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A list of what I've learned from these message boards.

brookfetish
brookfetish
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights

Subject: A list of what I've learned from these message boards.

-No complaining about getting mugged. What did you expect? You’re a gentrifier.

-No complaining about Soda, Joyce, Le Gamin, or Carnieviento.

-Complain all you want about Muddy Waters, the dry cleaning options on Vanderbilt, the poor USPS service, and the Underhill playground.

-No spitting.

-White folk don’t like curtains.

-Your coffee of choice sucks.

-Apparently, everyone that resides in Prospect Heights was raised on the most authentic <insert>, and NOTHING in this neighborhood is actually prepared how it should be.

-Hipsters are scum, but it’s okay to act like one when criticizing them.

-You heard gunshots? So what, you yuppie gentrifier. That’s how it has always been. What do you expect?

-If the mosquitoes don’t get you, the bedbugs will.

-You don’t know the best route from JFK to Prospect Heights.

-That new building is ugly and violates every architectural law/standard/theory according to the incredible amount of architecture experts (who knew?) residing in Prospect Heights.

Comments

  • jayce
    jayce
    I've learned that keyboards are balls magnifiers.
  • MOD
    MOD
    And everyone, except me, is a racist!
  • lostingreenwoodhts
    lostingreenwoodhts
    To remember to have a sense of humor and not take life, nor this Board, too seriously.
  • brookfetish
    brookfetish
    lostingreenwoodhts wrote: To remember to have a sense of humor and not take life, nor this Board, too seriously.
    You've pretty much summed up the intention of my post.
  • chrispy
    chrispy
    You forgot the most important lesson of all:

    LOCK YOU DOORS!
  • blackoyster
    blackoyster
    And we still don't know if there is ham in the cooler!
  • lostingreenwoodhts
    lostingreenwoodhts
    BrookFetish wrote: [quote=lostingreenwoodhts]To remember to have a sense of humor and not take life, nor this Board, too seriously.
    You've pretty much summed up the intention of my post.

    What, you were being facetious!?!

    Darn! :)
  • shishkab
    shishkab
    chrispy wrote: You forgot the most important lesson of all:

    LOCK YOU DOORS!
    AND YOU VAJAYJAYS!
  • pensodyssey
    pensodyssey
    I hope I'm reading the tone of the OP correctly when I say that I concur that most of the people on this board are a bunch of big babies. And it's a shame; this board coulda been a contendah.

    I honestly find it hard to believe that spitting is a topic of discussion. Umm >>>>>>>>>hello<<<<<<<< people have been spitting for like a hundred million years. Get over it.
  • theoryofpractice
    theoryofpractice
    I've learned when people get together from this board in RL it's fun...
    ...except when it isn't.

    and that there are a lot of transplanted 'hotans like me, wandering around
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    pensodyssey wrote: Umm >>>>>>>>>hello<<<<<<<< people have been spitting for like a hundred million years. Get over it.
    100,000,000? Not people as such, but certainly higher animals. Apparently the calcium-binding genes that invented saliva go way back to before the split between vertebrates and invertebrates, although fish turned out differently from the rest of us. Either that, or it goes back 6011 years and happened on a Thursday.
  • lp1378
    lp1378
    You forgot one:

    Bodegas where you can't buy a beer and a ham sammich are most likely being run by Al Qaeda operatives.
  • sterling2000
    sterling2000
    And every statement carries a veiled racist undertone when read through the lens of a "local" (however that is defined by the offended party).
  • pensodyssey
    pensodyssey
    doctorj wrote: [quote=pensodyssey] Umm >>>>>>>>>hello<<<<<<<< people have been spitting for like a hundred million years. Get over it.
    100,000,000? Not people as such, but certainly higher animals. Apparently the calcium-binding genes that invented saliva go way back to before the split between vertebrates and invertebrates, although fish turned out differently from the rest of us. Either that, or it goes back 6011 years and happened on a Thursday.

    Indeed. God must be a spitter, then.

    The hundred million years was de rigueur message board exaggeration.
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    pensodyssey wrote:
    The hundred million years was de rigueur message board exaggeration.
    Let us strive to the uttermost to stamp out the myriads upon myriads of hyperbolic quips polluting these boards daily.
  • littleredmenace
    littleredmenace
    I made almost $25K in ought 6. By that I mean, last year. Does that make me a yuppie?

    Oh, and Crown Heights people are allowed over here, right? I mean, I'm just next door.
  • pensodyssey
    pensodyssey
    Hyperbole will never, ever ever be stamped out. Never.
  • nathan
    nathan
    Once, I was listening to two people discussing how horrible it is that people ever spit. One of them waxed rhapsodic (hyperbolically, even) about how "...the earth is our Mother. Who would spit on their mother"?

    I asked him where he pisses when he goes camping.

    ***Silence***

    Oh, and Ft. Greene people are allowed over here, right? I mean, I' just down Vanderbilt.
  • michaelkeys
    michaelkeys
    Nathan wrote: Once, I was listening to two people discussing how horrible it is that people ever spit. One of them waxed rhapsodic (hyperbolically, even) about how "...the earth is our Mother. Who would spit on their mother"?

    I asked him where he pisses when he goes camping.

    ***Silence***
    Classic.
  • poopypoop
    poopypoop
    And complain about cash only bars and restaurants!!!
  • poopypoop
    poopypoop
    Nathan your post is so funny!!!where do you do number 2 when camping???
  • missdavidatoyou
    missdavidatoyou
    Things I've learned:

    - don't criticize out of control children OR their mothers
    - "karma" doesn't mean shit
    - there are a lot of cute cats (ok, and dogs) "owned" by people on this board
    - I don't know WTF Armchair is saying most of the time, but he still makes me laugh
    - if I stand in the wrong spot on Flatbush, the meat wind will make me hungry
    - any use of the words "ghetto" or "thug" means yous a racist
    - no matter where you go, there will always be at least one drunken guest
    - when somebody tells you to stop throwing popcorn, you better cut that shit out
    - pitbulls can be nice
    - a meltdown in action can be strangely appealing to watch
    - French fries in Bearnaise sauce kick ass (ok, I didn't learn that here, but I reinforced it tonight)
    - LOCK YOU VAJAYJAYS during any day there is a parade in Brooklyn
    - it's fun to drink some wine and post
    - the co-op is a cult.
    - Lenny's has some mighty fine pizza
    - if you have bedbugs, you're fucked
    - MUCH more about "being an escort" than I ever wanted to know


    That is all.
    -
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    ghetto tech!
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    yay i got a mention on this thread.

    I approve!
  • bill c
    bill c
    i am feeling a little nostalgic about the big group hate on the kid from new zealand that was mugged and actually expressed feelings of compassion towards his attacjers.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    bill c wrote: i am feeling a little nostalgic about the big group hate on the kid from new zealand that was mugged and actually expressed feelings of compassion towards his attacjers.
    It wasn't really group hate. It was more group mockery for a short while, and then that one asshole Jack who jut seemed to have something against the guy.