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Do It In Reverse
By John Costello
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 12:18pm
That is actually the way Dot is trending. (See South Boston 2005 - Present).
2005?
By tachometer
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 8:19pm
Southie started gentrifying back in the 1980s when "yuppies" were considered the neighborhood scourge by townies.
1994 - 1996
By John Costello
Thu, 03/10/2022 - 6:42am
I was there. There was a heap o'Rocks Throwing At School Busers still there. Plenty of them, the vast majority.
As far as Yuppies go, when the Blackthorn opened in the late 80's, SB people were like "Damn Yuppies" except it was an Irish immigrant bar and Whitey still took his cut. One night there was a new fresh off the plane bartender who didn't know that it was collection night or that was any kind of collection. One of Whitey's guys beat the tar out of him when the bartender told him to sod off when he came to collect. Ah, Gawd's Country.
When the Blackthorn closed a few years back, the refrain was "Damn Yuppies" had closed what was a "real Southie" bar.
SB has some yuppie "seeds" in the late 80's but the big change in real estate didn't start until 2005.
"I'll do..."
By anon
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 1:01pm
That's pretty hilarious. But it does spotlight something that has been a pet peeve of mine for a while now. The now very commonplace and accepted use of "I'll do" as in "I'll do a small with cream and sugar, "I'll do a caesar salad" etc. in place of "I'll have" or "I would like". Just what are you going to "do" with that salad? Old that I am, I remember back in the 80s when the Valley Girl-ish "let's do lunch" was joked about and the object of ridicule as belonging to the elite and out of touch. No longer I guess.
Wow
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 1:55pm
Wow
Language changes.
By ljd
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 4:42pm
Give up the pet peeves! And why do you have to be anonymous?
My pet theory on that is….
By Ward8Mahatma
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 9:26pm
…our Italo-American cousins coined the phraseology. The Italian verb fare, meaning make or do, is used colloquially in just the ways you mention. I know the Italian side of the family and their neighbors, all from the Italian enclave around St Francis Church in East Cambridge, used do as you described. They also used go in a similar Italianized manner- Can you go some dessert?
also Japanese
By ECG nli
Thu, 03/10/2022 - 3:24pm
Japanese also uses "do" for ordering things informally. 大レギュラーをします: I'll do a lahge regulah.
dunkin boston accent comedy
By bostnkid
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 1:29pm
very cutting edge stuff there.
The other way around...
By Lecil
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 2:10pm
I just moved from Boston to southern Florida. I did manage to slow down my order while going through the drive through the other day. She handled it like a champ!
Condolences
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 8:37pm
Condolences
Enjoy the snow!
By Lecil
Thu, 03/10/2022 - 10:50am
I've decided that everyone is born with only so-many winters in them, and I ran out about three winters ago. If I could afford two places I'd snow bird, but I can't... I am, however, *gleefully* bringing my northern liberal vote down here with me! Hoping I can get my condo sold quickly enough to register to vote in time for the next gubernatorial election!
Good Job
By anon
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 2:29pm
This guy does a good job with the vocal mannerisms, from the effete "uptalking" currently in vogue in some demographics through two shades of the more stereotypical Boston accent.
A black box
By cybah
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 2:45pm
All I see is a black box...
Beyond box
By massmarrier
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 3:16pm
That's what happened in Chrome. I tried Edge and it eventually loaded.
I thought it was the company
By redheadedjen
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 4:34pm
I thought it was the company's blocking of some social media but apparently not.
Try Safari
By ljd
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 4:42pm
Works fine in Safari.
Funny that they imply that
By Scratchie
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 3:21pm
Funny that they imply that someone who moves to Boston from somewhere else can ever become "officially a local."
I am "from here" but I here
By redheadedjen
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 4:35pm
I am "from here" but I here people say that people that don't live here for like 50 years aren't local. My great grandparents were born here!!!!!!
My mother was born in the town where I live now
By jmeltzer
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 7:27pm
but, according to the "locals", "she's fine, but we're not so sure about you" .
Pretty hilarious, eh?
By Mark-
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 3:57pm
But they'll never understand the True North charm of a Double Double.
Why is he ordering out the
By chaosjake
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 6:08pm
Why is he ordering out the passenger side window?
Mirror
By ElizaLeila
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 8:44pm
TikTok doesn't mirror the image unless the creator actively selects that filter.
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