Say the year was 1998, and the time is 5:56PM. Generally, your parents get home at 6:00PM. The problem you are faced with?



There is a porn VHS stuck in the family VCR, and you've been trying unsuccessfully to free it for the past 20 minutes.

What would %n do?

7/24/2019 7:09:11 PM

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[Edited on July 24, 2019 at 7:11 PM. Reason : Probably slam the top of the VHS player a few times till it hopefully dislodges?]

7/24/2019 7:10:48 PM

In 1998 my pr0n VHS's stayed hidden in the closet until the parental units went out of town.

Also, my VHS recording of Barb Wire.

7/25/2019 8:34:01 AM

At that time I was just watching Indecent Proposal to get my jollies. Either that or the plethora of downloaded AOL material I had on 3.5" floppies.

But to answer your question, i've always been a go big or go home guy. I would have immediately gotten the screwdriver and tried to undo the VHS player. The worst case would be I get it out in a destroyed fashion, not reassemble the machine in time, and tell my parents I was just interested in how it worked.

7/25/2019 8:44:41 AM

I can't engage with this hypothetical, because there is no way I would've been in this position. For one thing, I had my own TV and VCR. For another, I didn't really get tapes anyway.

[Edited on July 25, 2019 at 8:46 AM. Reason : ///]

7/25/2019 8:46:28 AM

I would have likely tried to pull the actual interior tape out of the VHS cassette so that it was unplayable unless re spun manually. Then I would have just claimed I was watching Batman Forever again and the VCR went a little haywire.

7/25/2019 9:29:56 AM

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" For one thing, I had my own TV and VCR."

Wwwwwwoooooowwwwwww, silver spoon much?

7/25/2019 4:06:49 PM

^ I had a VCR/TV combo in my teens.

aaaaaaand single channel audio (one of the speakers was just a plastic cutout)

7/25/2019 6:24:04 PM

I definitely didn't have no silver spoon, but I was comfortable. But lest you think it was top-of-the-line equipment, I had an old shitty CRT (this was all before LCDs and whatnot) with no cable and a hand-me-down VCR someone gave me 'cause they didn't want to put up with not having a remote.

[Edited on July 25, 2019 at 6:27 PM. Reason : ...]

7/25/2019 6:27:09 PM

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"I definitely didn't have no silver spoon, but I was comfortable."

I bet it is comfortable sleeping on a solid gold race car bed. You disgust me.

7/26/2019 8:12:29 AM

Or, mom comes home halfway through printing some images.

7/26/2019 8:12:55 AM

I don't think I ever encountered a pornographic VHS, but in this situation I would have ignored it entirely. Leave the video in there - it's not like it's stuck playing or anything - and be doing something else when I got home. Most likely it will be several days before anybody uses it. In the intervening time I'll try to resolve the problem mechanically myself. If I fail, I'll hope that my dad - to whom the task of VCR repair would naturally fall - will play it cool, having once been a 13 year old boy himself, and not wanting to humiliate everyone by bringing mom into the picture. And if even that fails, and the tape is found, and a big deal gets made out of it...well, that's what slightly younger, less-intelligent brothers are for: convincingly pinning the blame on. Little brother gets a mild rebuke, and I'm just left with the loss of a VHS tape.

7/26/2019 12:48:44 PM

I'm not even 100% sure my family had gotten a VCR yet in 1998.

7/26/2019 2:00:16 PM

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"Or, mom comes home halfway through printing some images. "

this damn bubblejet printer has only finished a chin and half a titty!

7/26/2019 2:20:45 PM

I can't imagine myself being unsuccessful in freeing a tape from a VCR after 20 minutes...

7/26/2019 2:31:46 PM

Imagine you are BanjoMan, equipped only with those tools God gave the nematode.

7/26/2019 2:46:39 PM

I got caught with anime porn in the VHS whilst living in Japan. Parents saw the title sequence and thought it was just regular cartoons and turned it off. hehehe

[Edited on July 26, 2019 at 3:58 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2019 3:57:55 PM

Kids today with their damn smart phones will never know the arousal that came from both excitement and danger of having to do everything in the open instead of 6" from your face.

8/8/2019 3:48:05 AM