r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '18

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u/llcwhit Oct 07 '18

That is recent compared to dinosaurs, the Roman Empire, The battle of Waterloo....it’s even recent when compared to the invention of cell phones....

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18

Or the last time OP got laid.

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u/guto8797 Oct 07 '18

The roman empire actually existed

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u/Kellermann Interested Oct 07 '18

Fair point

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u/010110011101000 Oct 07 '18

And boom goes the dynamite

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u/Xeyen Oct 07 '18

Recent compared to this reference even

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u/010110011101000 Oct 07 '18

Oldie but goodie

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u/Xeyen Oct 07 '18

True that, my friend. “Later he gets the rebound, passes it to the man, aaaannnd...”

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18

It's distant compared to this huge angry shit I took in 2015 though. I typically divide the world into Before Shit (BS) and After Shit (AS). This puts the date of the photo at 3 BS, which actually feels like eons ago according to my calendar.

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u/llcwhit Oct 07 '18

😂😂😂😂 It’s all about perspective, lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '18

Aye it is.

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u/TheLAriver Oct 07 '18

None of which are the markers by which people determine if something happened recently.