A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

[kid charlemagne]

Gus said to us the kid is like the buddha who grew up coddled inside a gated compound and never encountered sickness, poverty, old age or deciet. apparently his parents are billionaires and sheltered him from all evil thereby leaving him ill equipped to deal with life in the outside world.

yes but you guys can help me

 

[kid charlemagne]

the kid needs to learn: either be the player or be the person getting played
luckily, i had an older brother from which to learn as he moved on from hustling me to hustling older guys in arcades (he was lucky he didn't get his ass kicked!)

im trying to be the player man

 

[0bleak]

i wasnt taken for a sucker i didnt give up anything

yeah, but it shouldn't have taken you near that long to run away, and at the end you're still questioning if you made the right decision
something too good to be true is 99.99999999999999% of the time going to be too good to be true
How many people do you think got wealthy from helping a "Nigerian Prince" on the internet?

 

[0bleak]

one thing you might want to ask yourself is why do you think they might have picked you out of the crowd?
are you projecting confidence, or are you looking down?
how are you walking, etc.

 

[kid charlemagne]

one thing you might want to ask yourself is why do you think they might have picked you out of the crowd?
are you projecting confidence, or are you looking down?
how are you walking, etc.

yes i know i need to go to the gym eat more and get bigger..... it is one of new years resolutuions

 

[line b]

Don't get bigger getting big is pointless

 

[IdleRich]

i dont believe this will ever happen to me in my life.... i texted some people about what was happening when i got to the atm and they kept telling me to call the police.... but in my life calling the police is always a hard no for me.... i will never call the police for myself, i am against it, i dont like or trust the police, and i believe in my own ability to get myself out of any trouble that the police could "help" me out of.... i also dont believe i will ever get "mugged" that will never happen.... if someone comes to me with a knife or gun theres no way theyd actually use it... im not giving them any of my belongings, ill just run away.... theres no way anyone on this board has been robbed or mugged

I hear what you're saying about the police - it's good to have a healthy mistrust of them - but there may come a time when you need them. Once three of us got attacked inside Charing X station by this huge group of feral youth and the one of us not on acid ran off and called the police and me and my gf ended up in the back of a police car tripping our tit's off, it was our of the frying pan into the fire really. They said to my gf "They tried to steal your bag, what's in it?" and I was thinking if they look in there we got a real problem.

I've been mugged and had attempted muggings several times. Just assuming it will never happen is probably not a good strategy.

 

[IdleRich]

Don't get bigger getting big is pointless

Agree.

 

[0bleak]

why do you all say it's pointless?
people like bigger men - well, maybe not all but even then I've also had women come up and say "I normally like gaunt (or insert synonym here, but....)
but even other men tend to favor bigger men in different work, social or life situations

 

[luka]

it's lame its for losers

 

[yyaldrin]

even though kid is naive and that might get him into problems it will also bring him luck and happyness you know someone bad out there will single him out maybe but someone good will do so as well. if you walk like a robot in a suit yapping in your phone no good will ever approach you but if you dance around new york with a big smile like the kid somone might just ask you how late it is and if you have the time and from one thing comes another.

 

[luka]

thats a really good point yyyyaldrin. i learned to keep very closed and defensive body language since a childhood in the big bad city and as a result no one ever talks to me and nothing ever happens to me whereas naive moon children have lives which are one adventure after another

 

[luka]

they do take horrifying risks and are horrifyingly trusting but more often than not they seem to get away with like they are protected by the angels.

 

[0bleak]

it's lame its for losers

tell that to chad's face!

 

[IdleRich]

why do you all say it's pointless?

Cos we're tiny, small men.

 

[luka]

tell that to chad's face!

@Corpsey did TRT and steroids and put a hige amount of muscle on but he also developed back acne and testicle shrinkage and rage issues (see rage thread) also it didnt make him any luckier with the ladies. so i would echo limburger and tell the kid to stay svelte and heatlhy.

 

[luka]

it feels much better to be nimble and quick than to be a big wheezing meat cabinet.

 

[0bleak]

if it didn't much him luckier than he's got other problems
but muscle is part of being healthy, too

 

[line b]

Yes stay lean that's what the girls like

 

[Corpsey]

When I pumped up my arms I also became fat because it boosted my appetite and instead of eating chicken and broccoli I ate maltesers

Actually I think when I was a bit muscular I was getting more attention but I repelled that attention with my teak hard awkwardness