[Ayoob]

This is a thread specifically directed towards those of us that live in or work in the hood. I can't believe it, but the new ambulance company I work for operates in South Central Los Angeles again. I thought I was never going to set foot in the hood again but oh no I'm back.

Ten dollars an hour.

Somebody shoot me in the face immediately for being so stupid as to agree to set foot in the hood again.

Tomorrow I'm bringing my gun to work again. I thought I was done with this shit but apparently God is having a little fun with me. My computer crapped out on me and my motorcycle needs a little work so You Guess Who has to go back to slinging people back and forth to the dialysis centers in South Central. Inglewood, Compton, South Central, all the old haunts I missed so much with their 25 cent porn booths and Bad To Da Bone BarBQ franchises and hey, you want a deal on spinnaz or a cell phone or anything?

Back to the Hood.

Please only post to this thread if you currently live in the hood or work in the hood. I would like to specifically disinvite SPG from posting her nonsense in this perfectly sensible discussion thread. I wish you luck in your quest to out-Man all of us in your hardy Montana paradise, but this one is for the hood rats that carry a knife and are fiercely protective of their coworkers. There is a baby with an appointment in a woodchipper that you should attend to, and I wish you the best of luck in your foul and disgusting hobby.

If you live in HotLanta or work in alphabet city or the south side of Chicago or anywhere that the urban environment decays into 20ft piles of stinking garbage, give me a shout out. I will not live in the hood, but apparently I'm willing to squeeze out the essence of my existence in this shithole in exchange for the princely sum of ten fucking dollars an hour.

Join with me and document what an economic collapse looks like. Take pictures, share stories, and detail that which is coming to Suburban America.

I'm going to be on the board for another day or two and then spend a beautiful week in Hawaii, and then for five weeks I'm ready to load up on 80 hours a week of simmering in the putrescence of South Central Los Angeles. Somebody stop me! (Actually, don't.)

Relocalization indeed. Will all the liberal bleeding heart fucktards please find another thread to pollute, I'm busy squeezing the pus out of this town and taking pictures.

Tomorrow night, I will have at least three pictures to share with you all. Until then, good night and good nightmares to you all.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I') would like to specifically disinvite SPG from posting her nonsense in this perfectly sensible discussion thread.

[Polemic]

This looks like a good place to drag out the old Ruins of Detroit page again.

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I') would like to specifically disinvite SPG from posting her nonsense in this perfectly sensible discussion thread.

[Dreamtwister]

Every time I look out my window and see "that building" (You all know which one I'm talking about, there's one in every city neighborhood) I say to myself "Hey, at least it's not Compton."

You've gotta be crazy doing it for 10 bucks an hour.

[Aaron]

Welcome to South Central Los Angeles

[Falconoffury]

I think it's time to spice up the old resume, and start posting at career builder or monster.

[Novus]

It is ideas and visions like this that ultimately keep Bush and Republicans in power. Americans know what happened between between 1960 and 1980 to politics, race, and crime. We are not as dumb as we pretend to be. It is one of those erie unspoken truthes that we push to the back of our minds and try to pretend does not exist. To speak the truth openly is to be labeled a racist. It is a national denial if you will that justifies suburbia and our willingness to wage war for oil.

I live in New Jersey which in my opinion is the singular most racist state in the union. I traveled to Newark on several occasions and saw such ruins. Factories and werehouses that used to produce and store every good imaginable now sit as empty smashed shells. Burned out appartment blocks line the streets. The state is littered with a dozen such cities and scores of smaller little hellholes where the state houses its human trash. The state created "Abbot" districts with the singular purpose purpose of keeping blacks out of white schools bruied under 500 pages of leagal jiberish. The cost of "Abbot" is over $20,000/year per trash child disposed of. Few sneer at the cost when they realize the alternative. They are but holding pens until they are old enough to go prision. We are no better than NAZIS who atleast had the mercy to gas their "diversity" and the honesty to do so openly. When New Orleans drowned I now have the foresight to realize America was cheering the deaths and suffering of those drowned wretches.

I fear this is just a taste of what is about to come.

/rant

[seahorse2]

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[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'I') think it's time to spice up the old resume, and start posting at career builder or monster.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Polemic', 'T')his looks like a good place to drag out the old Ruins of Detroit page again.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'I') think it's time to spice up the old resume, and start posting at career builder or monster.

[Aaron]

Well I spent 2 years living & working in South Atlanta... a pretty tough place.

I have also lived & worked in Palo Alto...

Can also be a rough place... rougher in fact.

Here's why...

In South Atlanta, the higher up the food chain I climbed, the more trustworthy my peers became. In Palo Alto, the exact opposite.

In South Atlanta (near 100% black), it was the lower-level "worker bees" you have to watch... the higher you went, the better the manners. My "bosses" valued honesty, sincerity, fearlessness & trust.

In Palo Alto, it's the higher-ups which are feared... these folks target and exploit honest, sincere, fearlessness & trusting folks.

Never thought of it this way until I read your thread M.

Funny ol' world...

[Kingcoal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Polemic', 'T')his looks like a good place to drag out the old Ruins of Detroit page again.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', 'I') don't think you are correct. The cities filled up with poor people mostly from within the US. I worked in downtown Philly for several years and I saw both the State of PA and the Federal government dump $billions and I do mean $billions into local housing programs with no apparent benefit. I saw gentrification of blighted areas that simply went back to being blighted. Those areas that attracted an employed demographic got better, the rest became destroyed - as if those who lived there liked it that way.

Get rid of assistance programs and you'll see the cities turn around. The problem is that the government has created a lifestyle where you can be a drug addict or whatever and remain alive. The government is these people's enabler. Drug addicts stream into these destroyed areas because they can be left alone to do what they want to do. Government assistance allows people to remain in nonproductive, destructive patterns and still stay alive. These people need to led to the wall to read the writing - GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER OR DIE!!!!

[JustinFrankl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'I')f you do not live in the hood or work in the hood, then please do not post to this thread. Your opinions are worthless in the context of discussing personal experiences.
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They can teach you something if you listen. The whole world can be your school and you can look anything up in the textbook that you want, and can read as many hours over and above the normal nursing student workload as you can put together.
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Where are we, the Congo? You would not see anyone in a normal American part of the country somebody riding a bicycle and balancing anything other than a helmet on top of their heads. It is not civilized behavior to do this. We do not live in a third world country. Totally unacceptable, and should be ridiculed thoroughly.
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It is like walking hand in hand with Christ every single day here. You have no idea how bad it can get in the hood. The amazing stupidity and fuckheadedness you find here will make you lust to be around your own people so hard...

[holmes]

Umm Government social welfare shitstem IS keeping these people alive! What planet are you on? You obviously do not live side by side with these people. I do! They ARE kept alive by the gubmint and tax exempt organizations that are kept alive by the government welfare shitstem. The illogical belief that these poor people are just trying to make ends meet and do the right thing is a long dead hypothesis. Human nature takes the easy way out. especially when your a low IQ and bad genetics and raised with zero adult parents. Children breeding children basically. Most of the cities (within city limits are filled with dependent humans). dependent on drugs, welfare gubmint money. and they are promoted to breed. Do you know the five welfare hand outs these people get? You probably dont even know what and just how much is given to humans that need to stripped of everyhting and sent packing. your neo liberal welfare shitstem is an absolute FAILURE! the people and buerocracy that supports it are failures as well. Thieves and liars. screw the poor. They eat better than me! They get 5 different handouts. Cars. Every child born get more money for each one. Eat me with your blame the poor and downtrodden spheal. They are just as much to blame as the greedy slime that promote it all and make profits off human biomass overload and sub 100 IQs. Your so old and out of touch with reality. Its a time bomb when the energy gets really scarce. You know they are oil produced as well. Cheap oil is their only way. Thay produce zero for society and their crimes support the bloated police gulag, insurance gestapo and corporations you bleeding hearts always rant about. Thay are a huge part of the spine of the consumer society we are in. Thay use massive amounts of plastics and have very little environmental care. In fact they dont give a shit about anything except getting handouts. To think these are noble poor people beign produced today is a fantasy land belief. its 2007.

[Schneider]

Not wanting to hijack this topic with ideas that i got here about relocating in ruins,i have created another one in the "Planning For The Future" for this purpose :

Some Thoughts about Ruins..

Sorry for the disturbance !

Schneider
French-Canadian