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Oh yeah isn’t the wealth disparity enormous? Particularly in Fairfield County where you get Bridgeport right next to Westport and Greenwich. It’s not as white as you’d think but minorities don’t have access to the suburbs as often. We were pretty much it for a long time living in Milford.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Oh yeah isn’t the wealth disparity enormous? Particularly in Fairfield County where you get Bridgeport right next to Westport and Greenwich. It’s not as white as you’d think but minorities don’t have access to the suburbs as often. We were pretty much it for a long time living in Milford. Yeah it's gotta be one of the worst wealth disparities in the country. The whole state, especially previously booming cities like Bridgeport and Hartford, was hit extremely hard by the disappearance of all the manufacturing jobs, while at the same time a ton of rich people who made their buck in NYC came and founded their coastal bastions. But now real estate prices and tax have gotten so high that there are people who live in New York City and commute to Stamford for work. It's insane. And even besides that mind-boggling poo poo, it's just generally a bizarre state, probably the most haunted one in the country, but it's got its charms and I kind of love it. Here's a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Laws_(Connecticut)
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Oct 15, 2020 06:20
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Dexter and Glimore Girls both generate a lot of hate from people who’ve watched them. A crossover series of Dexter and Gilmore Girls is what this world I’ve never seen either show. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 15, 2020 06:27
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Jisae posted:✓ Pizza I can't believe I never knew this, lol I always wondered why frogs ? but never expected that, thank you.  The spools remind me that Willimantic Maine is named after Willimantic Connecticut because of American Thread. They owned a silly amount of land up there where they cut down trees, floated them down rivers, and eventually turned the trees down into the wooden spools for the thread to be wrapped on.
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Oct 15, 2020 07:51
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Let me tell you about all the good things in Waterbury such as The signs in the mall about how not to get robbed are pretty cool, just for the fact they have to exist. I went to UConn and in my time there learned that Connecticut is easily the most boring place in the northeast. MA has interesting towns and great scenery, and Boston is really cool. NY has NYC if that’s your jam, and nice hiking. CT has dead mill towns, Mystic (overrated as hell) and just vast swathes of nothing. NJ is a worse state full of garbage idiots but at least that makes it stand out! CT is like, the Matchbox 20 of states.
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Automatic Slim posted:Dexter and Glimore Girls both generate a lot of hate from people who’ve watched them. Rory goes psycho killer. Dexter hunts Rory. Lorelei falls in love with Dexter. Hijinks ensue. Writes itself really.
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Oct 15, 2020 16:18
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Gwienneth posted:I have it on good authority that Connecticut's main attractions are swimming in Quassy, stepping on broken glass, catching frogs, loving, and stealing makeup. Uhm there is the glaring omission of stepping in flamingo poo poo on the poorly groomed beach!
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Oct 15, 2020 16:23
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New fun fact - the state will now have a sewage plant named after John Oliver (news story for reference)
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Oct 15, 2020 18:12
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Logan was the best match because he saw through Rory’s facade. Rory’s baby’s father is the guy in the Chewbacca costume. Emily had the best redemption arc when she went off at the DAR meeting and then let an entire extended family live with her in a healthy symbiotic relationship. Nobody’s finances in the series made any sense at all. Rory is a wish-fulfillment fantasy of being the small-town ordinary girl who is loved by all (for reasons unexplained) and paradoxically also has infinite wealth backing her ambitions. She wastes it. Luke deserved better. Rory deserved worse. Kurt should have led a communist revolt for improved conditions in Star’s Hollow. I have spoken.
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Oct 15, 2020 18:45
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Gwienneth posted:Quassy gently caress i completely forgot this place existed until now think that and lake compounce was pretty much it for the entire state
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Oct 15, 2020 18:58
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Sojenus posted:gently caress i completely forgot this place existed until now i'm pretty sure there's a corner of the Six Flags New England parking lot that crosses into CT, but all of the good parts are in Mass.
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Oct 15, 2020 19:08
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every time someone itt calls sean gunn's character 'kurt' or 'curt' i feel a mounting, throbbing pressure in my skull behind one of my eyes
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Oct 15, 2020 19:36
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Sojenus posted:gently caress i completely forgot this place existed until now I used to go to Quassy all the time when I was a kid and had completely missed how much gross poo poo there was there. Definitely found some invasive Coney Island Whitefish and didn’t realize.
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Oct 15, 2020 19:37
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food court bailiff posted:every time someone itt calls sean gunn's character 'kurt' or 'curt' i feel a mounting, throbbing pressure in my skull behind one of my eyes Probably coronavirus.
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Oct 15, 2020 19:42
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I used to go to Quassy all the time when I was a kid and had completely missed how much gross poo poo there was there. Definitely found some invasive Coney Island Whitefish and didn’t realize. I distinctly remember vomit near every trash can. Also Zippos as prizes in the arcade.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:24
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food court bailiff posted:every time someone itt calls sean gunn's character 'kurt' or 'curt' i feel a mounting, throbbing pressure in my skull behind one of my eyes Glad it's not just me whose blood level just rose. Kirk rules.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:19
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I'm from north jersey but I just want to say that I approve of any lee's the ice storm.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:34
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This is a reminder that Doyle clapped Paris' cheeks on the reg to the point of marrying her and having a child.
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Oct 15, 2020 22:39
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EL BROMANCE posted:Glad it's not just me whose blood level just rose. Kirk rules. You are thinking of someone else. Kirk captained the love boat “Enterprise”.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:21
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Jisae posted:I distinctly remember vomit near every trash can. Also Zippos as prizes in the arcade. Lol if you lived in CT as a child and went to Quassy instead of Riverside/Six Flags or Whalom Park.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:40
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Uhm there is the glaring omission of stepping in flamingo poo poo on the poorly groomed beach! W-what state are you thinking of?
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Oct 15, 2020 23:50
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Xenocides posted:You are thinking of someone else. Kirk captained the love boat “Enterprise”. Just one of his many jobs.
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Oct 15, 2020 23:55
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Gwienneth posted:W-what state are you thinking of? Quassy imported a ton of flamingos like twenty years ago.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:01
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Gwienneth posted:W-what state are you thinking of? The glorious state of being very high.
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Lol if you lived in CT as a child and went to Quassy instead of Riverside/Six Flags or Whalom Park. Lmao seriously, never been to Quassy. Even the commercials made it look like rear end
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Oct 16, 2020 00:15
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Lol if you lived in CT as a child and went to Quassy instead of Riverside/Six Flags or Whalom Park. Most of my childhood was spent at Milford Amusement Center so no complain.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:35
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I grew up in the “quiet corner” but now I’m closer to Hartford. Every time I go back to visit my folks I’m glad I moved an hour away. Small states are lands of contrasts.
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I never heard of Quassy so I asked my townie girlfriend if she has vheard of it and if she has ever been there and her instant reply was no it's a piece of poo poo why wouldn't I go to six flags lol Actually, has anyone had People's Choice pizza? I get fliers for there and she won't let me order it because she's never had it and decided it must be terrible at some point in her life. We have to order from bougie places and IMO if it is the people's choice, how bad could it be?
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Oct 16, 2020 02:18
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Quassy sounds like a gross porn term
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Who What Now posted:Quassy sounds like a gross porn term As a kid we called it Lake Squash-a-Frog.
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Oct 16, 2020 03:19
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I'll never forget the first time I made it with a quassy
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Oct 16, 2020 03:44
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I hope you've gotten yourself tested.
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500excf type r posted:I never heard of Quassy so I asked my townie girlfriend if she has vheard of it and if she has ever been there and her instant reply was no it's a piece of poo poo why wouldn't I go to six flags lol Yeah People’s Choice is pretty bad. I used to get their pies when I first moved here because I didn’t know any better, but now I wouldn’t even drunk order from them. Super sweet sauce and gross soggy crust. Chances are whatever town you’re in has multiple places with better pizza. You’re better off with Domino’s even.
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Oct 16, 2020 04:03
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Sargent peppers in west Hartford was ultimate drunk late pizza Don’t @ me
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Oct 16, 2020 04:27
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Y’all ever eat garden catering? They make some delightful chicken.
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Oct 16, 2020 04:28
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Jisae posted:Most of my childhood was spent at Milford Amusement Center so no complain. That or Milfords bowling alley or the HoJo’s mini golf whenever we were kicked out the beaches anyway. Which was often cause Milford cops suck.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Sargent peppers in west Hartford was ultimate drunk late pizza Wait, there was more than one Sargent Peppers?!
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Oct 16, 2020 20:40
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Are you guys talking about SMILES? I miss that poo poo. Arcades in general. Danbury and Trumbull used to have decent ones in the Malls. Other dead poo poo I miss is LAN cafes. There used to be one in Danbury called Downtime Online Cafe for a couple years. Then I worked in monroe at one called the GLab. Did anyone here go to those?
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Oct 16, 2020 21:22
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Who wants a grinder?
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Duck and Cover posted:Who wants a grinder? The dumbest name for a sandwich ever. When I first moved to Connecticut I had no idea what people were talking about when they said that for like a week.
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