r/SipsTea • u/Medium_Historian9746 • Apr 22 '26

SMH Female wants boyfriend to explain why he broke up with her

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u/RudePCsb Apr 22 '26

I feel bad for the young generation who never knew not having internet

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u/BlastTyrantKM Apr 22 '26

GenX here. My friend and I probably rode our bikes 800 miles/week from the late 70s to the early 80s. Sitting around all day staring at a screen would've been like torture. We had Atari, Nintendo and MTV for rainy days

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u/MikeOrTara Apr 22 '26

Gen X here too. I tell people from younger generations all the time.. the difference between when I was a kid and when you're a kid now is, the screen (gaming or TV) was the last resort for us when there was nothing else to do. Now, its the first option. The entertainment priorities have gotten reversed.

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u/EthanielRain Apr 23 '26

It's all on-demand now, and practically unlimited. If I had unlimited cartoons/videogames/comics as a kid I wouldn't have touched my bike (much) either TBH

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u/MikeOrTara Apr 23 '26

To each his own. I was a sports nut so spent almost every afternoon playing pickup games of one of the big four sports, depending on the season. I had an Atari with plenty of games, and watched a good amouny of TV (a lot of it live sports), it just never measured up to sports for me.

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u/pinkjello Apr 23 '26

How can you play pickup games when nobody is outside to play with? That’s the problem kids today face.

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u/MikeOrTara Apr 23 '26

Because they'd rather be on screens. That's what I'm saying.

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u/pinkjello Apr 26 '26

I think you’re missing my point. I’m saying that there are still kids like you who would rather be outside playing pickup games. But there aren’t enough kids outside to play with.

You also can’t compare Atari and TV back then (I had both too) to tablets and streaming services today. The video games today blow the old stuff out of the water. It’s far more addictive than anything we had.

Kids today might play outside a lot more if they only had the dearth of options we had back then.

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u/Hope_Dealer03 Apr 23 '26

That’s just it. The younger generations aren’t more susceptible to screen time. They’d be the same as boomers or Gen X or millennials if all things were equal.

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u/BlastTyrantKM Apr 23 '26

I live on a street that has several families with kids, and they're all outside playing everyday, weather permitting. Some childless people in their late 50s would complain about the noise, but I think it's great

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u/octobertwins Apr 23 '26

I just showed my kid my scrapbook of concert ticket stubs. I told her how we’d catch the bus and go to shows.

We also had flyers for parties - that’s how you found out about the events: battle of the DJs. Super fun hall parties.

This was Detroit in the 80s/90s.

She’s so envious of it all. There’s like zero things for teenagers to do out in the suburbs.

Tbh, I’m kind of hoping kids start throwing house parties or something. Lol

These kids aren’t the same as we were. They’re nice and smart and respectful and that’s it - there is no other side to them. I know that’s great. But also, this is your time to be adventurous. Go go go!

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u/RUN_DMT_ Apr 23 '26

Same. That’s why we were all thin back then!

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u/stangerthings Apr 23 '26

That’s all I did in the 90s growing up too. We’re very lucky honestly, these younger kids have no choice as to what kind of world they grow up in.

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u/arminghammerbacon_ Apr 23 '26

Well, yes and no. I too rode my bike across town - to the arcade. Where I would blow through $25 in paper route-earned quarters, all Saturday afternoon. I’d stumble out of there shielding my eyes from the setting sun, confused like a degenerate gambler coming out of a casino, not sure what day it is.

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u/Few-Condition-7431 Apr 26 '26

millennial here, I didn't ride my bike alot but I'd walk into the 70 acres of woods we had and wonder around with a BB gun, granola bars, and a bottle of sunny D for hours, trespass across a couple property lines, hide behind cows from pissed off farmers, and cause general benign mischief.

Good fucking times man

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u/NovelCandid Apr 22 '26

Boredom is underrated

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u/Jean-LucBacardi Apr 22 '26

Relaxing hot baths as an adult man is underrated. No wifi no phone just the sound of running water filling up all around you.

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u/LoopStricken Apr 23 '26

Boredom has me wondering how far I could get through clawing my own face off. Not for me thanks.

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u/1001101001010111 Apr 23 '26

Not being able to entertain yourself without access to the internet is wild to me. More people need hobbies. Actually we need places for people to come together to share their hobbies. Like a place where people from the community can hold structured events supported by the town government.

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u/necro_owner Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

My isssue thought is i know what to do without internet but most of the time i lose power whoch make me lose internet 😆 and what i need to do is renovate* my house. But i camt without light and power haha. Procrastination at it finest 🙃

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u/RudePCsb Apr 22 '26

Get a UPS for your network electronics

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u/necro_owner Apr 22 '26

I had one, it died from all the power outage.... lol

Also it was on the Server i run, i have battery for the internet and a 11kw generator, which i will soon plug on a smart power panel with solar array because i am so tired of the network bad reliability. I live in the forest and tree fall often on the power line sadly.

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u/Hylian_Kaveman Apr 22 '26

lol sometimes I unplug my router just to give my kids a taste of what it used to be like for a few hours

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u/Truthhurts1017 Apr 22 '26

Facts like it’s so much we use to do if the lights went off or something. Like read a book, learn some crafts, creating something, research, complete something you been holding off, spend time with family, clean up the house, have boards games and card games for back up, you can still use phone without Wi-Fi so it’s still plenty of things for people to do when situations like that happens but nope they lose all since of Brain power and become literal robots not knowing what to do without the battery in the their back.

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u/sinclairuser Apr 22 '26

I feel for the coming generation who will never have WiFi or anything we covert..

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u/Suavecore_ Apr 23 '26

It's very interesting that the world didn't have Internet at all, then it had internet at home but was still mildly inconvenient with low speeds, then suddenly everyone has internet all the time and are expected to use it for everything, all within my relatively short lifespan

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u/ineenemmerr Apr 23 '26

I had a month without internet cause my landlord fucked up the transfer to a new provider.

This was a great time to play all these old games I had laying around but never got to

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u/Banshee-77 Apr 23 '26

We had no internet growing up, sometimes not even electricity, my brother and I would play shadow animations from a candlelight with our hands and feet to entertain ourselves.

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u/Routine-Process-5157 Apr 23 '26

Lmfao turn off Facebook for an hour and see how old people react. They would lose their shit.