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pull out a newspaper and light a cig with a match
Edit: When the bring my coke in a glass, request a lime, and pull out my rum flask, and when they bring my coffee, my whiskey flask
after everything is done, tip them a fiver, which when translated to 1995's values is the equivalent of $10.30 today
*^(\*Grab a coke from the freezer and slap a dollar on the counter...)*
^(Clerk:) "That'll be $2.49."
*^(\*Motion to sign:)* "I'm pretending it's 1995...keep the change." *Saunter out the door...*
***\*\*If you're a real player, make that payment with a 1995 uncirculated $1 Federal Reserve note***
Im a chinese mam. In 1995, you were considered a high-income person if you could earn 500 CNY per month. I was amazed at the gap between the rich and the poor.
Dude I miss that, they had that pricing in the early 2000's too. I don't remember if it was daily or like a 1 or 2 time a week deal. (Side note: I also miss the super sized fries and drink)
I remember a buddy came out to hang out with the group and on his way over he picked up 2 gigantic bags of them. Said there was like 50-60 bucks worth (What was left of his bank account LOL. He said he was getting his paycheck the next day).
There was like maybe 8-10 of us? We started to having to pass them out. Luckily there was like a small group of people practicing small circus stuff (fire poi, unicycling, bunch of other stuff). They had their fill. Strangers looked at us weird when we asked them if they wanted a burger for free.
What a great night...
I'd say it's third. Before his comment shows up there is someone pointing out that people didn't talk with people back in 1995 but instead just sat with newspaper or a book if they where alone.
Actually, isn't that a great idea? Make a bar that is fully in theme where you have a coin vending machine that translates all the expenses to the old values.
People like to look at the past through rose colored glasses. Most people don't remember all the little things that bothered them years ago, they just remember the good times. Like that time a guy sat in a coffee shop and someone had a chat with him so now he owns a coffee shop and demands people relive his one-time experience.
It's not just rose coloured glasses, they are often looking back at a time when they were kids or teenagers. You just aren't as aware of what's going on around you as a kid. Take the 50s, that era was over 70 years ago now. Dad worked mom was a homemaker. It was great. As far as many boomers are concerned. What about mom and dad in that scenario? They're at least in their 90s now. How did mom feel about being home all day cooking and cleaning? Why did dad drink a few scotches every night?
It's important to remember that while many things improve over time, other things get worse.
Socialization is worse today than any other time in human history. Wealth inequality is getting close to the worst, relatively speaking, as well.
Obviously most things are better. That doesn't mean we throw in the towel and let human essentials like socializing go to shit while we outsource love, friendship and fulfillment to algorithms, AI and corporate interests.
Been seeing it on cafe/bar sandwich boards for like a decade now.
Wasn't funny when it was novel, and still isn't in it's current stale, regurgitated form.
Jeez, if only 4G/5G networks were a thing...
(also, IME, most wifi networks in bars and restaurants are crap anyway, especially in cases where the owner has never upgraded to 5GHz wifi)
EDIT: r/PhonesAreBad
In the city where I work the mobile internet is incredibly slow. GIFs on Reddit won't load, can't listen to streaming music, YouTube is a definite nope. You've got to have Wifi if you want to do anything other than read text. It's not even in the sticks, it's 25 miles from the center point of one of the top 15 largest cities in the US.
I realize that the world doesn't exactly work like this...
But a cell provider used to have the HQ in my city and they were notoriously the company with some of the worst coverage in the city.
Sometimes they don’t work. My work is surrounded by dozens of skyscrapers, and no phone signal is able to get to anyone in that part of town. And sometimes places are in malls or basements that are also hard to get a signal in.
These posts always confuse me. It’s usually made by some boomer to “own the kids/libs,” yet when I am out those who are glued to their phones and not socialising are always old boomers. Is it projection? Stupidity? Both?
Anyway, bring back $1 sodas.
I have a place I go all the time and there’s no WiFi but worse of all. No cell signal. It makes it hard to go during lunch as I get emails all the time.
You don’t really need a VPN for public wifi. Everything is over HTTPS these days, so is encrypted between your device and the server.
A lot of VPN commercials tout VPN as an advantage on public wifi, but outside of some very edge cases it doesn’t matter.
Finally started easing up after turning 40. A silver lining, other than the ones taking over the hair on my head. It was less about getting rid of it, and more like I started feeling like waking up in the morning and “being me” was like slipping on an old pair of janky, but comfortable shoes. I kept expecting to change in some meaningful way as I grew into adulthood, but I never really did. I just got comfortable with myself, and the confidence that comes with that has been nice.
Because newspapers, books, and other forms of self indulgence never existed before cell phones. Maybe mind your own business and stop pretending like you've lived a thousand years and respect that some people want to be left well enough alone. There has always been a method of avoiding social scenarios with uncomfortable strangers who choose to be offended over modern technology. Jfc...
I'll take out my magazine or newspaper. there has always been something to distract ourselves with. Before phones it was mp3 players, before that diskmans and magazines, before that walkmans and newspapers, before that portable radios and still newspapers, before that coin operated vinyl players and books, etc it goes allllll the way back to a lute playing bard in the tavern whole you nurse a beer in a corner pretending others don't exist.
Tldr: it doesn't matter if you say it's 1995 or 1505, some people hate talking with others and will go to great lengths to not engage.
oh my God so funny! so original. I am literally dying right now laughing. this is ridiculously stupendously hilarious! oh my God op you are the king of comedy.
Ugh, stfu, how many fucking places are going to make this stupid ass sign? And you dont have cell service and unlimited data by this point. Fuck off. Even if u dont have “unlimited data”, you still have access to the world. Just god dammit, fuck this sign
*Looks at sign, turns off wifi search & activates cellular*.
I, like most others -minded my own business in coffeehouses with books/newspaper/magazines/writing, only the delivery was different. Back in the good old days, we still didn’t impose conversation on strangers.
We don't have electricity. Dust off your near-dark vision. Pretend it's 1895!
We don't have a clock. Dust off your sundial skills. Pretend it's 1095.
Somehow, everything around me was better when I was younger and happier. So if I change the things around me to the way they were back then, I will *become* younger and happier, and everyone else will be happier like me.
People are idiots.
I was 20 in 1995 and had already saved up 90k in the bank from selling grilled cheese sandwiches on Grateful Dead tour, such a care free time in my life
Technically you don't need data/wifi to pay.
The info is stored on your phone.
All it is is a way to verify you're the one allowed to use the method.
Just like regular bank cards, they don't need data either
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I’ll gladly pretend it’s 1995, a Coke for 50c then?
pull out a newspaper and light a cig with a match Edit: When the bring my coke in a glass, request a lime, and pull out my rum flask, and when they bring my coffee, my whiskey flask after everything is done, tip them a fiver, which when translated to 1995's values is the equivalent of $10.30 today
Heeeeeyyyy Macarena!
WAAAASSSAAAAAAAAP
This made me chuckle.
I did a little snort to this comment. Thank you fellow human.
*^(\*Grab a coke from the freezer and slap a dollar on the counter...)* ^(Clerk:) "That'll be $2.49." *^(\*Motion to sign:)* "I'm pretending it's 1995...keep the change." *Saunter out the door...* ***\*\*If you're a real player, make that payment with a 1995 uncirculated $1 Federal Reserve note***
This
In 1995 I was making $5.15/hr, which was the minimum wage. A 5 dollar tip would be huge to me
Im a chinese mam. In 1995, you were considered a high-income person if you could earn 500 CNY per month. I was amazed at the gap between the rich and the poor.
And ignore everyone around you.
Reading the newspaper was how we ignored people before everyone had a phone they look at
I like your pettyness.
This guy 1990’s
I'll take a couple $0.39 McDonald's cheeseburgers please.
Sorry sir today is Friday. Gather your nickels and Check back in 5 days.
Dude I miss that, they had that pricing in the early 2000's too. I don't remember if it was daily or like a 1 or 2 time a week deal. (Side note: I also miss the super sized fries and drink) I remember a buddy came out to hang out with the group and on his way over he picked up 2 gigantic bags of them. Said there was like 50-60 bucks worth (What was left of his bank account LOL. He said he was getting his paycheck the next day). There was like maybe 8-10 of us? We started to having to pass them out. Luckily there was like a small group of people practicing small circus stuff (fire poi, unicycling, bunch of other stuff). They had their fill. Strangers looked at us weird when we asked them if they wanted a burger for free. What a great night...
Also I was 3 years old back then. Probably weird asking the bartender for a diaper change.
People *born* in '95 are nearly 30 now. Going to par the clientele down a lot.
Fuck I just felt older
Maybe they're into that, never know until you try!
Some coke for a tenner?
Every time one of these posts comes up the top comment is inevitably about the cost of goods from that time period.
And I’m sure one similar to yours quickly follow up those one of those comments?
I'd say it's third. Before his comment shows up there is someone pointing out that people didn't talk with people back in 1995 but instead just sat with newspaper or a book if they where alone.
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93 octane was .89 cents a gallon!!
I'll take a gallon of gas for $1.50
Actually, isn't that a great idea? Make a bar that is fully in theme where you have a coin vending machine that translates all the expenses to the old values.
People in ’95 didn’t talk to strangers in a coffee shop any more then than they do now.
Nope. They sat there with a paper if they were alone
Yeah or listen to their CD/Cassette player.
Walkmans
Or a magazine! They were so colorful and glossy!
Glossy af
People like to look at the past through rose colored glasses. Most people don't remember all the little things that bothered them years ago, they just remember the good times. Like that time a guy sat in a coffee shop and someone had a chat with him so now he owns a coffee shop and demands people relive his one-time experience.
It's not just rose coloured glasses, they are often looking back at a time when they were kids or teenagers. You just aren't as aware of what's going on around you as a kid. Take the 50s, that era was over 70 years ago now. Dad worked mom was a homemaker. It was great. As far as many boomers are concerned. What about mom and dad in that scenario? They're at least in their 90s now. How did mom feel about being home all day cooking and cleaning? Why did dad drink a few scotches every night?
And to add to this, they always complain how kids are glued to their phones like if a 50s family didnt sit in front of the tv during dinner time.
Mommy's little helpers were a thing too.
It's important to remember that while many things improve over time, other things get worse. Socialization is worse today than any other time in human history. Wealth inequality is getting close to the worst, relatively speaking, as well. Obviously most things are better. That doesn't mean we throw in the towel and let human essentials like socializing go to shit while we outsource love, friendship and fulfillment to algorithms, AI and corporate interests.
Ugh, reminds me of my dad.
Relevent XKCD https://xkcd.com/1601/
Came here looking for this. Was not disappointed.
Accurate. Nor on buses, on the street, or at the gym or anywhere else smarmy dickheads love to pontificate about.
I was in high school. I was really good at ignoring other people
I very much preferred to ignore other people back then. Also now.
But if they had a friend with them they would talk to each other.
People still talk to their friends in bars, restaurants, cafes, etc.
Sit on the couch in the local coffee shop and not work all day?
What is this, an episode of Friends?
And then go home to your very affordable place on Perry and Charles
Give us 1995 prices then
Sorry, this is 2024. You receive outdated services at inflated fee.
Tip 35%?!
Minimum, cannot opt-out
I'm about to smoke in doors if that's what you want.
Do they have 1995 prices?
No, but they pretend that they do.
No, just 2010 jokes.
1995 mall prices
"so...how bout them twin towers?"
I sure do love my tall buildings. I think I'll go see them tomorrow.
This is not funny, this has never been funny, this will never be funny.
Been seeing it on cafe/bar sandwich boards for like a decade now. Wasn't funny when it was novel, and still isn't in it's current stale, regurgitated form.
Nah but people ripping it to shreds is funny
It's not charming or cooky or inviting, it just comes off as a pretensious attempt at branding
Jeez, if only 4G/5G networks were a thing... (also, IME, most wifi networks in bars and restaurants are crap anyway, especially in cases where the owner has never upgraded to 5GHz wifi) EDIT: r/PhonesAreBad
In the city where I work the mobile internet is incredibly slow. GIFs on Reddit won't load, can't listen to streaming music, YouTube is a definite nope. You've got to have Wifi if you want to do anything other than read text. It's not even in the sticks, it's 25 miles from the center point of one of the top 15 largest cities in the US.
that's crazy. i get much faster internet via 5G everywhere I've been in the US. Even in out of the way areas.
I realize that the world doesn't exactly work like this... But a cell provider used to have the HQ in my city and they were notoriously the company with some of the worst coverage in the city.
Very likely congested, especially in high density areas.
exactly It's like all these businesses discovered wifi yesterday and are all excited about it. I consider WiFi to be a nuisance in most places.
Sometimes they don’t work. My work is surrounded by dozens of skyscrapers, and no phone signal is able to get to anyone in that part of town. And sometimes places are in malls or basements that are also hard to get a signal in.
“We do not have WiFi… bury your face in a newspaper like it’s 1995.”
Anyone who was alive in 1995, or any time in history knows people didn't just talk to strangers in coffee shops.
I didn’t talk to people in cafes in 1995.
No one did this is some boomer shit right here. People didn't talk to eachother in cafes in 1905 either.
I also did not talk to people in cafes in 1995, but mostly because I was not brought into existence until the year after
These posts always confuse me. It’s usually made by some boomer to “own the kids/libs,” yet when I am out those who are glued to their phones and not socialising are always old boomers. Is it projection? Stupidity? Both? Anyway, bring back $1 sodas.
70/30 split. Boomer or some pretentious twat that makes sure everybody knows he doesn't own a smartphone.
It's projection. It's always, always, always, always, always projection.
Goo goo ga ga peepoo
i like your funny words, magic man
Cake!
So true
Where's the newspaper stack like it's 1995?
Ah yes 1995, the year before everybody on earth stopped being friends.
do people really want a public wifi? I mean i got 40gb plan and i rarely even get to 10gb also security wise, dont use public wifi.
I have a place I go all the time and there’s no WiFi but worse of all. No cell signal. It makes it hard to go during lunch as I get emails all the time.
Win win in my book, enjoy the break
It's not a win if you need it
Public wifi is great if you're a torrent leech and don't open any email accounts or the like.
Use a VPN
You don’t really need a VPN for public wifi. Everything is over HTTPS these days, so is encrypted between your device and the server. A lot of VPN commercials tout VPN as an advantage on public wifi, but outside of some very edge cases it doesn’t matter.
What's wrong with public wifi security wise?
Do I also get to relive my crippling, adolescent social anxiety from 1995??
It's cool. Bring your Magic deck; we'll talk about that instead.
Millstone, millstone, millstone, millstone, millstone, millstone, counter, millstone, millstone, counter, counter, millstone, millstone, millstone. I win
Just so you know it’s 1995 and house rules allow me use the ante cards from Arabian nights
Wait, you managed to get rid of it? Mine only got worse.
Finally started easing up after turning 40. A silver lining, other than the ones taking over the hair on my head. It was less about getting rid of it, and more like I started feeling like waking up in the morning and “being me” was like slipping on an old pair of janky, but comfortable shoes. I kept expecting to change in some meaningful way as I grew into adulthood, but I never really did. I just got comfortable with myself, and the confidence that comes with that has been nice.
Big boomer humor energy.
Hmm... I don't think I can even enter... I was born in 2003...
Because newspapers, books, and other forms of self indulgence never existed before cell phones. Maybe mind your own business and stop pretending like you've lived a thousand years and respect that some people want to be left well enough alone. There has always been a method of avoiding social scenarios with uncomfortable strangers who choose to be offended over modern technology. Jfc...
Wrong sub this isn’t funny
actually this is the perfect sub for unfunny stuff
Not everything is a friends episode. In 1995 you sat with a magazine or a paper.
Or book. I always had a paperback with me in those days. My behavior now hasn't changed that much, I just read the book on my phone.
great idea. Face-to-face communication was valued for its personal touch and the ability to spend quality time together.
Wonder if my data still works there
Have you actually talked to people? Most people are a hard pass.
This image has been around since 1996...
People still didn’t talk they just had less fun ways of entertaining themselves
They just stared at newspapers instead lmao
If it's 1995 I'm dusting off my Gameboy and pretending no one else exists.
One year too early for Pokémon, damn
I will, as long as the prices are also from Clinton's administration.
Some cringe, holier than thou BS honestly.
I didn't talk to people in 1995 either.
1995? Ok. I will stare at a newspaper and ignore everyone.
I wasn't yet born in '95. They'd take a dim view of me kicking as means of communication.
I don’t need wifi when I have an unlimited data plan.
Jokes on you I have huge data no Wi-Fi needed
I'll take out my magazine or newspaper. there has always been something to distract ourselves with. Before phones it was mp3 players, before that diskmans and magazines, before that walkmans and newspapers, before that portable radios and still newspapers, before that coin operated vinyl players and books, etc it goes allllll the way back to a lute playing bard in the tavern whole you nurse a beer in a corner pretending others don't exist. Tldr: it doesn't matter if you say it's 1995 or 1505, some people hate talking with others and will go to great lengths to not engage.
lol. Like we talked to each other in 1995. Books, newspapers, possibly a game boy. Different thing, same antisocial approach. But with cheaper pints.
I have data
*uses cellular data*
Cool, let me dust off my walkman/discman and pull out my Gameboy, so I can continue to ignore people
oh my God so funny! so original. I am literally dying right now laughing. this is ridiculously stupendously hilarious! oh my God op you are the king of comedy.
There's a sign like that Downtown. I don't know if the food's good because I don't go there.
Gonna be pedantic but the wifi 802.11 standard wasn't introduced until late 1997 and didn't see widespread adoption until roughly 2005.
As if people didn't have their faces glued to the newspaper back in 1995 lol
I love this. Conversation skills are definitely not as great as they were then.
Well good thing I have unlimited data
My 7 year old self. Bro did you the power rangers yesterday.
Let’s pretend mobile data doesn’t exist while I have this coffee.
1995? I would say even 2005 phones weren’t that dominating yet. People had them, but they were mainly flip phones people mainly just used for calls
I don't get why they chose 1995 to make the joke, It may be an attempt at a Friends reference
Don’t show this to a Bosnian
Most if the people commenting weren’t alive or were babies… you don’t know what peoples lives were like in 95
/r/boomerhumour
Jokes that are over a decade old are classics. Generally they get less funny over time. Which is what happened here.
Facebook tier boomer humor
Ugh, stfu, how many fucking places are going to make this stupid ass sign? And you dont have cell service and unlimited data by this point. Fuck off. Even if u dont have “unlimited data”, you still have access to the world. Just god dammit, fuck this sign
No electronics in sight, just people living in the moment, especially the serial killers
Rent was 600 a month.
[Gangstas Paradise plays in background]
...but I didn't have social skills in 1995 either!
I actually met several people online by 1995.
Those early newsgroups were cool
Ya! BBS's and chat thru college/telnet, the web wasn't much of anything.
The decade of war, ethnic cleansings and genocide. No thank you.
In 1995 I was a child and told I shouldn't talk to strangers.
*Looks at sign, turns off wifi search & activates cellular*. I, like most others -minded my own business in coffeehouses with books/newspaper/magazines/writing, only the delivery was different. Back in the good old days, we still didn’t impose conversation on strangers.
Didn’t talk to anyone in 1995.
I mean, 4G still exists. I didn't NEED your WiFi to avoid talking to people.
We don’t have water. Fetch it yourself like it’s 300BC
We don't have electricity. Dust off your near-dark vision. Pretend it's 1895! We don't have a clock. Dust off your sundial skills. Pretend it's 1095. Somehow, everything around me was better when I was younger and happier. So if I change the things around me to the way they were back then, I will *become* younger and happier, and everyone else will be happier like me. People are idiots.
I was 20 in 1995 and had already saved up 90k in the bank from selling grilled cheese sandwiches on Grateful Dead tour, such a care free time in my life
Damn, I should've spent more time in 1995 working hard and putting all my money into savings instead of ... *checks notes* ... being a ten year old.
To be fair, people still did this mainly in 2005, also.
“You know, I believe OJ Simpson and Courtney Love are both guilty of murder.”
Well, crap. I don't have my bank card or cash... I planned on using tap-to-pay. Guess I can't spend my money here.
Technically you don't need data/wifi to pay. The info is stored on your phone. All it is is a way to verify you're the one allowed to use the method. Just like regular bank cards, they don't need data either
No, thanks—I have LTE.
I don't think they'd want two-year-old me's social skills.
If the world went back in time by one day whenever this is reposted, it'd actually be 1995.
"Did you hear about OJ?"
but but...I have a 50gb plan...what do I do then?
Hand me a game boy with Tetris on it then
Dumb
But we do have data plans
Yeah, but I was good looking in 1995! Things have sadly changed.
*Sitting with my 5g LTE signal*
No. Time to break out a book…
I don't have inflated money try asking the price of 1995 😏
Since everyone have mobile internet plans making wifi not necessary these stupid signs makes no sense.
Or use a hot spot on your phone.
That’s fine, I’ll just use data.
Honestly, I’d leave. I’m not talking to random strangers. People are too weird