r/OldPeopleFacebook - ”Google” Search

[@EveningSoother]

My grandpa was born in 1907 and died in 2010. Growing up with him around was like having the whole XX century in our living room. He remembered the front page of the newspaper when the Titanic sunk, he was born in a world that barely had electricity in the big cities (certainly not in the countryside where he lived as a child), and lived long enough to see The Internet. I'll never forget the first time he asked me to write an email for him because he couldn't figure it out how to do it on his own. And after I sent it he went: "So, I heard this is pretty fast, how long would it take do you reckon, a couple of days?". I cannot describe to you the face he made when I told him the email was already received. Then he proceeded to spend the whole day telling absolutely EVERYONE he knew about this new mind-blowing sorcery. 🤣🤣🤣

[@MigattenoBlakae]

Wow. I just had my mind blown with how lucky we are to have the internet. Like, if I have a question, I can just Google it. If I need to contact someone, I can just DO IT. It takes longer to find out how to contact them, than it does to actually contact them. That was unthinkable even just 50 years ago.

[@EveningSoother]

@@MigattenoBlakae I'll blow your mind further, The Internet started to gain momentum for the public in the mid '90s (in the country where I was born it was more late '90s), Google was founded in 1998. This communication revolution has started less than 30y ago. I'll be 50 in few months, and I was in my 20s when I saw an Internet page for the first time. The first thing that popped in my mind was "It's so silent", because all you could have back then was static sites with text and pictures, and I was used to having sounds and music every time I turned something on (TV, radio). 😆

[@Naptosis]

@@MigattenoBlakae Yeah, we used to just _not know_ things, even if we wanted to. Actually that makes for good conversation, when no one knows the answer to a question; search engines killed that, unless you pinkie swear not to look it up.

[@michaelkael5192]

That's so nice!

[@Madame_Enyo]

@@Naptosis me and my friend are just too dumb to google it and just keep arguing

[@Jellybeansatdusk]

“What would be rude, Juanita, is calling you a bitch.” Iconic.

[@sassyviking6003]

For real. She got no chill.

[@ArtemKos-ym3mk]

timestamp: 6:49

[@Jellybeansatdusk]

@ thank you!

[@skeletallamb]

How are old people both the most wholesome and unwholesome people on the internet? 💀

[@hannajung7512]

because they are old and we know it is unlikely they will change for the better when they are assholes, and because we are so used to old people being a least low key bigots, that our heart melts when one of them is actually wholesome and nice.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Because they're either Herbert down the street, well maybe not chasing 'em quite so young, or they're grandma baking you cookies and telling you about how she fell in love on her first date with grandpa.

[@skeletallamb]

@@ladykoiwolfe Family Guy reference? +10 Swag Awarded if yes, +10 Swag anyway if not lol 😎

[@skeletallamb]

@@hannajung7512 Pretty much

[@tuesdaywithanh]

they contain multitudes :)

[@sigmascrub]

"That's how we lost Jason" reminds me of my great grandma. We were talking about how she had 13 siblings and she was like "yeah, that's how it was back then, because you never know which ones would die"

[@AbigailTheSimpsonsFan100]

my uncle micheal has 15 siblings

[@MorganMakesThings]

That, and there wasn't ready access to birth control (assuming it would have been wanted). And depending on the situation (such as being a farming family), children were an asset and a help, rather than a major expense.

[@crazcatladeestudios9956]

Click's use of special effects to make himself older is incredible, I could barely tell it wasn't a real beard!

[@woodpigeon7776]

How thick and smooth it was, and all that thick luscious blonde hair sprouting from just one tiny spot

[@FlippingMiner]

Editing 100

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

Wait his beard wasn't real?

[@crazcatladeestudios9956]

@@bumblebeeyellowdragon crazy, I know

[@primeyoriichi]

@@crazcatladeestudios9956 what it actually wasn't real? No way

[@VoxVocisCruora]

I once asked my grandmother about why she and alot of other older people like her tend to misuse emotional reaction images and emojis, and what she explained was rather interesting: It typically comes down to two things: a genuine mistake/misunderstanding on what the image is depicting, and/or them deciding the image is 'close enough' to what they want. 31:52 is a good example of the latter. People of older generations are more likely to overlook or disregard emotional meanings those of a younger generation have grown to attribute to them. So while people under ~35 might look at that image and identify it as "shouting happily into a megaphone, perhaps in celebration or excitement" and use it in that context, someone older could look at it, and see it's parts: the person shouting, the megaphone, and the smile. Because the whole of the image wouldn't fit their purpose, the simply decide that it's *close enough* and decide the smile, the part younger people largely use to determine it's emotional meaning, is irrelevant and ignorable. Thus the image to them becomes the a person shouting into a megaphone, which, combined with text, was likely intended to be taken as a "hey this is important, you have to know about this, listen to me" sort of meaning. They don't realize that the the image is meant to be taken as a whole, in it's entirety, and that image itself has a meaning intrinsic to it, or can in fact be used 'wrongly'. In other words: older generations treat emotional images and emojis more like pictures, while younger generations use them more like a language. The concept that an emotional image can be 'misread' is a very difficult thing for older people to grasp, because they didn't grow up learning how like people tend to be doing today. They're having trouble 'speaking' and 'reading' the language. It's actually really fascinating, how differently both perspectives see them.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Autistics tend to have similar trouble with emojis, because 'reading' them intuitively and correctly needs the capacity of interpreting emotional states from expression.

[@hmnhntr]

​@@diarmuidkuhle8181like discovering that people consider the "👍" passive aggressive. What?

[@AkemiHonda]

French Horn Clicc: Trombone! Lady: Please disregard the tuba.

[@sayven]

I died lmao

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

I once bought a trombone at a thrift store that had a sticker on on that said: "Clarinet Tuba, €15" Like... Dude. If you're not sure what it is, just put the €15 and be done with it. Don't try to flex you musical knowledge.

[@marsham333]

Click, years ago in the UK. Nothing sucks like an Electrolux. Honest, that was the slogan for the vacuum cleaner.

[@raechelh.3100]

As a band kid I'm sad now . . .

[@Zeridria]

Me a trombonist: crying inside

[@Pineapple_Kween]

Click: “trombone” Text: “tuba” French horn: Am I a joke to you?

[@andrewvoigt4323]

FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. (I play tuba btw)

[@MorganMakesThings]

@@andrewvoigt4323 Glad you can confirm that's actually a tuba; I thought it was a French horn because there is no scale and it doesn't look like you can drape it around you like the sousaphone/marching tuba my friend played.

[@sophiaswain2839]

I was dieing i play the trombones 😂😂😂

[@janemiettinen5176]

This whole video reminds me of helping grandma with her laptop, its always an adventure, but this particular time stuck with me. I told her to close all open windows, she left the phone and came back with: “Ok, what about the balcony door, do I close it too?”… Im still laughing, decades later.

[@dmgroberts5471]

F...for real? Like, people do that outside of jokes!?

[@germaineeeeeeeee]

@@dmgroberts5471 Sadly, yes they do...

[@dmgroberts5471]

@@germaineeeeeeeee I would _love_ to know how they think it will help. I mean, what is the thought process there?

[@isabelmcgaugh711]

@@dmgroberts5471 TLDR/ humans are just like that. I find this super fascinating cause there have actually been studies that show humans learn in a very particular way distinct from even our closest ape relatives. While apes can learn by repetition, apes will not repeat actions that are obviously unnecessary to the goal. Humans on the other hand will repeat what their teacher is doing exactly, even if they cannot explain why they do certain parts, or of in fact a part of what the teacher is doing is obviously superfluous. The researchers suppose that this is because once we acquire theory of mind (the concept that people have separate consciousness from our own with their own viewpoint, ect.) that even if we don’t see the point, if we’re being taught to do it the teacher probably knows better. So grandma is just trusting if you told her to do it, it’s probably right, even if there’s no logical way to explain how the heck that would work.

[@dmgroberts5471]

@@isabelmcgaugh711 I am fascinated by the inefficiencies and irrationality of the human mind. Learning how people think is like watching a train crash. We have _really_ specialized ourselves into a dead end.

[@stripeytapir]

I am convinced that old people on Facebook are all secretly geniuses of absurdist comedy. This was the most I've laughed in a while, Click, thank you XD

[@rickwrites2612]

Yea as a fan of absurdist comedy, i miss the days when my mom could barely use the internet

[@julietcai3576]

Anytime I complement something my grandma wears her response is always "thanks you want it when I die"

[@missnaomi613]

Oh jeez, that sounds like something I'll say when I'm old...

[@sarvolkskaya]

I already say this lol

[@Orchid_123]

SAME-

[@ShintogaDeathAngel]

Sometimes I think this if I give my mother a gift, lol. She hoards pretty much everything, so chances are if it doesn’t get cleared out by me or someone else, we’ll be getting almost all the stuff we ever gave her back some day.

[@RavenPeake]

That's a ... Violent thing to say when you're a grandma. 😢 But yes, she IS hilarious. It makes mortality sad to think that the people who were here before you won't be here when you're gone. But they'd be sad if they outlived you.

[@skaryzgik]

The brass instrument just before 26:19 is a french horn. This is neither a trombone nor a tuba.

[@The-one-and-only-Fruitcake]

I love how whoever edited this decided to clarify that the ‘beard’ is fake

[@thinkingcutefanboy087]

totally couldnt tell XD

[@The-one-and-only-Fruitcake]

@@thinkingcutefanboy087 yes, it was clearly needed Otherwise, how would we know that it’s fake?

[@KaraTheGirlie]

Cgi has gone too far :3

[@_Daemon_Sultan_]

@@KaraTheGirlie you got a cute profile photo. Hope you have an amazing day

[@KaraTheGirlie]

@@_Daemon_Sultan_ thank you so much, I drew her myself!

[@phillipsofthedriver]

21:56 "crankin my hog" is an Americanism for accelerating a motorcycle, usually a Harley-Davidson. In context with the rest of that post, it makes sense to me, a Californian.

[@Shionoid]

I'm not even from the US but I understood perfectly what you were referring to, lol

[@Roozyj]

About the ladder picture: I understand what happened. He took a picture with his phone, then made the advert on the computer, didn't know how to get the photo from his phone to his computer and took a picture of the picture with his webcam.

[@hailyjohnson407]

That's what I was thinking lol

[@loverrlee]

Exactly

[@sl33pw17h4ng3l5]

Love that first grandma doing speech-to-text! She started strong, stumbled partway and it devolved from there, but it was super adorable!!

[@VulpesChama]

About the "children locks" for bottles. I personally have not encountered a child above 2/3 who wasn't able to open such a bottle after a few tries / watching their parents open it. Like, observing adults is one of the key parts of early developments.

[@bellablue5285]

Or tide pods bags... I've had two I've had to just cut, I'm sure a child could get into those easy

[@sodakuwun0707]

oh dang I wasn't able to open those things til my age was in the double digits

[@jaqkhan113]

My Mum used to struggle to open those and always asked me ... from when I was about six. I even appreciated the irony at the time.

[@John_Weiss]

Yeah. Those "child-proof" pill bottles have really just become "old-people-proof" pill-bottles.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

...I couldn't open those blasted things until much later, but that may be do to my disproportionately tiny hands. I'm 22, and I still can't open some containers because my hands are physically too small to use them correctly... (I can open childproof containers though, just to clarify...)

[@headman82]

That text to speech one was hilarious. It literally brought me to tears, laughing

[@AspiringToFailure]

I went to a party the other night and I had a chat with a physicist about the development of champagne. It was a brief history of wine.

[@bittercharmer1591]

For some reason my brain will just not comprehend what this is supposed to mean

[@33melonpaws77]

@@bittercharmer1591 Same. I feel embarrassed.

[@phoenixfire8978]

@@bittercharmer1591 It’s a pun. The famous physicist Stephen Hawking wrote a book called “A brief history of time”. But this time its wine instead of time.

[@bobmorgan1575]

Bad pun, really bad pun. Funny though.

[@speedstick8981]

r/BadDadJokes?

[@F_Karnstein]

A man in the old people's home I work at tried to write a Google review (falsely) accusing a nurse to have stolen his meat ball. He managed to do it, but didn't post it at the home's site but at that of a district court in the next town. So to this day people searching for that court on Google will be made aware of nurse Renata's culinary theft.

[@ira__s]

My grandma once complained to my mom that her friend had sent a friend request to her and she didn't want to accept it. Turned out the friend hadn't done that but instead my grandma had seen it on the "people you might know" recommendations and then accidentally send a friend reguest to the friend. She didn't understand what happened even after we explained it to her lmao

[@kanashiart]

My dad was sending friend requests this was to all my classmates :D

[@jakeking3859]

I do that, too, but I'm 26, lol. It just depends on how often you use that kind of thing. I hate Facebook and most other social media, so I have no idea how to operate it well.

[@rosiefay7283]

Facebook's all the worse for sending such things. I condemn FB, not your gran.

[@meanjeanmcqueen6171]

I think they drop the heavy news so nonchalantly because they don't get much attention normally. Younger people are out living their lives, taking care of their families, while older generations are stuck at home not really able to do anything. A lot of them can't even drive, so pay attention to the older people in your life.

[@jellomiki]

Reminds me of the time my mom asked my sisters and I if we knew what fisting was, apparently she just learned about it from a coworker and was very shocked that we all already knew. Her illusion of our collective innocence got shattered right there !

[@beller6719]

my mental image of this happening is so funny 💀

[@saintsomnia8030]

My mom constantly asks my siblings and I why we know so much drug terminology if we don't do drugs. Like, the internet does not shelter you from that knowledge.

[@leporid257]

that's the verb for greeting each other with fist bumps! :)

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

​@@saintsomnia8030In my case, I know drug terminology because (cough) I do do drugs. But I happily lived into my third decade without knowing what fisting was and I wish I still didn't bloody know.

[@ashe_h1]

I love when they mistake sexual innuendos for something tame

[@rajismyfavorite]

My grandmother used to use emojis (she was quite good with technology). I especially loved it when she used the old woman emoji. She had a great sense of humor. I miss her a lot.

[@chandranelson2772]

I’m sorry for your loss.

[@rajismyfavorite]

@@chandranelson2772 Thank you.

[@cornerfluff]

Sorry for you loss man. She sounds like she was a wonderful woman!

[@TimeladyV]

Laughed so hard because it's my life every day. My mother (78) some how managed to flip her entire screen upside down and called me telling that the internet was upside-down because apparently her laptop is the internet now. Took me ages to fix it and still can't work out how she managed to do it. Love my mum to bits, she's adorable but a nightmare at times lol. Dad wanted to take the photos from his phone to his PC so I set up a cloud for him, ever tried to explain what a cloud is to a 79 year old? Not to be advised, they won't retain the information anyway. It's like banging your head on brick wall but having to do it with a smile on your face.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

I'm 28, I managed to do exactly that, ALSO have no idea how I did it and neither does my computer whizz cousin who fixed it for me. Only difference is I knew it was only my screen that was upside down ;)

[@johanloubser8138]

There was a keyboard shortcut for that, but it got removed in a Windows Update

[@Crossbow-xy4xg]

Now I suddenly have the urge to google Henry Cavill shirtless...

[@isabelmcgaugh711]

Grandma’s got taste

[@joiedevivre2005]

same

[@TimeladyV]

I always have that urge.

[@Landonc48]

What did you find

[@Eggstillstanding]

I agree here

[@gabrielclayton1045]

26:04 TROMBONE???? I am offended, how could you mistake a french horn for a trombone!!!

[@davidgeorge1943]

2:31 in her defense, if anyone was going to misspell "official" , Musk wouldn't be an impossibility.

[@jackieraulerson2005]

My mom was in her 90s when she started texting. She was a stickler about punctuation. I miss that.

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

As someone who works at a care home, old people dropping serious news like Tears of the Kingdom leaks is so common. Once, I even had the "pleasure" of listening to three grandmas comparing their, how do I put it, no no German camps...

[@niyah_uwu]

God I wish may was here already

[@hildasnails5961]

Grandma wanting to see Henry Cavill shirtless is very relatable

[@alexw.7097]

Simple answer: Jason is why cleaning chemicals have child-proof caps now....

[@namaking3993]

Okay dying a little over the belief in childproof caps... from a toddler to teens I was in charge of opening containers with them for my grandparents and even my parents. As an adult, I often wish I had kids so they could open them for me.

[@karliflour]

When Click took off his beard, I was floored! I thought he had truly aged into an old viking. Wow. I have to applaud the special effects 👏

[@RickLeMon]

I'm a fan of using dissonant backgrounds, like skulls for "I'm baking cookies," but these are next level

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

Love how Mark voice gets high pitched when he laughs too much

[@VeinyWombat]

He has a name?

[@hal-fling]

@@VeinyWombat no it's a cover up obviously

[@IhaveALLtheavocados]

@@VeinyWombat No

[@VeinyWombat]

@@IhaveALLtheavocados good

[@EvanBear]

These days bottles are childproof but a lot of children (probably including little Jason) had to die to get them to that point.

[@meganium1503]

Thank you for pointing out how wholesome and cute these are. It makes them funny. 😂 I feel bad when people turn these into bullying technologically challenged people. They’re old and lonely and they’re trying to learn a new skill to communicate instead of giving up on life. They deserve to be commended for that.❤

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

Older people and computers is endlessly amusing and cute to me (even when they call their friend a bitch on fb lol). In the 90s, when my dad was in his early 50s his work started to computerise everything. He'd never used a computer before in his life, he was ex army and a blue collar worker. They sent him on a course to learn the most basic things like how to turn on the computer, what is a mouse & how to use one, etc. He legit got a certificate to say "Joe is no longer afraid of computers". He was equal parts amused to all hell by it and incredibly proud of it. When he retired due to disability I bought him a computer which he used solely for playing solitaire and submitting his prescription medication requests. It used to boggle my mind that a £350 computer was being used just for that, but he was so happy that I couldn't bring myself to mind (we found it pretty funny to be honest), he was in a lot of pain from his disability that anything that gave him a distraction was great in my book, and that PC lasted him like 10 years or so. One of my last memories was of sitting with him while putting all his prescription medications requests into the form on a new computer that I had bought him for Christmas when his started dying, we laughed so hard and it took ages because he was on so many meds. He had almost finished the list then accidentally hit refresh & had to start over. Instead of getting angry and frustrated he just gave a little sigh, we laughed and started again. He sadly passed away just a couple weeks later, but it's a silly little memory that has stuck with me for 8 years now As silly as it sounds, my one regret was that he didn't learn to text or use social media so I don't have any silly or funny messages between us like we get to see on these, because he was very self aware and knew he would only do something ridiculous on fb. My mum on the other hand cares little about things like that and would happily be one of those people posting a status of her trying to Google Christmas gifts or something. And she does indeed often send me messages on messenger and then reply to herself or send herself a thumbs up. 🤣 💜

[@kimhohlmayer7018]

@@hawkeyescoffee6399 thank you for sharing that precious memory of your dad. I lost my dad about 16 years ago and still miss him. He had a wicked sense of humor and a ton of common sense and he loved me so much. Good dads are a precious and honestly rare gift. ❤️

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

@@kimhohlmayer7018 They really are. I was so very lucky to have had him as my dad, he was so wonderfully accepting, kind and funny. It was only once he was gone that I really understood just how lucky I had been to have such a wonderful man as a dad (especially after seeing subreddits like insane parents being covered). I don't think there'll ever be a time when we don't miss them either, but we were so blessed to have had them in our lives. ❤

[@NiramBG]

31:52 Actually that one kinda makes sense. It's a person speaking into a megaphone. So it's like they're trying to tell this to everyone cause it's important. They just missed the context of the person actually smiling.

[@Super_Panda_BS]

Fun animal fact: Vampire bats share blood with their friends. These bats need to eat blood at least every 48 hours to survive. Bats will share blood after a good meal with another bat that’s fed them in the past

[@darcieclements4880]

And, they babysit. Very social species

[@areolata]

These are always great! I can't rationalize any reason for someone to mistake the birthday cake & party hat backdrop on Facebook for anything else but I can understand the megaphone one. I think old people are just mistaking that one for "big announcement" whether it be to announce good or bad news. I think elderly people just see a cartoon character with a megaphone shouting to the world. Also I kinda understand a few of the laughing/crying emojis being confused with crying/screaming because some of the faces are twisted and look more like they are in pain rather than laughing.

[@asmodahlia]

Fun fact: I spent an entire church sermon in my youth trying to invent cursive numbers xD

[@ZenoSsj4Hero]

I’m just imagining the numbers having swirls on each of their ends lol. Expect for 8 😅

[@bellablue5285]

Look up calligraphy, curious if that's anything close to what you came up with

[@asmodahlia]

@@ZenoSsj4Hero yeah, they were rather curly! I think I ended up favoring Roman numerals, but even that wasn't too great

[@asmodahlia]

@@bellablue5285 nah, nowhere near as pretty as calligraphy xD

[@AbsolutelyAri1]

Based

[@Exquailibur]

Its crazy how old people can so casually tell you who in their life has died recently and then proceed to move on to asking me if I have a girlfriend.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

Yup, the topic of my phone always leads to my grandmother reminding me that my phone number co tains the year her mother died. I DIDN'T CHOOSE THE NUMBER, GRANDMA!!! 😭😭😭

[@wearwolf2500]

25:14 Amazon occasionally sends those questions to people that have bought the product previously. A lot of people don't understand that they don't have to reply and will just answer something like "I don't know"

[@jordanr.2120]

35:19 No but the best part is that there ARE sad background options AND just neutral colors. The old people are just choosing chaos.

[@snorpenbass4196]

Every time I see someone born after 2000 claim that emojis and the term "troll" were invented in the early 00's, I want to cry in Usenet and IRC chats.

[@John_Weiss]

Ugh! That and terms like "spam" date back into the 1980s. A quick search on Wikipedia or google-search will prove this.

[@LunacticInferno]

The amount of times I have to explain what "OTL", or ASCII, are amazes me. Man IRC and Usenet....those were the days.

[@John_Weiss]

​@@LunacticInferno I have to admit, I didn't know what the OTL was either, and had to look it up. I'm not surprised that it was invented in Japan to represent kowtowing. A whole lot of ASCII emojis came out of Japan.

[@AquariumThoughts]

Sorry was AFK. :) ;) --(-@ bbl

[@ashy113]

​@@LunacticInferno i found out about ascii from playing saints row 4 where it was a cheat that changed the graphics to ascii

[@thomquiri9860]

12:52 well that's a bird, or maybe a rabbit

[@sayven]

Love how confident he was when called the horn a trombone

[@feyetho9524]

I scrolled until I found someone else with the same comment as me XD

[@carlo1453]

No for real 😭

[@sentientbeingslove]

Jeez I don't know the last time I laughed that much. I love when older people are confused online, it's so sweet and wholesome. Also reminds me of my grandpa, who passed recently, so gave me 🥰 vibes. Please more of this subreddit! I need to laugh until I cry more often.

[@miaisdrawing5509]

That’s the most beautiful new subreddit you had in a while, I’m not even seven minutes in and feel like dying, in a positive way

[@Midorikonokami]

I'm wheezing

[@Newfiecat]

It is amazing 😂

[@jase_allen]

3:24 This clip reminds me of when I realized my dad had been using speech-to-text to type out his text messages. I had asked him what someone's last name was. His response was "It's [last name spelled wrong]. Oh shit, delete that. It's [last name spelled correctly]."

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

Roy at around 12:25 was just a bit confused when he heard that some people have thumbnail images. 😁

[@luvondarox]

Oh my gosh. That actually makes sense.

[@a.elsagonzalez6824]

😂😂😂😂 that's hilarious

[@lilypayne1716]

*laughs at french horn being called tuba* *also calls french horn, a trombone* 26:38

[@KaitLynnHt]

I love capital numbers stuff. When I worked tech support I had a couple customers who, when doing a password reset, would tell them to type what I said in all lowercase.... and then they'd ask how to make a lowercase number when it would come up. Like, seriously?

[@ThEjOkErIsWiLd00]

It could be that what the old person in the reddit post meant by "capital numbers" is, Shift + the number keys. Don't know what your callers meant by lowercase ones though, yeesh.

[@scizophreniac]

this is still one of my favorite memories from sitting next to tech support, a tech supporter spending half an hour trying to help the user figure out why her password wasn't working, until she asked if it could because she was "using capital numbers".

[@Dfarrey]

"That's how we lost Jason" Have you checked under the sink? He might still be there.

[@LysaBell]

I am dying from laughing over here. I really needed that. Thanks for coming in clutch click! Bethany died yesterday

[@alienrat-z3g]

Oh no, bless her soul!🤣 IT'S MY DOG'S BIRTHDAY TODAY😏😏

[@osheridan]

There's a shop near where I live with that sells vacuums, and their slogan is "We still suck!" and that just fills my heart with joy

[@crystallinethunder]

"No name starts with A and ends with A." Post... Before I even saw the oldie response to it, I was like, "You realize female names exist, right? Aurora, Alexandria... I'll bet I could find some male names that start and end in A, too. I mean... Have you seen Japanese names, for example?"

[@AhavaMath]

My real life name starts and ends with "A," so I was like, welp.

[@JonnaWilharm]

Atilla.

[@bobmorgan1575]

@@JonnaWilharm Now he was a REAL hun.

[@MrsKirk2203]

Ana

[@bettinalykke5151]

Anna, Anastasia, Alexa, Abba, Athena, Aisha, Akira, Alba, Attila....

[@DemonicsInc]

14:55 THAT JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS

[@cijmo]

I love how voice mode interprets some things. I use a disabled transport system called DATS. DATS is in my dictionary because I refer to it a lot. It always comes up "I have my dad coming to pick me up" but only when I talk to my cousin (who knows my dad died in 2014). Everyone else says DATS but her.

[@graceandersen1394]

I am in TEARS from laughing so hard! These are all amazing. I have a feeling that the grandparents aren't using the celebrating amplifying horn as an actual celebration, but as a lou call out and for warning of emergency news. I'm thinking similar to the town crier from The corpse Bride.

[@spphicore]

The fact no one referred to the French horn as the correct instrument sent me💀

[@DepressoDad]

Literally scrolled looking for this comment LMAO.

[@dmgroberts5471]

She. Said. DISREGARD THE HORN! 🤣

[@witchy_titan]

disregard the croissant

[@Dfarrey]

Pay no attention to the saxophone!

[@Mercure250]

@@dmgroberts5471 she said "tuba"

[@jvwriter9028]

When I was very young, I could open child proof locks, so I had poison control called on me 5 times.

[@Bevgins]

This just makes so happy that my 1 remaining grandparent is too scared of the local council to get social media. Just for context he pays all his taxes and is completely law-abiding. I have not been able to figure out why he is scared of the council or why they would be even slightly concerned with a 97yr old blokes Facebook account

[@ruzi.the.spider]

97 and afraid of authorities? Well here in Germany I'd guess it's having a doubtful past, but where are you from? Btw my Spanish dad is 92 and has a smartphone before me, so maybe it has nothing to do with the council and he's just a late adapter like me. I was late for every social media tech and am still stuck on Facebook. 🙆🏻‍♀️

[@Bevgins]

@@ruzi.the.spider yeah, I’m in England so my grandad is pretty proud of his service during the particular time period you’re probably referencing. I think a big part of it is that he is mixed race and grew up in a fairly small town in a majority white area, I have heard that he and his brother had some trouble from the kids of a local police officer when he was growing up but he doesn’t talk much about any of that.

[@saintsomnia8030]

I think the reason most old people interact with online stuff like that is 1. they don't have a lot of opporitunities to talk with people so they cram all their news together when they get the chance, and 2. they've accepted their age and circumstances so don't feel the need to filter anything anymore. That's why grandma talks about her husband's passing and medical issues on your post about puppies.

[@CrankyNovelist7335]

This reminds me of my great grandma on Facebook. She didn't make too many posts, but she liked to comment. She was a very opinionated woman.

[@Devyn89]

I have no idea why but, “Disregard the Tuba,” is making me crack up 😂😂

[@NekomiSon]

The one where the grandpa is clueless about what a power bottom is was hilarious.

[@boredutopia]

yeah i have simmilar story with my dad, my both nephews are both adults now, in their early 20ties, but when they were 16 or 17 they were at my dad ( actually i was surpsised he remembered tha,t coz he is always drunk) and they all watched some movie or tv show and it was something simmilar, they both were laughing and my dad was clueless, later he asked me and i laughed and he was so pissed i did not want to tell him, i kept saying google it, use croatian, does not have to be english, but you know enpugh of englis to google it in english ( coz some terms in our language wich are more modern there is no translation, they just subtitle them as they are). 2 weeks later i came to see him and i am pansexul and in that time i was with a guy and out of the blue my dad says that under any circumstances he does not want to know do i catch, i replied what about if i catch and pitch with evil grin on my face, he was literaly green in his face and i was like well in future just dont start conversations if you dont want to know the answer... good thing was, he asks nothing anyone anymore, he just googles it, wich so often makes a lot of mess....

[@hal-fling]

honestly that poll is exactly like what i see on Tumblr daily since the polls released. "Power" or "Bottom?"

[@Roadent1241]

I kept hearing (I was doing chores) "Power button" and I was thinking How does someone not know the button that switches a machine on and off?? I need to come back and look at the screen more often.

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

I had to explain pegging to a friend who is 55, her 12 yo son had heard something online and asked her what it meant! She'd said to me the next day, "You're in the know on literally everything... what is pegging?" I choked on my coffee. What followed was a very akward few minutes of me explaining. She said "wait till I tell Rob (her hubbie), he had no idea either." I about died laughing.

[@boredutopia]

@@hawkeyescoffee6399 but it is funny that anyone over 50 obviously uses internet, but it is beyond me, how no one, literaly no one rembers to just google for infos from that age group...

[@mallowhoney]

the speech to text loop was just so good, such a wholesome fail.

[@Crossing.Blue_Water.]

When cliccy posts you know it’s a good day

[@_pachycephalosaurus_]

Amen to Cliccyism

[@cupids_aro7505]

True. Fellow Aro Ace?👀

[@Crossing.Blue_Water.]

@@cupids_aro7505FELLOW AROACE!!

[@Ray_Vun]

i legit spent the whole video laughing my ass off. old people not understanding the internet is always hilarious. my mom used to think that in order to access a site, like a store's site or a government site, you had to do it during their working hours. on the plus side, it meant she never bothered me to look things up on the weekend

[@momamiandkiddokelsi9027]

This is going to be fun! Old people Google searches are Always a weird delight 😍

[@MHG790]

25:28 That's amazon's fault. They used to send out very confusing emails that made it look like you personally have been asked something about a product that you bought in the past. It was not obvious that this is a generic email.

[@skysprite69]

I miss helping my grandmother with technology. Always a rollercoaster of wholesomeness and frustration.

[@CadPlaysGames]

I'm legit crying from laughing so hard. Thank you, Click.

[@jongkittae]

ok but looking back, genuinely it was actually insane how much people cared about poking on facebook like wtf was so important it makes no sense??? but that sure did not stop me from being obsessed with maintaining "streaks" of back and forth pokes with your friends lmao

[@a_d3mon]

i miss it...

[@cooltubes547]

It’s like most old people are just stumbling through life with little clue of what’s happening but are happy to be along for the ride.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Tbh I've felt more or less like that since the day I was born and I dread to think how it can only get worse....

[@skeletonlover3214]

I've missed old people being wholesome

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

In about 30 years, millenials will be the new elderly and it will be full of toxicity.

[@PaintedDog]

My mom used to tell me that she had to call Poison Control for almost a month straight when I was a little over a year old. She’d tell me that I could open child proof locks on cabinets and drawers. She said poison control ended up sending her a book on what to do. She’d also tell me how she couldn’t get the child proof meds lid off, so she’d give them to me to open.

[@matiaspereyra9392]

17:32 hey, if your mom confuses you with young Carrie fisher that's a W right there

[@Liggliluff]

(9:35) Well, the numbers we do use normally are the "capital" numbers:0123456789 There are "lowercase/minuscule" numbers too, known as "old style", where digits 120 are the size letters like "acs", 34579 are moved down hanging like "gjpqy", and 68 are unchanged.

[@TheLocomono9]

Not every Viking was a bezerker or raidsman. Some had twink Swedish energy like click.

[@morganwilliams5591]

My nana recently passed away but I always loved helping her with computer stuff. She was always a good sport about it and willing to learn, but was often confused by very basic computer concepts nonetheless. My absolute favorite thing I ever saw her do was accidentally change her desktop background to a photo of smeared leftover beans on a plate. I watched the interaction happen but she didn't look at the desktop right away, and had no idea why I was falling down laughing, and I was laughing too hard for several minutes to explain it to her. I've kept that picture on my phone to this day because it still makes me giggle thinking about it.

[@VHFonFire]

Hey Click, the "crankin my hog" one means he was revving his motorcycle, as a hog is an American colloquial term for motorcycle. Also, Hoss is a colloquial term for friend. TBF could also mean horse, who knows. No idea wtf a clibben is tho 🤷

[@Shackrah]

well, "hog" refers only to certain types of motorcycles. Mostly those that are or look like Harley-Davidson's "fatboys" and "lowboys", often with extended front wheel struts. Never any speed bikes and most often not imported motorcycles.

[@rando407]

Grass clippings, ive also heard it referring to poo a few times. Grass is a mortal enemy to bikes😂

[@nekk-ra7080]

Horse could also refer to horsepower.

[@BUGFlower413]

We really need more of this subreddit. People not understanding jack about technology might be one of my favorite things from now on >w< >w

[@Just_a_commenter]

The skit old person from If Google Was A Person, _but real..._ Also, what a convincing beard, Clicky :b this video shall indeed be enjoyed!

[@strangevol5264]

Yes, the beard sure was impressive, voretias.

[@rebeccawiens4224]

Mt parents are Boomers and I work with older adults. This made me cry laughing. I needed this.

[@TheThird1977]

I always enjoy Click's videos but this one was on another level. So many genuine belly-laughs.

[@a.elsagonzalez6824]

Yes!!! He brought me a real dose of dopamine today!

[@OhSoUnicornly]

The Amazon question one is because if you've bought an item and someone asks a question, they email the question to you. Understandable why a less tech-savvy person would be confused about that I guess, if they're used to thinking they have to respond to everything.

[@toxcbrgr]

I love how click constantly refers to old people as puppies ☺

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

What are dogs then? The souls of them?

[@Kimthulu]

The speed at which my aunt deleted me off Facebook once she saw how I really am on there will never not be funny.

[@bridgetbenson6291]

The bottles are safe now because of people like Jason.

[@darcieclements4880]

Yeah, that one is pretty sad. It probably happened before the safety tops. It is easy to forget how new they are

[@factoryreject8438]

My mom doesn't understand algorithms it's hilarious 😂 She also gets mad and yells at automated services over the phone if it doesn't do what she wants. And ugh my dad searches naughty stuff on Facebook not realizing everyone can see 😬🙈 He taught a computer class in the navy back in the 70s yet still doesn't understand this lol 🤦

[@potatoflakes247]

I am sitting at work, doing research, listening to The Click.....HUGE mistake...tears rolling down, laughing so much it hurts....just to have my boss ask what's wrong OMG! What a great way to get into trouble. Thank you so much for giving me something to laugh about.

[@TakioMx]

20:10 kinda feel like they were using text-to-speech and a dog came in during them recording

[@elaexplorer]

OH! She watched AQUAMAN. Took an embarrassing long time to realize what the Waterman movie she was talking about.

[@_Oobleck_]

The “That’s how we lost Jason” made me choke on my kombucha. Like, seriously, I couldn’t breath properly for a good 3 minutes. My nose hairs are burning.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

All the old people I've met have been sweet people. Glad I haven't met any old people who were mean or angry.

[@justine8387]

You are indeed blessed

[@Mel-qr5ob]

I had the loveliest customer today. I sold her a item and helped her to checkout and then she asked for my managers name, I was like, 'oh god here we go' and gave her my managers name... and then she rang my manager later the same day and said I was super helpful and nice and polite and she would 100% be shopping here again oof my heart ❤️❤️❤️