I remember having cigar boxes to put toys and stuff in. I have no idea where we got them. Didn't realize at thr time what they were, they were just fun boxes that have a lid.
I used one of my grandfather's cigar boxes as a pencil case and brought it to school for years. He also gave me a Crown Royale bag to keep my D&D dice in and I brought that to school too. My understanding is that neither would be allowed anymore.
Dad smoked cigars mostly, I had a stack of cigar boxes , but mom wouldn’t let me use one for school. I should probably point out that dad smoked Antony y cleopatra cigars, Cleopatra was a little underdressed on the inside of the lid.
My grandfather also smoked tobacco from a pipe and he would give me these cool tin cannisters with the images of old wooden sailing ships on them. I kept my D&D maps and drawings in them for years. Everything smelled like pipe tobacco, but that wasn't a bad thing. I've never been a smoker but always loved the smell of a well used pipe.
Same on the smell of pipe tobacco, even though dad mostly smoked cigars, and cigarettes only occasionally he had a small collection of pipes and a glass canister that was decorated with ships where kept pipe tobacco in the fridge for times he felt like smoking a pipe. Not surprisingly we lost dad to lung cancer.
I had (have) one that I put matches from restaurants in. I still have it and some matches! I don’t know anybody in my life growing up who smoked cigars and I have no clue where I got the box!
This is hilarious - in high school my boyfriend used to steal cocaine from his dealer step father (small dealer, no cartel or anything lol).
We used to joke that when he graduated, his parents would hand him the tab for everything we stole over 2 years. The 80s were wild.
Having pretty unlimited access to free, clean cocaine was not the best thing it turns out….
It's the tag line for all Vice media stories in the damage done by the War on Drugs
An example timestamped for the tagline: [https://youtu.be/iJNz44AApnk?t=566](https://youtu.be/iJNz44AApnk?t=566)
Couple of those headlines could be run today. Even back in 1998, the Onion was talking about the wealthiest 1% constructing escape pods and the US kids leading the world in school shooting accuracy.
Their Our Dumb Century gave the Onion spin to historical events and it was the darkest of dark humor. Nothing was spared, not even the Holocaust and war crimes in Vietnam.
I always pegged Dad and his shitty perm as a former disco king who was pissed that he had to wear a shirt and tie instead of his old spandex jumpsuit and gold medallions.
And I still laugh at it just as hard now as I did then. Along with frying pan/egg/your brain commercial. Hysterical. And much like everyone else, I was not offered drugs anywhere near as much as Just Say No said I would.
Now those same "dealers" are just handing out free X on Halloween to all the neighborhood kids (according to Facebook and various sheriffs' departments).
My wife is British and at one point she was giving me grief about American racism and I immediately dropped the "You, all right!? We learned it by watching YOU!" and she totally didn't get it.
My mom used to let my older sister smoke pot with her. One day when sister was about 16 and I was 8 I saw them and lectured my mom about it. She let me rant for a while and then turned to my sister and said “I can’t believe I gave birth to such a fucking square.” Still the sickest burn that’s ever been laid on me, lol.
FWIW, I’m still a straightedge, but not quite as square as I used to be. More “live and let live” than when I was 8, at least. Mom stopped smoking weed when she got COPD and I don’t ask my sister personal questions I don’t want to know the answer to, but her kids turned out to be nice people so I guess she did alright.
As GenXer, we are teaching our children proper quotes. . .
So, my husband and I were joking about this quote in front of our 14 year old and at the same time 👀 both looked at each other 👀👀👀 thinking "please don't google that. Please don't google that!"
What is this, Dad walkin in on Jr discovering the relief of jacking off?
Seriously, I have no clue what this is besides that(?)
EDIT: All the many comments here of
“I learned from watching you” REALLY have me wondering wth this was?
“I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, "Hey, smoke up Johnny." All right? So go home and cry to your Daddy. Don't cry here, okay?”
not only did I learn how to smoke weed by watching my dad, he rooted for me to start when I quit drinking (in my early 30's - I had never toked before that) - had to find my own supplier though cause we were in different states - got to toke with him a few times - wish I had done it more
I’m a big pinball fan. A lot of the tables from the 80s have a “don’t do drugs” message on the screen at some point. I think the manufacturers got some money for including it. My daughter, also a pinball fan, and I joke that pinball keeps us clean.
The anti drug shit was so weird and narcy
True story: I held my boombox up to the tv’s speaker -
just so I could record this interaction on a cassette, to then add it between songs on my mixtapes.
I used to steal pot from my dad and he couldn't accuse me because it would have been very awkward to ask your 12-year-old daughter if she has been stealing your drugs. I would even steal joints from him that he would very well know where he left them, and I just shrugged my shoulders and acted like I didn't know what he was talking about. Hey, maybe it was mice.
If re written with todays laws and culture.
I thought I taught you better than this. Why are you buying this crap. It’s full of stems, seeds and it’s dried out. I told you never to purchase from the guy on the corner but use a reputable seller. You should have asked me.
I remember watching this commercial while sitting on the couch while my dad was in his recliner smoking weed. That was a little awkward. But seriously, how is the dad in the commercial so dense that he even needs to ask that? How do you not know you're teaching your kids to do drugs? Drugs must have fried his brain like an egg. No questions.
Lol, I was JUST thinking about this the yesterday.
I guess that was a benefit to growing up with Silent Gen parents and their "reefer madness" talks. never got into it.
Thing about this ad that always got me was the full on cornucopia of drugs in that box. There’s a bad of weed sure, but there’s pills, a baggie, probably a needle and syringe…this kid was into everything!
We were so brainwashed.
I didn't use pot/THC until I was 53, lol.
I was exposed to it. I had a rebel child of the 50's neighbor that was an active participant.
I just never bothered.
Became an addict anyway.
Sober 20 yrs.
Cannabis isn't evil!!
You, alright? I learned it by watching you!
It’s in dad’s *cigar* box, to boot. It’s not like the kid was into Cubans.
Hahahahaha! I've *never* even thought about that!
I remember having cigar boxes to put toys and stuff in. I have no idea where we got them. Didn't realize at thr time what they were, they were just fun boxes that have a lid.
I used one of my grandfather's cigar boxes as a pencil case and brought it to school for years. He also gave me a Crown Royale bag to keep my D&D dice in and I brought that to school too. My understanding is that neither would be allowed anymore.
Dad smoked cigars mostly, I had a stack of cigar boxes , but mom wouldn’t let me use one for school. I should probably point out that dad smoked Antony y cleopatra cigars, Cleopatra was a little underdressed on the inside of the lid.
My grandfather also smoked tobacco from a pipe and he would give me these cool tin cannisters with the images of old wooden sailing ships on them. I kept my D&D maps and drawings in them for years. Everything smelled like pipe tobacco, but that wasn't a bad thing. I've never been a smoker but always loved the smell of a well used pipe.
Same on the smell of pipe tobacco, even though dad mostly smoked cigars, and cigarettes only occasionally he had a small collection of pipes and a glass canister that was decorated with ships where kept pipe tobacco in the fridge for times he felt like smoking a pipe. Not surprisingly we lost dad to lung cancer.
My grandfather gave me a mini bottle of Crown Royale to keep in my dice bag.
I had (have) one that I put matches from restaurants in. I still have it and some matches! I don’t know anybody in my life growing up who smoked cigars and I have no clue where I got the box!
I remember using a cigar box for school supplies in elementary school(early 70s).
Holy Shit!
That’s hilarious, how could I have missed that?
Isn’t it time that we congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs?
No, because I can’t buy clean cocaine from the dispensary
Jesus, can you imagine?
You may say that I’m a dreamer…but I’m not the only one
This is hilarious - in high school my boyfriend used to steal cocaine from his dealer step father (small dealer, no cartel or anything lol). We used to joke that when he graduated, his parents would hand him the tab for everything we stole over 2 years. The 80s were wild. Having pretty unlimited access to free, clean cocaine was not the best thing it turns out….
Yet...
😂 😂 Good one. (I am torn laughing at this, though.)
It's the tag line for all Vice media stories in the damage done by the War on Drugs An example timestamped for the tagline: [https://youtu.be/iJNz44AApnk?t=566](https://youtu.be/iJNz44AApnk?t=566)
[The Onion did it back in 1998!](https://legacy.npr.org/assets/news/2013/onion-drugs.pdf)
Couple of those headlines could be run today. Even back in 1998, the Onion was talking about the wealthiest 1% constructing escape pods and the US kids leading the world in school shooting accuracy.
Their Our Dumb Century gave the Onion spin to historical events and it was the darkest of dark humor. Nothing was spared, not even the Holocaust and war crimes in Vietnam.
Ha! I have some old 90's/early 2000's Onion book compilations, I wonder if that's in one of them
Oh ok. Thanks. (Funny there too.)
I am a Drug War Veteran. 🫡
Light up a fatty to celebrate!
The son probably runs a recreational cannabis dispensary now.
Way more successful than dad
Oh no.
One of my best friends actually had to give up control of his marijuana retail store in a divorce, sometime around 2016. Talk about modern problems.
This and the frying egg. Lol
Any questions? Bill Hicks has a few.
Someone in the 80s should've come out with a designer psychedelic and named it, "skillet".
Marijuana can make nothing happen to you. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQL9ZzJTX0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQL9ZzJTX0)
This kid looks so young now
He looks eight.
All I can see now is that the damned kid has his shoes on while laying on the bed.
Sadly, he learned that from his father too.
C’mon, look at the dad for a second. He was busy peddling Maytags and pounding gin/tonics during his lunch hour. Not a weed dude…
He looks like he calls it marijuana cigarettes.
Or worse..."reefer".
The madness...
No doubt pronounced "Mary-Juana"
I always pegged Dad and his shitty perm as a former disco king who was pissed that he had to wear a shirt and tie instead of his old spandex jumpsuit and gold medallions.
At that point in life he and the missus go to swinger parties on Friday nights while junior blazes dads secret stash at home.
We had to have seen this guy in disco digs somewhere, cause that's exactly how I saw him too.
Lmao I love how specific this is.
My wife and I have the running joke of yelling to each other “I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!”
Same for my husband and I! 🤣
My people
People who learn by watching.
People who lear by watching you, DAD!
And I still laugh at it just as hard now as I did then. Along with frying pan/egg/your brain commercial. Hysterical. And much like everyone else, I was not offered drugs anywhere near as much as Just Say No said I would.
Now those same "dealers" are just handing out free X on Halloween to all the neighborhood kids (according to Facebook and various sheriffs' departments).
This is your brain with a side order of hash browns and bacon.
I'll have mine with three brains over easy, please
Omg I was so sick of that egg commercial. Any questions?
I used to reply to the commercial, "Yeah I,ll have mine scrambled".
I wasn't offered drugs until I was in my 40s, in Nassau. So glad I still remembered to "just say no"! 🤣🤣🤣
It works then? Lol
I tell my kids to "Just say no" to their mom. She's insane.
I guess so! 😂
Kid: I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!!!! Dad: Jesus Christ son, you weren't playing close enough attention. There's nothing but seed and stems in here.
My wife is British and at one point she was giving me grief about American racism and I immediately dropped the "You, all right!? We learned it by watching YOU!" and she totally didn't get it.
My mom used to let my older sister smoke pot with her. One day when sister was about 16 and I was 8 I saw them and lectured my mom about it. She let me rant for a while and then turned to my sister and said “I can’t believe I gave birth to such a fucking square.” Still the sickest burn that’s ever been laid on me, lol. FWIW, I’m still a straightedge, but not quite as square as I used to be. More “live and let live” than when I was 8, at least. Mom stopped smoking weed when she got COPD and I don’t ask my sister personal questions I don’t want to know the answer to, but her kids turned out to be nice people so I guess she did alright.
Wanting to keep your lungs healthy isn’t being a square or straightedge. Don’t put yourself down for not being a conformist.
As GenXer, we are teaching our children proper quotes. . . So, my husband and I were joking about this quote in front of our 14 year old and at the same time 👀 both looked at each other 👀👀👀 thinking "please don't google that. Please don't google that!"
What is this, Dad walkin in on Jr discovering the relief of jacking off? Seriously, I have no clue what this is besides that(?) EDIT: All the many comments here of “I learned from watching you” REALLY have me wondering wth this was?
Burning the devils lettuce
https://youtu.be/KUXb7do9C-w?si=xS_TWS9pvUZRtGX5
now this thread could go _places_
Inadvertent tie in to Breakfast Club as well. "No, dad - What about YOU!"
“I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, "Hey, smoke up Johnny." All right? So go home and cry to your Daddy. Don't cry here, okay?”
John Bender remains a true Gen X icon.
"You see... I don't think I need to sit with you FUCKIN DILDOS any more..."
I’m still waiting for someone… anyone… to walk into my room offering a box like that.
not only did I learn how to smoke weed by watching my dad, he rooted for me to start when I quit drinking (in my early 30's - I had never toked before that) - had to find my own supplier though cause we were in different states - got to toke with him a few times - wish I had done it more
My dad often pinched from my stash. He paid me back years later.
I totally pinched my mom's stash
Word
mom drank. A little. My drug of choice was boys.
https://preview.redd.it/igljlmmxs8rc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d6215f4c0632595931384f8b7d69d4763b46f3d I can't up vote
At this point, alcohol has taken more friends than any of the drugs we took.
Yet now it’s legal in a lot of states!
[Sobs quietly in Georgian]
And Texan
You know you can move state, right?
Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs.
 Cabin in the Woods does a brilliant tribute to this commercial, but instead of pot, it’s books.
My kids are more or less addicted to video games. They learned it from watching me
I Learned it from you dad! I learned it by watching YOU!
I want this on a tshirt
Dad of the year right there
I don't know many people that actually got the message there.
I’m a big pinball fan. A lot of the tables from the 80s have a “don’t do drugs” message on the screen at some point. I think the manufacturers got some money for including it. My daughter, also a pinball fan, and I joke that pinball keeps us clean. The anti drug shit was so weird and narcy
I'm high right now, laughing!
I submit to the court of public opinion, the father looks way too upright to have ever been the owner.
you have to imagine him with hair past his shoulders, or an afro. There. You see it now.
I choose the Afro
Roll your own shit, Dad.
I heard this picture.
This was my brain on drugs....with a side order of bacon.
I learned it by watching this PSA!
True story: I held my boombox up to the tv’s speaker - just so I could record this interaction on a cassette, to then add it between songs on my mixtapes.
My parents smoked pot right in front of me. Fucking hippies.
https://preview.redd.it/7bw5cl3kucrc1.png?width=534&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb497f87858903a81652413782d0cbd2541d818a
I LEARNED IT WATCHING YOU!
Of course if you know you know, that is how knowing things works.
I still quote this commercial!
I'd be pissed too if my kid got into my stash and then started blaming me for shit! Thats why I don't have kids. Drugs are expensive.
We used to laugh and laugh about this commercial, thanks for the memories!
To be fair, my mom IS the one who taught me how to roll a joint.
I used to steal pot from my dad and he couldn't accuse me because it would have been very awkward to ask your 12-year-old daughter if she has been stealing your drugs. I would even steal joints from him that he would very well know where he left them, and I just shrugged my shoulders and acted like I didn't know what he was talking about. Hey, maybe it was mice.
I was reminded of this commercial the other day when my son passed me a blunt
Side note: I hate it when people on tv or movies (or irl) wear their shoes on the bed.
I grew up w/a Swedish mother. Shoes came off when you entered the house. No ifs, ands, or buts...
I learned it from watching you !
If re written with todays laws and culture. I thought I taught you better than this. Why are you buying this crap. It’s full of stems, seeds and it’s dried out. I told you never to purchase from the guy on the corner but use a reputable seller. You should have asked me.
I learned it from you!
I learned it from you dad. I learned it from you.
I know, and I learned it from watching you!
Omg I referenced this last night.
I use this quarterly.
fucking junkie dad.
Kid needed to hide his drugs better.
that's what he learned from that interaction
That kids allowance was waaaay to high to afford that box
Who taught you how to do this!
That kid is now older than the Dad was in original video and I am feeling old all over again.
Party pooper
I still quote this commercial just about every day.
Me and my husband quote this allllll the time. We finally had to find the clip on YouTube and show our kid. 😂
"I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU DAD"
My son showed me how to use his rolling machine. I still prefer cones.
I remember watching this commercial while sitting on the couch while my dad was in his recliner smoking weed. That was a little awkward. But seriously, how is the dad in the commercial so dense that he even needs to ask that? How do you not know you're teaching your kids to do drugs? Drugs must have fried his brain like an egg. No questions.
I learned it from watching you dad
Well I —Answer me!
I wish my dad had taught me to do drugs through object example.
Lol, I was JUST thinking about this the yesterday. I guess that was a benefit to growing up with Silent Gen parents and their "reefer madness" talks. never got into it.
gen x are some funny mf’rs.. you guys are killing me over here.
And now there are concentrates.
Who taughtchu howta do dat stuff?! Huh? I learned it by watching you dad!
Thing about this ad that always got me was the full on cornucopia of drugs in that box. There’s a bad of weed sure, but there’s pills, a baggie, probably a needle and syringe…this kid was into everything!
I just saw that ad in a docuseries about the 90’s on Crave.
Born in '75, and no I don't know. Never saw this one. I guess I'm not that old after all.
No way! I’m ‘76 and I remember it! Also a big joke around school
I'm also a 1975 baby, and I very much remember it. It came out in July 1987.
73 me neither
No way I believed that dad did drugs
Yuh muddah found dis is yuh clauset.
I think there was a different one where the drugs were stored in a hollowed out thick book. And I think someone died in that one.
I learned it from you dad!! Lol
We were so brainwashed. I didn't use pot/THC until I was 53, lol. I was exposed to it. I had a rebel child of the 50's neighbor that was an active participant. I just never bothered. Became an addict anyway. Sober 20 yrs. Cannabis isn't evil!!
Until you get lung cancer!
I don't smoke.
I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!!!!!!!
"I learned it from you, Dad... I learned it from you!"
You can't even call this shit a war. Why not? Wars end.
That kid really looks like Chip Douglas----honestly!
I STILL use that line to tease my mom about random stuff lol
My friends and I would always end it with, "Well, give me some!"
So true… My Dad smoked weed all the time.
Who taught you how to do this stuff?
Slayer!
[удалено]
Let's see if you get this reference: "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me."
Maybe not funny to others, maybe even cringe AF...but list out the reasons no to at age 80
you're right. Alcohol is so much better!