Xennials things you just realized as an adult that blows your mind
Posted by dadjokes502@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 417 comments
Mine is Joey Lawrence ( Tv and movie fame) was the voice of Oliver in Oliver and Company
What’s your REALLY!! moment
SeamusMcBalls@reddit
That most people are stunningly ignorant of history
Plumskiter@reddit
and geography
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
Very true
ThermionicMho@reddit
That fuckin' Reginald Barclay was freakin' "Howling Mad" Murdock
AgentGnome@reddit
Also, Odo is the French Chef in the Little Mermaid
jasonrubik@reddit
No wonder I liked Nowhere Man so much. He was in it.
On a side note, I always thought that he also did Max Headroom, but now I'm not so sure about that
Dimac99@reddit
Nah, Max Headroom was Matt Frewer, who really confused me by playing his Eureka character Australian.
suddle@reddit
I recognized him in ST:TNG right away, but as the years have gone by, he’s truly Lieutenant Barklay to me now.
TBH, I didn’t remember his name in the A-Team until your post!
kombatminipig@reddit
Holy shit.
worstnameIeverheard@reddit
This one is tough for me. Loved Murdock, hate Barclay.
trumpsmellslikcheese@reddit
Lt. Broccoli? How did I never realize this?
ThermionicMho@reddit
I felt the same. He's just that good of an actor? That's my best guess
qtjedigrl@reddit
I feel like I could fix Barclay
ThermionicMho@reddit
Perhaps, but could you fix Mad Murdock?
FriedBreakfast@reddit
O'aka and Maechen in Final Fantasy X was also Murdock. That shocked me.
TrixieBastard@reddit
I always loved O'aka's voice, so soothing
weebabyarcher@reddit
Holy shit
hypnofedX@reddit
Human history isn't that old and it's difficult to appreciate until you reach an age where your time on the planet is an appreciable part of it.
I'm in my 40s so I've experienced about half of a typical human lifespan. By contrast, the age of the United States is about three human lifetimes. I've personally witnessed about 1/6th of American history and I'm not even that old.
flamingmaiden@reddit
Also, at 250, the US isn't really that old. This weird, terrible shyt we're doing right now is basically a toddler having a tantrum. (Albeit a tantrum with terrible consequences.)
KudosOfTheFroond@reddit
I remember learning last year that Natalie Imbruglia’s song Torn was a COVER!!
🤯🤯🤯🤯
flamingmaiden@reddit
What?? Who was the OG?
paulisnofun@reddit
When I found out that in the some Mommy is not cheating on Daddy by kissing Santa Claus under the mistletoe. Mommy was actually kissing Daddy who was dressed as Santa Claus.
Such-Race1607@reddit
But that would mean...
SmittyComic@reddit
Humpty was Shock G the whole time
GreenZebra23@reddit
Just to thicken the soup, it wasn't even the whole time. Sometimes another guy would play Humpty so shock G could be on stage as himself, further strengthening the illusion
SmittyComic@reddit
feel a lot better that they were always keeping up the ruse and not me being super dumb, just kind of dumb.
like, clark kent can't be superman - he HAS glasses!
loureed1234@reddit
I never knew that Uncle Phil was the voice of Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.
danbob411@reddit
Good one. I just re-watched The Rescuers Down Under, and John Candy was the voice of the albatross. FN hilarious. Also Bob Newhart voices Bernard in both films, which I also didn’t realize.
DaughterOfTheKing87@reddit
Aw. I just moved back home last year and when I went to decorate my grandparents for Christmas, they still have my Rescuers Down Under lil Christmas stockings. One of the little rat’s ears is missing. Probably eaten off by a rat in the attic. Damn. I’m old as hell, just like my kid says I am. 🤯🤦🏻♀️😭
SidFinch99@reddit
This was a huge one for me.
Typical_Necessary_63@reddit
You just blew my fuckin mind
CorgiMonsoon@reddit
And Cliff’s dad on The Cosby Show was the voice of Panthro
zt3777693@reddit
Omg wut 😟
sweetassassin@reddit
🤯
FriedBreakfast@reddit
And Leonardo from TMNT was also Liquid Snake
SpaceLemur34@reddit
Rob Paulsen, the original voice of Raphael, was also the voice of one of the Bike Mice from Mars. He was in a rip off of a thing he was in. (He was also Yakko and Pinky, among many others).
rebelangel@reddit
He also voiced Donatello in the 2012 TMNT cartoon. So, he voiced half of the turtles.
FlatRooster4561@reddit
His name was Robert Paulsen
Lesh_Philling@reddit
His name is Robert Paulson
_dead_and_broken@reddit
Bob has bitch tits.
Dear-Discussion2841@reddit
What
louisvillejg@reddit
They said “I NEVER KNEW THAT UNCLE PHIL WAS THE VOICE OF SHREDDER IN THE TMNT CARTOON!!!”📢📢
CaptinEmergency@reddit
I can’t hear a damn thing without my glasses.
CrouchingDomo@reddit
Turn the radio down, I’m looking for a specific address and I’ve never been on this street before!
xakypoo@reddit
I turn the radio on, I turn the radio up, this woman is singing my song: lovers in love and the others run away, lover is crying cause the other won't stay...
Negative-Wrap95@reddit
Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was Dying since the day they were born. Well, this is not that: I think that I'm throwing, but I'm thrown.
rifunseeker@reddit
And kids, shut up. dad needs to concentrate.
colostitute@reddit
Don’t make me pull over
louisvillejg@reddit
ouijahead@reddit
Oh you
louisvillejg@reddit
Happy cake day!!
ouijahead@reddit
🤯 OH my goodness.! I’m getting so old! Thank you kind person.
HopelessMagic@reddit
Turn that damn light off! You want us to get arrested?!?!?
ZombyAnna@reddit
alett146@reddit
Me all the time 😆
yodellingllama_@reddit
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.
MotorCycologist@reddit
https://i.redd.it/1oy8y7m6mzug1.gif
ouijahead@reddit
Chevy Chase is said to have been crying because of his Roast, but yet still remains a jerk.
MotorCycologist@reddit
No argument there, but Garrett Morris is cool.
ouijahead@reddit
No doubt. Loved his cameo on family guy.
EBMille4@reddit
Yes!!!! this gif is what I thought of immediately!
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
I wasn’t expecting to wheeze laugh today but here I am
Killowatt59@reddit
Kevin Nash played the Sheddar in Turtles II.
RetroDadOnReddit@reddit
I don't understand how this isn't common knowledge. Not hating, it's just that so many people I know know this for forever so when I see someone surprised by it, it surprises me.
three-sense@reddit
Paul Ruebens / Peewee was the ship voice in Flight of the Navigator
CSWorldChamp@reddit
I knew that because he made an appearance doing his shredder voice on the “where in the world is Carmen Sandiego” gameshow. Which is about the most xennial way you can learn a fact.
Do it Rockapella!
Negative-Midnight681@reddit
Wait.... What..... Dude.....
Zehdarian@reddit
lol knew this for a long time but def blew my mind at the time. Its funny to go back and watch old eps and here shredder come out when unc gets mad.
Micronto65bymay@reddit
What
papabear556@reddit
What?
bh4th@reddit
Judith Barsi, the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time… look, I don’t want to write about it here m, but it’s awful.
MamaLovesTwoBoys@reddit
*Ducky.
bh4th@reddit
Ah. Oops. Correcting.
Lilithbeast@reddit
I just googled it. That was in fact awful. The worst part is how preventable it was. Her mom should've actually followed through on all those plans to leave and child services should've insisted on separating everyone. Abuse is a hard thing for people to leave...
depictionofmood@reddit
Cindy Lauper sang the theme song for Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
She also sang a song about the goonies
Alternative-Light514@reddit
If anyone here didn’t know that, they need to leave lol
ouijahead@reddit
That song was super super long. I don’t know if they shortened it for later seasons. But I remember watching the first episode a few years ago, that song is practically a music video. I remember the first time seeing it as a 5 or 6 year old, I was just DYING LAUGHING. I don’t know if I’ve ever laughed so hard in my life. I laughed through the whole episode. It was only that funny the first time though.
depictionofmood@reddit
My sisters and brother loved that show so much. Every episode was top notch.
Secret_Bees@reddit
Okay now you're blowing my mind here
Matty_D47@reddit
I've been saying "kitten kaboodle" my entire life up until about 3 months ago
Buddyblue21@reddit
Or “doggy dog world”
SkippingPrologues@reddit
Thanks Snoop Dog!
Alternative-Light514@reddit
“It’s a crazy, mixed-up world…”
optimaloutcome@reddit
Still amazed when I hear someone say "For all intensive purposes"
cmholl13@reddit
Now I need a caboodle covered in kitten graphics.
Training-Argument891@reddit
i love this and now i love you!
wharblegarble@reddit
Think of your high school class and the distribution of morons therein. Now realize that’s the distribution of morons in society at large.
ElectroSpore@reddit
Realizing just how many people are "below average" is very disturbing and explains a lot.
Also realizing that a lot of very important jobs have people that just barely passed. Like do you want a Doctor or Pilot that scored the minimum?
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
So let me blow this up a bit because how are we defining below average and what is the point of this?
Intellectually, I am defined as above average. I was tested in middle school as gifted. However, my active trauma throughout school kept me from being a high achiever. As an adult, I have overcompensated and have become a high achiever (past the point of burnout), but I graduated high school with a 2.0. I was able to overcome many of the barriers not because of my intelligence but because of my barriers to entry. But again, active complex lengthy trauma throughout my first 18 years of existence. And I’m not alone in that. So just saying someone is stupid in a sophisticated way takes the nuance out of it and removes the barriers to entry by marginalized communities. So what you’re saying by saying this is you’re better because you were above average in high school and had an easier pathway so should everyone.
Web-Dude@reddit
And then there are people with really high natural intelligence who have answers come so easily to them that they don't have to do a lot of rigorous thinking, and as a result, become lazy thinkers... and eventually, people with less natural intelligence can out-think them because those people have learned to become disciplined thinkers.
What do they say? Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
I don’t think people are lazy thinkers. I think they’re dealt the cards they are dealt and have to deal with them. Again, a lack of understanding, empathy and nuance. This is still panting broad strokes. The more we lean in past this, the more we disrupt the system.
Web-Dude@reddit
I'm not saying that all intelligent thinkers are lazy thinkers. I'm saying that it's a danger. I'm speaking out of my own experience. I've tested very high, and I know for a fact that it's made me a lazy thinker, because I don't have to work hard for difficult answers via synthesis or extrapolation. But if it's a truly challenging topic to think through, I've watched less intelligent people lap me.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
That wasn’t even the point of the comment. Theres a reason you have felt comfortable being a lazy thinker and to add unnecessary commentary. The point is that there are people who have more or less barriers to overcome institutionalized by society.
Web-Dude@reddit
Fair, but I wasn't making a commentary on your comment. I was continuing the conversation.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
We were all gifted in middle school.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
That’s what you got out of that? Were you tested? Did you have to sit down with an administrator and take that long arduous test?
And simply put, no, we all are not. That does not in fact make anyone better or worse.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
I did and I was
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
Congrats. Thank you for adding anything of value to this conversation.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
Calm down Francis
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
Your first Francine
ElectroSpore@reddit
I am not suggesting a static measure, you go re-measure everyone in their 30s and beyond you will still have some form of average and above average distribution those at the bottom can be very confidently incorrect and in positions of power not by merit but who they knew etc and it explains a lot of the worlds problems.
I used to have a very positive outlook on the potential for people to improve.. That outlook has narrowed substantially with time.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
I’m not measuring everyone because I don’t know. If you’re specific to the base, we can agree on but broad strokes = lack of understanding and nuance which positions you above people. It’s plain and simple.
rebelangel@reddit
With AI, it’s becoming scarier, because we’re gonna have doctors and engineers who used AI to do all their homework for them.
PilotC150@reddit
Roughly half are below average.
Web-Dude@reddit
A reminder that IQ doesn't differentiate between all the different kinds of intelligences that people exhibit. There's a lot of ways people can be smart or stupid.
There's logical/analytical, language, spatial, social, creative, emotional, musical, physical, memory-based, etc. Some people will have high levels in one category and low in others.
In fact, the higher someone is in one category, the more likely it is that they'll be lower in the other categories. In some ways, you could say that someone who has average intelligence in ALL areas may be more functionally intelligent than anyone you've ever met.
The guy who is as dumb as a box of rocks might be able to build something that you or I have no clue how to even start, and the guy who wins Jeopardy Tournament of Champions may have no clue how to talk to people at a party or even know what emotion he's currently experiencing.
I'm just saying, instead of putting people in smart/dumb categories is really simplistic and makes us marginalize people in a kind of tribalistic way.
80s_angel@reddit
This is very true. I don’t care how book smart a person is, if they aren’t emotionally intelligent I do not want to be around them.
ElectroSpore@reddit
It is the bottom 25-30% that are kind of frightening.
cecil021@reddit
Eh, the bottom several percent probably have trouble even functioning. It’s the ones suffering from cognitive dissonance that are concerning. Too dumb to know they’re dumb but smart enough to cause trouble.
MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit
I always remind people that not everyone graduated at the top of their med school class. Even the bottom 25% are out there somewhere.
CasualEveryday@reddit
What do you call someone who graduated at the bottom of their class in mid school? You call them "Doctor".
Realistically, though, what matters is how you perform in your job role, not how you performed in school.
CrotalusHorridus@reddit
The percent that were “special education” level of not functioning was high. I have to assume that it’s the same in general society.
Add in the huge amount between “eats paint chips” and couldn’t pass Algebra II. It was probably 60 percent of my school. Half the students had a waiver that kept them out of biology the one day we discussed evolution.
That’s why society is so fucked.
Golden_Enby@reddit
60%?! Holy crap. I guess it really depends on the area/state you live in. If I recall correctly (which I'm probably not), at least in my high school classes, only around 2-4 kids would have religious exemptions from learning evolution and dissecting frogs. I always thought it was weird because I knew a number of religious kids who still did those things without issue.
csonnich@reddit
Not saying there aren't stupid doctors, but luckily their minimum is very high.
memymomeddit@reddit
and they're all on twitter
Bobcatluv@reddit
My version of this was realizing the aviation major guys I partied with in college were going on to fly commercial planes
bh4th@reddit
I went to a magnet high school where everyone was gifted. That’s still pretty disturbing.
shyguy1953@reddit
Artie, the Strongest Man in the World (Adventures of Pete and Pete) is Nitro in Down Periscope
Notabagofdrugs@reddit
And he’s the Wiz, and also was great on Carnivale.
Killowatt59@reddit
What? He’s the Wiz on Seinfeld??
Notabagofdrugs@reddit
Hell yeah he was
Killowatt59@reddit
Learned something else!!! That’s amazing .
Killowatt59@reddit
Wait what??? I guess I learned something today.
Drslappybags@reddit
He also voices Cotton Hill.
shyguy1953@reddit
Drslappybags@reddit
I went through his IMDB and am schocked at how many things I have seen him in and just not recognized him. He was in 3 episodes of Newsradio.
shyguy1953@reddit
IMO those are really the best actors, those guys that you can never recognize.
Kootsiak@reddit
The actress who played Lunette the Clown on Big Comfy Couch (Allison Court) was also the voice of Claire Redfield in all the early Resident Evil games.
BrambleVale3@reddit
Mark Hamill was the voice of the Joker in several Batman animated stories.
Lilithbeast@reddit
I saw him in an interview saying that he had no actual aspirations to voice the Joker and somehow ended up in the audition. So he just went apeshit doing what he thought was an over the top caricature of what he imagined the Joker should sound like, and the rest is history. He's such a cool dude
three-sense@reddit
He had a bunch of “interesting” smaller on screen roles such as a lawyer on Son of the Beach lol
Drslappybags@reddit
He also voiced The Hobgoblin on Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
WeenisPeiner@reddit
Yeah it was pretty much the same voice as the Joker as well.
TrixieBastard@reddit
Hamill does a LOT of voice work
SpaceLemur34@reddit
I also heard he was in Star Wars
TrixieBastard@reddit
This whole time???????? 🤯
whetherwaxwing@reddit
He’s considered the GOAT of Joker voice actors, everyone else who ever voices Joker says they were doing their best to live up to Mark Hamill’s crazy laugh. He is also the voice of Firelord Ozai in Avatar the Last Airbender and he’s excellent in that role, too.
Philhughes_85@reddit
He is THE joker to Kevin Conroys Batman
always_thirsty@reddit
I was sad to read that Mark says he will never voice the Joker again because Kevin Conroy's passing. At the same time though, much respect to that level of loyalty.
lrdwlmr@reddit
He was the Joker in a LOT of stuff - like four or five entire animated series, several video games, and more besides.
BaconPancakes_77@reddit
My kids wanted to watch Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog recently, and I was surprised to find out Urkel voiced Sonic. He did a great job!
Lilithbeast@reddit
Whenever I spot Jaleel White anywhere on TV I get excited because he's a good actor, not JUST Steve Urkel (who was funny at first but overtook Family Matters). Last place I remember spotting him was in an episode of House as an inmate
SpaceLemur34@reddit
There were two different Sonics shows out at the same time and he voiced Sonic in both.
BaconPancakes_77@reddit
Whoa! TIL!
AffectBrave4834@reddit
Jerry Orbach who played Baby’s father in Dirty Dancing, voiced Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast
pingus3233@reddit
Jerry Orbach will always be Lenny Briscoe to me. The character and actor are completely inseparable in my mind.
lwont1207@reddit
He also originated the role of Billy Flynn (the lawyer played by Richard Gere in the movie) in Chicago!
And Rene Auberjonois (Odo from Deep Space 9) voiced the chef in the Little Mermaid, singing "les poissons" while almost killing Sebastian the crab 🦀
Lilithbeast@reddit
Oh snap I love Odo and I did not know this!!!!!!!!!!! Sacre bleu, what is this? How on earth did I miss such a sweet, little succulent crab?
JetPixi13@reddit
HEHEHE HONHONHON
or something like that
AI_Negative_Nancy@reddit
Rene is in audiobooks and he slays
TripleBobRoss@reddit
I'll take it a step beyond that. I still watch Law & Order reruns, but only the ones with Jerry Orbach / Lenny Briscoe. Without him, it's just not the same show and I'm not interested.
Pineapple_Towel@reddit
He loved Lenny Briscoe and stayed on working to finish his character's story-arc, even as he was in agony and dying of cancer. Because he felt it was important for the fans.
FuzzyScarf@reddit
https://youtu.be/6F29JppmaaQ?si=3icCPm6aWxHk2I3a
SkippingPrologues@reddit
Thank you for sharing!! That was delightful!! ❤️😍
I just realized I’m now at the age to look back at things and say things like “in MY day…” with that nostalgia and rose colored glasses.
Practical_Wind_1917@reddit
This is one do the greatest things I ever saw Lenny Briscoe do.
He was my favorite on law and order
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6F29JppmaaQ&pp=ygUVR3JhbW1teXMgYmUgb3VyIGd1ZXN0
SkippingPrologues@reddit
Thank you for sharing!! That was delightful!!
I just realized I’m now at the age to look back at things and say things like “in MY day…” with that nostalgia and rose colored glasses.
agentfantabulous@reddit
Now go check out the original cast recording of The Fantasticks!
BetterCallSlash@reddit
He was extremely successful on Broadway
bh4th@reddit
Jesse L. Martin said he loved being on the set of Law & Order because Jerry Orbach knew every Broadway show tune ever written.
dontletyourcrownslip@reddit
Whaaattttttt 🤯
MydniteSon@reddit
They said: JERRY ORBACH WHO PLAYED BABY'S FATHER IN DIRTY DANCING, VOICED LUMIERE IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!
dontletyourcrownslip@reddit
🤣
ConflagWex@reddit
Damn I never knew that, he was so good with the accent I never recognized him.
TrixieLaBouche@reddit
I never realised until very recently that the actor who plays Dr Charles on Chicago Med also played Porthos in the 1993 film The Three Musketeers.
EBMille4@reddit
How many adults had no idea wtf they were doing but were confidently incorrect and winging it.
ThermionicMho@reddit
Perhaps that's why Ai adoption seems so natural to many- they're so accustomed to incompetence, they welcome it with nostalgia.
rebelangel@reddit
When I was a kid, I thought adults knew everything. Then I grew up and realized adults don’t know shit.
No-Banana-3055@reddit
This is my thing. I am going to teach my kids this early and see how it goes for them. Hopefully it'll help them succeed by building confidence and not fill them an existential fear that everything in life is just held together with duct tape.
Asleep_Onion@reddit
This is what I have always done with my son. I never wanted him to think I was perfect. I always openly admit mistakes I make to him, teach him what I learned from them, etc. I think it's helped his self esteem a lot. I don't think kids growing up thinking their parents are absolutely perfect humans (which they never are) is a good thing.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Good for you. My 80 year old mother has never once admitted to a single mistake and it definitely fucked me up.
alett146@reddit
Ugh same. Mine is 88 and just always says “I guess I’m a horrible person” if anyone ever dares to call her out on any mistake 🙄She’s never owned up to anything.
No_Can_7713@reddit
My mom is is 66 and she always said the same shit when I was a kid. Haven't talk to her in 14 years because of stuff like that. Actually got worse when I got in my 30s and got a career and family.
No-Banana-3055@reddit
I wasn't talking about my mistakes. That is fine. I already know its important to let them know I can make mistakes. It's teaching them that other people in authority are just also dimwits too. Like their teachers, the policeman, doctor, politicians, etc...
In our youth, especially being Asian, we were always taught to respect our elders and people in authority. Now that whole paradigm is gone. I can barely live with the fact that I might be the most reasonable person in the room, how can I impart that on my kids without making them become disrespectful.
80s_angel@reddit
I’ve definitely felt that way before and it’s not because I think super highly of myself either.
brainfreeze77@reddit
I constantly stress to my kids its okay to knot know something and admit it.
whoisbill@reddit
I have been wrong. And I let my son know it. It's super important. Especially when it's come to how I have acted. I'm not s perfect human and have made mistakes there too. And I have apologized to him. Just as important in my opinion
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
You have duct tape? My life is held together by spiderwebs.
SpaceLemur34@reddit
You've got spider webs? All over got is hopes and delusions.
Lesh_Philling@reddit
And mine is just lumped together in a pile of failures
aubreypizza@reddit
Just fyi spider silk is hella strong, with a tensile strength higher than steel and greater toughness than Kevlar on a pound-for-pound basis. I had to do a project on this back in school and I’ll never forget the Kevlar thing.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
You’re right. I knew someone would come ans fact check me.
instant_chai@reddit
I tell my kids nobody had their shit together, we’re all just winging it.
Web-Dude@reddit
You just have to be careful at what age you start teaching them this, because the younger they are, the more they need to feel safe in order to fully bloom, and if they don't think their parents are capable of doing that, it'll introduce anxiety at a time when they won't be able to deal with it.
I feel like so much of parenting is slowly peeling back the veneer off of reality as they get older and older, from "the world is safe and happy" all the way through, "buckle up, buttercup, because nobody gets out of here alive."
So many people I know suffer from high anxiety because they saw reality too soon to know how to emotionally and mentally handle it.
instant_chai@reddit
Yeah my dad was a hard ass and I grew up feeling scared and inept. What you said about anxiety is absolutely true.
“We’re all just winging it” is for my adult kids who feel like they’re not making perceived milestones or when they’re overwhelmed.
With the younger kids, I go more “everyone makes mistakes, it’s how we learn” and ensure I apologize for my own.
For both, I let them know it will be okay and I’m always here to help. I brought them into this world without their consent and it’s my job to make sure they build the confidence they need to leave the nest someday.
After_Preference_885@reddit
My kids are HS to late 20s now and I let them in on that early
We problem solve a lot together and I think it helps them really make good decisions and think things through, while knowing sometimes you just pick wrong and have to then improvise
Using common sense + critical thinking, resourcefulness and being resilient are great lessons
phyx726@reddit
That’s also what I tell young people who start working. I still get imposter syndrome and it’s fine. We’re all faking it until we make it.
_ficklelilpickle@reddit
True, but I do like to think that pilots are the exception to this rule 🤣
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
I was well into my 30s before I realized how many other men especially were just completely full of shit.
Im the type of person where I always try to be extremely honest with myself and others, and also humble, and if im not good at something or don't understand something, I just say so. And while I realized that there were some people out there who were liars and con men, it took me a long time to realize that many other men around me were just doing this constantly in their lives. To get ahead at work, to get with women, etc. While I was plugging along always behind because its just not how im wired.
Rinleigh@reddit
I tell my kids this all the time.
Asleep_Onion@reddit
When I learned that, I was simultaneously relieved to hear that everyone else in the world is just as confused about the world as I am, terrified that nobody really truly knows exactly what they're doing, and worried about the day when my own kids figure out that I never knew wtf I was doing either
Web-Dude@reddit
We can take that idea too far though, too. E.g., nobody in the world knows how to make a pencil.
It takes people who grow the cedar trees, people who know how to make lacquer, mine graphite for the lead, mine the iron to make the metal band, people who can make rubber from trees, make the glue, etc, from the guy who sweeps the factory floor to the shipping port operators who guiding the shipments into port.
The world is so complex that nobody understand everything, but even so, everything keeps running and somehow I have hot water, an iPhone, I can call for an Uber and I'm not being chased by wolves when I go out for food.
lsp2005@reddit
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad, but I clocked that when I was about 6 years old.
EBMille4@reddit
I’m sorry the adults in your life either let you down, or had no poker face when they did (Or both?)
CSATTS@reddit
Did they let them down though? I have a hard time with this one. On one hand, I think my kids shouldn't have to worry about the adult things I worry about. On the other hand, I want them to understand adults don't have all the answers and life is about doing the best with the information you have.
I grew up thinking adults knew it all so when I became one I felt a lack of confidence because I thought I was supposed to know everything. Maybe the best is a balance between the two.
Web-Dude@reddit
It's not all or nothing all at once. You slowly pull back the curtain as they get older. If you do it too soon or do it too late, they won't develop well emotionally.
EBMille4@reddit
I won’t speak for the other poster, but sadly yeah I work with a lot of people whose parents let them down. Like the teenager I worked with whose parent berated them for calling 911 during a medical emergency, because that got the parent busted for abusing prescription meds. My patient was 7 at the time. It saved the parent’s life too, but for years this was held over their head as why they were “the fuck up”
Myfourcats1@reddit
I thought my mom had it all figured out. No wonder she was stressed.
redditshy@reddit
Or aggressively incorrect.
odin_the_wiggler@reddit
I tend to avoid bridges and tall buildings for this reason.
I used to think "well...certainly this is safe or else they wouldn't let people go here or do this."
Oh no, they absolutely will. There is no governing body to prevent dangerous stuff.
McFly1986@reddit
In Ancient Rome they used to make the civil engineer stand under the bridge during commissioning when the supporting structures were removed. The idea was if it was going to fall, it would crush the designer, providing incentive to get it right.
All that said, there are professional licenses required for civil engineers and the math required for safe design of buildings and bridges, including safety factors, has long been understood and applied. This is one area where we don’t rely on “soft” skills to get it right, but rigorous design and safety standards, probable with mathematics and physics.
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Like at Boeing, for example
McFly1986@reddit
I know you joke, but Boeing is not which had in mind. I was talking about static structures.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Like 10000 Boeing planes fly daily. Having an incident here and there is to be expected.
invuvn@reddit
I think they’re commenting on the newer culture with an MBA in charge, as opposed to an engineer in the past.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Sure. But I can’t even get an HVAC installed in my tiny house without an inspection and permit. I’m sure for bridges and skyscrapers theres much oversight.
pingus3233@reddit
Yeah it's a good thing those doors and engines and shit don't just fall off the airplane because that would be bad.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Yeah I don’t know how this person believes theres no governing body. Theres many governing bodies.
VenusBlue78@reddit
I work in commercial construction. The average new building gets around 40 municipal inspections to ensure code compliance. Then another 15 or so per floor over first floor. On top of that there are 3rd party inspections for things like soil compaction, concrete density & bearing, and weld strength.
Before you even get your building permit, licensed reviewers for all trades go through all of your plans and specs to ensure the design is compliant with all aspects of building code.
We currently are going back to a building we completed last year and are building a 4 foot tall monument sign. There are 6 inspections required and two different 3rd party tests required. For a sign that could only damage an ant hill if it fell over.
There is absolutely governance over every single structure legally built in the country.
danbob411@reddit
Yes, and the PE’s work is typically (but not always) peer reviewed by the Building Authority. Sometimes mistakes are caught and corrected.
2bad-2care@reddit
Same here. It was quite the shock when I looked around one day and realized I was the person that people were looking to for answers and reassurance that something was okay to do.
Kgby13@reddit
I need an adult to ask for advice. After looking around the room, oh damn I am the adult.
Asleep_Onion@reddit
I watched a youtube engineering video recently where they did a deep look into an indoor swimming pool disaster that happened one time in europe. The roof just suddenly collapsed and crushed dozens of people inside. They couldn't figure out why, the whole thing was structurally sound and thoroughly engineered, but it barely lasted a few years before suddenly caving in. It turns out that these certain fasteners they used were never tested for corrosion resistance in a high-humidity high-chlorine environment. The chlorine ate through the metal fasteners.
It makes you realize that although many things are engineered well, rarely (if ever) has everyone thought of everything. I mean hell, they had thousands of the top engineers in the world working for decades on the Artemis 2 mission, planning and testing literally everything, running through every possible scenario, re-checking everything hundreds of times, and STILL the fucking toilet didn't work right, their emails kept failing, a sensor that monitors the launch abort system had an error, and the camera that is supposed to monitor the landing chutes wouldn't turn on.
It's literally impossible to make anything perfect, the best we can ever hope for with anything is that it's "good enough".
itorrey@reddit
The Swiss cheese model of accident causation (I first heard about it with regards to air disasters) is a great way to think about this stuff.
EBMille4@reddit
Also, I have it on good authority - don’t go chasing waterfalls
odin_the_wiggler@reddit
EBMille4@reddit
EcstaticTraffic7@reddit
I remember asking my dad when I was a teenager: "So, when do you stop questioning existence and just know how to live?" And he replied: "Honey, that never happens." It shook me. I still remember it so clearly.
RavioliContingency@reddit
Oh I asked my boss, an older distinguished professional, when I turned 30 if I would ever feel like an adult and he said “well. I don’t think I ever have!”
inabighat@reddit
I've been wrong before. Once back in '87...
I work in leadership consulting. The number of arrogant adults is mind boggling. I love being wrong about stuff - it means I learned something. People that can't own their screw ups never learn, never grow.
Beautiful_Impact4102@reddit
So true.
introvertmom9@reddit
It was a whole re thinking about my parents when I realized that. I am straight up winging it out here, but PSYCH so were they.
The world really is just running on people making it up as they go along.. Kinda scary if you think too hard about it.
ObligationSome905@reddit
I’m sure some parents know what they’re doing but it’s easiest to assume nobody has a clue how to raise children, and we just do our best with whatever tools we have
toshiko_saturn2250@reddit
This realization has both ruined and made my life better. Like, it's infuriating that those adults were too proud to admit they had no clue what they were doing and I'm annoyed I listened to so many of them.
On the other hand, whenever I question myself, I remind myself that at some point somebody made that shit up and nobody questioned it so it became a thing. Who's to say that person was right?
It feels like we were raised by the adults from South Park...
EBMille4@reddit
ExpensiveWords4u@reddit
That blows my mind over & over, tbh!
BreakfastBeerz@reddit
I was actually going to post somewhat of the opposite. My adult realization was that my parents were right about pretty much everything and I should have listened to them more.
EBMille4@reddit
It’s a bit of both for me. I have very competent parents who made the “right choices” so I assumed more adults were like them. Then I grew up and met more adults. Dear god I was wrong - even the educated people I’ve met have made some really stupid choices!!! Many of them hormone mediated.
augustwest30@reddit
When I first realized this, I started to become really nervous when flying in airplanes and riding as a passenger in vehicles. As I got older, I figured I lived a pretty full life and if it’s my time to go I’m ok with that.
dragonslayer137@reddit
Elmos voice is the same from the baby dino on dinosaurs.
lrdwlmr@reddit
And also Master Splinter in the original Ninja Turtles cartoon. Unfortunately the actor turned out to be a creep, so doesn’t work on Sesame Street anymore.
dragonslayer137@reddit
Oh wow I didnt know that. But I dont doubt it. Shame.
ihatecleaningtoilets@reddit
Ok. I can hear that now that you told me.
ObiWan-Shinoobi@reddit
And also dozens of characters in Jim Henson movies.
ZedArkadia@reddit
I'm really starting to understand why so many old people were the way they were when I was a kid.
I always had older people telling me how bullshit everything was - the news and politicians are all full of it, celebrities are all bullshit, things used to be cheaper and better in their day, you have to watch out for yourself because the world doesn't care about you, etc. I used to be all "ok whatever lol" but now I really get it.
I don't want to fall into that trap of turning into a bitter old man and obviously not everyone was right about everything, but I can really understand that perspective now.
Mickler83@reddit
Man this one hits. Was just thinking about this yesterday.
ZedArkadia@reddit
I think the blinders really start to come off as you get older, and it's hard to not be disillusioned by what you see. I haven't given up hope but damn, what a bitch it is.
Durakus@reddit
I get it, and i don't. Our parents were dealing with changes, but a lot of those changes were the small steps that are now big step problems of today. "Prices are too high" back then meant you could afford a house and still go out every week and have two kids. Now dating is an app dictated gauntlet to meet hellish individuals, owning a house for many of us is a pipe dream and some of us will never see it actually OWNED, children cost hundreds of thousands EACH, work is being replaced by AI that literally cannot do your job correctly but they don't care. We are being ruled by the dumbest and most depraved people on the planet, and we are funnelling every spare penny into their coffers.
Honestly? It is a surprise our generations are turning out the way we are. We have a lot to be grouchy about but being grouchy won't fix it. (This isn't telling people not to be mad about it. I am plenty mad. But i direct it where it needs to go most of the time. My peers and neighbours aren't where that energy goes)
ZedArkadia@reddit
For me, it just felt like it took way too long to see behind the curtain and realize how much of what we've been taught has been a load of crap. We don't live in a meritocracy, the systems we were told to trust aren't looking out for us, and regular people are getting screwed over all the time. I think those are the things that stayed constant throughout the generations - that we live in a rigged system that exists to exploit us, and that there is a constant effort to distract us from that.
I was thinking that no one ever really explains this to you when you're young, but then I have to wonder if I really would have listened. Or maybe people do, but it's just hard for them to get heard.
LumpyJump6091@reddit
As a divorcee, good god the urge to become jaded and bitter is strong. I've kept it at bay and am doing better now, but those first couple of years were rough.
"Oh, and they lived happily ever after. Until he lost his job and developed a drinking problem and Cinderella had to work 3 jobs to keep a roof over their goddamn heads!"
jasonrubik@reddit
3 jobs and he still dumped you ? /s
Dr-McLuvin@reddit
My wife and I started talking about the Neverending Story the other day and she said it wasn’t appropriate for children because of the “scene where dude gets blasted by laser beams coming out of the statues’ boobies.”
I said I was pretty sure the laser beams came out of the eyes. Then of course we had to watch that scene just to prove I was right. Pretty hysterical.
Just a funny Mandela effect thing I think. But ya she has thought that they were laser boobs her whole life.
SkippingPrologues@reddit
That was Austin Powers! Lol
Buddyblue21@reddit
That sounds like a type of morality spin on Medusa. “Don’t stare directly at the boobs are one day a pair might shoot you with lasers”
crazy_sexy_keto@reddit
Just found out a few days ago that Mr.Feeny was the voice in the car in Knight Rider. Lol
ciccacicca@reddit
Wizard of Oz! As a kid, when Dorothy wakes up at the end and is all like “You were there and you were there!” And the adults are like “Poor thing got hit on the head.” As a kid I knew she’d been to Oz and the grownups were morons. Now as an adult I am certain she just got hit on the head.
Idislikethis_@reddit
Not to um, actually but there are 14 Oz books and in them Oz is very real. It's one of the reasons I don't like the movie.
ciccacicca@reddit
And Oz definitely seems real in Return to Oz. The power of Oz burned a creepy hospital to the ground, man.
Idislikethis_@reddit
I absolutely love that movie even though the Wheelers still freak me out.
Dimac99@reddit
I was an adult before I learned I was supposed to be freaked out by the Wheelers. I just thought they were cool. That movie was on British TV constantly in the 80's.
ouijahead@reddit
People act like Return to Oz never happened man. That movie freaked the shit out of us.
ciccacicca@reddit
You ever just walk around an antique store, touch some green shit, and say “Oz!”
scattered10@reddit
Realizing that “I’m right on top of that, Rose!” from Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is one of the best pieces of career advice. Half of success is just being the person who handles things quickly and reliably.
emmyg85@reddit
Marv from Home Alone was the narrator on The Wonder Years.
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
I heard that recently
bigyurtenergy@reddit
That none of us actually get out of all this alive, so it’s fine to question everything and be increasingly ruthless about protecting your time and what matters to you most.
msondo@reddit
One of mine was Jenny Lewis - the girl from The Wizard - growing up to be a badass rock star. I found that movie in a used video store like back in 2000 or 2001 and went to the early internet to look up the actors to see what had happened to them. I found the original Rilo Kiley website, which the band had put together themselves, and they had MP3s you could download directly from the site. I was blown away by how good they were. I got to see some of their early shows and she and the other artists were super cool people.
Killowatt59@reddit
“The power glove……it’s so bad”
msondo@reddit
Yeah, well, uh, just keep your Power Gloves off her, pal, huh?
Skjellyfetti13@reddit
Acid Tongue is a ridiculously good LP by her. Cannot recommend it enough.
Also, she was Hannah Neffler in Troop Beverly Hills.
weebabyarcher@reddit
Honestly she doesn't miss on her albums. All of them have some absolute bangers.
TheAngerMonkey@reddit
We saw them TWICE last year because my Xennial partner and I have been fans for LITERALLY a quarter century. We tried to see them live multiple times back in the day, but the dates never worked out or we were broke grad students (or both).
When they announced the reunion tour I was over the moon. We saw them at Just Like Heaven in Pasadena and then on their own in Boston. Just a SEA of soggy millennials singing along to Better Son/Daughter.
It was GREAT. Plus they sounded like it's been a week max since they last played together.
therealpopkiller@reddit
I was lucky enough to see them a bunch back in the day and twice was in a small club in Orlando that held about 400 people. I also saw them a couple times last year here in LA (though I sadly had to miss JLH) and they still sounded every bit as good as they did back in 2003
TheAngerMonkey@reddit
The recording of that last show they did at the 930 in DC is one of my favorite things ever and breaks my heart because: we ALMOST went. A friend's wedding in DC that weekend mucked up the plan (it was a great wedding and they're still happily married, so it worked out... I GUESS. 😂)
therealpopkiller@reddit
Weddings are for them. Rilo Kiley is for us.
crazy_sexy_keto@reddit
Love Jenny! Along with Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard...she rocked it in Foxfire, Big Girls Don't Cry they Get Even, and Sweet Temptation... she put out some good ones back in her acting days.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
DrMasterBlaster@reddit
These are a bit different because I only realized these after being a parent.
ouijahead@reddit
My daughter has no idea that when I was her age, people used to literally talk like “wow he’s so cool”. I was undiagnosed autism I believe. I just did whatever I wanted with the confidence of a Lion. The real world crushed my little spirit once I got into the working world. My second wife and I, I say we were pretty cool adults before we had our child (my second) at age 37. We are like a grandma and grandpa now the way we behave. Wife out in her garden all day wearing old lady clothes. I don’t have a garage or man cave so I mostly play video games.
DrMasterBlaster@reddit
I feel that in my bones. I was 36 when we had our only, a son. He has kept me young in many ways but aged me in others.
On a related note, my wife just started collecting antiques and I collect coins, metal detect, and do yard work. Funniest part is that the friends we look for depression era glass with are the same ones we used to party with in college.
ouijahead@reddit
Do you find a lot of pull tabs from old beer cans ? I was reading someone complaining about that the other day.
DrMasterBlaster@reddit
I just picked up the hobby so I don't have a lot of experience yet. Last hunt I went on was at the beach and I found several bottle caps, other metal trash, and a full (!) beer. I also found 11 cents.
The fun is in the hunt and zoning out while you detect. I also pick up trash and leave the place cleaner.
deowolf@reddit
DJ's boyfriend Steve on Full House. My kids were watching the Fuller House reboot, and I see they brought back ol Steve to be on the show. I'm thinking, poor guy, I haven't seen him in anything else. He must be strapped for cash if he's doing this show. SO I looked up his IMDB.
Motherfucker is the voice of Aladdin. He hasn't done shit in thirty years because he doesn't have to do shit because he's got Prince Ali Ababwa money.
csonnich@reddit
That's funny - I distinctly remember being excited at the time to see Aladdin because Steve was going to play him. Still think about him every time I see it.
Raineman@reddit
Right? Full House was huge when Aladdin came out.
tonyrocks922@reddit
Yeah it was heavily promoted and they even made a few meta references to it on the show.
niobiumnnul@reddit
And he's a
Well done, Steve.
stephsco@reddit
Oh wow that's cool!
toomanyusesforaname@reddit
Why would you think that VO actor would get residuals for something like this? Movie financing works differently than TV. Unless he actually negotiated for future income streams (e.g., a piece of home video sales), he probably got one nice payday 34 years ago and that money is loooong gone.
invuvn@reddit
Did he do Aladdin in the Aladdin Disney cartoon series though?
_dead_and_broken@reddit
Yes he did, and so much more.
His imdb lays it all out, for a bit there he was ALL Aladdin, ALL the time lol
timbreandsteel@reddit
And two direct to video sequels.
toomanyusesforaname@reddit
Considering that I just now learned that there was a cartoon series, I'm going to guess that didn't turn him into Jeff Bezos either.
Chernabog801@reddit
VO usually get residuals. Dante Basco (Rufino and voice of Zuko ATLA) has a whole series where he shares what his residual checks are.
80s_angel@reddit
Yo Stacy!
InnerAd3454@reddit
He’s got 75 golden camels!!
CreamyHampers@reddit
DJ on Rosanne once had a date with a very pushy Ashley Johnson.
Johnykbr@reddit
I mean i thought everyone knew that. It was the big reason for the Disney episodes of Full House
DasKittySmoosh@reddit
the Disneyworld episode when DJ keeps thinking she sees Steve as Aladdin throughout the park
I was so amused by it as a kid
ouijahead@reddit
I’m glad to hear they had at least one funny episode.
DasKittySmoosh@reddit
I think it was their only one and you had to be able to enjoy the meta-ness of it all
Naive-Jello428@reddit
I remember the fact that he didn't do the singing being talked about a lot.
worstnameIeverheard@reddit
That sweet, sweet, ababwa money, baby
redditshy@reddit
Did not know that!!
SpaceLemur34@reddit
Really? I knew he was Aladdin when it came out.
Proof-Emergency-5441@reddit
Like this was in kids magazines and stuff.
Also do y'all not watch the credits?
joecarter93@reddit
He’s off living in the Sultan’s palace in Agraba
SpaceLemur34@reddit
City of mystery, of enchantment... And the finest merchandise this side of the River Jordan!
thunderingparcel@reddit
He went to my high school. Graduated the year before I was a freshman. Was a big deal until Josh Gad was a freshman when I was a junior or senior.
tssdrunx@reddit
Prince... Abubu?
Bubbly_Wave_4049@reddit
Fabulous is he!
dontletyourcrownslip@reddit
I wikipedia'd him. He graduated from Harvard. !?!??
lakatos_intolerant@reddit
It took me a long time to realize Rowan Atkinson voiced Zazu. I just assumed Zazu was voiced by some old British actor at the time.
The actor who played Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie voicing Eric from "The Little Mermaid" is wild, too.
Happy_Bookish_Cat@reddit
I think he was also in the 90s Spiderman cartoon
lakatos_intolerant@reddit
Haha oh yeah you are right. That's super cool and I had no idea.
Background-Bend2877@reddit
How exhausting it all is. 🫠
BaconPancakes_77@reddit
I have still never seen Faces of Death, but went through a period of believing it was a collection of graphic, up-close footage of human deaths, then believing it must be all staged, to finally just reading the Wikipedia.
ouijahead@reddit
There is a new faces of Death in theaters now, did you know that ? It’s not part of the same series. I saw in the trailer someone referencing the movies long ago
BaconPancakes_77@reddit
Yes! I think that's why it's on my mind. The concept for the new one sounds pretty clever.
Remarkable-Memory374@reddit
The humble amiga computer ran most of the graphics on your local television station for YEARS because it could output graphics over top of live video
yinchanvo@reddit
Sturgeon's Revelation: "ninety percent of everything is crap".
This applies across niches, eras, and cultures.
Things evolve, but in the strictest definition of change, not progress towards getting better.
Back to the Future- 1955 vs 1985 felt like different earths, yet 2026 vs 1996 feels much more similar outside of everyone being on the internet/cell phones.
xdementia@reddit
Boobytrap spelled backwards is partyboob
Notabagofdrugs@reddit
Haha, best one here.
80s_angel@reddit
Cindy Lauper sang the theme song to Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
Born_Key_6492@reddit
We were taught to be tolerant, accepting and kind by an entire generation that doesn’t practice what they preach. (Generally speaking.)
ItWasMyWifesIdea@reddit
And the same people who experienced the results of "trickle down economics" still vote for it??
GuidoTheRed@reddit
This is the big one that I've been struggling with for years. The generation that complained about being drafted into Vietnam as a "never again" situation got us into all of the Middle East wars of the past quarter century. They produced Sesame Street and Raffi, then turned around and told us to get life done on our own because no one should be there to help you, and you're a fool if you help others in kind. Seeing The Golden Rule turn into "Fuck others, get yours" has been incredibly hard to process. So I decided to follow it anyways, and turned it into "Fuck the critics, I'm getting my happiness and spreading it around." And if that's the best I can do, so be it.
rememblem@reddit
Keep in mind that the earlier Boomers were the hippies and the later Boomers were the Jones generation. The difference between those that experienced Vietnam and those that didn't affected the values of what came later. It's too bad they were all lumped together.
Roderto@reddit
The fallacy is that generations are homogenous. They are not.
Born_Key_6492@reddit
I knew someone was going to say something like this. I am speaking in general terms. There are common themes in generations and we’re in a subreddit dedicated to one. I’m not using absolutes here. I’m not a Sith.
GuidoTheRed@reddit
I actually edited out part of my post that went something like, "Of course these are different sides of a large group..." but the sad state is, the people with the most prominence within that generation are the ones ruining it for the rest of us. So yeah, not everyone's guilty of being an asshole, but the assholes were chosen to run the show.
Roderto@reddit
I think what you will find throughout history is that people with the least morals and scruples will often be able to rise above their rightful place, specifically because they don’t have the hindrance of those morals or scruples to hold them back. That’s nothing specific to the current world, that’s part of the human condition.
But what is unique over the past 15 years is the ability of those individuals to amplify their influence and power via social media.
There will always be bad actors who have no concern for the impact they have on others or the world as a whole. That’s why healthy societies require adequate institutions to manage that and keep it in check. But far too many Americans decided to throw the baby out with the bath water. And are now realizing that even flawed systems and institutions are better than none. Because a vacuum won’t stay that way for long, and it will precisely be those same bad actors who rush to fill it.
RavioliContingency@reddit
Thank. You. Drives me fucking nuts. No umbrella this large can cover every human’s personality lol.
Fear_N_Loafing_In_PA@reddit
I’m right there with you—and, honestly, it is a much more joyous existence.
Been a big fan of r/stoicism as a result. Might be of interest for you🤷♂️
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c_b0t@reddit
And now shits on us for believing those things.
CasualEveryday@reddit
And makes fun of the participation trophies they invented to give us so they could feel better about their totally average kid.
worksnake@reddit
I have a nuanced disagreement with your characterization. They’re not just hypocrites, although many are. It’s that the concepts themselves are vacant. (Not kindness, that one’s pretty basic and real so let’s leave that one aside.) Tolerance and acceptance, those were some 80s/90s liberal politeness concepts meant to smooth social interactions rather than address actual injustices. They have no teeth, address no actual issues, and are easily shoved aside because they’re essentially useless. Not to mention, they’re not all that good anyway; we only tolerate things that are otherwise defective, and similarly we accept things when we recognize we can’t change them (see: Serenity Prayer). In short, they were buzzwords of a certain brand milquetoast polite society and even though well-intentioned shouldn’t be romanticized.
GuidoTheRed@reddit
Alright, so aside from tolerance and acceptance of differences, what else is there? Embracing, assimilating, rejecting, suppressing? Love thy neighbor or force them to change? Politeness may be useless in the sense that it doesn't promote an action, but I'd say there's value in a "live and let live" philosophy.
cobalt-radiant@reddit
I don't think that's true. Each one of us was taught by very few individuals -- not an entire generation -- mostly our school teachers, our parents, and Mr. Rogers. And I bet for most of us, most of those individuals prescribe what they preach. But with social media, we get to see all the bad examples from that generation, but what we see on social media is not representative of everyone.
cheribom@reddit
Yeah I’m pretty sure I learned that racism is bad by “very special episodes” on TV.
Proof-Emergency-5441@reddit
Disagree that social media brought this out. It just brought it out a little quicker and you have evidence you can refer back to.
djsynrgy@reddit
I'd wager social media has nothing to do with it. For many of us, this realization predated the advent of Facebook by a number of years.
ItWasMyWifesIdea@reddit
I just watched Harry and the Hendersons and then the behind the scenes. The guy who played Harry was als The Predator.
Eep509@reddit
I wasn’t nearly as fat as I thought I was.
No_Grass_9486@reddit
Oh yeah. I was tormented for being fat endlessly through middle school. Looking back, yeah, I had some chub, but it was nothing. And also what counted as fat back then is different from what counts as fat now.
No-Memory-2781@reddit
Oh lord. I was tiny, actually! MOM.
Wise-Significance303@reddit
Triscuits and Frosted Mini Wheats are essentially the same product. I don’t know why I never thought of it before.
Inc-Roid@reddit
I think Triscuits and Captain Crunch have more in common. Both of those things will tear up your mouth.
Wise-Significance303@reddit
Very true!
vcabalda@reddit
Mr. Fuji from WWF was a legit wrestler back in the day. AND he was on a tag team with Sub Zero from the OG Running Man
CreamyHampers@reddit
The Iron Sheik was a national champion record roman wrestler.
three-sense@reddit
One of the kids from Stand By Me is the guy from Sliders
Zehdarian@reddit
Had one of these just yesterday when i watched My Stopmother is an Alien again for the first time in like 30 years. The daughter i had a huge crush on was Allison Hannigan the whole time. No wonder i crushed on her again in american pie and how i met your mother.
grandchester@reddit
THE WHOLE TIME?!?!
three-sense@reddit
This one time
savantalicious@reddit
r/mrsdoubtfire
ailish@reddit
No, only about 37% of the time.
TrixieBastard@reddit
The original "Allison Hannigan and Seth Green are a couple" media, a good decade before Buffy!
According-Property64@reddit
When I found out Catherine o Hara(RIP) voiced Sally in Nightmare before Christmas
worstnameIeverheard@reddit
And Pee Wee Herman played one of Ooogie Boogie’s henchmen
CreamyHampers@reddit
Lock, Shock, and Barrel were voiced by Paul Reubens, Catherine O'Hara, and Danny Elfman, respectively.
To_a_Green_Thought@reddit
SHE DID?!? I knew there was a reason I was in love with her.
TrixieBastard@reddit
She was also Lock, the little witch girl
blacktrufflesheep@reddit
There's an obscure Canadian animated movie from 1983, Rock & Rule. She did the voice of Aunt Edith.
tssdrunx@reddit
TIL
CreamyHampers@reddit
Corey Feldman was Copper in The Fox and the Hound
Oaken_beard@reddit
Bobby Budnick was the voice of Montana Max. Yeah, I should have figured that sooner, but still blew my mind at the time.
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
Don’t forget stoop kid on Hey Arnold
mcspecialkk@reddit
House parties/ keggers/ wapatui parties don't exist anymore.
Just when I got old enough to call the cops on those damn kids...they're older than me.
Nanaman@reddit
Realizing that Boz from Halt & Catch Fire was the same actor as Artie from Pete & Pete
IP0@reddit
He also voices Kahn Souphanousinphone Sr., Cotton Hill, and Joe Jack in the OG King of the hill, and Dale Gribble in the reboot.
TrixieBastard@reddit
Hell yeah, The Huss 😎
He is solid in every role, and his Sinatra impression is excellent. He actually used to do ad bumps for MTV back in the early days, and would sometimes bust the Sinatra out for those
Therealfern1@reddit
That falling in quicksand and randomly catching fire would never actually happen to me an adult life
Never had the opportunity to stop dropping and roll
always_thirsty@reddit
Floating Rock mentality.
We're all just very finite beings existing on this huge floating rock that lasts billions of years. And we are here what? Maybe 80-90 years at best to never be thought of hundreds of years from now?
All the things we take so seriously and get so anxious or depressed about don't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Life is a fast careless whisper that is gone in a flash so enjoy every minute the way you can.
I called in sick to work today. Even though I AM truly sick, 5 years ago I would be lying in bed feeling guilty.
But it's all fake, so it's okay to stop giving a shit.
ouijahead@reddit
Even when I truly am sick I feel like I’m faking it when I call in. Like when I go into a store and don’t buy anything. I feel suspicious when I walk out.
nastynateraide@reddit
Cartoons existed to sell toys and prop up advertisements
ouijahead@reddit
I remember learning some years ago that the He-Man toy line came out first before the cartoon. They created the show to give these random freaky ass toys a story.
Stryker406@reddit
Politicians don’t actually care about any of us
Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit
That Coco from SWV was the vocalist on the Men In Black song. I learned it fairly recently 🤯
Buddyblue21@reddit
I know way too much useless information and was aware of most posted here until I came across this.
Background_Title_922@reddit
Somehow it took into my early twenties to realize that sitcom stands for situation comedy. I'm not proud.
jtho78@reddit
Corey Feldman voice the young Cooper in Fox and the Hound
blacktrufflesheep@reddit
And Keith Coogan did the voice of Tod. The dishes are done, man!
pug_fugly_moe@reddit
🤯
tssdrunx@reddit
I'm a hound-dog
Training-Argument891@reddit
a-roo roo roo!! so sweet. now, consider that he was being SA'd at that time too. this is why i dont talk shit abkut his music. let him do his thing without ridicule.
Kuroiryuu@reddit
And Donatello in the first and third TMNT movies.
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
Really?
Ok-Sign5678@reddit
I don’t know if this really counts, but it wasn’t until like three years ago that I first noticed the cereal name was Froot Loops and not Fruit Loops.
SpaceLemur34@reddit
And conversely, Looney Tunes, not Toons.
AlmondSprite@reddit
The Mandela Effect comes into play in so many ways for me.
Pizza-Flamingo774@reddit
😳
Kain347@reddit
Until a few years ago, I misheard part of Cartman's line in the theme song from South Park. He says "people spouting howdy neighbor". I always heard "people fighting hardly never". His voice is so shrill and it fits with the songs, so I never questioned. It wasn't until the much clearer 'Tegridy Farms' intro when I heard it clearly.
Proof-Emergency-5441@reddit
I originally thought "people smiling hardly never".
FluffusMaximus@reddit
Many (not all) of the local cops were the bullies and dead enders in high school.
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Uncle Phil is Shredder.
always_thirsty@reddit
This just really blew my mind for a few minutes before re-reading it and realizing you said Uncle Phil and not Dr. Phil.
Can you imagine?
Smart_Imagination903@reddit
I knew at the time, but I like to remember that David and Robert Carradine brought us Bill from Kill Bill and Lizzy Maguire's dad. It was around the same time and I watched both, Bill was essentially Lizzy Maguires uncle in my brain.
always_thirsty@reddit
And sadly both passed similarly.
fearofcrowds@reddit
David Carradine was on an episode of Lizzy as a martial arts guy If i recall
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
Also the head nerd in the revenge of the nerds
Jaws_the_revenge@reddit
How big of a show Top Gear is/was
yodellingllama_@reddit
Whoa!
EastCoastDizzle@reddit
Whoa! OP I never knew that. I’m still trying to get over the fact the current Joey Lawrence looks like he was wheeled out of Madame Tussauds.
f4ttyKathy@reddit
He's in an awful straight-to-dvd movie with Melissa Joan Hart called My Fake Fiance and it's honestly one of my favorite movies. SO stupid, I know, but I love them together.
EastCoastDizzle@reddit
Haha I love bad movies maybe I should check it out.
dadjokes502@reddit (OP)
He doesn’t age does he.
EastCoastDizzle@reddit
That’s what he would like us to believe but most of us have eyes.
revolutionoverdue@reddit
I’ve known this for a while now but I forget sometimes.
No one knows what they are doing. We’re all just winging it.
Shadrach77@reddit
I’ve never understood this. I’ve lived my entire life observing consequences of actions, big, small, everyday, and one-off actions. Based on that, I am able to extrapolate what the consequences would be for certain actions. Sometimes, yeah, I have to sort of fly by the seat of my pants and wing it, but most times I pretty much know what I’m doing.
FUWS@reddit
Brian Cranston was the Voice actor for Fei Lung in Street Fighter anime movie. Not mind blowing but just an odd ball out of no where fact I didn’t realize.
jessjumper@reddit
He also has a dual history with Power Rangers. Voicing villains in the original 1993 series before playing Zordon in the 2017 reboot.
Zehdarian@reddit
consider my mind blow
killit@reddit
I think I was in my 20s when I realised the song Ebenezer Goode by The Shamen was about pills.
Geoff-Vader@reddit
I thought The Killers were a British band for at least 10 years. We had our first kid in 2004 (when Hot Fuss came out) so a lot of my personal interests in pop culture just kind of got put on pause and music became background noise I didn't really actively follow. Then I saw them doing in an interview \~2015 and my brain broke a bit.
TBF - they did get their start in the UK, Hot Fuss is definitely British-flavored and I'm apparently not the only one who's made that mistake. Lady Gaga famously cited them as one of her favorite British bands as well. And even the Brits apparently jokingly claim Mr. Brightside as an unofficial UK anthem.
IloveMe80@reddit
Here’s one for ya. Brandon flowers is a practicing Mormon.
HermineSGeist@reddit
I just looked it up, if I read things right, it had spent 500 weeks on the British top 100 charts. The song apparently passed wonderwall in some metric too. So I would say the brits like them.
Geoff-Vader@reddit
Oh yeah watch a clip of a live performance of Mr Brightside at pretty much any British music festival (especially in more recent years) and they go absolutely feral for that song.
LunaticMuse@reddit
This is a little more recent, but since voice acting is a theme....
Playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, and thinking, "That voice sounds familiar..."
Iron Bull is Freddie Prinze Jr, who did the voice and the mo-cap.
DailyShowerCry@reddit
I just realized that 5 minutes in heaven that I experienced with Patty Benjamin was NOT supposed to be a moment of spiritual adoration. Getting on my knees to pray was probably a mixed message, know that I think about it.
Middleagesusername@reddit
For me, it was that actors often do more than role in their careers.
I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit
I just recently realized that the kid from rookie of the year is the same actor as the clingy guy in American Pie.
Lonely_Opening3404@reddit
The president does not care about you or your family.
Aggressive_Power_471@reddit
I remember Camryn Manheim from the Practice and Ghost Whisperer and other TV appearances. it was not until Milo got the role of Flynn Rider that I realized she is his mom! I watch Zombies with my kids, I enjoy School Spirits, so I knew his name, I knew hers but never put the 2 together.
SilverAsparagus2985@reddit
I just found out Brooke Shields and Dean Cain were a thing and that was her first and I am just…how did we get from there to here.
pi_guy@reddit
I was a full grown adult before I realized that the Oz characters (The Wizard, Lion, Tinman, Wicked Witch, etc) from The Wizard of Oz are all part of Dorothy's reality back in Kansas.
The above is also true for the sequel, Return to Oz.
bowleggedgrump@reddit
No adults have any idea what they’re doing. - and I mean maybe 5% MAYBE have some clue AND some integrity -
Do not over share with work folks - they’re not your good friends