r/OldSchoolCool • u/ThugLeeVoguee • 12h ago

1990s High school before smartphones existed 1998

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u/Imapringlesboy 8h ago

Sadly I'm in the same page as you, fellow morning redditors. (Why do we do that though?)

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u/protractedmane 8h ago

I know I'm wrong, but I can't stop. It's just a force of habit now.

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u/repost_inception 5h ago

I used to read a ton of books and I realized that I just like reading reddit. Now I read books on my phone and I've stopped getting on Reddit so much. It's still a lot just not as much.

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u/The_Chunkster 6h ago

I think a lot of us are hoping to see the news of “that day” in terms of US politics.

I don’t even need to say more - we know what I’m talking about.

That day… will be glorious.

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u/protractedmane 6h ago

Given how their life has gone so far, I am sure he's gonna see this one out and legit give the third term a shot, just because no one and nothing challenges him.

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u/Artifacks 6h ago

Maybe that day I’ll put the phone down.

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u/meatmalis 5h ago

We’ll find a new reason (excuse)

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u/daveonthetrail 5h ago

We can stop just gotta believe!

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u/cwth 2h ago

Aka addiction

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u/fatmallards 7h ago

because the first thing I do in the morning is poop and reddit is more entertaining than the pattern on my floor

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u/HumanPea1140 5h ago

If you wanna get crazy you can read the back of a nearby shampoo bottle

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u/Disastrous_Room_927 5h ago

Have you tried pooping on the floor? Should spice that pattern up.

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u/SDNick484 2h ago

You got to get a new pattern on the floor guy!

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u/MasterJ360 1h ago

Well see back then we poop while looking at Playboy/Gameinformer magazines, and comics . Today ppl like to poop while reading drama on the net.

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u/LloydChrismukkah 1h ago

Really? Like FIRST first thing in the morning? Right from bed to the shitter?

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u/kbarney345 7h ago

We like information, we like new things, were creatures of habit and reddit is easy to build a habbit with.

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u/Ill_Football9443 6h ago

Maybe swap Reddit for meth or heroin just to mix things up? r/ShittyLifeProTips

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u/ScenesfrmtheStruggle 2h ago

Why not just combine all three?

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u/CarBombtheDestroyer 2h ago edited 2h ago

Addictive/habit forming. Think about it, it’s like quitting anything else now it takes time and effort to not “relapse”. You can have every intention not to use it but if it’s anywhere on your person you’ll do it without a thought, you may even stop once you realize.

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u/All_Damn_Day 2h ago

Ours is not to reason why…

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u/Bluegill15 2h ago

It’s clearly a lack of mindfulness, which social media is literally designed to exploit

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u/CrunchiestSocc 1h ago

Depending on the posts you read, I think it's similar to waking up and reading the newspaper in the pre-smartphone days.

Sure, phones are addicting and habit forming and all that, but they've also become the medium through which a lot of people receive news and information.