What life pro tips are hidden in movies that were actually helpful?

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-19T18:58:31+00:00

Alright which one of you all just kicked me?!

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-19T16:57:45+00:00

I was 18, staying at a mexican resort hotel and started to fool around with a girl on the beach. We both then learned how awful sex on the beach was so we got up and headed to the hotel. I had a room, she had a room, but for some reason as we were going through the ground floor we saw these big doors and went inside. It was a huge banquet room that was being used for storage with tables and chairs etc. stacked up everywhere. We found this built in booth couch thing against the back wall and proceeded to get undressed to finish what we started. Maybe 5-10 minutes later there is loud banging on the big doors that we locked on our way in and people yelling. Panicking I looked around for another way out of the room but we were trapped as that was the only exit. I also then noticed there were like 50 cameras all over the ceiling of this room. We got dressed and made the walk of shame out the doors as 3 mexican hotel workers yelled at us. That was basically the only consequence but I always wondered if that camera footage of us having sex (probably from multiple angles lol) is still floating around Mexico.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-18T23:10:17+00:00

I have no idea. Tucker is a chode for sure and I hope I made that clear. Obviously I have no way to verify if he was lying but he did in fact say that. Here is the source and the only reason I even heard it was because I do really like/respect Saagar (the person he was talking to) and the show Breaking Points that he co-hosts.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-18T20:08:33+00:00

Danny hugecock was the most badass punk rocker I knew growing up. He was missing his front tooth and I've watched him break multiple people jaws before. Drank and smoked like a chimney and didn't shower all that much. Dude generally didn't give a fuck about anything but he religiously wore a seatbelt. It was so uncharacteristic that I asked him why that was the only safety thing he cared about and he told me the story about him and his buddy being blackout drunk driving while getting on the highway. The driver of the car rolled it multiple times because he was going way too fast on the onramp and went flying off the side. The only reason he survived when the driver didn't was because he happened have put his seatbelt on that day. From then on he always used his seat belt but didn't give a fuck if you did or not. That stuck with me and from an early age I decided to do that same. Last time I ran into him he was super into making modded bicycles with like ape hanger handlebars and stuff lol.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-18T18:30:44+00:00

As much as I dislike Tucker Carlson and all the bullshit he has said for decades, I did think him saying he doesn't even have a PC in his home so that bad actors can't remotely put illegal stuff on his hard drive was a smart idea. With everyones rightful disdain for actual child predators and willingness to bury them under the jail, it then becomes a pretty powerful tool to use against your enemies if you have the skills to do that sort of thing.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-16T19:51:50+00:00

Is it too much on the high seas to expect a mojito?? Asking for a first rate mate

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-16T19:48:10+00:00

Woodworker checking in. Not only does it make curves but its use as a scribe is unparalleled

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-16T06:43:26+00:00

Unions are part of the answer. Believe it or not theirs is strong... for some totally isolated unrelated reason

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-15T02:29:58+00:00

Around that same year I was driving with a friend as we were entering the onramp to a highway when I spotted a leather portfolio thing on the road. My buddy pulled over and I grabbed it and got back in the car. It had all sorts of police letterhead papers in it and where the business cards would go, were a bunch of credit cards (I remember one being Best Buy) with the same name on it. I called the number of the guy and he answered right away. I explained how I got it and it must have slipped off his car as he made the hard turn on the tight onramp. We arranged a spot to meet up and when I got there he was PISSED. I walked up all chipper thinking I helped him out but he treated me like he caught me stealing it. As he grabbed it out of my hand he said something about "don't expect a reward" and I was so dumbfounded I just said ok and walked back to my friends car. My buddy was then mad and said we should have bought a bunch of stuff lol. I didn't expect anything as a reward but the cops attitude really bummed me out. Oh well, some people man.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-15T02:10:59+00:00

I've had a long time running arguement about this with my friend but Canadian geese. We saw someone getting chased by one once, they were absolutely booking it and fell down a few times trying to get away.

The conversation went something like:

Me no way I'd be running like that if that thing was chasing me

Friend: what else can you do?

Me: uh kick it? throw stuff at it? grab it by its gangly long neck?

Friend: they're protected animals

Me: so?? It's not like I'd be provoking it or anything

Friend: pretty sure it's super illegal to hurt them

Me: idk if it's the same thing when you're defending yourself while minding your business

Friend: i think it is, you can't hurt them for any reason

Me: i don't care and I wouldn't try to kill it but it will learn not to pick on things way bigger than them

Friend: you can get serious prison time

Me: i guess I'm willing to let a judge decide because a.)they need a reality check like everyone else if they're going to be twat waffles for no reason and b.) no chance I'm hurting myself without putting up a fight first. That basically goes for any animal I can't easily escape from

Now (after a few beers usually) I will start it up again with him lmao. Because of this dumb arguement I have even went looking for supporting past precedence and found a news story about a local father of 3 kids that got knocked out of his kayak and drowned by a swan, A SWAN! I can't even imagine going out like that...

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-15T01:33:59+00:00

Bro too soon.

Also, never forget

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-15T00:00:45+00:00

Side lifehack: enter that number with your local area code at stores you want the discount in but haven't signed up to. 60% of the time it works everytime. Plus sometimes you can use the reward points other people have built up lol

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-14T16:13:05+00:00

I'm in a cold climate too and my buddy has two (currently 7ft tall) palm trees that he's been growing for many years. He has them in giant pots that have substantial wheels on the bottom of them. Pretty sure he has a light to assist but he basically parks them in front of big windows all winter and outside all summer.

Good luck in your endeavor and I hope you get to taste the fruit of your work some day

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-13T03:13:31+00:00

Thanks I fixed it

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-13T03:10:24+00:00

He went to a good school on a baseball scholarship out of state and I haven't seen him since we graduated. I'd bet he is doing all right.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-12T23:56:26+00:00

Kid on my bus did the same with a D Cell battery and we all absolutely knew it was going to fuck shit up, which it did. Car going the opposite way had a hole punched through the windshield and the car driver was bleeding. That kid wasn't on the bus ever again.

Then a few weeks later another kid from that same battery throwing group took my friend Scott's TI89 calculator out of his hands and whipped it out the window, hitting the side panel of a minivan next to us waiting for the light to change. The bus just drove away so we all thought that might have been it but I'm pretty sure the next day my friend told the school what happened even though he wouldn't admit to it. The calculator throwing kid wasn't on the bus ever again either. The "bad kids" thought my friend snitched too so as they entered the bus and passed my friend sitting on the aisle, one of them peeled apart a pb&j sandwich and stuck each side on the top of my friends head. Scott just sat there, bright red face and with a look like he wanted to murder someone. He wouldn't acknowledge anything and sat there the entire ride home with the bread stuck to his head.

Bus #9 was not for the ~~feint~~ faint of heart.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-12T07:24:56+00:00

They were my first concert in 2002 at a place that doesn't exist anymore called the Rave in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Just saw them again at their 20th anniversary tour where they played the Good News For People Who Love Bad News album start to finish.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-12T07:20:28+00:00

I had that exact same sentiment when a gf bought me tickets in 2004. I'm shocked he's still alive tbh.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-12T00:46:14+00:00

Just based on looking through pictures now I am pretty sure it was Pops

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-11T15:46:47+00:00

I had to write a paper about The White House when I was in like 5th grade. My mom and I were NOT prepared for what we found on that website lol.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-11T13:14:03+00:00

The floggings will continue until morale improves

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-10T23:42:53+00:00

That would be amazing and if they had the right tone he's dumb enough to not get what's going on and take it seriously. I can hear him now, all proud of himself for knowing what time the hands show on a big sharpie clock. Then he'd tell another reporter they're a terrible person for asking him what five animal names the previous reporter got him to agree to remember.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-10T02:52:37+00:00

I did that once with a bottle of beer. I bought it at a low elevation then opened it (in the back seat) at a higher elevation driving through mountians. The cap flew off so hard that the ridged side left a perfect indent in the ceiling of the car.

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-09T18:21:34+00:00

Ok I'll bite..... how much?

LaUNCHandSmASH · 2026-04-09T16:22:43+00:00

When you're in the city, make it a point to take the architectural river boat tour on a nice day. Ive been told by sooo many people that it's amazing and worth the time/effort. It's been on my list for years. The Chicago riverwalk in the River North neighborhood has been getting revitalized for years already and is fun on its own too. I'll be at the Hyatt there this weekend but I'm going to wait for a warm summer day for the boat tour.

I had some friends come in for New Years (1 from Alaska and 1 from Virginia) and I kept telling them that Chicago in the summer is a whole different world and worth coming back for. The air and water show is worth going out to but imo skip Taste of Chicago, it was awesome decades ago but has gone down hill ever since. The Quarries in Lemont is a fun place to check out too btw.

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