Furthermore, Drunkin Donuts is a white suburban 'tough guy' obsession. I don't know anyone who lives in Boston who drinks that slop. Why would we? We have plenty of better options that don't require 3 squirts of sickly sweet hazlenut corn syrup. Mock all you want for those of us who prefer drinking black coffee from Costa Rica or Indonesia... I like strong black coffee, not a melted caffeinated candybar in a pink and orange styrofoam cup.

You must not know many people in Boston, then

By adamg on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:02pm.

I admit it, I drink Dunkin' Donuts coffee - and I don't care who knows it. Given the sheer number of Dunks even in places like Roslindale and Hyde Park, which are pretty far off the beaten suburbanites-commuting-into-work path (Roslindale: Starbucks free since forever!), I'm afraid I have to break it to you that you're wrong: Plenty of Bostonians get their coffee at Dunkin' Donuts.

And lets not forget, you can

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:55pm.

And lets not forget, you can get black coffee at dunks as well.

Similarly

By erik g on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 3:07pm.

no one in the city proper actually roots for the Patriots, the Accent is only found on the North Shore, Marky Mark is from Worcester, and the locals call it 95 not 128.

same for the hockey team,

By Formerly-SoBo-Yuppie on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 9:02am.

baseball team and basketball team. the boston sports fandom is a suburban thing.

pssst

By ElizaLeila on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 2:54pm.

*sarcasm*

Nice

By jobart on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:51am.

and is that the pbs logo at the end or reading rainbow or something?

NBC

By Kaz on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:55am.

The More You Know

NBC's PSA arm: http://www.themoreyouknow.com/

fitting

By Steeve on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:11am.

Fitting that you "more you know'd" someone who was unaware of the "more you know" logo.

the more you know...

By bandit on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:57am.

... was the tagline from NBC public service announcements that started in the 80's. widely parodied and meme'd. always makes me laugh.

I think what he's trying to say is:

By Kaz on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 9:58am.

"“When Hollywood sends Boston's people, they’re not sending the best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to your movies and TV shows. They’re bringing Dunks. They’re bringing guns. They’re white. But some, please know, are good people.”

Funny because I was just

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:57am.

Funny because I was just asking this of my boston relatives who now live down south (as in south of the Mason-Dixon Line - not the south shore. Me- I feel all these Affleck/Damon/Wahlberg movies focus on the tough and gritty white Irish-y catholic scrappy Boston and not the more refined side. Case in point - michele williams character telling her husband casey afflek to "shut the fuck up" as part of their bedroom repertoire. So classless and none of my friends would speak to their husbands /significant others like that unless in a relationship ending fight. My southern relatives agreed but also says there is a very deep undercurrent of that when they come back to visit - more aggressive, more direct. How about a movie about love and happiness and smart people. So I say shove it up your ass Hollywood! I love this town and that means never having to say sorry!

Most craziest...

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:04am.

trumped-up, steroided-out, stereotype-splaining of all time!

Just to be clear though...

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:11am.

That stuff is all true about Weymouth though, right?

The stereotype has a source

By Waquiot on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:17am.

Sure, not everyone in Boston is a sociopathic bank robber, but in the end movies thrive on drama, so bank robbers, smart orphans, various sundry mobsters, and the like are more likely to be the basis of stories that are made into popular films. Admittedly, the films mostly feature white people, but that's Hollywood (sadly.) Still, Tory can sit back with a good old slice of Dorchester such as Gone Baby Gone and see our Irish American heroes sitting down with Haitians. Personally, I'd love to direct people to a little indie film, On Broadway, that shows the stereotypical Irish American Boston experience without the violence and whatnot. Heck, it was even filmed in Jamaica Plain and Roslindale.

This might get me flamed but

By Scauma on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:27am.

But I truly think only white Bostonians have the 'Boston accent' that the city is known for. And it kind of makes sense when you research the origin of said accent, hint: it originated somewhere in Englad.

PS. Dunks actually isn't good coffee, but it still holds a sweet spot in my heart. There's really only a handful of 'hot spots' around town where violence is prevalent, and in my BPS days, I never had more than one or two white kids in my class.

It's not even white "Bostonians"

By issacg on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:55am.

most of those heavily-accent folk emigrated to the suburbs (primarily the ones on the north and south shores) years ago!

flame on!

yes

By John-W on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:26am.

The most Bostonian Bostonians live in places like Saugus, Quincy, Attleboro....Weymouth. Current Bostonians are more likely transplants from somewhere else because actual Townie stereotypes can barely afford to live within the municipal boundaries of the City of.

You want a hear a Boston accent that can fucking peel paint off the hull of a tanker? Head down to Largo, Florida or Sarasota.

A lot of Hyde Park accents...

By dmcboston on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:02pm.

...sound kinda French...

Explain French sounds...maybe

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:07pm.

Explain French sounds...maybe the grunts and ahhhs at the end of some words?

Can't

By SoBo-Yuppie on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:37pm.

be a bostonian unless you live in boston.

i like they way boston is going. soon we will have movies about yuppies sipping expensive cocktails and how they got the president impeached.

Oh, so you've met my Mom?

By Nancy on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:58am.

My mother is a perfect example of a classic Boston accent. She grew up in Dorchester, which is where I was also born, but we moved to the suburbs in the early 1970s. She has the heaviest Boston accent I've ever heard. It's unbelievable.

Heaviest accent

By Irma la Douce on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 4:19pm.

The heaviest Boston accent I've ever heard belonged to a woman I worked with in the late 80s who was born and raised in Arlington, where her parents had moved from the North End.

Yeah

By LadyKatey on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 12:53am.

My Mom, too. My brothers love to tease her about it. She was born in Florida and grew up in Woburn. I grew up there too- until I was 15 and we moved to NH. Our new NH school friends thought that we had strong accents, which surprised me, because compared to Mom.... my brothers and I managed to tone it down because of the comments.

jermaine wiggins

By EM Painter on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:53am.

Government Employees & Elected Officials

By Suldog on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 3:49pm.

I think the highest concentration of Boston-accented people within the City of Boston will generally be found in City Hall, the State House, and other government buildings. My theory is the accent lives there because many people have held those jobs for a long time and some of those people tend to let relatives know first about any openings.

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

intelligent and entertaining.

By issacg on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:53am.

I think that Tory is doing a great job, and having fun. That's more than I can say for a lot of other people.

I also think his commentary is intelligent and entertaining. That's way more than I can say for most people.

Keep up the good work, Chief.

[that last part being a nod to the local lexicon, for those of you who didn't recognize that]

OK

By Marco on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 10:57am.

I am an official fan of this dude now. Keep these videos coming! Is he available for Bar Mitzvahs?

Closed captions or subtitles for deaf/hoh?

By deafnon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:49am.

Get this ADA compliant thanks.

DD, Guns & Stereotypes

By plt3012 on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 11:55am.

This guy is good. I think he's entertaining and his commentary laces reality in with comedy that isn't a dig or sarcastic.
I'm a white guy from South Boston who has a pretty pronounced accent. When I meet people from other parts of the country or even from outside the US altogether, they ask me to repeat and then giggle at some of the ways I pronounce words. I don't really mid it. But occasionally when I watch some Hollywood movies I roll my eyes.
I can't say I blame people for thinking we're all foul mouthed, semi-psychotic criminals or social outcasts.
I think the whole Boston thing has run it's course. I wish Hollywood would discover another part of the country.

I can totally relate with the

By Metoo on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:55pm.

I can totally relate with the South Boston accent thing. I am a professional nanny who has worked with many families new to Boston and spent so much time with one little guy that he has the Boston accent. They live in Greenwich Conn now and the parents love that he speaks like me. Like that he says beaaaa instead of bear.

This guy is great - I liked

By anon on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:05pm.

This guy is great - I liked his post on housing. Wonder if he is a stand up comic somewhere. Yes black folk under represented in boston movies.

Well many of those movies

By Metoo on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:15pm.

Well many of those movies take place in Southie and Charlestown in the 70's and 80's. There were hardly any people if color around in those days and these mobster stories are what people want to see. Well not all people but I think white people from out of town love that crap.

Um ...

By adamg on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:11pm.

The busing crisis was in 1974. There were plenty of black people living in Boston then - just as they have been for generations.

No, they weren't in Charlestown or South Boston, but I bet a talented screenwriter could make a good movie about Darryl Williams, if we're insisting that Boston only be portrayed in movies with violence in them.

Ummm never said there weren't

By Metoo on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 2:21pm.

Ummm never said there weren't people of color in Boston then. My wife is black and grew up in the South End. My point was referring to the majority of movies that are being made in Boston and what they are about.

haha hehe

By Scumquistador on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 3:32pm.

"i have black friends" lmao haha

darryl williams

By bostnkid on Thu, 02/02/2017 - 3:42pm.

that would make quite a story for a movie. it was such dark moment in this city's history. Darryl Williams was a true Boston hero.

does anyone remember this also remember that Pope John Paul visited the city the same week Williams was shot? I remember praying for Williams at school and then going outside to see the papal helicopter fly over the church.

Not everyone from Boston walks around drinking Dunkies and shooting guns - and some are even black

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