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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby Chicken_Little » Thu 04 Jan 2007, 19:28:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', ' ')those 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?
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i thought you were joking about the barbeque, until i found this...
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People actually eat this?Image

spinnaz? what are/is spinnaz? drugs? prostitutes?

i know i'm not from the '"hood" so technically shouldn't post, but i'm curious. we don't really have "hoods" here on Airstrip 1.

edit to add: I looked up 'spinnaz' on urban dictionary.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Spinnaz

spinning wheels see spreewell normally found on lacs and other pimp mobiles.

man 1: Are those rims spinning?
man 2: Yea! niggaz ridin' spinnaz
man 1: ho shit! dem bitches is mos def 24s!
man 2: Holla boy! I bet he gets bitches like candy in that whip.


I mean, I don't want to sound prejudiced, but what the Hell is wrong with black people? Why can't they speak simple, plain English, and why would they be impressed by the fact that a vehicle's wheel rims continue to rotate after the car has stopped?
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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby Ayoob » Fri 05 Jan 2007, 02:58:24

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', 'N')ot 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 :oops: !

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STFU, you do not live in the hood or work there.

Can I have a mod please clean up this thread? There is garbage to be taken out.

Thank you.
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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby Loki » Fri 05 Jan 2007, 03:06:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'C')an I have a mod please clean up this thread? There is garbage to be taken out.

Thank you.


I agree. Can a mod please delete Ayoob's account? He's a whiny little boob whose moaning annoys me.

Thank you.
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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby jesus_of_suburbia_old » Fri 05 Jan 2007, 03:18:49

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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby pea-jay » Fri 05 Jan 2007, 03:38:53

Not sure if I want to acknowledge or comment on this drivel but ah heck why not...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'U')mm 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.


Well, I don't disagree with you there but hey I'd rather have their needs met instead of them attempting to meet them by any means necessary.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'T')he 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.


Again, no disagreement on your assesment why. Lets continue

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', ' ')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.


So it's a failure is it? When it comes to the disintegration of the black family unit, I'd have to agree. Again. But criticism is half the problem. What are YOU going to do about it is the other half. Today's welfare system as problematic as it is (and it is trouble) is better than the alternative--none! But I digress

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', ' ')screw the poor. They eat better than me! They get 5 different handouts. Cars. Every child born get more money for each one.


Get up to date. The days of unlimited handouts and automatic per-child increases are history. Gone. Waste and fraud are still present of course but that crosses all socioeconomic lines and afflicts assistance programs no more than corporate fraud or private sector fraud. People from all socieconomic groups cheat and steal. THe non-poor are just more sophisticated. Get over it.

Lets cut to the chase...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I')ts a time bomb when the energy gets really scarce.

Yup, no disagreements there. And thanks to energy depletion the ranks of the "poor people" will be swelled by those "formerly middle class"

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'i')ts 2007.

Thanks for the reminder! I thought it was 1967 and LBJ is still president. Hah!

Seriously, I have NO problems with the social safety net. Why? Because it is better than NO safety net. As bad as it may be it is far better than a society/state with no safety net. Then what happens when all those poor people try to survive? And you think crime is bad here. Go to Manila and see the wealthy walled off by 30 foot high walls and armed guards. Visit the slums of Brazil with a fearsome crime rate. Oh yeah, think Detroit sucks, how about Africa. Lagos? Johannesburg? None of those places have social programs of any sort yet their cities still suck. Hmmm, maybe you want to try another hypothosis?

Here's what I said in my post: cities thrive or die based on their economic opportunity. I stand by that. People congregate together because of opportunities and when those opportunities cease to exist, so will that community city or region's reason for existence. As is the case so often, the best and brightest leave first, then those who have the good sense to follow the trends. The less intellegent and those with the least opportunities leave last, usually by coercion, force, natural or man-made calamity or die off. Rebirth only happens when new reasons for congregation exist (such as new opportunites or resources). The alteration of welfare programs is not one of those opportunities.

Like you said, [many] poor are comprised of those with low IQ's, substance abuse, laziness or are hopelessly trapped. So what DO you propose to do with them? Cut them off and make everyone deal with the consequences (CRIMECRIMECRIME)? Send them all to "detention camps" Forced labor? Execution?

So what is it?? Stop bitching long enough to consider the alternatives.
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Re: Life in the Hood

Unread postby max_power29 » Fri 05 Jan 2007, 03:58:21

I think its a mixture of both what Peajay and Holems wrote
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