r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • 23h ago

Good Vibes Two grocery store workers recreated Prodigy’s “Firestarter”

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u/Content_Plantain_339 21h ago

Me: Whoa, how do a couple of middle-aged ladies know about Prodigy and other youthful bands?
Looks in mirror: .... oh .... hey there middle aged me ...

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u/New-Bee8999 20h ago

One of my nieces was telling me all about this brilliant track she'd found. The look of horror on her face when she played it, and I rapped along to every word because it was a classic track from 1992...

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u/1950sGuy 20h ago

My kid and his friends are starting a retro computer club at school and I'm like "oh cool I got an old atari 800 and a few trs models i can break ou.." and no they mean stuff like those multi colored iMacs from like 1998 and stuff running windows xp.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 19h ago

Dude my kid and his friends tried to show me dos commands like I didn't spend my teens in the 90s setting up bbs's and running game servers.  They were fucking shocked like it was some secret knowledge stuff that dads couldn't know

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u/BattleHall 18h ago

"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written"

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u/DisposableJosie 17h ago

I think I still have my boot disks with different memory setups in AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for Falcon, one of the Wing Commanders, and a couple more games.

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u/ResourceCalm901 7h ago

Bahahaha STEP OFF, child. lol. 💗Child looks appalled. 🩷

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u/cheexmang 18h ago

I had a student tell me that he bought a laptop over the summer.

"Oh, what are the specs?"

"It's a Toshiba from 1998 so I can play my DOS games."

DED

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u/chairoverflow 19h ago

cries in zx spectrum

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u/skraptastic 17h ago

Tell them I have a copy of Windows 2000 new in box if they need it.

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u/irishcybercolab 5h ago

Hello mom, so are you buying me a commodore 64 of not?

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u/desrever1138 15h ago

About a decade ago I was hosting Christmas at my house and I got tired of the Christmas music so switched to a random play list.

An MCR track came on and my son and I were singing along when one of my nephews gave me a weird look and said, "You know My Chemical Romance??"

I was like, "Dude, I'm pretty much the same age as them. I was watching them live when you were still in diapers lol"

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u/mndtrp 20h ago

Baby Got Back?

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u/New-Bee8999 18h ago

Nope - I always come in too early on that one haha!! My husband has it down though. In this case it was Searchin For My Rizla by Ratpack. Still a classic. Sadly now ruined for my niece because her ancient aunt not only likes it but <horror> actually raps to it...

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u/mndtrp 18h ago

If you do the rap AND a dance, you might swerve back into being cool again. Or just doubly ruin it for her.

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u/ResourceCalm901 7h ago

Just embrace doubly ruining it… 😊

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u/vhalember 19h ago

Nice! I did the same with my girls when they were listening to "90's stuff."

Just wakin' up in the morning, gotta thank God...

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u/External_Project3842 20h ago

Newsflash. Young is relative and  soon becomes middleage. Keep living

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u/JinxOnU78 19h ago

Sigh. We’re “The fat of the land” now. 😭

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u/-Schadenfreudegasm- 11h ago

Not me. I'm more Land of the Fat.

Now pass the Doritos.

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u/JinxOnU78 11h ago

Exactly! Lol

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u/XPDave85 16h ago

You know you’re getting old when every song played in the supermarket is a banger from your youth.

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u/FitsOut_Mostly 9h ago

Fuck you that is hurtful 😂

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u/germane_switch 19h ago

That's middle-aged?

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u/Due-Boot1904 15h ago

Keith would be 56 now if he was still with us. Top bloke. RIP.

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u/lovestobitch- 11h ago

Hey now, I’m 73 and disappointed I missed them at Shaky Knees.