Fun New Game I inventimacated!

pensodyssey

This a dailyheights.co.... er... brooklynian.com exclusive!

It's strange! It's savage! It's cruel!

It's called... Gentriconfrontation (tm) !!!


Here's how you play: all you have to do is see how quickly you can turn any topic into an "anti-gentrification" rant!

Example:

Suppose a person posts on where the best place to buy beer is. You could respond sensibly ("The Met on Vanderbilt has really improved it's selection"), or you could reply humorously ("I really like the beer at Jackie's 5th Amendment"). These would be good replies... but if you want to win Gentrificonfrontation (tm), you'd have to reply like this:

"Back in the day you could only get 40's of OE there, too bad all the yuppies moved in".

YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

DO NOT PASS SODA, DO NOT COLLECT YOU CRACK VIALS!!!


C'mon everybody! It's as fun as kids in bars, it's as free as apartments on
Crazy Lane, and it's easier than a boycott!!

*legalese voice over*

Gentriconfrontation (tm) is a registered trademark and is in no way affiliated with Soda, Crazy Lane, or Brooklyn Brew. Gentriconfrontation (tm) may not be reproduced, copied, or disseminated with the expressed written consent of Bruce Ratner.

alafairnadia

my response, of course, is brought to you by woodchuck dark & dry cider from the bodega at st. johns and washington: a yuppie beverage from a bodega technically in CH.

pensodyssey

alafairnadia wrote:

my response, of course, is brought to you by woodchuck dark & dry cider from the bodega at st. johns and washington: a yuppie beverage from a bodega technically in CH.

Gentriconfrontation (tm) is not yet available for play in neighborhoods outside of Prospect Heights, and its satellite colony, Park Slope.

alafairnadia

pensodyssey wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]

my response, of course, is brought to you by woodchuck dark & dry cider from the bodega at st. johns and washington: a yuppie beverage from a bodega technically in CH.

Gentriconfrontation (tm) is not yet available for play in neighborhoods outside of Prospect Heights, and its satellite colony, Park Slope.

but after purchase, I immediately crossed BACK into PH fully intending to consume the offending beverage in my PH apartment. doesn't that count for ANYTHING?

sweet tea

technically, that makes you a colonizer. leaving home, stripping the resources of another, less economically powerful place, and bringing them back with you....

pensodyssey

alafairnadia wrote:
but after purchase, I immediately crossed BACK into PH fully intending to consume the offending beverage in my PH apartment. doesn't that count for ANYTHING?

Only if you got asked by a man of uncertain age and ethnic origin to take a walk in the park... otherwise...





















WAH Wah wahhh...





YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

carnivore

pensodyssey wrote: YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

YUPPIE HUMOR

armchair_warrior

Carnivore wrote: [quote=pensodyssey]YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

YUPPIE HUMORlol good call .

pensodyssey

Carnivore wrote: [quote=pensodyssey]YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

YUPPIE HUMOR


LOCK YOU CAPS!!

isa

Wow, everyone is so guilt ridden. I remember when this neigborhood used to be proud.

pensodyssey

Isa wrote: Wow, everyone is so guilt ridden. I remember when this neigborhood used to be proud.

I hear ya. Funny thing, I was never quite aware of how divided the neighborhood was before I started posting here. There I was, paying rent to a man of another race, a man who is possibly the kindest person I have ever met (excepting my own pop and ma), who owns several buildings on my block and a few others, having a good time with my housemates, who are also differently raced than me, not sticking my nose where it didn't belong, thinking I had found the ideal place to live... but nothing lasts forever, I guess.

Sorry if I offended anyone with my invented game. It was designed to make fun of the recent trend on these boards to turn every topic into a "us versus them" thing. It was poking fun at both sides, the "gentrification happens" crowd, and the "what did you expect when you moved here" crowd, too, as well as my own position on issues like the Brooklyn Brew boycott.

In other words, it was a post designed to make fun of us, and by "us" I mean dailyheights regular posters.

Oh well, at least alafairnadia liked it.

Again, apologies.

sje

Are you kidding Pen? This is hilarious!

whyfi

pensodyssey wrote: [quote=Isa]Wow, everyone is so guilt ridden. I remember when this neigborhood used to be proud.

I hear ya. Funny thing, I was never quite aware of how divided the neighborhood was before I started posting here. There I was, paying rent to a man of another race, a man who is possibly the kindest person I have ever met (excepting my own pop and ma), who owns several buildings on my block and a few others, having a good time with my housemates, who are also differently raced than me, not sticking my nose where it didn't belong, thinking I had found the ideal place to live... but nothing lasts forever, I guess.

Sorry if I offended anyone with my invented game. It was designed to make fun of the recent trend on these boards to turn every topic into a "us versus them" thing. It was poking fun at both sides, the "gentrification happens" crowd, and the "what did you expect when you moved here" crowd, too, as well as my own position on issues like the Brooklyn Brew boycott.

In other words, it was a post designed to make fun of us, and by "us" I mean dailyheights regular posters.

Oh well, at least alafairnadia liked it.

Again, apologies.
If you were a Brooklynian, born and raised, you wouldn't have backed down so easily... :twisted:

rogersma

Please, don't apologize for humor! If not for the flashes of wit, some of the them-vs-whomever threads you lampoon would be truly unbearable.

sweet tea

please, yes. i like the game. it's a funny game. i was just trying to play, too....

dailyheights

funniest game ever!

pensodyssey

nybt wrote:
If you were a Brooklynian, born and raised, you wouldn't have backed down so easily... :twisted:

Uh oh...




WAH Wah wahhhh.....



I just got GENTRICONFRONTED!!


But you're right, nybt, if I truly felt this was "my" home, I wouldn't have backed down so easily. In another five years I'll be meaner.

isa

Oh, I was just playing the game. I think I won though because I got the longest response.

dailyheights

Isa wrote: Oh, I was just playing the game. I think I won though because I got the longest response.

Subtle! Isa wins.

kosherdave

hahahah this is some funny shit.

sterling2000

This needed to be done...bravo, and here's not to taking things so seriously, eh?

livetotravel

If you have to explain or defend humor - then it isn't!

I tried playing gentriconfrontation in PS but it didn't work 'cause PS was gentrified so long ago that nobody understood what I was talking about. Think it only works in PH and others "communities" these days.

armchair_warrior

can we play this game in all the threads?

robdesign13

Play this game in all threads? Haven't we been playing this game all along? NICE POST, better observation.... keep it up... yuppy!

sweet tea

Carnivore wrote: [quote=pensodyssey]YOU'VE BEEN GENTRICONFRONTED!!

YUPPIE HUMOR

LIBEL!

alafairnadia

okay. I have a complaint about this game:

the word gentriconfrontation makes me think of that red hot chili peppers song that I don't even own - californication. so I've been humming this song I barely remember and then, suddenly, as the human brain is apt to do, I mash up gentriconfrontation and californication and don't come up with caliconfrontation. yes. I've been singing gentrifornication to myself all day and I just realized it. poor feeble brain. I blame the pegged pants from this morning.

curmudgeon

That was enough to make me register. Very funny.

livetotravel

if all the white people moving to PH engage in gentrifornication and create enough offspring, then maybe in 20 years they won't be faced with gentriconfrontation.

sweet tea

heh. that comment is funny in juxtaposition with your signature line.

although it does make me think of the reagans in ways i'd prefer not to.

livetotravel

I've oftern thought that about Dick and Pat Nixon - as recently as yesterday. Do you thnk I should seek professional help?

mikewalton718

he hehe! I loved yer post! People get too worked up about things on here, some good natured ribbing is well needed.

I mean sheeit, why does everybody gotta be hatin on strollers and slope heads? Is it that back in the day on the slope real muhfuckah had their strollers all pimped out with boomin systems, hundren spoke wheels and their babies were drinkin 40's? or is it just that they are hard to get arround on the sidewalk? or do some of yall just hate babies. :twisted: