I’ve realized that lately, I’ve been watching a lot of them police bodycam videos on YouTube. It always makes me feel a little better about myself and some of the bad decisions I’ve made in life. I’m known to cave into bad impulses like bad spending and taking financial risks.

But, I at least do not turn my life upside down as many have had in these bodycam videos. We’re talking, people who’re too damn prideful and full of themselves that they turn a simple traffic stop into multiple felonies. As well as people just making a shitshow out of themselves when they’re drunk and getting into struggles with the police.

So the next time you’re feeling down, watch a few of these videos. Your life can’t be any more worse than the self-destructive lives demonstrated in those videos.

  • @WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    Wow I see it completely differently. We’re all just a step of being in a shit situation, including prison. As an ex-taxi driver who’s been pointlessly harassed by cops many times, I keep wondering how far I was from just snapping one day. Actually I downright fantasise about it sometimes.

    Guess it can work as a guilty pleasure… But I’ll stick to playing stupid NDS games and such.

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    I love watching Cops, because, it makes me feel better about myself. No matter what dumb thing I do, I’ll never do anything as dumb as some of those people!

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      Dude, COPS is great. Somehow there was always a shirtless white guy from my hometown doing some dumb shit in every single episode I’ve seen.

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    I try to not fall into the habit of doing something I shouldn’t be to make myself feel better but I’ll be damned if a cold beer and/or a snack don’t improve my mood. I should be cutting back on eating 'cause I’m getting fat but work and life do gang up on me sometimes and it’s hard to abstain.

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    Mountain Monsters is amazing. Stick with it, it gets fucking nuts and very goofy. It makes me happy watching a bunch of rednecks wandering through West Virginia having fun while pretending to hunt cryptids.

    Something else I do, which isn’t really a guilty pleasure, but it is a kinda silly, is that I bring my dragon plushies downstairs every morning so they can listen to music with me while I eat breakfast. They’re currently listening to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (aka, PetroDragonic Apocalypse)

  • @TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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    Weed.

    Dad was a boozer so have yet to drink. Helps with enjoying monotony on weekends.

    Use to watch /r/tooktoomuch and /r/crazyfuckingvideos for the reasons you’re describing. Perspective and understanding that life could always be much worse helps tremdously.

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      Don’t fall too much into monotony, though. I’m sure you have seen or heard South Park’s take on it.

      Keep on improving upon yourself.

    • SeanM
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      I went through my phases with various drugs and now I’m glad the worst thing I do anymore is alcohol. But I understand your reasons for not drinking and I respect your willingness to abstain from it. I come from a family with a history of alcoholism myself, but unfortunately I succumbed to both it, and other things as well. Stay strong, bro.

  • @EricHill78@lemmy.world
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    I love watching first amendment audit videos. It’s great seeing cops do the “walk or shame” when they were proved to be wrong.

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    Can’t Pay? We will take it away! (Awful show, that is hard to stop watching)

    Before youtube got super restrictive, I liked watching surgery videos on youtube… now they dont really exist, immediately 18+ or removed for community content guidelines.

  • @guazzabuglio@lemm.ee
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    Instant noodles. I fucking love instant noodles. I’m not really talking about Maruchan, because there are so many better ones for a similar price. I’m talking Shin Black, Indomie spicy mi goreng, Sapporo Ichiban Chow Mein, etc. There are so many good ones out there.

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    I lay in the bathtub in the dark with the shower turned on. Its amazing

    • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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      I did a similar thing. The light in the bathroom was off, but the light in the adjoining room was on. So, it’s dim, but I can still see. I also had multicolor Christmas lights around my bedroom for a while. Laying in bed relaxing in the dim and colorful lights was my jam.

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        Damn that sounds magical. Pair it with some calming music bliss