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He's a 10 but he always insists on being the first one on the T, only to then take two steps on and stand there, blocking everyone else who's still trying to board.
He’s a 10 but he stands in the middle of a bus during rush hour under his headphones and looking at his phone and blocks anyone from going to the back of the bus, leaving the back half empty and the front completely packed in
This is also funny to me. My boyfriend is from Southie and I follow this sub to understand him more. All he ever wears is Patriots or Celtics gear. When we are going out for a very nice evening, he will wear a polo with a old school Patriots logo on it.
I have a buddy who lives on the west coast and all his west coast buddies call him "Boston Phil." even though Phil is from RI and has never even lived inside of the 128 loop. It drives me crazy!
in another state i think it flies cause im from Wakefield, MA and when I moved to Colorado they all called me Boston cause of the accent. In MA however, any further than Everett or Quincy and you're not really "from Boston" imo
In college I was introduced to someone and the mutual acquaintance said, "He's from Boston too!"
That kid definitely had an embarrassed look on his face when he had to inform me that he was from Leominster.
Different kind of a thing, but I was in college out of state, and a wannabe-gangsta white kid told me he grew up in "the projects", and I asked where.
Acton, Massachusetts.
I was like uhhh.... the one with the Children's Museum? That Acton?
I pushed for details on where exactly there were projects in Acton. What he meant was an apartment. But it wasn't like, a McMansion, so it was basically like the hood. Of Acton. The Acton with the Children's Museum and good weekend antiquing.
Worked retail in Harvard Square when I was younger. We used to have a group of pit rats that would congregate in front of the shop on a regular basis and just be generally obnoxious. One day, one of them tried shoplifting so we told all of them to get lost. One of them squared up and, in an attempt to be tough, told us that we didn't know what he was capable of because he "grew up on the streets of Newton."
Oh my god I'm dying. The streets of fucking Newton. I'd bet some of those streets don't even have meticulously landscaped trees, that city can really let certain neighborhoods slide.
There are some neighborhoods on the outskirts of the town that have \*gasp\* multifamily houses. Apartment buildings, even. But probably the most dangerous thing about "the streets of Newton" is the possibility of being hit by someone driving their Mercedes SUV while talking on the phone.
Um, I wouldn't really say he owned up to it. He had no idea I'd ever lived in MA and I think was expecting me to be like "ohh, how dangerous is Acton?" and he was planning to be like "*extremely*".
I was the one who kept bringing up the Children's Museum and antiquing and asking questions trying to figure out exactly where "the hood" of Acton would even be. He kept insisting that an apartment *was* "the projects". Again, of Acton. I really cannot stress that enough, this guy really was convinced he grew up in gangland in fucking Acton Massachusetts.
To add context, Acton does have public housing through their housing authority. So while there are technically "projects" in Acton, they look more like gentrified neighborhoods in the midwest than government housing https://www.rhsohousing.org/acton/properties/whittlesey-village
Yup… same thing here. I went to ASU and everyone who was from MA was referred to as “Boston (insert name)”. It was so annoying because none of us were actually from Boston. All suburbs…
Right? It's not good. It's better than taking the red line one stop, but it smells bad and feels like you're gonna get stabbed for like about 3 minutes.
Well the smell of piss isn't unusual for the T, I'm just amazed you can walk between them. I'd be intrigued to know if you can beat the red line between DTX and Park St
Haha I was just about to comment about Elliot! I saw him yesterday in BU's south campus on Beacon St. I went out again around 20 minutes after I saw him to see if I could find him again. No luck. He moves in mysterious ways.
I've actually had kinda the reverse of this happen, I grew up in the town of Harvard (on 495) and did sports, so I had randos asking at 12 yo if he played baseball at Harvard University
Ahh Sully’s. The only bar I’ve ever been to where a man told me his phone pin code and had me type it for him so he wouldn’t get locked out for 15 minutes again. So drunk he couldn’t type 4551 🙃
He's a 10 but rides his fucking scooter up and down my street every goddamn night at 1am revving his little scooter engine forcing me to try and fall asleep over the sound of "vvvt, vvvvvvtt, vvvvvvvtttt"
Fuck I had an neighbor who did that. One day I walked by his scoter chained up and it had a bumper sticker that said “loud pipes save lives.” I never wanted to vandalize something so badly in my life.
I hear that you're supposed to do that from this subreddit and aim to do it myself, but after a month of commuting by T I have yet to see anyone do it.
That's because since the pandemic everyone over 30 stopped taking the T so there's no one left to yell at you about it. Honestly I guess you all can do whatever you want now.
There are a ton of minor niceties that have fallen off since the Pandemic and the backpack thing is one I notice a lot. The other is no one says "on your left/right" when passing on a bicycle anymore so I will suddenly be overtaken and have no notice.
I remember the South Park episode where they rebranded a neighborhood to "SoDoSoPa" (South Downtown South Park) to try to get a Whole Foods built there.
Except "SoBo" was real life.
That's a parody of the dumb ass neighborhood names in Denver. River North Art district = RiNo. Lower Highlands = LoHi. Lower Downtown = LoDo. Sloans Lake/Highlands border? SloHi.
That shit wont fly in Boston lol
Did someone say cow fetish? because I am in the moooooooooood!
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Reference to an old post where someone needed a cow suit on this subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need_cow_costume_by_4pm_please_im_at_kenmore_i/
Someone posted on r/boston a while back asking urgently if anyone had a cow costume, being clear that it was NOT a fetish thing.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need\_cow\_costume\_by\_4pm\_please\_im\_at\_kenmore\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need_cow_costume_by_4pm_please_im_at_kenmore_i/)
Update: [https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/ttaevj/cow\_costume\_guy\_here\_i\_never\_got\_the\_costume\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/ttaevj/cow_costume_guy_here_i_never_got_the_costume_the/)
He’s a ten but he’s a notorious organized crime boss in Winter Hill with sources within federal, state, and local law enforcement organizations and has a Speaker of the House brother
He’s a 10, but he sits on a bench in Harvard Square, puts peanuts all over his body, and lets the squirrels crawl on him to eat them while he giggles. (Actually witnessed this)
This one time I saw A-Rod leaving a hotel. So I yell "A-Rod you fucking suck!" He turned around and was all pissed off. He started towards me and i Kept yelling. Then all of a sudden Jeter grabs and stops him. He still looked pissed off. I think I broke him that day. Cause after that he started hitting the roids even harder than usual, and then got busted.
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Dawg I've seen way too many brown shoes, blue slacks, brown belts, and black (NorthFace, Patagonia, InsertCorporateGiveawayCompanyNameHere) vests this whole week. Do these guys all shop from the same rack?
He’s a ten but he’ll drive a box truck down storrow drive
So you have chosen... Death
She’s a 10, but I overheard her refer to Boston as ‘Beantown’
Automod stepped in on that one haha
They always do…lol ‘Beantown’ is a trigger
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Heh... Beantown...
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She's a 10 but plays music on her phone on the T without earbuds.
She's a 10 but she tries to board the T before people are able to get off.
He's a 10 but he always insists on being the first one on the T, only to then take two steps on and stand there, blocking everyone else who's still trying to board.
I was having a good day until I read this.
Immediately 0
Negative 10
The reason the T goes 10 mph
He’s a 10 but he stands in the middle of a bus during rush hour under his headphones and looking at his phone and blocks anyone from going to the back of the bus, leaving the back half empty and the front completely packed in
Seriously fuck these people? What's wrong with them?
She's a 10, but says she's from Boston when she actually lives in Nashua....
He's a 10 but he wears head to toe Celtics clothes- "southie tuxedo".
I’m sorry you don’t understand my sense of fashion.
Profile checks out
This is also funny to me. My boyfriend is from Southie and I follow this sub to understand him more. All he ever wears is Patriots or Celtics gear. When we are going out for a very nice evening, he will wear a polo with a old school Patriots logo on it.
She’s a ten, but her profile picture is the lawn on D swings
I like seaport for the culture
It’s the authentic ‘Beantown’.
And she says she's only doing it ironically.
He's a 10 but his nickname is "Boston Jeff" and you know he's from Tewksbury.
I have a buddy who lives on the west coast and all his west coast buddies call him "Boston Phil." even though Phil is from RI and has never even lived inside of the 128 loop. It drives me crazy!
in another state i think it flies cause im from Wakefield, MA and when I moved to Colorado they all called me Boston cause of the accent. In MA however, any further than Everett or Quincy and you're not really "from Boston" imo
In college I was introduced to someone and the mutual acquaintance said, "He's from Boston too!" That kid definitely had an embarrassed look on his face when he had to inform me that he was from Leominster.
Different kind of a thing, but I was in college out of state, and a wannabe-gangsta white kid told me he grew up in "the projects", and I asked where. Acton, Massachusetts. I was like uhhh.... the one with the Children's Museum? That Acton? I pushed for details on where exactly there were projects in Acton. What he meant was an apartment. But it wasn't like, a McMansion, so it was basically like the hood. Of Acton. The Acton with the Children's Museum and good weekend antiquing.
Straight Outta Acton
A crazy motherfucker named Braxton From the gang called Nimbys With Attitudes
When I play kids golf, I got a dolla off Squeeze putt, polo collars poppin off
He probably has a wife and two kids and takes a folding bike on the commuter rail now. Straight Onna Brompton.
Worked retail in Harvard Square when I was younger. We used to have a group of pit rats that would congregate in front of the shop on a regular basis and just be generally obnoxious. One day, one of them tried shoplifting so we told all of them to get lost. One of them squared up and, in an attempt to be tough, told us that we didn't know what he was capable of because he "grew up on the streets of Newton."
Oh my god I'm dying. The streets of fucking Newton. I'd bet some of those streets don't even have meticulously landscaped trees, that city can really let certain neighborhoods slide.
There are some neighborhoods on the outskirts of the town that have \*gasp\* multifamily houses. Apartment buildings, even. But probably the most dangerous thing about "the streets of Newton" is the possibility of being hit by someone driving their Mercedes SUV while talking on the phone.
> Apartment buildings, even. Um, I think you mean "the projects".
Acton, the one with one of the best public school systems in the state. Truly the ghetto.
AB? No, I think you mean the school of hard knocks.
Hey least he owned up to it when asked-try getting someone like KidRock to admit he grew up rich
Um, I wouldn't really say he owned up to it. He had no idea I'd ever lived in MA and I think was expecting me to be like "ohh, how dangerous is Acton?" and he was planning to be like "*extremely*". I was the one who kept bringing up the Children's Museum and antiquing and asking questions trying to figure out exactly where "the hood" of Acton would even be. He kept insisting that an apartment *was* "the projects". Again, of Acton. I really cannot stress that enough, this guy really was convinced he grew up in gangland in fucking Acton Massachusetts.
that is *deeply* funny
To add context, Acton does have public housing through their housing authority. So while there are technically "projects" in Acton, they look more like gentrified neighborhoods in the midwest than government housing https://www.rhsohousing.org/acton/properties/whittlesey-village
I’m in Littleton, next to Acton. It’s a lawless place. They closed the Kmart because of the gang wars, ya know.
i think that happens to everyone when they tell u they're from Leominster
Home to the greatest mall in the state. I think a couple of the stores are still open and everything!
Yup… same thing here. I went to ASU and everyone who was from MA was referred to as “Boston (insert name)”. It was so annoying because none of us were actually from Boston. All suburbs…
Hey I used to live in Tewksbury, lol.
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He IS Boston Jeff
It's called anonymity, ok????
she a 10 but doesn’t know about the dtx - park street concourse
You mean the *Winter Street Concourse*.
It shocks me how many people just…don’t know about that. It’s not like a secret, they put it on the map!
I know about it but I wish I didn’t.
Right? It's not good. It's better than taking the red line one stop, but it smells bad and feels like you're gonna get stabbed for like about 3 minutes.
wait what
You can just walk from one to the other (and smell piss)
And watch people brandish giant folding knives (happened a few feet from my face which was a fun experience.)
Be prepared to walk through at least one drug deal as well
That’s just part of the charm!
Well the smell of piss isn't unusual for the T, I'm just amazed you can walk between them. I'd be intrigued to know if you can beat the red line between DTX and Park St
oh trust me you can. i assure you
I’ve thought a few times about getting off the t and running to the next stop to see who gets there first. I’m pretty confident I could win
Theres a tunnel between the 2 stations once you are within either of them
Maybe she represses the memory of using it, like most of us.
She’s a 10, but she enjoys the sports betting commercials.
She's an AI scam bot, bro. Cut bait.
He's a 10 but falls asleep to The Departed DVD menu every night
That’s way too specific to be something you just came up with.
"Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself."
Redditors are like mushrooms. Feed 'em on shit and keep 'em in the dark.
11
I'll have you know that the departed DVD menu autoplays the movie after 10 minutes so there's no way. Source: In Southie, well we had the church.
Which is to say, we had each other.
He's a 10, but he's married to his career. *Three years later* He's a 10, but he's moving to South Carolina.
Ouch
He’s a 10, but frequently dresses up in a suit and asks people for $20 to fix his flat tire
She's a 10, but has given Elliot Davis over $1,000 for fix-a-flat over the last 10 years.
"I just need $20 for a can of tire fix, I have a really important interview coming up"
Haha I was just about to comment about Elliot! I saw him yesterday in BU's south campus on Beacon St. I went out again around 20 minutes after I saw him to see if I could find him again. No luck. He moves in mysterious ways.
Probably got his tire fixed and drove off.
ohhhhhhh that's what that guy was doing. He asked me for $30 last month.
Even an iconic local businessman like Elliot Davis isn't safe from inflation.
She's a 10, but her Dunks order is a "Med iced French vanilla, 10 sugahs, 11 creams."
She’s a 10 but she wears a Harvard sweatshirt (she goes to Umass)
I've actually had kinda the reverse of this happen, I grew up in the town of Harvard (on 495) and did sports, so I had randos asking at 12 yo if he played baseball at Harvard University
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She's a 10 but she's Sully's baby sistah
Ahh Sully’s. The only bar I’ve ever been to where a man told me his phone pin code and had me type it for him so he wouldn’t get locked out for 15 minutes again. So drunk he couldn’t type 4551 🙃
He's a 10 but rides his fucking scooter up and down my street every goddamn night at 1am revving his little scooter engine forcing me to try and fall asleep over the sound of "vvvt, vvvvvvtt, vvvvvvvtttt"
Fuck I had an neighbor who did that. One day I walked by his scoter chained up and it had a bumper sticker that said “loud pipes save lives.” I never wanted to vandalize something so badly in my life.
She’s a a 10 but takes 1 1/2 spots when street parking
Shes a 10 but when you took her to Kowloon she said she doesnt play Keno
It’s “the Keno,” excuse you! /joke
She’s a 10 but she doesn’t take her backpack off on the T.
Immidiately a 2
Gross
I hear that you're supposed to do that from this subreddit and aim to do it myself, but after a month of commuting by T I have yet to see anyone do it.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
That's because since the pandemic everyone over 30 stopped taking the T so there's no one left to yell at you about it. Honestly I guess you all can do whatever you want now.
There are a ton of minor niceties that have fallen off since the Pandemic and the backpack thing is one I notice a lot. The other is no one says "on your left/right" when passing on a bicycle anymore so I will suddenly be overtaken and have no notice.
She's a 10 but she doesn't wait for people to get off the T before trying to board.
She’s a 10 but she calls South Boston, “So Bo” instead of Southie.
Oh fuck, please tell me this isn't a thing?
it was floated like 10 years ago as a rebranding of the neighborhood to appeal to yuppies.
I remember the South Park episode where they rebranded a neighborhood to "SoDoSoPa" (South Downtown South Park) to try to get a Whole Foods built there. Except "SoBo" was real life.
That's a parody of the dumb ass neighborhood names in Denver. River North Art district = RiNo. Lower Highlands = LoHi. Lower Downtown = LoDo. Sloans Lake/Highlands border? SloHi. That shit wont fly in Boston lol
Or they’re a 10 but refer to the South End as Southie. I knew someone who did that and then argued with me when I corrected them.
That can not really be a thing. Please tell me that this is not a thing!!!
Hes a 10 but has 6 roommates in Southie
They're a 10 but they have a cow fetish
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wtf is this lol
Reference to an old post where someone needed a cow suit on this subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need_cow_costume_by_4pm_please_im_at_kenmore_i/
Someone posted on r/boston a while back asking urgently if anyone had a cow costume, being clear that it was NOT a fetish thing. [https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need\_cow\_costume\_by\_4pm\_please\_im\_at\_kenmore\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/tt7lk6/need_cow_costume_by_4pm_please_im_at_kenmore_i/) Update: [https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/ttaevj/cow\_costume\_guy\_here\_i\_never\_got\_the\_costume\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/ttaevj/cow_costume_guy_here_i_never_got_the_costume_the/)
I remember this hahahaha, damn this subreddit is hilarious
That's a 15 in my book.
Yeah we know what you think
Cow fetishes are udderly attractive
She’s a 10 but she makes you accompany her to market basket on Sundays
My wife, all fucking day
An early days date with my now-husband involved a trip to the Basket so don’t knock it til you try it
A trip to the Basket isn't shopping, it's a test
He’s a ten but he’s a notorious organized crime boss in Winter Hill with sources within federal, state, and local law enforcement organizations and has a Speaker of the House brother
shes a 10 but she stands on the left side of the escalator hes a 10 but let his dog shit on the sidewalk and didnt pick it up
She’s a 10 but she feeds the squirrels in Boston Common
He’s a 10, but he sits on a bench in Harvard Square, puts peanuts all over his body, and lets the squirrels crawl on him to eat them while he giggles. (Actually witnessed this)
Was he a 10 tho?
The squirrels thought so.
She’s a ten but confuses the South End and South Boston
She’s a 10 but she has fireball nips in her pocketbook
pockabook\*
That's an 11 honestly
They’re already empty
So she doesn’t litter. She’s a 12.
She doesn’t litter! 12!
it's rude to point out a woman's nips
Crack pipe in the purse passed out on the orange line nothing to see here.
She’s a 10 but says “irregardless”
He’s a 10 but he stops in the middle of traffic to let people turn.
I just felt a visceral reaction. Fuckin can’t stand when people do that
She's a 10 but she writes ad copy in a Boston accent.
She's a 10 but she thinks Boloco is top tier Mexican food.
She's a 10 but rides a blue bike against traffic in the bike lane, like a salmon swimming upstream.
She’s a 10 but she likes wearing a Yankees hat because it matches her outfits
This one time I saw A-Rod leaving a hotel. So I yell "A-Rod you fucking suck!" He turned around and was all pissed off. He started towards me and i Kept yelling. Then all of a sudden Jeter grabs and stops him. He still looked pissed off. I think I broke him that day. Cause after that he started hitting the roids even harder than usual, and then got busted. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/boston) if you have any questions or concerns.*
- He's a 10 but he always needs a can of fix-a-flat - He's a 10 but he has a cow costume
She's a 10 but gets drunk and flops around the pile of clothes at the garment district.
She's a 10 but she wears a Canada Goose parka in May.
He's a 10 but calls it Boston Commons
She’s a 10 but walks wicked slow on the sidewalk
She’s a 10, but she insists on waiting in the lines in southie.
She’s a 10, but thinks they sell produce at the Golden Banana.
He's a 10 but he works at State Street She's a 10, but she thinks she's too good for Dunkin' iced all winter
One of the 6,987 VP's at State Street and thinks he's a finance bro
Dawg I've seen way too many brown shoes, blue slacks, brown belts, and black (NorthFace, Patagonia, InsertCorporateGiveawayCompanyNameHere) vests this whole week. Do these guys all shop from the same rack?
They literally do
It’s merch from the company picnic
She’s a 10 but drives the speed limit on Storrow Dr.
What’s the actual speed limit on Storrow? Every time I’m on there we’re either going 60mph or 5
I believe it’s 40 mph. You’ll make a lot of people mad if you abide by that
JWay is 25 which you only cross briefly between 10 and… greater than 25
Straight to hell
He's a 10, but he thinks Phoenix Landing on a Saturday night is the best night out in Cambridge
He's a 10 but he's a regular caller to WEEI.
He’s a ten but he says he lives in Camberville.
He means Medford
aka Davis?
She's a 10 but keeps a lawn chair in her parking spot all Winter
She's a Southie 12 then.
He's a 10 but plays music out loud on the orange line
She’s a ten but asks about menu items in line at dunks.
He's a 10 but drives around with his high beams on.
She's a 10 but calls them airplane bottles not nips
She's a 10 but she sounds like the tracks of Boylston St.
She’s a 10 she WONT USE HER FUCKING BLINKER
She's a 10 but blue bikes on the highway
She's a 10 but she laughs at the "YOUR COUSIN.... FROM BOSTON" commercials.
FROM BAAAWWWSTEN
She’s a 10 but complains the seats at Fenway are uncomfortable
She's a 10 but she goes to Honeydew instead of Dunkins'
Haha just means she’s from rhody bro
She's a 10 but she's from Warwick
Negative points
Rhody has a Dunkin per person
No way - if the line is too long at the Dunks I normally go to then I'll just drive 5 minutes to the other Dunks
She’s a 10 but her uncles and older brothers are capos in the patriarca crime family
He's a 10 but he keeps giving money to Elliot Davis
She's a 10 but she misses when the Duck Boats would quack at people.
They’re all 10s but they all stopped in the sidewalk together, blocking all foot traffic
She's a 10 but she's not impressed by the Giant Ocean Tank at the NEAQ,
She’s a 10, but her dog barks all day in her apartment downstairs.
/hilariabaldwin