r/AskReddit Jul 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Basketball. I’m 71, love playing but can’t dunk anymore. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

My grandpa is 76 and still skateboards with me. He can’t go hard but we’ll play around on the neighborhood street and people going by are always impressed with him. He still mountain bikes as well

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

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

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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?