• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    I guess I’m “this old”? I remember watching the Berlin wall get smashed on TV, and the collapse of the soviet Union a year or two later. I was a Lil kid in the U.S, so both events meant fuck all to me. I was busy being awesome in my MC Hammer parachute pants.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I was really confused why my mom was crying because people were breaking a wall down.

      And then Knight Rider was there for some reason.

      And then we got a small bag of concrete in the mail that was apparently from the wall that made my mom cry.

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      9 days ago

      In sign language I cannot remember: “We are the World, we are the children…”

      That old…