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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
balding community account
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Cream startled native newt
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
garnet step-uncle's house police squad
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Geriatric high-end plaza stock car
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
zippy knife
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Bronze Twisted Lodge Wrinkle
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
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  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/27/25
Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
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"period" is a gross word.
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  05/27/25
The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
razzle nowag school
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Plum fragrant twinkling uncleanness telephone
  05/28/25
Good one
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  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
exciting mood shitlib
  05/28/25
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Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug
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wine stag film therapy
  06/07/25
Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Sepia spectacular trust fund idea he suggested
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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...
Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
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Im a Curator
Floppy spruce box office digit ratio
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Three Kings
Sable casino turdskin
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1999
Floppy spruce box office digit ratio
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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Black Hawk Down
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this
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Geriatric high-end plaza stock car
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
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  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Sepia spectacular trust fund idea he suggested
  05/29/25
tyvmft
Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
slippery snowy national security agency
  05/29/25
Harry Potter
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  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
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  06/03/25
Good one
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  06/03/25
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  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: balding community account

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Cream startled native newt

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Geriatric high-end plaza stock car

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: avocado sexy heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: garnet step-uncle's house police squad

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Geriatric high-end plaza stock car

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Plum fragrant twinkling uncleanness telephone

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Irradiated impressive forum

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Ivory location



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: avocado sexy heaven

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: zippy knife

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Bronze Twisted Lodge Wrinkle

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Cream startled native newt

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: crusty tanning salon idiot

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: jade fear-inspiring windowlicker

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Twinkling Associate Hospital



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Mostly an 80s movie though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966409)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Sepia spectacular trust fund idea he suggested

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Cream startled native newt

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Self-centered chestnut incel skinny woman

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: avocado sexy heaven

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: avocado sexy heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Twinkling Associate Hospital



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Hideous Abode Volcanic Crater

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: razzle nowag school

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966568)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48966875)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Plum fragrant twinkling uncleanness telephone

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: exciting mood shitlib

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: wine stag film therapy



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#49014596)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Sepia spectacular trust fund idea he suggested

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Disrespectful Home

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Stimulating pink point antidepressant drug



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Floppy spruce box office digit ratio

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Apoplectic Menage Lettuce

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Floppy spruce box office digit ratio

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Sable casino turdskin

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Floppy spruce box office digit ratio

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Turquoise Electric Furnace Theatre

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: outnumbered crackhouse marketing idea

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969956)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Geriatric high-end plaza stock car

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48970015)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: cerebral office

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969800)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Sepia spectacular trust fund idea he suggested

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969890)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Bonkers Weed Whacker Messiness

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: slippery snowy national security agency

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48969850)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Bearded Up-to-no-good Shrine

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Bright Codepig

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2#48982587)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Motley Brilliant Really Tough Guy

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Apoplectic Menage Lettuce



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: ungodly pungent genital piercing

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Bearded Up-to-no-good Shrine

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: ungodly pungent genital piercing



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