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redshirt posted:My time there was 1993. One crazy summer. it hasn't gotten any less crazy, that's for sure. for real though, making it illegal for gas stations to sell shooters has vastly (like >90%) reduced the amount of those things you see laying in the street everywhere in town in just over a year and a half. you want shooters, now you have to go to a grocery store that sells them and have them unlock the cage next to the self-check for you lol
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redshirt posted:I still have nightmares of CT's blue laws. Package stores only. No sales after 8PM. No sales on Sunday. We got rid of those in like 2012 E: grocery stores can sell beer and are trying to get wine passed but the package stores are fighting it hard. You can buy up to 9pm Mon thru Sat, 6pm Sunday.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 14:39 |
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redshirt posted:I've always thought of CT as a Quadrant of Madness. North / South of rt 2, east / west of the river West of the river is irrelevant so that's why rt 2
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 14:53 |
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As I understood it as a kid, nips was short for nippers which is what the old timers called the bottles
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 14:57 |
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500excf type r posted:North / South of rt 2, east / west of the river You got your New York side, and your Boston side...
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 15:40 |
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redshirt posted:You got your New York side, and your Boston side... Upper Left - Retired New Yorkers / People with lots of money. Lower Left - People actively working in NYC. Lower Right - Navy / Electric Boat / Almost Rhode Island. Upper Right - Here be dragons.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 15:49 |
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Anderson Koopa posted:Upper Left - Retired New Yorkers / People with lots of money. Along the river - A surprisingly robust Aerospace and Defense industry. Also, the poors.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 15:51 |
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Those little bottles are “shots”. Because they hold 1 shot of liquor. Also I’m not a huge fireball fan, but they had a mini keg of fireball at the liquor store last time I went and it looked dope.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 16:03 |
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(Oregon) When I worked at 7-Eleven, we did not sell these but customers would ask about them all the time. There never was a name for them, they would just describe them. "You know, like those little bottles of fireball whiskey."
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 16:07 |
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:We got rid of those in like 2012 Grocery stores can’t sell beer on the holidays that package stores have to be closed, which is so annoying. I didn’t get to the store before it closed Christmas Eve so I was SOL on beer/wine for Christmas.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 16:12 |
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one time i popped one of those from a hotel fridge cuz im fuckin stupid and it wasn't even alcohol. jack daniels my rear end
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 16:43 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Grocery stores can’t sell beer on the holidays that package stores have to be closed, which is so annoying. I didn’t get to the store before it closed Christmas Eve so I was SOL on beer/wine for Christmas. It's a little tradition of mine to drive to vermont on thanksgiving and christmas after family stuff is over lol
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 18:24 |
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We call them nips
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 18:50 |
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Now I want to go to the store to get some. It’s tacky but I like it when they look like the big bottles.
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 21:36 |
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my mom wont let me drink until i turn 69
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 21:40 |
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Along the river - A surprisingly robust Aerospace and Defense industry. Also, the poors. Here be Dragons more like LETS GO SOX!!!!
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# ? Dec 30, 2023 21:52 |
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art is everywhere if you know how to look
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:04 |
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Vermonter here, yeah, they're nips. Fun little thing about those "Fireball" nips that have become real popular: Plenty of states, VT included, can only sell liquor in dedicated liquor stores (VT is weird in that technically you can put a state-run liquor store inside an otherwise privately owned store, but all liquor sales go through a dedicated, state-owned "liquor only" register.) But beer, wine, malt beverages, etc.. can be sold anywhere. So most of those "fireball" nips (some places even have pint bottle-sized) are not the same as the "regular" Fireball (which I think technically is a whiskey, albeit a very poor quality whiskey with nasty cinnamon flavoring.) Instead, the ones sold at gas stations near the counter are a cinnamon-flavored malt beverage designed to kind of taste like the cinnamon-flavored whiskey. https://www.npr.org/2023/01/27/1151...s%20misleading. AKA Pseudonym posted:The entire North East quadrant has too many specific terms for things. You people need to settle down with that poo poo. Well Jeezum crow, you can get yourself right outta my dooryard with that; you ain't gettin' any of my creemee with that attitude. Gettin' me wicked pissed. Why don't you bang a u-ey and go back up that road, you flatlander. I'd say go back where you came from, but can't get there from here. But before you go, help me bring these boxes of dungarees down cellar, would ya'? They're heavier than a dead minister. I'll give you half my grinder, only been in the ice box a couple hours. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jan 4, 2024 |
# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:17 |
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The best use for airplane bottles is stuffing a pinata with them Not the glass ones obviously
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:32 |
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I kinda want a glass pinata now
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:54 |
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The tiny bottles I see business guys buying at the ABC Store and then putting in their pockets
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 18:56 |
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Business beverage
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 19:00 |
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 04:17 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Vermonter here, yeah, they're nips. Maine has something similar - all liquor sales are technically state run, but the local gas/pizza/convenience store also sells hard liquor if they are part of the state agency system(there's a dedicated sign for it). No separate registers though.
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# ? Jan 4, 2024 19:07 |