I love wannabes

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-03-15 01:35pm

One time I yelled at a store clerk for selling flags with the Che litho on them. I told her that they should be issued by the government, rather than buying them from merchants.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-15 01:50pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Camden, Ive heard of that place. One of my former co-workers was from there. Great guy, it was clear from his stories that place is a real GHETTO!

It's a world-class shithole. It's less of a ghetto and more of a war zone. I've been through pretty lousy neighborhoods--parts of Philadelphia, on jobs in New York, in Charleston, parts of Buffalo, Chester, PA--and Camden is the only place I've ever been where my only thought has been, "I've got to get my lily ass out of here RIGHT THE FUCK NOW."

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-15 11:20pm

Fuckin' wannabe ghetto pukes piss the hell out of me and make me wanna kick'em in the nuts with steel-toed boots. It just ain't kosher when a white guy tries to pick up my GF by trying to talk like a black gansta dude and then goes "yo why you hatin' on me?" when she told him to go fuck himself. Note to self: go buy pair of stee-toed safety shoes.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-15 11:25pm

aerius wrote:Fuckin' wannabe ghetto pukes piss the hell out of me and make me wanna kick'em in the nuts with steel-toed boots. It just ain't kosher when a white guy tries to pick up my GF by trying to talk like a black gansta dude and then goes "yo why you hatin' on me?" when she told him to go fuck himself. Note to self: go buy pair of stee-toed safety shoes.

Do they wear pants with the crotch so low it look like they crapped in them

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-15 11:34pm

Yup, the pants are like 5 sizes too big and the crotch goes down to the knees. Did I mention the wallet chains that almost drag on the ground and the extra-large football jerseys? They look like such complete losers that I'd point and laugh at them if it weren't so pathetic. Hell, when I'm with my buddies we do point and laugh at the stupid wannabe dorks.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-15 11:37pm

Nelson Muntz type laugh i guess HA HA.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-03-15 11:46pm

Heh. Ever try kicking one in the shin and then watching him try to chase after you? With pants that low, he'll simply keep tripping.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-03-16 12:01am

You are not suggesting the commit hari-kari, are you?

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The proper term is Seppuku and it was done as a way to settle a debt of honor or even at the whim of a feudal warlord in Japan

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-16 12:11am

Blech. I'd rather avoid the seedier parts of Philly but there's no way in hell I'm ever going to Camden.

I've seen fights between the white-boy gangs(plus the token black kid, usually the son of a rich upper-middle class businessman). Utterly pathetic.

You jab with the left, you punch with the right! Idiots! Don't just flail away with your fucking fists!

About anarchists:

http://somethingpositive.net/sp12102002.html

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-03-16 12:19am

Good show Hemlock! I was just thinking of posting that cartoon as well. "Something Positive" regularly rocks my world

You should all go check it out, its well worth the time to read from the beginning.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-16 01:13am

Durran Korr wrote:Perhaps you all recall what happened the last time we dealt with this topic (white wannabe gangster types): Pink Eye.

Perhaps we should steer clear of it.

Them being white is not the part of that I hate (I am white and I'm gangster

, well actually my friends said that I had graduated the 8th for black school ). It's the part of them coming from rich suburban towns saying how hard life is and how the government is this and that and all kind of bull shit.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-16 01:37am

Those want-to-bes are preposterous![/snob]

I mean, what's so cool about wearing pants that are pulled halfway down, dying your hair some unnatural color, styling it so it looks like you were just electrocuted, wearing black, and listening to loud, indecipherable music?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-16 01:41am

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Those want-to-bes are preposterous![/snob]

I mean, what's so cool about wearing pants that are pulled halfway down, dying your hair some unnatural color, styling it so it looks like you were just electrocuted, wearing black, and listening to loud, indecipherable music?

I think this is our generations way of rebelling. They look like dickheads though.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-16 02:25am

Eh? Maybe in the suburbs, not in the city.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-03-16 08:35am

Typhonis 1 wrote: The proper term is Seppuku and it was done as a way to settle a debt of honor or even at the whim of a feudal warlord in Japan

There were two forms actually, seppuku and hara-kiri. Seppuku was the more honorable of the two, as the person involved would be decapitated after evisceration, while the person committing hara-kiri would die from the evisceration itself.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-03-16 12:00pm

RedImperator wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote:Camden, Ive heard of that place. One of my former co-workers was from there. Great guy, it was clear from his stories that place is a real GHETTO!
It's a world-class shithole. It's less of a ghetto and more of a war zone. I've been through pretty lousy neighborhoods--parts of Philadelphia, on jobs in New York, in Charleston, parts of Buffalo, Chester, PA--and Camden is the only place I've ever been where my only thought has been, "I've got to get my lily ass out of here RIGHT THE FUCK NOW."

OK, you've all confused the London Girl here.

Surely you're not actually talking about N1, here? As in the place I do ALL my clothes shopping? As in the tourist trap with the sexy shop fronts where for £2 you can have your photo taken with "Genuine Camden Punks"? Home of the Black Rose, the Electric Ballroom and Mornington Crescent?

Because yes, my friends have nearly all been beaten up, mugged or raped there, but you're still being wussies if you are talking about North London.

So wheer exactly is this other Camden?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-16 12:07pm

US city, east coast. Do not go there. Ever.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-03-16 12:22pm

Those little punks piss me off. I've lived in some questionable neighborhoods: when I was in Baltimore, I spent some time off of Harford road in Hamilton, and also off Loch Raven Boulevard near Taylor. One house I lived in was hit by gunfire when two groups of dealers decided to have a shootout on the street corner. Someone was shot maybe 100 feet away from my apartment at the other place. Ya know why I like living down in Annapolis now? It's quiet. People don't get shot or stabbed on the distressingly regular basis they do up in the City that Bleeds (note for non-Maryland residents: Baltimore's motto is "The City that Reads." The unofficial version is more apt.) So imagine how much respect I have for Mr. "Thug-4-Life" and his little Yo friends who wanna front like they're ghetto badasses. I would love to see little punk bastards like that dropped into the middle of southeast Baltimore for a week, and see how many are left at the end of the week.

Kojikun, great post: the anarchist crowd always got on my last nerve in college.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-03-16 02:02pm

Gandalf wrote:
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Those want-to-bes are preposterous![/snob]

I mean, what's so cool about wearing pants that are pulled halfway down, dying your hair some unnatural color, styling it so it looks like you were just electrocuted, wearing black, and listening to loud, indecipherable music?
I think this is our generations way of rebelling. They look like dickheads though.

Yes, but why would they want to rebel? Do they have a problem being a white, middle-class teenager? Do they feel they've lost their freedoms since they can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater or drop out of school and work at a McDonalds for the rest of their life?

Since some of us are talking about it, I'd like to make a small thread hijack and say I believe Philadelphia is such a shithole I find it hard to believe it was once capital of the United States.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-16 02:04pm

Since some of us are talking about it, I'd like to make a small thread hijack and say I believe Philadelphia is such a shithole I find it hard to believe it was once capital of the United States.

I'm going to have to restrain myself from hurting you right now.

It's not ALL bad.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-16 02:08pm

Black or white they all look like jerks when dressing in a ridiculous way and thinking its cool moving and talking moronicaly.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-16 08:04pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:
Gandalf wrote:
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Those want-to-bes are preposterous![/snob]

I mean, what's so cool about wearing pants that are pulled halfway down, dying your hair some unnatural color, styling it so it looks like you were just electrocuted, wearing black, and listening to loud, indecipherable music?
I think this is our generations way of rebelling. They look like dickheads though.
Yes, but why would they want to rebel? Do they have a problem being a white, middle-class teenager? Do they feel they've lost their freedoms since they can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater or drop out of school and work at a McDonalds for the rest of their life?

Since some of us are talking about it, I'd like to make a small thread hijack and say I believe Philadelphia is such a shithole I find it hard to believe it was once capital of the United States.

Because.
1. Rebelling is part of adolescence, it's natural, just some do it differently.

2. Being a white middle class teenager myself, I'd have to say, there is no cultural heritage to keep us proud of who we are. We can't exactly say, "My great grandfather killed your great- grandfather and took his land."

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-16 08:10pm

Montcalm wrote:Black or white they all look like jerks when dressing in a ridiculous way and thinking its cool moving and talking moronicaly.

Yup, I just love the way they think they're all cool doing the Jah-Jah Binks rasta-gansta walk. It's bad enough when Jah-jah does it, and it's even more retarded when a white guy dressed like a bum tries to do it. The stupidity of these people just boggles my mind, I really can't understand how they survive when they're so fucked in the head.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2003-03-16 09:40pm

This may be a little off topic, but could someone please tell me the difference between being 'gangsta' and being 'ghetto'? All I know is I hear the latter term far more often than the former. Then again, we didn't have much in the way of gangs for the longest time here in cow-lumbus, although they are starting to form again, from what I hear.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-16 09:51pm

What also amuses the hell outta me are the people who use 'ghetto' as an adjective.

"Dude, that shoe's really ghetto."(In reference to a $150 pair of shoes)

"Your house is ghetto."(In reference to a large, suburban house in a quiet suburban neighborhood)

"This school is ghetto."(In reference to large, well-funded, adequetely staffed middle school with a fairly good reputation)

I've heard all three and more. I don't think thugs/gangstas can actually understand what the other is saying, which is probably why they get into fights all the time.