Kader asking for money and rolling joints

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Parents / family might give kids money for birthdays, but ive never seen a mate bless another mate with paper, seems super wack to me. Just imagine if Antwuan rocked up to Herman's motel and instead of blessing him with a bottle of Hennessy for his birthday he pulled out a 50 dollar bill. Would have been creepy a/f.

[fulfillthedream]

leave it to SLAP to have a discussion derailed where i learn new cultural norms...

[Sick Duck]

Parents / family might give kids money for birthdays, but ive never seen a mate bless another mate with paper, seems super wack to me. Just imagine if Antwuan rocked up to Herman's motel and instead of blessing him with a bottle of Hennessy for his birthday he pulled out a 50 dollar bill. Would have been creepy a/f.

dude that was a 10 dollar half pint and he probably drank most of it lol

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America is so fucked. It’s one GoFundme, OnlyFans , Venmo request after another . Get a fucking job. Download Robinhood and yolo your savings on SPY calls, any fucking thing but begging. No job pays anyone enough to survive, so people will have a job, then they have to go get another job driving an uber or selling nude photos of themselves to bridge the gap between their income and their expenses. Or they'll lose their job because of the pandemic that every other country is taking seriously, and their government has been torching the social safety net for 40 years, so they'll also have to drive an uber or let people see them naked for money. Or they will incur a massive expense for something like a medical procedure that doesn't cost money anywhere else in the world, and will have to beg for money on GoFundMe to get their broken leg fixed or whatever.

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 Fixed it.

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Get a better job....? Go to trades school? There’s enough IG influencers, probably could use more welders and plumbers. I mean America is only “the land of opportunity”. You got refugees arriving with $5 and rags on their back and somehow making it.

I definitely come off too harsh but people act like there isn’t money to be made.

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Get a job but apparently that job isn't good enough so just magically get a better job that might not exist, OR go to trade school with money they don't have because their job isn't good enough, on top of the fact that every other person going to trade school ensures the job market for said trades will be highly competitive, and, oh yeah, you can't exactly go to school full time and work full time. Is that right?

i never went to any kind of trade school and i work as a cnc machinist producing flight hardware.. i just got a job in a shop and learned everything I could while working.  i have a friend that got a job soldering at norhrop grumman having never soldered a day in his life before the evaluation (interview).  just watched a shit ton of youtube videos leading up to it.  i'm far from a conservative, but to say that these jobs aren't out there or that they are impossible to get is a wrong.

[Mouth]

I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

[Circaskater420]

I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

I worked in the trades for a few years and I’m so bothered by all the disenfranchised boomers who mindlessly recommend “Just get a trade bro” to every young person.  “They’re in demand and it pays well” And then you’re working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week replacing shit pipes or doing some other bullshit that just breaks your body down.  Its no wonder that no one wants to work in the trades anymore. The trades fucking suck. 

[RichardBarkley]

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I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

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I worked in the trades for a few years and I’m so bothered by all the disenfranchised boomers who mindlessly recommend “Just get a trade bro” to every young person.  “They’re in demand and it pays well” And then you’re working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week replacing shit pipes or doing some other bullshit that just breaks your body down.  Its no wonder that no one wants to work in the trades anymore. The trades fucking suck.

I am the opposite. I worked in a office in a high stress environment, slowly sitting through a slow death.

Then I quit to pursue landscaping. I love exercising and using my body. I don't live in America though, so I'm not forced to kill myself working mental hours and I have great free health care

[dooley]

[NORTHBYMIDWEST]

And just to clarify

For his bday

I brought that friend to his fav skate park
Filmed him all day
Made him and a small group of friends a steak dinner
Gave him a half gram rosin dab
Than gave him 40 bucks cuz he was headed to the bar and I didn’t go cuz I don’t drink

So I’m actually kinda friend of the year and it’s hard to gift for my friends cuz we are in our 30s and they want like houses and motorcycles and shit that’s super expensive

But if Germany is anything like u describe I’m glad I don’t live there

This is weird as fuck and you sound like the dude's wannabe side chick

[Giza Butler]

That is one shitty joint

indeed.

[FrenchFriedClownFingers]

what a bummer..that joint is a fuckin toenail

[shannamal]

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And just to clarify

For his bday

I brought that friend to his fav skate park
Filmed him all day
Made him and a small group of friends a steak dinner
Gave him a half gram rosin dab
Than gave him 40 bucks cuz he was headed to the bar and I didn’t go cuz I don’t drink

So I’m actually kinda friend of the year and it’s hard to gift for my friends cuz we are in our 30s and they want like houses and motorcycles and shit that’s super expensive

But if Germany is anything like u describe I’m glad I don’t live there

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This is weird as fuck and you sound like the dude's wannabe side chick

yeah dude, this is weird as fuck. i was talking about like, grandparents giving me $20 on my birthday when i was 12, you're talking about bribing your friends to hang out with you

[P Casanova]

i will never understand why skaters have no shame in straight up just asking people for free money.

I mean why not?

[ndsr]

I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

You friends with my son?

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I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

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You friends with my son?

Dad?

[JANUS]

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America is so fucked. It’s one GoFundme, OnlyFans , Venmo request after another . Get a fucking job. Download Robinhood and yolo your savings on SPY calls, any fucking thing but begging. No job pays anyone enough to survive, so people will have a job, then they have to go get another job driving an uber or selling nude photos of themselves to bridge the gap between their income and their expenses. Or they'll lose their job because of the pandemic that every other country is taking seriously, and their government has been torching the social safety net for 40 years, so they'll also have to drive an uber or let people see them naked for money. Or they will incur a massive expense for something like a medical procedure that doesn't cost money anywhere else in the world, and will have to beg for money on GoFundMe to get their broken leg fixed or whatever.

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Get a better job....? Go to trades school? There’s enough IG influencers, probably could use more welders and plumbers. I mean America is only “the land of opportunity”. You got refugees arriving with $5 and rags on their back and somehow making it.

I definitely come off too harsh but people act like there isn’t money to be made.

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Life must be rough when you're this naive. Fuck off with your ben shapiro ass talking points.

sounds like a broke bitch who cant make money cause he doesn't wanna work to me

[mclovin1336]

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Pretty sure it’s a joke about people giving him money for his bday which is pretty common among friends/family.

It was just my homies bday the other day and I gave him 40 bucks

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what?

where i live money is not an acceptable birthday gift. you deserve it though work or because someone thinks you earned it and wants you to have it. if you gift out money on birthdays people would think you are cheap and buy yourself through relationships. over here it's a better look to gift nothing than just money. of course everyone would take the money, but more like "that wasn't necessary, but thanks anyway, you dumb asshole."

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where do you live? genuinely asking. i've had a shit ton of relatives give me straight cash for birthdays when i was younger

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germany.

straight up cash was never a thing. if you got money from friends or relatives for birthdays or xmas, it's usually because you want to gift something you can't afford to fuck up. like you know your friend wants f4 99a but you don't know the size, so you give him money for a set of wheels and tell him to get the right ones. and it's expected that the person honors that and doesn't spend the money on drugs and shit. still happens of course.

so culturally there is an expectation to not gift straight money. you'd get a gift card if you don't know what to give, or rather just nothing. if you went to a birthday party and everyone brought the birthday person some sort of cool gift for around 20 or 30 bucks(which is the usual price for a birthday gift for friends per person unless people collect money for a bigger gift purchase) and you come up and throw down a 50 everyone will think you're a dick trying to style on everyone with your cash while at the same time not being really invested in the person you're gifting something. also making the financial worth of a gift public is a taboo, even if the difference is obvious to everyone. gifting 50 bucks indirectly kinda shames everyone that hasn't put down this much money, even though they might have put more effort into their gifts.

things might be different now. i grew up in the sticks and am far too old to celebrate birthdays like that. i actually love spending my birthday alone and i hate presents, i'm super particulate about my stuff so it's never right, so i prefer to get nothing, because most of my birthday gifts disappear in some shelf to collect dust. so me and my friends, who are much the same(maybe a german thing, i dunno) we don't really get each other birthday presents anymore. instead we are basically buying eachother food and drink all the time. so we are extra nice to eachother and share everything, and try to spend time in a good way, instead of buying gifts. and when we gift eachother things they are mostly nice, but useless and cheap, like some crazy thrift store painting. 

there's no presents on christmas either. if i'm lucky i visit my family and a few friends back home. taking the train is super expensive though so there would barely be any money left for presents anyway. nowadays spending time is the present, every person is their own present when present.

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Not even trying to be a dick but your life/friends sound intolerable. Who the fuck reads that far into a simple gift. Some petty shit everyone has to spend the same amount of money to honor ur friend so they don’t feel bad? That’s some mental gymnastics I’d be outti-3000

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you're not a dick, you just have no idea about the culture here. we're not assholes to eachother. gifting money just isn't a thing and makes you look like an asshole over here. at least when it comes to birthday presents or christmas.

it's not my life or friends. we are all normal. we gift eachother little stuff all the time outside of birthdays.

as i said, that might have changed. maybe kids these days just venmo eachother.

you didn't even get it right. it doesn't really matter how much you spend on the gift. as long as it's not money or says the price. 20-30 bucks is probably what most people think is adequate. some people go over or under, sure. basically you try to not have money be a thing with presents. and it's actually better to show up with nothing than with money.

so the acceptable gifts are:

-actual though out gifts
-money only for a purpose
-no gift, but actually be present and not act like you don't wanna be there

another thing, if you give a 50,- bill as a birthday present, over here people will expect the birthday child to spend it right away on beer for everyone. so you're not doing them a favor if you gift money at a party, since it's expected that money will basically be spent for all the guests. and after that you will be everyone's cash cow because you were the guy who was so dumb that he gifted money. everyone would mock you and treat you like an atm, asking you to buy more beer since you must be wealthy since you pass out 50s. it's smarter to buy a gift for 100,- people will respect that more and not treat you like a rich person.

and again we gift eachother all kinds of shit, take each other out eating all the time or hand down stuff we don't use amongst eachother. my friends are awesome. whenever i really need anything i'll get it no problem. it's just not bound to birthdays or christmas or any holiday anymore, more on a want/need basis.

there's always this neat trick of getting some bullshit gift and slip a bill into the birthday note. that's totally accepted. there needs to be a medium in the form of a stupid gift though.

look i wish i wasn't brainwashed by stupid german angst and traditions, i really don't need that stuff and often wished to just receive money instead of some crap, so i'm not against it myself. it's just weird to hear that it's normal for you guys. i agree that the mental gymnastics are crazy. often when i hear about social rules in japan i feel like it's almost a bit like over there, at least when it comes to these very special social occasions.

also the strong emphasis that money is never to be gifted, always to be earned through work. or only made available in an emergency, but never to as a means to achieve happiness. which is totally fucked because you need it for everything.

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always interesting to learn about other cultures!

well, im from germany as well and in my family and in the family of my girlfriend, it is very common to get money as gifts. always from older generations to younger generations though, as in: grandma gives 20€ to her grandchild on christmas. but i agree, it is mostly fraud upon to just give money (well, it is a pretty uninspired gift, isnt it?). often it is disguised as a gift card, for like ikea or some bullshit.

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I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

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I worked in the trades for a few years and I’m so bothered by all the disenfranchised boomers who mindlessly recommend “Just get a trade bro” to every young person.  “They’re in demand and it pays well” And then you’re working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week replacing shit pipes or doing some other bullshit that just breaks your body down.  Its no wonder that no one wants to work in the trades anymore. The trades fucking suck.

"working in trades" isn't just digging ditches.  you sound insane and also maybe a little bit helpless

[Rasmus]

The best thing about this thread is the introduction to German gifting culture.

[Owen]

All gifts aside, I'm looking forward to seeing him put this down on a legit rail or hubba

[matty_c]

Just came back here yeah the apprenticeships a bitch but then it’s chill. Pyramid scheme

Guys that dig trenches all day are labourers
Don’t do that for a career

[Circaskater420]

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I'm not sure why anyone would want a job.

Jobs are fucking shit.

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I worked in the trades for a few years and I’m so bothered by all the disenfranchised boomers who mindlessly recommend “Just get a trade bro” to every young person.  “They’re in demand and it pays well” And then you’re working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week replacing shit pipes or doing some other bullshit that just breaks your body down.  Its no wonder that no one wants to work in the trades anymore. The trades fucking suck.

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"working in trades" isn't just digging ditches.  you sound insane and also maybe a little bit helpless

I make more money now for half the amount of time I use work.  And I’m not a straight edge loser like you.  You just use that as an excuse because you get no pussy. 

[stets]

Posted earlier today. Looks like the man isn't getting that Nike money.

[Giza Butler]

he's getting better at rolling at least.

[Panettone]

He smoke the drug. His dignity gets high and leaves.

[Brguy]

Not even trying to be a dick but your life/friends sound intolerable. Who the fuck reads that far into a simple gift. Some petty shit everyone has to spend the same amount of money to honor ur friend so they don’t feel bad? That’s some mental gymnastics I’d be outti-3000

We live in a society. Don't bash the german just because he talks about the unspoken rules.

[BALARGUE]

is there an adult around him to tell him he should stop looking like a fucking idiot ?

[Frank]

that joint is embarassing. who wants to suckle on those lil particles trapped between the tip and the paper. kader still needs to clean up his technique. this would be an instant reroll for me.

the weed looks crummy, too.

[DirtyBurger]

Either this dude is that dumb, or Nike straight up just only pays people in shoes which I find hard to believe. Reynolds needs to intervene here otherwise it looks bad for everyone involved.