It gets better ...‘Avatar 2’ called out for ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘white savior complex’

I was debating on whether to go and see it or not (coincidentally, I did see the first one at Jordans), but this 'woke' shit is getting out of hand and only sways me even more to go and see it.

At least this time around the Majestic 7 in Watertown is a 15 minute walk, 5 minute drive from me.

You can't reserve seats ahead of time? I don't go to movies that often but going online, picking the best time and date, looking at a seating chart and choosing my seat has to be the best thing since sound was added to movies.

These are the same people who just can't wait and will rush out and wait in line overnight for the latest iPhone, graphics card, Xbox release, sneaker, etc.

It's not going anywhere for awhile. What's the hurry? So you can chat it up with your coworkers the next day about how awesome it was?

Wait a couple of weeks and you can still enjoy it without the crowd and hassles.

How much can we speed up if we are approaching a yellow light?

What do you mean by "harassed"? Were they legitimately doing something wrong? You make it sound like the cop had nothing better to do and stopped your friend for no reason whatsoever.

On the subject of scooters, some of those pinheads need to be stopped and cited. I've seen them do more stupid shit and stunts that make drivers and cyclists seem like exemplary citizens.

I would say more like Cambridge if there were at least 2-3 more signs on the post.

You can use anything you want just as long as you're wearing the correct pants.

OP isn't the first or only one to make that mistake, like the time the state put up a 'Entering Somervile' sign on Rt 16/Alewife Brook Pkwy near Mass Ave,

Hopefully their tour guide will take them to the Tea Party Museum, the Freedom Trail, USS Constitution, Bunker Hill, etc.

They wanted to put one in Watertown about 10 years ago. It was shot down because...

1. Traffic concerns

2. Target and HD are about a mile up the road and it would impact their business.

3. They're a crime magnet.

4a) Residents thought it would ruin the character of the neighborhood..

4b) Residents didn't like Walmart because they're Walmart and they do WalMart things

Personally, I have nothing against them and would have welcomed them, but I'm also not pissed they got run out of town.

Do you have a car? Liquor stores/sales are open in NH. Had to make the beer run there once, and only once, when we had a Thanksgiving gathering, everybody forgot the packies were closed that day and somehow I being the one that made the trip up North.

I'm not blaming biotech exclusively for the current situation, but as the #1 growth industry in the region, they certainly have had an impact around here and not always in a positive way.

Think the cost of living and housing here is ridiculous? It's not because of Amazon or Google or Microsoft. Sure, they might have provided high paying jobs but it came with a cost to the rest of the communities they affected.

You know things are getting bad when we're outdoing San Fransisco and new arrivals from CA are flabbergasted by the availability and cost of housing here.

Personally speaking, I'm financially fine and living comfortably, but I'm not wealthy by any means. Others that I know aren't doing as well and even with affordable housing, it s not going to change their situation very much for the foreseeable future.

The last thing they're concerned about (and I don't blame them), is what other cities have done or "greener ways".

Example: The Western Ave Corridor study and rezoning plan in Allston I don't live there, but I do live close by, and this shit benefits no one but Harvard U and developers at the expense of lower wage earners and businesses in the area.

Eliminating 180-200 parking spaces for local residents and business, and creating an "innovation corridor" where cars are discouraged by diverting traffic and creating two one way streets and make way for bike and bus lanes for the sake of profit under the pretense of "greener ways" is pretty fucked up if you ask me.

In reality, its not really my problem, but it does piss me off

Up until a few years ago, it would have been fine if it didn't involve the removal of parking spaces and/or travel lanes that had been in existence for generations until the plague showed up and demanded it.

ETA: Ok, maybe I got carried away a bit with the outdoor dining, but the bike and bus lanes gripe still stands.

What's it going to take to get through to some of you people that those of us that have been born and raised here, have roots and family here, and we were just fine and dandy until all this new development, gentrification and all the other associated crap took place and we're sick and tired of the shit?

Enough is enough.

Find some other place to move to with your biolabs, density, bike and bus lanes, luxury high rises,outdoor dining, etc.

As if totally fucking up Boston, Somerville, Medford, etc wasn't bad enough, now you want to spread the disease to the outlaying areas after we moved to escape from those places to get away from the bullshit.

If we can't stop it through grass roots action, community involvement and stricter zoning laws, at least we can make it as much as a PITA, expensive and time consuming as possible.

Maybe at some point developers will get the message that their presence isn't needed or wanted anymore.

Not saying that it's counter productive to job creation, just take them somewhere else. Anywhere but here

Fine by me, there's already way too many biolabs in this region as it is. The more that stay or move the fuck away from here and take their workforce with them the better.

There are 49 other states they can set up shop.

Whatever works to beat the system. I've patched up more leaking mufflers and exhaust pipes with cut up soda cans and muffler clamps than I can remember.

Some have lasted a few months... some a few years. But in the end, I always got an inspection sticker.

Just leaf it there. Eventually the wind will blow it over to the neighbors property and they can deal with it.

On point... use whatever DIY hacks you can come up with to pass inspection, as long as it lasts long enough to get you through the inspection.

When you say "frame" do you mean underneath the car or do you mean the exterior body?

If it's underneath, the only way they'll see that is if they put the car on a lift, which they don't do in MA like some other states (NH for example).

If it's the exterior, just patch it up with some galvanized sheet metal, pop rivets and Bondo.

I patched up someone elses rust bucket that way and so far it's survived at least 5-6 Boston winters

Fentanyl? The aspiring rapper/street hustler? I'd stay as far as I could away from that guy.

Fuck that fancy pants new fangled designer drugs shit. If I can't spell or pronounce it, I ain't putting it in my body.

The band or the broadcasting station?

Three blind mice...

I've heard of LSD, THC, PCP, MDMA but never MGH. What's it like and where would one score some?

So, in your opinion, anyone that displays a thin blue line sticker on their vehicle is automatically a racist?

Family members, friends, people who wrongfully think it will help get them out of a ticket?

I know cops that wouldn't display any of that stuff on their vehicles either because they couldn't be bothered with it, or out of concern of calling too much attention to themselves and/or become targets.

A position of ignorance? If not that, its at least a very fucked up, narrow minded way of thinking.