Nick Against the World (68 Viewers)

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,988
Just wait my friend. It gets rougher and the terrible thing is that after all the practicing and studying. You take your exam and your mind will be so wrecked that you wont remember anything you wrote down.
Yeah, my mind was filled to capacity taking that exam earlier today. It's even worse when you cover five full chapters in three weeks. Taking statistics for scientists during a summer semester was probably a mistake.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,988
I just ran 3 miles in hot and humid weather while wearing a full sweatsuit. I don't know why I keep doing this, but it feels good when you're so exhausted you want to punch a wall.
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
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Dec 10, 2004
29,280
I never really got into the Sopranos. The whole Italian Mob scene was always a bit cliche for me and never really found it that amusing.
I never got into it because it annoys me to see these Americanized Italians act so hardcore. The barely know a word in Italian yet they speak English like they just came off a boat from Sicily. It just annoys the fuck out of me to see these posers.

The scene from Godfather where Vito's son (Al Pacino) goes to Italy and he almost gets killed in that car explosion; that summed it up for me.


btw, Andy did you listen to the songs?
 

Vinman

2013 Prediction Cup Champ
Jul 16, 2002
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I never got into it because it annoys me to see these Americanized Italians act so hardcore. The barely know a word in Italian yet they speak English like they just came off a boat from Sicily. It just annoys the fuck out of me to see these posers.

The scene from Godfather where Vito's son (Al Pacino) goes to Italy and he almost gets killed in that car explosion; that summed it up for me.


btw, Andy did you listen to the songs?
I dont really see them speaking like they just got off the boat from Sicily...more like Staten Island :D

I didnt like the Sopranos when it first came out, but once I saw a few episodes, I was laughing my ass off

In this country, the Mafia's heyday is gone...but there are a few wiseguys still out there
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,959
I can finally drive around my old neighborhood without ashkenazy tourists asking me "do you know where they film the Sopranos?"
But doesn't that take away from the fun of telling them, "Hey -- let me show you something from The Sopranos that few tourists ever get to see", pistol whipping them in the back of the head, tying them up, locking them in your trunk, and then dumping your car off a dock along Staten Island?

Yeah, well, years ago I finally stopped my monthly visits to the Bridgewater office -- hoping that my flight out of Newark didn't get canceled and I'd end up in a flea bag hotel in East Orange, where the taxis didn't come to a full stop to drop me off, and the guy at the reception counter kept the TV remote controls under lock and key. I still miss it anyway.

I never really got into the Sopranos. The whole Italian Mob scene was always a bit cliche for me and never really found it that amusing.
I actually thought it gave north Jersey a little more love than they got in most other avenues.

That and I did like that they approached the whole mob thing as an industry in great decline as opposed to its heyday.

Has anybody here ever heard of the CIA's "gay bomb?" :howler:
I can't be too sure, but I think it blew up in my pants last night.

I just ran 3 miles in hot and humid weather while wearing a full sweatsuit. I don't know why I keep doing this, but it feels good when you're so exhausted you want to punch a wall.
Dude, you are living The Sopranos. WTF do you need to watch it for?! :lol:
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,959
North Jersey --- Shout out to my peeps in Essex County.
Speaking of peeps and putting the "sex" in Essex, where are all the compromising photos of your neighbor, Brandi Love, that we've been promised? :(

Don't tell me The Pado can con a judge with the "Cum in Delpie's butt" defense, but he can't be bothered to invite himself over to borrow a cup of sugar with an ant farm in his pants...
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,959
So I got some e-mail this morning from a friend of mine in San Diego. She was awakened at 1am this morning to the sounds of this outside the front of her house...

Turns out the guy was OK. But man, what a drunk f%@ing piece of work to plow into a mailbox and flip a car like that. :lol:
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
39,443
I never got into it because it annoys me to see these Americanized Italians act so hardcore. The barely know a word in Italian yet they speak English like they just came off a boat from Sicily. It just annoys the fuck out of me to see these posers.

The scene from Godfather where Vito's son (Al Pacino) goes to Italy and he almost gets killed in that car explosion; that summed it up for me.


btw, Andy did you listen to the songs?
Oh come on. This trick has been used in literature for hundreds of years now. This is how it works. There's an episode in which they go to Italy and that's where Christopher's demise really starts. But more importantly, it's painfully clear they are as far from Italians as are the Chinese. The way Paulie does everything wrong, the way they're scared when they come in to touch with the Camorra..

The whole Mafia business revolves around has beens in The Sopranos and that's what's so great about it. There isn't a single episode in which they don't state it used to be better, it used to be about values you know. That little twist right there, saying organised crime is ethical some way or another is what makes it wonderful to watch.

If you say it's cliché, you didn't get it one bit.
 

Zé Tahir

JhoolayLaaaal!
Moderator
Dec 10, 2004
29,280
Oh come on. This trick has been used in literature for hundreds of years now. This is how it works. There's an episode in which they go to Italy and that's where Christopher's demise really starts. But more importantly, it's painfully clear they are as far from Italians as are the Chinese. The way Paulie does everything wrong, the way they're scared when they come in to touch with the Camorra..

The whole Mafia business revolves around has beens in The Sopranos and that's what's so great about it. There isn't a single episode in which they don't state it used to be better, it used to be about values you know. That little twist right there, saying organised crime is ethical some way or another is what makes it wonderful to watch.

If you say it's cliché, you didn't get it one bit.
You don't understand because you don't live here. To put in perspective to you...imagine a bunch of Nick's running around acting hard. That's as simple as I can put it.
 

The Pado

Filthy Gobbo
Jul 12, 2002
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Speaking of peeps and putting the "sex" in Essex, where are all the compromising photos of your neighbor, Brandi Love, that we've been promised? :(

Don't tell me The Pado can con a judge with the "Cum in Delpie's butt" defense, but he can't be bothered to invite himself over to borrow a cup of sugar with an ant farm in his pants...
I don't know where she lives . . . and in all her hardcore pics she is fucking her husband, and he is a big dude. She's a holt milf, but it's not really worth the bother.

Wassa matta witch yuze guys, don't ya see I'm workin' here? But Ze T - there really are a lot of Italo-Americans that talk just like the Sopranos.
 

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