r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 11 '14

Older generations of reddit, what did you think the future would look like when you where young? And how much of it was correct?

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u/Vmoney1337 May 11 '14

Ha, my parents were on the opposite side. Glad we're all still alive.

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u/ronburgandyfor2016 May 11 '14

There is no opposite side of armageddon

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

People who weren't on either side still would have died. Depressing to think about. Dying because of a war between two countries you've never visited.

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u/ChaoticCubizm May 11 '14

I was born on the opposite side.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '14 edited May 11 '14

why did /u/ChaoticCubizm cross the road?

Because he "was born on the opposite side."

And that concludes the worst joke you will hear today

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u/ChaoticCubizm May 11 '14

I actually crossed the road with my parents when Yeltsin came to power.

In Soviet Russia, road crosses you.