re: What are you favorite quotes from The Wire?

"All in the game, yo." I used this a lot against people defending Breonna Taylor.

"Somewhere back in the beginning of time, this district had itself a civic dilemma of epic proportions. The city council had just passed a law that forbade alcoholic consumption in public areas; on the streets and on the corners. But the corner is, it was and it always will be the poorman's lounge. It's where a man wants to be on a hot summer's night. It's cheaper than a bar. Catch a nice breeze and watch the girls go on by. But the law is the law so what are the western cops gonna do? They arrest every dude for tipping back a High Life, there'd be no time for any other kind of police work. And if they look the other way, they open themselves up to all kinds of flaunting, all kinds of disrespect. Now, this is before my time but somewhere back in the 50's or the 60's, there was a moment of goddamn genius by some nameless smokehound who comes out the Cut-Rate one day and on his way to the corner he slips that just bought pint of elderberry into a paper bag. A great moment of civic compromise. That small wrinkled arse paper bag allowed the corner boys to have their drink in peace and gave us permission to go and do police work. The kind of police work that's actually worth the effort, that's actually worth taking a bullet for. Dozerman got shot last night buying three vials. Three. There has never been a paper bag for drugs. Until now."

Hamsterdam

Slim Charles: Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war and now there ain't no goin' back. I mean, shite, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.

The Greek: “And of course, I’m not even Greek.”

My favorite scene of the whole series:

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
God... damn.

Hardware Store Employee:
I see you got the Dewalt cordless. Your nailgun, Dewalt 410.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
Yeah. The trouble is, you leave it in a truck for a while, need to step up and use the b*tch, the battery don't hold up, you know?

Hardware Store Employee:
Yeah, cordless'll do that. You might want to consider the powder-actuated tool. The Hilti DX 460 MX or the Simpson PTP. These two are my cadillacs. Everything else on this board is second best, sorry to say. Are you contracting, or just doing some work around the house?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
No, we work all over.

Hardware Store Employee:
Full time?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
No, we had about 5 jobs last month.

Hardware Store Employee:
At that rate, the cost of the powder-actuated guns justifies itself.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
You say power?

Hardware Store Employee:
Powder.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
Like gunpowder?

Hardware Store Employee:
Yeah. The DX 460 is fully automatic, with a .27 caliber charge. Wood, concrete, steel to steel... She'll throw a fastener into anything, and for my money, she handles recoil better than the Simpson or the P3500. Now, you understand what I mean by recoil ?

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
Yeah, the kickback. I'm with you.

Hardware Store Employee:
That's right.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
.27 caliber, huh?

Hardware Store Employee:
Yeah, not large ballistically, but for driving nails, it's enough. Any more than that, you'd add to the recoil.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
Man, sh*t. I seen a tiny-arse .22 round-nose drop a n*gger plenty of days, man. Motherf***ers get up in you like a pinball, rip your arse up. Big joints, though... Big joints, man, just break your bones, you say, "f*** it." I'm gonna go with this right here, man. How much do I owe you?

Hardware Store Employee:
Six-sixty-nine plus tax. [Snoop counts out a stack of cash] No, no, you just pay at the register.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
Nah, man, you go ahead and handle that for me, man. And keep the rest for your time.

Hardware Store Employee:
This is $800.

Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson:
So what, man? You earned that buck like a motherf***er, man. Keep that sh*t.

“Bunk: Boy, them Greeks and those twisted-arss names.

McNulty: Man, back off the Greeks. They invented civilization.

Bunk: Yeah? Arse freaking too.”




Norman: You're just a weak-arse mayor of a broke-arse city.”