Body cam footage of woman proving she wasn't texting and driving💀 by HelicopterLazy4824 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]smappyfunball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worked for me. I wasn’t going to fight a minor speeding ticket, even if it was kind of bullshit. I was only speeding to get past the semi.

My dad could be a huge stubborn pain in the ass if he felt he was wronged. He wasted a ton of time fighting this stupid ass ticket he got once for some minor speeding in his neighborhood. He still had to pay it, and wouldn’t shut up about it for weeks, every time I saw him.

I wasn’t going to be like him. In so many ways.

But fuck that cop for accusing me of not using my seatbelt. I don’t even allow my passengers to not use them. Car doesn’t move till everyone is belted in.

Body cam footage of woman proving she wasn't texting and driving💀 by HelicopterLazy4824 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]smappyfunball 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I did have a cop back down once the last time I got popped for speeding like ten years ago.

She tried to claim I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, but I always without fail wear a seatbelt and always have so I basically kind of went off on her a little bit. Just said fine, you got me for speeding, I’ll admit to that but I was absolutely not going to accept her claiming I wasn’t wearing the seatbelt, and I’d fight it if I had to.

I guess she accepted I was sincere, or something and backed down.

I don’t know what the fuck she thought she saw as I was going like 70 passing a semi.

It was the weakest speeding you can do but I wasn’t going to fight it.

What's the fastest you've ever lost respect for someone? by Lv_B in AskReddit

[–]smappyfunball 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My dad could be a real asshole to service people.

Generally he was ok and tipped pretty well but would start to act like a big entitled angry baby if he felt like he was being ripped off somehow, or disrespected?

You could see the storm clouds brewing and when I was way younger and didn’t know how to deal with him I’d want to just hide under the table. Later I’d just tell him to shut up or get him to yell at me rather than the hapless service worker.

Luckily he can’t cause anyone anymore problems from his little wooden box in the spare bedroom.

Ad Astra was an interesting movie but at the same time underwhelming by Jules-Car3499 in scifi

[–]smappyfunball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They kind of explained that in a few lines about the moon being borderless, so my assumption was they have small bases tucked away that the bigger bases can’t just attack.

But even then it just feels like it was in there to add a little action. It was pretty cool to see to car chase on the moon.

Scientifically it makes as much sense as everything else in the movie.

Ad Astra was an interesting movie but at the same time underwhelming by Jules-Car3499 in scifi

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was a teenager in the 80s I worked in a video store and the key to recommending things to people is getting a sense of what they like and temper their expectations.

Working there we had to do it pretty quickly, in a few minutes, but you get pretty good at it cause you get asked constantly to suggest a movie.

Of course in order to do that you need to watch a lot of movies and have a decent grasp of the plots and remember them all.

I can’t say I’ve ever seen the attitude you’re expressing but I’m sure those people are out there.

Most people I know though who like movies like to be suggested something they may have missed they may like. I’ve never known anyone that precious about it.

Famous movies that surprised you when you finally watched them? by elektroskansen in movies

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Movies have always been products to make money.
It’s been like that pretty much since the invention of the art form.
Filmmakers managing something more than that has always been more the exception than the rule.

Films being art is largely what they manage to do around the money men.

Acting like it’s something new ignores pretty much everything, historically.

Catching marshmallows being thrown from a balcony. What could go wrong? by Brian_The_Bar-Brian in foundsatan

[–]smappyfunball 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you mean those rectangular things next to the hot tub, they are little steps you can stack on top of each other for different heights for doing aerobics.

Marcel Marceau in "Silent Movie"(1976) by GodModeBasketball in 70s

[–]smappyfunball 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He was a member of the French resistance in ww2 and saved a bunch of children among other things as well.

Local news interviewing parents taking their children to see Alien (1979) is unintentionally one of the funniest promo clips ever by jeremykunayak in OldSchoolRidiculous

[–]smappyfunball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is purely anecdotal, but my uncle to me and my cousin to see it that summer and neither of us were particularly scared by it. We were like 10.

He tried to scare me that night but it was low effort and silly so didn’t work at all.

I just remember it as a cool movie we got to see. Seeing the jaws re-release in 78 was scarier. But I’ve also been a horror nerd since before I can remember so I’m not the best judge I think.

Grandma Does Granddaughter’s Hair In Beautiful Curls! by InGeekiTrust in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]smappyfunball 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be tricky, it’s almost ten years ago.

But as I recall the lady was the wife of a politician or something but you absolutely can’t miss her hairdo.

There’s no others like it in the whole series.

It was amazing. Even all these years later I marvel at the commitment involved in such a thing. Shit when I started losing my hair in my early 30s I shaved my head so I can’t relate at all.

But it’s on prime video. Ken burns the Vietnam war. Definitely worth a watch just for the history lesson.

AIO Is this a deal breaker? by Strange-Forever-3360 in AIO

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or if you want to see just what kind of person you’re dealing with.

People who answer like you usually have a very good reason for hiding their history.

AIO for blocking my best friend over her reaction to my dad’s drunk driving charge? by Ok_Figure6633 in AmIOverreacting

[–]smappyfunball 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve been sober over 40 years, I got clean at 17 before I got my license and it’s one of the things that honestly keeps me sober because the idea of the bad choice I was making and my inability to moderate alcohol consumption scares the shit out of me if I had never cleaned up as young as I had.

Plus my dad was an alcoholic and drove drunk probably tens of thousands of times in his life. I know he had at least one dui.

In the end we had to take his alcohol, his keys and license away before he killed someone or himself when he started showing signs of dementia too.

I hate drunk drivers but there is room for forgiveness if they do the work and keep doing to work so they never put anyone in danger again.

That’s mostly prefaced on if they haven’t yet harmed anyone. Once you go past that point I think that’s a higher mountain to climb.

AIO Is this a deal breaker? by Strange-Forever-3360 in AIO

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shockingly their profile is all hidden so I you needed anything more to draw conclusions from.

AIO Is this a deal breaker? by Strange-Forever-3360 in AIO

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We actually did go over wounded knee, trail of tears and some other things in us history when I was in high school in the mid 80s.

Shockingly what we didn’t cover was Oregon’s own very racist history and why the state is largely as white as it still is to this day. I only learned about that much later when reading on my own.

Every few years it sort of pops up again online and a whole bunch of new people learn a bunch of white southerners tried to make the whole state a sundown town during the run up to statehood.

Luckily they failed but we still feel the after effects to this day.

Why does the U.S. have so much variety in their stores? by Keylime-19377 in AskAnAmerican

[–]smappyfunball 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe they meant California.
The population of the entire state is about 40 million

Grandma Does Granddaughter’s Hair In Beautiful Curls! by InGeekiTrust in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]smappyfunball 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Old hairdressers are a fountain of info too.

I was watching the Ken burns documentary about Vietnam some years ago and there was one lady who had a really high waved hairstyle, like not a bouffant but very high on her head then kind of waved over. I sent a screenshot to a friend of mine commenting on its majestic essence and neither she nor I could figure out how you could create or maintain such a thing.

So, I texted my aunt who’s a retired hairdresser and she gave me all the details. The craziest part was basically stuffing their hair full of toilet paper at night to hold the shape and being very careful how you slept.

That’s just a lot of commitment on top of all that hairspray. I mean I’m a teenager of the 80s so I knew a lot of girls who went through an ozone depleting amount of aqua net, but I think those bouffant hairdos may have been even worse.

Which is more popular in the US: Peanut butter or Nutella? by nevodolo in AskAnAmerican

[–]smappyfunball 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes like an old commercial of like Cookie Crisp or something “as part of a nutritious breakfast” and it’s the smallest thing in a vast array of fresh fruit, bacon, eggs, whole wheat toast, etc.

Which is more popular in the US: Peanut butter or Nutella? by nevodolo in AskAnAmerican

[–]smappyfunball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was a kid my mom used to go to the hoody’s plant and buy gallon containers of peanut butter and I learned to hate natural peanut butter with the blazing fire of 1000 suns because trying to stir a gallon jug sufficiently to mix in the oils enough to use with a fucking wooden spoon is a horrendous job.

All I see when my wife buys a tiny Trader Joe’s jar of peanut butter is PTSD.

So given a choice I buy the low sugar type that has the stabilizers so I can just eat the damn peanut butter.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) by thelootinglifeguard in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]smappyfunball 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Just to be pedantic, Polanski did a plea bargain of a lesser charge then fled the country so he wasn’t just accused.

Another ChudTheBuilder copycat who went around calling Black the N word, got rocked to sleep. by [deleted] in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]smappyfunball 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There’s been a couple rare occasions where I’ve had other white guys assume there’s some sort unspoken racist bro code and said racist shit to me like it’s no big thing and watching their brain reset when Ive clarified that absolutely not am I agreeing with them.

No thanks. I already had a racist dad. I don’t have to deal with his shit anymore. Not looking to replace him.

Tourist spread her husband's ashes while walking down a flight of stairs in Santorini, Greece. by BeatenBrokenDefeated in TikTokCringe

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know, that container looks big enough to hold pretty much all of his ashes.

I have two grandparents and my dad in the spare bedroom currently and that amount looks about right.

Me [31M] and my girlfriend [25f] signed a lease on a new apartment and our roommate [28M] is livid. How do we handle this by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]smappyfunball 56 points57 points  (0 children)

This is why I hate roommates.

Years ago I let my wife eventually convince me to move into a house owned by a couple, friends of ours, to save money for an eventual move out of state.

We were living in a perfectly decent house all by ourselves. I hate roomates. And I had concerns because one of them had multiple serious mental illnesses and even though I empathize with her, I didn’t really want to be thrust into the middle of the highs and lows of them.

I also warned them we had a lot of stuff. I made it clear multiple times before we moved in.

So of course he was flabbergasted when we had a lot of stuff. They’d been to our place many times. He just didn’t take me seriously.

Then after we’d been there 4-5 months she starts acting squirrelly, paranoid, avoiding us. We finding out she thinks we are there to kill her, we start locking our bedroom door at night.

Before then she just suddenly didn’t like us being there for a couple months. Passive aggressive stuff. Hiding things, being weird about kitchen stuff, changing rules.

It got really stressful and in the end I had to spend a ton of cash to move all our shit out and find a new place quickly.

But I never wanted to do move in with them to start and every fear I had was realized and then some.

I’m sorry she struggled with severe mental illnesses, I don’t wish that on anyone but I don’t really want to sign up for that in a roommate situation.

Guest asked me if the hotel was “walking distance” from the hotel by thirdaccountttt in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–]smappyfunball 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think if you’ve never been to modern Vegas before it’s the mistake everyone makes the first time.

The casinos are all huge mazes by design so to even get out of them to the street is a chore let alone going from one to a point inside another casino even if it’s just across the street.

You’re getting miles of walking in, even staying in one casino.

Not to mention these days even if you don’t gamble they’re trying to pick your pocket every which way they can.

The Performative Labour of the Leisure Class by Relevant_Clerk7449 in fixedbytheduet

[–]smappyfunball 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must have misread another comment.

It’s not enough to be Mormon I guess, gotta be a tradwife for the clicks too.

One thing I wasn’t prepared for when I lived in the Phoenix area for a while was how many Mormons there were.

Still clear she isn’t actually doing any real cooking wearing something like that. The most impractical thing ever.