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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Perrine on September 20, 2010, 01:58:40 AM
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aka HBO's Boardwalk Empire?
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Oh I thought you ment the real jersey shore without the bennies.
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Enjoyed the 1st episode and look forward to the rest of the mini-series.
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I thought you where talking about that Mtv crappy show. Why do people even care to watch and listen to other people everyday life, I will never know.
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because of twitter, facebook, myspace, etc..............
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Oh I thought you ment the real jersey shore without the bennies.
They arent even bennies. Just a group of greaseball New Yorkers
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They arent even bennies. Just a group of greaseball New Yorkers
LOL
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They arent even bennies. Just a group of greaseball New Yorkers
Jersey Shore is a freak show.
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Jersey Shore is a freak show.
It is beyond that point.
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jersey shore = people watch it because they dont got there own drama
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What does bennies mean again?
Cheers,
gus
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jersey shore = people watch it because they dont got there own drama
no kiddin man! was watchin 1 of these stupid shows wit a friend who comes from a seemingly very nice family an he says " i wish my family was more disfunctional"...i had to stop myself from givin him a swift backhand.
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What does bennies mean again?
Cheers,
gus
B = Bayonne, NJ
E = Elizabeth, NJ
N = Newark, NJ
N = All of New York City Included
Y = JerseY City NJ and Hoboken,NJ
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B = Bayonne, NJ
E = Elizabeth, NJ
N = Newark, NJ
N = All of New York City Included
Y = JerseY City NJ and Hoboken,NJ
Thanks!
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Kicker about bennies is the actual residents of the Jersey shore really consider any outsider a "bennie" and they typically dont like them. And to a certain extent. sometimes with good reason
But without the "bennies" they have no economy. so if you go there. just remember. dispite their friendly faces. they generally dont like you. But love your money
Cops seem to outright hate outsiders. Or at the very least see any tourists as venerable cash cows
I avoid going to the jersey shore (Seaside in particular) But If You've never been there. Its pretty cool to go to once.
My wife LOVES the Jersey shore and usually spends a week down there every year. I bow out. I'd rather go to work instead. Occasionally I'll tolerate a single day there. But after that Im ready to go home as everything that interests me aboutthe place I can do in a couple hours.
I walk from one end of the boardwalk to the other looking at women that are either young enough to be my daughter. Or I cant have.(that married thing)
I've often joked that putting a married man on the beach is like putting a steak in front of a dog 10 feet away and the dogs leash being only 8 feet long.
Orr some that look so disgusting in a bathing suit that they should have laws against them wearing them.
After I've done that
I get a dozen clams on the halfshell, a Hot sausage sandwich (which arent as good as they used to be) A Beer and a slice of pan pizza that is the best outside of Brooklyn. Which hands down has the best pan style pizza (real pizza not the kind with all the rediculous toppings that are popular now)
After I've dont that. Im like OK I'm done. Mayyybe I'll do a bit of crabbing. But thats it
I dont do the rides and I dont play the stands. And the water is often freezing even in mid August. So what am I gonna do?
Hang out on scalding hot sand getting broiled like a lobster for a week on a beach I had to pay to get on with water in front of me thats too cold to go in while some jacknut cop writes me a parking ticket for parking an inch and a half over the line? Or for not backing into my parking space?
No thanks. I'm more of a mountain type guy anyway. And I already know what the Jersey shore is about (sucking or extorting money out of my bank account any way they can. If I want ocean water. I'll go to some resort in the tropics.
Oh exactly how yacked off are the cops down there?
3 years ago my wife's car broke down on the side of a fairly busy road with a flat tire with our daughter in the car so she pulled off to the shoulder on the road and tried calling her brother who was also down there to come and help her change the tire. Unfortunately his phone was turned off because he was taking a nap.
A cop pulled up and after having to present him with her paperwork, she explained the situation to him. Not wanting to stay with the car with our daughter in there because it was such a busy road. She got the cop to giver her and my daughter a lift to near where she was staying with my brother in law. Nice enough gesture right? So she leaves her emergency flashers on and at the cops suggestion leaves a note saying she was going for help and would be right back on the windsheild
So she Wakes my brother in law and in less then a half hour They get back to her car. What does she find in place of the note she left but a parking ticket. she tried calling in to explain what happened but no go. she had to deal with the ticket.
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As for the show "Boardwalk empire" I watched it for the first time the other night. Seems like a GREAT show.
"Stop saying that. its #)@(@ distracting" lmao
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I grew up on the Jersey Shore and understand completely the locals attitude towards the Benny and have seen it change over the decades. I lived in Wanamassa, NJ, Wanamassa was so small it had no schools so I attended Grammar School and High School in Asbury Park. Going to High School 62 – 66 was very interesting. I had two classes with Danny Devito , very funny kid. Never saw him take gym. Also watched a young Bruce Springsteen perform for free at a little coffee house named “The Stone Pony”. I worked summers on the boardwalk selling crap to BENNY’s. The owners of the Boardwalk attractions are like carneys or circus people. Just another type of BENNY. Only there for the buck and the summer.
I worked for four summers in a Dunk Tank on the boardwalk where I’d insult the rube trying to hit a target that would dunk me in the water tank. Three balls for a dollar. The rube was told the distance was the same as a baseball pitcher’s mound to home plate, 60 feet. It was actually 68 feet, and the baseballs were weighted and soaked in oil. The trip plat needed to be hit with slug hammer to actually trip. I got .25 of every dollar. I worked from 7PM till closing got paid cash and generally went home with about $250 I was 15 years old. I made the bulk of the money between 10PM and 2PM. That’s when the drunks arrived and that’s when it became two balls for a dollar. Just piss them off, insult their girl friend, wife, mother, whatever. Call them “Mary” “baldy”, Or ignore the guy and chat up the hot girl friend. Ask her why she’s out with her father, you get the picture.
At one time, the board walk extended from SandyHook south a continues boardwalk to Point Pleasant . The Hurricanes of the 40’s 50’s and 60’s reduced them to what we have in place today.
I’ve lived for the last 38 years in Highlands, NJ on the bay side of Sandy Hook. In the 70’s and 80’s Highlands, Labor day through Memorial Day population was around 2,000 people. Whereas the Memorial Day through Labor Day population was about 6000. That means additional spending and an economy based on a migratory populations , little stability, little personal investment into the property, more rentals then home owners. Oh yea, the owners of the rental property were mostly BENNY’s themselves.
What that means to a town is an influx of people spending and people selling, with very little change to the populist base, so no real improvement for the town. Highlands is .51 Square miles in size, has 38 Liquor licenses, no library or book stores. Town had to triple in size during the summer and triple in services, garbage pickup, Fire protection, First Aid Services, Police services. BENNY’s take it upon themselves to drink to excess and get in fights and generally be stupid at 3AM. They brought many bad habits with them from the big city, drugs, prostitutes , illegal parking, death by auto, death by drowning, death by boating , Fire, and for some reason the idea that common sense and civilized behavior no longer applied to them. I was a volunteer Firemen, EMT on the First Aid Squad and Special Police Officer. In the 70’s & 80’s The BENNY had to commit murder in order to be held for more than a few hours. Because after all, the town fathers were under the impression that they needed the BENNY to survive.
The 90’s changed a lot of that for Highlands, we still have a lot of temporary summer only residents. But in 1992 Fast Ferry Service between New York City and Highlands started operating. A lot of transients bought property in Highlands, the town became a year round resident for over 6000. The big change was the people now living there have a stake in the town. Our Police force is full time, year round and well trained. Our judge lives in town. We still have 38 Liquor licenses, but we now have a library. BENNY’s still act stupid and think civilized behavior does not apply to them , they’re easy to spot as you drive through Monmouth County, they’re the ones dressed in the orange jump suites picking up the garbage on the beach and the side of the road.
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I can't remember when going to the Jersey shore didn't suck.
They moved Lucy.
They started charging you to go on a beach with freezing cold, puke green water that (may or may not) be closed due to the amount of medical waste washed up on the beach.
The only half decent beach town left (Ocean City) is completely dry. God forbid I take my wife out for drinks and dinner.
Jersey cops act like (and have uniforms akin to) the Gestapo.
It may have been a great place in the late 40's and 50's, but not so much these days.
I may take my Jeep to the Pine Barrens once or twice a year (and spend half my time picking up garbage), but that's about the extent of my forays into the People's Free Republic of New Jersey (unless I'm passing through on I-78 on my way to NYC.)
Boardwalk Empire? :aok :aok
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I caught part of the Boardwalk Empire and definitely will watch it from the beginning.
If you got to the beach, stay away from the boardwalk and go to Island Beach State Park. It's 10 miles of undeveloped barrier island just south of Seaside Heights. I live right across the bay and go all the time.
I have the mobile fishing permit for my 4x4 and drive onto the beach, it's absolutely best way to go. They sell yearly permits, and 3 day passes as well.
You can get into the park at any time with this permit, even when they close because the parking lots are full.
You can build fires on the beach in the southern half of the park and virtually camp out if you want.
The fall striper run should be starting soon, so I'll be going a lot more then I do in the summer.
Actually my wife was there yesterday, and since she's been laid off goes there at least twice a week on week days.