# That's not something you see every day! (yes it is) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017 "2023-08-03T17:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/121 "2023-08-11T15:24:55Z")
Right. Isn’t that the reason they give you free drinks? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/122 "2023-08-11T16:43:00Z")
We’re getting a bit afield, but I think I can tie it back! The issue with a lot of Colorado Casinos is that they’re, IMHO -bad- at the comforts, compared to the long established gambling areas in other parts of the nation. They were more recent, a lot of them were sucked in by the thought of easy money but weren’t well managed. Just throw up a bunch of gambling and wait for the money to roll in seemed to be the expectation, rather than building (and then taking advantage of!) a true service industry. At least, that is what a lot of the arguments and debates were about years ago when I was spending time in the Leadville community and they were considering it. So, for people used to the gambling meccas like Vegas or some of the well established NA Casinos, where everything you could imagine was available at need (for a premium, natch) - the Colorado Casinos may well be bare bones. Or again, in a major casino, creature comforts would be something you’d see every day, but were NOT in many Colorado Casinos. (working it back to the OP!). ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/123 "2023-08-11T19:16:24Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > the Colorado Casinos may well be bare bones. Yeah, compared to Vegas for sure. Not really a gambler, but will go to a bar in Central City about once a year and meet a good friend. She lives there. Sit at the bar, play electronic poker get free beer (we tip heavily). Dostal Alley it’s called, they have great great pizza. The town of Central City is a bit… eclectic. But many mountain towns are. My friend lives in a ginger bread house that was built in ~1860. On the front are two doors, that’s because if you are viewing a corpse, you are suppose to come in one door, and out the other. The deceased would be laid out in the parlor. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/124 "2023-08-13T00:01:43Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I was branded a cow-lover from that day onward. user name checks out … ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/125 "2023-08-13T17:38:33Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Getting a little exasperated, the bird lady finally says “OK… I’m going to show you a picture of a blue jay…” > > “YES! That’s it!” To be fair, they are striking and lovely birds. > [@ParallelLines](#): > > Back to the topic though, last year my brother, sister in law, and my niece and nephew visited during a Colorado Summer Vacation (white water rafting, mountain vistas, horse riding, etc). They’re roughly as liberal as I am, but live in in the DFW Metroplex in Texas. And while they knew intellectually that MJ is legal here, they were blown away by the degree of advertising and open use they encountered. Well, not so much in the Springs as the hopelessly conservative FotF center of reactionaries, but Colorado in general. **Mrs. SMV** and I visited Colorado about a year after they had legalized cannabis, and we were struck by the number of dispensaries we found. On the highway from Boulder back to the airport in Denver, we noticed a pungent skunk odor permeating the air along the interstate. We realized in was coming from a large warehouse, a distribution center for dispensaries. That has to be the most laid-back warehouse crew in the country. But I’ll bet the vending machine in the break room is always empty. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017/126 "2023-08-13T17:43:26Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > To be fair, they are striking and lovely birds. They are also assholes. My cardinals and little gray birds hate them, so do my dogs, and I don’t think their annoying cousins the crows are thrilled with them either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-yes-it-is/988017.md?page=6)