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faithshaped

[through gritted teeth] this will make me grow in virtue

classicalcanvas

Tempest (1855) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

mentohol-blog

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

direhydroid

also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

just7frogsinapeoplesuit

More from the notes:

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

That's just how New Englanders are in general. Actually good and helpful people, but you're gonna get insulted too.

the-firebrand

Yeah this all tracks, I've been that Bostonian more than a few times. And been on the receiving end, obviously.

Three apartments ago, my now wife and I were moving into a place on Commonwealth Ave in Allston on Sept 1 (iykyk) and we were struggling to parallel park the u-haul. A 40-something lady walking by watched us for a minute before she knocked on the window and set "Let me handle it!" and managed it like a pro.