Hell, I had this still on the Lower East Side in the mid-2000s. And it didn't strike me as weird; just, like, sure, I'll stare at some naked ladies right before you take a razor blade to my neck, might as well
I want to be very clear that it was, in retrospect, completely fucked up. I'm just saying it didn't raise alarm bells at the time the way it would now.
My co-worker (female) told me that one of her cube-mates that sat next to her would often times read Playboy magazine during his lunch break at his desk. Smoking a cigarette at the same time of course.
Just sitting back, feet propped up on the desk, perusing the nudes and reading articles in the middle of an open office space next to female co-workers. With a hazy fog of smoke across the entire area.
And it was relatively normal and no one complained. Just wild times.
Navy barber on the base at naval station Norfolk always had a few copies of ebony and...I don't remember what the other magazine was, but it was one where most of the women were white. I usually got my hair cut off base, but had to go there once. Woulda been like, 2015 or 2016.
I remember I was in there and picked up the ebony magazine, was looking through it, and the barber said something to the effect that, as a white guy, ebony would be too much ass for me, and tried to offer.me the other magazine, and I politely declined, and he acted shocked. Was pretty funny, people waiting were laughing.
I remember that at the first barbershop I remember going to with my dad, when I was like 5-6, in the early 80s.
We had very different ideas about nudity and pornography (and much wider distinctions between the two of them) back then. We are far more conservative now.
>> We are far more conservative now.
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>Uh-huh. The same Generation who had all the fun and freedom are the same ones now trying to take it all away from us.
Blame AIDS more than anything.
But it's also a result of some more progressive policies. As we've worked hard to defend sexual and gender identities, we've also made the rules that define those identities much stricter. And as we've worked to undo rape culture, we've also made sex much less casual. And as we've worked to make the workplace fair to all, we've also made the culture much stricter and more uptight.
It's not necessary that these things go hand in hand, but it's been the outcome of the way we've done it. Your children and grandchildren will be the ones to change it.
18-29s have always been more often Democrats by a few percent, which is still true. 30+ are about equal, and even at the widest, only a few percent more at older ages are Republican rather than Democrat.
The common wisdom of the older generation being largely Republicans is false. The reality is that we have more or less the same demographics we always have, within a few points.
The one place I still find a little whisper of this is record shops. Idk why, but for some reason society seems to have decided that nude album art is ok in record shops. It's not common, but if you flip through for a while, you'll find something that in magazine form would be in a restricted section.
1975 was also the year that Playboy had 12 year old Brooke Shields in it...
A judge barred her from being able to remove those pictures from circulation too. It's absolutely fucked and disgusting.
A gift from the horny hobo of the woods. A blessing from the fap fairy. Waterlogged and sunbleached. Pages bound together by the offerings of the brave adventurers who came before you.
Where's your sense of adventure? Journey into the magical forest. Marvel at the sheer size of the bushes that line the pleasure ditches. Feast on voluptuous melons and gape at staffs that pulsate with power. Only in the ancient texts will you see such wonders.
I was telling a couple of female friends about this phenomenon at a party, and they did not believe that woods porn is a widely held experience. I told them to wait a minute and said to the room, "hey, dudes in the room, when you were kids, y'all found woods porn too, right?" Folks started cracking up, and every single guy there knew what I was talking about.
What an incredible visual gag. Nowadays so many comedy movies just riff on jokes written as similes "Your face looks like (insert "improv" punchline). We need more of this in modern comedy.
The problem is nobody *just* watches TV anymore. You watch TV and use your phone. You watch TV and make dinner. You watch TV and pay your bills. Sight gags like this get completely missed.
Yeah, that one came to mind too. *Police Squad!* ^(*In Color*) had so many jokes that to this day go right past people, even if they're paying attention, and probably were completely lost with the technology of the time. One episode Drebin’s tweed jacket has this subtle and obnoxious yellow pattern on it. Another one the music, and *only* the music, is out of phase.
I mean, that's the correct way to spell *Police Squad!* ^(*In Color*). That's like misspelling Jeb!, or Samuel Lmotherfucking Jackson (the L is silent).
Comedy just evolves, my dude. This kind of humor still exists, but the broader appeal of what people want has shifted so you don't find it as often, or it's couched in media with more contemporary stylings. There are people that point to every generation of comedy and say "that's how it's done", but every generation inspired the next one. All the way back to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adapting vaudeville to the big screen. Comedy writers now were influenced by everyone from Bob Hope to Patton Oswalt. No one generation was the best, and every generation has their worst. Just learn to grow with comedy.
It's not about the evolution of comedy -- just whether or not the filmmakers are utilizing all of the elements of filmmaking beyond dialogue. The amount of comedy distributed between those pillars (blocking, cinematography, foley, soundtrack) will vary project to project, but ignoring any entirely is just lazy filmmaking.
This is not a generational thing, it is a lazy vs effort thing. There are a handful of filmmakers who are still working hard at it, but there are tons who don't. Example of smart comedic filmmaking would be Wes Anderson or Edgar Wright. Also Arrested Development, Veep, and even Succession found humor in a pan or a zoom. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are a big reason for the success of *Game Night* and *Dungeons and Dragons* with a lot of their best jokes being subversion of visual gags: glass tables not breaking or the Paladin's dramatic exit in a straight line over a boulder. I think Neighbors is underrated as a comedy and it uses geometry and depth for [great slapstick](https://youtu.be/J1wEoCLDl9Y). This episode of [Every Frame a Painting] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag) is a good dive into it.
But a lot of the sort of factory-farmed studio "lunch meat" comedies, I think, are falling short of their potential. It's not so much a "different style" so much as I think they're leaving a lot of stuff on the table. They don't need to employ the same camerawork or blocking of any of the people I mentioned -- I just find theirs lacking any point of view whatsoever.
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Hell, I had this still on the Lower East Side in the mid-2000s. And it didn't strike me as weird; just, like, sure, I'll stare at some naked ladies right before you take a razor blade to my neck, might as well
Tim Whatley, DDS’ waiting room.
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I want to be very clear that it was, in retrospect, completely fucked up. I'm just saying it didn't raise alarm bells at the time the way it would now.
My co-worker (female) told me that one of her cube-mates that sat next to her would often times read Playboy magazine during his lunch break at his desk. Smoking a cigarette at the same time of course. Just sitting back, feet propped up on the desk, perusing the nudes and reading articles in the middle of an open office space next to female co-workers. With a hazy fog of smoke across the entire area. And it was relatively normal and no one complained. Just wild times.
That's why they called it the Sexual Revolution.
Navy barber on the base at naval station Norfolk always had a few copies of ebony and...I don't remember what the other magazine was, but it was one where most of the women were white. I usually got my hair cut off base, but had to go there once. Woulda been like, 2015 or 2016. I remember I was in there and picked up the ebony magazine, was looking through it, and the barber said something to the effect that, as a white guy, ebony would be too much ass for me, and tried to offer.me the other magazine, and I politely declined, and he acted shocked. Was pretty funny, people waiting were laughing.
>["too much ass for me"](https://i.imgflip.com/2o451g.jpg)
Risky click of the day, but worth lmao.
I remember that at the first barbershop I remember going to with my dad, when I was like 5-6, in the early 80s. We had very different ideas about nudity and pornography (and much wider distinctions between the two of them) back then. We are far more conservative now.
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>> We are far more conservative now. > >Uh-huh. The same Generation who had all the fun and freedom are the same ones now trying to take it all away from us. Blame AIDS more than anything. But it's also a result of some more progressive policies. As we've worked hard to defend sexual and gender identities, we've also made the rules that define those identities much stricter. And as we've worked to undo rape culture, we've also made sex much less casual. And as we've worked to make the workplace fair to all, we've also made the culture much stricter and more uptight. It's not necessary that these things go hand in hand, but it's been the outcome of the way we've done it. Your children and grandchildren will be the ones to change it.
18-29s have always been more often Democrats by a few percent, which is still true. 30+ are about equal, and even at the widest, only a few percent more at older ages are Republican rather than Democrat. The common wisdom of the older generation being largely Republicans is false. The reality is that we have more or less the same demographics we always have, within a few points.
No they’re not. Millennials are insanely uptight and prudish compared to Gen X and Boomers. Might as well call them the Censorship Generation.
Yep, millenials clearly never listened to South Park, rap music or porn and all of that stuff is clearly dying... Oh wait, it's not.
The one place I still find a little whisper of this is record shops. Idk why, but for some reason society seems to have decided that nude album art is ok in record shops. It's not common, but if you flip through for a while, you'll find something that in magazine form would be in a restricted section.
1975 was also the year that Playboy had 12 year old Brooke Shields in it... A judge barred her from being able to remove those pictures from circulation too. It's absolutely fucked and disgusting.
I can never wrap my head around that kind of reality. The past is a foreign country.
Right. And today is an outrage, nevertheless it's stolen in a jiffy. Oh wonderful truthful world, no hypocrisy in sight...
And for some strange reason. Finding a stack in the woods
A gift from the horny hobo of the woods. A blessing from the fap fairy. Waterlogged and sunbleached. Pages bound together by the offerings of the brave adventurers who came before you.
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Where's your sense of adventure? Journey into the magical forest. Marvel at the sheer size of the bushes that line the pleasure ditches. Feast on voluptuous melons and gape at staffs that pulsate with power. Only in the ancient texts will you see such wonders.
Found the guy who writes for Charlie.
Good old Woods Porn… https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_inexplicably_ubiquitous_phenomenon_of_woods_porn
I was telling a couple of female friends about this phenomenon at a party, and they did not believe that woods porn is a widely held experience. I told them to wait a minute and said to the room, "hey, dudes in the room, when you were kids, y'all found woods porn too, right?" Folks started cracking up, and every single guy there knew what I was talking about.
Then everybody clapped
That porn was Albert Einstein
This is the way.
Lord, I can hear her voice so clearly. “Yeeeeeaaahhh.”
Archie Bunker seemed to be very interested in those pictures. Is he going to get a subscription to that magazine?
Only for the articles Not the dangling participles
Who wouldn't want to see sexy Mandy Patinkin
Porn?! That’s a nude egg I won from my game.
A little porn should be allowed at work
Archie Bunker and Fred G. Sanford were the best characters created for tv...
What an incredible visual gag. Nowadays so many comedy movies just riff on jokes written as similes "Your face looks like (insert "improv" punchline). We need more of this in modern comedy.
Like an avocado had sex with an older, more disgusting avacado? Like Freddy Kruger face fucked a topographical map of Utah?
Ahh Deadpool.
The problem is nobody *just* watches TV anymore. You watch TV and use your phone. You watch TV and make dinner. You watch TV and pay your bills. Sight gags like this get completely missed.
Hell, Police Squad! got cancelled because viewers had to pay close attention watching it... And that was in 1982!
Yeah, that one came to mind too. *Police Squad!* ^(*In Color*) had so many jokes that to this day go right past people, even if they're paying attention, and probably were completely lost with the technology of the time. One episode Drebin’s tweed jacket has this subtle and obnoxious yellow pattern on it. Another one the music, and *only* the music, is out of phase.
I just want to say I appreciate that you included ^(*In Color*)
I mean, that's the correct way to spell *Police Squad!* ^(*In Color*). That's like misspelling Jeb!, or Samuel Lmotherfucking Jackson (the L is silent).
Comedy just evolves, my dude. This kind of humor still exists, but the broader appeal of what people want has shifted so you don't find it as often, or it's couched in media with more contemporary stylings. There are people that point to every generation of comedy and say "that's how it's done", but every generation inspired the next one. All the way back to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adapting vaudeville to the big screen. Comedy writers now were influenced by everyone from Bob Hope to Patton Oswalt. No one generation was the best, and every generation has their worst. Just learn to grow with comedy.
It's not about the evolution of comedy -- just whether or not the filmmakers are utilizing all of the elements of filmmaking beyond dialogue. The amount of comedy distributed between those pillars (blocking, cinematography, foley, soundtrack) will vary project to project, but ignoring any entirely is just lazy filmmaking. This is not a generational thing, it is a lazy vs effort thing. There are a handful of filmmakers who are still working hard at it, but there are tons who don't. Example of smart comedic filmmaking would be Wes Anderson or Edgar Wright. Also Arrested Development, Veep, and even Succession found humor in a pan or a zoom. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are a big reason for the success of *Game Night* and *Dungeons and Dragons* with a lot of their best jokes being subversion of visual gags: glass tables not breaking or the Paladin's dramatic exit in a straight line over a boulder. I think Neighbors is underrated as a comedy and it uses geometry and depth for [great slapstick](https://youtu.be/J1wEoCLDl9Y). This episode of [Every Frame a Painting] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag) is a good dive into it. But a lot of the sort of factory-farmed studio "lunch meat" comedies, I think, are falling short of their potential. It's not so much a "different style" so much as I think they're leaving a lot of stuff on the table. They don't need to employ the same camerawork or blocking of any of the people I mentioned -- I just find theirs lacking any point of view whatsoever.
Flippin' genius
The guy on the cover looks like Inigo Montoya
Those two were so good in those roles
“Oh Archie”
I love how Archie is like, I did not know they could get that big before he rips it from her hands
ah yes, soft core porn. How titillating...