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Jimmy Fallon is at it again. The host of The Tonight Show asked his viewers to share their best grandma quotes for the popular Hashtags segment, and they delivered. Big time.

From a 95-year-old nana meeting her grandchild's college friends to another one giving a man the finger because she didn't like the way he was driving, people flooded Fallon with the most memorable interactions they've had with their grams and it's kind of heartwarming to see that decades of life experience gives a refined flavor to your sense of humor as well as the confidence to flaunt it around.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All my friends are the same age, but I'm the oldest mentally. I totally get this

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can think of men in several age groups who would be in this boat. Consider themselves "real men" but are essentially being babysat by their partners.

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    Interestingly, we have evidence that suggests a person's sense of humor actually changes with age. Jennifer Stanley, a psychology professor at the University of Akron, gathered 30 young adults, 22 middle-aged people, and 29 senior citizens to watch a variety of different sitcom clips. The subjects rated how socially appropriate and how funny they found each clip. Stanley also used facial electromyography to determine how much the clips activated their smile muscles.

    And just to be clear, "to be coded as a smile, there had to be an upturn of the corners of the lips plus a wrinkling of the crow’s feet at the corners of the eyes, or a pushing up of the cheeks."

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    The research found that older adults were much less likely to be fans of the aggressive style of humor—laughing at the expense of others. The 64-to-84-year-olds found a clip from The Office about 23 percent less funny than the middle-aged people did, and about 19 percent less funny than the 17-to-21-year-olds did.

    Young adults were also more likely to smirk at the videos that showed self-deprecating humor, as exemplified in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry pumps his waiter for information about how much his friend left as a tip.

    The older participants, meanwhile, appreciated affiliative humor—the kind of jokes that bring people together through a funny or awkward situation. Stanley said a Golden Girls clip in which the women try to buy condoms and suffer an embarrassing price check is a good example.

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    Humor relies on the psychological idea of the benign violation: situations that are mostly wrong but also remain at least a little bit right.

    But if something is too banal, it won’t be funny. Cross the line, though, and you’ve just offended the person. Michael Scott from The Office can apparently be a little too much for older viewers.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a part in Sleepless in Seattle where the waitress said, “I’m just sayin’, I wouldn’t kick this guy outta my bed for eating crackers.”

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    So why don't grandmas find that "aggressive" humor funny you ask, young man? One explanation might be that the jokes in sitcoms have changed over time, and today's older people are just accustomed to a gentler kind of wit they were exposed to earlier.

    It's very possible that people develop a greater emotional connection to a show from their own generation—Golden Girls is a much earlier show than either The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WHAT? Abraham Lincoln wasn't a vampire hunter?! My life is a lie . . .

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    Stanley suspects a big reason for the generation gap in humor is that as people age, they experience a variety of physical and emotional setbacks—declining cognitive faculties, friends passing away—and the affiliative style of humor helps everyone deal with these losses.

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    “Other work has shown that the importance of having people close by you when you experience the physical and emotional loss of aging,” she told The Atlantic. “Maybe affiliative humor is more helpful for promoting that type of experience.”

    Stanley’s study can be handy when we're at the table with our family, trying to get through dinner without making a scene.

    To keep the peace with elders, it suggests, act a little more like Blanche Devereaux and a little less like the boorish branch manager of Dunder Mifflin.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not going to lie I did aswell for a long while as a late teen in the early 2000s, I just thought all my friends were really nice and sweet!!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once knew this guy who had the sexiest voice. I told him if he was ever out of work ,he should start a 1-900 number

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Put a towel or blanket over the screen so they cannot see your unmentionables.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    University of Michigan football stadium was and always will be "The Big House"!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol my 76 y/o Vietnam vet father yells "spark it up, bub!" whenever he smells weed, hears coughing or sees people smoking. Thick Maine accent so it sounds more like "spaahk" instead of "spark". Love him to pieces.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's judging your fiancé by the principle of "large and full of flaws" vs. " tiny and flawless"

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like that! My family would say 'too many cooks spoil the broth' but that then morphed into 'too many cooks in the kitchen' said to the tune of 'too many d***s on the dancefloor'.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sounds like one of those stories aristocratic women in the 1700s would make up to justify why they couldn't perform manual labor.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would you punish a kid for that? It was very rarely I would keep a kid in, and in this case I would probably laugh! I mean I would say the obligatory, 'that's not a polite way to say it' but some teachers get all over the top about minor things.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a second line that my family uses. S*!t fire and save the matches. F*(k a duck and see what hatches.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Elegant women smell of Chanel, perfect women smell of Bolognese"

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandma used to call a couch a davenport, too. Sometimes, a divan, but usually a davenport.

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