I guaranfuckingtee you I will see some brothers walking down 36th Street in West Philly in their $315 Lebron James sneakers, talking on their iPhone, wearing their $150 throwback Jordan Jersey, and headed to the corner store to try and buy some Colt 45 with their EBT card in the next two weeks. Vote Obama on November 6 and get a free pair of Lebrons, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
Nike charging $315 for new LeBron James sneaker
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Nike Inc. /quotes/zigman/235840/quotes/nls/nkeNKE+0.25% will charge about $315 for a pair of their new LeBron X basketball sneakers as part of an overall price hike for its athletic shoes, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Overall, Nike will raise shoe and clothing prices by 5% to 10% in the face of increased costs for labor, materials and shipping, the newspaper reported, citing analysts. The new LeBron X shoe, named after LeBron James, who led the Miami Heat to win the NBA title in June, will feature motion sensors that measure how high the wearer jumps, the newspaper said. Currently, the LeBron 9 PS Elite basketball shoe sells at retail for $250.
Insanity. They are SHOES FFS
Wonder how much LeBron gets per sneaker? Not that I give a shit … one niggah stealing from another niggah … nothing unusual there.
But … motion sensors??? Holy shit.
I wonder if I could write an App that would show where the nearest flash riot is … put a little LED screen at the tip of the sneaker. I’d probably make millions.
You can get everything else on an EBT, so why not some jazzy ho pullin’ sneakers?
If you’re easily upset by gutter lingo wrapped up funky but honest satire, don’t click the link below
And if you do decide to check it out….take a chill pill first.
Raunchy but dead on.
Chapter – It’s Free Swipe Yo EBT (Explicit)
FBD “I’d probably make millions.”
Only if you accepted EBT cards.
Yo It’s ’bouttime you had uh post fo’ da black youf community. yo’ God damn right ah’m gonna git me uh pair o’ deez fly sneakers. ah’m gonna wait in line fo’ days if ah gots ta. Hell, ah don’ gots anythin` bettah ta do, it’s not like ah gots uh motha fuckin job. How be ah gonna pay fo’ dem? ah’m glad you asked. ah git deez oxycontins from deez cracker doctors on muh motha fuckin medicaid, an’ ah sell dem in da hood fo’ some cash. ah sells em ta deez mad stupid whitey trash cracker kids dat roll into da hood.
ah expect dere ta be murders ova deez fly kicks. da mad stupid homies dat don’ gots da cash an’ is too damn lazy ta rob uh convenience swapmeet or do some purse snatching is going ta gots ta use they pistols ta git some Lebron’s. uh black nigga in muh motha fuckin community simply mus’ gots some Lebron Nike’s ta git any respect or any lady box. we’s don’ care dat cracker Phil Knight be causing deaf, cruize-by’s an’ murders fo’ his ova-priced, Viet Nam slave shack made kicks; we’s gotta gots dem, an’ we’s’ll do whatever we’s gots ta git dem what ‘chew thinkin’ man?
People still say “fly”?
Little do the Bros know that these have GPS tracking built in, (just like “OnStar”).
They might cut off their ankle GPS tracking, but you know they won’t take these off for anything.
Actual picture from biggy’s facebook timeline:
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Gosh, $315 for about $50 worth of materials and $5 worth of Chinese slave labor to make.
Marketed to people that are probably functionally illiterate and depend on the fed.gov for rent, food and health care.
Paid for by the proceeds of drug buys, pimping out the ‘hos or fencing stolen goods – oops, I mean welfare checks.
Yup, sounds like a winner to me!
Off to buy more Nike stock!!!
For $315 I can buy some very fine handmade boots, made in Wisconsin by Americans, and likely to last my entire lifetime. Maybe if I can qualify for EBT I’ll finally get a pair.
“Free Shit Army Shoe’s” are anything but free!
I guaranfuckingtee you I’m going to see some dopey suburban gomer cut me off in an Audi because his frumpy beet-faced ass is either not making payments or has had his home loan re-written.
Fucking mortgage holders. Scumb of the earth.
What a bunch of worthless fucking losers.
Conspicuous Consumption is a sign of ignorance.
I believe people should be free to buy anything they choose with THEIR money.
Personally, I was brought up by Depression era parents who practiced frugality because they had to in order to make ends meet.
I wait for a Kohls 30% off coupon to arrive in the mail. They always do. I then wait for a sale on sneakers. I then purchase a pair of New Balance sneakers that were regularly $50 and on sale for $40, for $28. I will then wear them for at least a year. When they start to get worn out, they become my next pair of grass cutting sneakers.
Meanwhile, someone in West Philly who is on food stamps and living in subsidized low income housing sees no problem forking over $315 so they can impress the other brothers in the hood. I do have a problem with that, because I’m effectively paying for those sneakers.
Then there are the dumbass suburban parents who will buy these sneakers for their precious darlings using one of their 15 credit cards and paying them off at 19% interest over 3 years for a total cost of $500. These are the same people looking for mortgage bailouts.
Gotta go. I’m headed down to my local Foot Locker to sleep out and be the first in line to get my LeBrons.
Hope – $50 worth of materials????? Try a couple of bucks. The rest is marketig, labor, shipping, retailing, overheads, and profit.
Where admin stores his Kohl’s coupons. It get’s opened at least once a year, or so he says….
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It is refreshing to know that me and admin are buying a couple of Colt 45 swigging, 9mm carrying, multiple baby-daddy’s some fine Nike Lebron sneaks.
I’m taking the over on the prediction that 3 people will die in the stampede for these shoes.
Yeah I’m with DaveL….there gonna be some serious riots over damn shoes. Not like it hasn’t happened before.
I wear boots, not “sneekers”….
As Iron Maiden used to say:
If you’re gonna die, die with your boots on,
If you’re gonna try, well stick around,
Gonna cry, just move along,
If you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die.
@DaveL: nope, 7 Million will die.
Thus sayeth the prophecies.
SMH.. I see all the Racist are all over this, truly believing that basket ball sneakers are only worn by inner city (black) youth.. Is it any different from $1500 dollar loafers that look like some bare feet/ fayva shoes?? ( No its the same thing) People atleast those with common sence understand that this is to keep people with less means, with less means.. These sneakers will be marketed in communities that doesnt have the revenue to purchase such things.
we all are victims to this type of marketing!! from our sofa to the car we drive!!!! Just think that $500+ you all spend monthly on a car that loss value soon as you drove it off the lot, could have helped secured a future for your children maybe even Grand children by investing in their education… SHAME ON YOU!!!!! GODS RATH WILL BE SWIFT !!!! Prejudice, judgmental or racist towards anyone is like being that way towards GOD !!! All men were and are created in his Likeness… With That said GO TO H*&#….
ruserious
I think you should have paid more attention in school so you would know how to spell and write an understandable sentence with proper punctuation. Ignorance is a choice. Racism has nothing to do with it.
Thanks for enlightening us with your lack of intelligence.
I tremble at the thought of God’s RATH.
what ???
I can’t use my EBT card to buy some LeBron sneakers ???
what the hell has happened to this country ???
RATH is an acronym I use when talking to my Negro chill’un.
Really Angry Towards Homies
Believe me, dey know what I be talkin’ about!
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DaveL, you may have the over on the riots, I’ll take it on the shooting/mugging deaths come school time.
The thugs only get up early to kill some poor, son of ignorant parents, bastard on his way to or from school.
Happens more than reported, would be my guess. LeBron should be proud, Jordan had that title for many years.
We all know the urban youts mainly kill each other now. Once the free shit stops, and they have gutted their own, then the rest of us should have many miles between us and them.
Good luck America, won’t be long and we won’t have to talk about stuff like this, food, shelter and sickcare will consume our conversations. Fiat on, and on.
You may not be able to buy those fly Lebron’s on your SNAP/EBT, but you can buy these:
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I guess the don’t sell lobsters at the SNAP markets in the hood
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Adidas answer to Nike.
This shirt was aimed at the black yout demographic, can you tell?
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“I wait for a Kohls 30% off coupon to arrive in the mail. They always do. I then wait for a sale on sneakers. I then purchase a pair of New Balance sneakers that were regularly $50 and on sale for $40, for $28.”
—-Admin
You’ve got it half right. Kohl’s is cool. New Balance bites the big banana. Try Skechers. Much more comfortable.
Old men are so easily manipulated.
I sport the New Balance as well (coupon+sale as well.)
@SSS – Skechers are for old people who are trying to look cool.
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Seriously, the world is too screwed up to fix without a total reset.
Admin and TPC
New Balance sneakers suck, I tell you. They suck because they hurt my feet. When you get older, you’re looking for warm feet in a comfortable shoe. Just give it time, you snotty little whippersnappers. You’ll find out what I’m talking about.
May the blisters of a thousand marathon runners plague your miserable toes.
You live in Tucson. If you want warm feet, take your shoes off. It’s 105 degrees year round.
SSS trying to seem young
Doh!! SSS returning sneakers because they’re uncomfortable.
I’m amazed that these did not catch on.
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No point in killin’ a homie if you’re just gonna get your new (stolen) kicks all covered in blood because you have to hack his feet off to get them.
I_S
Gang-banger/NBA wannabee’ shoes, the aspirations of the FSA.
I hate expensive shoes with a passion – my ex-wife spent my kid’s college fund on shoes.
Anyways, I always pitied the poor kids in school who got beat up for wearing non-nikes/addidas/jordans/etc. Luckily I was the big kid in school so my Payless shoes were in fashion.
What is it with fat guys and New Balance shoes? More comfortable? Wider sizes?
Both wearing New Balance:
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LeBrons will be the envy of every ritalin pickled suburbanite. Sorry folks, you can click your New Balance’s together and utter “There’s no place like Kohls… There’s no place like kohls….” but some fucking deadbeat on your street will have shoeboxes full of dopeness for their kids, courtesy of the taxpayers all the same.
SSS: Wear your Skechers. Unless you’re running, NB is for old people who don’t think they’re old yet or chicks sore from the heels they SHOULD wear, especially when cooking….
No less:
Doc Martens, 8-eye at least, waffle sole.
‘Didas, retro, no laces
Vans retro “Off The Wall”
When you see a bitch in her own LeBrons, tell her they’re ugly. Then say you’re kidding, they make her figure look exquisite.
Listen to me and be saved from eternal lameness.
AWD I think they need some balance in their lives…
A-dubs: IT’S TRUE!
My fatass suburbanite fsa dipshit best buddy gets them because he says they come in wide sizes for his fatass flat feet.
Probably,
but it’s okay, guys that wear New Balance’s can’t see their feet anyway
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My dad weighed about 350 lbs and all he ever wore was New Balances.
They’re doing a bang-up business these days. Most American men can’t see their feet.
The “N” stands for nerd, right?
9 out of 10 accountants agree, New Balance shoes purchased at Kohl’s are cheap..
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In the mid nineties I worked for a custom machinery designer/manufacturer. We built a prototype shoe splitter for Nike (they ground up the soles to be spread on track surfaces). For testing they sent us a bunch of big boxes full of shoes. I found four or five pairs that fit me and could find no defects in them at all. I’m still wearing them today. I’m probably set for at least another decade.
I am sad at mankinds want of material things while not acknowledging that their soul is not material and that mankind gives power to those with material possessions or ‘fiat’
My dad weighed about 350 lbs -AWD
Is this where your obsession with mass began? Do you think that your father, his weighltess soul, has ceased to exist?
So why, AWD do you take to heart these things and make that what you loved something to dislike? You do realize that energy only changes forms? One step forward they so exist, but you know this for you sense it. Be not sad.
ruserious
Now I know where enlarged prostate came from.
@AWD
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@SSS
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Admin, TPC
I’ll have you know that I am very hip with footwear here in Arizona. In addition to my Smokin’ Skechers, I am a flip-flop fashionista. SSS hits the Tucson fashion runway. Check it out.
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