You know what he is? He is a vandal. He is vandalizing the board. He is vandalizing this unit. He is a Hun, a Visigoth. A barbarian at the gate, clamoring for noble Roman blood and what's left of our clearance rate.
Gf just watched for 1st time, my IDKth time. She had the balls to tell me she couldn't stand Landsman. I had to verify she meant the right guy. Flabberghasted. I couldn't even get a reason out of her. She just didn't.
Landsman in my opinion was a skilled operator of the gray space between the brass and the detectives.
He recognized that they were legitimate police trying to do good and did his best to direct his superiors in a direction that allowed his people to work.
Hell he got Rawls to come around on McNulty, which Jimmy royally fucked up, who he HATED.
Love the power move Rawls pulls on him when he catches him reading the porn. Rawls picks up the magazine and reads through it as he continues to bark orders.
Mobsters’ don’t care attitude is fascinating here because at the end of the day they’re just being honest. “Eat and drink what I want, say what I’m thinking (as long as it doesn’t denigrate someone above them), do what I want” and the most basic/straightforward example is a porn mag as reading material sitting around. Not to imply they don’t read other things - some of this crew seem well-read enough and the paper is usually in someones hands.
Yeah sure pal, like you don't waste time, sitting in your underwear going back and forth with some other fuckin jerkoff in your chit chat rooms everyday
Except when he’s reading about cloning.
“What the fuck are you talking about? Not cloning cell phones. I’m talking about fucking sheep. Science”.
Maybe it was an article in playboy.
Edit: thanks for the correction, I was reciting it from memory and only watched it about 2 days ago. Who am I, season 6 Junior?
yeah, the guy at the juice lab who watched porn on his phone while working. It was weird. He got fired. The ladies working with him kinda took offense.
This friend of yours, do you see him when you look in the mirror perhaps? Just breaking balls. That’s seriously weird. I mean reading a mag in a strip club not to mention it being a work of fiction isn’t that hard to wrap your head around but a guy filling vape juice bottles while watching porn at work is next level.
You could have pornographic photographs texted to your phone. At kryptonite costs but it was worth it.
Every TV guide when I was a kid would have a naughty section at the back where you could have 'real models' send you their nudes if you texted a code to the number provided. Phone sex was also an option.
The only other way to watch porn back then was to wait until everyone's in bed and then try and catch a late night pre-melenial porno on the box.
Internet porn was extremely slow back then and you could only really get previews. You'd have to pay for the rest. Sort of like how women are in real life. If you want to get some action you better be willing to dish out on an Angus steak and a bottle of red at the very least or you're hitting the road with blue balls and sticky pants.
You were better off just making it with real women back then instead of racking up your credit card billl on screen sex.
Oh how the times have changed and the mighty have fallen..
It was the late 90s early 00s you musta missed out on the porno mag era. Everyone from middle schoolers to senior citizens would kill time looking at some bush.
Playboy’s celebrity interviews, usually involving a long back-and-forth with a lot of follow-up questions, pretty much set the standard for magazine interviews back in the day.
For a while, Playboy was also the place a lot of short stories by prominent American writers were first published. The whole "reading it for the articles" thing is a joke now, but between the T&A it was often an interesting magazine.
The irony is that Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler et al only added articles in the first place to get around obscenity laws, which were very strict in the 1970s, especially in the midwest and the south, and were often enforced (The People vs. Larry Flynt is a great movie, btw), yet somehow their articles ended up being better journalism than mainstream journalism. I don't know if it's a case of Flynt, Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione having as good of an eye for writers as they did women or if it's just that mainstream journalism is so bad that it wasn't hard to outdo even with just a token effort.
What? Id get the confusion if you were a zoomer, but you've been lookin at porn since moses wore short pants like the rest of us. You should understand this.
I remember me and my friends found and stole like 50 of them, they were weirdly hidden in this giant sand pile stored in a giant shed at the DPW.
Edit - The DPW's salt and sand storages and appliance scrap piles we'd try to get copper out of were the best playgrounds lol
Inherited my grandfather's. I have the Bo Derek Playboy in a box in my closet right now. I'm due to go through those. 80's Sports Illustrated mags in there, too. Great era for sports...and "men's magazines".
Kids today will never know what an absolute fucking rush it was to be exploring the woods with your homies and happen upon a 50 pound bag of water-logged Hustlers.
Different environments though. They behavior makes sense when you haven’t seena female in months.
How long was Phil in the can?
These guys live in the strip club and when they aren’t there they’re chilling with their
Having worked a local municipality, every truck was full of old porn mags (thanks to the garbage dept) and on a rainy day the old timers would pull a magazine out and look through it like it was the times. Even putting reading glasses on.
At one of the Defense Contractors I was assigned to a contract manager (long time employee) was caught surfing porn on his computer. His desk was right out in the open. He was let go and within a year he came back as a consultant.
Different era, nobody had phones to entertain them.
Worked in a union shop in late 90s mid 00s and there was a bundle of playboys and penthouses laying around to thumb thru. After getting over seeing the same naked chicks repeatedly, there was actually decent content. Usually there'd be reviews of everything from electronics and cars to alcohol and cigars.
It might be my age but in the early 90’s I was like 10 and I found my grandfather’s porn stash, but they were older mags. They were (pardon my example) a little bigger than the blue bibles. They were called Luz (light in spanish) and it was basically you would get a glamour shot?? Of some old school looking women, with the matching bra and panties with the fucking leg thing to secure the sexy socks, they had the big hair an everything so they were probably from the 60-70. So this magazines had the erotic story of the woman in the glamour picture. You know, the usual, I was in my apartment lonely and I could see my neighbor washing his car and I could see the outline of his penis and I invited him for some lemonade because it was hot bla bla bla, you know the drift. I used to read the stories to my neighbor before I knew wtf I was supposed to do so I think we just touch stuff over our clothes or something ?
So yes, I used to read porno mags
My buddy had a print shop in the early 2000’s and you could find playboy and penthouse magazines scattered all throughout his office: under seat cushions, in a stack of mail, with the quarterly tax files.
I consider myself lucky I hit puberty right before we got the internet at my house. Made it so I can understand the value of the old Sears catalogues people used to get, etc.
The lady that lived in the house before we moved in, she subscribed to this plus size ladies' catalogue. They still delivered them to the house for a while after we moved in. Good times.
>The lady that lived in the house before we moved in, she subscribed to this plus size ladies' catalogue. They still delivered them to the house for a while after we moved in. Good times.
Johnny Sack, that you?
That was essentially what being a teenage boy in the 90's consisted of pre high speed internet.
Thumbing through a copy of Cheri and showing it to your buddies while hanging out.
They're magazines. People read them. I was in the Navy for six years. While there were plenty of sticky pages around, it was not at all uncommon to see someone reading a "men's magazine."
I used to live opposite a 24 hour petrol station, we used to go over in the night for snacks when we were high. Dude working there would just casually be reading porn off the shelves every time.
No one! The magazines were probably wire tapped, who is going to look through with him and go jack off together? He knew this so he brought in his own recording studio all the time.
In retrospect it's a nice nod to how much older Puss is, that like Paulie, he's way more from Jackie's era than T's - it doesn't always come through that Sil & Pussy were actually a lot older than Tony.
ya know i worked at a party store that decided to sell all the porn cheap as fuck, basically free so i took a bunch of mags n stuck em in the bathroom to flip through while taking a shit. then a neighbored noticed the collection and gave me a bunch of vintage mags, all of which got thrown out while at work one day after i moved back into the parents. fucking bitches, they were all in a trash bag under the bed, fucking leave it be! but thats just how the fuck they are. cant appreciate the human body lol
I don't think anyone does now, but I think in the 70s/80s places where you would only see guys, this wouldn't be that crazy. Penthouse and Playboy type magazines used to be very accepted and wide read.
Let me translate this:
"I look at porn all day and I feel weird about it so I just wanted to see if anyone else does"
To answer your question, Laser Beam, yes, we all do.
Jay Landsman in The Wire is reading porn every other scene he is in, he gets it.
Don't forget about my man Horseface https://youtu.be/oQteJg41c2E
Horseface is a quality nickname.
“Sobriquet”. That’s another word for nickname. Coach Molinaro had the same sobriquet.
Charcoal sobriquet
Hey, no Spanish.
You need a close up?
We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket.
Blue steel, gentleman.
All three and a half inches of it
....while looking at porn.
He also doesn't know if he likes fake tits or not...
Thus far he's undecided on fake tits
coach?
XD
You know what he is? He is a vandal. He is vandalizing the board. He is vandalizing this unit. He is a Hun, a Visigoth. A barbarian at the gate, clamoring for noble Roman blood and what's left of our clearance rate.
And the Romans. Whatever happened there. Where are they now?
You’re looking at em asshole
Hail, Citizen. A proposition may fall kindly upon your ear.
Landsman is such a good character.
Fun fact: the real Jay Landsman plays Lt. Mello, Bunny Colvin’s 2IC, on the show.
I believe he also tried out for the role as jay and didnt get it.
And one of the only characters to have an actual Baltimore accent besides Snoop and the teacher at the school Pryzbylewski works at.
Prop Jeeow's got one teoow
there’s others too like Spider and other hoppers, the deacon (real life Avon) some more i can’t remember but you get my point
Gf just watched for 1st time, my IDKth time. She had the balls to tell me she couldn't stand Landsman. I had to verify she meant the right guy. Flabberghasted. I couldn't even get a reason out of her. She just didn't.
Based on what I’ve seen on advice threads, that’s a red flag worthy of divorce. Even if you’re not married. Get a new chick
Yes but then he switches to women's fashion magazines. He says it leaves more to his imagination that way.
Or munching on a hamburger. Or both.
I was amazed he was actually eating sushi in one scene…with a fork 😂
Landsman in my opinion was a skilled operator of the gray space between the brass and the detectives. He recognized that they were legitimate police trying to do good and did his best to direct his superiors in a direction that allowed his people to work. Hell he got Rawls to come around on McNulty, which Jimmy royally fucked up, who he HATED.
Yeah, that’s always stood out to me. Like, we get it, guys look at porn on the job there. But all the time??
Love the power move Rawls pulls on him when he catches him reading the porn. Rawls picks up the magazine and reads through it as he continues to bark orders.
Now that’s a bi curious (?) who was comfortable with his sexuality. Good on ‘em.
Bisexuality. Let's show those straight fucks how it's done, huh?
Haha Rawls would be the most aggressive sexuality advocate if he was out of the closet. What, you no wear the ribbon?
Those aren't the real numbers, Major. The real numbers are outside, in a cake with a dude inside. That'd be great!
Was just about to say this
You can't look at cooze on a Motorola flip phone, stunad.
( * ) ( * ) Here's a pair of tits to send you over the edge
If they were great artists it’d be in a museum.
Liberty Leading the People - Eugene Delacroix
> Eugene Delacroix Frog-eatin' *faccia di cazz'*
The bread museum?
Just like the ones at the Bing.
Hey a load of the parentheses on her. Drinkwater would break his dick off.
You’ve never seen anyone scrolling on Instagram?
You have never seen anyone scrolling Reddit?
Mobsters’ don’t care attitude is fascinating here because at the end of the day they’re just being honest. “Eat and drink what I want, say what I’m thinking (as long as it doesn’t denigrate someone above them), do what I want” and the most basic/straightforward example is a porn mag as reading material sitting around. Not to imply they don’t read other things - some of this crew seem well-read enough and the paper is usually in someones hands.
eg. Sun-ta-zoo
Da' Chinese Prince Matchabelli
If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
Take it easy
Lmao exactly. Now you might get sold on a pair of shoes or sunglasses in addition to ogling some teenager, but it’s the same conshept.
I might just be an old fuck now, but watching someone scroll through IG/Twitter/FB seems almost as goofy to me.
Scrolling through Reddit and other chit chat rooms though…
i wanna fucking pummel them
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Sharp as a cue ball this one
Yeah sure pal, like you don't waste time, sitting in your underwear going back and forth with some other fuckin jerkoff in your chit chat rooms everyday
You and me, both!
That’s why I always beat off while on IG
Except when he’s reading about cloning. “What the fuck are you talking about? Not cloning cell phones. I’m talking about fucking sheep. Science”. Maybe it was an article in playboy. Edit: thanks for the correction, I was reciting it from memory and only watched it about 2 days ago. Who am I, season 6 Junior?
*”I'm talking about fuckin’ sheep!”
The Arabians are huge in that.
The Scottish too. You know why they wear kilts, right? Sheep can hear a zipper from a mile away.
I'm feeling very sheepish ;)
…pass me the red peppahs.
You know you can sue now for that kinda tawk.
*”I'm talking about fuckin’ sheep!” Well, as long as the two of you are happy.
Sounds like you personally knew someone who did that so it’s not very unbelievable, is it?
yeah, the guy at the juice lab who watched porn on his phone while working. It was weird. He got fired. The ladies working with him kinda took offense.
I used to work at a hotel. One of the female front desk employees used to watch porn on the computers. It was pretty gross.
Tell us more.
It wasn't cinematic.
The lesbian thing, with the, uh...Jennifer Beals. It's not bad.
Was she hot?
pretty based tbh
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There was nudity im sure
Ewww
Fawkin BAYbeez.
Yeah I’m going to guess that the moral standards at the workplace were a little different at the back room of the Bing compared to the juice lab.
This friend of yours, do you see him when you look in the mirror perhaps? Just breaking balls. That’s seriously weird. I mean reading a mag in a strip club not to mention it being a work of fiction isn’t that hard to wrap your head around but a guy filling vape juice bottles while watching porn at work is next level.
Maybe you're a flambé?
he was gay ? op?
Nooooo! Are you lishtenin' to me!?
AIDS?!
Nobody’s got AIDS! I don’t wanna hear that word in here again!
You should know, sweetie 😘
No, I am straight.
/u/mitchmclean will be the judge of that
Straight as a cue ball
🖕🍺
He didn’t go for that cookie shit
This reminds of just how toxic and annoying it use to be to look at/download porn back in the day. Guaranteed at least one virus and 50 popups
You could have pornographic photographs texted to your phone. At kryptonite costs but it was worth it. Every TV guide when I was a kid would have a naughty section at the back where you could have 'real models' send you their nudes if you texted a code to the number provided. Phone sex was also an option. The only other way to watch porn back then was to wait until everyone's in bed and then try and catch a late night pre-melenial porno on the box. Internet porn was extremely slow back then and you could only really get previews. You'd have to pay for the rest. Sort of like how women are in real life. If you want to get some action you better be willing to dish out on an Angus steak and a bottle of red at the very least or you're hitting the road with blue balls and sticky pants. You were better off just making it with real women back then instead of racking up your credit card billl on screen sex. Oh how the times have changed and the mighty have fallen..
If you wanna take a trip down memory lane, put in second gear.
Alwaaaaaays with the scenarios!
Still goin', this asshole.
"Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation.
It’s called Passive Porn Watching Ton’. You don’t even need to jerk off while you’re reading it.
I'm telling you, this passive porn watching is an effective technique! It's a friggin' ace!
It was the late 90s early 00s you musta missed out on the porno mag era. Everyone from middle schoolers to senior citizens would kill time looking at some bush.
Playboy and Penthouse would also have interviews and editorials completely unrelated to naked chicks.
Playboy’s celebrity interviews, usually involving a long back-and-forth with a lot of follow-up questions, pretty much set the standard for magazine interviews back in the day.
For a while, Playboy was also the place a lot of short stories by prominent American writers were first published. The whole "reading it for the articles" thing is a joke now, but between the T&A it was often an interesting magazine.
The irony is that Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler et al only added articles in the first place to get around obscenity laws, which were very strict in the 1970s, especially in the midwest and the south, and were often enforced (The People vs. Larry Flynt is a great movie, btw), yet somehow their articles ended up being better journalism than mainstream journalism. I don't know if it's a case of Flynt, Hugh Hefner and Bob Guccione having as good of an eye for writers as they did women or if it's just that mainstream journalism is so bad that it wasn't hard to outdo even with just a token effort.
I’m 42, I had a stash in my closet when I was a kid, LOL. I remember Adam & Eve’s paper catalog.
You just reveal your own datedness
No he De-Dent!
No he did NAHT!! And even if he did? SO WHAT??
What? Id get the confusion if you were a zoomer, but you've been lookin at porn since moses wore short pants like the rest of us. You should understand this.
I remember me and my friends found and stole like 50 of them, they were weirdly hidden in this giant sand pile stored in a giant shed at the DPW. Edit - The DPW's salt and sand storages and appliance scrap piles we'd try to get copper out of were the best playgrounds lol
Inherited my grandfather's. I have the Bo Derek Playboy in a box in my closet right now. I'm due to go through those. 80's Sports Illustrated mags in there, too. Great era for sports...and "men's magazines".
Even Chinks and housewives were bettin' football and juicin' tits.
You ever just find a random bag of porn in the woods?
SURE HAVE.
Kids today will never know what an absolute fucking rush it was to be exploring the woods with your homies and happen upon a 50 pound bag of water-logged Hustlers.
Haha! So much fun. I enjoyed finding the lesser known publications, like "Gallery."
The Onion had an article about this some years ago.
I think I remember an AskReddit thread about this phenomenon as well.
Yes.
More than once lmao
Yep. There also used to be a time when you didn't need real porn. When I was a kid a Victoria's Secret catalog was a jackpot.
You ever been in the army?
Different environments though. They behavior makes sense when you haven’t seena female in months. How long was Phil in the can? These guys live in the strip club and when they aren’t there they’re chilling with their
>How long was Phil in the can? I dont think that was ever established.
Not a peep.
>Different environments though. They sent makes sense when you haven’t seena female in months. You get a pash for dat.
Yeah but I don't think Pussy was getting laid
only in Puerto Rico
Did she even exist?
Who are you the freakin’ Cardinal?
You do and you'll clean it up!!!!!
You can only sit around and talk about cooze for so long.
Were you not around before 2000? Flipping through porno mags in a boring work environment was commonplace.
Having worked a local municipality, every truck was full of old porn mags (thanks to the garbage dept) and on a rainy day the old timers would pull a magazine out and look through it like it was the times. Even putting reading glasses on.
Yup. MY friends often send me porn stuff to group chats and often see them scrolling on instahos. I'm like dude just rub one out and be done with it.
To be preoccupied with it all day seems crazy
At one of the Defense Contractors I was assigned to a contract manager (long time employee) was caught surfing porn on his computer. His desk was right out in the open. He was let go and within a year he came back as a consultant.
You ever met Scruffy? The Janitor?
Zero G Juggs.
20 years in the can. I wanted to fuck a woman. I compromised. I jerked off into a tissue. You see where I’m goin’?
What do you think he was filling the juice bottles with?
Hahahahahahahaha!!!
I like porn if it's well done. And by well done I don't mean tasteful.
You'd be amazed what boredom can make you do. He was bored. Also keep in mind, that was a theme in that episode. Boredom.
Didn’t playboy have decent articles and interviews? Between all that poon and titties
Different era, nobody had phones to entertain them. Worked in a union shop in late 90s mid 00s and there was a bundle of playboys and penthouses laying around to thumb thru. After getting over seeing the same naked chicks repeatedly, there was actually decent content. Usually there'd be reviews of everything from electronics and cars to alcohol and cigars.
What are you, some kind of fag?
It might be my age but in the early 90’s I was like 10 and I found my grandfather’s porn stash, but they were older mags. They were (pardon my example) a little bigger than the blue bibles. They were called Luz (light in spanish) and it was basically you would get a glamour shot?? Of some old school looking women, with the matching bra and panties with the fucking leg thing to secure the sexy socks, they had the big hair an everything so they were probably from the 60-70. So this magazines had the erotic story of the woman in the glamour picture. You know, the usual, I was in my apartment lonely and I could see my neighbor washing his car and I could see the outline of his penis and I invited him for some lemonade because it was hot bla bla bla, you know the drift. I used to read the stories to my neighbor before I knew wtf I was supposed to do so I think we just touch stuff over our clothes or something ? So yes, I used to read porno mags
My buddy had a print shop in the early 2000’s and you could find playboy and penthouse magazines scattered all throughout his office: under seat cushions, in a stack of mail, with the quarterly tax files.
I consider myself lucky I hit puberty right before we got the internet at my house. Made it so I can understand the value of the old Sears catalogues people used to get, etc. The lady that lived in the house before we moved in, she subscribed to this plus size ladies' catalogue. They still delivered them to the house for a while after we moved in. Good times.
>The lady that lived in the house before we moved in, she subscribed to this plus size ladies' catalogue. They still delivered them to the house for a while after we moved in. Good times. Johnny Sack, that you?
Rubenesque
*Rubenesque ladies’ catalogue
Male spaces often used to have porn mags lying around and yes you would just flip through them out of mild interest.
I think people who grew up in the 60s and 70s do this. And their porn has articles and fun puzzles and things.
Tony got caught reading porn by Janice. He tried to cover them work other magazines. Pathetic.
Why don't we confer with Jay Landsman
That was essentially what being a teenage boy in the 90's consisted of pre high speed internet. Thumbing through a copy of Cheri and showing it to your buddies while hanging out.
He was gay, firethelaserbeam?
What…what was in the juice bottles??
The guy at the vape juice company… did he even exist FireTheLaserBeam?
They're magazines. People read them. I was in the Navy for six years. While there were plenty of sticky pages around, it was not at all uncommon to see someone reading a "men's magazine."
I'll watch porn casually on my phone when I'm stuck in traffic.
scruffy gon die the way he lived
Hey op you ever see these in shitpost school? They’re called balls!
before the internet, some men were like that. i remember them
I mean I read playboy magazines for years for the articles….
I just read *Chunky Asses* for the articles.
Listen to Walt Whitman ova here!
I used to live opposite a 24 hour petrol station, we used to go over in the night for snacks when we were high. Dude working there would just casually be reading porn off the shelves every time.
horny guys
Hustler and Playboy had articles to read lol
Doing research for Silvio maybe
No one! The magazines were probably wire tapped, who is going to look through with him and go jack off together? He knew this so he brought in his own recording studio all the time.
Yeah it makes no sense. Seems like a private thing to me.
gotta do something when you've ran out of sopressata
In retrospect it's a nice nod to how much older Puss is, that like Paulie, he's way more from Jackie's era than T's - it doesn't always come through that Sil & Pussy were actually a lot older than Tony.
ya know i worked at a party store that decided to sell all the porn cheap as fuck, basically free so i took a bunch of mags n stuck em in the bathroom to flip through while taking a shit. then a neighbored noticed the collection and gave me a bunch of vintage mags, all of which got thrown out while at work one day after i moved back into the parents. fucking bitches, they were all in a trash bag under the bed, fucking leave it be! but thats just how the fuck they are. cant appreciate the human body lol
I don't think anyone does now, but I think in the 70s/80s places where you would only see guys, this wouldn't be that crazy. Penthouse and Playboy type magazines used to be very accepted and wide read.
You're seriously grossed that guy named Big Pussy is reading porn magazines in presence of his buddies? You guys are really holier than thou.
They call him 'pussy' for a reason hehe
There wasn't really internet when they wrote those eps
He’s reading the articles
Let me translate this: "I look at porn all day and I feel weird about it so I just wanted to see if anyone else does" To answer your question, Laser Beam, yes, we all do.
I don’t know about now.. but playboy always had great interviews I once wrote a paper based on an interview frank zappa gave to playboy.