Connecticut to allow liquor sales of Sundays

[drjeff]

I feel really bad for you.

Ended up that I didn't even get close to making it back to CT in time to buy yesterday. Got off the BI Feery just before 4, saw some decent traffic both down buy the Ferry terminal and exiting Scarborough Beach, so I figured that i'd just shoot up rte 108 and then hop rte 138 back into CT. Well unbeknownst to me, yesterday was gradution day at URI , and I spent an hour ad 15 minutes inching my way along rte 138 out infront of URI and didn't cross back into CT until 6PM

Next Sunday i'm in VT, so in 2 more weeks (after all the Sunday booze buying hubbub has died down here in CT) until I can partake in what i've been able to do in just about every other state except my home state

 

[Geoff]

Ended up that I didn't even get close to making it back to CT in time to buy yesterday. Got off the BI Feery just before 4, saw some decent traffic both down buy the Ferry terminal and exiting Scarborough Beach, so I figured that i'd just shoot up rte 108 and then hop rte 138 back into CT. Well unbeknownst to me, yesterday was gradution day at URI , and I spent an hour ad 15 minutes inching my way along rte 138 out infront of URI and didn't cross back into CT until 6PM

Next Sunday i'm in VT, so in 2 more weeks (after all the Sunday booze buying hubbub has died down here in CT) until I can partake in what i've been able to do in just about every other state except my home state

Crocodile tears being shed here. They're diluting my Dark 'n Stormy.

 

[jrmagic]

Yeah in MA the norm is food specials during happy hour i.e. 10 cent wings or something

There was some news blurb talking about doing away with Happy Hour i NY recently. I thought it was ridiculous. I ahd no idea that it was illegal already in some other states.

 

[Geoff]

There was some news blurb talking about doing away with Happy Hour i NY recently. I thought it was ridiculous. I ahd no idea that it was illegal already in some other states.

Vermont banned them years ago. You're not allowed to change drink prices during the day.

 

[Glenn]

Glad they finally overturned that law. But I think there are bigger issues that are more dire.

Populas: "We've got some debt."

Elected official: "Yeah...so about that. Hay! Beer on Sunday! How about a litle pot with a Dr's note?"

 

[ctenidae]

Glad they finally overturned that law. But I think there are bigger issues that are more dire.

Populas: "We've got some debt."

Elected official: "Yeah...so about that. Hay! Beer on Sunday! How about a litle pot with a Dr's note?"

Iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses

It's been working for a really long time.

 

[ScottySkis]

Glad they finally overturned that law. But I think there are bigger issues that are more dire.

Populas: "We've got some debt."

Elected official: "Yeah...so about that. Hay! Beer on Sunday! How about a litle pot with a Dr's note?"

Pot should be legal unlike drinking it can help cancer victims with eating and not having to take extremely strong pain killers which are much worse.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Pot should be legal unlike drinking it can help cancer victims with eating and not having to take extremely strong pain killers which are much worse.

Please keep that to the area you already created to preach that.

 

[Riverskier]

Please keep that to the area you already created to preach that.

Feeling a little testy? Or is that your not so subtle way of communicating your view on medical marijuana?

 

[jlboyell]

i find its best to mix newly purchased alcohol, medical mj and painkillers. if i find myself in connecticut, even on a sunday, i can take care of all that

 

[ctenidae]

i find its best to mix newly purchased alcohol, medical mj and painkillers. if i find myself in connecticut, even on a sunday, i can take care of all that

If you find yourself in Connecticut, you really only have 2 options- mix 'em up, or seriously reconsider the life choices that led you there. Or both.

 

[Hawkshot99]

Feeling a little testy? Or is that your not so subtle way of communicating your view on medical marijuana?

I am not going to argue it one way or the other, but it doesn't need to start going into any thread on any subjects. If I want to avoid reading/responding to it I only need to ignore 1 thread.

 

[snoseek]

Please keep that to the area you already created to preach that.

Because you said so?

 

[ScottySkis]

Please keep that to the area you already created to preach that.

I wasn't the one to start cannabis in this thread anyway, but i'm glad to defend it anytime.

 

[drjeff]

Glad they finally overturned that law. But I think there are bigger issues that are more dire.

Populas: "We've got some debt."

Elected official: "Yeah...so about that. Hay! Beer on Sunday! How about a litle pot with a Dr's note?"

Best analogy I heard to describe our debt situation and the stupid ways elected folks all over the country are looking at it is as follows:

Lets say that a sewer line blocks up very near your house, and all of the sudden the sewage starts backing up and filling your basement all the way to the rafters To fix the problem in your house, to you "raise the roof"? Or do you pump the sh$t out?

Other than that, as much as I am quite happy with my status as a CT resident for now almost 20 years, why anyone, if they had a choice and are in close proximity to one of our bordering states would choose to by many products here is beyond me. The taxes that the folks in Hartford continue to pile on us vs. what others in neighboring states generally pay on the same/similar items are crazy :smash:

Rant done!! Now lets get back to talking about booze, drugs, etc :lol:

 

[snoseek]

^^^^^I find the gas that my childhood dentist gave me was probably the finest buzz I ever experienced, period. He gave for cleaning I assume so I would STFU. Do you use this? Do you USE this?

 

[Riverskier]

I am not going to argue it one way or the other, but it doesn't need to start going into any thread on any subjects. If I want to avoid reading/responding to it I only need to ignore 1 thread.

Ok, so it is the latter. Thank you for clarifying.

 

[ScottySkis]

^^^^^I find the gas that my childhood dentist gave me was probably the finest buzz I ever experienced, period. He gave for cleaning I assume so I would STFU. Do you use this? Do you USE this?

The song Dr Robert by the Beatles is about this.

 

[drjeff]

^^^^^I find the gas that my childhood dentist gave me was probably the finest buzz I ever experienced, period. He gave for cleaning I assume so I would STFU. Do you use this? Do you USE this?

The gas we commonly use, Nitrous Oxide(a.k.a. "laughing gas"), is a bit of a catch 22 for adults. For some reason, and physiologically we're not quite sure exactly why it is the case, it works GREAT in kids with almost a 100% success rate of providing both anesthesia and anxiety reduction. In adults though it only has those same great effects about 50% of the time. If you're in the half where it works, great it feels like you've got a nice buzz going on until we reverse the laughing gas and then within about 90 seconds on average, the buzz is gone and you're back to normal. If you're in the 50% where it doesn't work, you're not feeling much of anything, except for the presence of a semi annoying mask over your nose

 

[Geoff]

The gas we commonly use, Nitrous Oxide(a.k.a. "laughing gas"), is a bit of a catch 22 for adults. For some reason, and physiologically we're not quite sure exactly why it is the case, it works GREAT in kids with almost a 100% success rate of providing both anesthesia and anxiety reduction. In adults though it only has those same great effects about 50% of the time. If you're in the half where it works, great it feels like you've got a nice buzz going on until we reverse the laughing gas and then within about 90 seconds on average, the buzz is gone and you're back to normal. If you're in the 50% where it doesn't work, you're not feeling much of anything, except for the presence of a semi annoying mask over your nose

My dad briefly had an assistant who chewed through two tanks of nitrous. When the first tank ran empty, he shrugged, did the soapy water test on all the fittings, and figured it was some transient problem with the connection on the last tank. Towards the end of the 2nd tank, he caught her in the chair with the mask on doing 100% nitrous. He was equal parts pissed that she could have suffocated herself by not turning on the "green" tank and pissed that she was huffing gas in his office.

Nitrous has never been my preferred buzz. My dad was also a torture artist with explorers and probes when he was cleaning my teeth and I never even got topical anesthetic. When a hygienist is working on me now, it's amazingly painless dentistry compared to what I grew up with. I get the "does this hurt?" and explain that my dad's idea of a cleaning was a four quadrant gingivectomy with no anesthetic.