I love beer!

Beer is good! Why argue, why debate? Someone will probably pass a zoning law against it tomorrow. You could be shunned for reading about beer. Tabboooo! Stores can not sell it on Sunday.

BEER IS GOOD!

enjoy a cold one (or more). Try it with Pizza! Just a thought of the night..... BLOG! LOL!

Ready for another. Have a great weekend everyone!

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David
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Pour it over your dick and jerk yourself off with it! BEER IS GOOD! Shake up the beer bottle and then shoot it up your ass! BEER IS GOOD! Shower with it every day! BEER IS GOOD! Slap it on your face as a cologne! BEER IS GOOD! Fill your dog's water dish with it! BEER IS GOOD! Wash your car with it! BEER IS GOOD! Comb it in with your hair! BEER IS GOOD!

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Jeff

Shake up the beer bottle and

BEER IS GOOD! Slap it on your

BEER IS GOOD! Wash your car

I have done that last one. I don't remember why. I think it was supposed to make my hair shinier. But then my head smelled like beer. i never did it again.

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MeJulie

LOL David, I love Beer too.

And you are correct, they will probably pass a zoning law against it soon. But to thwart them... I found the perfect Beer Mug.

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I'm telling everyone. More Beer please!

Chase

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Chase Pearson

You need to move. I can buy beer seven days a week. Neener.

Wow, that's original. Next thing, you'll be telling me to try oxygen. It's amazing to think that after so many thousands of years of evolution and expanding human knowledge, there are still new things to be learned.

I don't get it. I'm supposed to blog beer?

You may want to think about posting without several beers in you next time.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

I can never understand why people complain about not buying beer Sunday. If you can't think a day or two ahead of time, then you're an idiot.

Phil =====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

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Phil

This post has really nothing to do with such stupid posts. However, re. Sunday trading, it has nothing to do with being an idiot but a lot to do with fair competition. You either allow trading for all the liquor outlets or none of the liqour outlets. You can't have diferent rules every few miles - that's what I call Idiocracy and Bureaucracy and is totally out of step with modern society. Not that I live in USA, but here in Australia we've had similar stupidity in the past but mostly over it now. Steve W.

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QD Steve

I've read numerous complaints from people in the past over how they can't get beer on Sunday. So what? You buy it on Saturday, or Friday, or Thursday....

If you drink that much beer that you must buy it every day, then you have bigger problems than blue laws.

Phil =====visit the New York City Homebrewers Guild website:

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Phil

It's all to do with fair trading and getting rid of anti-competitiveness. A level playing field for all traders. Uniformity between municipalities, keeping religion out of politics. Asking why they are not permitted to trade on Sundays. In Australia, we call this wowserism, society forced to abide by laws that are decades out of date (you probably have own word for this) with a handfull of older and usually religiously motivated councillers forcing their out of date moral standards on the rest of the population. Usually, their reasons for not repealing these old by-laws are feable and self motivated. This is hardly the right atmosphere for modern dynamic cities. When I finally get to visit USA, I will, as a tourist, avoid areas where shops, pubs, liquor outlets etc. are shut in Sundays. In all, I agree with what you say, just think ahead, but you have to ask why you have to live with stupid unfounded laws and lack of uniformity. Steve W.

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QD Steve

To the best of my knowledge, the issue of differences amongst municipalities is a rare one in the States. It's most often at the state level. For instance, Illinois allows Sunday off-sale liquor sales (off-sale meaning for consumption off the selling premises - like a liquor store or grocery). The state immediately to the east, does not. Both allow on-sale (to be consumed at selling point - restaurant, pub, etc.).

There are states in the country where individual cities and/or counties may be "dry," but to the best of my knowledge it's not a Sunday thing. It's a seven-days-a-week thing.

The one exception I can think of is New Jersey, where at least one county (I think it's Bergen) doesn't allow any retail of any sort to be open on Sunday (except groceries and similar stores selling staples). I'm not sure if one could still buy beer from a grocery on a Sunday in that county.

Oddly enough, we don't, at least not for obsolete laws in general. We do have a term for laws restricting conduct on Sundays: blue laws. These aren't necessarily liquor related; indeed, they're applied to things like no auto sales on Sundays or no retails sales on Sundays.

That's frequently the case here. Although, in a lot of areas, this sorts of "moral" standards are supported by a good chunk of the populace (think the American South).

Other than dry counties, I'm not aware of anywhere that doesn't allow pub and restaurant liquor sales on Sundays. And I don' think there are any states anymore that close down all retail on Sundays. North Dakota was the last one I knew of, and they finally starting allowing Sunday store openings (although not until noon) a couple years back.

At least as far as the liquor laws go, it's partly due to some peculiar and particular consequences of American history. Part of the compromise that was made to make it possible to repeal the Prohibition amendment to the Constitution was to give control of regulation of alcohol sales to the individual states, even when Congress would normally be able to set regulations due to the interstate commerce clause in the main body of the Constitution. As a result, America is a crazy quilt of liquor laws, where very little is consistent or even makes much sense.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

Most NJ groceries don't sell beer- all alcoholic beverages are usually sold in "liquor stores". There are lots of exceptions, tho'- some "grandfathered" places (a number of small grocery stores & drug stores) and some of the big box "club" stores have in recent gotten permits to sell beer and wine.

Back in the days of the state having Blue Laws, many stores that could open used to literally rope off certain aisles where "forbidden" material was shelved. (One good thing about the Blue Laws, however, was that retail workers were at least insured of one weekend day off. "F*ck 'em" is probably the reaction of most people, but, what the hell, it's a tough job with shitty pay, at least they'd get a day off.)

Didn't PA. used to? - and everyone went in the back door, with the neon beer lights in the windows remaining unlit? (Remember being in one as a kid in Hazleton like that.)

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jesskidden

Oh, yeah, a nostalgic part of this for many NJ-ers of a certain age (over 50 or so) is that when the state had full Blue Laws, even tho' bars and restaurants could open on Sunday (liquor stores were closed), they couldn't sell "package goods" (beer & wine by the bottle) but COULD sell draft beer by the "container"- round white cardboard quarts (similar to what certain Chinese restaurants still use for soup). (They also had to sell them after 10pm, when liquor stores had to close.)

Many folks still claim beer (Schaefer, Ballantine Ale, Rheingold) never tasted as good as from those containers (needless to say, a certain segment of beer drinker imbidded direct from the container). A few years before the law was repealed, tho', many bars had switched to plastic....

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jesskidden

That may have been what it was originally, and is still that in large parts of rural America, but where I am, the biggest group against Sunday sales is the liquor/beer store owners. They really like having a state-mandated day off -- most of them are small businesses, mom-and-pop places -- and they know that if they are allowed to be open, they'll pretty much have to be open. Hey, guys: why not close on Mondays?

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Lew Bryson

For me the issue is infringement on rights, its the principle dammit!

I've always lived in states with no Sunday sales and have gotten by just fine, but that doesn't make it OK for people to make it illegal for me to buy some beer on a sunday should I have the whim.

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I've lived in four states in my adult life. Two had Sunday sales, two did not.

Yeah, most of the time I would have beer around. But sometimes I wouldn't, and wished I could have bought some. My life is hardly structured enough to eliminate impulse urges and buys. But, yeah, in the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty small annoyance. The inability to buy beer in groceries in one of the no-Sunday states (Minnesota) was more annoying than not being able to buy it anywhere on a Sunday.

The thing that's always amused me about the no-Sunday law is how it's now often spun as a safety thing or some BS (at least that's how it played out when I was living in Indiana and discussion would surface about lifting the Sunday sales restrictions). Apparently it's a bad thing to let someone go buy some beer and bring it home to drink, but it's perfectly fitting within the goals of public safety to have the person wanting a drink to head out to a bar and then drive home.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

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