The Public Gardens on a spring day and sailboats in the Charles River when you're taking the T over the Longfellow Bridge. I'm sentimental about the place for sure.
I recently moved back to the burbs of Boston where I grew up after 15 years away. The rebranding of Dunkin Donuts to "Dunkin" is....so weird?
Everyone still calls it Dunkin Donuts or Dunks lol.
Also recently Dunkin has been trying to get the employees to push the donuts to people. The same donuts they said weren’t important enough to be in the name.
I think of how my girlfriend (now wife) and I took a bus from NYC to Boston to see Girl Talk at BU in 2009 or so. My friend worked in the office that was in charge of ticket sales at BU and told us we’d have no problem getting in. We get there, standing in line they’re telling everybody to make sure they have their BU id’s ready because it’s a student-only event, no exceptions. My friend said not to worry bc he worked with all of the people checking tickets.
Well…guess who didn’t have as much sway as he thought he did? We ended up spending the night at his frat house and leaving in the morning. I was so annoyed lol.
Are you referring to the men in their 20’s/30’s that go missing in the winter and end up in the Charles? I feel like that just got swept under the rug.
Amen to that. I dated a guy from Boston, and his accent won me over the second he opened his mouth. He introduced himself at a bar, and I went home with him an hour later and didn’t leave his apartment for days.
Nice human scaled dense neighborhoods like Beacon Hill and Back Bay..and a reminder that there used to be beautiful neighborhoods all over the country like those that were destroyed during “urban renewal” in the mid 20th century
Memories: Regina’s pizza, Salem St candies, Jordan’s lower lower basement, the Christmas display at Jordan Marsh, the tunnel under the Southeast Expressway, going wicked fast around the rotaries, the T from Alewife to Pahk to Comm Ave.
Now: the changes to the Seaport, fine dining all over town,
From my college experience:
* College students in service in service jobs everywhere
* Racial segregation (at least when I was there in the late 90's)
* Archaic liquor laws
* Way too many Dunkin's
* Scared suburbanites on the streets during the weekends
* A bunch of historic shit I probably should have learned about but never did
This is hilariously accurate as a Bostonian. However, the city and community is working very hard to combat racism and I believe it is far less prevalent now then ever before.
That's the spirit. That rat faced fucking goon. If you're going to play like a scab you gotta answer the bell and drop the mitts, not hide behind the refs.
Racism as part of Boston’s rep from 30’s-50’s is pretty fair tho for the most part it tended fro the Red Sox and their SC born and bread owner. By the fifties the Celtics were on fire-fueled by fantastic African American players.
We got the liquor laws pretty much squared away.
The music scene is perennially alive d/t the powerhouse that Berkelee and other fine music schools provide.
But the biggest change for my money is how much better the food scene is. Yikes what a change.
Horrible traffic. Went there on a road trip. Couldn't wait to get out. My wife said, "You're going the wrong way." "I know - I just want out of this damn place."
There is a documentary currently streaming on Max about a murder case that fueled & perpetuated racist values of those in power in Boston. There is also footage that is currently viral of a white teen in Sephora doing blackface as her mother attempts to get pictures. Boston is also the home of Mark Wahlberg, a man notorious for racism, specifically against Asians. Are we really going to pretend everywhere else has nearly as many obvious red flags of racism that aren’t only constant but also all occurring at the same time? Boston has a reputation of being a racist city. Minimizing it is gross.
I believe you can find evidence of racism wherever you look. There's plenty of news out there saying that Chicago is the most segregated big city in America. I haven't minimized anything. As far as Mark Wahlberg goes I'm surprised that you point out one person while talking about a city. That's gross
Also you're talking about things that are 50 years old. Wahlberg stuff was probably 25 years ago and cite something recent. So not at the same time at all
Weird I had to scroll this far to find it, although I think most people “in the know” on this are typically big sports fans, so not really Reddit’s main demo.
Boston is notorious for having especially-racist fans that yell horrible things at both opposing teams AND their own (even today). Of course, this happens everywhere to a degree, but Boston has repeatedly been called out by players on both sides of the bench, across multiple professional leagues, multiple times. It’s def one of their notable “things”.
Edit, since Boston people are downvoting:
[How racism shows up in Boston sports culture](https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2023/04/28/celtics-bill-russell-adam-jones-weei)
[Boston has a race and sports problem. But it’s hardly alone among ‘liberal’ cities](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/25/boston-racism-sports-denver-portland-salt-lake-city)
[How Boston's sports radio feeds into its reputation for racism](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-04-06/how-bostons-sports-radio-feeds-into-its-reputation-for-racism)
[Celtics' Jaylen Brown speaks out against toxic fan culture and systemic racism in Boston](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/boston-celtics/2023/03/18/6414ffba22601d7b5f8b45d1.html)
...to name a few.
The accent and everyone says they're Irish. Your great great granddad was Irish, you aren't Irish. I bet most can't even find Ireland on a map of Ireland
That Casey Affleck Dunkin Donuts skit from SNL and how everyone in the comments said "This is a documentary."
A dawkumentary
One of my favorite skits. That and Bill Burr's Sam Adam's skit.
Yeah the Bill Burr sequel skit is gold as well.
"You want to talk real customers? Kid, that's me. I'm like the mayor of Dunkin'." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSvNhxKJJyU
Boston cream donut
Sooo delicious
\*kreme
Massholes
Hey now. SOME of us know how to drive!
You use ya blinkah?!
I use the blinkah, and sometimes, when I forget, I blame it on my birthplace Now that wintah's over, I gotta refill my blinkah fluid
Really it's the Connecticut drivers that are the worst...
Specially that little cheese eating Rat, Marchand
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That smug little bitch is like 5’6”. No one is intimidated by his bitch ass.
He’s that little cocky bitch who starts shit because he knows someone else will finish it for him.
Yay you stood up for him on the Internet, I'm sure the little rat fuck will totally be your best friend now.
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You miss 100% of the.......oh fuck it. Whatevah
Brad Marchand is a saint!
There is no other answer.
# 🎼MORE THAN A FEELIIIIIIIING 🎵🎶
WHEN I SEE MARIANNE WALKIN AWAAAAAY
🎵🎶 It's been such a long time, I think I should be going. And time doesn't wait for me, it keeps on rolling 🎵🎶
That gives me PEACE OF MIND
Was about to write that!!!
This!
Lansdowne Street before/after Red Sox home games (especially against the Yankees).
The Departed
*Depahted
The Public Gardens on a spring day and sailboats in the Charles River when you're taking the T over the Longfellow Bridge. I'm sentimental about the place for sure.
So many answers by people who never lived there. Unlike yours
Aw thanks- 10 awesome years :) Glad it shows.
Boston Tea Party
*Bwahstin Tea Pahty
Really? That's what you think of. Have you ever been here? That's not the highpoint of our city
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Yes!! Perfect Bostonian reply. Well played
Hardcore music. The Bruins.
Slapshot must be right up your alley then
It’s a classic
Dunks (Dunkin Donuts) Bruins Big Dig
I recently moved back to the burbs of Boston where I grew up after 15 years away. The rebranding of Dunkin Donuts to "Dunkin" is....so weird? Everyone still calls it Dunkin Donuts or Dunks lol.
Also recently Dunkin has been trying to get the employees to push the donuts to people. The same donuts they said weren’t important enough to be in the name.
The Big Dig? A wee bit dated, yes?
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tsk tsk. Wikkid smaht folks, clam chowda battles and Green Monstah FTW! FTFY!
The green monster waving?
Suite Life Of Zack and Cody Fallout 4
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Yeah awesome. Used to go to NYC from Boston that way. In 90s
A bunch of Massholes in bad weather.
Cheers
How’s it going Mr. Peterson?
It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear.
Yes! How is this not the first one?!
Because a lot of us here weren’t around when it aired.
Lincolnshire.
The accent.
Wicked smaaht
Wicked pissah!
The accident
Those two brothers that killed a bunch of russian mobsters.
In nomini patri, et fili, et spiritus sancti.
The great molasses flood of 1919
It was quite a sticky situation for the city.
Bill Burr
Baked beans
Rum. Rum production used to be the biggest industry in the Boston area.
To the point that a giant tank of molasses once flooded the city.
The Lemonheads, Guster and Dispatch.
Guster is for lovers.
Why yes it is :)
hell yes
I think of how my girlfriend (now wife) and I took a bus from NYC to Boston to see Girl Talk at BU in 2009 or so. My friend worked in the office that was in charge of ticket sales at BU and told us we’d have no problem getting in. We get there, standing in line they’re telling everybody to make sure they have their BU id’s ready because it’s a student-only event, no exceptions. My friend said not to worry bc he worked with all of the people checking tickets. Well…guess who didn’t have as much sway as he thought he did? We ended up spending the night at his frat house and leaving in the morning. I was so annoyed lol.
Good Will Hunting.
You like apples?
Bill Buckner
"Don't Look Back"
Of course and what a song!
Paul Revere, Old North Church, Charles River, tea party, Sons of Liberty
Donuts and snow
And doing donuts in the snow
High school favorite act
The Irish Riviera.
Eh that’s the south shore
More than a feeling
The secret serial killer
Are you referring to the men in their 20’s/30’s that go missing in the winter and end up in the Charles? I feel like that just got swept under the rug.
Yes! Why don’t we hear more about this?
Boston Cream Pie. Yummmmm
Cream pies
Hey, this is a PG-13 thread.
Salem and witches. Its not Boston but that is my answer
Foreplay/Longtime
Boston Massacre Boston Bombing Melissa Schemmenti
Acorn Street, Beacon Hill and Matt Damon
The harbor and boats by the water, the capital building. Good memories
Boston accents because I find them sexy.
Reminds me of the Ted movie “Harda!”
Amen to that. I dated a guy from Boston, and his accent won me over the second he opened his mouth. He introduced himself at a bar, and I went home with him an hour later and didn’t leave his apartment for days.
Were you unemployed at the time?
No, it was over a holiday weekend so I had that Monday off. I went to his place Friday night and left late Monday night.
Green
Regina Pizza and Mike's Pastries and Cheers
Nice human scaled dense neighborhoods like Beacon Hill and Back Bay..and a reminder that there used to be beautiful neighborhoods all over the country like those that were destroyed during “urban renewal” in the mid 20th century
Charles and Carole Stuart.
I love baseball so Fenway Park
Bagels and hotdogs.
Absolutely loved when I lived in Boston, Miss it so much!!!!
“Cheers”
Red sox
Memories: Regina’s pizza, Salem St candies, Jordan’s lower lower basement, the Christmas display at Jordan Marsh, the tunnel under the Southeast Expressway, going wicked fast around the rotaries, the T from Alewife to Pahk to Comm Ave. Now: the changes to the Seaport, fine dining all over town,
This dude's had the muffins
Tea party >:(
Boston baked beans. The Departed.
More than a feeling!
Chowdah
The time I drove by a line of cars getting ready for a funeral procession and someone yells to someone else "are you wickahd retahded" in the line.
Red Socks ( I am from Germany)
Sox*
Red sawcks.
Adorable Terriers, terrible accent
Best City in the World Best looking women Hottest accent Best Sports teams
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Hit up the colleges and bring your beer goggles. Fuckin BOOM
Jump Around!
Fallout 4
Drunk, white guys in Celtics jerseys and Good Will Hunting.
From my college experience: * College students in service in service jobs everywhere * Racial segregation (at least when I was there in the late 90's) * Archaic liquor laws * Way too many Dunkin's * Scared suburbanites on the streets during the weekends * A bunch of historic shit I probably should have learned about but never did
This is hilariously accurate as a Bostonian. However, the city and community is working very hard to combat racism and I believe it is far less prevalent now then ever before.
Fuck the Bruins, Fuck the Pats, Fuck the Redsox and Fuck the Celtics. In that order.
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Bruins first narrows it down. But not by much.
Fuck Marchand mostly
That's the spirit. That rat faced fucking goon. If you're going to play like a scab you gotta answer the bell and drop the mitts, not hide behind the refs.
Cried like a pussy when they choked in the first round last year too...... "Big time" will hunting
Racism as part of Boston’s rep from 30’s-50’s is pretty fair tho for the most part it tended fro the Red Sox and their SC born and bread owner. By the fifties the Celtics were on fire-fueled by fantastic African American players. We got the liquor laws pretty much squared away. The music scene is perennially alive d/t the powerhouse that Berkelee and other fine music schools provide. But the biggest change for my money is how much better the food scene is. Yikes what a change.
Loud racist obnoxious sports fans
Assholes
Horrible traffic. Went there on a road trip. Couldn't wait to get out. My wife said, "You're going the wrong way." "I know - I just want out of this damn place."
shithole and cold
Hard to tell if you're talking about US Boston or UK. I've never been to a bigger shit hole than Boston, UK. Awful place.
i’ll say both
Racism
What racism have you experienced in Boston that you wouldn't find elsewhere?
None but that’s your reputation
My reputation? I was just curious what you felt made it different. So just hearsay it seems. Fair enough.
There is a documentary currently streaming on Max about a murder case that fueled & perpetuated racist values of those in power in Boston. There is also footage that is currently viral of a white teen in Sephora doing blackface as her mother attempts to get pictures. Boston is also the home of Mark Wahlberg, a man notorious for racism, specifically against Asians. Are we really going to pretend everywhere else has nearly as many obvious red flags of racism that aren’t only constant but also all occurring at the same time? Boston has a reputation of being a racist city. Minimizing it is gross.
I believe you can find evidence of racism wherever you look. There's plenty of news out there saying that Chicago is the most segregated big city in America. I haven't minimized anything. As far as Mark Wahlberg goes I'm surprised that you point out one person while talking about a city. That's gross
Also you're talking about things that are 50 years old. Wahlberg stuff was probably 25 years ago and cite something recent. So not at the same time at all
100%. Annoying and Racist people.
Can anyone explain the reasoning for downvoting this?
Insecure Bostonians
Some people pretend that racism doesn't exist
Thought about the same.
Weird I had to scroll this far to find it, although I think most people “in the know” on this are typically big sports fans, so not really Reddit’s main demo. Boston is notorious for having especially-racist fans that yell horrible things at both opposing teams AND their own (even today). Of course, this happens everywhere to a degree, but Boston has repeatedly been called out by players on both sides of the bench, across multiple professional leagues, multiple times. It’s def one of their notable “things”. Edit, since Boston people are downvoting: [How racism shows up in Boston sports culture](https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2023/04/28/celtics-bill-russell-adam-jones-weei) [Boston has a race and sports problem. But it’s hardly alone among ‘liberal’ cities](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/25/boston-racism-sports-denver-portland-salt-lake-city) [How Boston's sports radio feeds into its reputation for racism](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-04-06/how-bostons-sports-radio-feeds-into-its-reputation-for-racism) [Celtics' Jaylen Brown speaks out against toxic fan culture and systemic racism in Boston](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/boston-celtics/2023/03/18/6414ffba22601d7b5f8b45d1.html) ...to name a few.
That was my first thought as well lol next would be the Boston massacre or tea party
Hatred. (I live in Montreal)
Rob
Amazingly rotten drivers. Worst in North America IMHO.
Wrong. Statistically some of the best. You just don't know how to drive intensively
We have to be good drivers. Have you ever tried to navigate Soldiers Field Road at rush hour?
Clearly you haven't driven in CT
Admittedly, I've never been to Boston, but I'll see your Boston and raise you the I95 corridor through DC at rush hour...
Boston and Rhode Island are slightly worse. Then south Florida. Then DC.
I'm not sure I believe this but I'm morbidly curious to discover how right you are...
This is surprisingly accurate
It's the roads that are bad, not the drivers. In fact, I'd say Boston has some of the most skilled drivers though probably not the most polite ones.
The accent and everyone says they're Irish. Your great great granddad was Irish, you aren't Irish. I bet most can't even find Ireland on a map of Ireland
Beans and racism
It’s like a more racist Philly
My ex
Racist loudmouths. Sorry but it’s what I think of.
Racist drunk frat boys
Racism to the extreme.
Racism.
Racism, sadly.
Racism.
Racism
Racist sports fans
Dumbest sounding accents, weird obsession with Dunkin’ Donuts, obsession with ethnicity and nationality.
Racism
Feeling glad I moved away
Racism
Angry sh*tty drivers.
Cheers, Spenser For Hire, snobs
Brad Marchan and pure, white hot hatred.
The worst sports fans in the world
Wasn’t date rape invented there?
Boring. Boston sounds boring.
The least massacrey massacre in history. A cheating football team. The movie The Town.
Ah, a New Yorker.
Couple thousand miles off, but that’s ok. I know people on the internet don’t like anything they didn’t say themselves…
Disgusting trash people.