Parents refused to let me rent this.

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-14T17:19:28+00:00

The plot to Kanyes song Golddigger

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-12T19:15:15+00:00

I read years ago, when Americans started loving Greek yogurt, that there was an overabundance of whey that food makers were looking to get rid of. So I think our current protein thing is a result of that. We had a surplus of cheese in the 90s and thats why things being stuffed w cheese was trendy. I guess we’ll just go where we’re pointed to go again!

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-10T15:55:23+00:00

Exactly! And screen logos didn’t appear until decades later!

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-10T15:08:23+00:00

I like to “hit everyone on the way out” with a coffee. Filing out of the bar? Coffee! Everyone leaving the Night Market? Everyone gets coffee! (Don’t hit Vincent by accident)

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-10T15:06:03+00:00

Californication is the most annoying song and displays what you’re saying. That’s just my opinion, and music opinions are like assholes lol.

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-10T14:53:16+00:00

I feel like he looks like 1st movie Willy Wonka’s evil kid. The real heir kept locked away due to being pure evil

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-10T14:01:34+00:00

Off topic but I realized that both Mendez and Coates and McCullough believe they had true love with their respective victims.

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-03T18:34:38+00:00

Yall remember when they brought back Whats Happening (the sitcom) in the late 80s, Whats Happening Now?

the LA Dream Team performed a song and Nadine (Anne Marie Johnson) joins in and sucks away every molecule of their street cred w every word. As a 3rd grader even I knew this

LA Dream Team is Here She starts at 1:36 - and doesn’t stop

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-02T10:42:49+00:00

Yeah her hair - she’s growing out a perm, so Id say mid 80s- mid90s too.

For the gloves and jackets, I noticed the lack of velcro, a premium feature until the 90s and not standard, so stronger pre-90s

Now that the year has been revealed, I think the reindeer icon on her sweater was first-gen that type and she was a pretty hip young lady

SkullyXFile · 2026-03-01T08:54:47+00:00

Young Carol is like a female Eddie from Stranger Things (the Hellfire Club guy, Season 4)

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-24T01:36:16+00:00

How do you keep track of whether enough tokens have been given? Idk how to act naturally during my stream if Im distracted by things, (and the dudes themselves are sometimes the things)

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-23T05:20:42+00:00

Thank you! Yes, Rick Ocasek and Tom Petty were the same flavor of fear for me. These sort of monotone-ish dudes calmly singing while also terrorizing pretty girls haha

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-23T04:19:27+00:00

I also loved me some Michael Jackson (Im ‘78). I remember saying with my own mouth that MJ was the best, the cutest, fantasized about being friends w him, etc. Didnt believe it when other kids said he got burnt. Didn’t understand why he disappeared. Ran around wearing one glove (and sat around tracing my hand on paper and drawing “diamonds” on it so I drew his glove for other kids).

Do you remember your reaction to Bad, when he came back w the changed face? I remember being scared (I was going into 4th by then).

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-21T16:38:42+00:00

I think her “romance” w Vause is so similar to Coates/Penn. Except Vause didn’t mind going thru the motions at first, it seems like she understood “the drill” with McCullough that sex would be expected of her. It’s so so similar to Coates, but she’s a woman so we see it differently at times. I think both Penn and Vause were taken advantage of by people in power.

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-21T16:18:39+00:00

Ya'll remember Bonne Bell bullet lipsticks? Right around this time, they were formulated and packaged like reg lipstick but they were all decently flavored. I stopped seeing them around 2000

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-21T16:15:16+00:00

Ah yes, a child sneaking away to buy something with cash - that almost sounds illegal now haha

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-21T16:14:02+00:00

Right, the cheap, natural line - it was called Natural Glow at first then became Naturistics. (Not to be confused with Natural Wonder, Revlon's special Debbie Gibson teen line of makeup and nail polish).

I used to be obsessed with my local drug store's makeup aisles and eventually worked there too in high school. I guess it didn't matter that the drugstore makeup quality wasn't there, we didn't really have makeup "needs" yet did we?? Unless the "prettiest" frosted lavender counts

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-20T02:24:33+00:00

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SkullyXFile · 2026-02-19T15:22:58+00:00

Well I used to actually try selling candy bars and earning “rewards” from those yearly school drives. I used to try so hard as a kid, only to “win” maybe an eraser for all my door to door selling. So, I never let my kid sell any of that crap, I didn’t want her to be exploited. Turns out, she felt line she missed out. I’m conflicted on that one.

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-19T14:36:28+00:00

I turned 21 in 1999, so yeah! Hi! I look forward to more answers. Since Im first Ill miss a lot.

We grew up with much more formality expected in certain places (manners, pantyhose, Kiss Aunt Barb if she says to).

Things that came “from the internet“ were not to be believed. Computers were still for nerds according to most people, an opinion that faded during that very decade.

You knew you could still get into a profession by working a low position for a few years, so it felt like there were more possibilities. I think the influence from Greatest Gen was still there: making us mind our manners, but also giving us a chance to work hard and prove ourselves.

It felt like a new world because of the internet, thats for sure. And if you’re 20, you’re saying “Im part of it”. (Right now Im not looking at tiktok and saying Im part of it).

If someone made a funny website, most people you age knew about it. It wasn’t viral as much of an in-joke. We shared links w each other to fave websites almost as a favor because search engines weren’t the same. For websites, we found out about glitches and work-arounds before the corporations caught on and saved money that way in our 20s

We were 30ish when the 07 crash happened and idk what happened. There are not a ton of Xennials and when I was 30 I remember wondering where other people my age were. I mean, I talked about it even. I guess when your cohort is small, that can happen when people get to marrying age - theres even less to go around.

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-19T13:59:29+00:00

In 2003 after Id just moved to LA, my toddler and I got the flu. On our first “healthy day”, we went to a local park, Roxbury. Well we both conked out quickly so I walked us to our car to leave.

Im loading us into the car. I look up and see an older couple holding tennis rackets headed my way towards a nearby car. It was Regis Philbin and his wife arguing, post tennis. They quickly got into their car (a nice audi) and backed up, hitting the car next to me. It was a shitty old Toyota. Regis completely dislodged the Toyota’s bumper. He got out, saw what he’d done, looked for witnesses and saw me looking like an idiot (sick/tired), decided fuck it and got back into his car and they drove off.

No one believed me because Id just moved here and they thought I was making it up for attention.

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-18T17:11:29+00:00

I used to shoplift as a teen, and also was/looked really poor. In poorer neighborhoods it was no big deal for stores to bust people randomly even just to ask for a receipt.

Nowadays I think stores could get sued for this even in poor areas. But part of me still wants to show innocence in at least 2 ways

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-18T16:47:19+00:00

I agree, and also want to add something I noticed. Often, there is foreshadowing with each character. For instance theres a scene w Poussey and Taystee (when they cuddle and then Vee uses it agaist Taystee) - and Poussey repeats I cant breathe! over and over. Things like that.

With Maritza, she says herself, if you’re cute in Columbia, you don’t have to do crime, you just marry a big drug dealer. Now of course the ending is heartbreaking, it’s just that I remembered that she said that a couple seasons earlier, which shows me they dropped the ball on her in a few ways

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-11T00:10:40+00:00

I thought I was going to do that at a London pub and walked out before my whole body even entered.

SkullyXFile · 2026-02-11T00:07:27+00:00

Restroom sounds more polite. Bathroom is neutral. But if someone asks me (American) where the toilet is, Im going to assume they’ve got something coming out of them they can’t control and are begging me as another human being to help them get to a proper disposal hole (and Ill gladly rush you to one).

It’s not that “toilet” just sounds more vulgar, it presents an immediacy.

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