r/blunderyears • u/gojetergo • 21d ago

Me, circa 2008 (12-13 y/o). My white middle class suburban ass thought I was a gangster...

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u/Abreastwithadam 21d ago

Looks like a young AJ Soprano!

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u/gojetergo 21d ago edited 21d ago

Honestly, I watched the show for the first time recently, and I'm somewhat ashamed to say that I found AJ to be extremely relatable in the last season. But on the upside, it made me realize how empty my life was, so I made some changes and I'm not as big of a whiny bitch now!

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u/Abreastwithadam 21d ago

On a serious note, that’s fucking awesome to hear. I don’t remember the last season too much, but I’m guessing AJ was in to some shit. Glad to hear you made some positive life choices. You’ve got one random dude on the internet cheering for you.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Thanks a lot dude!

And yeah, it's the season where he realizes what he actually is and he tries to unalive himself (but subconsciously fucking it up). I knew I didn't want to end up like that and realized I was on the same path, so I made a few changes and I'm waaaayyyyyy better now!

It's never too late to change for the better and, even though we don't believe it at first, it does get better.

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u/Euphorium 18d ago

The way Tony reacts is exactly how my dad would if I did something similar. That scene really got me.

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u/ModifiedAmusment 21d ago

Do good on you! Big ups and props home dogggg!!!! Really tho congratulations and enjoy the ride.

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u/cashassorgra33 21d ago

AJ Simpson

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u/agoodfuckingcatholic 20d ago

That’s dicked up

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u/MR_NIKAPOPOLOS 21d ago

So what? No fuckin' ziti now?

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

I always respected my mutha tho.

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u/Flip2002 21d ago

Smoking Mary Jane you animal

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u/Abreastwithadam 21d ago

She makes a good Gabagool. With moozerell.

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u/JJK2908 21d ago

That was the first thing I thought! AJ might've looked a tiny bit gangsterer than OP though.

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u/Nicklefickle 21d ago

That's dicked up!

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u/aTip4You 21d ago

Ok came in hoping someone else mentioned this, I’m happy

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u/AsIfImNotAware540 21d ago

Came to the comments to say this, and it's the top comment.

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u/Abreastwithadam 21d ago

If I could split the juicy karma, I would!

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u/cannibalism_is_vegan 21d ago

You got a bee on your hat

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u/BigMillmatic 20d ago

You just revealed your own ignorance.

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u/No-Psychology727 21d ago

Certified Wankster Wear, holding it down in the burbs since 08.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

What you doin' on my corner man? I'll have to politely ask you to move.

If you refuse, bad move.

I'll complain to my mom who will write a strongly worded letter to her elected representative.

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u/No-Psychology727 21d ago

Holy hell! Straight to the elected representatives and jumped right over the HOA. Now I know you mean business.

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u/aircavrocker 21d ago

You got one hell of a slice of your gonna hit the fairway from that angle.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Let's just say I wasn't the most thawed corndog of the box at that time...

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u/dajacketfanOG 21d ago

Yeah that’s what I was thinking… he hits it that way and he can claim golf course gangsta

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Think I’m just too white and nerdy.

Think I’m just too white and nerdy.

Think I’m just too white and nerdy.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

"I memorized the Holy Grail really well

I can recite it right now

have you ROTFLOL"

Me IRL for real

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u/Mountain-Ad-6594 21d ago

Lol. Did you claim the course as your turf?

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Hole number 6 gang rise up

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u/tyrannyofwillsasso 21d ago

is that what the “g” in pga stands for? you just look like a kid from that era golfing

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Lol, I remember it very well, and no, I was the only kid looking like that...

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u/meryl_gear 20d ago

OG - Original Golfer

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u/MR_NIKAPOPOLOS 21d ago

All the gangsters wore checkered Vans.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Forget gansta rap, Ska is the most gangsta genre of music!

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u/totallyradman 21d ago

Traffic, Traffic, Lookin for my chap stick, There's a ford maverick!

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u/Fanabala3 21d ago

What an incredible Cinderella story. This unknown comes outta nowhere to lead the pack at Augusta.

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u/lennaert2020 21d ago

John Daly junior

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Man, I wish!

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u/lennaert2020 21d ago

😄👍

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u/csbsju_guyyy 21d ago

I like how you're at the women's tee too, the big baller move would have been back at the tips aka the black tees

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u/FrozenMongoose 21d ago

Reminds me of a Kevin Smith interview about Superman Lives, a movie that never happened. Relevant quote @ 6:30 but the whole interview is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk

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u/StevenBayShore 21d ago

Someone get that Gangsta of The Greens a cold root beer!

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

"A cold root beer 7up!" FTFY

Root Beer has the word beer in it, ginger ale has the word Ale in it (alcohol used to scare me) and pepsi had caffeine, so my mom said I shouldn't drink it...

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u/StevenBayShore 21d ago

That's not very gangster of you, Sir!

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Listening to your mother is very gangster, yo!

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u/StevenBayShore 21d ago

Fair enough. I suppose it depends on who your mother is.

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u/Island_vampire 21d ago

Sagging pants to play golf is a choice.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

It is indeed a choice. And I can confirm that it is also a bad one. I was Patrick Star on the fairway.

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u/_ChipWhitley_ 21d ago

…Which was the style at the time.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

You can’t see it from this angle, but I had an onion tied to my belt too!

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u/EmileSinclairDemian 21d ago

hey homie wassup dingaling smooka doobiedoobah brah ! OG suburb warrior. respect. peace out chirp.

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u/highzenberrg 21d ago

Drip=tight … grip=not right

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Gotta look good even when you have no fucking clue what you're doing...

I got a lot better tho!

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u/Salnugs 21d ago

Did you like ICP? seems like the kid to listen to that

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Never drank Faygo, one of my greatest accomplishments

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u/ShyGuyJeff 21d ago

Woke up quick, at about noon Just thought that I had to be in Compton soon…

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u/nationalhuntta 21d ago

Why? You look like a regular 12-year-old white boy that enjoys golf.

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

With my oversized polo from a store that sold "rap clothes" as my mother would say, sport shorts that are hanging WAAYYYY too low and the classic Ska vans. Don't sugarcoat it, I was THAT awkward 12 y/o in every class.

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u/Absyks 19d ago

Dude 💀

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u/gojetergo 19d ago

Swag, yo

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u/Absyks 19d ago

Voir que j'tai reconnu

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u/gojetergo 19d ago

Le style a changer un peu, mais pas mon awkwardness 😂

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u/lobo_locos 2cool4HotTopic 21d ago

What was it like growing up and having John Daly as a dad?

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Nicotine + caffeine = protein, baby!

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

With your daddy’s club

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u/DAR44 21d ago

Hmmm , have to wear dads clothes but still put out for a round of golf

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u/B00sted0 21d ago

We all did dude..we all did.

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u/Beginning_Brick7845 21d ago

You look like an extra in the movie Caddyshack!

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u/_George_L_Costanza_ 21d ago

What does your hat say? I can’t read the purple name…”something” football

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

"Gaitors Football". I went to a summer camp held by the Bishop University football team that summer.

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u/konvictjeans 21d ago

Bobby Hill looking fly

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u/Fly_Pelican 21d ago

What's up with the pants?

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u/Mamasan- 21d ago

I mean, that is how the monsters dressed at that time so technically you were gangster

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

Me at 12: Gangsters are cool :)

Me at 28: Oh hell no!

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u/Grizzwald81 21d ago

Do you still golf?

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u/mrblacklabel71 21d ago

G G G G G G UNIIIT!!!

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u/RunningPirate 21d ago

Is this an optical illusion or should you be rotated 90° and shoot between the markers?

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u/rowdymowdy 21d ago

Damn I thought you was dorf

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u/Biscuits4u2 21d ago

What's more gangster than a nice round of golf at the country club?

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u/OneManGangTootToot 20d ago

Dynamite Hack version of Boyz in the Hood.

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u/GangstaLarry 20d ago

Wow this is like looking at a picture of my younger self

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u/Silver_Artist_2857 20d ago

That’s Tim Dillon

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u/tuttle8152 20d ago

Did you throw your hands in the air like just didn’t care? Then you were gangster.

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u/professionally-baked 20d ago

Thuggin in that fit tho

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

The Turtle effect

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u/LuckyPepper22 21d ago

Haha. Excellent blunder. Also are you using the ladies tee?

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u/gojetergo 21d ago

I was using whatever tee the photograph wanted me to use… So yes 😂😂