YOU MIGHT BE A BROOKLYNITE IF:

1. Your most overused adjective is "fuckin"- "eh, fuckin guy."
2. Instead of crickets at night, you hear car horns, shouts, and police sirens.
3. You can curse in 10 languages, and you learned them all from various friends in public school.
4. You speak like a mafioso even if you're not Italian.
5. You can never find "real pizza" and "real bagels" anywhere outside of Brooklyn.
6. You like the Beastie Boys even if you hate rap.
7. You ever got mugged and was proud of it.
8. You can instinctively feel the shift from one neighborhood to another.
9. You know what a bodega is.
10. Your first beer was at the age of 10.
11. You know which blocks to avoid.
12. At least one person you know is in the Russian mob.
13. You have ever been stuck on the Belt Parkway for 4 hours because some guy by Rockaway Pkwy plowed his Econovan into the side and the whole fucking highway stopped up.
14. Your friend's parents teach you how to properly roll a joint.
15. You refer to Manhattan as "the city."
16. Anyone who wears a RedSox hat in your presence dies.
17. Your parents were too ghetto to take you to Six Flags so they put you on the Cyclone in Coney Island when you were a kid.
18. You hate tourists, yuppies, and white people even if you yourself are white.
19. The juiciest piece of gossip in HS was "who got jumped."
20. Whenver you go outside of Brooklyn, being from BK gets you street cred.
21. Whenever you go to another country, you get laid because you're from Brooklyn.
22. Homeless people and prostitutes are entirely invisible to you.
23. You have ever gotten drunk as shit, passed out on the Q or F train in Manhattan, and woken up in Coney.
24. Your relatives that moved out of Brooklyn come back, and so does the accent.
25. Shit's fucked up, yo.
26. You overpronounce the "o" in "douche-bag." DOOOOOOOOSH BAG!
27. Your friend's dog owns more bling than you do.
28. Your idea of a backyard is a Chia Pet.
29. You don't wanna know WHAT the fuck is going on upstate.
30. You are in your twenties and never bothered to get a driver's license.
31. You will beat the shit out of anyone who bashes your favorite sports team.
32. Brooklyn College is the most expensive lawn you've ever seen.
33. Kingsborough is referred to as "Harvard on the Bay."
34. You always know when cops are coming.
35. Each race/culture in your boro has a "territory."
36. Someone you know knew John Gotti.
37. Your friends all get the same tattoo, and don't consider themselves a gang.
38. Your first car was a piece of shit from the junkyard that got 2 miles to the gallon but looked like a battle tank.
39. You've been arrested, you smoke, drink, and fuck like nobody's business, but your grandma still thinks you're a "nice boy."

AND FINALLY

40. You can take the boy outta Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn outta the boy!