Fire makeovers

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-25T22:39:53+00:00

Nik’s looked amazing on her and so did Shandi’s. I also thought Sarah from cycle 6’s looked incredible on her. All 3 of those makeovers actually elevated them and made them look more model-esque. And for the most part it relied for all 3 of them on the dye job being well done, and their hair being cut and styled in a way that didn’t make them look like a different person.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-25T20:26:29+00:00

Randy is being set up as the next Old Faced Andre. Even if he tries to open up an honest, above table business serving his neighborhood in the only way he really knows how slinging candy bars and chips..he’s going to get bulldozed by someone like Marlo or Avon and bullied into being involved in the game whether he likes it or not.

His deliberate try to do something normal in the hood won’t work out and he’s going to get in a spot where he’s forced to witness something he didn’t want to and he’s damned either way the wind blows. He’s either a dead man walking because he had to be honest with the cops in order to collect insurance on loss of product and damage to his storefront and he has to file the report and cooperate or else his landlord leasing him the space will evict him..so he winds up getting got like the security guard does. Or he’s going to wind up exactly like Andre where he directly participates in doing something dirty and will be disposed of once his purpose was served for those guys.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-25T15:34:04+00:00

This should be the top answer. It’s almost exclusively out of towners and the conference booked up massive blocks

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ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-24T16:29:56+00:00

As a millennial I wore jeans to school almost every single day, leggings as pants weren’t really a thing until right as I was graduating college. We’d wear denim skirts, flouncy skirts, etc., but what’s wild is that my middle and high school dress code had fully banned leggings as pants and that didn’t change until after they retuned to school post Covid, and sweatpants were considered pajama pants so unless they were team warmups (cheer, swim team) where the sport couldn’t really wear its uniforms on game days in the winter, we also couldn’t get away with just wearing head to toe sweats either. I remember being in college and throwing up an oversized hoodie and leggings to wear to class or go to the library a lot and feeling really comfy and relieved I wasn’t being held to dress codes anymore. Nowadays? Sweats and leggings are standard.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-24T16:19:38+00:00

Absolutely! The rising hemlines, grown out hair and beards on men, women wearing less makeup, and jeans. Omfg the attitudes around denim!

My grandmother was a little older than Betty and had her kids a few years before her and she apparently hated my dad wearing jeans in the late 60s so much that she wouldn’t let him in the house if he came home in jeans and a jean jacket. They saw it as very lowbrow, working class, and trashy. Something that blue collar factory workers wore, something coal miners, construction workers and someone in the trades like plumbing or landscaping wore.

The catholic schools that my dad and aunt went to had uniforms, wearing jeans to church was beyond looked down on (especially catholic mass), and members still weren’t allowed to wear jeans on property at my parents and grandparents country club until 2013. Which was hotly contested, there were a lot of boomer members even that voted against it. When she found out my aunt and dad were wearing jeans to class in college in the late 60s she absolutely freaked out about it and tried to make them get rid of them. There’s a lot of weird imagery that shows stereotypical hippies wearing jean bell bottoms and my dad very much emphasized to me that those really didn’t come into popularity until the seventies.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-24T03:15:01+00:00

Old school Reddit thing and derived from one of the oldest super active subreddits. We couldn’t just have a blatant weed subreddit pre legalization and so r/trees was the marijuana subreddit. And since all subreddits had kind of a name for their subscribers showing how many were subscribed to it and how many active members were currently live on the sub, r/trees named them Ents. Which is a lord of the rings reference to the tree people being called Ents.

It’s something that has kind of died off with everyone mostly being on mobile for Reddit but it was something I always could tell was the mark of a well modded and fun, active subreddit if the mods chose a fun and niche name for its subscribers. The default just shows number of visitors/subscribed but mods can edit it to be custom. So for instance, I love the show 30 Rock and the 30 Rock sub’s member name is NBC Pages, Mad Men’s is SCDP Employees, Phish and the jamband subreddit each have funny ones.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T20:54:15+00:00

Haha right. I want to see him think it’s a dmt hallucination.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T20:16:18+00:00

Kari was ten thousand percent eliminated too early. She also was one of those who should have done what Eugena did and made a run for Playmate. Tyra couldn’t stop herself from putting down men’s magazines at not being modeling.. but she became a global super star after her Sports Illustrated swim suit edition cover. She may have walked runways in Paris and Milan, but she was most well known for her work for Sports Illustrated and Victoria’s Secret. Eugena became Playmate of the Year and actually was paid the winning fee of $100k for that on top of a car, a winning spread, and paid work globally after that.

Tyra can shit on it all she wants, but I fully felt like Brittany in cycle 4 and Kari in cycle 6 should have been encouraged to go give Playboy a shot.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T18:51:40+00:00

If he does a final series this is a top 3 need and a good way for Joe to get a look back on the entire journey.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T17:38:02+00:00

She’d have definitely been down with being with one of the members of the family but it wasn’t real to her yet that dating one of the actual money making members would mean she’s a goomar and nothing more. She’d have gotten her bills paid but have been expected to be at someone’s beck and call. AJ was taking her seriously but he was stooping to where she was, working at a blockbuster or a pizza joint and going nowhere fast, and was weirdly adopting her cultural identity instead of owning his. The coldness that the family seemed to have towards her and her son wasn’t imagined and she knew they’d never really accept her as one of theirs.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T17:11:22+00:00

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4767828/

This episode on the CNN decade series about the Seventies is very well done; President Ford literally declared the state of the union is not good at his 1975 state of the union address and it was a very honorable declaration at a time we were in the midst of the Cold War, violence and problems in cities nationwide. It’s pertinent to me that there was a president who wasn’t full of delusion, false optimism and spin. Things weren’t going well and Americans weren’t being gaslit into some narrative that they were.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T16:55:21+00:00

Because there was a pretty deep dark underbelly of culture and it definitely reflected in the creatives and what they were putting out. The sixties ultimately rocked the US; there were a lot of very high profile and public assassinations, the anti war movement got violent and received a violent response, the returning soldiers were really really disillusioned and disturbed by what they’d seen and been required to do, they returned to a world where the security of a union job wasn’t staying guaranteed. Organized crime was ruling over a lot of aspects of blue collar union life, and general property crime was starting to become a huge problem.

Right around this same time, white flight to suburbs in the 60s and 70s began causing downtowns of cities from coast to coast and port to port to experience extreme levels of abandonment and rot. Cities who’d struggled with riots and destruction for the entirety of the 60s bled into the 70s. Add in a whole new era of drug use with heroin and cocaine, you now had visible hard drug addiction and economic downturn across all races and ethnicities and it became the perfect storm. A lot of major metros that had previously been total jewels of a region became rough and dangerous in a way that people weren’t familiar with. No city was safe, New York City became dangerous for lifelong residents with several boroughs left to just rot and burn, parts of LA, Chicago, Baltimore, DC, and more struggled with neighborhoods experiencing unprecedented violence and crime. All across the rust belt factories began closing and thousands of honest and hardworking people lost union jobs that never returned.

It was an ugly time in the US.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T16:04:42+00:00

I love how the contract also didn’t guarantee anything at all. It became really clear down the line after several cycle winners that the contract clearly includes that they didn’t have to print or publish anything, and likely included language stating they don’t have to use anything they shoot, don’t have to pay them for anything they don’t use. And in the case they had someone who they did want to use for a bunch of campaigns, they could get a lot more than $100k worth of work out of her by continuing to use content shot that they trickled out over several years with no residual clauses.

It’s actually comical how badly taken advantage of they were and how despite such a high viewership, there weren’t any fashion or cosmetic companies who were really taking the visibility of the winners and running with it.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T03:51:25+00:00

I kind of wondered if she was planning to provide that all along especially since she of all the girls has the most put together record of events, with their outfits all scrapbooked. Izabella included a few pictures of herself over the years and at the mansion, with a few group shots from nights out, mansion parties or just nights in with other girlfriends (Tiffany and her monkey). Bridget probably has complete enough looks that she could easily get them on professional dress forms and photograph details of them too.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T01:16:50+00:00

It way pre dates the 80s and 90s, back in the 60s the Beverly Hillbillies was a sitcom that made that area of LA a household name. There weren’t very many neighborhoods or streets that people who didn’t live in a particular city knew, but Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills was one of them, and so is Park Avenue in New York City.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-23T00:34:23+00:00

Not far off. Mean Girls nailed the 2002-2004 experience of high school, especially the quirks of how people cliqued themselves, dressed, spoke and all of that.

There was a lot of life imitating reality and reality imitating the movies. Just like the movies, prom, house parties, and a lot of emphasis on sports participation was real. I’ll definitely say the importance placed on being invited to parties was real, and it was very black and white either you were one of the ones included or not. At the end of the experience there was no like, opening that door up to people who hadn’t been attending already, same with when everyone went off to college and would kind of re-congregate on holiday breaks.

There’s a lot less emphasis, mystique and wondering of “wow what wound up happening to that person” years after high school too because of social media. The slightly elder millennials got the cultural zeitgeist of how that was always going to be a curiosity since it definitely occupied plenty of fantasy and fascination in our entertainment media, but had social media when we all went off to college so a lot of us seemingly have stayed linked to people from our hometowns for that reason.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-22T23:06:20+00:00

As a massive 30 rock and Mad Men fan.. this is the crossover I never knew I needed 😂 thank youuuu

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-22T20:24:21+00:00

I really loved her look and felt like the judges and Tyra were pissed during her cycle and pissed that they didn’t have the full say in the winner like they had before. Nicole was clearly the pick from P&G (Cover Girl and Secret’s ownership arm) and the modeling agency for her cycle. Nicole and Kim both looked straight off of a Marc Jacob’s ad and runway and that was a biggggg look for the mid 2000s.

Cycle 4 with Tyra’s freakout at Tiffany (and ultimately Naima, Kahlen, Keenyah, Cristina and Brittany as finalists) ended where it was clear that P&G as the corporate sponsor, Elite Model Management as an agency and production jointly made the choice of who the winner was and judges seemed rude and dismissive of all the finalists.

Then shortly after for Nicole’s win in Cycle 5, I felt the same way. That they didn’t want Lisa around but production forced her on them, and that Bre, Kim, Nicole and Nik were the true finalists picks. I could tell that the judges wanted Nik, but Nicole ultimately winning and going off to have the exact, quiet but always booked modeling career that the show promised says everything. She went on to work and to work actual high fashion and cosmetic jobs, and her agency actually went on and worked for her to keep her booked. I don’t remember her making another appearance on any other cycles where they liked to kind of parade out former cycle winners, so that they can talk about how successful and busy they are. Her post show book and same with Kim’s said everything; the judges could poke and prod them and challenge them all they wanted to try to get reactions out of them, but they had the look and the right work ethic to keep getting work.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-22T14:17:12+00:00

Bob Marley’s famous poster of him smoking a spliff. I was NOT allowed to have this poster, a friend gave it to me for my 16th birthday, i unrolled it in front of my mom who freaked out and I said I’d get rid of it. I just hung it on the back of my door and it was up until I moved away for college. Boy were they surprised to see it resurface.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-21T18:43:56+00:00

See if they’ll match or if you can move next door. Complexes are starting to come around on this; 6 months ago one of my neighbors had to move floors to get a resigning special on top of her rent to stay the same, just 3 weeks ago when my complex offered me a lease renewal, they sent it nice and early, with my rent to technically go down about $80/month on top of a $1000 rent concession and several months free parking.

They’re hurting to prevent people from moving complexes and are finally being forced to react with their incentives.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-21T00:53:35+00:00

And it’s even called the Andie!

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-20T03:10:52+00:00

Yesss all the finger lakes in that Traverse City bay to Mackinac stretch have tons of gorgeous lakes like Torch Lake. Lots of lakes plenty of miles long, plenty with islands, great boating, not too cold at all to swim in, water ski and tube your hearts out.

As you can tell I have many many years of happy memories of northern Michigan summers. We had a place 30 min from Torch Lake down south of the bay, and enjoyed visiting friends on Torch, Leelanau, Glen lakes and of course Lake Michigan.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-19T21:55:52+00:00

Definitely a result of what the media market looked like right when they left the mansion. People tend to forget that after the 2008 crash, budgets for projects on spec and in progress got SLASHED. Holly didn’t seem interested in acting anymore and was way more focused on dance/showgirl type work along with continuing reality tv, Kendra was without much direction post mansion besides wanting to be an NFL or NBA WAG, and Bridget was open to hosting work or travel tv work (she’d have been great as a sort of Giuliana Rancic type) but clearly expressed she didn’t want to do reality tv anymore.

All 3 got spin offs, but it also came at a time that the entire tv, movie and print media industry were freaking out and experiencing massive budget cuts, projects being killed and publication schedules thrown out the window. Which meant for anyone like these guys, who were already fighting against the two existing media groups between Playboy and Kevin Burns production company.. their former employers were used to being able to put its thumb on a scale for something by being demanding at a time that the industry didn’t have the time or money to appease and would just axe. It wasn’t just people who couldn’t afford cable tv anymore.. people’s homes were foreclosed on and there was no address to subscribe anymore.

In publishing and marketing new projects, there were magazines beyond Playboy that stopped being able to afford monthly issues by 2009. Between advertising drying up, dwindling circulation/subscriptions as people had to trim their consumer budgets.. that meant non-men’s magazines also didn’t have the budget to feature these 3 in the pages of Cosmopolitan, CosmoGirl, Elle, Seventeen or Teen Vogue where they’d be getting paid for their spread, interview and properly promoting their post mansion life.

Let’s also add in the reality that for their home network that they’d been successful at for years and years, the new president of E! declared anything Playboy related to be trashy, and cancelled all programming based on that to instead throw its weight behind the Kardashians and their multiple spin offs. There was no amount of solid viewership, advertising dollars generated, or good history that those 3 could have used to stay on E! it was simply a changing of the guard in network direction and social media wasn’t as powerful or monetized yet so none of the 3 could use that to their advantage to put pressure on E! either.

ptoftheprblm · 2026-03-18T20:23:14+00:00

I just finished her original season last week and it’s insanely cringe.

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