The Wire | Like A 40 Degree Day 

Marlo was always on the lookout for smart employees. He got Chris, Snoop, and went after Michael aggressively. He was onto something there.

Job requirements: Sell heroin to addicts, probably go to jail, murder people, probably go to jail again but this time the org falls apart and no one helps you, sell more drugs to addicts, watch the addicts’ lives fall apart. Pay: $9 an hour and you live in a vacant house with no running water

@@phunkyphresh3799 - Couldn't have said it better myself. They are all just pawns. The one making the real money are the kings like Avon and Marlo.

Except for Slim Charles. He laid back, kept a low profile, shrewdly played the game, and ended up on top.

Dread lock dude was actually pretty competent, if he had a crew that was atleast as competent as him.

Elite comment

+Matthew Segura He'll suddenly become one of the most dangerous things in America.

He's hell on granny's crown though

He's pretty sharp to me

@@Mr_Originality Like a 40° day!!

library cards are only useful if you can read.

Zack Kolin meme worthy expression lol

Thought I was the only one

You can definitely tell Shamrock got some pimp to em. Just look at the scene with and big girl 😆

No Bodie?

n543576 he wasnt on the muscle side of the barksdale crew

Yea he was he became one of their Lt's after he killed Wallace.

n543576 bodie was a crew chief , slim charles exclusively trained muscle and did murders same with chris and snoop thats what i mean by muscle

Ummm i dont know about you but when shit pop off when you're selling drugs and a rival gang is stepping in to take over everyone on those corners become muscle its not like a company where everyone has strict roles to abide by its a tad more flexible and reactive then that. And to add to that he originally wasn't even a crew chief he got promoted after D'angalo went inside.

Slim alive and out, Stringer dead, js

It was just the downfall of the streets /game .. I forget what episode it was but they mentioned how shit is way different and now the only ones on the streets are dopefiend and crack babies.. the 2 niggaz standing next to slim charles represent that crack baby era.

Haha, that's interesting, and it reminds me of how McNulty sees himself as a policeman. Considering the low level of competition in Baltimore, he's might be one of the best by default. That you can say the same about String is another interesting parallel in the show. "He has come to believe that he is always the smartest fuck in the room...It's not his fault, because let's face it--he's not going to Johns Hopkins or joining Mensa, he's taking a job with the Baltimore police department." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MFg4bhBV7pk.html "You know something Lester, I do believe there aren't five swinging dicks in this entire department who can do what we do." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zgTRPjHVrFE.html

Good point

@@naruto1coolestfan facts

His name is Gerard, the dumb one is called Sapper. Gerard always looks bad because the two do a lot of work together... including trying a hit on Omar with his granny on a Sunday. Gerard actually survives a few gunfights by the time he gets locked away.

Gerard survived the gun fight where the dude didn't wait on the call. The only one actually.

@@slykoopanafreshkangol5939 he survived the shootout with omars crew to

That's his O-face.

I'm on it

Wasn't even a B crew... C- minus and that was all because of Slim. I liked that they showed Barksdale at the top when the show started, then it's slow descent after dealing with Omar & the police.... Then it really took a downturn when a hungry Marlo came after them. They used this same formula in Game of Thrones with the Baratheons and Starks.

@KingDrudge Ha ha, awesome observation :)

I mean he's in Maryland. Hardly anybody uses Celcius in America let alone the ghetto of Baltimore lol

His character is American.

Lmaooooo

He sounds lika British person complaining about weather 40 degrees in Maryland is cold as a bitch

Straight up he had a ton of potential

Sheeeeeeiiiiit. The potential of a 40° day

Would have been funny, but this wasn't a show that wanted or needed any regular comic relief.

@Drake Ayyy

Lol I'm used to seeing these comments on sopranos videos.

😆🤣😂

Simpleton had to have my name too, smh

why are people pointing this out like it means something how dumb

how about you go walk into heavy traffic

Well it was in the script. He doesn't need to know that 40F is around 4C.

@@kewltony you’re dumb as shit bro LOL

"We ALMOST walked outta this meeting with Stringer with some godamn dignity"

That's a grow ass man

@@Seattlefan77 one who's mother wasn't a colored lady

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

tswagg504 In the south, ya'll shut down cities for a inch of snow too.

tswagg504 : In Tampa, 50 degrees means everyone is wearing jackets, mittens, boots, and trying to warm themselves because everyone is freezing their asses off.

Andy Moore they do...it doesn't snow often so we don't have the tires or the trucks to clear the snow....it's dangerous as fuck because the cities aren't prepared for snow.

Andy's not lying. We had one inch of snow in Baton Rouge one year. The whole damn campus was closed.

tswagg504 i live in Orlando, shit 40 degrees we’re all wearing coats and jackets 😓

Ironically it was his fault Avon's crew was done he cost them both cash and valuable soldiers like bey bird little man savino stinkum because he kept breaking the rules of the game the Gant hit got bird life without parole he even fucked up the Orlando hit because kima got shot now they lost d for 20 but stringer had him killed after he sold out bey little man gets killed on stringer's orders followed by snitching on Avon then setting up the mozune hit which not only causes the fall of the barksdale crew but it cost stringer his life

@@redhawk44109 All in the game….

@@brendanwalsh826 not when the guy keeps breaking the rules and it costs your crew everything

@@redhawk44109 that’s the game.. rules get broken dudes get locked up or smoked… game don’t change just the players

☠️😂 Ded!

good one

lol

Slim was better than Stringer and was even starting to be Avon's real #2 when he came back

Hence the look that Stringer gave at the end.

Jay Contreras bro no we’re not it’s been like 40 degrees all week and hasn’t been cold at all

Why does it get so fucking cold over there? Those are antarctic temperatures. 😱

A man with no country

Scringer Bell

​@El Chicano He must have heard String do the 40 degree day routine before. I'm sure you've had a boss who had a few stock phrases like that. I know I have. By 0:45 Shamrock sighs to himself, "OK here comes the big finale."

Depends. If you're from California it's cold, but not if you're from Baltimore. Objectively, 40 is chilly, but not cold. Thus, it's rather unremarkable.

you from florida Jeff?

40 is manageable. It's a warm day in Russia or Minnesota.

I'm from Miami that's end of the world weather.. but now that I'm here upstate NY that's light jacket weather. Lol

@Stringer Bell, actually it's 4.5 degrees above freezing if you use normal units :)

Yeah it's sort of a Benchmark for a really hot day which makes it a little more difficult for us to pick upa

LOL

Avon ended up hiring a couple of east siders later hahaha

He's using the temperature analogy to criticise his soldiers for mediocre results. "Not too hot, not too cold", just middle of the road, unremarkable, "Not great, not terrible". Stringer is angry at their excuse for not killing Omar: "Oh, at least we got one of them", which is obviously not good enough for Stringer, he only cares about them succeeding in killing Omar.

I thought it was pretty self-explanatory. I mean, he lays it out by degree. Smh.

Tbf the metaphor is abstract. The joke, in the end, is the guy saying "like a 40-degree day". because String uses this vague metaphor

This scene is like microcosm of the entire series. If you can’t read between the lines, you won’t ever understand it.

No brains either, apparently.

Slim wasn't Stringer's muscle he was Avon's

Shit 78 and below is hoodie weather on the west coast

@@bobnewhart4318 shit we got mfs on the grill when it's in the 30s in Cleveland

Eric Foreskin niggas would damn near be barbecuing and shit

For real. If it's 40 degrees in December and the court is clear you better believe I'll be out thete

Nearly impossible.

Fahrenheit. That's why i as a Eurpean didn*t get that scene at first, because in Austria a 40 degree day would be the epitome of a hot f*cking day

In America, we only do Fahrenheit... if you couldn't tell by the number, he explains it through his examples.

Huh?