The Kiln? You could name your building anything and the name you chose is what we use to burn things?

Weird choice, but okay.

No, one of the other like eight billion up there. Haha.

Lol went to private school out there when I was a kid. But I'm from right on the CT border. Honestly before I moved into the city Wonderland was where I got most of my comics.

That's E would certainly help you get the stuff and maybe find a place to play. No idea if they run games there. Not sure if they have a space for it in the side room where they host MTG.

Another option, admittedly a little out of the way, is Wonderland Comics in Putnam CT which used to run beginner Warhammer nights. I do not know if they still do, I don't have Facebook and that was where they did most of their advertising, so you may have to check there or call.

I used to be an aquatics pro and one of the first things the guy who did my certification talked about was just how annoying it is to keep hot tubs clean because they require constant upkeep. Suffice it to say that even a lot of expensive hotels don't keep their hot tubs clean enough for my comfort.

Apologies for this being a Fox Milwaukee article, I had a hard time dredging up a local one from the relevant time even though I know it was covered.

Several years back this happened and people were uh...understandably pissed. Turns out Nature's Classroom had been doing this all over the place and recently it's started to go viral on Tiktok so it's getting brought up again.

I remember that period when every town had a froyo shop. Was weird as hell and very obviously unsustainable.

> Everyone remembered a weird traumatic field trip they took as a kid (nature’s classroom)

Was blown away when I realized how long it had been since that happened. Feels like just yesterday that story came out.

"Yes, this is Hugh Jazz."

O'Connor's will. Only things to note would be a) they're busy at the best of times so they're probably gonna be mobbed on Saturday. I'd maybe try to make a reservation if you're looking to go.

B) they're not open on Sundays normally. They occasionally do Sunday service for stuff like Mother's Day where it's always on a Sunday and you can count on people coming out, so maybe they'll do one for St Patrick's Day weekend, but I didn't see any listed. (Easily could have just missed it.)

Whenever Mama Roux is serving it's that truck.

When Mama Roux isn't serving it's probably Chashu or Red Pepper.

And the grilled octopus!

I also back City Tire. Woke up one morning, had a flat, drove it down to city tire just cause it was the closest place to my apartment and had new tires at a reasonable price in like 90m tops. Went back for my rear tires a little while after too.

Can't leave the grocery store without checking out the toy cars. It's tradition.

There's also a retro game store that opened up in Shrewsbury called Lady Mo's Attic Treasures. Looks like they have some consoles and might have better luck getting stuff there than That's E where a lot of times the popular stuff sells real quick.

Retro gaming as a whole is too expensive for me now, but it could be a decent option.

It's hard to answer broad "is X area safe" in Worcester cause it often varies street to street, but overall I'd say Vernon Hill is mostly pretty okay. It's loud, parking sucks if you don't have a driveway spot, and boy does it get windy...but I don't think I'd say it's 'unsafe.'

Several years back some friends of mine got super into Blue Jeans, I never got it either. I mean it's edible. But it's not very good.

> There was a pretty decent French restaurant there, not sure if it's still open

It's still open! Great restaurant. Used to go almost weekly in college when he still did lunch. The owner's a family friend and he and his wife are just incredible at what they do.

sigh. I miss that bridge. Never the same after they got rid of it.

Sturbridge is northwest of Southbridge.

I grew up there. Lived there for 25 years. It's not the worst place in the world to live if you just want a place to live your life. But it's not a place I'd ever choose to move back to.

It's not as bad as its reputation would have you believe, but there's literally no compelling reason to move there other than "it's cheap" and it's cheap for a reason.

Bulk waste yes.

I was more specifically referring to stuff that isn't bulk waste but is also too big to throw out with normal garbage/recycling.

>want to throw out anything that won't fit in a bag? you gotta make an appointment and find a way to haul it down to the Millbury St transfer station.

And god help you if it's during the months of December-March when the dropoff is closed.

God. I feel you.

The other night NatGrid was doing roadwork up near me and they had those cones set up so traffic was still in two lanes. The guy in front of me went up the wrong side. I clocked that, realized 'Oh, I need to go up the other one,' and did....

Of course that didn't stop the National Grid dude from screaming "WHAT ARE YOU A FUCKING R****D!" directly at me.

Like why? What's the thought process here?You were pissed that someone else went up the wrong side so you decided to fucking scream at the next person? Bet you're a normal well adjusted dude.

I feel like all this shit got worse post pandemic. It's like no one knowing how to behave at a movie theater but on a grand scale.

It's very weird how defensive people on this sub get about the city's dogshit trash pickup. I've never spoken to a single person in my day-to-day life who actually thinks it's good. But every time you criticize it on here there's people crawling out of the woodwork to act like it's the best service anyone's ever provided.

I complained about how difficult it is to throw away big carboard boxes when the residential drop-off was closed once and everyone's response was, "You need to break it down!" (I do) and "If it's too big you're supposed to break it down and put it under the recycling bin!" (I've literally watched them pickup the bin, empty it, and leave the folded cardboard on the ground. Bonus: They hucked the recycling bin after doing so.)

This is all to say that yeah, trash pickup here sucks.