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50 Times People Realized Their Grandparents Were Cooler Than Them

Recently we asked you to send us your pictures of your grandparents acting cool in their younger days, and you certainly didn't disappoint us. Now we're bringing you more examples of your grandparents being super smooth in their heyday. From grandmas chilling with Ernest Hemingway and modeling Volvos in the 1950s to grandfathers sledding through Antarctica, pulling off motorbike stunts, and even playing with their pet polar bears, this list, compiled by Bored Panda, will make you wonder just what on earth you're doing with your life. Don't forget to vote for the coolest character!

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50 Times People Realized Their Grandparents Were Cooler Than Them

Grandma Sent Me A Picture Of My Grandpa At My Age To Make Me Feel Like Shit

My Great Grandfather Gave Einstein Violin Lessons

My Grandparents Wearing Each Other's Clothes, 1943

My Grandmother, 1940s

Granny On The Wing Of My Dad's Cropduster Plane. She Did This A Few Times That I Know Of

My Grandmother. This Picture Was Next To Her Coffin At Her Funeral (Late 60s Or Early 70s)

My Granny (Nicknamed Kidd) Wasn't Allowed To Join The Air Force Because She Was A Woman. So She Taught Young Men To Fly In Stephenville, Texas During WW2 - 1940s

My Grandfather The Day Before He Shipped Out With The Marines, 1941

My Grandmother Right After She Ran Away From Communistic Bulgaria To Germany (1978)

Photo Of My Grandfather Exiting His Plane After Getting Shot Down

My Favorite Picture Of My Grandmother, 1942. She's Strong, Raised Six Children On Her Own After Leaving An Alcoholic Husband. Worked 7 Days A Week As A Cook In A Gas Station From 3 Am - 5 Pm. I Would Stay Every Weekend With Her And Sleep On The Floor Of The Gas Station Back Then. She's Amazing

My Crazy Grandfather

My Grandfather Was Into Cosplay Before It Was "The Thing To Do"

My Very Cool Grandpa In The 1950s Holding A Fish, Smoking A Cigarette, With A Book Tucked Into His Pants And Cigarette Pack In His Sleeve

My Grandma Smoking Her Cigarette On The Farm. Wearing Pants And Doing Whatever The Hell She Wanted, 1938

WW2 - My Badass Grandpa With A Car He Stole From Nazis

I Recently Lost My Grandmother To Cancer. This Will Always Be One Of My Favorite Photo Of Her

My Grandmother With Then-Mercury 7 Astronauts John Glenn, Gus Grissom, And Alan Shepherd (September 14th, 1959)

My Great Grandfather Showing Off One Of The Horses He Trained For WW1 - Petawawa, ~1922

My Great-Great Grandfather, The Samurai Of A Small Coal Mining Town In Kyushu, Posing With My Grandmother And One Of Her Sisters ~1900

My Great Grandmother, Working As A Welder During WW2

My Grandfather Died Today. I Want To Tell You What A Fucking Badass He Was

My Grandma Recently Passed. My Grandpa Sent Me This Picture So I Could Know What Man Looks Like When He Is In Love. They Were Married 60+ Years

If I Could Only Be Half As Badass As My Grandfather This Memorial Day, Circa 1960

My Great Grandpa Eddie. Omaha 1939

My Grandma As An Air Traffic Controller. She Would Have Been 97 On 3/11

My Grandfather's Badass Swandive, 1930

My Finnish Grandfather Smoking A Cigarette And Holding A Wild Fox That He Befriended (Circa 1975)

This Photo Always Puts A Smile On My Face. Our 86-Year-Old Grandmother Back In The Day

My Grandma Modeling In Her Flight Attendant Uniform - 1972

My Great-Grandmother In Her New Car. She Was Most Likely The First Indian Woman In The Western US To Own A Car (April 7, 1916)

Grandmother Died Last Week, She Was A Naval Nurse

My Grandparents In 1960, On A Date. My Favorite Picture

So Apparently My Grandpa Was A Badass

My Grandmother On Her Harley In 1926

My Grandpa's FBI Academy Photo. He Worked As A Spy Recruiter During The Cold War

My Grandmother Demonstrating The Three-Point Belt As A Model For Volvo In 1959

The Last Photo In My Grandparents Wedding Album (1954)

My Grandfather Defusing A Bomb On Martin Luther King's Porch. He Was Buried Three Years Ago On MLK Day

My Grandmother Turned 98 This Week. This Is Her In Her Full Nursing Uniform During WW2

My Stud Grandfather Circa WW2. He Watched Pearl Harbor Happen In Hawaii, Joined Up And Fought On A Gunboat At Iwo Jima That Was Hit By Enemy Fire. He Surfed With Legends In Honolulu. He Was A Barber For 60 Years

Ernest Hemingway And My Grandma Having A Chat In Havana, Cuba 1952

My Friend's Grandparents, California, 1940s

My Grandmother Looked Like Arya Stark In 1936

My Grandfather On A Motorcycle He Stole From A Nazi, Weeks After American Troops Liberated Him From A Concentration Camp In Landsberg, Germany (May 1945). He Had Spent 4 Years In Concentration Camps Around Poland And Germany

My Grandmother With Sultan, Her Favorite Lion From Her Troop, In Front Of Her Plane She Flew Just After WW2 (1947)

My Grandfather After Winning 1st Place In The County Beard Contest. The Hat Was His Prize. Circa 1954

I Would Always Call My Grandmother On Mother's Day, And Have Missed That Call For A Few Years Now. Thought I Would Share This In Her Honor

My Grandma (Top) Was A Badass In Ww2 (1940s)

Don't Mess With My Great Grandmother Emma Hagen, Woman Homesteader In North Dakota, 1910s

My Grandmother (Left) Kissing Louis Armstrong 1954/55

A Photo Of Herself That My Grandmother Sent To My Grandfather When He Was Away At War, 1943

My Grandmother Singing Backup For Frank Sinatra, 1949

My Grandfather In 1958 With His Fresh New Haircut And 5 Pet Flying Squirrels

One Of The Only Photographs Of My Grandmother. I Only Wish I Had The Pleasure Of Meeting Her

My Great Grandfather, Clearly Quite Impressed With Himself, Had Just Built His Perkins County, South Dakota Homestead When This Photo Was Taken In 1909

Constance, My Great Grandmother, Living It Up In Brooklyn - 1920s

Apparently My Grandpa Was A Badass - He Dove Under Submarines In The North Atlantic Carrying Heavy Welding Equipment

Found This Magazine Clipping Of My Grandmother. She Used To Model And No One Ever Knew This About Her

My Grandparents Travelled The World In 1961. They Did It Again 35 Years Later And Wrote A Book About It. They Inspire Me

My Great-Grandfather Albert. He Was Shot, Stabbed, Gassed, And On This Day In 1917, Was The Only Man To Return From A Trench Raiding Party

My Nana, My Best Friend, Passed Away Last Week At The Age Of 77. Here She Is At 18 During Her Modeling Days

Found A Bunch Of My Grandfather's Bodybuilding Photos! He's Going To Be 98 This Year And Still Rides His Exercise Bike Daily

Just My Grandfather As A 19-Year-Old DJ In Tripoli, 1948

My Badass Grandpa

My 4-Greats Grandpa Was Handsome And Dangerous (Circa 1860)

I Found A Picture Of My Grandparents Back In The '30s Looking Awesome

My Grandfather Died Last Week, We Found A Photo Of Him From His Younger Days. Classy As Fuck

My Grandparents Traveling For National Geographic

My Grandfather Surveying In Alaska 1950. He Was A Cartographer For The USGS

Realizing I’ll Never Be As Cool As My Grandparents (1949)

My Grandfather (Left) And A Friend Of His In Front Of The Central Station In Hamburg, Germany. He Was A Chimney Sweeper. This Picture Was Taken In 1948

My Grandparents Taking A Mirror Selfie In The Mid 1960s On Their Super8 Camera

My Grandparents In The 1950s With One Of Their Motorcycles

My Grandpa With His Sled Dogs In Antarctica 1953(Ish)

So Proud Of My Grandfather - WW2 Vet With Class

The World Needs To See This Picture Of My Grandfather Waterskiing

My Grandpa And Grandma Circa 1950

Since You Guys Liked Him, Here Is My Grandfather Again, Mapping The Continental Divide. Colorado, 1953