@Ba Doai wtf is this link you keep putting in every comment Edit: Looks like the guy doesn't know english well, just showing off a video with his cat. Now I feel like an asshole
I once saw a drunk girl talk mad shit to this guy unprovoked for like an hour, and eventually get slapped hard in the face by him. She ran crying and told her boyfriend, and his response was "well, what did you do?" Don't know if I've ever laughed so hard.
Well, yes, it WAS that way more so when I was growing up, but it's changed a lot. Many parts of Boston have become very progressive and more liberal, and therefore there's a lot more of people that either hold it inside, or get REAL nasty with language instead lol! It's really changed in the last 20 years or so mostly. ~JSV
I love coming back to watch JRE clips multiple times. Certain guys, like Burr, can always give me a laugh. Especially on stressful days. Great laughter therapy
"We were getting shitfaced." "They were selling blow there." "He was on PCP." *literally 25 seconds later* "I wonder why Boston is such a rough place."
Unless you live in the Boston area, at least anywhere within 495 and especially 95/93, you really don't know how someone can say that, mean it with conviction, and still actually have a point.
I grew up in Boston and as a kid I remember my mom walking my brother and I to a store and some people were arguing on the sidewalk about a half a block in front of us and somebody got shot right in the middle of the sidewalk and my mom just crossed the street and we just kept walking... It was an insane time but then I remember moving to PA and I got into a LOT of fights, then I realized that I was the one who was starting fights, I guess I brought the fighting mood w/ me from Boston. 🤣
I went to PS236 in Brooklyn. My mom and I saw a guy get stabbed in the thigh during an altercation and we cut through the school parking lot and went on home. Never discussed it.
Difference back then most fights ended as fights, in other cities physical confrontations seem more likely to escalate to weapons etc so people aren't as ready to throw hands
@@jeffreystark435 I went to Hendricks elementary in jackassville florida and me and my mama saw a man stark naked on pcp run straight thru a plate glass window. Lacerations all over. Even the dangling parts. Horrible atmosphere. We just kept walking
I love when these guys tell old Boston stories! Lived my whole life a stone’s throw from Grill 93. Both these guys tell stories about crazy guys they knew and I can always relate it to guys I knew or stil know. There’s a certain kind of grit, character and humor that comes out of this area, especially from Boston and North through the “Merrimack Valley” where Grill 93 is that is pure gold. It’s very evident in Burr’s stand up. He’s still 90% Boston man!
This brings back so many memories. I grew up in Boston and back in the 90’s it was madness. The mass melees were insane. The craziest fights I was in were actually at Tufts parties. Locals from Medford or Somerville would often crash them. Those fights were absolute madness. I can’t believe I lived through that. Haha.
Same here. I grew up in Somerville in the 80's. There was always a fight going on. I still can't relax to this day. I always have my back to the wall at a bar and always feel out the place for a brawl that never happens anymore. My wife and kid say how do you go from 1 to 100 instantly no matter what time of day it is. I tell them sorry but that is what you needed to survive growing up where I did.
@@MuckoMan I was bon and raised in Somerville as well. Went to the Carr school, then Cummings, then Powder House. I lived mostly just outside of Teele Sq. Yeah, some crazy shit went on before it got all "hippie chic".
very funny stuff only fight was 2 punches to my torso then a right cross miss in slo motion i saw his face i was so freaked i thought i better hit him he tried to hit me in the face i wind up telegraph a punch to face my had was swollen and in pain weeks i think i broke a bone a month later his friend cameup to me said he just got outof hospital i broke his eye socket i felt bad but i had 3 hot girls in my car after he hit me i was going to hit him i was in great shape 6 foot 180 pounds i put 18 pallets of fruit away every day 2000 boxes stacked up rotated in cooler boxes from 20-80 pounds stacked to 7 feet i did this for 2 years but i was new only did for 8 months before he hit me in the stomach i did not feel it i stood straight leaned back the punch went in front of my face then i saw his face in front of me i thought i better hit him he tried to hit me in the face so i wind up hit him hard in the face he went to his knees holding hois face
Watching Bill Burr reliving his young days was awesome. Just a crazy time to be young and just finding trouble and brotherhood every night. Family on the streets.Very cool.
Just wrote about this on comment earlier lol… my favorite memory of Boston is bar in Chelsea .. random chair flying through the air and landing on the back of my head 😬🤣🤣
Everyone between the age of 30-60 in Boston has a million stories like this😂 I’m from here and my dad and all his friends have countless stories identical to these
I used to hang out with this friend who was on the small size, about 5' 2" and 110lbs. Guy was the nicest, funniest dude I ever knew. However, when we went out to bars, the fun would start. Being small he was used to being screwed with and he was a highly trained fighter. By the time I knew him he had graduated to what he called, "full on practical street fighter champion level." He explained that in a street fight you have to leave your ego and ethics at home, you either win or could die. As a result, when we were at the bar and if someone started F'ing with him he simply picked up a beer bottle without saying a word, cracked the person over the head, then proceeded to kick the shit outta the guy until he was satisfied he was not getting back up. It was funny as shit to see this. Some big monster, MMA fighter dude thinking he had an easy mark and one sentence in the dude was seriously regretting his life choices. Funny thing is because of my friends demure size and his overall very affable demeanor, worse thing that ever happened was security asking us to leave. Guy never lost a fight. F'ing hilarious.
People on the smaller size can be much more ruthless and vicious in conflicts to compensate for a lack of physical strength. It's risky, could kill someone but like he said, you could die if you don't win
"Boston is a fighty place"-I was in a Boston supermarket picking out produce and an old woman just randomly started ramming her cart into me to get me to move. I had been standing there for less than 3 seconds. People in Boston will fight you over anything. God holds the Irish close to his heart.😂🤣😂🤣😂
Stop. I was born and raised there, I’ve lived all over the east coast since becoming an adult, it’s no worse than anywhere else, we just have knobs who love to perpetuate that myth. It’s Bullshit.
you guys sum shit up so much. theres so much gun violence in Dorchester, Roxbury, and mattapan. lmao. it's a culture of gun violence since the 80s. but ya, the rest of boston, this stands true.
Similar to Joe’s story about the girl getting punched - I witnessed a girl get slammed in the face by a drunk dude while I bartending, and the bar became a WWF free-for-all. I’d never seen anything like it. The funniest move I’ve ever seen in a fight happened, too, when a guy went out onto the bar patio, grabbed one of those massive 6 ft. tall space heaters, held it like a battering ram and jousted his way through the hoard. It was so f’n entertaining that I poured myself a beer, sat on the counter next to the register and watched it as if I were watching a heavyweight tile match on television. To this day, I’ve never seen a bar fight that insane. If Dalton and Wade Garret showed up, I wouldn’t have even been surprised.
Fab StillSmokin my dad grew up on south side of Boston. One time the kids on the other side of tracks tried to steal my uncle’s gumball machine, and put a giant screwdriver to his stomach. They told my dad (his older brother) that if he didn’t take an ass whoopin’ they would put that screwdriver through my uncles stomach. My pops took that beat down. Then went back with all his friends later that night and beat the living shit out of all of them. That was the 70’s tho.
My mum grew up pretty rough in London but there was always supposed to be lines you didn't cross. However, when you went further away, it was a free-for-all. So while fist fights were normal where she lived, they'd bite off noses and ears further out. She ended up working in a famous pub out in ear-biting territory. It was so violent, the bouncers were like undercover cops and would sit at the end of the bar in street clothes. When it'd go off, they had a hidden stash of pickaxe handles to fight the customers with. It's not a different era, it's like a different planet.
I can relate to the stories and I can relate to Bill's position. I grew up on the outskirts of St. Louis. Middle school up was basically gladiator camp. It wasn't a couple fights a year like a lot of people I met later would say about their schools. It wasn't a fight per week or just one per day. It was multiple fights in multiple parts of the school between every single period. Kids getting hauled off in ambulances. I saw a kid blast a kid point blank in the side of the head with a brick and proceeded to pound him while he twitched on the ground. I had around 5 fights in that 7 year period and I was the anomaly. I was the one who ducked fights. I was the easy mark that nobody took advantage of. Meanwhile my friends were full on savages. We were almost in the country but sort of close to the suburbs. I remember when we would run into people at the mall and they found out what school we went to we just had an automatic pass. Mind you, I thought all of this was normal until my late 20s that I learned that fights were much more rare most other places. To this day I have PTSD from that. People around me now think I am war ready and I am not. I am actually afraid to fight. If you see me, I have definitely seen you. I analyze everyone as a threat first even as I smile in their face. As they smile at mine I am thinking of ways this can go sideways. It was drilled into me that beatings are just a bad choice of words away. And country boys and girls can fight.
@check1240 Jeffco. Grew up in High Ridge and went to Northwest. There wasn't a lot of crossover between North County and Jeffco. So I have no idea what your situation was like. However, if it were the 70s through the 90s, it was probably the same but demographically different. I have friends from South County that have pretty much the same story as me so it wouldn't surprise me if the infamous North County was just about the same.
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It's great hearing Boston stories as I lived outside of Boston but went there all the time as the suburbs were boring. Saw most of the best fighting in the Garden. I loved when Lyndon Byers played for the Bruins.
@ThisIS MyRealName when the WWWF came to the Garden, it was fight night... I saw a full 30-man brawl pop off in the bathroom! It was a fight for survival just to make it out of there!
I'm from Boston and I will say, Bostonians are just built different. The community is full of characters like Bill describes. The culture of Boston just breeds a certain type of person 😂
@@cyanidechrist Bro, Joe and Bill are telling stories about Newton, Canton, and god damn Chelsea in the video. We're being a little fast and loose with the word Boston here as it is
@@cyanidechrist importance of proximity to boston lessens the farther from boston you go. By the time i hit the mississippi everyone thinks i am from Boston (I'm NH), by the time I hit Cali i just tell people I am
Bill Burr is such an amazing story teller. Could listen to him all day. "The characters I grew up with, they weren't trying to be funny. He was dead serious when he said that."
I grew up in Boston, and went to bars in the 1970s. It was like that. I was no fighter, but when the time came you had to throw down. I'm just remembering the old funny stories now. You can't make this shit up. good times - lots of laughs.
I worked at Kayem foods when I was a teenager and some guys I worked with brought me to King Arthur’s in Chelsea, it was phenomenal first time being served liquor that became the spot after that
I laughed so hard at "it was the wrong party" ALSO the fact that Joe, the guy traveling to twd tournaments, NOT wanting to kick ass but just trying to get away? Instantly understood that, the selfdefense guys are always the ones that DONT wanne fight.
I wont fight people just because everyone is beating the shit out of eachother. If its not a friend of mine getting hit or no one tried to hit me I dont see any reason to jump in the action…
😶 also, i think there's a law that says folks highly trained in any kinda self defense or hand to hand combat have to 'register their hands' once they reach pro level. i know boxers do. their hands are literally considered a deadly weapon. they ain't allowed to get into random fights like that. for them, it ain't assault, it's considered attempted murder.
man bills such a great storyteller, i can literally picture everything he says ,the way bill creates these parallels, "its like a tornado ,you dont know where its gonna go" the imagery lol, that had me laughing so hard, such a funny guy
This was too short!! I can listening to this all day.Growing up in the Bronx in the 70s and 80s.Elementary and Junior HS had the most fights.I remember the traveling fights where a fight would start on one block and end up up like 3 blocks away.Everyday you had to be prepared for a fight.There was some real crazy kids at school.
Wow , this really brings back memories. These guys are so spot on with the vibe of that era. I was born in Boston in the late 50's and still live in MA today. The fight mentality they describe was very real in the 70's and 80's. Joe said,"You could feel it in the air". Like how animals can sense an earthquake before it happens. You had to live here to really experience that. I was a cop for 25 yrs and dealt with some intense bar room brawls or "donnybrooks" over the years. I've ridden my motorcycle around the country and have been to many biker bars and have seen some "quarrels" but they don't compare to the insanity of Massachusetts back then. Don't get me wrong this is still a very violent country, but how they describe these times is an era gone by.
@@daryllndemmayah4874 nah, they just use guns or have people arrested for defending themselves in a fist fight nowadays. Kinda forced to bottle it all up until people get ended instead of injured, or at least take that risk. Even without weapons and legal charges, the mental health treatment out there for throwing a punch can mess people up for life.
Lived in Boston for 25 years now, it’s not really like this anymore, the good will hunting type of ”you want to go? Let's go” type fights don't happen much, it’s a safe city, cops get on your ass quick. Only fights I’ve seen in the past few years are plastered college kids playing patty cake at quincy market. But back early late 90s and 00s... yeah there was a code like a hockey fight - cops would give ya a go which was about 15 seconds... as long as it was all fists.
East coast code was different in the late 80s. Heavy taekwondo influence which embodies respect. Outside of Dojo, On the streets complete opposite back then. Brawls every night. My uncle David Randall fought in Rhode Island in the 80s under Danny Zarbo and became Super Lt Wt 135-40 N. American and European Kickbox champion.
@@Bleedpurple03 no hes not if you have a energetic trait or calm trait or any deviation in personality druggies think your high on shit espescially the ex druggies
A Long Islander, I went to Providence College, Rhode Island, from 1985-1990 ("5-Year Plan"). We would drive up to a place called "Vincent's" in Boston. A true Dance Club. Great times.
I spent 40 years in Boston. Right next to Chelsea and listen to people in Florida talk about fights and just laugh. Sooo many fights and crazy things happened!!
“Some guys will go looking for a fight.” I remember the first time I witnessed this. It blew my mind that some guys literally just wanna fight. It’s also why I no longer go to bars. It’s just not worth it.
It wasn't really much of a problem in boston because those people never had a problem finding others willing to brawl, so it wasn't really about antagonizing innocent people
It was a Bruins-Rangers game in the 70s at MSG. Fans and Bruins were going at it near their bench and Terry O’Reilly went in the stands and started pounding the shit out of people. One guy in particular was wearing loafers and Milbury ripped it off and started whacking him with it.
A few of us went to see this hardcore band in Boston around 1995/96, we got in and then not even a minute into the first song...a guy got thrown out of a window! I've been hooked on that band ever since.💪✌️
