No beer before noon on Sundays..

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Frankly, if you can’t get to Sunday noon without a beer, you’re an alcoholic.
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You dont get it do you?

Its not about the noon part…or even getting the beer part…

Hell, the pro drinkers stock up on that stuff.

It the SUNDAY part of it.

Hows about we have a law where you can’t buy pork during some Muslim/Jewish/“anti-pork” religions “holy time”…

And now one day you are having a cookout at your house and you are going to make your famous bacon double cheeseburgers…opps no bacon and sales of it are illegal today!

Tough titties!

I guess you are just a pork addict then…

Its a stupid, purely religious based law, which right there is enough to pissed about, which typically only impacts that folks that AREN"T the alchoholics/profession booze buyers

Blll

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[QUOTE=accidentalyuppie]
When I was in college in the late 1970’s the stores could not sell anything not deemed to be a “necessity” on Sundays.

Beer was not a necessity. Cokes and Ho-Ho’s were a necessity. Tampons and other female hygiene product were also not a necessity!!!, although it was fun to argue that one with the clerks.

Once I was in line behind a woman with a small child. The child was sitting in the kiddie seat of the shopping cart with a can of Play-Doh in his hands, which Mom intended to buy for him. Of course, as Play-Doh is not a necessity the clerk had to take it from the child and reshelf it, which set the kid off screaming and crying. However, I reassured the clerk that the good lord would’ve sent her to hell if she let the kid have his Play-Doh.

Of course, this was in the day before bar code scanning so the clerks could ring it up if they really wanted to, (although they might have to fudge a code) so I felt perfectly justified in giving the checkout clerks a hard time.

One DID let me purchase a children’s book about Jesus on a Sunday, but I had tried to purchase the book just for the thrill of having the checkout girl tell me I couldn’t buy it.
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THATS FUNNY!

Maybe we should look at it this way?

What would Jesus buy? (on Sunday morning)

Beer? Of course not…but maybe a little distilled water for later you know

Cokes and Ho Ho’s? Of course! Kinda like the whole loaves and fishes and prostitute things in the bible. Makes sense to me!

Tampon’s and femine products? Don’t be silly! This is a man’s man type of saviour, not some new age hippy in a white rob and sandals shopping for the old lady!

Playdough? Hell no! Isnt the analogy to your soul and the devil’s machinations blindingly obvious? Get thee behind me putty of bezeelbub!

A book about himself? Sure as shootin yes! Wouldnt you buy a book about yourself?

well, that should earn me a few years in a warm place
Blll

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What really gets me about the Christian bent to these laws is that Christ’s first miracle was water into wine.

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[QUOTE=chacoguy420]
What really gets me about the Christian bent to these laws is that Christ’s first miracle was water into wine.
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No, no, according to Biff he routinely brought lizards back to life as a child :cool:

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[QUOTE=accidentalyuppie]
Tampons and other female hygiene product were also not a necessity!!!, although it was fun to argue that one with the clerks.
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Excuse me? I keep a stock on hand, but emergencies happen to us all, and those things are damn well a necessity.

In Louisiana the laws vary by county. It was a bit of a surprise to find when I moved to Shreveport that on Sunday the areas of the liquor stores with the Good Stuff (anything more than beer or wine) were physically roped off. Yet you could buy daquiris. Of course daquiris are the state drink of Louisiana, so we must have those every day, right?

The surprise was because in New Orleans, where I’d moved from after living there a couple of years, there are no blue laws. And as far as booze is concerned there don’t seem to be very many laws at all. I heard an entirely believable story of a friend of a friend who was a NOLA native visiting New York and asking for her drink to go, which confused the hell out of the New York bartender.

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Bizarrely, stores over here cannot sell alcohol from 2-5pm. That’s PM, not AM. The reasoning is that it will make it harder for schoolchildren returning home to get ahold of any booze, but this rule is enforced seven days a week! And the only outlets that do enforce it are the major supermarkets and convenience-store chains; the little mom-and-pop neighborhood shops ignore it completely.

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Frankly, if you can’t get to Sunday noon without a beer, you’re an alcoholic.
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And your point is?

Stranger

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[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil]
…Take the fine state of Indiana where I live as a perfect example.

… The kicker is that you CAN buy it at a bar, or liquour if you prefer, provided that the bar sells a certain percentage of food against it’s liquor sales in order to obtain a “Sunday License”…
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FWIW - I lived in IN when the (OK for real restaurants) exception was debated/enacted. It was about attracting convention business to the new facility in Naptown - even the god-fearing hicks figured out that the godless conventioneers would avoid thier shiney new dump if they couldn’t get a drink on Sundays - and they wanted the money more than they wanted feeling holier than the sinners.
Yea, and I moved from IN to FL - not good for a young beer-swilling atheist…

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Frankly, if you can’t get to Sunday noon without a beer, you’re an alcoholic.
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“Can’t” and “don’t want” are slightly different things.

I could refrain from masturbating for the next six years if it was somehow made illegal (probably). It doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be a little cranky about it, or that the local, state, or Federal government has any business prohibiting it.

Anyway, an alcoholic would have planned ahead. :smiley:

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Anyway, an alcoholic would have planned ahead. :smiley:
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Actually, the real rock bottom types often either don’t or can’t. Even under Australia’s rather liberal laws, pubs are closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day. When I worked in one, we’d sell a huge amount of bottled alcohol for people to take home on the days before. There was no shortage of booze in the average person’s house on the “holy day” (in fact, if they were holding a barbecue, there’d be a flood of the stuff). But when we were shut on the day itself, we still had some of the local alcoholic street people bashing on the door and pleading for a flagon of fortified wine to stave off the shakes.

Scared of the licencing police, but also feeling terribly for one particularly sad case, I ended up giving him a bottle. It was Christmas, after all.

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[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Anyway, an alcoholic would have planned ahead. :smiley:
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They do. I worked in Ontario’s Beer Stores for some years, and in those days, provincial laws forbade liquor, wine, and beer stores from opening at all on Sundays. Didn’t bother the local alcoholics; they simply stocked up on Saturdays. In fact, Saturday nights were popular times for these folks to buy four or five (or more) cases of beer to get them through Sunday, when retail sales of alcohol were banned.

That was years ago, and things have changed greatly since then, but I well recall selling great quantities of beer Saturday nights because we were closed by law on Sundays. The local alcoholics did indeed plan ahead.

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I’m sure there are people who drink beer before noon on Sundays. But, I can see plenty of reasons to buy it before noon. If you’re planning on a cookout or having people over to watch football, you might wish to buy it at 11:45 am rather than noon!

Blue laws are stupid.

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[QUOTE=dalej42]
I’m sure there are people who drink beer before noon on Sundays. But, I can see plenty of reasons to buy it before noon. If you’re planning on a cookout or having people over to watch football, you might wish to buy it at 11:45 am rather than noon!

Blue laws are stupid.
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Are NFL games broadcast on a delay on the West Coast? I can barely imagine the horror of watching football sober (not that I don’t love the NFL).

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Frankly, if you can’t get to Sunday noon without a beer, you’re an alcoholic.
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What if I need two? :rolleyes:

But, seriously; what if I’m going for a picnic in the mountain and want to share a bottle of wine with lunch?

What if the game I want to watch starts at 11:00AM?

What if I’m headed to a state where buying beer at all on Sunday is prohibited, and I want to stock up before my day trip to see a good friend?

What if I just want a fucking beer before noon? Why should the time of day I want a drink have any significance to my responsibility as a drinker?

ETA: RNATB, games usually start here at 11, so I’d immagine they start on the west coast at 10. The part that always surprised me is that Monday night games don’t start until 7 here, which means they don’t end until midnight on the east coast. You east coasters stay up late!

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Massachusetts used to prohibit alcohol sales on Sunday all day long, and the local kosher market got an exemption: “We’re closed on Saturday because of our faith, we can’t sell kosher wine on Sunday because of the law, and a lot of our customers do their shopping on the weekend. What the fuck?” So they will budge for a strong enough freedom-of-religion argument. The whole thing is also, of course, stupid.

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[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]
The part that always surprised me is that Monday night games don’t start until 7 here, which means they don’t end until midnight on the east coast. You east coasters stay up late!
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Yup. Half of Florida called in sick or showed up late the morning after the Bucs-Colts overtime game in '03.

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You could always complain to the town or state government licensing agency. No, wait, they are all closed on Sunday. But you could at least send them a letter with your complaint. No, wait, no mail on Sunday.
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