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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My mum's got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My wife's family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.

It wasn't until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don't have to do that.

We'd all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they'd be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was the same way when I visited smoking family, I'd strip at the door and hit the shower when I got home.

Mopping the walls, my God.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if the reason I see duplicate memes on All is because a lot of people have blocked lemmy.ml and other large instances

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Lemmy.ml is the wayer coming out of a full ashtray when you pour stale beer on it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren't currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What on earth is happening with the leg(?) ??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a baby getting fed! 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to see that. Thank you 🙏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I definitely went through the same thought process!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is he holding his leg on the table like this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dad's elbow is on the table to keep the cigarette away maybe. Baby is just tearin up the bobba.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"Clevon Little voice"

That's not his leg...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is what my mom drove in the 80s-90s.

This is where i would lie down...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dang, was your mom single then? (I'm on my way inventing a time machine).

I had a similar experience in the 90s, but with a non-cool car - parents bought a TV & to fit it in a tiny car they had to put the back seats down ... which left the trunk for me (in a 5-door car, but still, highway speeds, and when I pointed out the safety issues they just said to hold on to a seatbelt ... ?).

The same parents ultra-terrified of me getting in a car accident with anyone (because others are terrible drivers), and to this day terrified I'll crash my car each and every time Im in it ... the patents that totaled a few cars vs me never in an accident and almost keeping up with professional kart racers (well, ""almost"", and even that on my best few laps before ahdh starts fighting me entering a corner).
Oh, and also the same parents I have to buy tires for against their will & have a few fights with to get them changed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What was this car again? I remember this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least you would've died in style.

When i grew up, my friends parents owned a farm that was on top of a mountain, it was like a 10min drive up there on backroads. They drove around a beater car, something like a Suzuki swift. Sometimes we were allowed to ride on the hood, like a bunch of criminals in a 80's action movie. I remember sitting on the roof once, holding on for dear life. I never really thought much about it, but i would never do that with my nephew. Not because i think they are soft and we were such a hard ass generation, because i don't want to kill a child. It happens so fucking fast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

😆

I don't remember, for obvious reasons, but I've been told that my dad used to put me on the fuel tank of his bike when i was a baby. Like riding a horse through town.

Edit: and for the record, I would also never drive with my kids without their car seats. And will continue to do so until they are big enough to use a seat belt and shoulder harness properly.

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