r/OldSchoolCool 7h ago

1950s 1950s cool

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u/cybah 6h ago

LOL sometimes grandma's aren't too grandma-like. At one point in their lives they were young and pretty too

My mom came from a large family and I asked my grandma why did she have so many kids. Her reply "I just liked doing it with your grandfather too much... and before we knew it, there was another baby"

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u/agingergiraffe 5h ago

My mom likes to say that every generation thinks they invented sex. We forget that our elders were freaks, too.

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u/SousVideDiaper 5h ago

People act like eating ass is a new thing but that's only because we're far more open about sex than our elders

Plenty of what they did in private was just as raunchy as what people do today

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u/de_G_van_Gelderland 4h ago

we're far more open about sex than our elders

I'm not even sure that much is really true. At least not to the extend you might think. They were probably a lot more open about it with their peers than they were with you. Just like the people here probably wouldn't be as open about it with their children as they are here.

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u/Rikudou_Sage 4h ago

What's the point of having kids if not to tell them "I fucked your mum, what you gonna do about it?"

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u/ConsciousOkra7614 2h ago

The he laughs while the kid melts down further. It’s awesome. LOL.

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u/DrChucklefuck 1h ago

"Humans" Hi are you a fuckin' little green man?

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u/assholetoall 2h ago

I sometimes like to translate the implied meaning of "trying for kids"

You mean you're hitting it raw on the regular.

Or, That is a nice way to say you are having unprotected sex frequently.

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u/latchkeydc 1h ago

That’s all I think about when people nag me and my husband about when we’re having kids and how we need to hurry up. Like damn, do y’all want our raw doggin schedule?

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u/towelracks 1h ago

I remember a friend telling me she was trying for another kid. I laughed and replied, "polite way to tell me you're getting creampied every night" Luckily she saw the funny side

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u/Temporary_Item_1658 2h ago

Happy Cake Day!

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u/Neurolinguisticist 2h ago

This doesn't really hold up as sex positivity and openness has shifted significantly in recent decades. Yes, people are more open about it with their peers than cross-generationally, however, at the societal level, it is absolutely objectively true that current generations are more open than previous ones (irrespective of current rates of sex by generation).

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u/Happy-Doughnut-5125 2h ago

I think it's something that fluctuates naturally over generations. The 50s were buttoned up, 60s were very sex positive and more open, 70s/80s a lot of places drifted more conservative again. We've probably trended more open since the Victorian era but it's not linear.

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u/FishFloyd 2h ago

Man, every time I read threads like this I'm like... y'all need some fuckin history. Read some of the horny shit the classical Greeks or Han-era Chinese were writing, lmao. It would make the raunchiest smut writer blush even today.

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u/Triviajunkie95 2h ago

Have you seen an ancient Hindu temple? Kama Sutra carved into the outside like a manual for the illiterate (which it was)

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u/Etrigone 1h ago

I was watching an entirely unrelated video on ancient Egypt and there was a question along the lines of their attitudes on sex. Apparently and unsurprisingly, they were very open about it and enjoyed it often. According to the researcher they had a phrase for it - "having a pleasant day" IIRC but I'm sure that was a cleaned up version.

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u/Neurolinguisticist 2h ago

You're confusing specific bits of literature for wider legal and societal recognition and discourse regarding sex. They can overlap, but they absolutely can differ, too.

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u/FlyAirLari 2h ago

I think the current generation is a little less open about it than the past couple - Millennials and Gen Xers.

We had glam metal, gangsta rap, worldwide porn etc. Nowadays teenagers kind of cringe when there's a sex scene in a movie. The opposite was true when we were kids.

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u/lep63again 2h ago

The pervasiveness of social media gives the illusion that we’re more sex positive now than in the past. 20+ years ago you had no venue to be sex positive other than talking to friends etc. I’d say we’re more comfortable mainstreaming kink now than we were 30 years ago but that’s also due to social media. If you don’t know about something, you’re not about to try it on for size.

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u/hatemilklovecheese 12m ago

I agree with you - having private bedrooms and private spaces for each family member is a really modern concept. Whole families used to share rooms. Even the very rich would have servants in their bedrooms. Sex used to be a lot more open and a lot less taboo to see or hear happen.

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u/innominateartery 3h ago

I would just like to add that analingus, or tossing a salad as we said in the 90s, did not enjoy the same level of social acceptance as today.

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u/Searchingforgoodnews 2h ago

You went straight to ass eating like it's a paid hobby.

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u/Fabulous_Play2815 1h ago

True in some cases, my wife’s grandma was mortified when she heard about moral sex lol

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u/sriracharade 1h ago

Current generation likes to talk about sex a lot more than they like having sex.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 3h ago

Shoot; the elders of today were the free love youth of the 60s.

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u/glitzglamglue 3h ago

Problem is that they don't remember the 60s. If you remember the 60s, you didn't live them!

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u/AstronomerJealous467 2h ago

How so? Too old vs too young?

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u/TooTameToToast 2h ago

The answer is drugs.

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u/IyamaCat1312 3h ago

I mean, no, the free love hippie movement was a relatively small counter culture.

Most Americans at that time were still staunchly conservative by today’s standards, even the young people.

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u/fudbag 2h ago

I spit my matcha out reading that lmaoooooo

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u/ponyponyta 43m ago

Sometimes I think of why people are so horny, but then I realized every single one of your direct ancestors on both sides of your parents fucked to produce you. That's a long line of a lot of people who did the nasty.

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u/hereforthecake17 6h ago

My grandmother’s sister gave her a television in hopes it would give my grandparents something else to do.

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u/AV01000001 5h ago

Back in my restaurant days about 25 years ago, there was a couple that worked BOH that had 5 kids. They asked why I didn’t have kids and I asked back why they gave so many. “We don’t have cable (shrug)” I hope they are doing ok. They were the cutest and always lovey with each other

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u/DealBrief5569 5h ago

Multitask for the win!

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u/chahlie 5h ago

Do it doggy style so we can both watch X-Files

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u/MiraToxic 4h ago

lol und ich guck xfiles zum einschlafen 🥲

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u/Viva_el_duderino 5h ago

That's when the concept of "I Love Lucy & chill" was born

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u/ChemistryFit6881 5h ago

Did it work? Haha 

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u/LittleStoneBear 6h ago

My 82-year-old mother-in-law told me that she once asked her mother how come she only had two children, despite being married quite young.

The answer was "Because I behaved myself'" which I always thought was a really sad answer.

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u/SpringtimeLilies7 6h ago

it could mean she figured out birth control, and just didn't want to explain further.

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u/Electronic_Gap_6501 5h ago

Could be anal... 🤷

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u/innominateartery 3h ago

…nana is a power top!

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u/LittleStoneBear 5h ago

The blanket hung from the ceiling the length of the bed, creating a divide down the middle could be considered a form of birth control, I suppose.

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u/JustToSeeeeee 5h ago

Well maybe for you

but, won't work for me

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u/SpringtimeLilies7 4h ago

🙄🤣there were barriers methods before the pill...they were just whispered quietly married woman to married woman..they weren't broadcast.

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u/Germane_Corsair 3h ago

That doesn’t seem to be the case on this instance.

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u/Young_Hickory 3h ago

I feel like that’s just going to make it all the more enticing… like now we’re breaking a rule also..?

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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 3h ago

It Happened One Night 2: Blanket Boogaloo

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u/ruinedworldtour 5h ago

Hey if it’s between fucking and having children or not fucking, I’m not fucking.

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u/cheese_is_available 4h ago

I'd have lots and lots of non penetrative sex otherwise also known as fucking.

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u/Lexi_Banner 4h ago

Grandma-In-Law probably just didn't want to answer the question because she thought it was incredibly invasive and rude.

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u/Diessel_S 4h ago

Kids are notoriously known to ask their parents invasive and rude questions

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u/Lexi_Banner 4h ago

Okay, and it's perfectly fine for the parent not to answer the question, or dance around it.

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u/SweatyMess808 5h ago

My 89 year old grandma said she’d rather die than never have an orgasm again.

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u/BrooklynGurl135 5h ago

When my 92 year old aunt got herself a 78 year old boyfriend she exclaimed in wonderment and delight that she hadn't thought she could still be orgasmic. A little TMI for me!

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u/edalcol 5h ago

Super badass tho

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u/luckie_harms 5h ago

Right? I hope I'm like the aunt if I make it to that age

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u/Ulftar 3h ago

Let's all hope we live long enough and have a fulfilling enough life to gross out the younger generations.

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u/Simple-Wrangler-9909 3h ago

Why wait, you can start grossing out younger generations today

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u/Far_Bumblebee_9300 1h ago

I love that for her

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u/fredwinwwiwiw 5h ago

I love your grandma reminds me of meemaw from young sheldon

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u/Wonderful-Lab9057 2h ago

Meemaw is my favorite character on that show 😂😁

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u/mewithoutCthulhu 5h ago

My grandma is 94 (and unfortunately in hospice care right now). My grandpa died last Christmas just shy of his 96th birthday. He’s never had a filter, but my grandma is a more reserved Catholic woman. They had 9 kids. Only 6 were actually my grandma’s. My grandpa had 3 kids from a previous marriage, but his first wife died a few days after giving birth to their third child. One day, about a year ago, one of my sisters jokingly asked my grandpa why he had so many kids. He just laughed and said that he couldn’t help it, sometimes he’d wake up and grandma was already down there helping herself.

They were the greatest couple I’ve ever known. A love that was truly special. And they loved their 50+ kids, grandkids, great grandkids, and great great grandkids fiercely. My grandpa was a larger-than-life character, and a great example of a good man. While I’m not religious, my grandma perfectly exemplified God’s love. A woman of faith with no hate, only love. She is currently dying. When she is gone, something special will be lost, but she will forever live on through the love that she shared.

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u/danceoftheplants 4h ago

I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope that she passes in peace. She sounds like a really lovely person.

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u/mewithoutCthulhu 3h ago

Thank you. She’s never alone. With the previously mentioned 50+ children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren, she will be surrounded by loved ones until she passes. And then we’ll all celebrate her life together once she does.

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u/80s-dilf-Batman 4h ago

Liking a nice butt runs deep in the women of my maternal line. The reason I know this is because my sweet 80 yo grandma and I were once watching TV in complete silence until she went "he has a nice butt". And I also know it because I once asked my mom what she liked about my dad and she with no hesitation said "he's got a nice butt". And I also know it because the first time I saw my partner's butt in his underwear I was like "oh hell yeah, jackpot"

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u/KittyTheCat99 4h ago

something something apples and trees

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u/resourcefulpig 4h ago

At the hospital right now and this make me chuckle, thanks Batman!

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u/80s-dilf-Batman 3h ago

No problem, random citizen!

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u/OrcBarbierian 6h ago

My uncles were telling me the birth years of my mom and her siblings. She is the youngest of 6, but I did not realize that there was a 4-year age gap between my mom and the 2nd-youngest sibling.

Uncles casually shared that Grandma was a baby-making-machine for 5 years in a row, "She was a good Catholic girl."

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u/11B-33T 5h ago

lol, I can hear Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young" lyrics now. Great song and very controversial back in the day too.

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u/maiscestmoi 4h ago

🎶 a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation”

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u/disillusioned 3h ago

This was my (lapsed Catholic) wife and my first dance at our wedding. Was a huge hit.

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u/fukkdisshitt 2h ago

My grandma was a baby making machine but not a good catholic. One uncle is the spitting image of the landlord.

I found out a during covid when we found out the old land lord died and my mom clipped the obituary. She asked "who does this man look like?"

I said it looked like my uncle but old, then my mom dropped all the dirty family lore.

Grandma would get in trouble for grabbing the male nurses asses in the hospital too

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u/SignificantCats 4h ago

My grandmother has 21 children.

If you ask her why she had so many kids, she would say she is an Irish Catholic farmer - the Lord said to multiply, and she needed the extra farm hands.

If you ask grandpa why he had so many kids, he would say he is really horny all the time.

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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 3h ago

🎵What kind of Irish is your granddad🎵

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u/windexfresh 2h ago

I've never been so speechless from a reddit comment in my life, what the fuck do you mean 21 children 😭

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u/SignificantCats 46m ago

What will really blow your mind is my grandma had her first kid at 13 and no twins, meaning there was a point in time where more of her life had been spent pregnant than not pregnant

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u/libhis1 5h ago

As my grandma would say, he could put his boots under my bed anytime. Lol

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u/DerbleZerp 5h ago

I used to dance in lingerie in a sex shop window when I was about 23. Grandmas loved it. When they walked by they would wave at you and give you a “you go” look.

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u/Ok-Bath5825 5h ago

My mom said my Catholic grandmother took her to a Times Square peep show when she was 12. 😬

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u/DerbleZerp 4h ago

Haha, oh my!

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 2h ago

Back in the day I had an 80something year old great aunt insist she get invited to a bachelorette party at the male strip club, back when those were big in the 80s, because "They don't have anything I haven't seen before."

She not only was the only girl out of a family of 10 she was also a widow so she'd seen plenty of twigs & berries long before she got married.

I asked her once what they did when she had her period, because she was born pre-1900 when menstrual pads weren't widely available & may have been priced outta the range of some folks, & she said "Oh there was bucket with clean rags under the sink &...." I stopped her there because I fully got it & finally understood why we said "on the rag" or called pads "rags."

I think about her often & miss her lots. RIP MS. BESSIE!!

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u/saintofhate 3h ago

I still remember the horror on my family's faces when my great-grandmother proclaimed "I love a man with a hairy chest. I love feeling fur on all sides when making love." After my cousin was talking about how she hated guys with "too much" body hair.

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u/718-702_damsel 6h ago

My grandma was a hoe. And a hot mess.

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u/doug1003 4h ago

I think people forget that before TV sex was the only kind of leasure people realy had

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u/Pokari_Davaham 51m ago edited 20m ago

Just off the top of my head:

Radio

Reading

Cards

Parties

Social visits

Games (Chess)

Carving

Drawing/painting

Holding hands in a circle then touching a battery to lightly shock everyone

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u/Mean-Year4646 1h ago

My grandma had 9 kids. Recently, she went to new doctor and while he was gathering her medical history, he asked how many children she had. When she told him he asked, “are you Catholic?” She said, “No, just a horny Protestant.” LOL

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u/Competitive-Desk7506 4h ago

All three of my grandmas have said that and my great grandmas- it’s why my family is so international

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u/leela_la_zu 2h ago

My 90 year old grandma said to me, "My one advice for marriage, never go to bed angry. You always make up. How do you think I got so many kids?!" She had 6 kids.

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u/fukkdisshitt 2h ago

Yeah my uncle isn't my grandpa's kid, and grandma would hit on any man with a pulse. She also cursed like a sailor.

That was the only grandma i had, so it was weird when other kids would get quiet around their grandma's

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u/zeppelin_tamer 1h ago

My grandma to my 4 year old sister when she asked what she did “before she got old”:
“I was a prostitute sweety!”
My mom had a fun time explaining that one.

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u/MLTDione 6h ago

He’s pretty hot, don’t blame grandma at all💯

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u/literated 3h ago

By the time my grandfather died, he had kept next to no personal stuff. No letters, no pictures (apart from the few that had hung on the walls of his home for decades), very little in terms of memorabilia in general.

... but he did die with a nude of our grandmother (probably from the time when they just got married) in his wallet.

Priorities, I guess.

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u/theinnerspiral 1h ago

Mine did too! He was a photographer and developed his own photos. Evidently he convinced my grandma to pose for him! It was beautiful and tasteful. If there was hardcore ones he burned the evidence! lol

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi 3h ago

Yeah I'm pretty much into ladies but I think I could be convinced to grow a womb and get preggant for that wink, under the right circumstances.

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u/sirwilliam3323 7h ago

All the love to Nana!! Sounds like you have a pretty awesome grandma!

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u/Meglatron3000 6h ago edited 5h ago

I love this story. My nana was also super cool (some I didn’t find out about until after her death which she had told me WORSE 😆)
She used to tell me about trippin with some Native Americans (in a story about this now developed area - real estate story turned into I used to do this there) and one time suggested my husband and I swing. She didn’t say the word just “ well while you are figuring things out why don’t you get a boyfriend and him and lady get together and you all just get together”

I almost died . 😆😆😆😆😆😆 RIP. Man I miss her.

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u/aggravated-asphalt 5h ago

My grandma is in her 80s, and she’s hilarious. Through text it’s all ohhh how is my great grandson I love you so much! (Too many emojis follow) but in person she’ll go “you know, I used to love lsd. It was fun. I met so many handsome men and women. I had fun. Hey honey please go in my drawer and get my papers. Oh shoot I forgot I can’t roll, will you roll me this joint?” Lmao she’s still smoking weed in her 80s and reminiscing on the good ol party days.

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u/CoolGovernment8732 2h ago

Ah yes, I also aspire to be grandma ganja one day ✨

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u/timtim2000 4h ago

To be fair, at some age you wish you could be young again with your life partner to be together again.

You see the dirty joke but past that i see grief, poor lady.

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u/uptiedand8 53m ago

Yeah me too. He must have died at about 60-65. She had almost as many years after him as with him. My husband and I are both early forties and in his family, men die of heart attacks in their sixties, so we joke that he’s almost like my first dog in that I will outlive him by decades. But fuck, I wish that wasn’t the case. I figure I’ll be like OP’s grandma someday.

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u/FuturamaGirl 6h ago

That is funny and very sweet. ❤️

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u/butelka1 6h ago

I absolutely understand her. He was a handsome fella

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u/MapNational3629 7h ago

awe

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u/SousVideDiaper 5h ago

awe as in "shock and awe" or an endearing "aww"? There's a difference

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u/Corfiz74 6h ago

Well, he sure was a snack!

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u/msabena 7h ago

That’s pretty cool!😎

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u/bartread 6h ago

And why not?

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u/PatrickTravels 3h ago

I was won over by grandma's wholesome in its 1950s unwholesomeness. ;-) Here is colourized version you can show her (if you are the same OP from the screenshot).

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u/FizzyBubbles22 6h ago

That's LOVE ❤️

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u/tediz42 5h ago

Grandparents really had entire lore we only find out decades later.

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u/James_ray88 6h ago

Pretty cool. That's pure love.

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u/Much-Gur233 6h ago

That’s actually so sweet.

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u/autumnocturn 6h ago

and she looks a lot like her grandpa

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u/JustMe1314 6h ago

She does! She's also gorgeous.

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u/TM761152 3h ago

If she winked, I could see it.

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u/Mrs-Bluveridge 5h ago

We discovered, after her death, my grandmother was pregnant at her wedding. She was 14. 

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u/motoxim 6h ago

Oh wow

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u/flemesan 4h ago

Truth be told: he would convince me too.

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u/Mahaloth 6h ago

That's awesome. He was quite the handsome dude.

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u/Oldnbold22 5h ago

Didn't take much convincing for the Catholic school girls in my home town. 

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u/Prestigious-Sir-4245 6h ago

Smooth operator

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u/Tank_Girl076 5h ago

She says she likes to see her handsome man. I think we can trust that. The rest, well, don't think about it too hard, you'll hurt yourself.

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u/Jumpy_Hogara 4h ago

This girl's great grandad died in 1991. If the photo was taken in the 1950s at least her great grandparents had been happily married for around 40 years. That being said, her great grandma was likely barely 20...

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u/apresmoiputas 5h ago

Oh he was a handsome guy who looked like he knew how to have fun.

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u/deceet 4h ago

I also want to be impregnated by this man.

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u/Texan_Poultry 4h ago

At one point in time.. all our Nana's were low key freaks.... If it wasn't for that... None of use would be here... None of us lol

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u/realMagick7777 3h ago

Damn he’d have like 2-3 baby mamas in 2026

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u/BirbInspector 3h ago

Respect to all of our thirsty lady ancestors who had to quickly plan weddings after a night in the hayloft.

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u/AffectTough7746 6h ago

He looks just like me

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u/hakunaa-matataa 6h ago

Gotta print out a Polaroid of yourself now and give it to your partner

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u/Working_Estate_3695 5h ago

And hurry, because time is the enemy.

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u/LabcoatMonkey 5h ago

Or OP’s grandma

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u/Fun-Pirate-2020 4h ago

You must be very handsome then.

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u/psychokisser 5h ago

He looks like a charmer--taking notes

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u/AgainstSpace 4h ago

That wink is a Jedi mind trick.

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u/fartdarling 4h ago

He looks like 75% jack Howard and 25% grant o'brien

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u/nikkidickie 2h ago

Honestly, same ❤️

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u/rubyspicer 2h ago

Ok yeah I can see why

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u/A1ienspacebats 6h ago

1950s cream pies hit different

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u/justabill71 6h ago

🎶 When the moon hits your eye
Like a 50s cream pie
That's amore 🎶

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u/Bghlyfe 6h ago

They called it creamed spinach back then

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u/AngriestKagg4 4h ago

NANA! There are children about!

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u/Ok-Bandicoot7329 3h ago

Looks a lot like Anthony Edwards

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u/sikemfilied 2h ago

It was well known that my moms parents were freaks for each other, including a hidden drawer of sex toys and they used to own a heart shaped bathtub to hang out with each other, plus six kids, but it was still so jarring when they made sex jokes. At 87, my grandparents were telling us about how the neighborhood messed up the property lines and the neighbor technically owned a corner of their bedroom. Grandma pipes up and says "i need to go over and meet them, find out who's sharing my bed with me" like grandma!!!!! You little freak!!! 😂😂

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u/mbp2112 2h ago

Ye Olde Thyrist Trappe.

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u/BenAdaephonDelat 2h ago

Is anyone else seeing Miles Teller or just me?

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u/lep63again 1h ago

Bona fide old guy here with 5 grandkids (mix of mine and hers). We literally have a protocol in place for disposal of the toy bag and hard drives in the event we die. At 63 I am undoubtedly having the most amazing sex of my life. You only age on the outside.

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u/Xawoger 1h ago

She is a very honest person. Love her approach to this subject.

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u/FirefighterEast9291 1h ago

He could have convinced me to get pregnant too, and I don't even have a uterus 

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u/Weird-Sherbert-1747 4h ago

Good for her 😂

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u/Low-Lingonberry7185 4h ago

Dada has game

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u/Individual-Sort5026 4h ago

She’s just a girl

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u/Javier91 4h ago

He looks kinda like the smartest sibling in Shamless

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u/Emerald_boots 2h ago

Cool grandma?

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u/PepeLeForg 2h ago

He looks a smidge like Bruce Campbell

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u/Interesting-Bee-3793 2h ago

Generational game

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u/Alegator128 2h ago

Remind me of my grandma, the first time she met my now-husband through FaceTime she looked at me and asked if he was packing. Lmfao

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u/puddingfacepunk 2h ago

Okay, get it grandma! 💕

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u/MelodicTea540 1h ago

If this were from a grandfather then this thread would be burning to the ground over pedophilia accusations.

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u/ColonialBarbarian 1h ago

At the opposite end of the spectrum my grandmother had zero information on reproduction, premarital sex was verboten so she only found out that babies didn’t come out of your bellybutton until her wedding night.

Even later in life anything having to do with “lady parts” was off limits.

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u/PantheraAuroris 1h ago

He was definitely a hot piece of ass XD A little doofy, too. Cute.

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u/Much-Location-342 1h ago

i know a breeding kink when i see it

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u/DistinctlyIrish 50m ago

Channel 5 News guy's grandpa?

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u/idealisticpessimist3 41m ago

is that grant anthony o'brien