There's a crapton of games more fun and better designed than Catan...why would I bother playing a game I don't enjoy?

Besides the point, that part of my comment was a joke, it was a dig at something most folks in the board game space would have laughed at with me.

life expectancy was still lower in the US in 2010 than a lot of other places. this is not accurate.

Shrewsbury library is always quiet upstairs

This is true. I very read a horrifying post about the many hours long wait at a pediatric ER in Paris, France.

It's a food truck not a restaurant but Mama Roux makes a hot chicken that I would kill for. Then again I'd kill for most of their food. Seriously, check out Mama Roux people.

Choose & Mix has better Bibimbap than Simjang did, but then again I always hated Simjang so ymmv.

Not sure how authentic, but Ghost Chicken in Auburn does Korean FC

I very much empathize with your reply, but isn’t UMass technically a non-profit?

One big problem here as well that does not get talked about enough UMass has made record profits over the last 10 years. Look how much jmthe Lake Ave location has grown. Yet the quality of care is down. Profits over lives.

If you need quiet, I used to go to the library.

If you want some Chit chat, there’s BirchTree Bread Company (a bakery) off of green st

Happy cake day

Capt Louie has double fried spicy KFC that is so good.

Except the woman who died waiting

Ah okay. Every time I went it seemed like they were doing well so this makes sense. Probably smart of them to wait it out throughout the covid struggles. Hopefully they’re still planning on re-opening.

They replaced the restaurant and said simjang was moving.

It never ended up reopening.

It wasn't that they didn't make it, they wanted to do something else.

well maybe you're just not playing it right

dang wish I had seen this sooner

I have a fondness for Cake Shop Cafe in Millbury if you like headphones and need to do meetings. Nice atmosphere and when it's warm the outside is really nice.

Also, the new Bean Counter is really nice on Grove St.

It’s not only the US. Look at the wait in ERs in Canada. People just leave after a few hours

Because OP is providing an open opportunity for anyone interested to join and you're trying to make it about how "cool" you think you are because you own 200 games and think Catan sucks.

In completely seriousness though, King/Haxhiaj/Nguyen have done a great job exposing just how inert and adverse to actively leading half of the council is. Maybe that's not "getting things done" (insert jacking off gesture here) but you gotta walk before you can crawl.

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My friend in Finland waited 9 hours last week. Long waits are not unique to America.

Could it be just not enough nurses to fill the demand? The bulk of the boomers have retired with less population to fill in. We’ve seen restaurants closing here weekly because they can’t get staff or supplies. I’m not defending the management, this should not be a surprise. Our system is not perfect and the only advantage of others is it’s paid through your tax dollars, but service isn’t necessarily better and in many cases worse. Imagine the RMV for healthcare.

Well it would appear that the answer to your question is, literally everything that’s happened over the last 5-10 years. You can absolutely argue the merits of things like Polar Park, but they got it done. The minority group is incapable of getting things done because they are incapable of working together, they are agenda driven not result’s driven. Now, I see a story in the T&G today about rooming houses, that seems to have widespread support on the council. Let’s see how it plays out