Just reading the old thread from 2007, and wondering if we could do a new one now. I have some gold to start it.

You know you are ghetto when ......

There are supermarket trolleys parked outside your front door.

The same trollies make great racks for Barbeques
Your idea of classical high brow music is Kanye West
Your old box tv's make perfect stands for your new tv, also a box tv

You use toilet rolls as hair curlers

You have children named after brands of alcohol and/or cars

You would rather spend $200 on a new Gucci bag rather than a power bill.

You have old NWA records used as dust pans.

You are still making payments to a loan shark for the old car sitting on blocks on the front lawn year for the past year.
Chrisco is your Xmas savings plan.

You paid for milk from a mobile shop on lay away

Your kids have named beginning or ending in Sha, nique, niqua, mika or ze.

You think higher education is Year 11

The mobile shop people know you by your first name
Cash converters is your main idea of a bank.
You think KFC, means Kooking for Cousins.

Old cars on your front lawn are used as guest suites
Your playstation is in perfect condition, but your lounge has no curtains and your couch is several upturned beer crates with an old blanket thrown over them.

Your daughter and yourself are both pregnant

You had your first baby before you were 17 and a grandmother before 30.

[Edited 2/19/14 18:48pm]

Oh Chrisco is a really ghetto Christmas hamper company where you pay a certain amount each week to get a Christmas hamper., They charge mega fees, put in really ghetto brands of food and most of the meat is expired. They also inflate the prices and a $500 Hamper can be bought for $279 in a supermarket.

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

i was on my way...

ghetto is good! i love being ghetto! i have street cred!

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

yup, your country is fucked up.

New Zealand (country of OP) can only dream of shit like you have

I've watched Crime Stoppers from New Zealand and they had a whole 20 minute segment on 3 reels of copper wire stolen from next to the highway.

KingBAD said:

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

i was on my way...

Me too.

Freeda's on the case...

ZombieKitten said:

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

yup, your country is fucked up.

New Zealand (country of OP) can only dream of shit like you have

I've watched Crime Stoppers from New Zealand and they had a whole 20 minute segment on 3 reels of copper wire stolen from next to the highway.

No shit!

I live in our "Kiwi Ghetto" in fact the whole country is a ghetto, we now go to Australia to be treated like second class guest workers. And you can blame it all on a National (Deeply conservative/Republican) government that gives the rich tax cuts and is slowly but surely letting the Chinese take over our country.

Adorecream said:

KingBAD said:

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

i was on my way...

this.

Adorecream said:

Just reading the old thread from 2007, and wondering if we could do a new one now. I have some gold to start it.

You know you are ghetto when ......

There are supermarket trolleys parked outside your front door.

The same trollies make great racks for Barbeques
Your idea of classical high brow music is Kanye West
Your old box tv's make perfect stands for your new tv, also a box tv

You use toilet rolls as hair curlers

You have children named after brands of alcohol and/or cars

You would rather spend $200 on a new Gucci bag rather than a power bill.

You have old NWA records used as dust pans.

You are still making payments to a loan shark for the old car sitting on blocks on the front lawn year for the past year.
Chrisco is your Xmas savings plan.

You paid for milk from a mobile shop on lay away

Your kids have named beginning or ending in Sha, nique, niqua, mika or ze.

You think higher education is Year 11

The mobile shop people know you by your first name
Cash converters is your main idea of a bank.
You think KFC, means Kooking for Cousins.

Old cars on your front lawn are used as guest suites
Your playstation is in perfect condition, but your lounge has no curtains and your couch is several upturned beer crates with an old blanket thrown over them.

Your daughter and yourself are both pregnant

You had your first baby before you were 17 and a grandmother before 30.

[Edited 2/19/14 18:48pm]

You know you ghetto when you aint got shit else to do but spend time on a forum talking about the ghetto

You know you ghetto when you think you all that when in reality you about (snaps fingers) of all that

You know you ghetto when you think Prince is god and you let everybody know it!

ZombieKitten said:

free2bfreeda said:

you realize most of the area is fenced off you see massive poverty you realized there are no jobs available in the area the police stop and frisk w/out giving a reason you hear gun shots throughout the night many people you know have lost loved ones to drugs or guns schools are over crowded and understaffed you are ignorant to the origin of the meaning of the word ghetto you have no idea that the elitist have an agenda for the inhabitants of said ghetto you have to laugh to keep from crying many good parents worry that their children will die before adulthood or end up in prison the quality of food in grocery stores in the so-called ghetto is over priced and near or past expiration date You know you are not ghetto when you wake up and realize the term was meant for those who are destained to live on the fringes of a society, aka; the despised. WAKE UP. Ghetto-ization is no joke! The word is listed in not so secret files, with a horrifying agenda.

yup, your country is fucked up.

New Zealand (country of OP) can only dream of shit like you have

I've watched Crime Stoppers from New Zealand and they had a whole 20 minute segment on 3 reels of copper wire stolen from next to the highway.

The "Meth"heads here do that as well.

I think this thread was to be ironic and funny not serious and attacking.

Exactly, back in 2007 no one complained, but now we have the socialist citizens peoples democratic rights department in swing.

Theres a lot of ghetto shit around like Tru TV, Hot Ghetto mess, Really Ghetto and the like. But yeah, people are just too serious.

You know you ghetto when you live in a place where the entire country is a ghetto, all the people who live around you ghetto, and you go to another country's ghetto to ghetto.

That's funny right? ha ha

kewlschool said:

you know what's gay?

when gay people start call you a homophobe cause you call someone gay a fag.

you know what's racist?

when racist say some racist shit and say it was all in fun cause racism is dead.

you know what's funny?

all the things i just said gonna get scratched, but not this thread

kewlschool said:

ZombieKitten said:

- You get chased down the street in your pyjamas by your wife brandishing a clothes hanger.

- You go to the corner to buy soda pop (in a plastic bag filled with ice) barefoot.

- Your body spray is knock-off but that doesn't stop you putting a little water in the bottle when it's empty, shaking it around a bit and then using the slightly body-spray infused water instead of buying some more.

- You keep old toothbrushes around to clean your flip-flops with.

- You give the spiders in your bathroom names.

- For entertainment you sit on your balcony and watch rats repeatedly dash out from behind pot plants to steal food from your stupid, bewildered dog's bowl.

- Your TV's deeper than it is wide.

Fauxie said:

- You get chased down the street in your pyjamas by your wife brandishing a clothes hanger.

- You go to the corner to buy soda pop (in a plastic bag filled with ice) barefoot.

- Your body spray is knock-off but that doesn't stop you putting a little water in the bottle when it's empty, shaking it around a bit and then using the slightly body-spray infused water instead of buying some more.

- You keep old toothbrushes around to clean your flip-flops with.

- You give the spiders in your bathroom names.

- For entertainment you sit on your balcony and watch rats repeatedly dash out from behind pot plants to steal food from your stupid, bewildered dog's bowl.

- Your TV's deeper than it is wide.

Okay, I left the room in tears.

free2bfreeda said:

kewlschool said:

I think this thread was to be ironic and funny not serious and attacking.

The term ghetto can be very offensive, especially when it's most times associated with black people only. just like the following would be offensive to poor whites: You know you're trailer trash when ..... The Halloween pumpkin on your front porch has more teeth than your spouse. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. You think a woman who is “out of your league” bowls on a different night. Jack Daniels makes your list of “Most Admired u You re-use toothpicks because the point is not damaged The metal napkins you used at you wedding are now fishing weights The bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas it has in it. You have to go outside to get something out of the ‘fridge. One of your kids was born on a pool table. Your dad walks you to school because you are both in the same grade You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. You have flowers planted in a bathroom fixture in your front yard. Ya can’t get married to yer sweetheart ’cause there’s a law against it. You dated one of your parents’ current spouses in high school. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. Your school fight song is “Dueling Banjos.” Your toilet paper has page numbers via old newspapers and magazines The bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas it has in it. You have to go outside to get something out of the ‘fridge. One of your kids was born on a pool table. Your dad walks you to school because you are both in the same grade. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. Ya can’t get married to yer sweetheart ’cause there’s a law against it. You dated one of your parents’ current spouses in high school. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. Your school fight song is “Dueling Banjos.” Your toilet paper has page numbers via old news papers Now many of the trailer trash jokes are funny in a sense. however if I was poor, white and lived in a trailer park I would feel offended. point being our ignorance in classifying the poor in a joking manner can be offensive to a trailer park dweller, as well as others. I feel where you are (naively) coming from. all those trailer trash jokes could be considered funny, and i do feel and i'm sure it's a place of innocence and fun. however if we look above the surface of poverty, we will realize making the poor the object of jokes is due to our blind ignorance. poverty places people economic confinement - thus a poverty entrenched lifestyle. not a joke! unfortunantly many of us find joking about the lifestyle of the poor somehow seperates us from that reality. (plse excuse duplicate posted jokes - 'outer issues) [Edited 2/21/14 16:57pm]

Thats fine too. I never said black at all in any of my posts sans this one. Its tehse people who get offended so easily who assume that being ghetto is solely a black concept. To think that and cast those dispersions on the African American community is deeply racist.

PS Fauxie, love your submissions

ZombieKitten said:

Adorecream said:

No shit!

I live in our "Kiwi Ghetto" in fact the whole country is a ghetto, we now go to Australia to be treated like second class guest workers. And you can blame it all on a National (Deeply conservative/Republican) government that gives the rich tax cuts and is slowly but surely letting the Chinese take over our country.

I hear they are banning soft drinks in NZ, starting with your hospitals.

Rubbish!!!

They are thinking of putting a sugar tax on them, because fizzy drinks are cheaper in the hood than milk, thanks to huge monopolistic corporations inflating the price of milk.

A sugar tax is needed, when you have 8 year Samoan and Maori kids with diabetes and the heart of a 50 year old and every dairy has 1 litre sugar drinks for 89cents, yet a similar size milk container is $3.25. Usually not coke, but imitative budget brands!

They also have them in Nauru and Fiji as well, and its worked there so far.

Adorecream said:

Adorecream said:

free2bfreeda said:

kewlschool said: The term ghetto can be very offensive, especially when it's most times associated with black people only. just like the following would be offensive to poor whites: You know you're trailer trash when ..... The Halloween pumpkin on your front porch has more teeth than your spouse. You let your twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws. You think a woman who is “out of your league” bowls on a different night. Jack Daniels makes your list of “Most Admired u You re-use toothpicks because the point is not damaged The metal napkins you used at you wedding are now fishing weights The bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas it has in it. You have to go outside to get something out of the ‘fridge. One of your kids was born on a pool table. Your dad walks you to school because you are both in the same grade You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. You have flowers planted in a bathroom fixture in your front yard. Ya can’t get married to yer sweetheart ’cause there’s a law against it. You dated one of your parents’ current spouses in high school. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. Your school fight song is “Dueling Banjos.” Your toilet paper has page numbers via old newspapers and magazines The bluebook value of your truck goes up and down, depending on how much gas it has in it. You have to go outside to get something out of the ‘fridge. One of your kids was born on a pool table. Your dad walks you to school because you are both in the same grade. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. Ya can’t get married to yer sweetheart ’cause there’s a law against it. You dated one of your parents’ current spouses in high school. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. Your school fight song is “Dueling Banjos.” Your toilet paper has page numbers via old news papers Now many of the trailer trash jokes are funny in a sense. however if I was poor, white and lived in a trailer park I would feel offended. point being our ignorance in classifying the poor in a joking manner can be offensive to a trailer park dweller, as well as others. I feel where you are (naively) coming from. all those trailer trash jokes could be considered funny, and i do feel and i'm sure it's a place of innocence and fun. however if we look above the surface of poverty, we will realize making the poor the object of jokes is due to our blind ignorance. poverty places people economic confinement - thus a poverty entrenched lifestyle. not a joke! unfortunantly many of us find joking about the lifestyle of the poor somehow seperates us from that reality. (plse excuse duplicate posted jokes - 'outer issues) [Edited 2/21/14 16:57pm]

Thats fine too. I never said black at all in any of my posts sans this one. Its tehse people who get offended so easily who assume that being ghetto is solely a black concept. To think that and cast those dispersions on the African American community is deeply racist.

PS Fauxie, love your submissions

Thanks. All from personal experience.

ZombieKitten said:

kewlschool said:

The "Meth"heads here do that as well.

I'm sure they do it all the time, but does it get shown on national tv as a major crime to be solved with a phone number to call - AND get televised on a neghbouring country's national tv channel for good measure?

It shows up on the local tv news with number to call. But, here in this state, the buyers of bulk precious metals (copper) must confirm where the person got the wire-in fact, most thieves are caught by the dealers calling the police. (They are financially and criminally held liable if caught buying stolen product.)

Its all true, there was a recent outrage when thieves were raiding cemeteries and stealing brass and copper memorial plaques for the money. The plaques cost teh grieving families on average several hundred dollars, but theives are lucky to get $20 for them.


Avery ghetto and insidious crime, but there must be something worng with a society when people are reduced to that. The government here loves creating ethnic ghettos. The loan shark restriction bill has been collecting dust since 2008 as they are apparently waiting for some survey data from 2012 to get through. Yet the TV is plastered with ads for "Save my Bacon" and "Cash Train", both pay day lenders that charge a $40 administration fee on a $200 loan and charge some 15% a week, resulting in both companies having a 500 -1200% annual interest rate. All are run and managed by Indian and Chinese migrants the government lets in with no restriction, yet white migrants are heavily restricted. Still whereas the I and c run them, most are owned or bankrolled by rich white people, who are mostly able to skip paying taxes.


The same groups run the predatory mobile shops that only often credit purchases and charge huge interest fees, exorbitant prices for junk quality products, yet all will sell fashionable clothes and knock off label shoes and bags that are popular. They charge interest and penalties and specifically target low income areas and areas with Maori and Pacific Island people on low incomes, who are either unemployed, on welfare or working in casual and low paying laboring jobs. These people have no financial literacy at all and eagerly like the idea of items now, cash later plans.


These same people (I and C) also run ghetto loan shops, cash converters, junk food bars and run all the ghetto liquor stores. You never see this shit in my suburb Ellerslie, as its truly middle class, but go 20 blocks down the road to Mt Wellington and Panmure, both poor ghetto suburbs full of social housing and this shit is everywhere. If I lived in the ghetto, I would be doing all I could to get rid of these parasitical industries.

kewlschool said:

ZombieKitten said:

kewlschool said: I'm sure they do it all the time, but does it get shown on national tv as a major crime to be solved with a phone number to call - AND get televised on a neghbouring country's national tv channel for good measure?

It shows up on the local tv news with number to call. But, here in this state, the buyers of bulk precious metals (copper) must confirm where the person got the wire-in fact, most thieves are caught by the dealers calling the police. (They are financially and criminally held liable if caught buying stolen product.)

wow!

Adorecream said:

Its all true, there was a recent outrage when thieves were raiding cemeteries and stealing brass and copper memorial plaques for the money. The plaques cost teh grieving families on average several hundred dollars, but theives are lucky to get $20 for them.


Avery ghetto and insidious crime, but there must be something worng with a society when people are reduced to that. The government here loves creating ethnic ghettos. The loan shark restriction bill has been collecting dust since 2008 as they are apparently waiting for some survey data from 2012 to get through. Yet the TV is plastered with ads for "Save my Bacon" and "Cash Train", both pay day lenders that charge a $40 administration fee on a $200 loan and charge some 15% a week, resulting in both companies having a 500 -1200% annual interest rate. All are run and managed by Indian and Chinese migrants the government lets in with no restriction, yet white migrants are heavily restricted. Still whereas the I and c run them, most are owned or bankrolled by rich white people, who are mostly able to skip paying taxes.


The same groups run the predatory mobile shops that only often credit purchases and charge huge interest fees, exorbitant prices for junk quality products, yet all will sell fashionable clothes and knock off label shoes and bags that are popular. They charge interest and penalties and specifically target low income areas and areas with Maori and Pacific Island people on low incomes, who are either unemployed, on welfare or working in casual and low paying laboring jobs. These people have no financial literacy at all and eagerly like the idea of items now, cash later plans.


These same people (I and C) also run ghetto loan shops, cash converters, junk food bars and run all the ghetto liquor stores. You never see this shit in my suburb Ellerslie, as its truly middle class, but go 20 blocks down the road to Mt Wellington and Panmure, both poor ghetto suburbs full of social housing and this shit is everywhere. If I lived in the ghetto, I would be doing all I could to get rid of these parasitical industries.

that's awful!