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

@RockFashionista That’s Why Modern Days Are Better
~ AlphaQ

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

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

Now they live and breathe Internet - Ananya

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.

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

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

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 Simpsons was good!
12 When I was your age, the illuminati was the great pyramids of Egypt

My official meme of this list - Nateawesomeness

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, the only game we played was hopscotch!
17 When I was your age, our keyboards were morse code
18 When I was your age, I just wanted to kill terrorists trying to kill me
19 When I Was Your Age, Minecraft Didn't Suck...
20 When I was your age, we ate tomato sauce sandwiches for dinner
21 When I was your age, we created fires using rocks, not matches
22 When I was your age scams did not exist
23 When I was your age, we watched ants all day doing nothing
24 When I was your age, we used our feet for walking around.

This will be said in the future, where a walking machine might be invented.

25 When I was your age trump had real hair

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