Is it fun to stay in the YMCA?

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I'm contemplating booking into the YMCA in Boston for a night, as it seems like it's very cheap but provides way better facilities than more expensive places to stay.

Will this be a terrible mistake, or a great opportunity for me to hang out with all the boys?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dv, when you're short on your dough, you can stay there, and I'm sure you will find many ways to have a good time.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

its actually a really good place, quiet, clean, safe and well constructed--also its reputations for casual gay sex is deeply over rated, only ever getting a handjob once.

― anthony, Friday, 13 May 2005 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boston Y has a nice pool and pretty good yoga classes. I've seen some monstrous "boys" in the locker room, but I have no idea about the people actually staying there.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 13 May 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, the location is awesome. You will be right across the street from Symphony Hall and about four blocks away from everything.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The Boston Y was second only to the Halifax one in terms of location. Never spent the night there myself.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Y in Boston (on Huntington Ave.) is the oldest in the country. Definately great location. You can't have guests come up to your room. I used to go to that gym but never stayed. I know people who have stayed at the Vanderbuilt Y in NYC, which was recommended.

― dewey, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

do rooms in YMCA's typically have their own bathrooms, or would I have to be sharing showers with the guy who once gave Anthony a hand shandy?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, why didn't I look at their website. Doh.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 13 May 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's fun to have box lunch at the Y -- oh wait.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

In case you're wondering, it turns out to be functional to stay at the YMCA. The rooms are kind of Spartan, and while not dirty do give the impression of not having been redecorated in some time.

No one offered me a hand shandy.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/handshandypieces.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 26 May 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Next week: DV joins the Navy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

While having sex over the phone.

And going west.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Next week: DV joins the Navy.

but I can't even swim!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but I can't even swim!

Hilarity ensues!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/n19/YMCA3.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

World's greatest photo!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love how each of those three guys looks like he'd never ever hang out with the other two.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 November 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

I love how each of those ~~three~~ four guys looks like he'd never ever hang out with the other ~~two~~ three.

fixed.

― researching ur life (grady), Sunday, 12 November 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Accentmonkey OTM, greatest photo ever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 12 November 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

The C fellow looks like a Kingfish uncle.

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

fucking brilliant

― b-minus time traveler (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have sent this picture to everyone I know.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

> I love how each of those ~~three~~ four guys looks like he'd never ever hang out with the other two ~~three~~.

"hang out"

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 12 November 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

omg. i'm going to hell for that "fixed."

― researching ur life (grady), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only sorry I didn't think of that before writing it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not an uncle yet, not til just after christmas, if my brother is correct

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 12 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y56/Jeff_Rubinoff/USA/Ohio/IMG_2412_crop_1_1.jpg

― robert in SLC (robert in SLC), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I love how each of those four people looks like (s)he'd never ever hang out with the other three.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

That is definatley a ressurected christ and not a crucified christ.

...and those people totally look like they'd hang out with eachother.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

moustache-on-finger of 2007.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

OMG yes, the 2 girls + guy are TOTALLY in the same improv troupe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

But surely that says XMCA?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

i lived in a ymca for a short while. it was a halfway house for people coming out prison also

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I did too. It was where Community Service Volunteers housed people volunteering on their projects. We got moved when someone got stabbed outside the front door.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/YMCA.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

OMG yes, the 2 girls + guy are TOTALLY in the same improv troupe.

Painfully OTM. I thought "improv troupe" before I even read this.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

And now...:

The YMCA is now known officially as just ''the Y.''
The Chicago-based U.S. nonprofit announced Monday that it is changing both its logo and name to ''the Y,'' marking its first branding change in 43 years. The switch comes after more than two years of research indicated many people don't understand what the group does. Officials with the Y say they hope the new logo will be more inviting.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

there they go gain, taking the "Christian" out of YMCA

Fox & Friends are gonna be pissed

― easiest lay on the White House lawn → (will), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)

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