Which two and two did you just recently put together?
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Bears_On_Stilts
1.3k points · 1 month ago
When I was a little kid, my dad had some friends over to drink beer and watch a movie. My mom made me play in the other room, because "this wasn't a movie for kids." So I was playing in the living room as the men laughed, cracked jokes and loud music blasted from the other room. Eventually I wanted to see what the fuss was about, so I crept into the room in time to see a beefy, mostly-naked man chained to a bed. Immediately the men start shouting "get him out of here! Turn off the movie! He shouldn't see this!" and they hustle me out of the room. Being about six or seven, I put the pieces together and think "they were watching that man get tortured!"
Later, in my teens, a different answer occurred to me. "They were watching porn... they were watching gay bondage porn." But it didn't make sense. None of them were gay, my mom was right there, nobody was masturbating- what was going on? Were they watching it for laughs? Was there a woman I didn't see in the video?
Years later I realized what should have been obvious given my long association with the stage show: they had been watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I walked in on the scene where Rocky breaks free of Frank's bedroom to run for freedom.
shameaboutray
127 points · 1 month ago
Amazing! My parents also were really, really adamant about me never seeing that movie. I was allowed to watch pretty much whatever I wanted from a very young age. Horror movies, war movies, movies with nudity, hell we would watch the Godfather and Casino around the holidays together as a family. But that RHPS tape. I was told to never watch that tape.
Fast forward to me as an early teen, hanging out with my mall goth friends, someone suggests we watch Rocky Horror. Everyone is very excited about this prospect, so I'm like oh boy here we go, this is gonna be some fucked up shit. We start watching it, and I'm going, "Ok Susan Sarandon is in this, Tim Curry (who I always adored), this can't be THAT bad. It's Tim Curry!" And there was literally nothing in that film that I hadn't been exposed to already.
Fast forward again, me in my mid 20's, over at my mom's house for the holidays. We were talking about all the movies we used to watch as a family, and I asked her why she and my father were so determined to not let me watch RHPS when I was little. She tells me because there was so much wordplay and weird shit going on, they just didn't want to have to sit there and explain it. She also didn't want me going around singing songs from it, which I was prone to doing, then other people would think she was a bad mother because her 7 year old daughter is singing Sweet Transvestite in the Kroger.
Fun Fact: I have seen RHPS probably over 200 times in the theater. I was one of those people. Thanks, mom!
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Turok1990
14.5k points · 1 month ago
At the end of first grade the teacher asked the class "so who wants to stay here with me next year?" We all threw up our hands up excited, and she picked one of us. That kid stayed behind when we went to second grade.
I think about this once in a while and feel thankful she didn't pick me.
Last time I thought about this I realized that I've been missing the mark. That specific student was being left behind that year and the teacher did it in the smoothest way possible.
That's actually really sweet of her
VictorFrankBlack
Says a lot that everyone wanted to stay with her
5N0X5X0n6r
We had a similar thing where two kids were kept back but we were told it was because there wasn't enough desks to fit everyone. I spent years thinking "damm, to think how different their lives are just be because there happened to be not enough desks" It was only when I mentioned it to my brother once and he was like "lol you dumbass"
elMurpherino
Wow first grade me would not have realized either. That was definitely smoooth.
ConstantlyQuest
I read this and thought your teacher was some psychotic person holding kids back illegally until I read some of the comments lol
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Sabrick
1.5k points · 1 month ago · edited 1 month ago
Despite living in various houses growing up my dad's closet would always smell the exact same way; he said it was the "mothballs" that he used.
Later when I tried pot for the first time I said "This smells like mothballs!"
Everyone looked at me funny, and it still took days until I finally realized what that meant.
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gameshowutopia
There's a meme going around about making sure your young kids go to classmates' birthday parties because it's devastating to be a kid and have nobody come to yours. And I thought that I was damn lucky that even though I didn't cast a wide net of friends, everybody always came to my birthday party.
My mom was a teacher at my school. It never occurred to me until recently that SOME of those kids had a vested interest in making sure they came to my birthday party.
ftwoo
Always thought whipped cream was difficult to make. My friends and I would get excited and impressed that this crepe place would make their whipped cream in-house, as advertised for an extra $1.50.
Can't begin to tell you how dumb I felt one day when I realized... It is literally whipped... cream.
adriellealways
Does it help to know that you can make your own with a mason jar and patience?
Zorafin
The blacks of the eye are black because there's nothing there.
It's just a hole.
You're seeing inside their eyeball, but you can't see anything because there's no light in there.
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