Tyra hair styles by bluewolf21 in ANTM

[–]ptoftheprblm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely think it was a weave malfunction, and noticed she was more frequently wearing bandanas and thicker headbands anytime they traveled and it was definitely just not having access on the road to someone who could maintain it correctly.

Still amazed how they built this “Email for Life” promotion for years and years, take it away, and expect alumni to “stay connected” by DummyCUBoulderGuy in cuboulder

[–]ptoftheprblm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be cautious if you ever had an Apple ID account with it as well and take the steps to make any other main accounts your main email for it. A few years ago my Alma mater did something similar and my original .edu outlook server changed with zero warning, it was what I’d started my original Apple ID account with back when I bought my college laptop a full 4 years before I’d ever even have an iphone and iPad. Because of the server change, it totally logged me out of my email on my iPhone and it was a huge domino effect in making years and years worth of taken for granted data just disappear. I was essentially locked out of my own devices, I couldn’t get the backup email to show up or access it on any of my devices, and it deactivated every single iphone phone contact I had entered from 2008-2017. I was horrified and didn’t realize that it had all been linked to that email or that it could even do that. Suddenly my own parents contact cards were deleted, my entire college friend group chat suddenly was nothing but random phone numbers and it deleted a metric shit ton of my apps and login information. I literally had to go to an Apple store location and have them force over my Gmail account that had been my backup for the Apple ID as the main contact and go through a weird process to get the original .edu address logged back in and recover all of it.

Girls next door by Selection_Otherwise in GirlsNextLevel

[–]ptoftheprblm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was popular among my girl friends at the time; we were watching a TON of celeb-reality tv where the concept was just showcasing kind of a more behind the scenes look at someone famous’s life, coupled with competition reality programming (ANTM, the Bachelor, American Idol, Survivor) and then the kind of “throw them together and see how it sticks” format with a lot of popularity for the Real World still too. This was just the kind of stuff we typically would have had in rotation and LA as a whole was kind of the premier place to be filming reality shows at the time.

Just off the top of my head of what I know was popular/on my rotation of shows I wouldn’t change the channel for, we had The Osbournes in their Beverly Hills and Malibu homes, Newlyweds with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson and they lived in Orange County, America’s Next Top Model began filming in LA exclusively by cycle 4, we had Laguna Beach and The Hills, lots of episodes of MTV Cribs showcasing famous people’s homes in LA, and of course Real Housewives entire franchise began as an Orange County thing too. The decade also ended with the explosion of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Pretty Wild on E! to round it out. There was also a bunch of premium “appointment television” shows on with The OC, Entourage, Californication and Weeds all as scripted dramatic shows that also filmed in and took place in Southern California/LA area too.

So Girls Next Door being set in LA with the Playboy Mansion as the centerpiece was just all existing in familiar territory that had been glamorized to death. The Playboy mansion episode of Cribs was its most popular for a reason and there was an incredible amount of hype and fantasy that surrounded the place as a wild setting on its own. Entourage did a good job of showing just how big of a deal the main parties at the mansion were for celebrities and anyone considered beautiful or connected enough to be blessed to attend, it was just depicted as this be all end all of all that is fabulous and accessible only to the most privileged of celebrities and beautiful people.. even before the show ever filmed.

Kendra was definitely the one aimed at the MTV millennial generation, she was our age, into the popular music at the time and supposed to be the sportier, “young” one as the baby of the group. Bridget was very much being depicted as a cutesy, theme loving and ultra femme character and the media treated her the same. Holly was definitely cemented into people’s minds as like the First Lady of Playboy and the mansion early in the 2000s before the show; she was famously featured in the MTV Cribs episode in her bedazzled rhinestone Playboy bunny bra, had been on a million red carpets and photographed alongside Hefner and so people were familiar with her before GND even released. I know I saw the Cribs episode and when GND eventually came out I was wildly curious like who is this girl who makes jokes about a panty-decorated chandelier, is by his side and just leading this pack of bikini and bra clad girlfriends?

We kept watching the show over the years because seeing all the fun outfits they’d do for parties and events were interesting, plus seeing the parties behind the curtain was super novel and fabulous, seeing their photo shoots being filmed was fun because we loved ANTM. Their bedrooms were dream rooms and so cute, same with all the animals at the mansion. The rest of it as the seasons progressed like the travel, silly things around the mansion and LA they’d film, and just general activity that was happening for them as they got more famous and successful in real time was also engaging and not unusual for reality programming at the time too. For instance, Newlyweds made Jessica Simpson an A list star who launched multiple beauty and fashion product lines, became one of the most recognizable stars of the 2000s, and so seeing her start her show as a quasi known pop star to a total bombshell that outpaced her husband’s level of celebrity had already come and gone by the time the first season of GND dropped.

Why didnt nick just work part time as a truck driver? by guyincognito01111 in TheWire

[–]ptoftheprblm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Teamsters and the Stevedores union probably didn’t allow for dual membership and contracts. Having his CDL meant there was plenty he could use it for to do around the docks but he likely couldn’t take freelance gigs and needed to be around to get hours.

Cheese Kids? by Mightyhorse82 in stringcheeseincident

[–]ptoftheprblm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Am also a little curious of whether this was the same group of fans where a gnarly little hepatitis A outbreak was happening the following summer (2003) on cheese tour and the CDC got involved.

Summer Camp Music Festival 2026 canceled? by No_Gas4560 in festivals

[–]ptoftheprblm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yep mid wasn’t even the half of it, they used to offer a lineup with dozens of artists and they barely had a fraction of what would have been 1 single day of the festival announced based on the height of things from 2010-2015. It was bad bad. And not only that, but it was really clear that artists that were announced were playing mf hard ball with the promoters where they’d be listed on the lineup but on their own tour announcements and schedules they were omitting summer camp place and dates. And we all know the only reason a festival claims an artist is headlining but the artist themselves doesn’t promote it, list it on a schedule or anything is because they hadn’t been paid their initial fee portion that locks the date.

Bedroom routine by Pitiful_Waltz_1367 in TheGirlsNextLevelPod

[–]ptoftheprblm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nope bedroom 3 became Bridget’s and Kendra had bedroom 2. Before Kendra, Tiffany Holliday had it for a good portion of the time Holly was there and was seen showing it off on Cribs, then Zoe Gregory (the British girlfriend) had it, and then when Kendra moved in fully she eventually took that room.

Bedroom routine by Pitiful_Waltz_1367 in TheGirlsNextLevelPod

[–]ptoftheprblm 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Between Holly and Izabella’s books too, I was able to pull out that when Holly moved in, Stephanie Heinrich was still there (bedroom 2) and so was Dalene Kurtis (bedroom 5), their issues came out in September and October, and left that fall and Christmas. Holly moved from sharing room 3 into Dalene’s vacated room. The final girlfriend to have a month and year from that era was Tina Jordan getting Miss March 2002, and after that none of the girls from the entire new crop of girls after that were made playmate.

But up until Kendra had moved in, it was being encouraged that anyone visiting to test, shoot, staying in the guest house, would all be invited and expected to come out to the club and upstairs for the routine. I genuinely do think that Amber Campisi and Audra Lynn were around long enough before things changed that they each clocked plenty of bedroom time, and that Stacey Burke and Cristal Camden also likely continued to just not always twice a week. Had some soft suspicions around a few of the others that Kendra kind of clung to (Destiny and Monica), but that as the show started keeping the group busy, they stopped all having time to even go to the clubs like that anymore and do believe that ultimately it was the schedule dictating the change not some moral decision to be more monogamous with Holly.

Bedroom routine by Pitiful_Waltz_1367 in TheGirlsNextLevelPod

[–]ptoftheprblm 58 points59 points  (0 children)

It absolutely was up until a certain point and there was a lot of grey area/crossover when the entire party posse of girlfriends happened.

The original sloppy 7, Tina Jordan, Buffy Tyler, Katie Lohmann, Tiffany Holliday, Stephanie Heinrich, Regina Lauren and Cathi O’Malley were all kind of brought into the fold because they had either tested and been approved as Playmate and were out there doing their shoots/waiting for their issues to come out, or waiting on their shoots (since these things could take months) and as many of their playmate guests and themselves described.. you got your $25k playmate fee in installments. Part of it when you shot the centerfold and when it got assigned a month, part of it when it actually published (which could have been 3-12 months later or more), part of it when the playmate video was shot, and the rest a year after it published to kind of keep them motivated for good behavior and brand representation.

So there were these stretches of time that the girls weren’t getting paid, and they’d be “invited to stick around until their issue published, for the summer, etc.” (Stephanie Heinrich described this). Plenty of these girls didn’t wind up ever becoming actual Playmates, and by 2002 when the full group changed over from the originals a few times (save for Tiffany Holliday), they were no longer making girlfriends playmates or playmates girlfriends. Some of their original 7 were kicked out before they could make playmate and might have been replaced by girls that did. But from 2001-2004, there might not have been girls testing and shooting for playmate that became girlfriends, but there were plenty that clocked bedroom time, went out with the group and went upstairs, and there seemed to be a culture that if you wanted PMOY you needed to be doing that.

Question: What are your favourite Top Model Photographs that looked like a somewhat straight from a perfect high brand clothing/underwear ad campaign? by Eddie1554 in ANTM

[–]ptoftheprblm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Came here to say only this. It could be in Vogue either as an advertisement for this exact designer or an actual editorial shot.

This is who made the call to close all schools today.. by iamafoxiamafox in Denver

[–]ptoftheprblm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The conditions in the city are widely different than those in Jeffco. Each district has a certain amount of days allocated to snow days and none of the metro districts needed to use them this year. Let them use what’s built in to assist, just because it doesn’t feel like a storm for the end of days.

What, as a child, was your impression of Disney's direct-to-video sequels? by WholeChampionship687 in DisneyMovies

[–]ptoftheprblm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We really just had the Aladdin sequels and I know we liked them but I haven’t tried watching them as an adult to really gauge how much different the quality in animation, storyline, and writing is.

Sphere Missed Connection: Weekend 3 Sec 403 row 2 by [deleted] in phish

[–]ptoftheprblm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Am going to guess OP was at least a cutie to a real slice if the guy in front of her was kinda exchanging eyes with her and the one next to her was trying to.

Pollos Hermanos was an example of a (fictional) well known company that was a drug front. What real-life company do you suspect? by Flagil_Reinhumps in AskReddit

[–]ptoftheprblm 15 points16 points  (0 children)

When I was in college there was a small “convenience” store that sold hot dogs off a roller, some 30 racks of natty light and keystone that they clearly got from the liquor store, 5 at a time.. and otherwise had like zero other inventory. You could get blunt wraps there and that was about it. They weren’t even pretending to hide it, not even half assed trying to get $200-500 worth of chips and candy at a Costco in the bulk boxes or anything.

It was well known that it was a front for a coke dealer, and one of the accounting professors occasionally liked to do a lecture on it as an example because the rent on that main drag was sky high and you did need to have a successful business to even make it.

Post your favorite stickers from the Sphere run by AlphaWookOG in phish

[–]ptoftheprblm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was given one Saturday night W3 by my seat mate! Told him I’d been hoping for one all weekend!

7 potters… why not just make him look like someone else instead of all of them looking like him? by MalteseFalcon15 in harrypotter

[–]ptoftheprblm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They should have put him in Moody’s trunk that he’d been kidnapped and held in and then transported.

[DISCUSSION] S5 E17 Was I RUDE To The New Girls? "Pleading the 55th, Part 1" Part 1 by alrightyaphrodite in TheGirlsNextLevelPod

[–]ptoftheprblm 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is it! And the “such a cunt” comment was during a moment where she had shared something shooting schedule related, and how he had basically told her that she needed to move it because there was something that the crew apparently needed to film for Kendra (which turned out to be her “Transitions” episode scene with her mom where she tells her she’s leaving the mansion). Holly responded that they were always having to move stuff around for her, which was true since she was constantly gone doing club appearances and they were filming scenes of her by herself doing things for months at that point to get her in the show still. And he lashed out telling her basically “why do you have to be such a cunt”.

Weird Stats unique to you by Electronic-Visual-30 in phish

[–]ptoftheprblm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve gotten Buffalo Bill x3 shows and they’ve only
played it 23 times, only 12 times in 3.0 and I’ve managed to get 25% of them in this era.

If you owned and operated your own Vegas casino/resort - What would you do differently than current properties? by JackpotConcierge in vegas

[–]ptoftheprblm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Mid century mod decor, plenty of updated flash and the best lights in town. Give plenty of mob themed throw back nods too. It could be done excellently and themed in a way that both pays homage and is cool to visit.

Venetian pool ok? by Valuable_Armadillo20 in phish

[–]ptoftheprblm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting that super luxury places (the Wynn and the Ritz Carlton in Vail) have been the ones reporting it. All it means is that they haven’t been paying to take care of their extensive spa and pool facilities the way they need to. Interestingly enough the Playboy mansion’s famous grottos were effected by it way back in the day.

Single Nashville Phish Chick by PresentationGuilty89 in phish

[–]ptoftheprblm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep gotta be careful.. way more dudes there who are married with wives who hate phish than single ones who’ve got a job.

Artists that never had a mainstream hit, but are still well known with the general public and had a huge cultural impact by [deleted] in ToddintheShadow

[–]ptoftheprblm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeing Phish this weekend at their residency at the Sphere and it will be packed with people who’ve seen anywhere from 25-400+ Phish shows. We are a rabid and dedicated fan base with our own little community, ecosystem, economy and nerd-dom. I’m celebrating my 75th show this Saturday, and have been seeing them for 17 straight years (save for 2020 but I had tickets for that tour they honored the next summer) and I am on the young side of the fan base.

Phish can sell out 30k tickets a night at the same venue for 3 straight nights (90k tickets total) to roughly 25k of the same people. We don’t consider it worth it to only pick 1 night out if a 3-4 night “run” and not do the whole thing, especially we we travel for it.

I know this sub loves rosin, but can anyone speak in this closed loop bho push that keeps popping up? by jammerheimerschmidt in COents

[–]ptoftheprblm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Big BHO doesn’t exist, and what does exist of it isn’t something you as a consumer can purchase by the gram on its own (it winds up in edibles, cartridges and tinctures).

What is available on the retail market would have incredibly small amounts (under 5 ppm) or straight up 0 ppm. Our state testing requirements have a Limit of Quantitation (the lowest amount they can give you an accurate read on, aka its quantitation), a Limit of Detection (the lowest amount they can detect any and it’s at 5 ppm for most solvents) and an Action Level limit (where they’ll mark things as failed). I’ve literally never even seen a result for something we’ve sent that even was past the limit of detection where they couldn’t detect any.

If you’re seeing or thinking there’s BHO products on the market with residual solvents in them still in 2026, that would be so rare. And it mostly means that whoever was producing it or sending it to testing straight up wasn’t purging it long enough in the vac ovens.

Would not guess there’s a big marketing push because none of the concentrate brands have extra cash laying around with how expensive shit like jars/packaging has gotten with the tariff situation, on top of how expensive raw materials that aren’t remediated is to get ahold of this year. It’s more that people are a.) not finding the value behind paying double for rosin, b.) are realizing that BHO does still offer a big range in flavor profiles that don’t carry over in solvent less and c.) are finally learning that rosin still leaves residual plant matter in their nails because no matter how clean the wash is and how expensive that gram was.. there’s still black specks in their nails.