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The Bristol location opens and closes at random unannounced times and doesn’t take orders on the app. It probably should have just stayed closed

I’ve loved Arby’s on Wolcott St since I was a kid. There aren’t many left in the state, so I always make a point of stopping when I’m in the area

The problem is that it doesn’t seat that many people. For a concert, once you account for seats that would be blocked for production, you’re looking at roughly the same number of tickets the Xfinity Theater can hold down the road

I would bet there was no funny business involved, the place was probably a money pit and burning through $50k is nothing when you’re in the red

Regardless of what they are saying now, I’d be surprised if they did. The theater business in general isn’t doing well, several movie theaters across the state have closed in the past year. A drive in that can realistically only operate at best for maybe 4 months out of the year is probably an extremely difficult business to run profitably even if the theater business was running gangbusters.

The problem I have with these is that there is essentially zero control over the people delivering them. In my neighborhood in Bristol it’s hit and miss as to whether these actually get delivered, but when they are delivered essentially it’s just one person who drives down the street, throws a dozen or so of them randomly out the window as they go along, and then moves on to the next street.

I live in a world where I would prefer a perfectly healthy person who wants to end their life gets treatment for their mental health rather than assisted suicide

Most likely they let it decay to the point where most of the tenants leave and then they sell the property to someone who will retrofit it into alternative use, either apartments, medical buildings, office space, etc.

In all seriousness, that was what, 20 years ago? How many people honestly remember that?

Roxette was huge in the 80’s and 90’s, neither of them were native English speakers

Yeah, lip syncing for TV has always been a thing, trying to produce live music in a way that doesn’t sound awful on TV is really hard. For concerts though, once Michael Jackson came along in 1984, and especially on his Bad tour and combined live music with complex choreography, it changed the game. From that point on, live acts had a choice, they could perform live, or they could do their dance performance live, but you couldn’t have both. Most pop acts from that point chose the dancing.

The story and the video was part of the old VH1 Behind the Music show years and years ago. The Lake Compounce thing is blown out of proportion, A. Lots of artists even back then lip synced live in concert, from Michael Jackson to New Kids on the Block to Madonna to Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, it was not a big deal, and it just kind of looks like a DJ was spinning their record and B. The Lake Compounce concert was in the Summer of 89, Milli Vanilli stuck around for at least another year, so clearly it didn’t hurt them that much.

Milli Vanilli lip syncing live wasn’t the issue, the fact that they never sang on their record in the first place was the issue.

Yeah, I’m south of Hartford and the only one I can remember existing was in a sketchy neighborhood on Slater Rd in New Britain where you’d generally be accosted by people looking for booze and / or drug money before you even got out of the car

I dread doing this, it’s filthy, it takes forever, half the time the machines are broken and it takes a year to find an employee to fix them. I’m fine with the deposit, but the state needs to require a more efficient method for redemption. I’d just toss them in the recycling, but usually I let them pile up until I have $30 or so worth and it seems wasteful to just not collect on that.

Not sure where you are, but those places are super uncommon these days

Same thing with your Tag Sale signs. There should be a law that tag sale signs need to have a month and year on them, and you should be fined for each one you leave up more than 5 days after that date.

CCSU was empty every night of the week, even the people who lived on campus would get in their car and drive off to stay somewhere else most nights

All the CSU schools are like that though, I lived on campus at CCSU and it was pretty much a joke, even the people who lived on campus in dorms weren’t staying there. The weekends and evenings the campus looked like a ghost town.

They absolutely hate their job. They field calls all day either from Karen trying to make a minor inconvenience out to be a life changing problems, people chronically addicted to various substances relaying nonsensical stories, or people just flat out lying about their experiences on the bus, and they have to continually placate them. It wears on you after a while.

Absolutely, the whole system has been terribly managed for a very long time. The majority of drivers work 10-12 hour days because of the ridiculous routes and schedules. You might sign on for 10am, drive for 3 hours, be off for 2 hours, drive again for another 2 and a half hours, have a half hour off, then drive again for another 3 hours before signing off and driving home, however long that might take.

The bus service has been suffering at least since the pandemic if not longer. The short answer is that it’s chronically mismanaged at the very top. The long answer is that drivers are overworked and abused to their breaking point. They work extremely long schedules, frequently forced to work mandatory overtime, and get very little time to deal with their personal lives. They are forced to deal with the public and everything that entails and have very few resources for protection from being abused by passengers. It’s a difficult and stressful job that proves the point that money and benefits aren’t always the be all end all in life. Despite being in a Union the company generally doesn’t care about employee satisfaction, leading to many experienced drivers quitting and finding replacements has been challenging to say the least. So every day routes get cut, stops get missed, busses get delayed largely due to staffing issues combined with inexperienced and beyond burned out drivers. If you pass by someone wearing a blue CT Transit shirt, please tell them they are doing gods work.

It’s almost as though a lot of people might just vote the party line and not do a whole lot of research on candidates, particularly for positions like State Treasurer whose responsibilities might be a bit esoteric to the average voter.

Yes he did and no we don’t. Rapini is a loon, we’ve established this