Top Ten "When I Was Your Age" Jokes

Cazaam These are some of the things that older people can say to younger people and get a good laugh out of.

The Top Ten

1 When I was your age, we took spelling tests, not pregnancy tests.

Teen pregnancy has actually gone down since the '80s. The reason why is because people are becoming more aware that it's happening. - RockFashionista

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2 When I was your age, trolls lived under bridges.

Now they live and breathe Internet - Ananya

Now, some of them are stuck in the internet! - HowToTrainYourDragonFan1001

3 When I was your age, phones were for communication.

Now it's for games and a thing called the internet. - HowToTrainYourDragonFan1001

That one's my favourite. - DieGedankenSindFrei

4 When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.

According to NASA, it's a planet again. - RockFashionista

5 When I was your age, the only thing we surfed were the waves.
6 When I was your age, there was only one channel and you needed a boat to use it!

Unless you're an Aes Sedai, then you can channel while on a channel. (Sorry for being obsessed with the Wheel of Time) - Merilille

7 When I was your age, vampires were scary.

In my opinion, the were never scary, in the entire history of time. - RockFashionista

Now we got romantic vampires from the Twilight saga! - HowToTrainYourDragonFan1001

8 When I was your age, television was called books.
9 When I was your age, we would beat up nerds without using the internet

Well the internet just makes it easier so that's a downside on you, old fella - TwilightKitsune

10 When I was your age, I could memorize books front to back.

Nobody could do this, no matter what age you lived in. Unless you're some kind of savant. - RockFashionista

The Contenders

11 When I was your age, the illuminati was the great pyramids of Egypt

My official meme of this list - Nateawesomeness

12 When I was your age, The Simpsons was good!
13 When I was your age, no one ever said, "when I was your age"
14 When I was your age, lists were on paper

Absolutely true. You know, I remember wh...

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15 When I was your age, we played Candy Crush with a hammer
16 When I was your age, our keyboards were morse code
17 When I was your age, I just wanted to kill terrorists trying to kill me
18 When I Was Your Age, Minecraft Didn't Suck...
19 When I was your age, we ate tomato sauce sandwiches for dinner
20 When I was your age, we created fires using rocks, not matches
21 When I was your age scams did not exist
22 When I was your age, the only game we played was hopscotch!
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