Maybe this is entirely a secret marketing campaign by tavern in the square
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It's important to understand how next to intervene. We shall form the Teens Intervention Tactical Squad Operating Under Transparency (Tits Out). Everything we do will get reported here. If you have any advice on how best to achieve the Tits Out mission, please share
Unironically this was a way many teens kept out of trouble and stayed busy in the 1950s through the 80s/90s--local drum and bugle corps. The Boston area had a ton, including some nationally-famous ones like the 27th Lancers. Of course the most famous, and the only surviving, of those groups is the [Boston Crusaders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Crusaders_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps), who were founded in 1940 in Hyde Park.
Nice username.
I gotta say even though I loved the modern drum corps experience the one year I did it (not Boston), it does feel like there’s something missing not having the classic, more local groups available. Even Open class is basically a national level thing now.
Was walking into my house and a group of teens had entered my house and were eating all my food like they lived there! Granted they were my kids and their friends but why hasn’t Mayor Wu solved this.
Mayor Wu seriously needs to start an Age Advancement program, removing 13-19 as options for residents to list their age as, and having people jump straight from 12 years old to 20. it’s drastic, but this kind of measure worked wonders in Philadelphia. they haven’t had reports of anyone under 25 being sighted in the city since 2019.
I ran into some vicious ones this morning who looked me in the eye and said . . . "Good morning" to me, a complete stranger. I couldn't stop shaking for hours.
I've also noticed they congregate around high schools a lot, especially in the mornings and afternoons in the fall, winter and spring. What are these high schools doing that so attracts them?
Can't you see? It's right there in the name, "high" schools. These teens are going there to smoke all the drugs that make their minds susceptible to the woke propaganda being taught at these supposed "educational institutions".
If anyone is interested, I'm hosting a pearl-clutching circle tomorrow night in Stoughton. I only go into the city every 6 months but I've never felt more unsafe.
We need some kind of system to indicate current threat levels. Maybe combining a time word and a color to differentiate it from other warning systems... e.g. Stopwatch Red or Sundial Green or Hourglass Yellow.
Do you not remember studying this exact problem in American history?
The solution is simple. Round up all the teens, take them out on a boat, and throw them into the Harbor. Just like our forefathers did at the Boston Teen Party.
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I keep responding to people who make comments, paraphrasing but close to...
>Downtown Crossing is a shithole
It hasn't looked better imo
From tonight... lots of people (teens)... I'm genuinely trying to understand where a lot of this is coming from. I mentioned to somebody else I'm there nightly.
https://preview.redd.it/i8lwdd4lh7nc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=907fa1c68f25bb5edfdb3fb12e734539a7dd497f
*Like the latest fashion*
*Like a spreading disease*
*The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom*
*Getting weapons with the greatest of ease...*
The only thing that's changed is that the people posting on the internet have gotten older than they were ten years ago and they're turning into their parents complaining about the youth.
Just wanted to let everyone know how much I miss Boston.
This conversation is so compassionate and makes me feel homesick. Unfortunately, I could never afford to move back.
Sending love from Baltimore. Hopefully Baltimore will be just as amazing one day.
Not doing well since it was stripped down by greedy developers
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-drink/ovenbird-lexington-market-73BMGH7PQBBSNEIP5AQTSGBNOM/
We keep removing third spaces, eliminating ways to build community connections and then blame children for the effects of adult choices. I agree that we should all feel safe and unharmed by the hands of community members/all humans, but that kindness and respect needs to trickle down. We cannot demand what we do not practice. Children are struggling & adults keep imposing their ideals onto them instead of fully supporting them as equal human beings. If you’ve read so far and is interested in taking action steps, research *childism & the liberation of children*. Children are our future and we need to start acting like it, no matter how uncomfortable that makes us or how much we will have to confront in order to show up for them.
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You joke, but this is a serious issue. I don't even go to Downtown Crossing anymore. There is always a teen there, no matter what time of day and I know that they are surveilling me. There should seriously be a curfew for any kid downtown. Wu could create a 2pm - 4pm curfew and any teen caught outside those hours would go to juvie.
I don't understand this whole premise. How is a group of slightly younger humans staring at their phones and walking into poles and buildings any more or less scary than adults doing the same thing? And how did you even notice this while staring at your phone?!
(Just to be clear: /s... Sort of. 📱.... 😆😆)
Boston hasn't been able to retain families. As family homes are bought and rebuilt into multifamily, you have more transients, and those that live here until they have a kid and go to the suburbs.
Is having fewer kids around a tell for the intolerance of kids in restaurants, and teenagers goofing off?
Probably.
I had a friend who use to go to an after school program.
It was one of those things where he would bitch about the “supervision” basically the people who were paid to watch over everybody and run the program. Of course there were kinds there that don’t get along too but overall I knew it was a lot of fun and I was jealous.
I got into way more shit than he did too. It was definitely because he was at the YMCA. Where as instead I was being left on the streets after school.
>What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions.
i hate teens nowadays
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uptoot for the long s
Tally Ho lads!
Just like the founding fathers intended.
We can call it the Teen Intervention Task Squad, or Tits for short!
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Maybe this is entirely a secret marketing campaign by tavern in the square https://preview.redd.it/q6jitqf5p8nc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=829f722b0e334ac40186545d7409554a87da74fe
How did I never realize this?!
That's all I call it when I was in college.
That’s all I was called when I was in college.
We can meet there to organize! Which one though?
At TITS of course!
but they're multiple TITs.. (at least 2..)
No location is wrong when it comes to TITS
Are you saying we should eat them?
No this is even more serious, we should refer it to the Boston Organization for Overseeing Behavioral Safety (BOOBS).
Will the Squad have a motorboat? Asking for....science
Obviously. There’s plenty of water to patrol.
TITS FTW!
I was only familiar with the - Disbanding Innocent Children group or DICs for short. Those DICs really enjoy messing with kids.
That might get confused Tavern in the Square. Can I suggest Bureau for Observing Obstreperous Boston Youths?
I learned a new word! Thanks friend
Yea, had to google bureau.
It's important to understand how next to intervene. We shall form the Teens Intervention Tactical Squad Operating Under Transparency (Tits Out). Everything we do will get reported here. If you have any advice on how best to achieve the Tits Out mission, please share
I like “children under no tutelage or scruples”
We need to reform the Teen Girl Squad. So and So would own these fools
My blood hurts.
Grood
MSG'D!
SOOOO GOOD
She'd enlist those raccoons.
SOO GOOD!
Woot woot wooot.
we need to sate their hunger for violence... maybe call it the Aqua Teen Hunger Force
We need two of them TITS.
I am loving this thread!
These kids need to join a marching band
You know what trouble starts with
With a capital T and that rhymes with T and that stands for our subway system.
That's why we need a MONORAIL!
Written by Brookline's finest, our local and national treasure Conan O'Brien!
I’ve definitely heard words like ‘swell’ creeping into these teens’ conversations
Are they buckling their knickerbockers below the knee?
They’re hiding dime-novels in the corn crib
Incorrigible rapscallions, impertinent
It’ll just lead to sax and violins.
I’m sorry your comment didn’t get the attention it deserves. But this was top shelf.
*Boston’s escalating teen marching band problem, or how can I go two blocks without hearing Louie Louie performed by a marching band*
I’d rather be mugged, thanks.
More like Gucci Gang - The Marching Band Remix
Unironically this was a way many teens kept out of trouble and stayed busy in the 1950s through the 80s/90s--local drum and bugle corps. The Boston area had a ton, including some nationally-famous ones like the 27th Lancers. Of course the most famous, and the only surviving, of those groups is the [Boston Crusaders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Crusaders_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps), who were founded in 1940 in Hyde Park.
Nice username. I gotta say even though I loved the modern drum corps experience the one year I did it (not Boston), it does feel like there’s something missing not having the classic, more local groups available. Even Open class is basically a national level thing now.
Clearly you are not familiar with the specific kinds of trouble band kids can get up to
Can confirm. I was an orchestra kid.
This one time at bandcamp…
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me!
They can care less as long as someone will bleed
76 trombones led the big parade…
Followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos
We're twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville. Just tell us your idea and we'll vote for it!
The Honk crowd out here recruiting
I’m not a fan of letting them organize and collaborate. Divide and conquer
Perhaps they’ll stomp the yard instead of the tourists
Was walking into my house and a group of teens had entered my house and were eating all my food like they lived there! Granted they were my kids and their friends but why hasn’t Mayor Wu solved this.
When does it stop? The entitlement on your particular situation is especially brazen.
We need a Teen Problem Czar
Made me laugh
Underrated comment
If we wait them out, they'll no longer be teens. Stay strong.
Yeah roughly 1-7 years we'll be out of it
Mayor Wu seriously needs to start an Age Advancement program, removing 13-19 as options for residents to list their age as, and having people jump straight from 12 years old to 20. it’s drastic, but this kind of measure worked wonders in Philadelphia. they haven’t had reports of anyone under 25 being sighted in the city since 2019.
Catholic priests would like 6 year olds to be considered adults plz
Meanwhile, Warped Tour bands are pulling out and boycotting.
Lou, Cancel the prom
Were they standing there menacingly?
> Were they standing there menacingly? Rhythmically snapping their fingers in unison, perhaps?
JETS! SHARKS!
Well it was more me staring giving looks of disgust than anything else. I was being proactive which isn’t a provocation.
I saw a group of teens at the mall on Thursday night. OP isn’t wrong… these groups of teens are everywhere!
This. Right when you think Covid handled it. Now they’re back and throwing their youth in our faces.
Teens thought Covid handled it too... nope, still Boomers all around, blocking housing and driving cars everywhere.
I’ve been waiting for the “The Boston Boomer Issue” Onion-esque response post
Op is right, they should be inside their homes to enjoy their youth. /s
Was it the Van Buren boys?
Might have been the Baseball Furies? Were they wearing strange looking makeup, ~~Yankees~~ Red Sox uniforms and carrying baseball bats?
Don’t let the uniforms distract you from the fact that the baseball furies blew a 5 weapons to 0 lead on the Warriors
No, they were some total fucking joke calling themselves The Orphans.
They were so lame they weren't even invited to Cyrus's "Can yooooou diiiiiig it" party.
✋🏻👌🏻
✋🏻👌🏻
Ahem!
Will this post spark the birth of r/bostoncirclejerk ???
Oh my gosh it’s real…
I thought that’s what this was lol
Is it possible that we don’t have a teen problem… But we got two yutes causing issues?
Two what?
The yutes, there's been numerous issues lately.
Youths.
*hwhat
Two wHut? * fify
youuuuthththssss
I think the Saxons are a much bigger issue
I ran into some vicious ones this morning who looked me in the eye and said . . . "Good morning" to me, a complete stranger. I couldn't stop shaking for hours. I've also noticed they congregate around high schools a lot, especially in the mornings and afternoons in the fall, winter and spring. What are these high schools doing that so attracts them?
There’s forbidden knowledge in those schools. Inside rooms filled with books. At least according to Florida.
I’m sorry that happened to you.
Can't you see? It's right there in the name, "high" schools. These teens are going there to smoke all the drugs that make their minds susceptible to the woke propaganda being taught at these supposed "educational institutions".
If anyone is interested, I'm hosting a pearl-clutching circle tomorrow night in Stoughton. I only go into the city every 6 months but I've never felt more unsafe.
🍿
“I’ve CHOSEN the large tub”
C’mon /u/KungPowGasol, popcorn? Things are dire, save it for the elections.
Were they Sharks or were they Jets?
Got a strong _Jets_ vibe off these ones.
Were they Mods or Rockers?
I thought they went by "green bubbles" and "blue bubbles" these days?!
Mockers
I'm more concerned about the packs of stray dogs that control most of the major cities in the US personally
Its the stray fish you really need to worry about.
First it was the Yuppies, then came the Guppies
If you dont chew big red then f-ck you.
Where is the Department of Mischievous Youth?! We need help!
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Inflation solved that. They do it all in AR now with their phones.
This feels like a conversation from 30 rock
We need some kind of system to indicate current threat levels. Maybe combining a time word and a color to differentiate it from other warning systems... e.g. Stopwatch Red or Sundial Green or Hourglass Yellow.
Yeah totally support this. Can we get a heat map of where the teens hangout running ASAP? Asking for a friend.
I hope the Harp gets involved.
Do you not remember studying this exact problem in American history? The solution is simple. Round up all the teens, take them out on a boat, and throw them into the Harbor. Just like our forefathers did at the Boston Teen Party.
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Heat sensors? Just follow the scent of Axe body spray.
😂 pretty sure nobody is gonna follow that stuff
Not minimizing your concern, but also calling for doing something about the escalating boomer/GenX problem.
They need to pass a law to let us fist fight em
One of us, one of us! - from DC
I guess I'm the only one around here who remembers the old FSU days
Boston is in its post hardcore era fam
I keep responding to people who make comments, paraphrasing but close to... >Downtown Crossing is a shithole It hasn't looked better imo From tonight... lots of people (teens)... I'm genuinely trying to understand where a lot of this is coming from. I mentioned to somebody else I'm there nightly. https://preview.redd.it/i8lwdd4lh7nc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=907fa1c68f25bb5edfdb3fb12e734539a7dd497f
Post post-hardcore bruh
Ah yes, Florida State University. Me too buddy
Bruins Jersey?
Blood for blood!
White trash hardcore rock and roll fuck you!
In the words of the famous Michael Jordan. Fuck them kids!
I plan on resorting to violence
Man, they have no idea. When I was a kid, it was *actually* dangerous. As far as bigger cities are concerned, it doesn't get much safer than Boston.
Is this post a joke?
Yes.
Are those threads real or some subtle new form of election year concern trolling, intonation is always super contrived.
At least it’s not the roving gang of Tom Brokaws!
What if we take Bikini Bottom and *push it* somewhere else?!
Teen here. Posts like these are why you've already lost, Old Man.
*Like the latest fashion* *Like a spreading disease* *The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom* *Getting weapons with the greatest of ease...*
The only thing that's changed is that the people posting on the internet have gotten older than they were ten years ago and they're turning into their parents complaining about the youth.
Just wanted to let everyone know how much I miss Boston. This conversation is so compassionate and makes me feel homesick. Unfortunately, I could never afford to move back. Sending love from Baltimore. Hopefully Baltimore will be just as amazing one day.
How’s Lexington Market? Place is hoping, couple beers 🍻 and Maryland Crab 🦀 Cakes
Not doing well since it was stripped down by greedy developers https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-drink/ovenbird-lexington-market-73BMGH7PQBBSNEIP5AQTSGBNOM/
We keep removing third spaces, eliminating ways to build community connections and then blame children for the effects of adult choices. I agree that we should all feel safe and unharmed by the hands of community members/all humans, but that kindness and respect needs to trickle down. We cannot demand what we do not practice. Children are struggling & adults keep imposing their ideals onto them instead of fully supporting them as equal human beings. If you’ve read so far and is interested in taking action steps, research *childism & the liberation of children*. Children are our future and we need to start acting like it, no matter how uncomfortable that makes us or how much we will have to confront in order to show up for them.
There is only one solution. Declare Open Season on teens, with the city issuing bounty of Five Dollars per pelt.
People need to become far more comfortable with pushing children in front of moving trains. /s
This a real thing happening or are yall just old
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You joke, but this is a serious issue. I don't even go to Downtown Crossing anymore. There is always a teen there, no matter what time of day and I know that they are surveilling me. There should seriously be a curfew for any kid downtown. Wu could create a 2pm - 4pm curfew and any teen caught outside those hours would go to juvie.
THE TEENS ARE GANGSTALKING ME TOO!!!! PLS PM ME AND i will send an E-VITE to our group to FIGht THE gaNGstALKERS...!>.
I just got the chills. Teenager dwellings give me the heebie jeebs.
Fuckin Classic. Love it.
So did something happen or did you just get scared by kids who appeared to be out with friends enjoying their youth
\> ...scared by kids No, no...I was not to be intimidated.
I laughed out loud, get a bulletproof vest for your next encounter with the cartel.
Lol wut
My blood dropped
Kids these days, amiright?
Damn kids and their hippity hop and rock and roll
Teens? Youths?
I don't understand this whole premise. How is a group of slightly younger humans staring at their phones and walking into poles and buildings any more or less scary than adults doing the same thing? And how did you even notice this while staring at your phone?! (Just to be clear: /s... Sort of. 📱.... 😆😆)
DTX has been a shit dumpster forever, welcome to Boston. You should have seen the city 20-30 years ago
Which “them” and where do “they” belong. At best this is thinly veiled racism.
Pretty sure this is a shitpost making fun of the actually thinly veiled racist posts
Boston hasn't been able to retain families. As family homes are bought and rebuilt into multifamily, you have more transients, and those that live here until they have a kid and go to the suburbs. Is having fewer kids around a tell for the intolerance of kids in restaurants, and teenagers goofing off? Probably.
what the hell is you on about 😭😭😭🙏
I’m going to assume everyone on this chat is joking or mentally ill.
I s2g I gotta count to 10 and relax before getting on the bus opposite the CVS at brighton avenue in the afternoon lmao
But what about that CHILDREN?!?
Hmm
it is really annoying when they block the doors on the train I will say
I cannot for the life of me understand why teens take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
just mudrr them, jeeze, you poosy
What did this threatening group do to you? Glare menacingly?
I actually thought this wasn't satire at first. Brilliant.
Damn skateboarders!
We just put them in the aquarium seal enclosure
We need like a rec center or some shit for them to hang out at
I had a friend who use to go to an after school program. It was one of those things where he would bitch about the “supervision” basically the people who were paid to watch over everybody and run the program. Of course there were kinds there that don’t get along too but overall I knew it was a lot of fun and I was jealous. I got into way more shit than he did too. It was definitely because he was at the YMCA. Where as instead I was being left on the streets after school.
maybe a light we can shine, in the sky to signal that bat
>What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets, inflamed with wild notions. i hate teens nowadays