It Was Always At My Grandparents House Too!

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JiGoD@reddit

Ludens for the win. Eat those when not sick too!

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elphaba00@reddit

When I was going to get my senior pictures taken, my mom said that my breath was awful. She didn't have breath mints, but she handed me a Halls cough drop.

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JiGoD@reddit

The burn is how you know it's working!

I used to hate those

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Didujustcallmejobin@reddit

100% Ai. No way my TV was that clear.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Pretty sure Campbell's never had so many noodles either.

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anniemdi@reddit

I think I saw a How It's Made (or maybe Unwrapped) that said a very specific amount like 212 or something. Now I gotta go figure this out...

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Been a while since I watched How It's Made, I should do some of that this weekend. Very soothing, yet informational.

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NewPhoneWhoDys@reddit

What is that circular ghost haunting the chair??

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desertdweller2011@reddit

also that ludens box is wayyy too big. they were way smaller than that

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Dicky_Penisburg@reddit

I also don't recall Bob giving away a penny-farthing trike.

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no_more_mistake@reddit

I'd bet the prompt said something about a 'big wheel'

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wrestlegirl@reddit

The enormous box of Luden's didn't give it away? It'd be like deepthroating a can of soup!

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maggie320@reddit

This made me laugh harder than it should. I could just see Holly riding out on that.

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brawndoenjoyer@reddit

Yeah, no ash tray was a dead giveaway

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PacketFiend@reddit

The steam gives it away too, that and the weird semi-see-through hula hoop thing.

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rifunseeker@reddit

Campbells also didn’t have the pop open cans when we were young. Can opener needed all the way.

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StellarSloth@reddit

It should have some kind of glare on the screen and would be super grainy.

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Onionbot3000@reddit

Bob was also dying his hair in the 80s. Watching old reruns is pretty entertaining and cringe lol

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noonesaidityet@reddit

My grandma would be at our house the minute she heard I was sick with saltines and an opened glass bottle of flat 7up. Every single time. I miss that cranky woman.

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59apache01@reddit

My grandparents were Formula 44 fans. My mother was a Robitussin aficionado.

I don't know which one was worse.

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elphaba00@reddit

Health Services at my college had a huge vat of Robitussin. That was their answer for everything.

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Dwayne_@reddit

Needs some Grape "I'm not sure if it's actually medicine, but I do enjoy drinking it" Dimetapp.

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SorrentoTaft@reddit

And it is 7Up not Sprite. And the 7Up had to be damn near flat.

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Cmd3055@reddit

We weren’t allowed to watch tv. If we were too sick for school we were too sick to watch tv.

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Outrageous_Low6506@reddit

Thank you! I always feel so left out in these posts.

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midwesternmayhem@reddit

If we were sick, my mom made us quarantine in our bedrooms so we wouldn't infect anybody else. We weren't allowed to have TVs in our rooms, so it was either read a book or sleep.

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If this is AI, I want to know the prompt. I don't really play around with AI, so I might be away off base, but I would expect any prompt referencing the 80s to generate more neon and less period-accurate brown.

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AbbreviationsGlad833@reddit

My mom would put coca cola in a shrimp cocktail glass and stir it to get all the carbonation out and I would have to sip it with a tea spoon. I dont know why. But I feel this was a remedy to settle the stomach that was passed down from my family way back to the Victorian era.

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cyberdude419@reddit

Don’t forget to get your pet’s spayed and neutered everybody!

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alias007@reddit

Where's the big ass humidifier?

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Kalinoz@reddit

AI slop trying to show me what I experienced in the 80s is kinda shitty.

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Wolfspider_79@reddit

Not my grandparents house I was all alone

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BoredPandemicPanda@reddit

Where's that delicious pink medicine?

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TravelingMatt34@reddit

Oh man, I used to get constant ear infections as a kid and this picture just make my physically repulse

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

Oh my god, same!! I had the tubes and amoxicillin and everything. 😆

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Alien_Talents@reddit

I can still taste it

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Junior_Article_3244@reddit

I can still feel my itchy hives, I'm allergic to it apparently.

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fraghead5@reddit

Computer Rendered Artificial Picture
CRAP

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I_argue_for_funsies@reddit

No glass ashtray with 3 weeks of smoked cigarettes with lipstick on them? Fake af

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Dazzling-Skin-308@reddit

Don't remember the Luddens.

The rest definitely tracks - especially chicken noodle soup and sprite.

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DatGretchen@reddit

In Germany we had way different furniture (ikea and pine or everything oak, there was no other way) and the drink was coke, not sprite the food was pretzel sticks and hardtack. The show was the same though. Our presenter Peter Bond was iconic too.

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Granny_Goodness@reddit

AI garbage.

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Smurfblossom@reddit

It's missing the roll of toilet paper.

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here4dambivalence@reddit

That's weird, when I'd get sick I always got codeine syrup that'd mysteriously disappear quicker than I recall ever taking it. Although AI, the chair does look like some shit one of my grandmothers definitely owned.

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2reeEyedG@reddit

This is pretty spot on

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

I do not miss that awful furniture or wood paneling. People truly had horrible taste back then.

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WithoutCaution@reddit

Swap that soup for a Totino's pizza, and this was 100% my sick days at grandma's house! When I magically felt better by mid-afternoon, she'd take me to the local skatepark, which was pretty awesome.

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Koalashart1@reddit

Where are the puppet people

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PacketFiend@reddit

Get this AI shit off this sub.

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crapatthethriftstore@reddit

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This was on right after Bob

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

It was always The Young and the Restless or the Bold and the Beautiful for me.

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maggie320@reddit

Lucky. We had the local news.

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pina_koala@reddit

Rule 8... check the Vanna White plaid recliner ghost

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

Vernors. Not Canada Dry.

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Chain-Slinger@reddit

Idk about anyone else but our crackers were in squares of four, not individual like they are nowadays.

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ezio8133@reddit

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Don't forget the Soaps

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NoDreamNoSleep@reddit

Gen x and boomers LOOOOVE AI slop.

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amodsr@reddit

Yall got food when sick? My mom always said that eating would make me more sick so I never got fed anything. (Yes, I know my parents sucked as parents and that this is literal child abuse)

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

This sub is turning into Facebook.

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FnordRanger_5@reddit

Oh you guys had nice parents?

Being sick was met with punishment, saltines and Canada Dry only. If you wanted anything else you obviously weren’t that sick.

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AceUnderTheHole@reddit

I don't get the hate for AI images. It makes the point.

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Mysterious_Fennel459@reddit

My grandma had that kind of couch in her basement.

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notedrive@reddit

Where is the puke can?

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StillhasaWiiU@reddit

AI don't know that the table needs a half full ash trey in the middle to be complete

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Alien_Talents@reddit

FOR REAL

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AccountOfMyDarkside@reddit

Ony dad's weekends, I was always givien 7up when I was sick but typically wasn't allowed sodas. I still get a bit excited when I see one. Kind of a pavlovian response, I guess. One good thing about My mom was that she didn't give a shit what I ate or drank or did. One bad thing about my mom was that she didn't give a shit what I ate drink or did. Loved it then, for the most part, but, in retrospect, I think it might've caused just a touch of psychological damage.

I was born in '77. Sometimes I identify more with Gen X and sometimes with Xennials. Neglect was a solid GenX problem for a few of us, from what I understand. Lol

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HopelessMagic@reddit

My parents had that exact sofa set. Once I rocked back and forth on the rocker so hard, I flipped it and busted my arm up. After I was told I couldn't be on the rocker anymore, I jumped up and down on their bed, tripped and busted my nose on their footboard.

Good times. 😂

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