Ha, there was this time I was staying at this casino in Navada. If anyone knows anything about these places they will give you fantastic hotel rooms and meals extremely cheap because they want to stay with them so you will play their game and loose all your money. So, I was eating at this $1.99 buffet (real steak and every) and this big guy with gold chains, a goatee, hat on backwards, the whole getup, comes walking into the dining area after paying picks up a plate and says out loud, to nobody in particular, "I'm a badass, I need meat!" He said it in such a way as to re enforce his coolness, but I nearly lost my milk through my nose it was so funny (fortunately I hadn't been drinking milk, but if I had been, he probably would have broken me in half. He was a big guy).
I could so imagine that guy reading a book on "being hardcore".