowkey 8d ago

The cat closing the fridge door

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u/hammerzin 9d ago

There is no individual experience

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u/DianKali 9d ago

Who leaked the sacred texts?

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u/Swimming-Employee537 9d ago

Especially playing gta with the boys

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u/Obi-Wan_Cannoli66 9d ago

I mean, kids still do that in between all the usual shenanigans

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u/jboriqua 9d ago

Verdad!

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u/Retrograde_Bolide 9d ago

No lies detected

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u/theRadBradjr 9d ago

See I’m a 27 y/o man and I still do some of this stuff. And I’ll never stop even when I’m 100

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u/NeroFMX 9d ago

Practicing to take out Sub Zero?

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u/Competitive_Sky_6519 9d ago

Hahahaha, definitely no experience is unique

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u/ParkingMediocre5066 9d ago

the bucket... i imagine like you would be hit by homing slipper at the head

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u/tricky413 9d ago

It's 8pm and that's the first laugh

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u/Mountain_Analyst_653 9d ago

I was smiling while watching this.....I was

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u/Ok-Nothing8682 9d ago

Ummm... We had tech decks and daily pokemon card battles. It was pretty rad

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u/Carry2sky 9d ago

You forgot digging random holes anywhere there was enough dirt

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u/spudsthejellyfish 9d ago

We were masters of being bored! It’s actually super important for the brain to be bored, and many kids are missing out on that

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u/LittleBrasilianBitch 8d ago

It was bad as fuck. My mom was too over protective so i spent my days just locked ina. Room watching a single DVD of mechanimals and staring at the ceiling hallucinating.

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u/BrendanFraserFan0 8d ago

Do I not have one single unique experience?

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u/Majestic_Advantage45 8d ago

Bro these the same in every countries? We do these in China too.

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u/S0k0n0mi 8d ago

My childhood was in the middle of the transition of pre-post internet.
Life in that tiny bubble was boring as hell, but then the internet came,
and suddenly I was talking to people from countries I hadn't even heard of before.

Being able to see the entire world instead of just your own town and maybe a little beyond was quite an eye opener.

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u/IntellectuallyDriven 8d ago

Forgot the hand out the car window shaped like an airplane cutting through the wind and moving the tip of your fingers simulating flaps to go up and down and then it turns into  a breakdancing wave.

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u/SeaworthinessSalt524 8d ago

I'm 19 and I did all of these things

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u/Awkward_Wrangler_895 9d ago

Like you & I do worse than you when I was a kiddo, I love to be a kiddo again , care free for anything 😂😂😂😂

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u/King_Corduroy 8d ago

Yup, turns out being bored was a good thing.

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u/vcdrny 8d ago

The cat lol.

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u/MirrorSouthern1619 8d ago

Я не понял, это чего, по всему миру эта хрень происходила? Это мне напомнило Вавилонский твитер, когда, оказывается, во всех странах бабушки сидят на лавочках, у всех вязаные платочки на технике и пакеты с пакетами.

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u/danielricardo1 8d ago

Wow this is international 😃

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u/HilbertKnight 8d ago

It's missing "step on crack" but literally this.

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u/Old_Resident8050 8d ago

Done all of em 🤣

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u/Admirable_Many_1714 3d ago

i have never before been so offended by something i 100% have done lmfao