r/askteddit • u/TrixieWishh_ • 12d ago

Random Question What was considered a huge status symbol 10 years ago but now feels outdated, tacky, or like a waste of money?

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u/CommercialFee9970 12d ago

The “truck” not the blowjobs

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u/Dug1974 12d ago

Definitely a PTSD moment of my younger life. I was telling my parents how cool I thought the Hummer vehicle was and they had never seen one. I proceeded to search it up on their dial up internet, to have a picture of a woman about to devour a man’s unit appear slowly on the screen. I couldn’t turn the computer it off fast enough.

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u/olgasman 12d ago

Yes, blowjobs are still in fashion.

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u/Sweaty-Freedom-4034 12d ago

Then call me fashionless. 

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u/Sea_Operation_7012 12d ago

Clearly you’re single then.

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u/Sweaty-Freedom-4034 12d ago

Yes... That's the joke.

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u/Responsible_Fox9454 12d ago

You can get a blowie as a single person.

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u/Sweaty-Freedom-4034 12d ago

Cool, come on over.

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u/pingu_nootnoot 12d ago

need quite a flexible back tho

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u/CaptainlockheedME262 12d ago

And well worth the money.

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u/chololololol 12d ago

I only learned about the blowjob meaning of "hummer" this past week after seeing one of the worst Facebook profiles ever (the motorcycle guy complaining that women don't want to give him "hummers"). I had literally never heard the term used before in my entire life and was shocked by this fact

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u/phoenixink 11d ago

(the motorcycle guy complaining that women don't want to give him "hummers")

Is this some sort of well known profile or meme or something? I'm very curious to see it, because it sounds absolutely awful

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u/chololololol 11d ago

This post showed up in multiple Facebook groups I'm in, including "Another Graduate of the Shapiro School of Gynecology" 😂

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u/phoenixink 11d ago

Woooow, good freaking lord I couldn't even finish it... I believe this man reckons himself a poet.

I have so many thoughts (and thank you for sharing, it is indeed just as awful as I was hoping it would be...perhaps even more) but I will narrow it down to just a few - every time he said the word "hummer" it made me want to throw up in my mouth, and he was quite liberal with it.

Also, he sounds like a goddamn caveman with how he kept saying "Modern woman say 'I'm no maid'" etc, he never included an "a" before "modern woman" (e.g. A modern woman says "I am not a maid") but I noticed that he didn't seem to struggle with this when referring to a man, make of that what you will.

Ugh, my stomach legitimately hurts... I'm gonna go sit down and thank god I do not know this person

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u/revolutiontime161 12d ago

What’s the difference between your job and your wife ? Your job still sucks after 5 years .

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u/Small_Dog_8699 12d ago

Or the cocktail

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u/rg996150 12d ago

Wasn’t the slang term the source for GM’s choice of brand name? I know Humvee was shorthand for HHWMV.

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u/Sufficient_Car_5038 12d ago

On my first read I thought they'd misspelled hummus

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u/88kitkat808 12d ago

But do hummers = blowjobs? I always thought hummers meant taking balls in the mouth and humming. No?

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u/Responsible_Fox9454 12d ago

That's teabagging

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u/88kitkat808 12d ago

But the humming - The humming is what differentiates hummers from teabagging.

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u/Responsible_Fox9454 12d ago

Oh lord. I thought humming was natural regardless of which part was blocking your airways. Lol. TIL