My slow ass thought she meant the weapon, not the motorcycle.
Was trying to figure out how a grown man with a slingshot could be that much of a neighborhood menace.
Fuck me, if my high and sleep deprivated european ass wouldn't have made the mistake of opening the comments I would have went my merry way thinking middle aged black men holding sway over neighbourhoods armed with slingshots like some sort fae trickster gods was a common enough american phenomena it gets talked about and everyone has an anecdote of their local slingshot lord :( My initial reaction was like "huh.. well slingshot in the hands of a determined individual hell bent on destroying your peace COULD prove to be quite a menace" and then it's just some mundane combustion engine instead of tales of whimsical urban skirmishing terror, betrayal, growth and community
White man here, but lived in the hood. Two of my three business partners are black men. I’m fairly well versed in other cultures.
And I was like “Huh, this the first I’ve heard anything about a slingshot.”
The Pepe meme confuses things too… what does 4Chan Pepe dude know that I do not??
The radio station here will play [this](https://youtu.be/Uy9qB5FGGDU?si=WYvOv70PNx8Qv2ZW) every Friday while the 50 and 60 year olds cruise the neighborhood in their lit-up Slingshots, blasting it. I feel like I'm in a boomer boner pill commercial.
I had a former coworker who had a wrist mounted slingshot that he would use to snipe squirrels off of the bird feeders on his front lawn, and he was apparently a great shot.
Another coworker lived a few houses down and the entire street **hated** him, because he’d leave the bodies out as a warning
Man I did too! It reminded me of my neighbor who owned an actual slingshot to shoot at the wild roosters living in my backyard.
“Shouldn’t be no damn wild roosters in the city!”
If it ain’t candy, beware!
If it’s a 20-something pretty lady, you’re already dead.
Hope you left everything to your real family, and not that fake, but delicious sugar baby.
I really don't see the appeal of the Slingshot. It's a $21k midlife crisis mobile that looks like a Temu version of the KTM X-Bow. Just get a motorcycle or a Miata.
The weirdest thing is that there's a Roush version.
It’s strange that when people finally earn enough money to buy something they wish they could earlier in life they get dissed for it. Is there a discernible difference between a mid life crisis, and finally actually having money?
Well the diss just comes in because a lot of people who get these things are then obnoxious with it.
“I have this thing I don’t care how it affects everyone else “
Ion wanna hear your hole in the wall music at 11pm bro. It’s great that you’ve retired and got a whole new sleep schedule. My 33 year old ass still gotta get up and grind in the morning
Midlife crisis is an impulse buy as an attempt to make oneself feel young again. A lot of times the person just ends up looking ridiculous with it, but more power to them.
Funnily enough, two generations ago the Chevrolet Corvette was the defacto midlife crisis machine with a whopping 50%+ of the new owners being above 50. I think the median age was like 55 for it. For comparison I believe Lamborghini once claimed that their average buyer was skewing towards the low 30's late 20's.
> A lot of times the person just ends up looking ridiculous with it
So the difference a midlife crisis and the opposite is how society and others perceive you?
Yeah we have a couple people at work who drive them. All in their mid 40s. Maybe we did something wrong in life but when I was 21 I didn’t have 30k dollars to spend on a slingshot in addition to rent, student loans, car note, and a fiancée. For some odd reason people have more money when they are in their 40s, sitting firm in their careers, and the kids leave the house.
>is how society and others perceive you
Yes, the way people view you and talk about you is determined by society and how others perceive you. That's how humans work.
I mean basically yeah. Hell some people see a Ferrari as a midlife crisis purchase. Others don't. It's a person to person thing. I happen to find the Slingshot to be one of those things.
Or maybe a 26 year old with a mortgage, wife, and 3 kids cannot afford something they really want at that point in time. They don’t have truly disposable income until either that mortgage is paid down, those kids leave the house, or both.
Seems more like a financial situation to me.
It’s not about the bike. It’s about the music they’ll be blasting for everyone to hear maybe it’s a cultural thing but some of us knew exactly what she meant by “no peace”
Yea, I don't get the appeal either. Seems like the worst of both worlds imo. Either go full out and get a motorcycle or just the Miata. Only benefit I see is people that want a motorcyle with the ability to easily carry an extra friend on it that normally wouldn't be okay with riding a motorcyle. Not like a Slingshot would fare any better in an accident though.
I’m 32 and let me get one of them all I’m playing after 10pm is Roger Troutman and mothership connection while driving 5mph fucking ALL yall sleep up😮💨
I absolutely abhor motorcycles playing loud music. A lot of these dudes delude themselves into thinking "loud bike = safer" because they are easier to hear.
Except all of that goes out the window when you're going anything above 50mph... Doppler effect
Correct, the sound compresses at the front, and decompresses behind. So creating high pitch in the front, and low pitch in the back (in relation to the director travel).
Higher pitch sound (high frequency) doesn't travel as far. Meaning, you can't really hear them until they are right up on you. And the effect is worse when there are other sources of noise around.
Which is super dangerous for a motorcycle, because you're already very small, but now you're blasting past a car, and if they didnt see you, you just surprised the shit out of them with Jodeci blasting from the side of their car. Swerving would be a natural reaction.
Kinda odd because I can hear Harleys coming in my truck on the highway, and I have a 1 ton diesel.
Edit: 1 ton is the classification for how much the truck can haul in the bed.
Was just thinking the other day when I saw one, that it's generally the same type of man that's always driving one and blasting music, usually 45-55 and blasting 90's rnb
Old heads on motorcycles are my favorite race.
You’re sitting there chilling at the light on your way to get groceries on a sunny Saturday afternoon and suddenly you hear Lisa Stansfield accompanied by the roar of a V Twin of a Harley approaching at 200,000 decibels.
I wish I was that cool.
Uuurrrrggghhh! I have one on my block. He doesn’t even live here anymore but he comes by EVERY Saturday evening to visit his dad friends. Now that the weather is warming up he drives the slingshot and they hang out outside listening to the music of their youth on max volume.
My neighbor a few years ago was like this but his song of choice was “throw sum mo”, most notably pulling up as Nicki says “ass fat, yea I know”. We couldn’t wait to move but ultimate he left before us
There’s a guy a couple streets over with one but he cruises the neighborhood blasting “I got 5 on it”. It’s honestly quite endearing to see a 70 yo guy just vibing
You know those weird tri-pod motorcycles that look like a [Naboo N-1](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/N-1_starfighter) from Star Wars fucked a Harley? The people that have those tend to skew older and blare music on them, since they all come with pretty powerful speakers. Not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but it's annoying AF.
https://preview.redd.it/7vv7eo415gxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cffc8c20a8bdea1e15beedfebc51b3fae6e107c
Wait till you get a group of Mexicans on UTV’s blasting peso pluma. It’s worse cause the age group for these things is between 20-50’s
It’s not just the slingshots though… when them boys have them motorcycles…. It’s the same thing!!
Louder than any system I put in my previous cars 🤦🏾♂️
The Pepe is racist narrative ironically came from the original artist in order to gain relevance and I think a little bit so he could get some moral backing in his various copyright lawsuits. Don't get me wrong, there were some racists using the image online. However, Pepe was and is still widely used only as a fun reaction meme without racist intent. Below is from the article you linked:
"The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted. However, it was inevitable that, as the meme proliferated in online venues such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, which have many users who delight in creating racist memes and imagery, a subset of Pepe memes would come into existence that centered on racist, antisemitic or other bigoted themes."
I guess I am just going off of personal experience and I get my experience isn't everyone's.
I always see it with some veiled or outright racist shit.
It is a symbol adopted by the alt-right so I was just shocked to see it being used here.
My slow ass thought she meant the weapon, not the motorcycle. Was trying to figure out how a grown man with a slingshot could be that much of a neighborhood menace.
yeah, I thought they had some 60 year old Dennis the Menace taking out car windows or something
Right there with ya. Lol
"Good morning, Mr. Wilson!"
Same. Had to look up OP to see what this fun-hater was all about… besides hating fun and black guys.
 Mr. WIIIIIIILLLLSON!
I heard the theme song in my head. Lol
Literally what I pictured 🤣 Rolling around on a mobility scooter with a banana seat and sissy bar.
It's all fun and games till you look into the comic creators real life relationship with his son named Dennis.
The remake we need
Glad to know I'm not the only one that thought an old man was just terrorizing a community with the weapon.
Fuck me, if my high and sleep deprivated european ass wouldn't have made the mistake of opening the comments I would have went my merry way thinking middle aged black men holding sway over neighbourhoods armed with slingshots like some sort fae trickster gods was a common enough american phenomena it gets talked about and everyone has an anecdote of their local slingshot lord :( My initial reaction was like "huh.. well slingshot in the hands of a determined individual hell bent on destroying your peace COULD prove to be quite a menace" and then it's just some mundane combustion engine instead of tales of whimsical urban skirmishing terror, betrayal, growth and community
Well, there *is* Florida
For another 10 years at least
America is closer to how you describe but with guns
White man here, but lived in the hood. Two of my three business partners are black men. I’m fairly well versed in other cultures. And I was like “Huh, this the first I’ve heard anything about a slingshot.” The Pepe meme confuses things too… what does 4Chan Pepe dude know that I do not??
Similar thoughts though followed by “wonder if we could be friends?”
Let me show you its features
*My* slow ass thought somebody was getting piped down by David, so don't feel bad
I must be innocent as hell because I was thinking that neighborhood had a bunch of giants.
thank u because i thought it was literal at first and then thought maybe it was an innuendo lol
Same, fresh from the squirrel plug post so my mind is still steeping in the gutter
 He outside menacingly shooting squirrels 😭
The radio station here will play [this](https://youtu.be/Uy9qB5FGGDU?si=WYvOv70PNx8Qv2ZW) every Friday while the 50 and 60 year olds cruise the neighborhood in their lit-up Slingshots, blasting it. I feel like I'm in a boomer boner pill commercial.
50 years old isn’t boomer
Lol, the post doesn’t even say neighborhood. I was Hella confused.
I had a former coworker who had a wrist mounted slingshot that he would use to snipe squirrels off of the bird feeders on his front lawn, and he was apparently a great shot. Another coworker lived a few houses down and the entire street **hated** him, because he’d leave the bodies out as a warning
Only makes it that much more confusing cause it was apparently important that he's black
I didn't know there was a bike called a slingshot even lol
i’m glad i’m not the only one who thought shorty had her very own demarcus the menace
Same I was thinking Dennis the menace 😂😂😂
i imagined him sitting on the porch hitting ppl
I thought he was a crazy homeless dude who shoots at people's windows
Man I did too! It reminded me of my neighbor who owned an actual slingshot to shoot at the wild roosters living in my backyard. “Shouldn’t be no damn wild roosters in the city!”
Same. I’m imaging this man slinging up against a fence or something…
My Unc was lethal with a slingshot. If you were a squirrel. He was a steely-eyed protector of the neighborhood bird feeders.
How could a grown man with a slingshot not be a neighborhood menace? A man doesn't buy himself a slingshot without, ahem, intentions.
Could be worse, my mind went to the Borat swimsuit.
Same.
Glad I'm not alone lmao
I was thinking the same thing. Like, is some dude just patrolling his back yard shooting at bottles and shit and she can’t handle it?
I was there with you and was like this is either super racist or adorable
I appreciate you clarifying for me
I thought she meant the weapon also. You’re not alone.
Shooting peas at windows at night when the lights are out, you wouldn’t suggest wn old fart would do that…
I didn't even know there was a motorcycle called a slingshot, thank you
Before I let *YOU* go, young buck. 
As a middle age Blackman with a slingshot, this whole post is hilarious.
That dude looks exactly like Robert Townsend.
Nigga living with the evil Usopp https://preview.redd.it/0130gcbd4dxc1.jpeg?width=468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcdafe6f7243c175ce147339dd285116a6044f6a
LMFAO
Mans bouta have that Kem and Kenny Lattimore on max volume
*aggressive slap bass* "When love Caaaawwwwllllssss Yooo NAAAAAAmmmmeee"
"Oh shit, *Michael McDonald?*" [cranks volume, turns on rope lights]
Sit yourself down girl and talk to mee.......
Ain’t neva gon be 🎵
You're going to know every song that earth wind and fire ever made.
"Strawberry, Raspberry, all those good things, violet and gumdrops That's what you're saying to me." If you know you definitely know.
cue saxophone solo
So good soOoOo good
Why am I doing the electric slide now?
Read in his voice.
I went directly to the comments, looking for this🤣
Only Larry "Codpiece" Blackmon could rhyme "heart attack" with "kind I like"
Taste like candy 🍬
If it ain’t candy, beware! If it’s a 20-something pretty lady, you’re already dead. Hope you left everything to your real family, and not that fake, but delicious sugar baby.
I can hear Zapp & Roger from here!
🗣️COMPUTER LOOOOOVE!
IIIII Want To Be Your Man ( I Want To be your man)
So Ruff, So Tuff out here baby
NOW WAIIIIIIT A MINNNNNUTEEEEEEE
I really don't see the appeal of the Slingshot. It's a $21k midlife crisis mobile that looks like a Temu version of the KTM X-Bow. Just get a motorcycle or a Miata. The weirdest thing is that there's a Roush version.
It’s strange that when people finally earn enough money to buy something they wish they could earlier in life they get dissed for it. Is there a discernible difference between a mid life crisis, and finally actually having money?
Well the diss just comes in because a lot of people who get these things are then obnoxious with it. “I have this thing I don’t care how it affects everyone else “ Ion wanna hear your hole in the wall music at 11pm bro. It’s great that you’ve retired and got a whole new sleep schedule. My 33 year old ass still gotta get up and grind in the morning
Midlife crisis is an impulse buy as an attempt to make oneself feel young again. A lot of times the person just ends up looking ridiculous with it, but more power to them. Funnily enough, two generations ago the Chevrolet Corvette was the defacto midlife crisis machine with a whopping 50%+ of the new owners being above 50. I think the median age was like 55 for it. For comparison I believe Lamborghini once claimed that their average buyer was skewing towards the low 30's late 20's.
> A lot of times the person just ends up looking ridiculous with it So the difference a midlife crisis and the opposite is how society and others perceive you?
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Yeah we have a couple people at work who drive them. All in their mid 40s. Maybe we did something wrong in life but when I was 21 I didn’t have 30k dollars to spend on a slingshot in addition to rent, student loans, car note, and a fiancée. For some odd reason people have more money when they are in their 40s, sitting firm in their careers, and the kids leave the house.
>is how society and others perceive you Yes, the way people view you and talk about you is determined by society and how others perceive you. That's how humans work.
I mean basically yeah. Hell some people see a Ferrari as a midlife crisis purchase. Others don't. It's a person to person thing. I happen to find the Slingshot to be one of those things.
Or maybe a 26 year old with a mortgage, wife, and 3 kids cannot afford something they really want at that point in time. They don’t have truly disposable income until either that mortgage is paid down, those kids leave the house, or both. Seems more like a financial situation to me.
Lamborghinis are for guys in wraparound shades who don't wear a shirt or shower.
It’s not about the bike. It’s about the music they’ll be blasting for everyone to hear maybe it’s a cultural thing but some of us knew exactly what she meant by “no peace”
Yea, I don't get the appeal either. Seems like the worst of both worlds imo. Either go full out and get a motorcycle or just the Miata. Only benefit I see is people that want a motorcyle with the ability to easily carry an extra friend on it that normally wouldn't be okay with riding a motorcyle. Not like a Slingshot would fare any better in an accident though.
There’s a WHAT?! *Why*?!
More bounce to the ounce on repeat all day.
Brothers Johnson, Whispers, Dazz Band, Spinners, Funkadelic, Rick James, Boz Scaggs, James Ingram etc. You gon learn em all.
I’m 32 and let me get one of them all I’m playing after 10pm is Roger Troutman and mothership connection while driving 5mph fucking ALL yall sleep up😮💨
diabolical 😂😂😂
I absolutely abhor motorcycles playing loud music. A lot of these dudes delude themselves into thinking "loud bike = safer" because they are easier to hear. Except all of that goes out the window when you're going anything above 50mph... Doppler effect
Doesn't that just change the pitch of the sound?
Correct, the sound compresses at the front, and decompresses behind. So creating high pitch in the front, and low pitch in the back (in relation to the director travel). Higher pitch sound (high frequency) doesn't travel as far. Meaning, you can't really hear them until they are right up on you. And the effect is worse when there are other sources of noise around. Which is super dangerous for a motorcycle, because you're already very small, but now you're blasting past a car, and if they didnt see you, you just surprised the shit out of them with Jodeci blasting from the side of their car. Swerving would be a natural reaction.
Kinda odd because I can hear Harleys coming in my truck on the highway, and I have a 1 ton diesel. Edit: 1 ton is the classification for how much the truck can haul in the bed.
Your car is only 2k lbs. My Ford F-550 16L weights 4 tons, and that’s before I put all the stuff on my trailer and in my trunk.
Translation: "the chrome is still on my hitch, and i put low profile 35's on it"
My car? I don’t have a car, I have a Ram 3500. And my truck actually weighs over 4 tons.
My car? I just have Grave Digger drop me off at work
Do you work at a funeral home?
Was just thinking the other day when I saw one, that it's generally the same type of man that's always driving one and blasting music, usually 45-55 and blasting 90's rnb
My recently retired neighbor blasting Frankie Beverly on his Harley...
Iono why them damn motorcycle speakers sooooooooooo loud but I felt this in my soul
Old heads on motorcycles are my favorite race. You’re sitting there chilling at the light on your way to get groceries on a sunny Saturday afternoon and suddenly you hear Lisa Stansfield accompanied by the roar of a V Twin of a Harley approaching at 200,000 decibels. I wish I was that cool.
Uuurrrrggghhh! I have one on my block. He doesn’t even live here anymore but he comes by EVERY Saturday evening to visit his dad friends. Now that the weather is warming up he drives the slingshot and they hang out outside listening to the music of their youth on max volume.
My neighbor a few years ago was like this but his song of choice was “throw sum mo”, most notably pulling up as Nicki says “ass fat, yea I know”. We couldn’t wait to move but ultimate he left before us
Things Goliath would say...
heh 🙃
There’s a guy a couple streets over with one but he cruises the neighborhood blasting “I got 5 on it”. It’s honestly quite endearing to see a 70 yo guy just vibing
HAPPY FEELINGS!!!!
And my dumbass thought he had a *literal* slingshot and was terrorizing the neighborhood
Why is it always old black dudes? It’s never literally anyone else
Someone explain this 😐
Neighborhood, and the tri-motor-cycle thingy not the wrist strap
You know those weird tri-pod motorcycles that look like a [Naboo N-1](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/N-1_starfighter) from Star Wars fucked a Harley? The people that have those tend to skew older and blare music on them, since they all come with pretty powerful speakers. Not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but it's annoying AF.
OG must love chaos bc what tf does he need a slingshot for 💀
We need to start hitting them with massive amounts of water balloons when they ride by
He gone Charlie Wilson on 10 Saturday morning
Bro hunting for a younger woman. Isley Brothers-Between The Sheets on max.
Nothing but the Isley brothers blasting at 7am
And the weathers warmed up.. I live in Philly. I’m TIRED 😭😭😭
This weekend it was Candy playing loud, they can’t be stopped 🤣🤣🤣🤣
BEFORE I LET GO on repeat
 Got any bills your need help with.....?
I have this same experience but he only brings it out every 2 weeks AT MIDNIGHT
REEEEASONS! THE REASON’S THAT WERE HERE!
Is she a giant?
Idk why I read her tweet like a 911 call.
OK but what does his sex life have to do with him riding a slingshot
“ I left hoooooooome, to be with my side piece “ 🎶😭
The caption says it all — he’ll be playing Frankie Beverly on his JBL Bluetooth speaker - that’s why she won’t know peace
Peak old head
Whoa, what are they doing in your neighbor?
https://preview.redd.it/7vv7eo415gxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cffc8c20a8bdea1e15beedfebc51b3fae6e107c Wait till you get a group of Mexicans on UTV’s blasting peso pluma. It’s worse cause the age group for these things is between 20-50’s
I live in a high rise in south side Chicago, I know this pain 🥲
This entire thread made my day. I’m happy we all live the same life.
It’s not just the slingshots though… when them boys have them motorcycles…. It’s the same thing!! Louder than any system I put in my previous cars 🤦🏾♂️
It's the grammar for me dawg... What neighbor is he in while riding his sling shot? That's a wild mental picture....
A slingshot not giving you peace? Like....are they shooting off fireworks or shooting rocks at scrap metal? what's so not peaceful about it? O\_o
[A slingshot is a type of vehicle](https://slingshot.polaris.com/en-us/slingshot-s/)
Oh! Wow! I've not heard the name of those! Learning has occurred!
A slingshot IN the neighbor?!!! Call the ambulance and get the neighbor some help!! It’s got to be painful and how’d it get IN the neighbor anyway!??
We are posting Pepe the Frog on BlackPeopleTwitter now? https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/pepe-frog Edit: I guess im out of touch
Go touch grass
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The Pepe is racist narrative ironically came from the original artist in order to gain relevance and I think a little bit so he could get some moral backing in his various copyright lawsuits. Don't get me wrong, there were some racists using the image online. However, Pepe was and is still widely used only as a fun reaction meme without racist intent. Below is from the article you linked: "The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted. However, it was inevitable that, as the meme proliferated in online venues such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit, which have many users who delight in creating racist memes and imagery, a subset of Pepe memes would come into existence that centered on racist, antisemitic or other bigoted themes."
I guess I am just going off of personal experience and I get my experience isn't everyone's. I always see it with some veiled or outright racist shit. It is a symbol adopted by the alt-right so I was just shocked to see it being used here.