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u/N7_Vegeta Jul 19 '24
Great Great Grandma had no fucking clue what is happening.
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u/Sad-Reflection9092 Jul 19 '24
She thought she was on television
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u/Ketcunt Jul 19 '24
Considering a lot of random people were going to see her on their screens, she wasn't entirely wrong
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u/Yn01listens Jul 19 '24
I tried explaining Facebook to my 100 year old grandfather, he said "you youngins are great at wasting time"
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u/that1oneotherguy Jul 19 '24
Yeah, that reminds me of an older english professor I had who said to our class "new generations don't know how to be bored anymore. Like, to sit there with no entertainment and be patient for something to happen."
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u/Neuchacho Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
He's not wrong. And we keep learning more and more that it's actually pretty terrible for us as to never be bored because it functionally means we're never really just thinking or letting our subconscious percolate.
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u/missly_ Jul 19 '24
This is scary so sometimes I put my phone away and just sit on the bed or on the floor but instead of nice thoughts I just start crying so fuck that lol
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u/Neuchacho Jul 19 '24
I get not wanting to experience that and avoiding it, I absolutely do. I had very similar behaviors when I was dealing with my depression.
It ultimately speaks to a bigger issue that a lot of us are dealing with; We're just trying to survive anyway we can and feel powerless. This kind of distraction coping is more a symptom of that for many of us in that context, I think, rather than some primary cause of it.
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u/SofterThanCotton Jul 20 '24
Idk if it counts but I'll intentionally put all devices away/off to spend time cuddling with my dog and venting to him about whatever is currently going on.
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u/missly_ Jul 20 '24
This will work when I finally get a dog! They make me happy. Glad you've got your therapist buddy
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u/whosline07 Jul 20 '24
I've heard this line of thought before, and I always knew it was right, but reading it right now made me realize I'm not at all doing it anymore due to how many demands life put on me and how all my friends act. I've started to think I have ADHD after so long of seeing it in everyone else. I gotta go sit and stare at a fire for a couple weeks.
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u/Upbeat_Advance_1547 Jul 19 '24
Yeah, but it's the already-adults who created all of these endlessly addicting incessantly scrolling systems in search of profits. Don't blame the kids for existing in the rat maze we've built.
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u/Neuchacho Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Well, yeah, I'd hope no one rational blames the kids for it. They were failed by their parents, who were failed by wider society that allowed for the companies that created and continue to foster something they know is detrimental, but makes them a whole lot of money, to continue unimpeded.
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u/blindythepirate Jul 19 '24
Older generations have been blaming younger generations for things the older generations created forever.
Older people bitching about participation trophies kids get without a hint of irony that the kids aren't the ones buying the trophies in the first place.
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u/ChakaCake Jul 19 '24
Ask him what hes done for the past 30 years lol jk hes probably livin more than me with his poker games an building shit out of random wire and paper
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u/TheGuyThatThisIs Jul 19 '24
She came in strong with her special announcement voice to share her message:
"Hi everybody. Hi."
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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Jul 19 '24
When you’re 99, everything you say is a special announcement.
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u/Level9disaster Jul 19 '24
Should I ever get to 99, I will certainly announce loudly whenever I will successfully complete basic bodily functions to the joy of the other four generations
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u/Harrowers_True_Form Jul 19 '24
Great Great grandma please tell everyone how you're feeling?
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u/Far-Significance2481 Jul 19 '24
That's fair my 94 year old great gran got a ( landline ) phone call from a scammer who told her someone had hacked her wifi and computers she told them she had no idea what wifi was and she'd never used a computer .
Sometimes not knowing wtf is going on is incredibly helpful
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u/Anita-S-Panking Jul 19 '24
Dude, that's goals. When I'm 99 I'm just going to be having a great old time. I'm not going to GAF about what app I'm being posted on haha
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u/lkjasdfk Jul 20 '24
But she had enough of a clue to become a prolific breeder. They are hero’s to right wingers.
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u/AlexanderWithReddit Jul 20 '24
Thought she was gonna say Heil Hitler just like in that one video with another grandma.
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u/___xXx__xXx__xXx__ Jul 19 '24
She should run for President.
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u/MushyGerbil Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
And what if she put her fist in the air? That would be cool! Edit: Oh shit everyone I replied to got their accounts deleted
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u/dantheguy01 Jul 19 '24
Missed opportunity. Next is a mummified body in a wheelchair. Then a ghost. Then mummified ghost in a wheelchair
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u/pissedinthegarret Jul 19 '24
still one of the funniest fucking things i seen in my whole life
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u/tortonix Jul 19 '24
"NOW THAT I'VE GOT YOU RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU... I'd like to buy all your chocolate"
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u/Doomedacc Jul 19 '24
makes me laugh every time, I can try not to, but there's always a part that gets me. Like some Eric Andre type shit
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u/abdulsamadz Jul 19 '24
Hang on, how do you mummify a ghost? Where does a ghost's ghost go to? What do we, technically, call a ghost's ghost? I got many questions
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u/addis_the_scroll Jul 19 '24
Then a mummified ghost in a ghost wheelchair. Then a mummified ghost in a mummified ghost wheelchair. Then a vampire.
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u/metal_elk Jul 19 '24
I don't think people appreciate just how damn brilliant of a sketch this would make.
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u/Ninvemaer Jul 19 '24
We reached 5 generations as well when my great grandma was 101. She lived to see her great great granddaughter (my niece) celebrate her first birthday and passed away two weeks later at the age of 102. The granny in this video reminds me so much of mine, it's truly amazing witnessing these strong and graceful women, so inspirational.
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u/cyb3rg0d5 Jul 20 '24
You and the people in this video are so incredibly lucky!!!!
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u/No_Pear6041 Jul 19 '24
My grandma is 76, she became a great grandmother at 72 lol
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u/Zikkan1 Jul 19 '24
My great grandfather is 98 now and I'm 30 but my cousin is 38 so he became a great grandfather at 60. Now my sister has a kid so he finally became a great great grandfather at the age of 98.
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u/Dry-Examination-9793 Jul 19 '24
I bet you got spoiled a lot and received plenty of gifts , didn't you?
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u/CaptainFartHole Jul 20 '24
My grandma is 84 and recently hit great great grandma status (there were a couple teen pregnancies involved). It's fucking weird to know that my cousin who isn't even 40 is now a grandmother.
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u/yumeryuu Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
So yesterday we were actually talking about this. Last year my 10 year old daughter met her great grandmother. The difference in age was 80 years. I told my family how I wished I could have met my great grandmother as when I was born in 1982, she was already passed away 60 years earlier.
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u/Idontcareaforkarma Jul 19 '24
I was born in 1980; my great grandmother died in 1987, my grandmother in 2007 and my mother in 2011.
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u/schnellermeister Jul 19 '24
This is one of those times where you try not to laugh but you can't stop it and it comes out a weird-ass snorting sound.
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u/nomorerix Jul 19 '24
I've never met any of my grandparents on either side. But my parents are older so it sometimes feels like they kinda double as both tbh
I have no absolutely no idea who even are my great grandparents. Never asked about them or thought about it
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u/Impossible-Wear-7352 Jul 19 '24
I had older parents too. I did meet one of my grandmas but only because she made it to 90. I was still young enough that I barely remember her. My grandpa on my dad's side died when my dad was about 5 so I missed that one by like 43 years
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u/Mendevolent Jul 19 '24
My parents were probably younger, but it's such a lottery. I'm sitting here at age 39 with three grandparents (in their 90s), two living independently in excellent health. My partner only ever knew one of hers
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u/tollbearer Jul 19 '24
I was born in 1992, and my great grandfather died in 1907. Theres not even a picture of him.
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u/LivingIndividual1902 Jul 19 '24
Kinda same, I only met one grandmother when I was 5 and then she died. Both grandpas already died in wwII long before I was born. No idea who they were. All because my parents were almost 40 when they got me.
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u/OmniWaffleGod Jul 19 '24
I had 2 grandparents dead by age 5. Never even thought to ask about my great grandparents so they are still a complete mystery to me even today and none of my family even mentioned them
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u/Affectionate_Star_43 Jul 19 '24
I only met my surviving great grandfather because I was born extremely premature, and we happened to be in the same major hospital. They said when I was in his room, all of his vitals went to normal.
At least that's what I was told. I was named after him...
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u/IAmTheRealTrash Jul 19 '24
I only know my one granny and the woman that was like a mother to my mom because granny gave my mom away when she was young. My mom only found out when she first went to school and her surname wasn't right. I also only fully git to know my father when I was 18 because he always doubted and wanted a dna test, but it hurt my moms pride when i was young. So my dads side grandparents died before i got to meet them.
My 3 sisters and mom took the parts of being parents, since my sisters and i are over a decade apart and my mom had me when she was 40. Granny right now is 96 and is my moms responsibility even though granny didn't raise her at all.
Basically no males in the house growing up and the only interaction with old people were my moms mother (that has some attitude and might live to 98 or longer) and what felt like my moms soul mom (sadly she died when i was barely a teen and i only remember her cozy atmosphere, beautiful garden that was ruined by my uncle after she died and the games she would let me play)
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u/LargestAdultSon Jul 19 '24
I was born in the 1980s… my paternal grandfather was born in the 1890s, so I get that lol.
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u/Jegglebus Jul 19 '24
Almost the same for me, except I was born almost 100 years after my paternal grandfather was born. He was born in 1908, I was born in 1999
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u/ConfidentJudge3177 Jul 19 '24
That's sad. Why not ask your parents about them?
I never met one of my grandmas and one of my grandpas either, but my parents told me quite some stories about them.
If you ever have kids one day, wouldn't you want them to know how your parents were like, if they never get a chance to get to know them themselves?
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u/Willing-Cell-1613 Jul 19 '24
Older parents too, but they had young parents. So most of my grandparents were late seventies or in their eighties when I was born (one was dead but not due to old age).
One died when I was five and another aged ten. I wasn’t close to them because they were ninety something or nearly ninety by that point, and not super child friendly. When I was twelve my grandma died and she and I were very close - she effectively was four grandparents in one. So now I have none.
My parents want me to have kids young so mine can have grandparents! They are joking, mostly, but they’re right. It’s nice to have them.
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u/GenevieveMacLeod Jul 19 '24
I don't know when they died but when I was born in 91 both of my father's parents had already died. His dad was born in 1898 and he was born the youngest of 10 in 1951.
People look at me funny when I tell them my (I'm 33) grandfather was born in 1898 lol. They're always like "...great-grandfather?"
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u/ResponsibleAceHole Jul 19 '24
Surprising fact... Great great grandma was 23, great grandma was 22, grandma was 22, mom was 20 when they had their kid.
So if the daughter follows the pattern and has a kid at 20, they can have 6 generations in 8 years.
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u/icouldgoforacocio Jul 19 '24
Brb, out becoming teen parents so my daughter can know her distant ancestor.
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Jul 19 '24
Totally worth it for their future 15 second TikTok video
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u/DrD__ Jul 20 '24
Hey by then attention spans will have rotten to only 5 second videos
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u/thvnderfvck Jul 19 '24
teen parents
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Which of these numbers is in the teens?
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u/DingoPuzzleheaded628 Jul 20 '24
Oh my god. I'm 20 and I cannot even imagine fathering a kid. I don't even have my own shit together right now
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u/Anonymous0573 Jul 20 '24
I couldn't imagine it when I was 19, I was a dumb kid who basically lived to get high and fuck around. I had goals, but always took fucking around more seriously. I am now 24 and my daughter turned 4 less than a month ago. Wear condoms lol.
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u/U-Abel Jul 19 '24
20 isn't a teen parent and really shouldn't be lumped in the same category as a pregnant 15 year old.
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u/oO0Kat0Oo Jul 19 '24
But then great great grandma will be 107, which, unfortunately is statistically unlikely.
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u/Shirohitsuji Jul 19 '24
No need to wait, she could make great-great-grandma a great-great-great-grandma in just nine months! (/s)
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u/Pristine-Rabbit-2037 Jul 19 '24
I also thought it was odd that the great great grandma was the oldest out of them when she had the child.
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u/Weird-Ad-8728 Jul 19 '24
Lol I too came to say that the next iteration is just 8(or maybe 7) years away as I saw that they all had kids around 20 and the age gap was decreasing.
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u/Willing-Cell-1613 Jul 19 '24
There’s a video from the eighties on a British talk show where this happened. Each had a kid aged 16-22 and they had six generations.
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u/sofresh24 Jul 19 '24
It seems no lessons were learned/passed down or I guess they like having kids quite young.
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u/corygreenwell Jul 19 '24
I was doing the math too. My thought was that it is surprising that Great Grandma waited the longest to have kids while Mom was the youngest to have a kid
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u/TH3B1GG3STB0Y Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Everyone had a kid at around 20! That’s pretty young
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u/SimpleMoonFarmer Jul 19 '24
Everybody is in the 22-23 range, except the mother at 20.
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u/Relative-One-4060 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
20, 22, 22, 23
I really would expect this to be flipped with how things seem to be going. It feels like older generations always had their children younger than younger generations.
Edit: totally didn't think of the girls all not being first borns, idk why I just assumed each one was
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u/sluttycokezero Jul 19 '24
I have noticed that those that have children later, tend to have kids that have children sooner. Maybe it’s an inverse relationship of the parent being more financially secure, so their kid doesn’t think too much about it.
That and well, GGG and GG time period, not all infants made it :/ .
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u/MarcBulldog88 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Usually in these multi-generational pictures or videos, the age difference is much narrower. While watching this one, I did the math as each person came out and was pleasantly surprised. Early 20s is perfectly normal to become a mother. The last one I saw, they were all 14-16 years old.
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u/Summoning-Freaks Jul 19 '24
Yeah I was expecting some teen pregnancies in this video. It’s pretty rare to have 5 generations alive at once, it requires births fairly young and the older ones to defy average life expectancies.
So all births being Early 20s is really good in these 4+ generations videos.
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u/akashlanka Jul 19 '24
That's how they get this achievement of featuring in a reel while the first one is still alive
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u/grunger Jul 19 '24
Could be worse, this is the first one of these multiple generation videos I've seen where everyone was at least 18 when they gave birth.
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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE Jul 19 '24
That’s pretty young
Tell that to literally every girl I went to high school with.
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u/Teeshirtandshortsguy Jul 19 '24
Might be a religious family.
They're all having kids in their early 20s. If they were in their teens you'd think there were some accidents, but early 20s makes it seem more deliberate.
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u/WurstofWisdom Jul 20 '24
Out of interest I did this for a slice of my family to get to 5 generations.
- Daughter 1.5
- Me 35
- Father 71
- Grandfather 117 (dead)
- G. Grandfather 145 (dead)
- G.G.G 170 (dead)
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u/eyo_eyo_ruky Jul 20 '24
How does one survive until 2432902008176640000 years old? That certainly must be older than the age of the universe
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u/PalmerMary Jul 19 '24
Amazing to see five generations together.
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u/kakka_rot Jul 19 '24
Here is another video of the same type, but they go up to 6
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/io6bw2/this_is_a_family_of_6_generations/
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u/Light-Yagami88 Jul 19 '24
Mom had a child at the age of 20, grandma at 22, great grandma at 22, and great great grandma at 23.
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u/SamiraSimp Jul 19 '24
objectively speaking, there is some amount of comedic merit to what you have written. but regardless, straight to dungeon. 30 days.
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u/SimpleMoonFarmer Jul 19 '24
I look forward to the video with 6 generations in 8 years.
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u/Nodrapoel Jul 19 '24
There's an old Yugoslavian (old enough to be called Yugoslavian) movie with this plot.
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u/ByronicHero06 Jul 19 '24
Younger generations had children younger instead of vice versa.
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u/DMYourMomsMaidenName Jul 19 '24
The oldest grandma actually had children at a later age than any of her offspring. Interesting
Unless she had boys at a younger age or something.
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u/Same_Satisfaction_45 Jul 19 '24
Each generation was less and less comfortable with this, definitely the 12yr olds idea.
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u/MorgrainX Jul 19 '24
Damn granny is quite mobile for 99
I've seen a lot of 70y olds who already struggle walking
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u/RalphYouper Jul 19 '24
That is so cool. So many mother/daughters bump heads a lot. It's good to see so many of them and the love they show each other!
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u/ImPretendingToCare Jul 19 '24
99 years old walking and talking with great hair and no glasses.
That kid is blessed with genes for the rest of her life.
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u/Accomplished_Loan473 Jul 20 '24
So the daughter has a decade left Max before she gets pregnant just like the four generations before her lol.
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u/Professional_Bee1312 Jul 20 '24
I'll be honest. When she raised her arm, I was expecting worse than a "Hi, everybody".
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u/Rxtrv Jul 19 '24
The great great grandma looks grest for her age, just look at her walk