Because you don’t have to pedal. It was an attempt at humor.

Keene should be “Free State Idiots and kids going to their college safety school.”

Maine, New Hampshire, and what’s the third state near the Spaulding Turnpike? Maybe you should have called it the “Bi-state” area.

I don’t know. Don’t the skeletal heroin addicts bring down the average weight in ManchVegas?

Not on a motorcycle!

First off, love your username. Do you still have that bicycle license plate?

Second, life expectancy for poor people is not just related to the amount of exercise they get. Infant mortality, manual labor, and violent crime all have a much higher impact on poor people than well-off people.

Add in poor diets (because junk food is cheaper than healthy food) and genetic predisposition to some diseases by historically impoverished segments of the population and it’s a recipe for shorter lives.

If you compare per capita income, by county, to life expectancy, by county, it’s almost an exact correlation. Otherwise, Suffolk county would have the highest life expectancy in the United States, or maybe the world. It’s completely urban, and it’s home to tremendous medical facilities.

Then why is 100% urban Suffolk County 11th out of 14? It’s home to the finest hospitals in the world. It really comes down to economics more than anything.

Chez Vachon on the West Side of Manchester has a pretty great poutine. But, seriously, if you’re willing to travel to New England to find a French town you might as well just go to Quebec. It’s right next door.

Or, go to New Orleans.

Fuck Russia and fuck you.

Good for you. It’s awesome that you’re considering doing this. I wish more people would.

You nailed it. All of that changed in 2004 when the Six won the World Series. Even though the Pats had just won 2 Super Bowls and we’re on their way to a third, the cloud didn’t really lift until the Red Sox reversed the curse.

If you moved here in 1990 then the Pats fans didn’t expect anything. That was possibly the nadir of the franchise. The Celtics fans were coming off the Bird years and were used to excellence. The Bruins were good. But they had lost to Gretzky’s Oilers in the Cup Finals 2 out of the previous 3 years.

But, yes, despite winning the East 3 out of the previous 5 years, Red Sox fans had the “what’ll go wrong this year” mindset. That ended in 2004 for most of us and 2007 for all but the most pessimistic fan.

Just because they didn’t win championships during those drought years doesn’t mean they weren’t good teams. The Red Sox had winning seasons in 44 of their last 55 seasons. Their problem was being in the same division as the Yankees or running into all-time great teams when they made the World Series. But they have had a legitimate shot at the World Series almost every year for half a century.

The Bruins have made Stanley Cup runs every few years since 1970. They just couldn’t get over the hump.

The Celtics have been great since the 1950’s. Losing Len Bias and Reggie Lewis took them 10 years to get over.

And even the Patriots competed for championships once a decade from the 1960’s to 2000 before dominating the NFL for 20 years. The late 70’s Pats we’re excellent but they got sabotaged by their coach leaving without notice. The 85 Pats lost a Super Bowl to the greatest team in NFL history. The 96 Pats lost to peak Brett Favre while their coach was setting up his next job.

New England fans have been lucky. I think the real reason is because they’re passionate but will call out ownership when things aren’t good.

The Bruins have had the cheapest owner in the league for years. So when the NHL adopted a salary cap, they were kind of used to playing under an artificial salary cap and you could argue had an advantage over the rest of the league because of that.

Maybe you shouldn’t be driving. Seriously. If your anxiety is this great you may want to look in to moving closer to mass transit.

I did what you recommended. If that cop had been familiar with this person’s reddit history they would have been cuffed and interrogated. Wow, so many alarm bells going off here.

Dude, we’re done. I made the mistake of engaging you. But I’m done with that. Have a good life.

I think I’m done. I’ve already explained my intentions and my personal experience. This may be a public forum, but I’m pretty certain nobody is reading our exchange right now, except for you and me.

I have twice said that I am not referring to your sub Reddit. What are you asking me? Do you want me to give you links to examples outside of Reddit of white supremacy, groups being drawn to Anglish?

I’m not going to do that. If you can’t see why a movement to purify the English language back to its German roots is appealing to white supremacists I can’t help you.

I’m not saying that your sub Reddit is a haven for white supremacy. I’m saying that I, personally, don’t want anything to do with it based on my personal experience of having a step son who is a white supremacist.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/blue-eyed-english

I didn’t mean to say they’re in the sub. What I meant was that Anglish has been latched onto by white supremacists in real life. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I understand YOUR motivation. And I do find it interesting. But, unfortunately, your innocent etymological exercise has been latched onto by groups like storm front. It’s a shame. But it’s predictable. Anything that celebrates Anglo Saxon/Nordic/Celtic culture is their nectar.

They want to purge English of all of its non-Anglo Saxon words.

I’ve seen that sub. It’s a little “white supremacyish” for my liking.

Actually English got rid of the singular 2nd person (thou). “You” was originally the plural.

We need to start a movement to bring back “thou.”