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L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 04:40 PM
List ways to know if you/or someone is ghetto ...
I'll start if off.



- You know the number of roaches in your house
- You put water in the ketchup when the bottle is low

LakerWarrior12
07-12-2007, 04:42 PM
People who do wear ****ty clothes or by the way their house looks.

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 04:51 PM
- Red kool-aid
- Use album covers as a dustpan
- You know someone named Ray-Ray or Ki-Ki

proof
07-12-2007, 05:00 PM
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3865/thatsghettoorv0.jpg

HollaBolla
07-12-2007, 05:04 PM
-when u reuse ur condom, that's ghetto

qwerty
07-12-2007, 05:07 PM
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/case-mod/cuban-computer.jpg
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_sep2005/GhettoBoomBox.jpg
http://www.10-7.com/humor/photopages/ghetto.jpg

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 05:27 PM
- When you buy a burger at a resteraunt and spit it with your family members
- When you shower with a bucket to reduce the amount of hot water used
- When your parents beat you for leaving the light on when you're not in the room
- When hearing a gunshot is common to you

HollaBolla
07-12-2007, 05:35 PM
when u bring ur date to a soup kitchen, that's ghetto

Cannonball
07-12-2007, 05:38 PM
when u bring ur date to a soup kitchen, that's ghetto
And you even offer her your piece of bread. :oldlol:

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 05:41 PM
- You know you ghetto when you ride around on your sisters pink bike.
- When you ask for $.78 worth of gas.
- When you make kool-aid in one glass for just yo' self.
- You get in trouble for leavin gramma screen door open.

Ballastic
07-12-2007, 06:22 PM
You been beaten by an extension cord.

The batteries in your tv remote is held in place by tape.

Your drinking glasses used to be a jelly jar.

You use salt before you even taste the food.

Your child thinks his real name is Little Man.

The offering plate at your church goes around more than once.

You add "ed" or "t" to a word thats already past tense. ( tooked, ruint )


You misuse certain words such as :

skrimp - shrimp

pacific - specific

axe - ask

showliz - sure is

ambalamps - ambulance

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 06:44 PM
The batteries in your tv remote is held in place by tape.
Uh oh. :oldlol:

- When you say police like "poe-leece".
- When you use old ice cream containers as cookie jars.
- When you use tape to told together broken, hazardous cords.

Day La Ghetto
07-12-2007, 06:48 PM
I don't get it, I now I'm ghetto, and your L-Kizzle, you didn't have to make a thread just for me.

Noob Saibot
07-12-2007, 07:22 PM
when u barbacue on tha porch.
eatin yo buggers off your nose.
use a hanger for an antennae on the TV.
when your hair is uncombed or nappy.
when you cuss out your parents and teachers.

Agent_Zero
07-12-2007, 07:39 PM
- When you buy a burger at a resteraunt and spit it with your family members
- When you shower with a bucket to reduce the amount of hot water used
- When your parents beat you for leaving the light on when you're not in the room
- When hearing a gunshot is common to you



people in the middle east must be the hardest mother f*ckers around

MK2V1GP
07-12-2007, 07:47 PM
- You know you ghetto when you ride around on your sisters pink bike.

lol...thats a good one right there...

or

lolz...dats a good un rite der

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 07:51 PM
For the ladies:

- When you call one of the many guys you had sex with and say you're pregnant, and his response is "It ain't mine." *Click*.

Noob Saibot
07-12-2007, 07:53 PM
i got the perfect song for this thread.

Noob Saibot
07-12-2007, 08:01 PM
Bishop - U know you ghetto

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ammlm

GoRapz
07-12-2007, 08:21 PM
when you get corn rows and leave it like that for a month

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 08:52 PM
- You know you ghetto when yo mama got "good furniture" you can't sit on.
- When you lick the bowl yo mama made the cake mix out of.

i seen hippos
07-12-2007, 08:53 PM
Drink nutmeg around the wall heater on Christmas Eve.

Targus
07-12-2007, 09:18 PM
- when you use yo-yo's as roller blade wheels.

- when you go out on trash day looking for **** to snatch.

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 09:31 PM
- When your matress has piss stains all over it.

:oldlol:

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 09:37 PM
- You and your cousin live in different houses but share the same videogame system.
- Instead of pajama's you sleep in mama's big shirt.
- You iron on the bed.
- You eat cereal for breakest, lunch and dinner.

Fudge
07-12-2007, 09:38 PM
- Anything thats hanging down your corn rows.
- Someone passed out on the front lawn of a house.
- Using Burger King cups as normal house cups.

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 09:41 PM
- Your mom blasts Bob Marley records for hours and hours
- You have to share any food you bring home
- Your baby sleeps with you or your younger child and never had his/her own crib

Targus
07-12-2007, 09:45 PM
- when you still have a black box.
- when you find out you're pregnant and instantly think of 7 guys, each within 4 blocks from each other.

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 09:46 PM
- You know you ghetto when you have to open up the oven to keep warm.
- When you hurt yourself playing around the house, your mama gives you a spankin' and tells you to take a nap
- You can't come home until you beat up the kid thats been messing with you.

Fudge
07-12-2007, 09:52 PM
- Wearing those scrubby-nubby long-sleeved polo's with them old school patterns. Straight ghetto.
- Having a gun alongside of you everytime you're outside.
- When your kids are playing 'monkey in the the middle' in the middle of the streets.

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 10:08 PM
I'm certainly not ghetto but a lot of these things apply to me as a child the remote control, the licking of the cake mix bowl, bob marley, sharing videogame systems, etc.

these don't all work
Me too. :oldlol:

- You know you're ghetto when you have to use a stick to hold up the window to stop it from closing shut in the summer.

L.Kizzle
07-12-2007, 10:12 PM
- When you sleep in a bunk bed but don't have no brothers or sisters.

Top_Of_Tha_World
07-12-2007, 11:28 PM
If you put water in cearal before
If you always put water in cereal
if you dont got socks without holes
if you have a starting lineup of 3 different boxers you just cycle
If you buy clothes to where for a few days than return them

Richie2k6
07-12-2007, 11:47 PM
- If you shop at Goodwill

L.Kizzle
07-13-2007, 03:03 AM
- You know you shetto when you tap dance in church shoes.

Nashformvp
07-13-2007, 03:09 AM
u no u ghetto when u use a fork for yo cereal 2 save milk

RainierBeachPoet
07-15-2007, 10:31 PM
- If you shop at Goodwill

one buys her wedding dress at goodwill

Fudge
07-15-2007, 10:41 PM
- When you sleep in a bunk bed but don't have no brothers or sisters.
:roll:
I love how you think Kizzle.

Anyway, here's some more i've thought of.
- When you use your own shirts as everyday house curtains.
- When you have a grandparent smoking pot on the front porch sitting on their rocking chairs.
- People using all of their money to buy nice rims on a trashy-looking car.

Pyro
07-15-2007, 10:46 PM
u no u ghetto when everytime u hear an old engine u duck for cover

Los Angeles
07-15-2007, 10:50 PM
-When you order a happy meal and give the kid the toy and eat the rest yourself...

Jabes
07-15-2007, 10:52 PM
You know you ghetto when...

buying condiments means asking for extra ketchup/mustard/soy-sauce at [insert fast food joint].

you don't waste toilet paper by using both sides. Same with kleenex.

Moose
07-15-2007, 11:45 PM
You been beaten by an extension cord.

The batteries in your tv remote is held in place by tape.

Your drinking glasses used to be a jelly jar.

You use salt before you even taste the food.

Your child thinks his real name is Little Man.

The offering plate at your church goes around more than once.

You add "ed" or "t" to a word thats already past tense. ( tooked, ruint )


You misuse certain words such as :

skrimp - shrimp

pacific - specific

axe - ask

showliz - sure is

ambalamps - ambulance

haha now thats ghetto!

Agent 69
07-16-2007, 12:13 PM
"you better put some water over that damn sh*!"

Darsh
07-16-2007, 02:10 PM
you know your ghetto when you roll with k-fed

aahhsin
07-16-2007, 02:16 PM
i don't get the kool-aid jokes

why is it ghetto to drink kool-aid.

Tarik One
07-16-2007, 04:11 PM
When you make at least five trips to the gas station in one day just to put $5 in the tank on each trip.

When you have ONE cable box and five televisions. However every single tv set has cable because there are cable cords spreaded all over the house like spaghetti.

Ballastic
07-16-2007, 05:20 PM
You know you ghetto :

When you wear clothes with the tags still on them, so you can return it later for a refund.

The person your speaking to doesnt speak English so you speak louder : DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?!!?!

When you chew gum, you pop the shyt out of it.

If you pay more for your kid's sneakers than their child care.

When every child in the family has different last names.

If your basketball goal has a crooked rim with no net.

If you wrap presents in newspapers.

When your little brother or sister passes you a grade in school.

Your first name begins with "Sha", "Ta", or "La"

If you think putting batteries in the fridge recharges them.

L.Kizzle
07-19-2007, 12:58 AM
- You know you ghetto when you call everything a "whatchamacall it"

Hstone
07-19-2007, 08:22 AM
Whats that game in the ghetto that people play with dice on the streets anyone know????

otmtheshank
07-19-2007, 09:07 AM
Whats that game in the ghetto that people play with dice on the streets anyone know????

Tripps? The one with 5 dice, and you try to get up to five rolls?

You know you're ghetto when you got the word shank in your username, even though you had no idea what it meant until recently.

HaNdLe ThE RoCk
07-19-2007, 01:02 PM
When you have every color of stephon marburys.

Rasheed1
07-19-2007, 01:06 PM
Whats that game in the ghetto that people play with dice on the streets anyone know????

Ceelo...

L.Kizzle
09-11-2007, 11:10 PM
- You know you ghetto when you sleep in a bunk bed, yet never had a brother or sister.

Richie2k6
09-23-2007, 11:17 PM
Bump.

L.Kizzle
09-23-2007, 11:37 PM
- You know you ghetto when you gotta take calls at someone else's house.



example: Kieth doesn't have a phone but his cousin down the street does. He takes and makes calls at his cousins house. His cousin answers the phone, it's for Keith. His cousin has to go down the street to tell Kieth to get the phone.

Ballastic
09-23-2007, 11:52 PM
When you put the bills in your kids names that arent even 18.

If you share clothes with siblings, even if youre a boy with 2 sisters.

When your little brother/sister passes you up a grade in school.

The Myth
09-24-2007, 12:49 AM
You know your ghetto when you put your phone in the babies name.

PK3434
09-24-2007, 12:18 PM
when you put tints on your rental car and get them taken off before you bring it back.

IlliniFan
09-24-2007, 12:32 PM
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3865/thatsghettoorv0.jpg
that made me lol

beeson
09-25-2007, 04:12 PM
- You know you ghetto when you sleep in a bunk bed, yet never had a brother or sister.
why is this ghetto? what if your known for having alot of friends over to sleep? why not give them a decent bed?

L.Kizzle
09-25-2007, 06:07 PM
why is this ghetto? what if your known for having alot of friends over to sleep? why not give them a decent bed?
It's still ghetto! Who care if you have lots of friends, the reason that one child has a bunk bed is ghetto.

clipps
09-25-2007, 06:09 PM
When you take a myspace test and the results says your ghetto:hammerhead:

Richie2k6
09-25-2007, 06:14 PM
When you take a shower and wear the same clothes you took off before you showered.

L.Kizzle
09-25-2007, 06:26 PM
-You know you ghetto when you drink out of jelly jars.

Richie2k6
09-25-2007, 08:23 PM
When you only shower when you're going somewhere.

NY Comeback
09-25-2007, 08:34 PM
I hate to rain on you guys' parade, but Ghetto is not an adjective.

Sorry.

jjswifty
09-25-2007, 09:14 PM
I hate to rain on you guys' parade, but Ghetto is not an adjective.

Sorry.

Youre from the BX, you should know what they mean.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghetto

NY Comeback
09-25-2007, 09:29 PM
Youre from the BX, you should know what they mean.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ghetto
I know what it means, but they're using it in the wrong context.

L.Kizzle
09-25-2007, 09:42 PM
I hate to rain on you guys' parade, but Ghetto is not an adjective.

Sorry.
No such thing as "proper" English on a "ghetto" thread, ya heard!

L.Kizzle
10-24-2007, 12:06 AM
- You know you ghetto if you walk up and down the street barefoot.
- You know you ghetto if you see yo' momma everyday, yet don't live with her, you live with yo aunt or grandma.
- You know you ghetto if you got a brotha in the neighborhood always lookin' to wash somebody car.
- You know you ghetto if the main entertainment at the annual family reunion is the card and domino games played buy 47 year and older 'folk.

RomoSexual
10-24-2007, 12:18 AM
you know you're ghetto when you type


"you know you ghetto"

blazerfan22
10-24-2007, 12:23 AM
You know you're ghetto if you own a 91 Civic and tried to make it like Fast and The Furious with $200.

You know you're ghetto if you drink malt liqueur with fried chicken and waffles.

(Fried chicken and waffles are good, but adding a malt liqueur is just wrong.)

blazerfan22
10-24-2007, 12:29 AM
http://www.stillsecureafteralltheseyears.com/photos/uncategorized/ghetto.jpg

You know you're ghetto if you live here.

Suns4Life
10-24-2007, 12:46 AM
When your parents go to switzerland and bring you back a rolex 10 other people in the world have instead of kicking over the extra 25k to have one completely custom made for you.

When you have to put on your own pants

When you could only get a genetically reanimated jerry garcia to play with the rest of the grateful dead and couldn't afford the 2 for 1 biggie smalls/tupac package.

blazerfan22
10-24-2007, 12:58 AM
http://www.steve-z.com/images/funny/whaletail.jpg

jazz12
10-24-2007, 02:15 AM
You think "loading the dishwasher" means getting your wife drunk. :confusedshrug:

Richie2k6
10-24-2007, 10:31 PM
You think "loading the dishwasher" means getting your wife drunk. :confusedshrug:
:oldlol:

When you blast gospel music loudly on weekend mornings.

Richie2k6
10-30-2007, 04:10 PM
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/ghettowhen/ghetto.html

Quite a few of those happened to me as a kid. :oldlol:

NastaMaverick
10-30-2007, 04:13 PM
You post on ISH.

Kebab Stall
10-30-2007, 04:16 PM
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/ghettowhen/ghetto.html

Quite a few of those happened to me as a kid. :oldlol:
One of the ones I found on there that annoys me is when people say "Axe" instead of "Ask". Everytime I hear someone say that, I die a little inside.

DieHardBullsFan
10-30-2007, 04:34 PM
you know your ghetto when:

you use the mayonnaise and pickle jars as drinking glasses!

dawsey6
10-30-2007, 04:39 PM
- When the batteries die on you, you put them in the freezer in order to retore some life, maybe 5 minutes in the Gameboy

- When you have a Duracell, an Energizer, and two 7300's that you took out of the remote control, in one handheld game, because those are the only good batteries you found.

- You got a floor lamp, but it won't stand on it's own, so you gotta lean it against your bed.

- If it's brisk cold in the house, you go in the kitchen and boil a pot of water, so you save heat.

- You don't have wireless internet, but you have a spot in the house where you can steal from someone else.

- Ricoroni, Ramen, and Mac and Cheese, not even Craft's, it's the freakin' store brand.

- Wonderbread.

- If you were ever at home and you asked you mother to take you Mc'Donald's, and she's said, "I'll make you a hamburger better than Mc'Donald's." ...

DieHardBullsFan
10-30-2007, 04:51 PM
-when you leave your house, you turn up the radio real loud and leave the lights on so you can make people think your in the house!

-When you use your kids name on the phone bill

-when you eat fried bologna sadwiches

Richie2k6
10-30-2007, 05:25 PM
- If you were ever at home and you asked you mother to take you Mc'Donald's, and she's said, "I'll make you a hamburger better than Mc'Donald's." ...
:roll: I can relate. "What's the difference? I make a burger just as good right now."

Remix
12-30-2007, 02:17 AM
When all the courts in your neighbor hood aint got no nets on them, or if they do, they're ripped up trashy chains.

dawsey6
12-30-2007, 03:28 AM
When all the courts in your neighbor hood aint got no nets on them, or if they do, they're ripped up trashy chains.

and one of them is bent down.

blasian
12-30-2007, 03:35 AM
when you use hot dog buns for hamburgers, when the 1st of the month is as important as Christmas, when Santa gives you stolen gifts

PK3434
12-30-2007, 11:05 AM
When you have to take the city bus to court.

LongBeachLakers
12-30-2007, 11:09 AM
When you have to take the city bus to court.

That's just poor. There are poor people with class, don't stereotype. :oldlol:

PK3434
12-30-2007, 11:19 AM
That's just poor. There are poor people with class, don't stereotype. :oldlol:

I know...I was using an example of someone I know who is very ghetto who was late to his court date because the buses were running behind.

silky_smooth
12-30-2007, 11:34 AM
When you use toilet paper as napkins. I experienced this at a friends house...

LJJ
12-30-2007, 11:42 AM
When you use toilet paper as napkins. I experienced this at a friends house...

I do that.

Why bother with those paper napkins? They aren't made from something else, they are just in a different pack.

silky_smooth
12-30-2007, 11:47 AM
When a restaurant runs out of potatoes and gives you cheetos in the place of french fries. This happened to me today

SCREWstonRockets
12-30-2007, 12:52 PM
When a restaurant runs out of potatoes and gives you cheetos in the place of french fries. This happened to me today

:roll:WTF? Damn, I relate to A LOT of these. I'm somewhere between Cheap and Ghetto.

silky_smooth
12-30-2007, 01:09 PM
I do that.

Why bother with those paper napkins? They aren't made from something else, they are just in a different pack.


You ain't got any class homie:ohwell: (JK)

Unreal Skill
12-30-2007, 01:14 PM
you know your ghetto when:

you use the mayonnaise and pickle jars as drinking glasses!

Lol, Ive seen people do that. :roll:

Day La Ghetto
12-30-2007, 02:09 PM
*stands up and takes a bow*

kidachi
12-30-2007, 02:54 PM
you use the mayonnaise and pickle jars as drinking glasses!

that's us.

bomber
12-30-2007, 03:51 PM
- When you buy a burger at a resteraunt and spit it with your family members
- When you shower with a bucket to reduce the amount of hot water used
- When your parents beat you for leaving the light on when you're not in the room
- When hearing a gunshot is common to you

Thats actually what we call "Cheap" not Ghetto, save the last one.

go_blue
12-30-2007, 04:40 PM
when your city is number one in murders

Bourne
12-30-2007, 05:31 PM
When you suck ass at life.

When you purposely use bad grammar in a thread title to show you suck at life.

ukballer
12-30-2007, 05:47 PM
http://homepage.mac.com/luckytom/sfla/entryImages/couch.jpg
http://mouser.org/log/images/2005/yeah.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/jfstrain/blogpics/june04/ghetto.jpg

Q.E.C
12-31-2007, 04:01 AM
when you have to was your dishes in the bath tub because the sink and dishwasher went out.

jjswifty
12-31-2007, 04:04 AM
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3865/thatsghettoorv0.jpg

:roll:

Phenomenon
12-31-2007, 04:15 PM
-You know you're ghetto when you try to pay your debt for crack by bringing half a bottle of soap detergent.

L.Kizzle
08-02-2012, 01:23 AM
-You know you ghetto when you leave hot dog water on the stove all day in case someone wanna boil them one.

LT Ice Cream
08-02-2012, 01:36 AM
When the bedroom has three or four mattresses thrown on the ground.

KDTrey5
08-02-2012, 01:37 AM
boughettto

highwhey
08-02-2012, 01:37 AM
You use that grainy laundry detergent as hand soap or for dishes. Also can be vice verse, use hand soap when u run out of detergent.

andgar923
08-02-2012, 01:59 AM
http://hannaford.gsnrecipes.com/GetImage.aspx?vector=ohBErwpnd5qJnKkSTbLvdeNgRpRqC xtWAZbG+kWHrkke21xRZClo8jdaqitFi03g

MetsPackers
08-02-2012, 02:39 AM
When you're black and you perpetuate negative stereotypes about your race while the decent people within your comminity suffer and the rest is being incarcerated or clowning around :confusedshrug:

ace23
08-02-2012, 04:41 AM
When you're from or live in a ghetto

CelticBaller
08-02-2012, 04:55 AM
When you still wear fubus

AlphaWolf24
08-02-2012, 12:26 PM
- When you can quote "I'm gonna get U Sucka" ver batim...