Moooooooooo just kidding " Don't cry outloud!,,,just keep it inside...Chorus 3x just keep it inside....

Thanks, HK. And it WAS a joke. He and I have had some back and forth about Serbia since he signed up, so I thought he'd get the joke.

Anyway, it's not like I pointed out something that's really offensive. You know, like Swedish men and the whole small penis thing. Right?

Where´s your smileys in this one?

I was dead serious about that one.

You´re too funny!

Just want to add that Serbia has been fighting invaders for centuries, causing tremendous tragedies for so many Serbians. I want you to understand, joking about the misery that country has suffered throughout the years is 1000 x worse than joking about 9/11. Just saying.

Yes 60 LB , confused that with the VB kid

But trust me this was Mickey Mouse , the extent to which they reached out to people to move this small amount guaranteed being a bust , word was everywhere

Even crazier is he touched it , a man of his family stature is not caught with product on em and especially that small of an amount

60 lbs isn't so bad actually. You can pull in more than 10k profit just with 10 lbs going wholesale. With the price break for buying so many pounds that's easily over 100k profit. But with so much potential cash to be made, he could have had an underling doing the dirty work. And if u know the right people, 60 lbs could be gone in a month just in a local operation. 100k per month ain't bad

**edit- in a place like nyc, forget a month. U could clear that in a week just distributing thru one area in one Boro

Hairy- Yes Serbia is a tragic situation, but I don't think you will find many red blooded Americans who would agree with you that it is 1000 times worse than the 911 attacks

Toughen up

I would agree. 9/11 was a one time deal. It didn't reshape our whole country unless you factor in our loss of privacy and rights. It's worse when it's a long, drawn out violation like some countries suffered. Even greece hasn't been able to get on the same level as the rest of Europe after the turkish occupation and the invasions that followed. I would trade 500 years of slavery and oppression for one 9/11 if given the chance

Tragedies are never worth comparing. Ever. And for a lot of Americans---especially those of us who live in New York City, and were here that day---it's honestly the kind of topic that can't be debated rationally. It doesn't belong in this thread anyway.

Moving on . . . .

Yes, let´s move on. I just wanted you guys to understand that making jokes about the misery Serbia has suffered and that misery´s after effects is as bad as me, a Europeean, joking about 9/11. Alex is a Serb (on his father´s side) and I´m sure that he have relatives and/or close friends who lost their lifes during the horrible Balkan wars in the 1990s. That´s all.

Well put, HK.

Now, as for middle class wiseguys who weren't born into the life, there have obviously been a few. But they're few and far between.

It's like I always say, it usually takes a childhood full of poverty to make a true gangster mentality.

That's a great point HK. People think their tragedy is worse than someone else's, or they know nothing about the tragedies that others have suffered. A lot of people died in the recent war in the former Yugoslavia, and then they just came out of Communism, before that it was Nazified, and before that they had to deal with Ottoman Turks. To make things even worse, nobody wanted to buy Yugos!

would al trucchio be an example? granted his dad was probably in and out of his life, but ronnie trucchio made a lot of money. he'd be an example of a "real" gangster from a middle class background. one of the corrozzos has a kid whos supposed to be involved. not talking about the lawyer.

unless you're talking abiut kids with more of a WASPish upbringing who got into OC. then idk...

I remember an old commercial (I think it was) showing the basketball player Vlade Divac (who´s 7´1) driving the car. They had to remove the front seats in order for him to fit into it. So he sat in the back seat driving it around. That was funny!

Off topic, but Divac was a great ball player. Too bad he played mostly for the Lakers .

This.

Debating emotional tragedies is something that can never be resolved with cool heads.

Best to respect, sympathise and move on.


Like the man says above.