Porn Lookout
In the 80's not being caught watching Porn was a much more complicated buisness than just making sure you deleted you browser history.

We would arrive home from school and when Atick Attack or Jetpack and the ensuing arguments about which was better the Spectrum or the C64 faded away then it would be Porn time. Except that there was only one lad whos parents both worked full time and he had no siblings, So off to Pauls for that was his name we would trot. First find the Tape-There was only one tape that was changed every once in a while. But the cuboard would be opend and a carefull mental photograph taken as to the exact placing of the tape and also the holiday nick nacks and xmas tat placed around it. The tape would be removed and a carfull note of the counter made. Resetting this counter to 0000 was a fate punishible by a bolloking as it would upset Pauls Mams system of watching her episodes of Corrie and Brookie.
Then the tricky bit, the VCR was a top loading one, the HMS Ark Royal of video recorders, Insert cassete and wait. Crunch cruch cruch clang clang brrrrrr, as the tape was would around the innards of the video recorder about five times.
Now for the Porn lookout, prevoisly decided by consensous, One member of the gang would sacrifice their watching priveleges to "casually" stand at the front door watching down the street for unexpeced visitors, Pauls Nan or his Dad who had a habbit of knocking off work early.
Because the whole operation including rewinding the tape back to the exact point on the counter would have to be done in reverse including waiting for the stone age VCR to disgorge its tape....We lived in fear of it chewing the tape up.

Looking back the Porn was pretty crap and one video included women in masks inexpertly flailing a set of nunchuks around?
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 8:54, 2 replies)

Ahhh, 80s porn on VHS - at the time, publicly acknowledged as the rudest thing EVER invented!
You could run it backwards instead of rewinding. Highly entertaining.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 9:06, closed)

When I was a technician at a university teaching hospital
I had to make a video for the med students to choose which department they wanted to do their experience

Our department was Obstetrics & Gynaecology so I edited a clip of a birth into the film. Watching the birth in realtime but reversed was hillarious. Looked like someone stuffing a baby inside a screaming woman
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 9:43, closed)