What a bunch of babies. You people make me sick.
Listen up folks, the only people who have a valid bitch about the snow are the tens of thousands who had to get to and from work every day on the T. And only those whose routines were seriously interrupted along with the ungodly physical discomfort on many occasions can bitch. This also applies to business and such who rely on the T to get their workers to and fro.
Now if you had one or two bad days with the T during the storm, shut the fuck up. It’s a snowstorm and that’s what happens when things run and snow buries the city.
But now we hear people bitching that the roads and sidewalks weren’t completely free of snow within 24 hours? Two days? A week? I don’t know but other then the T I haven’t seen reasons to complain. Sure there are isolated areas.
And Boston’s neighborhoods are not the center of the snow storm. You would think we all lived in Southie and had space savers.
That’s another thing that irks me. Space savers. They’ve been ubiquitous in dense urban northeast neighborhoods from the beginning. Now before some d-bag pipes in and says that when she lived in Manhattan they didn’t use space savers let me say Manhattan is different. But go out to some neighborhoods in Queens and Statin Island, you will see them. Then go to Providence, Worcester, Manchester NH, Portland, Maine, Everett, Fall River, Lowell, Hartford and most other places. You’ll see them.
But for some reason they became a big controversy when all these yuppies and media types from far away suburban-driveway-land want things to be just like home. Except for the fact they can say they live in Southie or the South End.
Now the Olympics.
As Archie Bunker would say, “Shut-Up You”.
My goodness. Nobody has committed. Right now is the second round of preliminary and all the pols are positioning themselves to get a piece of it. Like the Yiddish Sal from the North End and the Mike Maroon from Brighton.
No need to repeat the arguments that this helps us get our infrastructure, including the T, where it should be and public money will not pay for venues. Only public money will be for security, most comes from the feds.
And yes we can’t trust it. But this crying and yipping over the cost down to parking as if it couldn’t be done shows what small pathetic potatoes we are.
Right now we have two years to see if we can do it and then take the next step. The city is insured for this step. I was expecting to see a bloated payroll yesterday. i didn’t. We can bicker about Deval but the rest were more than reasonable for the task at hand. Those who complain about these salaries really make us look like some backwater jerksville.
It’s like this folks. Pretend you’re an old guy. Family man. Have a few bucks. Nice house in a nice suburb.
Your oldest daughter just got engaged. You have your doubts about the guy but nothing to go on. And you can see she loves him.
Now imagine they want to have a big wedding at your house. You know what that means, don’t you?
Time to spend money on the house. All those things that it needs but never got to. Maybe paint the house, replace some furniture, new windows here and there, resurface the driveway, replace a retaining wall, go crazy on the landscaping.
The house is now the house you always wanted and it’s value increased.
Now right before you hand over money to the caterer, the florist, the band, the photographer, the church, the limo, and the mother of the bride outfit the wedding is called off. Turns out you were right. The groom was a scumbag and it the bride finally saw it.
Win win. Avoided having this guy marry into the family and did what was needed to be done to the house.
Now I know in this analogy you wouldn’t want to be home after your daughter’s wedding is called off. Talk about drama.
But guess what? Your daughter is not the bride. It’s John Fish. Who cares?
And that right now is our worse case scenerio right now. In 2018 we start paying the caterer.
One more thing. John Fish maybe the bride but it’s an arranged marriage and Marty Walsh can call it off if he doesn’t like what the dowry will cost. From what I can tell, this fuckin kid from Dorchester will have no problem pulling the plug in 2018. If they can’t do it like he wants them to he’ll tell them to pound sand I bet.
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SomervilleTom says
I fear your analogy misses the mark. You offer “paint the house, replace some furniture, new windows here and there, resurface the driveway, replace a retaining wall, go crazy on the landscaping.”
That’s not how it goes down. Here’s a better list: tear down the back porch, bulldoze the garden, and dig a swimming pool. Move the driveway to the back street, and tell the abutters back there to shut the fk up. Ditch the existing slate roof, add another story to the house for guest accommodations, and finally gut the kitchen and replace it with a prep-space for the caterers.
It doesn’t matter whether the groom is a scumbag or not, you just completely destroyed your home and pissed off all your neighbors.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
and if neighbors can’t suck up one day for a wedding then they are not good neighbots.
The pool and kick-ass new yard and porcxh will be enjoyed by the family, including grand kids for years to come. Then when sold the house is still worth more.
Your analogy fails Tom. Just makes my case stronger.
SomervilleTom says
Maybe your neighbors don’t mind. In my neighborhood, they’d raise hell with the zoning board, the appeals board, and any selectmen that let this happen. That gets pretty embarrassing, because it will be hard to hide all the money I’d have to spread around to make it happen.
No new porch, you didn’t read carefully enough. My family doesn’t WANT a pool, they wanted the garden we used to have. They liked the porch. Nobody wants to clean the empty rooms upstairs that nobody uses, and it’s going to cost even more to put a kitchen back in so we can cook.
Maybe folks in your neighborhood like monstrosities with overgrown warts where a roof used to be and swimming pools and asphalt instead of a porch and gardens. I do see lots of houses like that in some neighborhoods.
Yup, it sounds like I live in a different neighborhood from you.
Anyway, I’m just a step-dad. I guess you just suck it up and pay the bill. Me, I told her “no dice”. If she wants that kind of wedding, maybe she can talk her biological dad into doing it. I hear he lives in your neighborhood.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
And don’t say Frontage Road.
I haven’t heard anything about what you’re talking about.
You sure you talking about the Boston Olympics/
The stadium will be a tempoary rehab of a newly built soccer stadium.
Other venues exist or will be built at local colleges for use after.
Are you talking about the Boston Common being used? The Esplanade/
What the hell are you talking about Tom? I’m baffled
HR's Kevin says
n/t
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
You are one of my biggest fans. I mean you read everything I write and many comment with nothing of substance to add.
Thanks dude. You are what keeps me going.
You’re welcome.
HR's Kevin says
That would be far too tedious.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Obviosly you resd me because if you didn’t you coul;d not have responded by saying you don’t.
Are you the dumbest person on earth.
Question for David, Bob, and Charle. Ladies, why do I have to put up with nursery school thinking from your most obtuse commentators. Here I am. All I do is give and give and give to BMG and here you are providing me no intellectual chalenges, no opportunities for the olde give and take.
Instead I see one moron after anothger try to engage me but in reality would lose an argument to a skinhead. Case in point hrs-kevin.
My goodness!
HR's Kevin says
For someone who loves to call other people out all the time, you sure have awfully thin skin.
It is typical of you to blame others for your own inability to edit yourself and communicate your ideas in a persuasive way. Here’s a tip: filling your posts with insults is a good way to have your arguments dismissed out of hand.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
as us girls on Beacon Hill say, “You’re the best.”
fenway49 says
Seems like someone’s blood pressure is up.
fenway49 says
I meant cholesterol. Because statins are used to treat high cholesterol.
People whine about space savers every year. More snow, more whining. Anyway, carry on.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Little known place that’s so hip it’s not on google maps.
I’ve said too much already.
fenway49 says
Does this not solve the mystery of Kevin Cullen? He’s from “Sith Boston.”
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
No myth, the guy’s a fraud. Head to toe.
fenway49 says
who’s from Sith Boston
drikeo says
Darth Hurley
whoaitsjoe says
What a bunch of pansies.
SomervilleTom says
I was thinking of a different word that starts with P and ends with s.
whoaitsjoe says
I feel like “patsies” is definitely in the EB3 lexicon.
Mark L. Bail says
“pasties”?
SomervilleTom says
I guess that “quadrupeds” doesn’t have quite the same pithy ring.
🙂
kirth says
Patsies
Pintos
Pearls
Pistols
Porkers
Pirates
Mark L. Bail says
Ernie ends up turning on Boston 2024 because they’re the ones upset about the space savers.
ryepower12 says
Suburbanites have no idea how difficult it is to get rid of snow when there’s no where to put it. If you have a giant yard and a snowblower (and maybe even a plower on top of that), of course getting rid of the snow isn’t the end of the world.
But shoveling out 100 inches of snow when you a) can’t put it in the street and b) don’t have a yard to put it on (or one big enough for all that snow, anyway), then suddenly it becomes an incredibly difficult and back-breaking thing.
So I’m in full agreement… people with big driveways and yards, or who live in places with parking garages (hello Manhattanite car owners) need to shut up about space savers and worry about themselves.
Re Olympics
Isn’t this one of the fundamentally biggest reasons on earth to oppose the Olympics? When everyone’s angling to get a piece of it is when this thing is going to get even more bloated and expensive than it would have otherwise been, and suddenly we’re forced to build bridges in Lowell that cost 10x more than the bridge that was actually needed, or olympic venues in Pittsfield and Springfield when we could have just used the Harry Agannis arena or Conte Forum.
The last thing this whole process needs is a feeding frenzy in the legislature.
London cost about $15 billion — and we aren’t anywhere close to where London was at for these games. It’s going to cost us $20-30 billion, and probably closer to $30. We can’t count on any federal help with the Republicans in charge (indefinitely because of gerrymandering) — even counting on them to sign off on security costs is a stretch, IMO. We’ll probably get most of the security costs covered, but who knows?
It’s not small potatoes to worry about Boston and Massachusetts being bogged down with $15-20 billion in costs over this thing, because that’s about what we could be on the hook for when all is said and done.
The fix is in, Ernie. Comcast just recently paid billions and billions and billions for these games. It almost single handily funds the entire IOC with the money it spends on the Olympics. They are demanding a Summer Games, pronto. The USOC settled its issues with the IOC, too — so the IOC no longer has a beef with the US.
Short of overwhelming, universal on-the-ground resistance to these games — to the point where the IOC will worry if they’ll even be able to put on a games at all by the time the public is done — the IOC is going to give it to Boston. They’ll give it to us, regardless of how fantastic or terrible our plan is, knowing that we’ll be forking over a blank check and will do whatever they want us to do to get it.
And they’re not going to care about how great or bad the MBTA is, or any other non-Olympic-specific infrastructure, because the MBTA is going to be great for them regardless since the whole thing will be IOC-only for the entire length of the Olympics. There won’t be any MBTA slow downs when the only people who can get on are wearing an IOC-approved badge or button. And we’ll give that to them, because we’ll give them whatever they ask for.
Ernie… you’re going to come around on this sooner or later, as you sniff just how much the fix is in and just how awful this will be for the city and state.
Boston 2024’s efforts is Gatsby level destructive behavior, and our capacity to invest in the state’s infrastructure and other high priorities will be devastated for generations — with nothing but a fancy 3 week party to show for it, one no one will remember or care about in 2044.
But, unlike Gatsby, the people running the show in Boston 2024 aren’t putting their own wealth on the line to do it… they’re putting ours.
ryepower12 says
You’re off you’re rockers if you think Boston will be able to call off the Olympics after it’s awarded it.
They call off the Olympics for World Wars, Ernie. Not Marty Walsh.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
It’s all about the contracts we sign.
The city and state only commit maoney to infrastructure, other people responsible for venues and everything associated with them.
If that private stuff isn’t done, unlike cities before, we aren’t responsible.
If the Olympics doesn’t accept this we lose bid.
If we get bid and and say the velodrome isn’t built because budget is short we can say too bad. We ain’t building one with public money and we don’t have to.
Only the International Olympic Committee looks bad and they will jump in and fund.
Boston is setting the new trend so third world countries and Russa and China don’t have OIympics paid for by corrupt governments.
Boston doesn’t need the Olympics. Actually we’d look great if we told them to screw when the move the goal posts.
Conventions will still come here. Tourists will still come here. Medical patients from around the world will still come here. Super intelligent people will still come here. MIT and Harvard will still be here.
If we sign an agreement, like we did for Gillette Stadium and the new Boston Garden, where zero money for anything but publc infrastructure we can stick with it.
ryepower12 says
I think the history of the Olympics demonstrates that potential hosts will sign pretty much anything. I’m really not sure why we’ll be any different. Nothing that’s happened so far has given me confidence that would.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
that’s is the Holy Grail of this thing and will dictate everything and who pays for them.
kirth says
It’s pie!
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
We are not committed yet. If everyone thought like you Kirth we would all still be living in caves. Why bother looking at anything?
SomervilleTom says
We “looked” at casinos. The “contracts” were going to be really tasty.
Look what we got.
It is a pie, and we all know who is baking it. We’ve had their pies before. They suck.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Right Tom?
Except of course the Green Line Extension through Somerville and Medford so people like you dont have to use the many shot bus trips to Davis Square or Wellington Station or Alewife or Sullivan Square …
Puleeeze Tom, there are many solid arguments against the Olympics. Go find them and we will have a debate based on common sense.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
responded to my question asking what homes and neighborhoods you declare would be destroyed to make room for the Olympics.
I’m still waiting.
SomervilleTom says
I’ve made my point and you’ve made yours.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
That was your point. So the facts don’t back it up so I guess the only point you made is that I am right and you are wrong.
Goodie goodie goodie
SomervilleTom says
You must have something better to do this afternoon than post this drivel.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
I believe this cooment is a personal attack and against the rules. I am sure whe you see this you will want to delete it.
Please don’t. I can take it. I am not a putz.
Thnak you
rcmauro says
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Christopher says
This time the year is involved too as it is 3.1415…