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Chazwozel
PA is ass backward when it comes to liquor laws. Fucking Quakers!
getting drunk and disorderly at family gatherings is the reason for the season
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PA is ass backward when it comes to liquor laws. Fucking Quakers!
I learned that when I went for an interview at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. I always pick up some local brew when I travel, so I just wanted a sixer or something. But no, I had to lug a case (sampler of Victory) back to my hotel. I drank a couple that night, but since my interview was the next day I couldn't lighten the load more than that. I then carefully packed the rest in my garment bag and tried to look casual lugging it around the next day at the interview, even though it was heavy as fuck.
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rabbitgod
Yeah it is. It becomes extra silly when you consider that before prohibition, PA had more breweries/distilleries than virtually any other region of equivilant square miles.
Dry counties I can kind of understand. That community finds it morally irresponsible to drink. Ok, I disagree, but I don't live there so go crazy. But when a State limits alchohol purchases on Sundays they're getting into stupidland. You can drink all you want, but you can't purchase because three old ladies are at church that day.
We have at least one dry Reservation, but none of the counties are dry. We do have some stupid Microbrew laws, but they're slowly being changed.
In the end though, you got your Wild Turkey early, so I salute you!
Ah South Carolina and our lovely Blue Laws. Not only can you not buy any alcohol all day (unless you go to a bar, then hey, go crazy), but you also cannot buy regular goods (excepting groceries and gas) before 1:30pm.
You can quite litteraly walk into Wal-Mart and not be able to buy anything except food.
You can buy all the liquor you want on saturday, just not on sunday. You can go to a bar and get drunk legally (just don't drive home) on sunday, but you can't buy alcohol to have in your own home on the same day.
South Carolina: "What separation of church & state?"
You can quite litteraly walk into Wal-Mart and not be able to buy anything except food.
You can buy all the liquor you want on saturday, just not on sunday. You can go to a bar and get drunk legally (just don't drive home) on sunday, but you can't buy alcohol to have in your own home on the same day.
South Carolina: "What separation of church & state?"
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Kitty Sinatra
Toronto (and Ontario) used to be much like that. When plenty of counties were dry, when we couldn't stand in a bar with a drink in hand - we had to be sitting at the bar or table (or perhaps standing right at the bar); if we wanted to move to another table, for example, the waitress had to carry our drink over for us. Can't buy booze on Sunday, etc.
Then our government decided there was money in booze. We still have to go to a provincially owned beer store (they're creatively called the Beer Store) to buy beer. And the provincially owned liquor store to buy liquor and more beer. But they open on Sunday now, and have customer-friendly times. There's a hefty sin tax applied to all our booze, but there is a benefit to the provincially owned stores: As two of the largest purchasers of booze in the world, the Beer Stores and liquor stores have a wide and varied selection; walking into even just a decent-sized store is wonderful . . . except that they don't stock the really cheap booze; there's nothing in the stores that isn't at least decent quality.
On a side note, I'd regularly heard that Quebec's liquor laws were so much more relaxed than Ontario's. You can buy booze at the convenience store, after all! And take your own wine to a restaurant. It sounded better than my home province . . . then I lived for a while in Montreal and learned that it ain't so relaxed o'er there. For one, you can only take your own wine to certain restaurants in certain (touristy) neighbourhoods - and those restaurants don't stock their own! Then there are places with liquor licenses that require you order food if you want to order booze, while there are other places we you can order booze without food; that one took some getting used to for me.
Then our government decided there was money in booze. We still have to go to a provincially owned beer store (they're creatively called the Beer Store) to buy beer. And the provincially owned liquor store to buy liquor and more beer. But they open on Sunday now, and have customer-friendly times. There's a hefty sin tax applied to all our booze, but there is a benefit to the provincially owned stores: As two of the largest purchasers of booze in the world, the Beer Stores and liquor stores have a wide and varied selection; walking into even just a decent-sized store is wonderful . . . except that they don't stock the really cheap booze; there's nothing in the stores that isn't at least decent quality.
On a side note, I'd regularly heard that Quebec's liquor laws were so much more relaxed than Ontario's. You can buy booze at the convenience store, after all! And take your own wine to a restaurant. It sounded better than my home province . . . then I lived for a while in Montreal and learned that it ain't so relaxed o'er there. For one, you can only take your own wine to certain restaurants in certain (touristy) neighbourhoods - and those restaurants don't stock their own! Then there are places with liquor licenses that require you order food if you want to order booze, while there are other places we you can order booze without food; that one took some getting used to for me.
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Chazwozel
I learned that when I went for an interview at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. I always pick up some local brew when I travel, so I just wanted a sixer or something. But no, I had to lug a case (sampler of Victory) back to my hotel. I drank a couple that night, but since my interview was the next day I couldn't lighten the load more than that. I then carefully packed the rest in my garment bag and tried to look casual lugging it around the next day at the interview, even though it was heavy as fuck.[/QUOTE]
You dumb dick, why didn't accept the job at Fox Chase? You'd be like 20 minutes away from where I work now.
I'll have some Jim Beam later and yell at what ever locals are left at the bar.
Cajungal
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From now on, we're honorary cousins.
But you can't yell at me. In my family, cousins are friends.I learned that when I went for an interview at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. I always pick up some local brew when I travel, so I just wanted a sixer or something. But no, I had to lug a case (sampler of Victory) back to my hotel. I drank a couple that night, but since my interview was the next day I couldn't lighten the load more than that. I then carefully packed the rest in my garment bag and tried to look casual lugging it around the next day at the interview, even though it was heavy as fuck.[/quote]
You dumb dick, why didn't accept the job at Fox Chase? You'd be like 20 minutes away from where I work now.[/QUOTE]
Being a private institute, they apparently didn't feel the need to pay anywhere close to NIH standards. I think postdocs were starting at 30K or some shit.
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Chazwozel
I learned that when I went for an interview at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philly. I always pick up some local brew when I travel, so I just wanted a sixer or something. But no, I had to lug a case (sampler of Victory) back to my hotel. I drank a couple that night, but since my interview was the next day I couldn't lighten the load more than that. I then carefully packed the rest in my garment bag and tried to look casual lugging it around the next day at the interview, even though it was heavy as fuck.[/quote]
You dumb dick, why didn't accept the job at Fox Chase? You'd be like 20 minutes away from where I work now.[/quote]
Being a private institute, they apparently didn't feel the need to pay anywhere close to NIH standards. I think postdocs were starting at 30K or some shit.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah... now I remember why I passed up Fox Chase too.
Almost time for Xmas Dinner. I raided the liquor cabinet. My dad has some good shit. Including some Jack Daniels in this really crazy bottle I've never seen before.
It would have been weird in years past, but my generation on my mom's side has slowly been changing the status quo toward imbibing at the big Christmas throwdown. My dad's side is German-Irish, so they didn't need any help.
Most people give up that kind of talk around 19 or so. Some, perhaps not...
true exchange:
"what are you having for dessert?
Me: *slugs down glass of wine* CIDER.
"what are you having for dessert?
Me: *slugs down glass of wine* CIDER.
Me neither, I'd never drink with my family.
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