I do sometimes think about how you never used to be able to walk down the street in London without being offered dodgy DVDs by just... some blokes - ThreadSky

awfullywaffly.bsky.social • 6 days ago

I do sometimes think about how you never used to be able to walk down the street in London without being offered dodgy DVDs by just... some blokes

Reposted from Rhoda Haque

The best selling DVD player in the world is the PlayStation 2. The best selling DVD playa in the world was a bloke we called Obsolete Pete. Could get anything. Once he sold a copy of what was "The Expendables 2.5" but it was just the first one with the director's commentary permanently on.

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bazmanaew.bsky.social•6 days ago

I remember watching a dodgy DVD of "The Terminal" and it was filmed in the cinema.

Half way through a dude with an afro got up and walked in across the screen

sherifflonestar.bsky.social•6 days ago

Prior to that it was VHSs in Pubs. Which I believed was the early DIY Porn distribution system of the early 90s.

industrialpet.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm not saying the lady who'd come into the pub I worked in with a big nanna's shopping trolley, never pay for her own drinks, and sit quietly in the corner was selling dodgy DVDs but the regulars definitely discussed films much more than usual and had much boxier pockets after she'd come in.

industrialpet.bsky.social•6 days ago

Before widespread Internet, dodgy firesticks etc a huge, necessary cornerstone of cultural exposure (particularly in poor communities) was absolutely dodgy DVDs.

wrassletrash.is.goblin.fyi•6 days ago

I remember buying SO MANY dodgy CDs/DVDs in Manchester 👀 there was a shop in afflecks that sold second hand music and clothes but had a box of bootlegs on the counter too

danhero.bsky.social•6 days ago

My uncle once got knocked out in a pub for challenging a pirate guy to a fight after he bought Harry Potter and there was a dude a few rows ahead of the cam standing the first thirty minutes of the recording 😂

jamildo2.bsky.social•6 days ago

Used to have a guy in my town who used to sell dodgy PS1 games as well as films on VHS.😂

nemox2001.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's what those market pods right after the border going into Czechia were for (and bootleg clothes and cigarettes)

drdoomgrumps.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or you could be sat in a pub and some bloke would sidle up to the table and open a duffle bag full of dodgy dvds.

awfullywaffly.bsky.social•6 days ago

at some restaurants as well

wayneh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Used to get blokes coming into the pubs on Hackney on Fridays selling DVDs of movies that were still in the cinema. Good times.

laurengoodnight.bsky.social•6 days ago

it's been a few years i wonder if that dude is still in camdentown

wrassletrash.is.goblin.fyi•6 days ago

In Camden probably 🤣 there were so many shops doing 3 dodgy band shirts for a tenner back in the day. Filled my whooooole wardrobe lmao

laurengoodnight.bsky.social•6 days ago

half of my piercings came from Cold Steel, a few shops down from the big clothing seller beside the boot seller!

wrassletrash.is.goblin.fyi•6 days ago

I only went down there every so often to visit my mate but I remember cold steel! I got my big chonky swear boots from there, I think.

wrassletrash.is.goblin.fyi•6 days ago

And a pair of jeans so wide that they soaked up entire puddles 💀

laurengoodnight.bsky.social•6 days ago

the big stompy boots! the ones with all of the metal on the straps? those JNCO knockoff jeans weren't bad at all honestly

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