NOT PICTURED: At least 3 books about H R Giger.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

I don’t care what anyone says, I still love the smell & taste of those stupid things.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

If I'm every terminally I'm starting smoking again. This is what I'm going to smoke.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

I just got diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer - and I’m definitely going to start drinking and smoking again near the end, if I can.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

I'm really sorry. I hope you squeeze as much joy as you're able to out of the time you have left.

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The package there is already the nerfed ones. The original package was cream with a burgundy top with black lines throughout. The "cloves" used to pop and crackle when you would pull a drag while leaving that flavor on your lips.

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OneRub3234@reddit

Do they still make them

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EatsCrackers@reddit

Yup! They can’t legally be called “cigarettes” anymore, though, at least not in California. Not sure about the rest of the country/world.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

It's not a California thing. It's a FDA thing going back to around 2009.

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EatsCrackers@reddit

Fair enough. California will often have more restrictive laws than everyone else, but I guess even the 4th largest economy in the world is goi g to suck Philip Morris’s…. Smooth flavor with new longer filters

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leicanthrope@reddit

Phillip Morris was one of the driving forces behind the ban. There was a specific exemption for menthols, which are basically the only type of “flavored cigarettes” made in the US. It was tobacco industry protectionism wrapped in a “save the children” wrapper.

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OneRub3234@reddit

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atom644@reddit

The sound too…

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Late-External3249@reddit

That nice crackle and then the flavor when you pick your lips. Good times.

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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

No one is fighting you. I wish I had one right now.

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Tall-Introduction414@reddit

I thought CK One was more of a preppy thing.

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Fine_Pudding4941@reddit

Eternity was what hit in my hood.

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xdevnullx@reddit

Same, Midwest. And Curve.

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a-ha_partridge@reddit

They were into the Abercrombie and Gap scents at my school. And tons of bath and body works body spray.

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spottedrabbitz@reddit

Cucumber melon?

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ibanezer83@reddit

I smell my first girlfriend

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gerardkimblefarthing@reddit

You forgot about the black leather trench coat, pre-Matrix.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Pre-Columbine

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rivalpinkbunny@reddit

I was wearing a trench coat when that shit happened! I wasn’t into industrial, I was a huge stoner, but I had a look

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

Same here. Me and like a few other theatre tech geeks all had trench coats and a Leatherman multi tool.

As you might imagine we were drowning in pussy

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

In high school in the mid-90’s I had a WWII-era military surplus wool trench coat. The thing weighed about 20 pounds and was like wearing tank armor. I wore that stupid thing every day, even in the SUMMER. I also carried a thick blackthorn walking cane, and a surplus military messenger bag - usually full of books of poetry. I wore my hair teased into a weird crow’s nest like Robert Smith from The Cure.

I was SO COMPLEX.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume you (like me) hung out with the “freaks”.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

You know it! We had the Jocks (typical sports & cars & hunting kids), the Nerds (smart kids), the Grubs (poor kids) , and the Freaks (“artsy” type kids).

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humdrumturducken@reddit

pre-Matrix but post-Crow

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burnafter3ading@reddit

I had a ripped up French surplus duster in OD green.

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MaddaddyJ@reddit

Back when they were cigarettes not cigars

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RoyalZeal@reddit

NIN was and still is the shit.

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SpaceToot@reddit

Dropped 3 albums in the last 6 months

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Maxi-Minus@reddit

Have you seen the set from Coachella last week?? Shit it was amazing.

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5thSeasonFront@reddit

I think OP accidentally dropped this out of his starter pack…

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTpoH9je2aEEKSw1b-ypoB6-t0LKihOawQeTPsciWYmjQ&s=10

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monkeysknowledge@reddit

Mltaned Glove

Goddamn AI is every where.

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Kittypie75@reddit

CK One was industrial?

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impliedapathy@reddit

Cloves were restricted to goths and drama kids at my school

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leicanthrope@reddit

This but the regular Djarums.

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Skate_faced@reddit

KDFM Sucks patch

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Intelligent-Camera90@reddit

I couldn’t do the ckOne, but I was absolutely into NIN, cloves, and wore a chain wallet with my oversized painters jeans.

Then my friends and I used to think we were something cool and go see Laser Pink Floyd or Nirvana at the planetarium.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

r/WhiteAmericanXennials

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

Nobody's stopping you from making a post about your own culture/community. No one. I didn't engage with half of the stuff, but I'm not making a stink about it not representing me.

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pug_fugly_moe@reddit

Missing those round Oakleys, Doc Martens or boots with the buckles, trench coat, hair gel/spikes, an MC Escher print on the wall.

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

And when you got to college, it would be a Klimt print or that portrait of Kramer.

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throwaway1102293384@reddit

Should be a CD though instead of vinyl

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Exciting-Argument-67@reddit

That's what I came to say. Who was buying vinyl in the mid-nineties? That probably wasn't even released on vinyl until years later. Too lazy to try to look it up, but I'm sure I'm right.

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J-littletree@reddit

Accurate

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Full-March-4700@reddit

I always preferred splash to black

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Li-RM35M4419@reddit

Skinny Puppy

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sick_of-it-all@reddit

Ministry - KE… uh, circle with a line through it, A, upside down V, H… like, an E with no backbone on it, and then like, an O with a dash in the middle.

Or just “Psalm 69” I guess.

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thebeaverchair@reddit

I can dig it.

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Southern-Hour1691@reddit

Brap Talk, let’s go.

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thebeaverchair@reddit

This type of pornography is a matter of artistic creativity. Discuss.

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Any_Nectarine_7806@reddit

I was thinking more like Mall 90s Industrial Starter Pack.

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civilwarcorpses@reddit

Those goggles that offer no eye protection whatsoever but that doesn't matter cause you wore them on top of your head

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ryguymcsly@reddit

Was Hot Topic even a thing then? I know it existed but in the part of the US I was in I didn’t see one until 1999 or so.

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Fun-Preparation-4253@reddit

But like... a LOT of people wore CK One

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the_ballmer_peak@reddit

CK1 is still the only fragrance I can instantly identify, even though it's probably been a decade since I've smelled it. I never wore it, but fucking everyone else did. I'm not a fan.

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copyrighther@reddit

When did we start retconning the 90s as being a big time for vinyl records? My friends and I spent 99.9% of our time listening to CDs.

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schwing710@reddit

Yup CDs and some cassettes in the earlier ‘90s

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

We were stoked to have them too

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gorilla-ointment@reddit

Not pictured: cool cut-out photocopy collage instead of lazy AI

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iamfilms@reddit

Also not pictured. The correct HT logo for the time period. Weak.

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soft_daphne@reddit

sounds like a solid collection but honestly, who has the energy for that kind of unhinged obsession?

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ma-ki-na@reddit

My brother!

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

Tori Amos for when you wanted to chill out

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drewbaccaAWD@reddit

With those NINE INCH NAILS and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl!

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theicecreamassassin@reddit

And if it was live, she sang “guuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlll!”

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Lizard__Bit@reddit

Fuck…I’m craving the feeling of this picture now.

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theicecreamassassin@reddit

I feel called out.

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bjgrem01@reddit

Swap out CK for some cologne that smelled like sandalwood and those cloves for Sampoerna and youre dead on.

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ManWhoTalksToHisHand@reddit

I didn't wear cologne, I wore oils similar to patchouli, and vinyl had been replaced by CD's for most, but the cloves are right.

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fourofkeys@reddit

c;mon i need you to be more specific than "hot topic."

like the little silver coffin necklace that opened and closed i got there in 8th grade. get a photo of that.

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factisfiction@reddit

Don't forget something with Nightmare Before Christmas and baggy jeans with lots of buckles and rivets.

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JayRay_44@reddit

My lungs hurt looking at the Djarum Blacks… 😣

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

What's with the 12pk.? Djarum Blacks were a 20pk with two separate foil packs of ten until 2009.

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Swick08@reddit

AI Slop

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epcot_1982@reddit

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is clearly AI slop.

Diarlim Black Mltinepglove cigars.

The Feenamd Spbebl

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cropguru357@reddit

It wasn’t vinyl back then, though.

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TrepidatiousInitiate@reddit

Definitely the time I smoked Djarums while sipping a glass of Lambrusco listening to A Warm Place.

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ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit

This feels like something I could hear Michael Ian Black saying

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Formal_Ground6513@reddit

Omgggg, Lambrusco was my jam in the 90's . I smoked Camel Lights though.

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MossGobbo@reddit

Little Lovecraft, you're all set. (Yes I'm aware he's a very dead very trash human, his writing is still an influential work within this and related subcultures)

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The_broken_machine@reddit

That dude was a fusion of racist and xenophobic on a huge scale. Pretty sure even Welsh immigrants weren't white enough to him and too foreign.

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Rude_Man_Who_Shushes@reddit

Cloves lol. Nice!

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

Late nights at Village Inn

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CustomReplicant@reddit

Denny's or Perkins for us.

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menunu@reddit

I preferred Bali Hai over the Black and yes I did keep them in a silver plated cigarette case i splurged on.

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Relative-Republic130@reddit

Hey- that era got me into collecting antique cigarette cases from the 1920s to 1940s

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sixfourtykilo@reddit

CK Be > CK1

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Ok_Location_846@reddit

Don't forget Fear Factory

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Don-Poltergeist@reddit

If it’s the later 90’s, copies of “johnny the homicidal maniac.”

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thebeaverchair@reddit

Gotta get Lenore and Squee in there, too.

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LeakyAssFire@reddit

HEY, man! That ain't cool! Some of us just liked the Alien films... and it was Camel filters for us.... and we dyed each others hair black!! There was a lot of Tool involved, too.

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The_Widow_Son@reddit

Yeah it was Tommy Hilfiger over CK One for me

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Aggravating-Try1222@reddit

Black leather wallet with a chain

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Gregorwhat@reddit

Doc Martens instead of the CK1. I mean, speaking for a friend of course.

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Loose-Recognition459@reddit

What, I don’t know you! ;)

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elkniodaphs@reddit

Fear Factory

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RevolutionaryEgg1312@reddit

Farenheit by dior, sweat and nag champa. I stank of this until I was at least 30

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PetalFlirtie@reddit

Back when "industrial" meant more than just music like a full-time grunge aesthetic job!

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themodefanatic@reddit

I think the only reason Hot Topic is still in business is all the money I spent there from 1989-1998. Prime Hot Topic. Not the mall goth aesthetic it is now.

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vilsash@reddit

I still use CK1 is that like my dad using Old Spice lol

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gtindolindo@reddit

That smell combo was glorious.

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Wactout@reddit

I have no clue what the record is on the right. Looks familiar, but I can’t place it.

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GeneralBarnacle10@reddit

Nine Inch Nails

The Downward Spiral

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Wactout@reddit

I have heard of NIN and respect Trent Reznor more than I did the. I was more punk and 2nd wave ska back then. Just never got into his works. But I do appreciate it now, than I did 30 years ago.

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Wactout@reddit

I do understand the Giger references, only because I’m a tattoo artists, and he was one of the artist gods among me.

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit

I had the designer imposters CK1 from a kiosk in the mall.

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waterfowlplay@reddit

The jumps from Nirvana to trench coats to bros at Woodstock, too much for my brain. The 90s were weird and the nostalgia is weirder.

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LAffaire-est-Ketchup@reddit

Hey don’t forget for the Japanese and the “I am so cool I know about foreign music” crowd, the hide album with the HR giger mask

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Not too long ago, I got a bottle of CK One. And a bottle of Cool Water & Hugo Boss. They're sitting right by my 25+ year old bottles of Tommy Hilfiger, Iron, Gravity, and Curve.

I never wear 'em, but I like having them just for the occasional sniff of them.

(Sidenote: Remember ThinkGeek? They had bottles of cologne inspired by James T. Kirk and, iirc, Spock. Still got my bottle of Kirk. It's actually a pretty decent scent.)

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Radiant-Avocado-3158@reddit

Can confirm.

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drewbaccaAWD@reddit

I'm more of a Jean Paul Gaultier, Sampoerna, and Pretty Hate Machine guy... myself.

Join in the chant!

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