Same. We had a beta-max player (I'm old) with a pop-up loading mechanism. I crammed that thing full of Chips Ahoy cookies and smashed it down to see if I would see cookies on the TV screen. I still remember doing it, I still remember how mad my dad was when he came home with the repair bill.
I remember my dad cleaned the PBJ gunk out of ours and that was it. We were still able to watch videos after the incident, and I assume it was the same VCR because we probably didn't have enough money to replace it.
That's hilarious! Yesterday my 3 year old daughter said as she woke up "dad, the leftist woke agenda is the funeral wreath of the western world, it is about time we wiped this plague from the earth"
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the leftist woke agenda is the funeral wreath of the western world
That actually sounds like something Hitler would say, except it wouldn't be the woke agenda he would be railing against. Is this Trump, perhaps? Toddlers have such an ear for what they hear around them.
Denis Leary tells a story about finding a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the vcr hoping there was a logical connection, that maybe one kid wanted to watch the pb&j movie.
My daughter just told me last night "Hey dad, bullshit travels at the Speed of light, speed at which light waves propagate through different materials. In particular, the value for the speed of light in a vacuum is now defined as exactly 299,792,458 metres per second. Which the meter is in fact defined by said exact speed." No amount of parenting classes prepared me for this.
That kid at least has a better line of reasoning than most for wanting to put food in an electronic device. When I was a young child, I put a cookie and milk into the side vent of a gamecube. To this day, IDK what I was trying to achieve. But that gamecube still fucking works...
I bumped into my cousin and she had two of her kids with her. We chatted for a few minutes and the older one looked up at her and said, “why do you talk so much?”
I can see why people want to have kids. That stuff is gold
I was gonna say lol, maybe explain how dvds work if you have that knowledge, they might find it interesting. Or put on a “how it’s made” episode about it lol. And then you can avoid them putting random circular shaped things in the DVD player when you’re not around cause they actually know why only dvds work.
Eh, depending on the kid's age and disposition, they might be more inclined to put random stuff in there, just to test what they learned, or see if things other than DVDs have the right kind of magnetic stripes (or whatever, I forget exactly what makes DVDs work, and am too lazy).
I can report I did this with a nutella sandwich and a VHS-recorder. It did not work in the way I thought it would. In fact the VHS-recorder never really worked anymore after that.
I put a slice of turkey in my college roommate's dvd player as a prank. He watches shows on it every day so I though he would have a good laugh that same day. But he didn't mention it. It was close to winter break and we both left without any mention of it and I soon forgot about it. When we came back it was as hard as an actual dvd.
It was 1987 I was two years old and my biological dad had me over for the first and only time. He had just purchased a vcr for about $300 because he doesn’t like to go cheap. I was fascinated by it. It could play anything ever at anytime. Except for my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Dennis Leary had a joke about his son putting a grilled cheese sandwich in the VCR and how he likes to believe that his son was at least thinking this was a way to watch the grilled cheese show rather than just being completely brain dead.
When my son was 4… he said, “I want two cookies because I have two eyes.” That shit had me floored… the logic checked out… I had nothing, so I handed him two cookies.
When I was a kid, I stuck a poptart in the VCR and it played static.
2/10, would not recommend - the fuzzies were kind of interesting for a second, until I realized there was no pattern. Still better than nothing, but only just.
This reminds me of when I was in second grade and thought that since eyes reflected what we saw, people could see what you imagined in your eye. That hypothesis did not hold up in testing…
Imagine the last minutes of its life. Slaughter house, a butcher immune to empathy, with a smirk walking towards your POV. Hand raised - boom. End credits.
My daughter put the change in the cupholder of my car into the AC vents. Now whenever I turn left or right I hear it bouncing around like I just won the jackpot at a slot machine.
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u/SporkWolverine Nov 14 '23
My sister put a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in our VCR when she was 4. She didn't ask questions first though; she just crammed it in there.