>the show where people get beaten up by psychically weak men easily and don't show any resistance at all >Also the murders are so sloppy and unrealistic
The only great thing about this show is the acting
Blacks have an average IQ of about 60, so yea. That's why Italians are better mobsters than blacks, who just walk around with their pants around their ankles and wave guns around.
You don't have to be a genius to be a good plumber, just practice and doing the real thing. Same goes for killing and body disposal, which the mafia is somewhat known for. Even in Casino they screwed it up by letting pesci place his hand right in the bullet's trajectory.
Yeah the sheer amount of times they commit murder and assault in broad daylight in front of lord knows how many witnesses ruins the immersion a bit. If the show took place a few decades earlier when the mob had more of a grip on local institutions it would’ve felt more realistic
>>the show where people get beaten up by psychically weak men easily and don't show any resistance at all
Did you forget the part where these guys are incredibly dangerous and them beating you is better than them killing you and your family for beating them?
I can tell youre a fricking zoomer homosexual. Back then, without cellphones and portable videocameras, people would get appalled about a shooting but nothing beyond that first reaction. No one would snitch
most of Tony's crew and the mob in general were fat or old. It's the implication of what they'll do that's scary, but in the show it's shown that even that is waning unless you were involved in illegal shit as well and they had a one up on you. Like when Tony's guys tried to get a Starbucks to pay protection money.
>Like when Tony's guys tried to get a Starbucks to pay protection money.
I saw that clip on youtube just the other day. It was hilarious how out of touch they were.
No respect these days, I tells ya. None at all. You have these queer millennials and broccoli heads talking about toktiks and chatnaps. We had to use magazines and wait a specific time for shows to air. This gen is too fricking soft.
It's implied he was ex military so I guess there's that intimidation factor of him killing people in the past, but yeah the fat balding 50 year olds were a bit lame. The only truly intimidating one was Furio and they wasted his character.
Tony and Christopher were pretty intimidating when they wanted to be. Nobody gives Chris any credit for being pretty good in shootouts. And intimidating is relative. Paulie had crazy eyes and was a lifelong mobster that had no problem shooting you to death for complaining about a tip. guys like that are more intimidating than any 20 year old zoomer pussy today that's confused about his sexuality. Its not like they were fighting fair in a boxing match, they'll just shoot you or stab you without hesitation.
A lot, if not most criminal types aren't really physically intimidating, not in the way most people think of. Treachery and brutality matters a lot more than physicality.
Its bizarre that no one acknowledges how good of a shot Chris is in-universe, he shows the best gun skills of any character. I guess it goes to show they weren't making a Western, but still.
Intimidation isn't just about appearance or the physical aspects. Joe Pesci brought the most intimidating characters to life, and he was a c**t hair away from being under 5 feet.
The thing that makes someone truly intimidating is the will to inflict violence without consideration for the consequences.
I don't understand, you're more intimidated by young people with their nasally high pitched voices? Over someone who has killed people before and gotten away with it?
Most criminals aren’t so physically intimidating, it’s the fact that they’re quick to anger and knowing they’ll act like they have nothing to lose that intimidates most people
this. No one here seems to realize how easy it is for someone to permanently frick you up or just straight up kill you, knowing those guys don't give a shit and are willing to shoot your or throw a brick in your head or whatever over anthing is what makes them so scary. Just look at the stripper girl, she didn't think Ralphie the wig-wearing manlet was physically intimidating either.
Posts like this is how you know OP has never encountered real violence in his life, most criminals are not physically fit, they dont need to be, most feared criminal on my third world country slum was some skinny ass frick who weight 20 kg wet, but he was know to shot at guys just because their clothes "ofended" him, he was a psychotic crack head who did his first murder at 9 yo, thats the kind of people you should be wary of, not some muscle bound homosexual, real violence is really not glamorous, its cheap and ugly.
>who need to overcompensate
It's not about overcompensating you dumb obese brown eyed Black personfiend. It's about being a complete psycho capable of violence, which can be anyone.
Imagine my surprise you are such a limp wristed homosexual to be intimidated by a 3rd worlder, under a 120lbs wet. Or senior citizens. Literally touch grass incel.
>but he was know to shot at guys just because their clothes "ofended" him, he was a psychotic crack head who did his first murder at 9 yo,
Reminder that in a sane society these 'people' would be lynched as soon as they were known. Ironically they only remain alive because of the police.
>they only remain alive because of the police.
The most infuriating part. Also because there are no communities anymore and most countries have no guns either. All so the rich can sleep in peace with their armed securities who are above the mere pleb laws.
As mentioned in this thread, it's the fact of how ruthless and "unfair" they operate. Mobster do not hesitate to use violence if they see it is necessary and that requires a fricked up mind. That is key difference. But at the same time, I do understand OP's point and it is actually adressed in Boardwalk Empire with how Richard Harrow acts, especially when he goes to free Tommy and straight up fricks up a whole squad of gangsters; that was a trained WW1 vets, hardened by trench warfare against a bunch of wops who lean on superior numbers against clearly weaker people.
Or even in Peaky Blinders, when Tommy Shelby goes against Luca Changretta and his goons. Though the latter is more stylish and belongs to a more powerful crime org; Tommy was a fricking tunneler in France, and for the most of the show shows absolutely no fear against some street thugs.
In short, there's always a bigger fish at play, mobster tend to deal with fricks who can't and won't fight back with superior numbers, but are hilariously outgunned against real people of violence (for lack of a better term) given the right circumstance.
Yes, you are.
I'd rather be owing money to literally any other person on that show (including Richie Aprile) than Paulie.
Christofah is a close second.
They're both as psychopathic as the rest of them, except these two are especially moronic and emotional, which makes them far more unpredictable.
If I had the chance to pick which one I'd have to owe money to or get on his bad side, it would've been Ralph.
It's all fun and games to him and he'd probably not hurt you seriously unless you fricked up really bad or mouthed off.
The thing I never understood about these mafia scenarios and stereotypes is, this is happening in America where tons of people have guns or can get guns, why you never get someone responding to mob threats or violence by shooting them? not even like from a badass point of view, but like some cowardly alcoholic with gambling debts, fearful of his life from mob intimidation, why none of them wouldn't panic and buy a gun and shoot a collector in fear
Sure, the mobsters may frick you up worse in retaliation, but not everyone is thinking that far ahead in the moment. Why is it never
>You're late on the payments Jimmy! Time to cut off your finger! >How about no *shoots the guy*
Because you wouldn't be simply killed in retaliation, you would be tortured for days and then killed and your entire family also suffer the same fate.
See:
Most criminals aren’t so physically intimidating, it’s the fact that they’re quick to anger and knowing they’ll act like they have nothing to lose that intimidates most people
Although the Mafia is no longer relevant though, ask yourself instead: Would you really mess with a Mexican cartel member knowing you or your family will end like that Uptown Funk video?
This, even if its a low level footsoldier the cartel "sargeant" will quickly make an example of you, you cant tolerate disrespect and to fight violence you must be violent, thats why the "autodefensas" in mexico quickly turn into cartel enforcers themselves, there is no way to control that kind of violence with usual means, most people have a cartoon version of violence in their heads which is fine, its a sign of a healthy society but when the filth of the Earth comes around that seemingly good virtue turns into weakness to be exploited, thats why the west suffer so much, in africa if you steal a bike you get beaten into a podwer because people there dont play games, your bike costs you a whole year savings and maybe its your livelyhood tool, so stealing ot is equal to stealing food or roof from you directly, in the west is just a bike you can always buy another, you must know deprivation to know violence.
If I was some loser gambler drunkard/druggie living on my own without family, and some cartel guy was bullying me? It certainly is within the realm of possibility that I would get a gun and defend myself, and eventually get shot to death i. return.
You assume criminals only deal with upstanding citizens who have something to lose
PROTIP: Most of the videos from the cartels are from the lowkey worthless members of the community. Cartels aren't dumb enough to release the videos from upstanding citizens to the public (those are only sent to family members in order to meet their demands) because that means the government will need to take actions because of social pressure.
Gun laws are strict in Jersey and New York anyways I honestly think it takes a lot to well shoot someone and these guys are all psychotic morons and have never thought twice on drawing a gun and murdering.
>Sure, the mobsters may frick you up worse in retaliation, but not everyone is thinking that far ahead in the moment.
That actually is the reason, though. If you hurt a made guy the rest of the organization comes after you and your loved ones. You say "not everyone is thinking ahead" but as another issue, okay let's say they weren't. Getting a gun is a case of thinking ahead though, so why does it turn on and off randomly?
Euros shit on American gun culture so much but whenever they try to understand it they are like a caveman visiting civilization. "If man make Grug angry and Grug have gun, why Grug no shoot? America have many problems but also many guns to fix problem, make no sense to Grug."
The mob wasnt that violent, i'm not sure why they're portrayed as violent people. WHen they were scared of getting caught and going to jail, its why they all rat eachother out and avoiding killing anyone. The american mafia in particular were less violent than their italian counter parts.
He always cheap shots anyone he's fighting. If he just walks up to you and goes EYY OHHH LETSA FIGHT of course you'll laugh at the geezer, but when you have a fricking skull fracture after he whacks you with something, you're not so tough.
>You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. >You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. >And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him... >because he'll keep coming back and back... >until one of you is dead.
was he though? iirc he mostly intimidates people who know they can't fight back or people who are just weak
he mostly fights through sucker punching people and even then he gets his ass kicked in Pine Barrens against the russian, he needed Chrissy to fight back
>the show where people get beaten up by psychically weak men easily and don't show any resistance at all
>Also the murders are so sloppy and unrealistic
The only great thing about this show is the acting
>people get beaten up by psychically weak men easily and don't show any resistance at all
Most urban American whites really are like that, though.
>Also the murders are so sloppy and unrealistic
Did you know the average criminal IQ is 85.
Bu bu bu Italians are smarter than brown/black criminals!
Uh yeah, kinda?
Do you crip homies running webistics scams?
Blacks have an average IQ of about 60, so yea. That's why Italians are better mobsters than blacks, who just walk around with their pants around their ankles and wave guns around.
You don't have to be a genius to be a good plumber, just practice and doing the real thing. Same goes for killing and body disposal, which the mafia is somewhat known for. Even in Casino they screwed it up by letting pesci place his hand right in the bullet's trajectory.
Bravo scorsese
Yeah the sheer amount of times they commit murder and assault in broad daylight in front of lord knows how many witnesses ruins the immersion a bit. If the show took place a few decades earlier when the mob had more of a grip on local institutions it would’ve felt more realistic
>ruins the immersion
Frick off back to bleddit, homosexual.
>psychically
The psychic didnt get beat up though, he just got yelled at and his chair was thrown.
Ralph and Paulie can cause psychic damage just by opening their mouths.
>beat the shit out of a manlet gangster
>he sends a bunch of guys to break your legs afterwards and destroy your property
that's why they don't resist
no you forgot the arcs where a character is suddenly developed, is given an out, refuses to take it, and dies/goes to jail
>>the show where people get beaten up by psychically weak men easily and don't show any resistance at all
Did you forget the part where these guys are incredibly dangerous and them beating you is better than them killing you and your family for beating them?
I just chalked this up to Jersey being a fricking shithole with corrupt cops that just weren’t much explored in the show.
Truly bizarre take, real life isn't a marvel movie where you punch the bad guy in the face and you live happily ever after.
They're on the take.
I can tell youre a fricking zoomer homosexual. Back then, without cellphones and portable videocameras, people would get appalled about a shooting but nothing beyond that first reaction. No one would snitch
Bet his wrist are wider is than you sir, get you be ass kick ed...dumb white boy
He won the army chin up contest two weeks in a row
>a moronic shitskin suddenly appears
most of Tony's crew and the mob in general were fat or old. It's the implication of what they'll do that's scary, but in the show it's shown that even that is waning unless you were involved in illegal shit as well and they had a one up on you. Like when Tony's guys tried to get a Starbucks to pay protection money.
>Like when Tony's guys tried to get a Starbucks to pay protection money.
I saw that clip on youtube just the other day. It was hilarious how out of touch they were.
>I saw that clip on YouTube
Cool story, literal boomer.
No respect these days, I tells ya. None at all. You have these queer millennials and broccoli heads talking about toktiks and chatnaps. We had to use magazines and wait a specific time for shows to air. This gen is too fricking soft.
>most of Tony's crew and the mob in general were fat or old
just like italian Mafia.
>this classless frick didn't see Commendatori
>Gaudy Terrone think they're classy
Loving Every Laugh
they were just old
>doesn't realise the actor was an actual gangster in the 80s
moron
And the show was filmed 20 years later, thus making him no longer intimidating.
He was with the Columbos wasn't he?
No, the Matlocks
It's implied he was ex military so I guess there's that intimidation factor of him killing people in the past, but yeah the fat balding 50 year olds were a bit lame. The only truly intimidating one was Furio and they wasted his character.
Tony and Christopher were pretty intimidating when they wanted to be. Nobody gives Chris any credit for being pretty good in shootouts. And intimidating is relative. Paulie had crazy eyes and was a lifelong mobster that had no problem shooting you to death for complaining about a tip. guys like that are more intimidating than any 20 year old zoomer pussy today that's confused about his sexuality. Its not like they were fighting fair in a boxing match, they'll just shoot you or stab you without hesitation.
A lot, if not most criminal types aren't really physically intimidating, not in the way most people think of. Treachery and brutality matters a lot more than physicality.
Its bizarre that no one acknowledges how good of a shot Chris is in-universe, he shows the best gun skills of any character. I guess it goes to show they weren't making a Western, but still.
Paulie was with the Army Signal Corp, he wouldn't have done any fighting.
He would just brogane adjusted you
Intimidation isn't just about appearance or the physical aspects. Joe Pesci brought the most intimidating characters to life, and he was a c**t hair away from being under 5 feet.
The thing that makes someone truly intimidating is the will to inflict violence without consideration for the consequences.
Unless he literally shoots me I would not fear him.
Even if he had a bat I'd take it and beat him to death with it
you forgot the part that if you retaliate he's going to send his goons to get back at you for 10x the payback
Good thing he has a knife too and stabs you in the liver while you fighting for the bat.
Joe pesci never looked intimidating on screen. He looks like a clown and only boomers loved him.
You ever feel like nothin' good was gonna happen to you?
Yeah, and nothing did.
yeah then something good happened and i felt good for a while
Paulie is supposed to be pathetic, though. He's just psychotic.
I don't understand, you're more intimidated by young people with their nasally high pitched voices? Over someone who has killed people before and gotten away with it?
Most criminals aren’t so physically intimidating, it’s the fact that they’re quick to anger and knowing they’ll act like they have nothing to lose that intimidates most people
so the unpredictability?
this. No one here seems to realize how easy it is for someone to permanently frick you up or just straight up kill you, knowing those guys don't give a shit and are willing to shoot your or throw a brick in your head or whatever over anthing is what makes them so scary. Just look at the stripper girl, she didn't think Ralphie the wig-wearing manlet was physically intimidating either.
also unless you're a trained fighter the guy who punches first will have a huge advantage
Gun.
Posts like this is how you know OP has never encountered real violence in his life, most criminals are not physically fit, they dont need to be, most feared criminal on my third world country slum was some skinny ass frick who weight 20 kg wet, but he was know to shot at guys just because their clothes "ofended" him, he was a psychotic crack head who did his first murder at 9 yo, thats the kind of people you should be wary of, not some muscle bound homosexual, real violence is really not glamorous, its cheap and ugly.
"gymbros" are the biggest pussies on the planet. Congratulations, you're the most swole pussy. Go tweet a pic of your deadlift at work, wagie.
nice cope, anon, but you still dhould exercise
see:
This. Some of the craziest motherfrickers I've encountered were small skinny hispanics who carried guns and knives.
This ×100
Skinny psychos who need to overcompensate are way scarier than some swoll gymbro
>who need to overcompensate
It's not about overcompensating you dumb obese brown eyed Black personfiend. It's about being a complete psycho capable of violence, which can be anyone.
Video game avatar.
Imagine my surprise you are such a limp wristed homosexual to be intimidated by a 3rd worlder, under a 120lbs wet. Or senior citizens. Literally touch grass incel.
It's a gif not an "avatar"
You'd know that if you weren't a Twitter tourist you pretentious frickwit.
newbie doesn't know avatar posting.
Lurk before posting Black person
>but he was know to shot at guys just because their clothes "ofended" him, he was a psychotic crack head who did his first murder at 9 yo,
Reminder that in a sane society these 'people' would be lynched as soon as they were known. Ironically they only remain alive because of the police.
>they only remain alive because of the police.
The most infuriating part. Also because there are no communities anymore and most countries have no guns either. All so the rich can sleep in peace with their armed securities who are above the mere pleb laws.
They used weapons most of the time most of it was realistic
isnt he a real life mobster/thug?
including thieving and beating up people?
The most he ever admitted to was being on the same boat as a body dumping.
I like that triangle gesture he does with his hands.
As mentioned in this thread, it's the fact of how ruthless and "unfair" they operate. Mobster do not hesitate to use violence if they see it is necessary and that requires a fricked up mind. That is key difference. But at the same time, I do understand OP's point and it is actually adressed in Boardwalk Empire with how Richard Harrow acts, especially when he goes to free Tommy and straight up fricks up a whole squad of gangsters; that was a trained WW1 vets, hardened by trench warfare against a bunch of wops who lean on superior numbers against clearly weaker people.
Or even in Peaky Blinders, when Tommy Shelby goes against Luca Changretta and his goons. Though the latter is more stylish and belongs to a more powerful crime org; Tommy was a fricking tunneler in France, and for the most of the show shows absolutely no fear against some street thugs.
In short, there's always a bigger fish at play, mobster tend to deal with fricks who can't and won't fight back with superior numbers, but are hilariously outgunned against real people of violence (for lack of a better term) given the right circumstance.
This makes sense when both Christophuh and Paulie got fricked up by an interior decorator
The khmer rouge killed around 2 million people, and a lot of the time the perpetrators were literally tween kids with farm tools, not even guns
Yes, you are.
I'd rather be owing money to literally any other person on that show (including Richie Aprile) than Paulie.
Christofah is a close second.
They're both as psychopathic as the rest of them, except these two are especially moronic and emotional, which makes them far more unpredictable.
If I had the chance to pick which one I'd have to owe money to or get on his bad side, it would've been Ralph.
It's all fun and games to him and he'd probably not hurt you seriously unless you fricked up really bad or mouthed off.
if you owe money to Vito you can get away with in-kind donations lol
The thing I never understood about these mafia scenarios and stereotypes is, this is happening in America where tons of people have guns or can get guns, why you never get someone responding to mob threats or violence by shooting them? not even like from a badass point of view, but like some cowardly alcoholic with gambling debts, fearful of his life from mob intimidation, why none of them wouldn't panic and buy a gun and shoot a collector in fear
Sure, the mobsters may frick you up worse in retaliation, but not everyone is thinking that far ahead in the moment. Why is it never
>You're late on the payments Jimmy! Time to cut off your finger!
>How about no *shoots the guy*
Jersey has crazy strict gun laws.
Because you wouldn't be simply killed in retaliation, you would be tortured for days and then killed and your entire family also suffer the same fate.
See:
Although the Mafia is no longer relevant though, ask yourself instead: Would you really mess with a Mexican cartel member knowing you or your family will end like that Uptown Funk video?
>uptown funk
It's funky town
idgaf you know which video i meant anyway
You didn't even read it you frick
This, even if its a low level footsoldier the cartel "sargeant" will quickly make an example of you, you cant tolerate disrespect and to fight violence you must be violent, thats why the "autodefensas" in mexico quickly turn into cartel enforcers themselves, there is no way to control that kind of violence with usual means, most people have a cartoon version of violence in their heads which is fine, its a sign of a healthy society but when the filth of the Earth comes around that seemingly good virtue turns into weakness to be exploited, thats why the west suffer so much, in africa if you steal a bike you get beaten into a podwer because people there dont play games, your bike costs you a whole year savings and maybe its your livelyhood tool, so stealing ot is equal to stealing food or roof from you directly, in the west is just a bike you can always buy another, you must know deprivation to know violence.
If I was some loser gambler drunkard/druggie living on my own without family, and some cartel guy was bullying me? It certainly is within the realm of possibility that I would get a gun and defend myself, and eventually get shot to death i. return.
You assume criminals only deal with upstanding citizens who have something to lose
PROTIP: Most of the videos from the cartels are from the lowkey worthless members of the community. Cartels aren't dumb enough to release the videos from upstanding citizens to the public (those are only sent to family members in order to meet their demands) because that means the government will need to take actions because of social pressure.
> get shot to death in return
if you're lucky
I agree with your point, but it there any reason to believe that doesn't happen?
Gun laws are strict in Jersey and New York anyways I honestly think it takes a lot to well shoot someone and these guys are all psychotic morons and have never thought twice on drawing a gun and murdering.
>Sure, the mobsters may frick you up worse in retaliation, but not everyone is thinking that far ahead in the moment.
That actually is the reason, though. If you hurt a made guy the rest of the organization comes after you and your loved ones. You say "not everyone is thinking ahead" but as another issue, okay let's say they weren't. Getting a gun is a case of thinking ahead though, so why does it turn on and off randomly?
Euros shit on American gun culture so much but whenever they try to understand it they are like a caveman visiting civilization. "If man make Grug angry and Grug have gun, why Grug no shoot? America have many problems but also many guns to fix problem, make no sense to Grug."
The mob wasnt that violent, i'm not sure why they're portrayed as violent people. WHen they were scared of getting caught and going to jail, its why they all rat eachother out and avoiding killing anyone. The american mafia in particular were less violent than their italian counter parts.
I'm supposed to believe they had wooden doors?
An old guy who has experience hurting people and no reservations is as scary as an intrained gym rat
Yeah because he a massive moron who's never had a moment of empathy in his life.
No, but it would be a terrible accident if two stray velociraptors were roaming your backyard when you came home.
it's a TV progrum. a movie.
He always cheap shots anyone he's fighting. If he just walks up to you and goes EYY OHHH LETSA FIGHT of course you'll laugh at the geezer, but when you have a fricking skull fracture after he whacks you with something, you're not so tough.
Paulie actually lifted though and had decent muscle mass for his age.
What's more unrealistic was that a skinny manlet like Christopher was ever considered intimidating
They both lifted b***h weigh, Chris was literally curling 5 lb dumbbells
Abs pecs delts that guy is fit.
chrissy was a good shot
wrapping up Season 3 tonight @ https://bongstream.live/north/
>north
i ate da norf
My only problem is any blacks taking them seriously since blacks give 0 fricks and gun people down for fun.
Blacks on a weekend in chicago kill more people than the mafia ever did. Let that sink in.
>MY wiener N BALLS
Capeshit ruined your brain, moron
He didn't need to be intimidating. He had guns and killed people without giving a frick. He was a violent moron, they all were.
He won the chin-up cup three weeks in a row.
Frickin slander, if ya ask me.
>You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat.
>You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun.
>And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him...
>because he'll keep coming back and back...
>until one of you is dead.
We can’t have OP in our social club no more, that much I do know.
was he though? iirc he mostly intimidates people who know they can't fight back or people who are just weak
he mostly fights through sucker punching people and even then he gets his ass kicked in Pine Barrens against the russian, he needed Chrissy to fight back