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Citizen complaint of the day: Charlestown ain't Allston
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interesting
broken down and craptastic are two things i strongly associate with charlestown and its natives, so the complaint about yuppies is amusing
I'll be curious to see if the
I'll be curious to see if the city does anything about it since i've reported a car on my street parked in front of a fire hydrant over 6 hours ago and they've yet to even open the case.
Call a tow company.
.
Call
The police.
3 digits for an emergency
911
Say there was a fire in your house. Would you submit a CC ticket for it? This is an immediate public safety thing, not a quality of life issue.
Even "townies" deserve some respect
They've been here awhile.
Scum.
dont sign your posts
dont sign your posts
You mock
socioeconomically deprived people? I hate to see what you think about the socioeconomically deprived people in, say, Roxbury or the South Bronx.
dont be a coward, say what you mean
i think that you're trying to bring race into this because you're upset that i think charlestown deserves the reputation that it has
The yuppie should know in
The yuppie should know in Boston if you want to be like a townie, put trash in the street, to mark a parking space. Or go New Hampshire style and put trash in your front yard next to your Trump/Baker 2016 signs.
Junior, don't touch that!!
Junior, don't touch that!! You don't know where it's been !!
Yuppies
Have certain salt-of-the-earth elements taken a word that refers to Young Urban Professional (note the initial caps) and adapted it to apply to anyone perceived as "not from here"? The picture shows a broken particle board table in respose on a weed-choked sidewalk. I don't know of any "yuppie" (again, note those first three letters) who would ever own or have owned such a piece of a furniture. I can see the complainant pulling the working class hero shtick because someone parked an Audi in the space reserved for his working man's Dodge or bitching about the Whole Foods that moved into his beloved Johnnie's Foodmaster but what does a broken particle board table tossed carelessly onto the sidewalk have to do with yuppies and what does the complainant mean when s/he uses the term?
And for what it's worth, why not also ask the city to pull the weeds sprouting up between the cracks in your sidewalk or is that the sort of flair that makes the 'Town authentic for you?
i was with you 90% of the way,
except there is nothing wrong with loyalty to johnnie's foodmaster in my humble opinion
Fair Enough
I worked at the Schrafft Center for a few years at the turn of the millennium and Johnnie's is one of the few things I remember about Charlestown. That and trying not to get killed leapfrogging across the Sullivan Square rotary each morning and wondering if the overpass to nowhere ever went anywhere.
Thank you
Thank you
Use vinegar
Use vinegar
For the weeds in the sidewalk. It also kills foot fungus and helps with bee stings, mosquito bites, sunburns, drain cleaner, salad dressing.
its not so bad for cleaning linoleum, either
though if you're not a particular fan of the smell of vinegar i might caution you against this