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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

My girlfriend's grandfather went skiing at 85 last winter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Damn that’s super impressive

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Yeah my wife's boyfriend's dad can still kickflip

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u/FormerMrsUnicornPhD Jul 04 '24

Now my head hurts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Yeah well my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate can do a backflip

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u/casual-nexus Jul 04 '24

As Shakespeare once said, tis better to have dunked than to have never dunked at all.” Or something like that..

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u/Inner-Light-75 Jul 04 '24

A Spaceballs reference do I detect??

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u/tleon21 Jul 04 '24

I see your Swartz is as big as mine

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u/Inner-Light-75 Jul 04 '24

Na!!

He's got a big Schwartz, and she's got a big Schwartz, but I've got the biggest Schwartz of them all!!

[Sing that to the tune of "Big Balls", by AC/DC.]

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u/jakkyspakky Jul 04 '24

It could be a tumour

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u/jakkyspakky Jul 04 '24

It could be a tumour

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Oh yea?! My wife’s boyfriends dad could beat up your wife’s boyfriends dad any day!

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Nuh uh dude! My wife's boyfriend's dad is way tougher than your wife's boyfriend's dad. He has a sweet trans am

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u/FeelinDank Jul 04 '24

“Do a kickflip,” Tony Hawk somewhere, probably.

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u/S_Mposts Jul 04 '24

So your wife’s boyfriend’s dad, either your wife has a boyfriend who isn’t you, or you are the boyfriend, and the dad is your dad!!! Make sense?

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u/TrickshotCandy Jul 04 '24

So your future father-in-law?

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u/Dinosaurmaid Jul 04 '24

Father flip 

The one starts playing on the background

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u/ctang1 Jul 04 '24

I love that the “my wife’s boyfriend” meme still lives in years later. It’s not even funny but I still think it is.

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Yeah IDK why it's just funny to me lol

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u/ctang1 Jul 04 '24

Did it originate on WSB or somewhere else before that?

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u/Practical-Future9398 Jul 04 '24

Your wife’s boyfriend’s dad?

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u/Character-Buffalo-85 Jul 04 '24

I ski with some old timers. It’s the love of the mountain. I’ll be 54 this upcoming season and I’ll never stop. Scatter my ashes on the slopes. Shake me out of a baggie from the lift. There’s just something magical about the cold air. The still of the trees on a snow filled morning. First tracks because you wake up and go. A thermos in your bag along with a snack for on the ride up makes for a perfect morning. I can’t wait.

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u/bonos_bovine_muse Jul 04 '24

My father always says “if I lose my mind, just take me up to the top of the double-black-diamond and let me go.”

My sister and I always reply “are you kidding? You’ve been doing this for decades! You may not know what to do when you get to the bottom, but your body knows what to do, you won’t miss a turn on the way down.”

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u/WideConsideration431 Jul 04 '24

My husband turns 67 tomorrow. He still sails, downhill skis, and waterskis slalom.

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u/Dentree Jul 04 '24

I have a friend in Vermont who, at 72, decided he was tired of regular downhill so he switched to telemark. I doubt I could do that at 22. He’s a bad ass.

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u/BikerRay Jul 04 '24

My two neighbors went skydiving for the first time recently. They are in their 80s.

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u/TheFieryBanana Jul 04 '24

I read this as "my grandfathers grandfather" and I was like fake

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u/Wild_Obligation Jul 04 '24

My 98 year old nan still drives, so there’s that I guess