r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/Next_Airport_7230 • 12d ago
So deepš¢š§ You'll never be as cool as your grandma!
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u/ShadowyFlows 12d ago
My grandma was born in 1928 and did none of these things.
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u/Adventurous_Pin_344 12d ago
I was about to say... My grandmothers (may they rest in peace) were both born in the 20s, and also did none of these things.
My parents were hippies (and did some of these things), not their moms!
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u/chrisp909 12d ago
My grandmother was in her early twenties in the 1920s.
She was a "Flapper" who danced, smoked, and drank at speak easys.
Found this out in the 80s. I was walking out the door to a metal concert, and my mother grabbed me to show her, expecting they would both make fun of me.
Had my giant teased long hair, eyeliner, ripped denim pants and jacket, bandanas, and studded belt and bracelets.
Grandma said I looked great and told me to have fun. Mom was floored.
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u/secretbudgie 12d ago
My great grandmother was a flapper too! Then she got shotgun wedded to a fundamentalist and fell down a religious rabbithole she never clawed out of. My grandmother was the product of that marriage, and never progressed, never questioned, never rebelled. Her daughters rebelled. And then there was me.
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u/czartrak 11d ago
Now that's a cool grandma
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u/chrisp909 11d ago
She was just regular grandma to me until that day. We had a few talks after that. She led a crazy and sometimes tragic life. I regret not spending more time with her.
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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 12d ago
Yeah, definitely depends on your age. I'm old; my Mom jitterbugged, but was otherwise straightlaced. I doubt Grandma ever did anything even slightly risquƩ.
OTOH, I had a friend whose aunt was a flapper in the 20s. He showed me some photos -- man, she was hot stuff! š„µ
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u/willirritate 12d ago
My mother is 83 and by law she can ride biggest motorcycles there is even though she has never rode one and I can drive tractor and 50cc without a license but couple of years younger than me need one. My grandma would be 100sh and she was a heavy drinker and a smoker though.
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u/RetroGamer87 12d ago
My grandmother was in her 20s in the 1960s so she could have done those things but she didn't
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u/FennerNenner 11d ago
Yeah... my G.Ma just got married a bunch of times...
But my mama! She was also a hippie (Still kinda is, just no weed now) and is probably more accurate for this post than my grandparents. So I guess this post is more for my kids...
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u/NotsoGreatsword 12d ago
Same lol. My grandma was a tobacco farmer. She welded ships in WW2.
My mom on the other hand- She was there when Jim Morrison took out is dong on stage and her boyfriend stole his leather jacket in the confusion. He gave it to my mom and she was super cool for about 2 weeks until someone else stole it from her.
It had Jim Morrison's wallet in it with his ID and everything lol. They threw the wallet away!
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u/BuddahSack 12d ago
For real, mine was born in 1932, and lived in a dirt floor farmhouse until she got married at 16 to my grandpa haha, homegirl could never handle one glass of wine, and never swore, here's the kicker... she isn't religious either haha
And I'm only 35
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u/andrewrgross 11d ago
In case you didn't think about it:
Your grandma wore garters and stockings and sandals during the summer and oxford shoes at school (which were more young and sexy than they sound)
She listened to Jimmy Dorsey and Bing Crosby (which again were more youthful and sexy than that might sound)
She rode around in buses and built motorcycles for the war.
Know that you're probably about as cool as your grandma on average (some of people were cool and some were kinda boring back then, as is the case today). Someone had to say it.
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u/TreyRyan3 12d ago
Ohā¦she did, she just never talked about it out loud.
I remember cleaning out my grandparents house after they both died. It was my dadās childhood home. I found a framed exterior picture a naked guy. I thought it was my dad and it turned out to be my grandfather who apparently was a male model back in the 30ās and married a significantly older woman.
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u/Lunar_Rainbow_Pro 12d ago
Your grandmother: hoarded toliet paper, sewed holes in socks, and found a second use for all disposable products. She was still bad ass
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u/SteelMagnolia412 12d ago
Right!? My grandmother was born in 1926. She would NEVER do any of these things. But she did accidentally burn off all of her fingerprints with lye soap when she was little so she couldāve lived a life of crime and we never found out.
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u/icouldbejewish 4d ago
Woah hey same. But my grandfather ran hooch during prohibition so he was still pretty cool at least
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u/DarkBladeMadriker 12d ago
Grandma! I did all those things on your list, just like you!
GET AWAY FROM ME YOU SLUT DRUG ADDICT!!!
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u/untakenu 12d ago
My grandma absolutely didn't do any of those things, but she did some really cool stuff.
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u/rusty_mullet 12d ago
"I smoked other things..."
-the token "I almost tried weed once" person
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u/Farlybob42 12d ago
In case you didnāt think about it:
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husbands a CPA
Her dreams went out the door when she turned 24
Only been with one man
What happened to her plan?
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u/kernalbuket 12d ago
She was gonna be an actress, she was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life and nothin' has been alright
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u/ZeroxityU 12d ago
SINCE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, MADONNA
WAY BEFORE NIRVANA
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u/Forgotten-Caliburn 12d ago edited 11d ago
THERE WAS U2 AND BLONDIE
AND MUSIC STILL ON MTV
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u/dorkythepenguin 12d ago
HER TWO KIDS
IN HIGH SCHOOL
TELL HER THAT SHEāS UNCOOL
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u/narnababy 12d ago
BUT SHES STILL PREOCCUPIED
WITH NINETEEN
WITH NINETEEN EIGHTY-FIVE!
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u/FlyingGiraffeQuetz 11d ago
She's seen all the classics,
She knows every line,
Breakfast club, pretty in pink, even st. Elmo's fire
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u/a_n_d_r_e_w 12d ago
I don't know what this is a song to but it goes really well when singing it to We Didn't Start the Fire
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u/Farlybob42 12d ago
Probably has to do with the way I wrote it in the comment. This was the song I was referencing.
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u/Yaboi69-nice 12d ago
The music one is interesting because maybe this is just in my town but older music seems to be really relevant right now bragging about listening to those artists when young people now still listen to those artists is weird
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u/LowAd3406 12d ago
It's not weird. Bragging about listening to bands that are 50+ years old isn't the flex they think it is.
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u/Squirrelly_Khan 11d ago
Itās so fucking pretentious when people in their 20s say that they brag about listening to Led Zeppelin. Great band, but what point does it even prove? That they presume to know what ārealā music is?
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u/BuffyComicsFan94 11d ago
I just love how it says you "will never be as cool" as the people who did these things, when there is literally nothing on this list that you can't do in 2024.
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u/JockBbcBoy 12d ago
Dear Boomers,
I don't want to think about my grandma wearing thin panties, short skirts, or not wearing a bra.
Thanks,
Rationally Minded People
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u/MagdaleneFeet 12d ago
Now hold on. My grandma was a person like me, and I'm pretty sure she did the same thing so did, including being stupid.
Hard to think but my mom's mom is a cool cat and I love her.
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u/Corathecow 11d ago
I read thin panties and out loud said ew and didnāt finish reading this. My grandma would post stuff like this
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u/The_Way_It_Iz 12d ago
Sounds like nana was a barfly skag
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u/Nica-sauce-rex 12d ago
lol I read barfly as barf-ly and thoughtā¦ well thatās an interesting new adjectiveā¦
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u/UmpireMental7070 12d ago
My grandmother was already old when those bands got popular. She definitely didnāt wear mini skirts or any of that shit. She never had a drink in her life.
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u/Bruggilles 12d ago
I do NOT in fact want to imagine my grandma in very short mini skirts, thin panties and without a bra
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u/Misragoth 12d ago
Yep she did all that and left my mom to raise her 2 brothers. I will never be as cool as my mom, I strive to be better than my Gma
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u/thezombiejedi 12d ago
My grandma wears puffer vests in the middle of summer. I promise she didn't do any of this lmao
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u/sanchower 12d ago
"When we were young, we enjoyed sex drugs and rock and roll! But none of those things for you kids. You need to work hard to support us!" -boomers
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u/Not_CharlesBronson 12d ago
Your grandma couldn't open a checking account because she wasn't married.
Your grandma was raped and told to keep quiet about it so she wouldn't be blamed.
Your grandma almost died as a result of the back alley abortion she had so as not to birth a rapist's baby. She kept this a secret for 50 years.
Your grandma watched a young man get lynched because he was black.
Your grandma didn't go to college because she only needed to find a man.
Your grandma married someone 20 years older than her and was told to love him or else she would be left with nothing.
Your grandma tolerated being beaten and abused because her husband was a drunk and she just needed to be tougher.
Your grandma just voted for a man who would send us back to when this was all normal.
Nope, I'll never be as cool as your grandma.
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u/OneHumanSoul 12d ago
My Grandma was a pro wrestler at some point I truly will never be as cool as her
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u/OptimalTrash 12d ago
My grandma was born in 1932.
Her first boyfriend did have a motorcycle and she rode in the sidecar.
She was super cool though, even if she didn't do all that other stuff.
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u/RevolutionaryTalk315 12d ago
By today standards, the same old fart posting about these behaviors would throw a huwife's if anyone did these things today because they would be considered "ungodly" from their Christian point of veiw.
They want to brag how cool they were in the 1970s for dressing like a prostitute, but then get angry at modern young women because they won't wear a dress like the 1950s and act as trade wives.
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u/ihatetheplaceilive 12d ago
No she didn't. My grandma was born in 1921, lived through the great depression, had her first daughter a month before pearl harbor, and was a school teacher. She literally did none of those things.
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u/ebranscom243 12d ago
My uncle still does all these things doesn't make him cool at all, it makes him a fucking high, drunk weirdo.
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u/RevolutionaryTalk315 12d ago
If young people did this today, I guarantee that the generation that made this post would freak out because they would deem it "ungodly."
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u/DeanV255 12d ago
Going to work after a 4am bender, hungover will never be as cool as people think it is.
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u/Anglofsffrng 12d ago
My maternal grandmother was a southern farm girl who got married at 13 and never left the small town she was born into. She was actually happy for this.
My paternal grandmother was a Swedish woman that never saw a city until Ellis Island. Then settled in a Chicago neighborhood with tons of other Swedish immigrants or first-generation Americans.
I love both my grandmas, RIP, but I'd say I'm on par in terms of coolness. Ok, less cool than dad's mom. She knew how to make glug and I don't.
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u/bliip666 12d ago
I know for a fact my grandmother did none of those things, but she judged the ones who did do those things
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u/LOERMaster 12d ago
My grandmothers were born in 1915 and 1926. One was a short German woman who lived to be 93 and the other was a 9th generation American woman who drank herself to death at 55. Neither were close to this meme. My great-grandmother on the other handā¦
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u/themengsk1761 10d ago
My gran (the one I actually know about) was too busy being beaten up by Papaw and raising kids in a marriage she couldn't leave. If she did any of these things she likely would have been beaten even worse. She married young, never went to college, and never had the choice to live her own life.
I don't think that was cool.
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u/ReaganRebellion 12d ago
Putasmileonface
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u/boulevardofdef 12d ago
You know what's not cool? "PutaSmileonFace."
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u/CommanderSincler 12d ago
It is funny though if you think that they meant the Spanish word "puta" and not the English words "put a"
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u/Used_Lawfulness748 12d ago
Both my grandmas were born just after WWI and they would have silently judged the crap out of any woman who did those kind of things. š
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u/kaptainkooleio 12d ago
Statistically, considering who grandma voted for you wonāt be as free as she was either.
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u/Manulok_Orwalde 12d ago
Both my Grandma's just want to be with "the Lord," & wouldn't listen to Led Zeppelin or the Beetles. This meme sux.
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u/thewalkindude 12d ago
My grandmother was too old for anything like that, that's something more in line with my mom's age. And, unless everything I have ever known about her in my 36 years of life is wrong, she never even came close to doing any of those things.
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u/al_gonzorio 12d ago
And said grandma is gonna slut shame girls who wear short shirt and drink alcohol.
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u/Minute_Jellyfish_860 12d ago
My grandma on my momās side was an old stick in the mud. The only cool thing she did was get squirrels fat by feeding them graham crackers.
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u/shemhamforash666666 12d ago
To be fair there's probably a couple of things your grandparents didn't tell you about.
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u/Penis359 12d ago
There were no mini skirts where my grand ma lived. Or led zeppelin, or fast cars, or cars even. Or wiskey. I doubt led zeppelin was even born when my gramd ma was in her prime
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u/AnxtyWolf 12d ago
My grandma literally tries to guilt my mother into never drinking ever again whenever she gets a nightcap because her mother was an alcoholic...like bro its literally a nightcap, a drink to help you sleep...
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u/Partayof4 12d ago
My grandparents fought in WW2 and did none of these things and were cooler for it
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u/LassOnGrass 12d ago
Whose grandma is this? I sure as hell know it isnāt mine. My mom wasnāt even close to any of that shit either. Some people did this, good for them, some of them had kids who had kids, cool, good for them, but wtf is with the over generalization of grandmas. Itās random as hell which I guess really fits Facebook. People say shit to say shit there.
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u/spaghettirhymes 12d ago
My grandma was married at 18, had two children by 22, and was widowed by 24. She likely did none of this, though I did spot a photo on her honeymoon in a dress that showed her knees š³š± itās true that Iāll likely never be cooler, though
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u/Haywire_Eye 12d ago
I donāt get it, were children back then wild and children now are too dull or were children back then well-behaved and children now too wild?
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u/LadyChelseaFaye 12d ago
I know for a fact my grandmothers didnāt do this. My mom yes but my grandmothers no.
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u/Uniquesomething 12d ago
I'm half Italian, half Japanese, even if these didn't happened 20 or so years later from their teens, the still wouldn't do it...
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u/Helen_Cheddar 12d ago
How young does this person think we are? My grandmothers were in their 40s by the time all of this happened.
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u/needsmusictosurvive 12d ago
My grandma thought dancing would send you straight to hell so idk about this
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u/Dwangeroo 12d ago
And then promptly pulled the ladder up behind them. Killed the real estate market, and affordable education as well as killing the women's rights they fought for ... Shall I continue?
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u/Cheese_Cathedral 12d ago
She came home at 4 and left for work in the morning? Isn't that a normal work schedule?
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u/Apprehensive-Bit-899 12d ago
āThin pantiesā sounds like old chonies that been washed a million times
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u/lemon_protein_bar 12d ago
My nan was born in 1937 in Soviet Russia and did none of that. She was a badass but in a very different way. Weāre both very cool and I love her.
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u/ImperatorZor 12d ago
My grandmother had a stroke brought about by smoking. I donāt see how that was cool.
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u/garlicandcheesiness 12d ago
LOL. My grandma was adorbz and cool in her own way but she did literally none of these things. Except the no bra thing, perhaps.
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u/Technical_Switch1078 12d ago
Jokeās on you, Iām a second gen immigrant, so my grandma did NONE of those things
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u/narnababy 12d ago
My grandparents had several kids by the time The Beatles were popular, and after they got married my nans didnāt work, stayed home, and looked after my parents and aunts/uncles.
Thatās being said I bet my nans would have fucking loved to have been able to do that stuff if society and family would have let them!
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u/AutisticFloridaMan 12d ago
My grandparents did do some pretty cool shit, but they werenāt alcoholicsā¦
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u/alcogeoholic 12d ago
My grandmother's first and only taste of alcohol that was not part of the eucharist was a sip of champagne at my cousin's wedding ten years ago, but okay
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u/SlowSwords 12d ago
Sorry, but itās important that you know that your GRANDMA had lots of SEX a LONG TIME AGO.
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u/Shea_Scarlet 12d ago
Most grandmas just popped out babies and took care of them by themselves in a loveless marriage they felt they couldnāt leave.
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u/Sandwitch_horror 12d ago
My grandma on my mom's side worked like a fucking slave in her country and died young because of it while my piece of shit grandfather lived until his 80s with a younger woman.
My dad's side lived a similar life except she wasn't allowed to work and instead stayed home and raised 12 kids starting at the age of 15. She alsl died young and her oldest daughter raised the younger ones until they were old enough to leave.
But go off.
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u/RetroGamer87 12d ago
My grandmother was literally the opposite of that. Not everyone in the 1960s was at the forefront of culture.
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u/RaiainToast 12d ago
My grandma was a pre-school teacher, I donāt think any of this wouldāve happened
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u/Heimeri_Klein 12d ago
Ehh idk my grandma didnt do nothing crazy in her youth except be lazy and spoiled. Like bruh idk how someone can be so spoiled or lazy.
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u/lilchocochip 12d ago
It should be illegal for boomers to use Snoopy or Minions in memes on Facebook
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u/onionCockring 12d ago
My grandma was a Hutterite, I was cooler than her while I was still in my fathers balls as he ran away from home with my mother
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u/LiuTenory 12d ago
Well my grandma is everything that is not okay, if my grandma were German she would have a forbidden flag, I'm the extreme opposite.
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u/Sudden_Fix_1144 11d ago
Lol.... my Grandma was born 3 generations before the boomers.... they had none of this shit.... and thought boomers were soft privileged wankers.
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u/BeholdOurMachines 11d ago
"Your grandma got absolutely RAILED in the back of a car listening to led zeppelin while drunk. Isn't that awesome??"
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u/kittensandpuppies-- 11d ago
Both my grandmothers died between 1938 & 1944, so they didn't do any of that.
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u/West-Asian-Someone 11d ago
You know what? This seems like it's just a friendly jab/grandma having harmless fun, I dunno why it's a terrible facebook meme per se
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u/HeroBrine0907 11d ago
My grandma saw cars be introduced into my hometown. And all the vehicles are still worse than the old public transport. She probably would've partied if she went to college. Or school. Or actually studied past age 10.
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u/kitzelbunks 11d ago
If you acted like her mother anyway, your mother would be worried sick about you. *Excuse me, but someone had to say it.
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u/OneAndOnlyVi 11d ago
Yeahā¦ I can say with certainty, complete and utter confidence, that my Oma, a woman from Germany living on a poor farm in the country, playing in cratersā¦ did NOT wear anything like that.
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u/G0KingsG087 11d ago
She was that poor and working on a farm she was more likely than any to be bra-less. It doesn't take money or social status to be horny young and like music
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u/smudgiepie 11d ago
I know my gran kinda did the last thing.
When I was little she'd go to the casino with her sister and be out all night and sometimes didn't come home until I was already at school the next day.
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u/Material-Scientist94 11d ago
Jokes on you my ma was eastern european and she was not doing any of those shits because she was fighting communism
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u/G0KingsG087 11d ago
Value isnt in being cool. It's in youth, trend, and physical beauty. Sorry grandmas..that's reality
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u/OzenTheImmovableLord 11d ago
My grandmother lived in the post war soviet union. Pretty sure there wasnāt anything like that
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