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But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang

- jack - Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 : goo

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watch out crips, bloods, the new look of the over 50 club. black hooded jacket, 5 fingers representing fifty years of age and older, cool, threatening yet knowledgeable, wisdom of the years gone by, menacing, yet heroic, and introducing your leader of the pack, me, doing a self portrait, seems i picked the wrong door again, well, might as well go to the supermarket and beat some old ladies to the check-out counter. hey evil, want to join and we need some gals to make us look like cool dudes. of course, don't tell my wife i said this because if she finds out this post will self destruct.

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EvilGentleman: I'll need fake ID. I'm only 37.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 27th Mar 2007 - 22:14 GMT

I want to come too! I have hoodies and a mean streak. I can totally do "threatening, yet knowledgeable." I can bring my friends rat to look really crazy-cool.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 27th Mar 2007 - 22:15 GMT

See, I'm ready for the gang.
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EvilGentleman: 28th Mar 2007 - 04:26 GMT

jack, see what happens when you use the word "gang" in the name of your post? These "geniuses" don't even bother reading the actual post itself, they are just tagging cyberspace via comments. If they actually looked at the post, they would see there is nothing here about their kind of gangs. Talk about a total waste of time. Haven't they figured it out yet? This is NOT a gang website, and 99% of the graf posted here has nothing to do with gang tags. The gang shout-outs keep getting deleted, no matter what gang it is, yet they keep coming back. One of them should start a REAL gang website, so they will have something better to do than waste their time here.

jack: 28th Mar 2007 - 12:59 GMT

your right, even better the government should round up every gang member and put them into a special branch of the army and send them to iraq to look for osama, i'm sure these young tough guys could do the job, but i'm sorry for the fact that they will never get educated and eventually end up dying or left behind in society, or in jail for twenty or thirty years, its a shame that they throw life away for anger and power.

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: 28th Mar 2007 - 13:29 GMT

I'm thinking for our over 50 gang (even though at least two of us are under 50) we should take a lesson from these "real" gangstas and develop a language that only we understand. Here goes: nuff rexpekt ta ya, teakettes til we die.

EvilGentleman: 31st Mar 2007 - 02:24 GMT

jack, no matter what the wannabe gangsta kids say, I appreciate your humour. And although your spelling may not be perfect, it's a damn sight better than what I see in the gang shout-outs all over the place. I'm still amazed how many people come here, on a community photo website, and think that gang issues are relevant here. A real pity, 'tis it not?

BZZZP: 1st Apr 2007 - 22:06 GMT

what is it with these people that work at the c-town supermarket and their obsession with sucking dick?

iman: 3rd Apr 2007 - 12:45 GMT

so jack, you used to roll with the old gangs? did you know them or were you in one of them? and if so, which one?

iman: 3rd Apr 2007 - 12:56 GMT

hey evilgentlemen, i actually did not know this was not a gang website at first, because i looked up gangs on google and that's how i found this site. but i'm not all about that stuff. besides, there are plenty of gang websites. and by the way, the over 50 club sounds pretty cool, and i would also have to have a fake ID and say i had a growth problem, because i am only 15.

jack: 3rd Apr 2007 - 13:44 GMT

iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the street who hung out at malt shops. there were bigger gangs like the coney island gang which was a biker gang and the avenues had gangs of guys and gals, they didn't cause serious problems except at school sports events. a lot of the older guys called themselves 'boys' like the avenue u boys or the carnarsie boys, these gangs didn't do harm to their respective neighborhoods, they respected older folks, would never harm anyone for initiation purposes, they were just their own group but would fight to protect their hood from another gang. i remember back in the those days there was a gang called the baldies, like in the movie the wanderers, and i sat on the corner with a baseball bat waiting and my uncle came along and threw me into the house. so much for gangs, and no i was not a part of a gang, only because i did not like fighting with knives and bats, i was always worried about my teeth although i did have what we called swingouts then and i had a few. i knew of a few boys that were killed because of gang warfare, and when i think of the hopelessness of the insanity of killing other gang members, it makes me wonder if there are any regular kids out there. many of the gang members ended up in prison or dead. some became police officers and others, politicians, they were the ones that realized the futility of it all and settled down to doing homework, reading novels of how great people made it to the top, just burned out their anger in sports and excelled in it, at 15 you have a great deal of life ahead of you, don't let racism, anger, drugs, sex or the desire to have instant money in your hands control you, rise above all that, get not only a college degree but go for a masters degree, these things may seem like an enormous task and unreachable but it can be acheived, look at barak, colin powel and other great people, m l king was a great man, read about them and copy them, start your own personal gang, just you, i've been through it all and i still have a problen with violence when i see people being taken advantage of, or little children being hurt by sick people, the over 50 gang is a dream for youth again, for a happier time, when loved ones taken for granted were alive, when there were no problems except what to wear to the dance saturday night. be good iman.

iman: 3rd Apr 2007 - 19:08 GMT

hey jack, you're right man, and the things i was involved in were just like the old days. we aren't trouble makers or anything like that, we just chill as a group of kids with a group name. and i actually do plan to get a degree, and am already doing great in my classes. i've stayed away from drugs, and am good to my neighborhood. some people have stereotyped me because i'm poor, and, well went through some tough things. but i've proved that i can do better than get more involved in that gang stuff. by the way man, for a guy your age, you seem pretty cool. and thanks for the advice.

jack: 21st Jun 2007 - 13:24 GMT

your a good man, iman, keep it up and stay strong.

joey: i could use a membership to the over 50 club.

anon (adsl-70-232-103-134.dsl.ltrkar.sbcglobal.net): 16th Feb 2008 - 08:03 GMT

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