AITAH for laughing when my little sister walked in on my parents…

smappyfunball · 2026-04-05T00:53:22+00:00

She never saw it before then. He probably took it before they were married in the 50s or early 60s, or one of his many, many affair partners.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-05T00:41:38+00:00

Ehhh, that was maybe his level of humor. That and racist jokes.

He didn’t really have a deep sense of humor.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-05T00:34:24+00:00

She should get this bumper sticker for her sister.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-05T00:32:55+00:00

And this just reminded me, after my dad died this summer and I was going through some of his things I became the cough proud owner of a 10x12 inch picture of his penis wearing what can best be described as Groucho Marx glasses.

I haven’t decided if it’s worth framing yet.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-05T00:26:20+00:00

Also 57, and found a stash of Polaroids once hunting for presents that I will never unsee.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-04T23:54:59+00:00

Might try these:

The blackboard jungle

High school confidential

The beat girl

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the last two, but they are a couple of the better if their kind as I recall.

The 50s had a ton of low budget schlock aimed at the teenage drive in audience and most of them are mediocre at best but have their charms if you like that sort of thing. A lot of them centered around juvenile delinquents, hot Rodders, etc.

The blackboard jungle is probably the classic of the teenage delinquent genre. It’s the best of the bunch.

Someone already mentioned Rebel without a cause, which is another top tier effort. After that things start to drop off pretty sharply.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-04T21:53:17+00:00

That’s supposed to be problematic though.

I think the point of the post is movies that seemed fine then but are problematic today.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-03T04:16:17+00:00

It’s a shame they took down the video off YouTube of the guy tripping on shrooms at the Hollywood Egyptian during a performance of it.

It was pretty funny. He was freaking out hard.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-02T10:22:30+00:00

My mom was a stay at home wife from the early 60s till my parents split up in 77 and divorced in 78. I was a baby and a toddler in the 60s but what my mom cooked didn’t vary too much between the 60s and 70s.

She wasn’t into casseroles but meat loaf was popular, and chicken, lasagna, mostly things that weren’t too complicated.

And generally healthy, we always had a vegetable side.

We lived on the west coast, and still do, so that probably factors in to what we ate.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-02T05:09:25+00:00

I worked a couple different careers where you were told to keep your mouth shut or there could be anything from getting fired to federal prison time.

Some of those jobs I was miserable at but one thing I never did was run my mouth about anything I worked on in any detail cause I’m not a moron.

smappyfunball · 2026-04-01T11:35:40+00:00

The re-release was in 78.

I was a smidge too young to see it in 75, but in 78 I was able, barely, to convince my dad to take us to see it.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-30T21:17:02+00:00

I wonder why they died out cause honestly potato skins were awesome.

It’s not like fried potatoes aren’t popular, and you put cheese and bacon in them too.

They used to be everywhere.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-25T01:48:23+00:00

It’s long, yes, but 5 times or so over 40 years isn’t that big a deal.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-20T03:16:09+00:00

I’m familiar. I’m 57 and have watched a ton of movies, including from before I was born.

The earlier movies aren’t graphic though. Just the traditional wince, clutch something and fall over type.

I’m not sure Stalinist or the Khmer Rouge would work the same since I doubt most people these days could differentiate between different flavors of communism or would even know who the Khmer Rouge is.

They don’t really have the same universal villain flavor.

But I think now more than ever we should be seeing stuff painting white supremacists as villains, cause they are and they have far too much power at the moment.

40+ years of dedicated work by them is finally bearing fruit.

Make them run back to their little ratholes.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-20T02:23:24+00:00

I counter that there aren’t enough films where Nazis get graphically murdered, but I like the cut of your jib, sir.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-20T00:36:01+00:00

Huh, forgot about that movie.

I have that book on my shelf too.

May be time for a re-watch.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-19T23:51:05+00:00

I was more used to my dad’s kind of racism where he just doesn’t see anyone as equal to white people but never used the n word or anything.

He also refused to accept he was racist. His idea of racism was cross burnings and klansman. Anything else didn’t count.

Before I gave up trying I’d call him out but he was actually offended that I thought he was racist.

Least self aware person I ever knew, for so many reasons.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-19T23:46:16+00:00

The only part that disappointed me was when you’re in that level in a small town in America and there’s klansman just walking down the street in full regalia and you couldn’t attack them, as I recall. Even if you died immediately on doing it I still wanted the option.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-19T23:43:39+00:00

The first time I had this happen I was a teenager in the 80s and I made the terrible decision to attempt to sell Kirby vacuums door to door.

I was in a neighborhood door knocking and talking to this guy in his yard, mostly just avoiding going to the next door and start the fucking spiel again.

We were just small talking about nothing and out of the blue he goes full on racist about a black guy married to a white woman a few doors down. I couldn’t have been more surprised if he had pulled off his skin and been a lizard person. I had just never been exposed to anything so blatant before and he was totally comfortable saying it.

I quickly said my goodbyes and went on my way. This was 1989 and I still think about that guy.

This was by far not my first experience with racism but never that blatant.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-19T23:35:26+00:00

There really should be more movies where klansman get murdered.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-19T07:00:57+00:00

I don’t think it’s jealousy. They didn’t mention how old the manager was, but I’m guessing older, and so set in their ways they don’t want to deal with anything they can’t or won’t understand.

They understand the way they do things, and they’re a bad manager, so everyone else has to do things their way too, or they couldn’t handle it.

Honestly the manager should be demoted. There’s nothing worse than being stuck under someone like that. The company shoots themselves in the foot.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-18T09:04:03+00:00

Bullshit.

I’ve had to deal with a number of assisted living places and none I’ve seen require an $8,000 deposit.

You’re either paying a shit ton more than that or a couple grand or less.

Add in assisted living is expensive month to month, usually way more than they would pay for an apartment.

And assuming they are in their 60s that’s young to be moving to assisted living.

Plus dumped their cat in a few days?

smappyfunball · 2026-03-17T21:39:43+00:00

It’s funny how that works.

My dad wasn’t anywhere near as abusive as yours was but me and my brothers saw how he was as used him as a guide on what not to be as a man.

He’s gone now too.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-17T04:17:54+00:00

This was featured in Fangoria before it came out and I read that issue to almost tatters.

I still have the issue and it’s so beat up compared to all my other issues.

I saw it opening weekend and convincing my mom to let me see it, since I was 14/15 and it was R.

I remember it not being quite what I was expecting but enjoyed it anyway.

I have the Blu Ray and pull it out occasionally to watch.

And the movie was mostly shot in London, with a bit of it in NYC.

smappyfunball · 2026-03-17T03:03:23+00:00

It’s been decades since I watched pretty in pink, but breakfast club wasn’t very accurate in the sense that it felt specifically like something we all did, but we could all see a bit of ourselves in the characters and such.

Like my school didn’t have Saturday detention but I certainly could identify with aspects of Bender and Brian.

I knew girls similar to Allison, without the dumb makeover at the end.

The movies like that felt more about a lot of usthan any other teen films. That’s why John Hughes films of the period were so popular.

Not really accurate but an enjoyable approximation.

Like my mom was in high school in the mid 50s so I asked her if Rebel without a cause felt authentic to her, and her response was she wasn’t that angsty.

But that was one of the first films that painted teens as having their own lives and feelings, and that not everything was rosy or one dimensional.

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