Thank u, terror. Thank u, disillusionment. Thank u, frailty.
Thank you, Boston
Submitted 4 months ago by bees@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Protip: talk to people, ask for help, ask for directions
smh@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I rode the subway and bus from Logan Airport to Worcester, heading back to college after winter break. I had trouble understanding the announcers on the T so asked strangers to help me know my stop. I think they knew the story because I had my luggage with me. They felt like… I don’t know. Tolerant indulgence of my inexperience?
sommerset@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
God I hate Boston. Unheated bus terminal in the winter and cops kicking you out at night and u have to walk for hours in even colder cold, and when let people back in u all get into fucking bathroom and keep pressing air drier in turns just to get some heat. How is this a fucking country.
jxk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Well it’s not a country, it’s a city
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Boston bustin’ balls is the best initiation you can experience.
We’ll give you shit unless we realize you’re actually “in the shit”. Then we’ll square you away and nod goodbye.
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Yup
Par for the course in Boston and southern New England generally speaking. You can have my firstborn if you really need it, but I reserve the right to break your balls forever.
We’re not nice but we are kind. It’s how we keep each other sane when the fuckin sun goes away at 4:30, and the plow just un-shoveled what we just finished shoveling (cue the ice storm to make that snow extra wet and heavy only to later freeze into a foot thick block of ice).
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Wow, them Bostonians are so kind!
TomMasz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I flew into Boston back in the ‘80s and was driving a rental car to my hotel. I get to an intersection and it’s blocked for a 10K road race. So I ask the cop diverting traffic if there was an alternate route to the hotel. He shrugs his shoulders, says he doesn’t know, and waves me on. I ended up driving around until the roads reopened.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
He probably didn’t know. Boston has a lot of random one way streets that change on the whim of a drunk leprechaun throwing darts at a board.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Miserably kind. I definitely feel that feeling.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
This is so Boston. We’re assholes. But we’re nice, wholesome assholes.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
No, not nice. Nice is saying nice words. Kind is the action. “ya fackin ass, bathroom is 2 doors on the left!”
Aeao@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I feel the need to do a Texas one as a Texan
Tex: you must be lost
Person: yes I was traveling…. Looking for… do you know
Long silence
Tex: yep… see I knew you were probably lost. When I saw your car I told my buddy bubba over bubba tips his hat “hey bubba I think he’s lost. Probably looking for the highway.” Are ya… looking for the highway that is.
Person: yes
Tex: ya. That’s what I figured. (Long silence but right before you say something else) you’re probably gonna want to take that road there. It’ll get you to Edna.
Person: is the highway in Edna?
Tex: no, but… you should probably go thru Edna. Less trouble that way. Then you’ll see where the old windmill used to be. Make a left”
Person: left… to the highway?
Tex: no… but that’ll get you to fire station
Person: do I need the fire station
Bubba laughs
Tex: bubba! No but your going to need their help with the tree from August
Person: uhh okay… thank you… I guess I’ll head to that fire station.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Used to a know a guy named Mop who had a dog named Filanges on account of his long toes. He called me bud and gave me brisket every chance he could
Aeao@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Totally a team story.
Guy named mop
Was that his real name a nickname? Who cares. I know the dogs name tho! The brisket was good and if he called on me I guess I’d stand up.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s painfully accurate in some places down here. And if you’re ever through that way again there’s some decent fishing in Lake Texana. Got a whole mess of catfish out there a couple of weeks back.
Aeao@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Exactly! It’s helpful it’s just… “you in some kind of hurry?”
As for your fishing spot. I’ll answer in Texan
“Sounds great but I know how people enjoy a good spot once they found it. We’ll head out sometime together. You bring the beer.”
foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
That fits. I live an hour north of Boston and that is one of the most Bostonian thing… esp. the walking away w/o saying a word. It’s just the Northeast flintiness most native New Englanders have.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Are you living free or living the way life should be?
tym@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe they tried living free and died (or got life in prison for having a joint)
foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Livin’ Free, in the states most expensive little city by the mouth of the port.
Kill me now.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Boston is absolutely, hands-down my favourite US city. My daughter just returned from a few days there and can confirm.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
*favorite. Not fav our ite.
gnutrino@programming.dev 4 months ago
Why would we need your daughter to confirm that it’s your favorite city?
slothrop@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
To confirm I’m not biased…
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My friend once said that East Coast is not polite but kind, and West Coast is polite but not kind
tym@lemmy.world 4 months ago
facts. give me impolite kindness 100% of the time.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think it’s far more north south than east west. The PNW is definitely kind, though they’re neither nice nor mean, more just uncomfortable you’re talking to them. Meanwhile the southeast gives California a run for their money in polite cruelty.
People are aware that without a culture built around it places like Alaska with 22+ hours of light/dark a day can make people a little crazy, but I think the inverse also can cause problems without a culture built around it. Winter is good for you even if it sucks
TheseusNow@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
No wonder I feel at home in the east coast, but here I am in Texas where people will gladly vote against their best interrest.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Nah my sister’s a cunt but she makes friends everywhere she goes.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I dunno, I found people on the West Coast would go out of their way to accommodate my wife when she was unable to walk.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah people here are scared of making friends with their neighbors for some reason, but as a disabled person people look out for me.
Californians are angry in traffic.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
2pac/biggie in a nutshell.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bostonites will give you the shirt of their back but will brate you the entire time for being so fucking stupid that now I gotta give you my shirt you fucking idiot, don’t you think at all?
tym@lemmy.world 4 months ago
you forgot the “, kid?” or “, bub?” at the end, but otherwise accurate.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a very accurate description of the Northeast. People will help you dig your car out of the snow while passively aggressively exhaling very loudly to emphasize how much of a pain it is. But then they’ll just walk away not even expecting a thank you.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Sounds like my kind of people.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Canadian here, I’ve absolutely helped push multiple bozos cars out of snowbanks, silently cursing them the entire time for being such idiot bad drivers.
When they thank me at the end I always say “it’s no problem”
bluespin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The US south often fits the west coast definition here as well
ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You know, as someone that’s live on both coasts for extended periods of time, that’s exactly right. I’ve never been able to explain it but that’s spot on. Thanks!!
acme401@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Swear to God this is a Reddit thread completely reposted.
bees@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It is