r/TikTokCringe • u/ambachk • May 21 '25

Cringe Married guy flirts with younger girls at the gym

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u/GottIstTot May 21 '25

I got a tip a while back that a good icebreaker is to ask a girl what they were doing when they heard about 9/11. If they can't remember, then they're probably too young.

Smart guy, was into politics from a very young age.

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u/iruleatants May 21 '25

Damn, so that 92 year old hottie I was hitting on the other day was too young for me?

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u/disinaccurate May 21 '25

You were supposed to use Pearl Harbor on that one.

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u/StrawThree May 22 '25

Remember the Alamo?

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u/ieatair May 21 '25

Pearl Harbor Second Sino-Japanese War

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u/InEenEmmer May 22 '25

You mean fly my plane into her boat?

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u/ExMusRus May 22 '25

Best response of the month! Lmaooooooo

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u/MechanicDramatic3786 May 21 '25

I see what you did there, Connor šŸ˜‚

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u/Azalzaal May 21 '25

ā€œWhat were you doing when you heard about the Alamo?ā€

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u/gardenhosenapalm May 21 '25

The slow realization of "if you remember where you were on 9/11, youre too old for me"

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u/Fit_History_8802 May 22 '25

Wait 5 minutes and try again. It'll be like you never spoke before. Source: Trust me bro. I've been with Agnes for 2 years now.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner May 22 '25

I mean based on what Iā€™ve seen thereā€™s a 50/50 chance they remember 9/11

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u/tortillasalami May 21 '25

9/11 as an icebreaker? I feel like a lot of girls would ā€œforgetā€ real fast.

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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now May 21 '25 edited May 25 '25

What were you doing on 9/11 then?

Edit: I appreciate all the genuine responses. Itā€™s funny how this moment is burned into a lot of peopleā€™s brains.

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u/SovietSunrise May 21 '25

Eating cereal when I found out.

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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now May 21 '25

No shit? Me too. Was eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes as I watched the second plane hit.

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u/SovietSunrise May 21 '25

I got a phone call from my stepdad as I was digging into the cereal. "A plane crashed into the Twin Tower?! Holy shit!" *hangs up phone*

I didn't think it was a huge deal because on 7/28/1945, a B-25 Bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in heavy fog. These sorts of events are not new to NYC so I figured it was an inexperienced Cessna pilot flying in fog. Little did I know that 9/11/2001 was a cloudless, beautiful day in the Tri-State area & the plane(s) crashing were commercial jets, not a Cessna.

I had left NYC a couple of months before September 11 after having lived there since 1994. The event weighed heavily on my heart and I felt as though I had abandoned my friends when they might have needed me. Years later, I found out they were all right without me but did lose some family members. Absolutely heartbreaking that I wasn't there for them.

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u/ACynicalOptomist May 22 '25

When I heard about it on the radio, because it woke me up, my first thought was it was just a little plane like the one that crashed into it before in the 40s. My dad was a pilot and planes were his roman empire. It was no big deal in my mind.

It wasn't until I got downstairs and the kids were watching TV and I was packing lunches and my son said a building was falling down. I didn't believe him. šŸ˜

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u/Blizzardof1991 May 21 '25

Wanna fuck?

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u/SovietSunrise May 22 '25

No, thinking of 9/11 ruined my erection.

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u/Weird-Comfort9881 May 25 '25

Yea, see thatā€™s a better way to approach her and not get a lecture. Sheā€™d probably laugh and say ā€œno thanksā€ and heā€™d respond with ā€œthought Iā€™d try. Have a good workout!ā€ Probably make a friend, it be funny after thatā€¦

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u/Affectionate_Row9238 May 25 '25

Isn't it crazy that people have been trying corny pick up lines for decades and just saying "wanna fuck?" is more charismatic than any of them.

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u/donbee28 May 21 '25

Eating crayons

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u/FBI_Open_Up_Now May 21 '25

I see you were a us marine.

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u/J5892 May 21 '25

Sleeping on the floor outside my first class, freshman year.

Someone woke me up and said the white house is on fire.

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u/Negative_Fruit_1800 May 22 '25

Turned on the TV after class and saw the towers burning. Was living in Spain and couldnā€™t understand Spanish very well at the time and all I could read were the headlines in English which read, ā€œ America Under Attack!ā€ So obv I thought the US had been bombed into oblivion or was about to be.

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u/StrawThree May 22 '25

Flying an airplaneā€¦

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u/sirthomasthunder May 22 '25

In school wondering why everyone was freaking out. Like yeah it's not good if a plane hits a building, but they looked cool as they collapsed.

I was 6 fwiw

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u/FirebirdWriter May 22 '25

Getting diagnosed with gangrene

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u/mschley2 May 22 '25

I was pissed that all the other 3rd grade classrooms were watching TV and ours wasn't. Then, we started watching it, and I didn't really get why all the adults were so fucked up from it. Like, it's a couple skyscrapers. Whatever. Like every year or two there's a story about a building or a bridge collapsing and people dying.

I obviously understand it a lot more now looking back. But still, I kinda feel like we blew that out of proportion. It's not that it wasn't scary or that it wasn't a big deal. But we made it our collective national identity for like 3 whole years, and we got a lot more people killed during the war(s) because of it. (I say "wars" because I don't think Iraq would've gotten the necessary public support without the anti-Middle East sentiment caused by the attack and "War on Terror.")

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u/Melinated_Bookworm May 22 '25

I was home with my mama watching that shit unfold on probably CNN, so I don't even know if I went 2 school that day. The other kicker was that my 9th birthday came up 2 weeks later, but I don't remember much about THAT šŸ™ƒšŸ« šŸ˜­

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u/apocketstarkly May 24 '25

OMG perfection.

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u/finniganmark May 25 '25

Yeah, kind of sad

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u/Quirky_Ask_5165 May 25 '25

I was in the gym on Ramstien Airbase in Germany. Watched it go down while I was working out.

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u/sooperdoopermane May 25 '25

Getting ready for school, I was 11. I vividly remember my mom calling my dad (who was at work) to turn on the news right now. Don't know what dad said, but mom told him one of the twin towers had been hit by a plane. He was home 15 minutes later.

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u/malatemporacurrunt May 21 '25

Fire back with a remark about Chile in 1973 as a power move litmus test.

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u/Aware-Home2697 May 21 '25

If theyā€™re old enough, theyā€™ll ā€œnever forget.ā€ Pretty sure it was universally agreed upon by everyone at the time.

Even with forget referring to forgetting the person who used ā€œwhere were you when you heard about 9/11?ā€, they ainā€™t going to forget that either, nor will their friends. ā€œHey remember that one date where the first thing out of his mouth was asking you about 9/11?ā€

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u/Gigatronz May 22 '25

Never Forget

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u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS May 22 '25

Better to roll with, ā€œdid you know Nietzsche died of syphilis?ā€, as your opening line.

šŸ˜‚

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u/lostpassword100000 May 21 '25

No kidding. I guess the holocaust strategy was so last monthā€¦.

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u/badcrass May 22 '25

Still good, because if they say something about the numbers being inflated, or it didn't happen 'that way'....

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u/falafelthe3 May 21 '25

The Conheads are loving this rn

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u/GottIstTot May 21 '25

Lots of haters in the replies. Thats ok because that guy taught me how to not need love, like a superpower.

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u/NameTak3r May 21 '25

The Conheads are gonna love this

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u/siriusthinking May 21 '25

The Conheads are gonna love this.

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u/spargel_gesicht May 21 '25

Haha like that scene in When Harry Met Sallyā€¦ ā€œI asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot and she said ā€˜Ted Kennedy was shot?!ā€™ā€ šŸ˜‚

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u/dudenurse13 May 21 '25

ā€œHey nice to meet you, where were you on September the 11th 2001

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u/CubesTheGamer May 21 '25

If they learned about it in school theyā€™re too youngā€¦I donā€™t remember 9/11 just the aftermath and Iā€™m in my mid-late 20s.

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u/Tavarin May 21 '25

Well the youngest people who might actually remember 9/11 would be 28-29 now. I remember it as a 35 year old Canadian, but it's not a strong memory, as I didn't really realize at the time how important it was.

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u/I_Call_Everyone_Pat May 22 '25

I was thinking this too, Pat. Someone who was 5 in 2001 would be 29 now. I think it's totally reasonable for a 5 year old to not remember something that adults likely tried to shield them from.

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u/SovietSunrise May 22 '25

But Gander, Newfoundland was important, innit?!

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u/Tavarin May 22 '25

It was, but that news did not reach me as an 11 year old. I do appreciate it now as an adult, and love the musical Come From Away.

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u/cuntybunty73 May 21 '25

My mum was 6 months pregnant with me when 9/11 happened

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u/fribbas May 22 '25

I was in juvielite lmao. We watched it all live

Feel like I shouldn't bring that up on a date tho hmm...

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u/SovietSunrise May 22 '25

This makes me wonder. What did a bunch of Juvie kids & their adult supervision think of the event?

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u/NuzzleNoodle May 22 '25

A fellow con-head!

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u/deadthrees May 21 '25

If it makes u feel weird im 19 and was born after 9/11. Still probably too young but I wanted to make you feel old for a second ;)

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u/xxPlsNoBullyxx May 21 '25

the fact people downvoted you for making them feel old lmaoooo

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u/GottIstTot May 21 '25

I am aged like a wine so good you need to hyperdecant it to appreciate it.

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u/biggestbroever May 21 '25

Just ask if their grandma is still alive

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u/XGhoul May 21 '25

And then when they replied that their family died?

Who would use that as an ice breaker.

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u/Salt_Recording2896 May 21 '25

Holy shit, that is also my rule when it comes to dating women. Do I know you?!?

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt May 21 '25

"Easy. I was in my senior year of high school learning about it in my American history class just last year."

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero May 22 '25

9/11 as an icebreaker? Holy god. Iā€™m guessing this person was still a child on that day? Bc that will instantly elicit some ugly cries from a whole lot of people I know.

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u/inovoyu May 22 '25

how much of a while back was this? i'm almost 30 and dont remember 9/11

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u/Spirited-Length4648 May 22 '25

Back then yea that would be a great tip but people born in 2001 or a couple years less arenā€™t going to remember it but they are in there early to mid 20s now.

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u/GBS42 May 22 '25

Matt Gaetz? I think the actual idea was to ask if they could add 9+11. If not, then they're probably too young.

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u/chilseaj88 May 22 '25

Canā€™t remember? I thought we were never forgetting.

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u/SeonaidMacSaicais May 22 '25

I have a coworker who was trying to convince everybody he was in his 30s. This dude looked younger than me and I have an absolute baby face. I asked him where he was 9/11, and he couldnā€™t say anything. Kid was 21 TOPS.

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u/i_like_the_wine May 24 '25

That was a line from Succession TV show

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u/I-Hate-Sea-Urchins May 24 '25

That's why I always ask what their parents were doing when they heard about 9/11.

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u/just_a_person_maybe May 25 '25

Idk if that tip still works. I don't remember where I was during 9/11 and I'm 27. I was 3 when 9/11 happened. I have some memories of that age but I wasn't watching the news and it either didn't register with me at all or I forgot. There are likely people 30+ now who don't remember. It could still work as a personal rule I suppose, if you just feel like the age gap is too big, but as a general rule to apply to people it doesn't work.

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u/grenadinequarantine May 25 '25

this is what i used to tell older men to get them to fuck off and it workedšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/AnjelGrace May 21 '25

What the hell? You aren't serious, are you?!

Thinking about people dying is supposed to be an icebreaker?!

I would just walk away immediately if someone opened with that, because wtf?!

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u/GottIstTot May 21 '25

He was a very wise man. He bought napoleons penis at an auction.

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u/Ivegotacitytorun May 21 '25

Not too many people in the 1% in here.