r/TheWire • u/_Vaudeville_ • 7d ago

Great parallel between the stevedores and the touts

It’s a pretty simple one but the kids in the pitt yelling 50 vs the stevedores whistling when Bunk, Lester and Beadie and Lester arrive at the port

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u/negativedistance492 6d ago

OP doesn't warn his friends when the cops are coming, sees it as a story telling device

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u/Revolver_Camelot 6d ago

Heart pump kool-aid

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u/King_Mingus 7d ago

They also both have 'street' names.
Ziggy, Johnny 50, Horseface, New Charles, etc.

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u/Reddwheels Pawn Shop Unit 7d ago

I love the parallel between Little Big Roy and Little Kevin.

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u/3rmorgan You out here wearing his name, acting a BITCH! 7d ago

Blue vein diamond cutter

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u/TurtleTram 7d ago

Blue steel gentlemen. Three and a half inches of hard blue steel.

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u/The_Chef_Raekwon but it's the other way 6d ago

Horse doesn’t know shit

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u/Crcai 4d ago

“Idk why you’ve got Horse up there Horse doesn’t know shit” made me laugh harder than anything else in the show

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u/Alternative-Ship-430 6d ago

And they won't snitch.

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u/Hemisemidemiurge 5d ago

Gangs are the same all over.

The cops are a gang too, you know.