Make sure to hit last, channel up, last. Foolish proof. I’ll never get caught.
Last channel rule
Submitted 6 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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Outhouse_dayz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
This guy faps.
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Here I thought I was the only one this clever.
weegee90@lemmy.world 6 months ago
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 6 months ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
My dad got these black market cable boxes from one of his less than reputable friends way back when. We got literally everything, including full porn channels that weren’t scrambled. They were technically blocked by my parents, but the family pincode was well known.
I used to watch the porn channels and never could figure out why they were so… Meh for me. Turns out, very gay. Lol
Once my parents split up we didn’t have those boxes anymore, and I used to watch Cat House and went through the same “why is this so frustratingly close to being good” experience lol
Entropywins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Quick question…was straight porn like ew gross or just not interesting? I find your porn story really funny and hope I don’t offend by saying so.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
No, not gross. Before I knew I was gay it more frustrating than anything. Like, I knew this was sexual, I knew I wanted to enjoy it, and I knew it made me horny. But it wasn’t enough to cross than line into, like, getting me there and being enjoyable. It wasn’t until I found my brother’s porn magazines that I really enjoyed porn, and that was because of the guys in it, and a few erotic stories in them written from women’s POV. I still didn’t realize I was gay or that it was the guys getting me there until one day, when I was like 13/14 and I had a blackberry. I found a site that had nude pictures of celebrities (some blog, not like a dedicated site), and there were (I’m assuming fake) nudes or Kirk Cameron on a boat. OMG, I got off so hard, and then went into full panic when I realized what that meant. Spent the next few years trying to figure out how to undo it. Lol.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I do believe it was a 4001 Diode soldered between pins 5 and 7; got everything but HBO…
Used to have all my friends over for the WWF pay-per-views.
Grabthar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
How did you even find this out?
Grabthar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Desperation
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Respect.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Incredible.
FardyCakes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I feel seen
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Yeah but if you were watching Nick at nite the whole time, why did the channel number flick on the screen for a second?
FardyCakes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I switched away during the cash for gold commercial
bulwark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Real Sex always seemed so not sexy. I mean, I’d watch it for boobs as a kid, but I was always kind of turned off by the whole show, idk.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Kinda like red shoe diaries. It wasn’t porn, it was usually some kind of shitty crime movie or student arthouse film with boobs.
Lenny@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
To young me the most interesting part of that show was the beginning and seeing Mulder (David Duchovny) in something outside of the X-Files
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 6 months ago
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ah yes, spice
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My dad was a film historian, so we had HBO, Cinemax and Showtime in case anything came on that he needed to tape to show to a class.
This was quite helpful to teenage me in the era before internet porn.
Routhinator@startrek.website 6 months ago
And here I just had Blue Nuit
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You fool, mother could also just hit “last” and catch you in both deceit AND boobin
lengau@midwest.social 6 months ago
Not if Nickelodeon is right next to Cartoon Network. You hit “last” and then change the channel. That also gives you cover for why you’re holding the remote and changing channels.
bizzle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
60 and 59, bro 😎
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This, and the really long late night Girls Gone Wild commercials on Comedy Central. I think the first thing I ever pirated was a GGW video, lmao.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh the disappointment to realize “wait, this is it?”
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is what I was trying to get off too. A few years later, I found out the art channel would sometimes play dirty movies on Saturday late at night but they usually involved incest(?). Then I switched to music channels when they started showing provocative music video so that was nice. I had one of those little tvs with the vcr integrated. Good times.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Should have bought a subscription to Radio and Electronics. I built a descrambler using their schematics.
Holy crap some of it still exists. schematicsforfree.com/…/1984-02 Analog Cable TV D…
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ha, knowing about this would have probably changed my life in more ways then one. I would have started my career as a hobby and saved a lot more time.
And God knows I would have been serious about learning this stuff as a teen if there was free porn at the end of it.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You think circuits are your friend? By the time I was old enough to convince my parents to buy me a soldering iron I was already a man.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 6 months ago
In Canada, we had “Bleu Nuit”. It was on at 2am, Saturday night, and played racy French movies. The only problem was the movies ran the gamut from full softcore porn to maybe a single shot with boobies somewhere in the middle. You took your chances. I swear there was one that didn’t even show anything (but probably talked about sex. Dunno, I don’t speak much French.)
Qkall@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
y’all remember that vcr trick that you could unscramble all the PPV channels… golden times… golden times.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Wait. what black magic is this? 12 year old me desperately wants to know.
kyle@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I have no idea. If you recorded something on vhs it didn’t play it back unscrambled did it?
Qkall@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Dunno how replies notify… but I replied to a reply on your reply.
<_<’
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
…and the mirror on the bedroom door set so that I could see who’s coming down the hall.
skibidi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But if you could see them, they could see you …
Dearth@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But you were in the dark, camouflaged in your bedding. Anyone coming down the hall was a silhouette against the white walls of the hallway.
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Here I am watching scrambled Sex and the City, wondering when it will get to the good part.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Red shoe diaries
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Ah, a man of culture, I see. This was my choice.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think you meant Emmanuelle.
Barndog53@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Red Shoe Diaries, backed by Much Music (I’m Canadian)
BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On showcase haha.
d00ery@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Eurotrash was an option in the UK for those without any satellite.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 months ago
We had Sky, it was British Sex for me.
hactar42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I always set the last button to the TV guide channel. It made it less suspicious if they saw the channel change. Or at least that’s what I reasoned.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cinemax taught me how to work a VCR
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Told my mom we should keep Cinemax because they had good movies coming up.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought I was the only one smart enough to devise this plan!
Lenny@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I remember having to crack the PIN code to access the locked channels (which would just give me access to things like skinemax late at night). I faked sick one day to stay home and set to work. I think there was a short timeout after a few failed attempts, so you only go so fast. It only took 852 tries but I got it! It was 0852, which was just a straight line up the keypad 😑
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
That’s way more dedication to a nut then I’ve ever had
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bruh, I remember trying to watch dirty skinemax through cable snow when your (friend’s) parents didn’t pay for the channel and somehow didn’t require a descrambler to get a partial signal.
The lengths we used to have to go for a nut…
riodoro1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Assuming there even was a nut…
Holyginz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hearing this let’s me realize how lucky I was in this regard. I got a PSP when I was young and either my parents didn’t know it had an internet browser or they didn’t know it was a fully fleshed out browser.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I grew up on AOL, and the day I figured out internet explorer allowed me to access the Internet outside of their locked down kids mode was glorious.
bizzle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I did the Wipeout Pure exploit in the days before the PSP had a real browser, it was AMAZING.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
This makes me realize if I pick a code it had to start with a 9