Angry Old Man Meme Generator
Your nephew asks about your gap year and you mention a hostel in Lisbon. Somebody within earshot sighs about "kids these days" and a lecture about walking to school begins. The school was, apparently, uphill. Both directions.
A film is re-released for its anniversary, and the grandparent in the row behind insists the original was better, because in their day they saw it on a screen the size of a garage door. Nobody asked. Nobody ever does.
Someone mentions their phone has three cameras. A voice from the armchair says that in the old days one camera was enough, and it was the family's, and you blinked, and you ruined it. Photographs cost real money, apparently.
You tell the neighbour you're working from home on Friday. He folds his arms and says that in his day work was something you went out and did, in the rain, with a flask, for forty years, and nobody ever asked how he felt about it.
Why it caught on: the picture shows an elderly man in a top hat, round spectacles and a grey scarf, scowling and jabbing a finger at the camera, and people captioned it with every "back in my day" grumble they could think of. It spread because the pose does the work for you: the pointed finger, the squint and the Victorian costume suit a rant about youngsters, hills and the good old days, and everyone has sat through one.
Best Angry Old Man posts
- Back in my day we didn't go backpacking around europe / WE BOMBED THE SHIT OUT OF IT
- back in my day / all girls were hot
- back in my day / star wars and indiana jones were just trilogies!
- up hill / both ways
- memegenerator / go fuck yourself
- I will beat you in the head my cane! / You better take back what you said!
- BACK IN MY DAY / THE FACEBOOK HAD A DISLIKE BUTTON
- You can not solve a problem / with the same mind that created it ...
- Back in my day we didn't go backpacking around europe / i bombed the shit out of it
- don't fuck with me sonny / you'll wake up in the tube
- Back in my day, "atm", / Meant "automated teller machine".
- Back in my day, we didn't need vulgar language, / To make our fucking point.
- last time i flew over berlin / we were too busy dropping bombs to land
- back in my day / we used runes to teleport
- Back in my day / we only had 150 Pokemon
- hey you kids / get off my lawn!
- Back in my days men were men / not women
- Hey, You Fool! / Go And Study!!!!
- ur gonna get the / poopfinga
- back in my day / rwt was against the rules