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Thread: The 20 Signs You’re A FLID
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01-24-2014, 03:47 PM #51
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01-24-2014, 04:21 PM #52
I was in Ithaca this spring, just in time for a 'May Day' socialist party parade.
Mostly a bunch of college kids looking to get into each others pants, and a few grey hairs and elegant batik types.
It was just so...quaint.
A lot of the rest of town either looked strip mall-ish (compared to when I briefly lived there in he early 90's), super gentrified, or about to collapse.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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01-24-2014, 04:37 PM #53Hugh Conway Guest
the rest of upstate has about to collapse and stripmalls
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01-24-2014, 04:39 PM #54Registered User
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I always notice how when you're talking to a FLID in public they're not really talking to you, they're announcing how fkn rad they are to everyone in the room. Voice booming, chest out, and projecting in the direction of the entire room like a stage actor...as opposed towards the person they're pretending to have a conversation with.
It's not unique to Lawn-guyland eethaa. Orange County, parts of Florida, North Jerz, and Sydney produce the same shit. I don't know if it's a beach-influence or courtesy of growing up where everyone tells you "you live in the best place evah!!!"
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01-24-2014, 04:43 PM #55Hugh Conway Guest
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01-24-2014, 04:43 PM #56
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01-24-2014, 04:58 PM #57
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01-24-2014, 05:01 PM #58
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01-24-2014, 05:03 PM #59
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01-24-2014, 05:58 PM #60Funky But Chic
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He grew up in PG.
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01-24-2014, 06:02 PM #61
PG hasn't changed. MoCo, now that place has gone straight to hell. I only go to MoCo for two things, golf and funerals. The same with Long Island.
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01-24-2014, 06:47 PM #62Funky But Chic
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01-24-2014, 06:54 PM #63
You missed the getting shot for Starter jackets, shoes/car jacking/drive by shooting/crack epidemic didn't you? The two longest tenured MD/DC mags have places in Solitude and Snowbird. Like the dude who recommends Chicago while maintaining a place in Aspen. We're on a ski website to put it simply but there are other personal reasons for moving and never going back. Shoot me a PM if you'd like.
We can't all grow up in Potomac. That's part of it but not really the main reason.
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01-24-2014, 08:54 PM #64
Having spent a considerable chunk of my life there, I feel qualified to comment. While there are lots of different types of people on LI - the richest of the rich, the poorest of the poor (by US standards), and everything in between - almost all of them fall into one of two categories. The first group pretty much never leaves that rock, and thinks that the rest of the country is just like LI, so they don't realize the extent of their douchebaggery. The second might leave occasionally but they think anyone living more than five miles from a mall is a complete hick, and believe LI to be the greatest place in the world. It's a comfortable little bubble for them. Pretty much everyone thought I was nuts for leaving to move to the mountains, and it's impossible to get anyone, including family, to visit Tahoe. Vacation for them is a trip to Atlantic City. I see what's become of everyone i grew up with and there's no doubt that getting the fuck outta there was the smartest thing I ever did.
“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.” - Alberto Tomba
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01-25-2014, 07:50 AM #65
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01-25-2014, 08:54 AM #66
This thread is missing the point. FLID type bs follows new money (and italians) like stink on shit. You know why Manhattan doesn't come up in these conversations? Because this bs doesn't fly when you're going to dinner at the ULC with your folks, or interning at Goldman Sachs. That kid I mentioned in an earlier post with the corvettes... His dad ran a some car company. Lived in a $5m house in Edgewater NJ, had a half dozen cars at any time, and didn't have a dime in the bank. Last name? Giovanni, of course...
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01-25-2014, 09:12 AM #67If it's green, smoke it...if it's pink, poke it
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01-25-2014, 03:55 PM #68User
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01-25-2014, 07:50 PM #69
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01-25-2014, 10:15 PM #70
I'm not sure what my choosing to ski in UT vs. WVa has to do with anything, but I'm OK with it.
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01-26-2014, 04:34 AM #71
I think the FLIDs originated in the South Merrick area of Long Island in the late 80's, I used to work there and remember the Jewish and Jewish/Italian teenagers becoming Guido wannabes, but not the 70's Gold chain horn wearing Guido, this was something new and took stereotypes to the extremes. Hair gel, Wife beater t shirts, Gold chains, and a white Acura or BMW were required and Saturdays and Sunday afternoons were spent at Paddy McGee's or Sprats showing off the boat Mom and Dad bought for your high school graduation. Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuco were local "heros?" and everyone needed a bigger Sea-Ray than the next door neighbor, The South shore was an interesting place.
I don't miss Long Island at all
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01-26-2014, 01:33 PM #72
Not sure of the origin, but that was definitely part of the afflicted area. Seems like mostly South shore, but the Central Nassau areas of East Meadow, Hicksville, Levitown, Westbury were in on it, too. Those kids were just mostly driving Camaros instead of the pricier cars. Sprats and Paddy McGee's were the first bars I ever got into, don't think anyone in there was legal age. Quite the scene, reminds me of peacocks strutting around trying to show the flashiest colors, like "look at me, look at me!", and the chicks were trying to out-whore each other just to be seen in a cool car. Don't know how 3 million people either don't realize or don't care that they are living in a cesspool.
“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.” - Alberto Tomba
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01-28-2014, 12:05 AM #73
a brief history of flid:
grew up in long island. good night.
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