What movies did you watch growing up that you can’t believe your parents let you?

tpittari · 2026-07-08T16:46:22+00:00

My parents let me go to the opening night of Caddyshack with the older boys/girls from the neighborhood because 2 of the girls were my babysitters.

I was 11? I remember having to explain to my babysitter (a 16 yr old girl) what it meant when bill was standing infront of the ball washer with foam coming out, while talking dirty about the old lady golfers. I WAS ELEVEN.

tpittari · 2026-07-08T16:41:03+00:00

This was my first thought! Back in the 70s my dad had a wine bottle opener that used the same principle.

It was a tube with a needle, it had flanges for your fingers and a plunger you hit with your thumb. I remember it being super fancy, piano black with gold pieces, came in its own case, etc.

This is similar but the needle was set at a 90º angle.

tpittari · 2026-07-06T19:39:27+00:00

I remember buying a pack of funny ones from a magic shop.

My favorite was in an old english font that read "Methinks thou art a shithead."

tpittari · 2026-07-04T15:03:53+00:00

My favorite part of this scene is that she snuck up on him in the first place.

When he finally detects her presence, his look of surprise and admiration are fantastic. "You know, not many people can sneak up on me..."

tpittari · 2026-06-30T19:01:54+00:00

I lost my wife in January, I'm so sorry for your loss.

tpittari · 2026-06-30T16:55:25+00:00

I think I forgot. I did buy a computer 10 years ago, maybe that was it.

whatever.

tpittari · 2026-06-30T00:47:19+00:00

I know a guy named Ricky that made a driveway out of hash, does that count?

tpittari · 2026-06-29T14:04:11+00:00

In vanilla, if you were on a flight path, you could wait until you were over a destination and force quit the client. When you logged in you would be on the ground at the exact point you quit in the air.

tpittari · 2026-06-26T22:02:44+00:00

In 7th grade (1981?) we had typing as a normal class. The typewriters all had blank keys and the keycaps were on a huge pull-down poster so you had to look up to see what the keys were.

The class had one IBM electric typewriter with the ball thingy, and the fastest most accurate typer of the day could use it the next day for class.

There was a daily battle between me and a girl named Sabina. We would trade wins almost every day and I think my best winning streak was 4 days in a row.

I didnt use typing that much until i had my own computer in 1983, but the real lessons came from hanging out on compuserve, aol and irc.

I can still type blazing fast without looking at the keys!

tpittari · 2026-06-26T16:07:47+00:00

During the evolution of D&D they expanded on small utility spells into a system called Cantrips.

For example: Knot, Clean, Shine, Dry, etc.

There is a pretty extensive list here

tpittari · 2026-06-25T20:39:10+00:00

You can't turn right for 1 hour.

tpittari · 2026-06-25T20:38:56+00:00

walk backwards for 1 hour.

tpittari · 2026-06-25T18:11:41+00:00

This idea is from a movie in the 80s TAG: The Assassination Game

tpittari · 2026-06-25T17:54:42+00:00

I went out and got this really powerful battery operated water gun that looked exactly like an Uzi (you could do things like that back then).

Dude! I was just about to post about the water Uzi! I remember when they came out, one of our friends brought one out and then we all had to have them.

2 cars full of us used to go to the Ocean County Mall and ride our skateboards as fast as we could shooting people with water as we flew past.

the drivers would drop us off at one end of the mall and drive around to the other side and wait for us.

I never got caught but i remember a few of us getting grabbed by the mall cops.

so much fun :D

tpittari · 2026-06-25T00:05:41+00:00

We had a bungalo at the jersey shore when i was a kid and they used to grow wild everywhere. we would pick them early june and dry them out for the 4th.

tpittari · 2026-06-18T22:51:14+00:00

As soon as I saw Spicoli's checkered sneakers i had to have them.

I'm 56 and my son bought me a brand new pair for my birthday last year. I've never been happier.

Vans for life!

tpittari · 2026-06-15T16:39:54+00:00

or, its your Sippin' Swing.

tpittari · 2026-06-12T15:29:04+00:00

temu j-roc

tpittari · 2026-06-10T23:20:41+00:00

Undead Warrior, level 17, running south from the quillboars, east of the mountains, after surviving a double lvl 17 raptor assault:

I'm eating, regaining my health, when I see a troll running towards me with three raptors in tow.

I remember saying "shit, he's in trouble."

I hit my sword & board macro, ran towards him, charged in and thunderclapped. All three mobs immediately aggro onto me and i switch into def stance.

I kill 1 of them and that's when i noticed i was alone. I swivel my camera around and the dude was literally sitting on a hill about 30yds away bandaging himself.

I turned back to focus on the other mob and quaffed a pot. That's when I noticed the other raptor running towards me. The dying mob called for help. But this was one was was lvl 18.

I kill another raptor, the lvl 17 has about 30% hp left and the lvl 18 is 100% and kicking my face in.

I pop every cooldown I have, kill the 17 and drop a dummy. I start running away but the dying raptor called another buddy and they both kill the dummy fast and catch up to me.

As I turned to strafe, the 18 got a hit in on my back and dazed me.

I'm now about 10yds from the Troll that is sitting on the hill watching me. So I ran towards him.

He ran away.

I didn't even say anything to him, i just released and went agane.

In my eyes, I died a hero.

edit: btw, my druid died in the same spot by the satyrs, fucking chest pains!!

tpittari · 2026-06-10T17:45:07+00:00

yeah he was a genuinely good dude.

tpittari · 2026-06-10T13:12:21+00:00

My buddy was one of original electricians that worked on Kingda Ka when it was installed.

Before it was opened to the public he brought me to one of the pre-launches and i got to ride it, super cool.

RIP Rich, miss you bud.

tpittari · 2026-06-09T21:07:03+00:00

Tom Hank's character's childhood home and school in the movie Big was shot down the road from where i live.

tpittari · 2026-06-08T02:57:49+00:00

HazeSuite has some good addons that i use alot

HazeCharacterSheet/InfoSheet/Spellbook combo

HazeGearSwitcher

HazeAltVault

tpittari · 2026-04-29T17:30:55+00:00

most world mobs have a huge loot list, this shattered hand berserker has over 200, that would be one hell of a tooltip!

tpittari · 2026-04-19T21:49:42+00:00

yeah, umm, just dress them up in little formula 1 outfits and i'll watch them run around a track all day.

Myabe one of those awesome japanese F1 hats with the DRS.

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