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    ThrumbolioHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:16am

    I'll never understand your hatred of Boston.

    All silly bullshit aside, people are primarily against the Olympics due to the logistical nightmare it would create, as well as the fact that the profit will go into the hands of area bigwigs at the cost of taxpayer dollars. Factor in the fact that the T is a shitshow in ANY weather and you've got a city ill-equipped to host the volume of spectators and a transportation system too unreliable to get them to events in the wider Metro Boston area.

    It's a bad idea, no aspect of which has anything to do with obnoxious Boston sports fans (a point I'll repeatedly concede).

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      fnsfsnrThrumbolio
      3/18/15 10:26am

      I would also argue this logic applies to pretty much EVERY city, with some limited possible exceptions for places that already hosted the Olympics in the past and have infrastructure they can reuse. Seriously, why would anyone want to host the Olympics now? Does anyone even still care about them? I personally can't even be bothered to watch them these days. . .

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      ELPStuffnJunkThrumbolio
      3/18/15 10:27am

      "Making fun of cities is the same as hating a sports team," he said. "It's not rational, and it's not factually based." Nolan's favorite prey animals are DC and Boston, but the revealing thing about Boston, he told me, "is how mad they get and how seriously they take it." He likened it to when you're hanging out with a bunch of friends and one of them busts your balls. "The worst thing you can do is start crying about it." So the hate is just feigned? "I don't have an actual problem with Boston," Nolan said. "I can't say I have any firsthand evidence of Boston being a shithole. But it's not about whether Boston sucks or not, it's about whether you can goad the people into getting offended." http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013…

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    Medieval KnievelHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:21am

    I think you're leaving out an important factor: the marathon bombing. Perhaps people in Boston don't wat to paint a big target on — I dunno, what do they have there? Fanueil Hall (a tourist mall based around some old building)? The Bunker Hill Monument (poor man's Washington Monument)? Ted Williams's noggin?

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      toothpetardMedieval Knievel
      3/18/15 10:29am

      The big citgo sign!

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      Medieval Knieveltoothpetard
      3/18/15 10:32am

      Right! I always forget the close association between the Red Sox and the nationalized petro-giant of our friend Hugo Chavez.

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    HomeBaseHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:13am

    Boston is a small town that thinks it's a city. least fun metropolitan area in the country.

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      Dispropotionate-reponse1HomeBase
      3/18/15 10:16am

      if you need your geographic area to create the fun, the problem isnt the city, youre just a boring mouth-breathing fuck

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      HomeBaseDispropotionate-reponse1
      3/18/15 10:26am

      love the username. Boston is still terrible, though.

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    LikeableTomHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:14am

    I'm in Boston. Nobody here beyond lobbyists and other politically connected types looking to get paid wanted the Olympics. The commute is bad enough.

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      OtromonoLikeableTom
      3/18/15 10:18am

      Exactly what I was thinking...for months people have been against the idea. Please no Olympics in Boston.

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      HopalongNealCassidyLikeableTom
      3/18/15 10:22am

      the 'premise' of this post is just a pretense to bash bahstin, nothing more.

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:38am

    I grew up in Maine, and lived in Boston for a few years, and never once heard any actual person refer to it as "the Hub of the Universe". Do New Yorkers go around telling people they live in the Big Apple? Or do Hartford residents say they live in Insurance Cesspool Central? Come on.

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      joeybishopspersistentitchEatTheCheeseNicholson
      3/18/15 10:41am

      Read the Herald. "Hub man involved in car accident in LA," "Hurricane hits New Orleans, Hub man injured." There's a million of them.

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      EatTheCheeseNicholsonjoeybishopspersistentitch
      3/18/15 10:45am

      I know papers use it all the time. What I mean is I've never heard an actual person say it in conversation.

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    Dave Hamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:17am

    Boss Ton? Nope, sorry, doesn't ring any bells...bells, bells, oh hey are you guys the place with the Liberty Bell? (how to piss off anyone from Boston in under ten seconds)

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      StormEagleDave
      3/18/15 10:35am

      I am born and raised right outside of Boston and it pains me to admit most stereotypes are true. Which is why I am thinking of moving to the Dallas Fort Worth area. Anyone live there/ from there? Or has anyone moved there from New England?

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      hotmethodistStormEagle
      3/18/15 11:15am

      I live around DFW. Whaddaya wanna know?

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    Wishbone of ArcHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:23am

    well this is fucking rude -_-

    also, what percentage of private citizens in Boston were supportive of the olympic bid to begin with?

    'If you don't like snow, or racism, get the fuck out of Boston!!!'

    what's that saying about glass and stones?

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      Dispropotionate-reponse1Wishbone of Arc
      3/18/15 10:38am

      you didnt know? new york city? no racism...whatsofuckingever. the NYPD is a bastion of goodwill towards black folks.

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      Wishbone of ArcDispropotionate-reponse1
      3/18/15 10:43am

      oh I know, taylor swift told me

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    Cherith CutestoryHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 11:38am

    Sure, why not listen to the LA Times about Boston.

    People hate the idea more now because the snow revealed how woefully inadequate our infrastructure is. For weeks the T was running at 1/3 capacity. Trains that usually take 15 minutes took hours. The commuter rail was all messed up. Our roads are pothole ridden.

    There wasn't even funds to keep up with plowing.

    It'll take a lot of money to fix. And the Olympics will either be an embarrassment or a drain of resources. Or both. Also, most of us hated it before.

    And no one has used "Hub of the Universe" without irony since 1782.

    The racism thing is spot on though.

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      eleanorofaquitaineCherith Cutestory
      3/18/15 4:02pm

      The racism thing is spot on though.

      Stop with this. I mean, really. I know it's Gawker, and I know Bostonians on Gawker are beaten down by the cool kids telling us that we're, like, so uncool because we're in Boston. But the need to suck up to Gawker by saying, "no, you're so totally RIGHT that Boston is STILL SO RACIST" so that they can avoid the Gawker Outrage Machine is by far the most annoying thing about the whole dynamic.

      Is there racism in Boston? Yes, of course. Is the racism in Boston the same as it was during the busing crisis 40 years ago? Of course not. Boston is not the city it was then. That Hamilton Nolan continually perpetuates this myth - and that people in Boston continue to agree with it so that they aren't attacked by the outrage machine that is Gawker - cheapens the discourse about any municipality.

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      Cherith Cutestoryeleanorofaquitaine
      3/18/15 4:16pm

      Boston is really fucking racist. You are wrong. Being honest about this fact only helps us address it. Hiding it so Hamilton Nolan won't make fun of us is ridiculous.

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 10:19am

    "...may reveal something deeper about the city that likes to call itself the Hub of the Universe, often without irony."

    It does, actually. It says that they somehow take a view of the universe that hasn't been widely accepted since the pre-Galileo days. Which seems to run counter to the "we know a lot about medicine and higher education and all that smart stuff" claim.

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      burlivesleftnutIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      3/18/15 10:40am

      Renaissance burn.

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      IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerburlivesleftnut
      3/18/15 10:50am

      Keepin' it real, even in the face of papal displeasure.

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    ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeHamilton Nolan
    3/18/15 12:13pm

    Making a Bostonian feel insecure is as easy as making an Irishman drink.

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      ExtraExtra╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and Boke
      3/18/15 5:45pm

      Bostonians are far more resistant to criticism than any NYC hipster motherfucker like HamNo here.

      Show me a Boston site as big as Gawker posting rants about NYC all the time. Doesn't exist, yet here we are with the inverse.

      What does that tell you?

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeExtraExtra
      3/18/15 5:52pm

      It tells me thou dost protest too much.

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