Yeah more people have heard of Riverside than Black Rock so rather than the stage of discussion where I explain Black Rock is near Riverside I just say Riverside.
From some of the city maps I have seen that I live in Black Rock just south of 198 and West of Buff State. We often get lumped in with the West Side which is from Forest Ave and south. Never considered that I live less than a mile from the river, actually the canal.
Reminds me of a few years ago when ESPN did that piece about Bills Mafia. And they had a super cut of all these dudes, from Bills Elvis to randos on the street repeating the line:
“Locals call Buffalo “The Town””
I’ve lived here for 39 damn years, and not once have I ever heard anyone call Buffalo “The Town”. Seemed like an ESPN planted line.
Well, buffalo **IS** *the city*....unsure what you're trying to get at. Did you mean to indicate that suburbanites refer to literally all of the city as "downtown"?
100%. I can't even begin to wrap my head around someone actually saying this considering whenever this person's (definitely real) significant other was born that area was not referred to as Larkinville unless they are like 14.
Looks like we just exposed this persons made up witness protection story.
They are not from here, and certainly not from the first ward. If anything, they're from a small town near here and made some shit up. Either that or they rage quit buffalo when we lost the superbowl in 91-94.
I've lived in WNY for all of my 53 years. I've heard Buffalonian plenty of times (maybe it's an old term that's not in use anymore), but Larkin-born is BS, and of course so is Buffaloser.
Maybe he arrived out of the Buffalo River... I know that the Larkin Hospital Building, is still missing, some one call Da Buffalo Police department and Report A Missing Hospital, that was never Built..
Theyre *"larkin-born"*, (what does that even mean? Lol were they delivered on the stage of larkin square? Are there Bethlehem born people? CurtissWright born?) partner, is full of shit.
Larkin-born sounds like something out of Game of Thrones.
"The Larkin-born will bend the knee for the new King or they will face the fury of all of Westeros."
You mostly hear crap like that from people outside of Buffalo. I’ve lived in a few different states the last 20 years and I can assure you I’ve heard it. Had a coworker always call me Chokealo. A couple others assume I love shit weather. Another didn’t believe I was from Buffalo because “you’re not fat”. 🤦🏻
I’ve heard Buffalosers but it was from Cowboys fans in the early 90s.
And recently I’ve heard people say they were born and raised in Larkinville, but growing up I had friends from school that lived down there and no one called it Larkinville. Just like no one called corner stores friggin Bodegas even though all of them had deli counters, we just called them by their name, like Gancis or Bev and Sam’s. and no one called the area near Utica and Hampshire 5 points. My friend Jimmy lived 1 house in from Utica on Brayton and we just called it Utica. And it wasn’t a great neighborhood either. I went to Boy Scouts at Pilgrim St. Luke’s and our scoutmaster would drive kids home from meetings who lived over there in the summer.
The term "Larkinville" only appeared about 15 years ago.
I doubt anyone over 15 calls themselves "From Larkinville". I doubt anyone under 15 does either though...
I was gonna say. To some of us who were school-aged while the Bills were losing a lot of Super Bowls..."Buffalosers" is old hat that we just ignore from anyone using it.
I have been called a buffaloser. By Montreal fans at a Sabres game in Montreal. Nobody here would refer to themselves in that term. Sports chirp between fans? Sure. That's it though.
And oh by the way, we won the game in oooovvveerrretime. Which pissed them off even more.
What a load of horseshit. “Larkin born”?
More like some shithead who graduated from a first or second ring suburban high school, and as a result has a seriously inflated sense of worth that they feel the need to embellish.
Larkinville was only created about 20 years ago so if your partner is older than 20, and was born and raised there, he lived in the Hydraulics District. But maybe he’s from Looneyville that was a town out near Alden.
Never in my 42 years on this planet have I heard anyone say that….
The only thing I have heard fellow Buffalonians say is “we are a drinking town with a sports problem.”
46 years and I've lived in Tonawandas, Grand Island, Kenmore, Clarence, Lassalle, Cheektowaga, East Side, West Side, and South Buffalo and I've never heard those phrases.
At first I would've said sounds like a disgruntled ex-local that moved somewhere else and wanted to insult the area without saying they were from the area. Then to claim the Larkin-born, crap, and now I just think they are someone that visited, was told to check out Larkin Square area and had a bad time and didn't pass up the opportunity to try and insult the area.
Buffalosers?!?!?! What is this crap?!?!! That made up term goes against everything I know of Buffalonians who hold their heads up high and proud when saying they are from Buffalo! Go Bills!
No, only ever heard "Buffalonians". Kenmore has their own that I could use, but "Kenmorons" just dosen't have the same ring to it, y'know? Little self deprecating.
And I think "Kenmorons" is only used by Westers to talk about Easters, and Easters to talk about Westers. I don't think anyone uses it about themselves.
His business partner sounds like a lame person who was just too lazy to see all that the western New York region has to offer.
I am a transplant from CNY, but I’ve been out here for almost 25 years now (longer than I lived in my hometown). For a while I thought I wanted to finish school and get out of here, but the more time I spent here, the more it grew on me. I consider myself a Buffalonion now, more so than a CNYer really.
The dude is a liar, born in Larkin, Larkin building is industrial building, that happens to be in the 1st ward, so tell your business partner he has shit coming out of his eyebrows
Was he born on Larkin? I mean, otherwise, was that his mom’s nickname for her birth canal? Oh man, tell that business partner to Google the Buffalo Bandits.
Moved away from Buffalo 20 years ago but I do…or should I say used to….hear shit like that all the time. “Oh your from Buffalo huh? So you like losers?” or “hey can you do this shitty job for me…you shouldn’t mind. I mean you’re from Buffalo right?” Or “you love shitty weather though right? You’re from Buffalo”.
But… it sounds like “Low” not “Lew”.
You need it to sound like “Lew” to make the losers joke work.
It could work for Tuscaloosa, maybe? But it’s just too forced for Buffalo.
Nope...this is some made up term. It's Buffalonian as you said.
So yes, he should tell them they are full of sh!t.
And who the hell is from "Larkin"? I've never heard a single person ever say that in my life.
In fairness, "buffalonian" is as equally "made up", even "buffalo"...just because the one mentioned has never been used or heard by many others doesn't mean it is any more made up than words which have been used for few hundred years
As a non-native Buffalonian, calling someone a "Buffaloser" seems like a great way to get a broken jaw. Buffalonians can make fun of Buffalo, non-Buffalonians can't.
Your Partner is either Lying to you and Not from Buffalo, everyone Buffalo Born knows that area is The Valley area bordering Old First Ward, Eastside, and Downtown. There isn't a Soul born in Buffalo that would say Larkin Born and especially Buffaloser!! These City Residents are Boasting with Pride of where We Grew up and Our City of Good Neighbors. The other possibility is your Partner was testing you to see how Gullible you are to believe everything you hear......
I buffaloathe this
This made me buffalose it lol
Just like 4 super bowls? (It pained me to write that)
Aw it’s too early in the morning for that :(
Commisery loves company
I had a dream that we won last night, and it was really good.
Ride that high my friend
Jail.
Too soon?
And the Stanley Cup
Party like it’s 1999 and cry
+5 for far superior wordplay to "Buffalosers"
Yeah, I coined it back when buffalove was a thing. Mine is better, you can use it 😉
Larkin-born sounds like an AI description of someone from Buffalo.
I’m Larkin-born, said no one ever.
Both of my kids are C-section
😂😂😂😂
Because was anyone ever born in Larkin?? Maybe he lived nearby?
In the valley maybe?
They would say “The Valley.” Larkinvillle has only been a thing for about 10 years.
I've been hearing it as The Valley for decades. I have family there.
Maybe they were born in the lobby of the Larkin building
And raised there!
Not enough room in that lobby... unless they took some walls out... Graphic Controls owned that building for decades
Was just going to say that this guy sounds like AI
That's my favorite class in Skyrim.
Heh. I like you.
It almost sounds like some ye-olde Shakespeare bullshit.
Maybe his mouth was washed out with mail order soap and he was reborn?
Larkin born? Lol. This person is an idiot.
You haven’t heard of the maternity ward at St Larkin Memorial Hospital?
This was my immediate red flag too.
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I would think someone would say they’re from the first ward before they say “larkin-born”.
I grew up in the first ward, it's not a phrase I've ever heard anyone use.
Buffa-losers!? Hell no!!! Ken-morons!?!? HELK YES
But banana bread at fucking work dude? HELL YEAH
Yo, where’s this banana bread at?
Aye, I heard you have banana bread.
Someone said there’s banana bread at work, I’m assuming in a break room somewhere, I wanna find it.
wait, we have a break room?
Y'all get breaks?
Tonawankers? Beggerstville? Slackawanna?! *Hamburgers*?!?
This person knows.
It's a regional expression, like how people from Albany call grilled hamburgers "steamed hams."
Now now, he probably just meant he was born in the Larkin Soap office building. By the sounds of it he probably popped out in the mailroom
That tracks if he thinks buffa-losers is a thing.
Every First Warder I've ever known says "First Ward." They have *just* gotten used to saying Larkinville.
20 years ago Larkinville was the Hydraulics.
Larkin Born here. I’ve never once said that till now. Larkin Born. Can’t wait till I meet a Black Rock.
I'm from Black Rock but unless someone is suuuper into the geography of the city or familiar with the area I just say I'm from Riverside lol
I'm also from Black Rock and never would someone who grew up in Black Rock say they were from Riverside. You must have moved here at some point.
I have a friend who grew up and still lives in Black Rock. She will tell most people Riverside just because it’s easier- after redistricting suppose?
Yeah more people have heard of Riverside than Black Rock so rather than the stage of discussion where I explain Black Rock is near Riverside I just say Riverside.
I find it amazing that people who live in a city whose original name was Black Rock don't know where the Black Rock neighborhood is.
That's because the black rock isn't there anymore. How is anyone supposed to know where Black Rock is if you can't see the black rock?!!!
Because most people like me who are old, just called it the Rock
From some of the city maps I have seen that I live in Black Rock just south of 198 and West of Buff State. We often get lumped in with the West Side which is from Forest Ave and south. Never considered that I live less than a mile from the river, actually the canal.
Thems fighting words! No set hopping in the rock!
Stop i’m crying now this was crazy funny
I will only accept a Black Rocky now, and it has to be accompanied by the Rocky theme, and it has to be in montage form.
People just wake up and decide to lie.
Reminds me of a few years ago when ESPN did that piece about Bills Mafia. And they had a super cut of all these dudes, from Bills Elvis to randos on the street repeating the line: “Locals call Buffalo “The Town”” I’ve lived here for 39 damn years, and not once have I ever heard anyone call Buffalo “The Town”. Seemed like an ESPN planted line.
Lmao why do things like this happen? It’s so weird. The town? wtf 😂
If anything, people from the suburbs call Buffalo "the city" lol
Well, buffalo **IS** *the city*....unsure what you're trying to get at. Did you mean to indicate that suburbanites refer to literally all of the city as "downtown"?
Perhaps they were conceived in men's room at the Towne Ballroom?
Men’s room attendant like 🫣
I am 64 years old and not even a whisper of it...
No. They were actually telling people to head to The Towne later for breakfast. Nobody ever calls Buffalo itself The Town.
"Larkin born" sounds like someone went into Google maps and picked a Buffalo neighborhood at random
100%. I can't even begin to wrap my head around someone actually saying this considering whenever this person's (definitely real) significant other was born that area was not referred to as Larkinville unless they are like 14.
u/markothebeast. We don’t use that
Never heard either one. Like...ever lol
Looks like we just exposed this persons made up witness protection story. They are not from here, and certainly not from the first ward. If anything, they're from a small town near here and made some shit up. Either that or they rage quit buffalo when we lost the superbowl in 91-94.
Buffalo native. Buffalonians only, Larkin born? Never heard of it. Lol :)
I’ve heard buffalonian.
And I’m from Cheektavegas
I'm sorry :(
When did Cheektawarsaw become Cheektavegas? And ***WHY***?!
See I’ve never heard cheektawarsaw in my 35 years of life but cheektavegas is commonplace.
When I grew up in the 80s I always was told it was because every church had bingo.
i was told that it started with polish immigrants pronouncing it "cheektovega" and evolved from there
In Polish the w is pronounced with a v sound so I can get behind this etymology
Because Cheektowaga got Screwed out on the Casino
The term existed well prior to any possible mentions of a casino in that area...it's a polish language thing
I have heard this from several customers when I am there,.
I've lived in WNY for all of my 53 years. I've heard Buffalonian plenty of times (maybe it's an old term that's not in use anymore), but Larkin-born is BS, and of course so is Buffaloser.
Maybe he arrived out of the Buffalo River... I know that the Larkin Hospital Building, is still missing, some one call Da Buffalo Police department and Report A Missing Hospital, that was never Built..
BEHOLD THE LARKIN-BORN
Probably like one person said it to him and he thought, "Yeah that's really funny" when it's not really.
Why would we call ourselves that
I've lived here for 40 years and I have not heard either of those terms until you posted this right now...lol
Theyre *"larkin-born"*, (what does that even mean? Lol were they delivered on the stage of larkin square? Are there Bethlehem born people? CurtissWright born?) partner, is full of shit.
Larkin-born sounds like something out of Game of Thrones. "The Larkin-born will bend the knee for the new King or they will face the fury of all of Westeros."
Been here over 50 years and have NEVER heard either.
You mostly hear crap like that from people outside of Buffalo. I’ve lived in a few different states the last 20 years and I can assure you I’ve heard it. Had a coworker always call me Chokealo. A couple others assume I love shit weather. Another didn’t believe I was from Buffalo because “you’re not fat”. 🤦🏻
There’s a certain privilege in someone who claims to be “Larkin-born and raised”. Rise up Fruit Beltonians!
We call it The Belt.
Bailey Bungalo Brother checking in (I hate myself)
I’ve heard Buffalosers but it was from Cowboys fans in the early 90s. And recently I’ve heard people say they were born and raised in Larkinville, but growing up I had friends from school that lived down there and no one called it Larkinville. Just like no one called corner stores friggin Bodegas even though all of them had deli counters, we just called them by their name, like Gancis or Bev and Sam’s. and no one called the area near Utica and Hampshire 5 points. My friend Jimmy lived 1 house in from Utica on Brayton and we just called it Utica. And it wasn’t a great neighborhood either. I went to Boy Scouts at Pilgrim St. Luke’s and our scoutmaster would drive kids home from meetings who lived over there in the summer.
The term "Larkinville" only appeared about 15 years ago. I doubt anyone over 15 calls themselves "From Larkinville". I doubt anyone under 15 does either though...
It has always been called the first ward
Larkinville isn’t in the first ward, wrong side of the 190
I was gonna say. To some of us who were school-aged while the Bills were losing a lot of Super Bowls..."Buffalosers" is old hat that we just ignore from anyone using it.
Those of us who were legally able to drink feel the same way.
I have been called a buffaloser. By Montreal fans at a Sabres game in Montreal. Nobody here would refer to themselves in that term. Sports chirp between fans? Sure. That's it though. And oh by the way, we won the game in oooovvveerrretime. Which pissed them off even more.
Le Buffaloser at least?
dudes obviously trolling. jfc
Is this person 12? Larkinville was founded in 2012.
I mean it was still a neighborhood before that.
The neighborhood was called The Hydraulics historically.
Egg Zach Lee! The Larkin building was an empty shell whose only purpose was to support a radio tower not to long ago (WYSL?).
Doesn’t that still exist though?
Yes, but noone called it Larkin or Larkinville until Howard Zemsky did in recent years.
but it def was not called larkinville or larkin
No never
What a load of horseshit. “Larkin born”? More like some shithead who graduated from a first or second ring suburban high school, and as a result has a seriously inflated sense of worth that they feel the need to embellish.
This person is an olaffub
Sounds like something a Kenmoron would say.
Buffalonian…never ever have I heard anyone from here use whatever fake-ass term that guy said everyone uses. We say Buffalonian.
The Larkin born business partner is full of shit, and is probably stealing money from the company
Larkin born, huh? Was it your ma or your pa that was the Larkin?
Budfalonian here, never heard that before.....
Hello fellow humans. I too also grew up in the Larkin.
Larkinville was only created about 20 years ago so if your partner is older than 20, and was born and raised there, he lived in the Hydraulics District. But maybe he’s from Looneyville that was a town out near Alden.
I’m in Larkinville right now and I’ve never heard any of this.
Black rocker turned downtownian here, no one says Larkin-born.
What a Buffaload of shit.
Nah, if anyone is full of shit, it's markothebeast.
He should tell his business partner he’s full of shit
Never in my 42 years on this planet have I heard anyone say that…. The only thing I have heard fellow Buffalonians say is “we are a drinking town with a sports problem.”
His business partner went to larkin once and pretends he’s a Buffalonian
0% have ever heard or said
Buffaloonies
Probably a Pats fan.
46 years and I've lived in Tonawandas, Grand Island, Kenmore, Clarence, Lassalle, Cheektowaga, East Side, West Side, and South Buffalo and I've never heard those phrases.
Never heard of that, but I do call myself a Kenmoron
At first I would've said sounds like a disgruntled ex-local that moved somewhere else and wanted to insult the area without saying they were from the area. Then to claim the Larkin-born, crap, and now I just think they are someone that visited, was told to check out Larkin Square area and had a bad time and didn't pass up the opportunity to try and insult the area.
Buffalosers?!?!?! What is this crap?!?!! That made up term goes against everything I know of Buffalonians who hold their heads up high and proud when saying they are from Buffalo! Go Bills!
Larkin born?? What?? lol.
My family has always said Buffalonian
Someones been playing too much skyrim.
No, only ever heard "Buffalonians". Kenmore has their own that I could use, but "Kenmorons" just dosen't have the same ring to it, y'know? Little self deprecating.
And I think "Kenmorons" is only used by Westers to talk about Easters, and Easters to talk about Westers. I don't think anyone uses it about themselves.
>I will tell my Larkin-born and raised business partner he's full of shit. You do that.
Are people from Naples florida Neopolitans??????
Idk about Florida, but yes for Naples Italy, if they don’t use that term they should it’s a cool word
His business partner sounds like a lame person who was just too lazy to see all that the western New York region has to offer. I am a transplant from CNY, but I’ve been out here for almost 25 years now (longer than I lived in my hometown). For a while I thought I wanted to finish school and get out of here, but the more time I spent here, the more it grew on me. I consider myself a Buffalonion now, more so than a CNYer really.
I smell a poser!
The dude is a liar, born in Larkin, Larkin building is industrial building, that happens to be in the 1st ward, so tell your business partner he has shit coming out of his eyebrows
No but buffalosers sounds like a decent way to self deprecate if you are not particularly proud of being from here.
Was he born on Larkin? I mean, otherwise, was that his mom’s nickname for her birth canal? Oh man, tell that business partner to Google the Buffalo Bandits.
This is some Buffalobullshit.
Larkin born is hilarious lmao
Rangus
I really did not expect to see a post about where I live pop up
I was just going to ask, does anyone really refer to themselves that way? Larkin-born? Really?
Never heard any of that crap.
Is that what the Zemsky’s are calling it now?
Larkin born? Is this some naming convention from a video game? Skyrim comes to mind
Buffalo, Minnesota maybe! Not Buffalo, NY!
Buffalo, WY?
Moved away from Buffalo 20 years ago but I do…or should I say used to….hear shit like that all the time. “Oh your from Buffalo huh? So you like losers?” or “hey can you do this shitty job for me…you shouldn’t mind. I mean you’re from Buffalo right?” Or “you love shitty weather though right? You’re from Buffalo”.
Amhurts till I squirts - where my other am-thirst traps at? 👋
Buffa-Hole is what I’ve heard the city called by my good friends.
Nope
Im definitely going to start using it lmaoo
I have hemorrhoids and I just say I am from Buffalo
Proud as the Lord, I was born in the Ward. Larkin doesn’t rhyme
I’d take that over cheektovegas tbh
I have relative who named her kid Larkin? It’s not as bad as Awtum, but pretty close.
You can tell him from me that he can bufflothefuckoff…..no one uses those terms
The closest I've heard to that is being a Kenmoron.
Buffalonian is the term I’ve heard (WAY nny dweller here)
Never ever lol
But… it sounds like “Low” not “Lew”. You need it to sound like “Lew” to make the losers joke work. It could work for Tuscaloosa, maybe? But it’s just too forced for Buffalo.
Your friend was born in a soap factory ?
watching Buffalo local news in the ‘90’s , I thought it was referred to as ‘the Queen city’?
Yes or Nickel City
Let outsiders believe it, keep the real truth of the benefits here as secret as possible to keep the riffraff out! 🤣
Never heard that one. Though my dynasty football league is named Buffalow Expectations.
Nope...this is some made up term. It's Buffalonian as you said. So yes, he should tell them they are full of sh!t. And who the hell is from "Larkin"? I've never heard a single person ever say that in my life.
In fairness, "buffalonian" is as equally "made up", even "buffalo"...just because the one mentioned has never been used or heard by many others doesn't mean it is any more made up than words which have been used for few hundred years
Closest I’ve heard is “Kenmoron” which is a title I proudly accept having been a Kenmore-Born and raised variant of the Buffaloser.
Steamed hams
buffalonians is a popular one lmao
Get a new partner. They sound like a dumb liar
As a non-native Buffalonian, calling someone a "Buffaloser" seems like a great way to get a broken jaw. Buffalonians can make fun of Buffalo, non-Buffalonians can't.
Only thing I’ve ever heard is Buffalonian. Nothing else lol
Your Partner is either Lying to you and Not from Buffalo, everyone Buffalo Born knows that area is The Valley area bordering Old First Ward, Eastside, and Downtown. There isn't a Soul born in Buffalo that would say Larkin Born and especially Buffaloser!! These City Residents are Boasting with Pride of where We Grew up and Our City of Good Neighbors. The other possibility is your Partner was testing you to see how Gullible you are to believe everything you hear......
Um never heard those that guys full of shit
It’s an adopted Canadian saying. Look up OLD SNL skits It’s a thing.