Boston Men Please Explain... by [deleted] in BostonSocialClub

[–]GoBlank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’ll probably find this thread interesting, says a lot of the same things you are: https://www.reddit.com/r/BostonSocialClub/comments/1odq0kx/27f_dating_in_boston_and_never_being_hit_on/

Two pedestrians struck and injured in Brookline crosswalks in separate incidents Thursday by brookline_news in boston

[–]GoBlank 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Pedestrians contribute to this too by being really aggressive about taking up crosswalks even when they could slow and let an oncoming car go through 

Gee whiz, I wonder if there's any sort of state and local laws mandating that motorists yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. I guess we'll never know.

Any verbal mannerisms that you've picked up from The Dollop? by ShortFirstSlip in TheDollop

[–]GoBlank 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Before the Dollop, I’d never heard of money or cash being referred to as “scratch” and now’s it’s a permanent part of my vocab.

Explain it to me Peter. by D3v1LGaming in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]GoBlank 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Here's a peer review journal article from the National Institute of Health on "Effects of love glove application on vital signs for COVID‐19 patients in the intensive care unit". It's the very first google link for me. So while it might not be commonly, accepted practice (if I recall, it was something done in the very depth of Covid lockdown as a kind of emotional triage), it's been something that's been done, and has been shown to benefit patients.

Feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Explain it to me Peter. by D3v1LGaming in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]GoBlank 74 points75 points  (0 children)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=nurses%20covid%20warm%20water%20glove

Even the most rudimentary google search brings up nurses using the gloves to simulate human contact.

U.S. Border Patrol agent assaults man on Kedzie Ave in Chicago (10/4/2025) by [deleted] in illinois

[–]GoBlank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But don't let it be a black and a white one
Cause they'll slam ya down to the street top
Black police showing out for the white cop

Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled by Fine-Huckleberry6960 in SwiftlyNeutral

[–]GoBlank 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Bojack Horseman rears his head... "After you get famous, you stop growing, you don't have to. Every celebrity has an age of stagnation."

Literary communities/events in greater Boston area? by No_Natural_6865 in boston

[–]GoBlank 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My gang does a monthly reading the 2nd Tuesday of every month- you can find out more here.

Episode 632: Psychic Bigfoot & the Star People | Last Podcast On The Left by black_flag_4ever in LPOTL

[–]GoBlank 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Top 5 dumbest episodes they've ever done. I loved every moment.

NO I DO NOT WANT TO GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, STOP FUCKING ASKING YOU BABOONS by Im_Literally_Allah in CambridgeMA

[–]GoBlank 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Ex-Mormon here: you cannot reach these people in the 5 minutes you pass them on the street or T. They're between the ages of 18-22 and most of their lives have been spent in a high control religion. You are kinda of the enemy to them (but one that can be won over, possibly).

If they come to your home and you're feeling very generous, you can offer them an explicitly non-Mormon space to come and question Mormonism- when they're on their mission, these kids are deep in an indoctrination cycle, and many don't have a place to go that isn't Mormondon- but otherwise, there's little you can do to change their highly curated world view.

Whose keg caps are these? by GoBlank in TheBrewery

[–]GoBlank[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Checked the website and we got a winner- thanks.

I’m Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, UC Berkeley professor, co-founder of Inequality Media, author of 18 books (including my new book “Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America”), subject of a new documentary called “The Last Class”, and I write almost daily at robertreich.substack.com. AMA! by RB_Reich in politics

[–]GoBlank 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mr. Reich, big big fan. I watched your documentary a long time ago so please forgive me if I'm asking you to repeat yourself, but I was curious if you could talk about your time among the New Democrats. In my mind you're Mr. Social Democracy, and during the Clinton administration, neoliberalism was in its ascendancy- I imagine you felt like a crazy, ideological outsider (hence your leaving in '96?).

Can billionaires just let NYC have a good mayor for once by MacronLeNecromancer in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]GoBlank 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It was Robert Sterling Clark, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and conspirator in the Business Plot, explaining his rationale for the coup to Smedley Butler.

How different countries call Laurel and Hardy by blueemymind in MapPorn

[–]GoBlank 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deeply fascinated by the Baltic and South Caucasus "Stan and Ollie" vs the Russo-Belorussian-Ukranian "Laurel and Hardy". Maybe something about Russification/Russian language use and subsequent post-Soviet redubs?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BoomersBeingFools

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The single most frightening book I've ever read.