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Did you ever have a time where you were embarrassed renting a movie or avoided renting a movie out of embarrassment people would see you with it?
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No, never. Almost exclusively rented low budget horror flicks like Ghoulies or Subspecies. God bless Charles Band. Blockbuster had an entire section devoted to movies he produced
No, but on the subject of OP's pic, whenever I visited the deli at work for lunch they'd make me specifically say the name of the type of chicken I wanted. Fuckers had some retarded quirky name for it I hated saying.
Of course. I had an amazing local independent video store a 10 minute walk from my house that had two floors of wall to wall kino. I was super embarrassed renting their crusty old tapes of Cruising and other weird cult kino when I was a young teen.
No, I'm not a faggot
No, but certain cashiers definitely were judging you.
I'll never say it. Fuck IHOP
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Did you ever have a time where you were embarrassed renting a movie or avoided renting a movie out of embarrassment people would see you with it?
All Tit-Fucking, Volume 8
I accidentally rented a softcore gay porn serial killer movie from Blockbuster in like 2009 or 2010 when they were on their last legs. The last few years of Blockbuster were terrible. The new release wall was covered in retarded direct to DVD movies.
I don't even care that the liquor store sees me twice a day and the bartenders across the street know I'm drinking on my lunch break. Why would I care about people judging my movie tastes?
When I was like 10 I wanted my grandma to buy me a copy of Cats Don't Dance because I caught about half of it on TV and liked it, but I thought I was getting too old for that so I didn't ask her.
I only rented cool things
i look like this and sit like this
What kino was this?
My local video store (yes, we still have one) had a copy of All Ladies Do It on the shelf for months. I kept wanting to rent it, but the employee at the desk was a cute girl and I couldn't bring myself to see it through.
Finally, the other week, it was a random guy I've never seen before, so of course I grabbed that thinly-disguised pornography.
6/10 at least the actresses are attractive
God I miss going somewhere to rent movies. Also, all you needed to do was rent a bunch of non-embarrassing movies along with the one or two embarrassing ones to mitigate them.
:(
Did you all ever meet anyone cool while renting movies or have any interesting conversations/interactions?
One time this young guy working there complemented my game choice or whatever
yeah but it wasn't really a movie was porn. some video rentals had a porn section tucked away from the regular stuff. I tried to hide it with a few regular movies but chickened out and put it back. Still remember that night. I hade a ham and pineapple pizza from Papa John's. RIP Silver Screen Video
yes. the 20 something clerks at my local video store liked me a lot me cause i was a young teen kinosseur in the early 2000s. The lesbian art students who worked there would give me great recs like Ms.45 and Switchblade Sisters.
hated the pricing policy where you could save some money if you return the tapes early
Yeah, I asked the clerk if Salo was any good and he said “yeah if you like watching a bunch of boys getting buttfucked.”
Never rented it lol
Based. Ms 45 is good but switchblade sisters is even better. I love the roller skating scene.
I remember being around 10 years old in the video store and a 40 year old man came in and rented bridget jones diary.. some older boys absolutely ridiculed him so much he ran out of the store
Yeah... I had mustered up the courage to rent some softcore pulp when I turned 15, this was when DVDs were a thing. I had snuck out with pocket change and basically stammered my way into asking directions for the adult aisle. Thankfully the cashier was a gooner himself because he pointed out more kino in the corner (it looked like he had hidden them for his own use bcz they weren't organised right).
I torrent a ton of shit nowadays but I'll take physical stores over it anyday. It just isn't the same anymore
I has a good relationship with my video store. I’d give them weed and they’d give me free movies. They even marked my account “hook him up and he’ll hook you up” lmao
It was fucking comfy, though my gf said it was ghetto and she felt like she was dating Ricky from TPB.
When I was 13 buying a DVD copy of Ghost in the Shell (1995) with my dad at a&b Sound, I was kind of anxious/embarrassed about Motoko's big anime tits on the cover.
Then he made me pay for it and a Nelly Furtado CD for him cause he was embarrassed to be seen buying a Nelly Furtado CD by the female cashier.
she felt like she was dating Ricky from TPB.
She should have been thanking you.
I prefer Ms.45.
Lezbins prefer SB Sisters.
The worst part of going to that independent video store was the horror section was way in the back of the basement right next to a waist high black box filled with VHS pornos. I was a young teen browsing the giant wall of horror VHS' and creeps would come and browse the porno box right next to the horror wall and leer at me.
I worked at Blockbuster and found my old pay stub recently so I can prove it.
Your dad was like a bird, he wanted to fly away?
Last time I was in a Blockbuster we tried to get some popular new release but when we got home this was the disc in the case. It was very disappointing.
en.wikipedia.org
It was written by physician Pavan Grover who also stars in it
The film has received especially negative reviews from the few professional movie critics who were willing to view and critique it.[2] No critics reviews are listed on Rotten Tomatoes, and viewers rate it an average of 2.7 of 5 stars.
Surprised no youtubers have turned this into a meme.
I would never go to a restaurant unless friends or family insisted. they're just so gay. i can fry up a chicken breast in 10 minutes i don't need to drive somewhere and pay out the ass for some chick to bring it to me.
Sir this is the thread where 40 year old boomers talk about their experiences renting movies.
Thank you anon, I felt the same way.
In retrospect it was probably a backhanded compliment. She was sick of me but I kept surprising her. I had a whole network of stores/people I would pay in weed and keep us living well. I had a guy for everything.
Ask Hollywood Video employee if they have Get Carter
She's a manager, slim and cute, good attitude
"Yes we do"
Walk over to where it is
It's the one with Stallone
She'll always remember me as the guy who wanted to see Get Carter (2000)
He's embarrassed not because of the movie but because everyone knows his wife made him go to the store and rent it for them to watch
I had a whole network of stores/people I would pay in weed and keep us living well. I had a guy for everything.
Sounds pretty cool. I guess you can't really do that anymore? I mean, I get $15 grams of shatter mailed to my house these days.
Yes. I was really into anime as a kid and I desperately wanted to watch Oh My Goddess, but the store thought it was porn so it was in the hentai section and I had to get my grandma to rent it for me because she didn't understand what any of that was and I knew she wouldn't ask too many questions and would just do it. I tried to be cool and hang out off to the side when she rented it but the teenagers working the counter were grinning at me and they knew.
I wish Zoe would’ve been in more movies. She seemed interesting and I was surprised to learn that she wrote Bad Lieutenant. I wish there were more women like her. Sorry to hear about your experience.
Better yet, when you were a kid did you ever think you would turn into the failure that you are today
Yes
HH chkd
Interesting. It helps if you live in a libertarian minded city with a lot of hipster small businesses, locations known for stoner clientele, trustafarians and such.
Be the change you wish to see in the world! Sounds like you’ve got some room to move, anon
Yes
HH chkd
You just keep getting more and more based.
No I'm asking you if you still have a network like that now that weed is legal in a lot of places.
It was cool. I loved going to that video store and spending an hour or two browsing the shelves stoned and talking to the clerks who were all chill art fags in their 20s. You know Zoe is the hot junkie woman who smokes heroin in her apartment with Keital, right?
based
I’m really not that big of a Hugh Hefner fan. He was using his mansion to collect dirt on people, hidden cameras and honeypots everywhere. Also he wore smoking jackets and slippers, which is gay.
I'm asking you if you still have a network like that now that weed is legal in a lot of places.
Nah, I was friends with a bunch of weed dealers at the time and they gave me a lot of free shrubbery. That was 1958. It was the style at the time.
Do you think it would be possible to monetize weed in your area?
Yup. I’ve never done heroin before but I would’ve done it with her anytime without hesitation. I wouldn’t even regret it if I died.
I live in Vancouver. The entire region was already flooded with weed even before legalization.
Buys EGGO Blueberry Waffles.
Buys WALMART Maple Flavor Sausage Patties.
Cooks Eggo Waffles in toaster.
Microwaves then pan cooks Sausage Patties.
Creates delicious breakfast indulgent sandwich.
Squeezes grape flavor jelly on sausage patties.
Alternatively, use CREAM CHEESE spread.
I will find you and destroy you.
How are your demographics these days? Is weed like water there?
Terrible demographics if you're a Hugh Hefner fan.
Yes weed is everywhere. Like I said it's trivial to get really cheap product mailed to you now.
I was in the business perhaps 10 years ago when it was grey market. We would do wholesale pound sales to dispensaries. We could flip $2000 pounds from Vancouver for $2800 in Toronto.
All those days are gone now, like tears in rain.
Kek!
I still live in a prohibition state, so perhaps count your blessings. It’s much better to go to a dispensary than meeting up with some sketchy nigger in a parking lot then get arrested for your dried flowers.
Cheers anon.
PS
I love that old weed outlaw shit. I grew up around a lot of old hippie smugglers and thought they were badass. Thank you for your service. lol
Stay based, bro. Nice talking wih you.
10 years ago
Weed is not everywhere, child. Wait for the knock.
a copy of All Ladies Do It
Now watch Monella (1998) and Paprika (1991)
Did you ever have a time where you were embarrassed renting a movie
Old fag here and pic related.
Had a solid relationship with the Family Video employees throughout junior high, high school, and after high school.
Was dating a gal when I was 19 who was hot but retarded. I was young and retarded so she called the shots.
She was adamant about renting a porn with the "Blink nurse" and watching it while we fucked so after hours of me saying 'no' she pressured me into going to my local Family Video, going behind the curtain, and renting a porn.
They all treated me weird after that and I soon after stopped going.
I didn't give a fuck about watching porn with her. I just didn't want to rent it from MY video store.
didn't think to go to a different video store
You're both retarded
Kek
I really enjoyed Dicks The Musical but I would never recommend it to people irl
I remember some yuppie talking to the clerk asking for a movie to show his family that was similar to The Shining. I recommended Irreversible and he rented it while the clerk tried to suppress his laughter. Kek