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10-06-2009, 07:32 PM
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rude, crude, lewd, and unsophisticated
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Originally Posted by Qingdai
I think they have Sunday hours at some liquor stores here in Oregon now.
Yep. Home | Oregon Liquor Search
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Blue laws were quite popular in the Oregon of my youth. I remember when there were dry towns and dry counties. In fact, the last dry town in Oregon finally threw in the bar towel only in recent years.
Nowadays, they don't care if your sloshed, but they'll turn the fire hose on you with any intimation of flammable material ignition.
The other thing I hear that my state sux at is the incorrigibly smug SNOBs.
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10-06-2009, 07:34 PM
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California Sober
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
Nowadays, they don't care if your sloshed, but they'll turn the fire hose on you with any intimation of flammable material ignition.
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Any flammable material? 
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10-06-2009, 07:36 PM
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Location: Springfield, MA
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
Just in the last few years,  caught up with the times and finally, liquor/package stores are open week 'round, year 'round. You can even buy beer and wine in convenience stores now! 
... now that it's rare that I drink at all let alone care about being able to buy alcohol on Sundays and holidays. 
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10-06-2009, 07:44 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
Our country used to be closed on Sundays too, until some 20 or 15 years ago when they started allowing some stores to be opened once a month on Sundays. Some years later they started allowing some supermarkets to be open on Sundays and on weekdays after 6 PM. The Christian parties have always fought this with all the energy they could muster but the very strict Calvinists that opposed it were not allowed to protest on Sundays either  Most stores are still closed on Sundays though except for the special shopping Sundays (which does not however include food/drink stores).
Cafes on the other hand have always been allowed to be open. In fact in the Catholic regions, where I grew up, most men went to the cafe to get drunk right after Sunday Mass.
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10-06-2009, 07:48 PM
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Vice Cobra Assistant Commander
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
If the churches wouldn't be so damned stingy with the blood of Christ, there wouldn't be a need for that.
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10-06-2009, 07:56 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cascadia
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Originally Posted by SharonDee
If I liked beer, I would go in there and buy some at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday just because I could.
Alas, I hate beer and wouldn't have known about this loophole--can't buy beer anywhere else on Sunday before noon--if I hadn't bought some for the ex-hub one Sunday morning at Ye Olde Kroger. (Maybe it's the chain grocery stores that are allowed to sell the stuff?)
Anyway, the liquor stores are closed on Sunday so why should I care whether the beer drinkers can get their swill?!
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First they came for the beer drinkers, but I didn't speak up because I don't drink that swill... 
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10-06-2009, 08:03 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
Actually, before they started allowing some stores to be opened on sundays, beer was about the only thing you could buy on Sundays because the snackbars sell it too.
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10-06-2009, 08:13 PM
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rude, crude, lewd, and unsophisticated
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Nowadays, they don't care if your sloshed, but they'll turn the fire hose on you with any intimation of flammable material ignition.
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Yep...smoking zealots are smoking zealots. It's all bad for you, y'know.
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10-06-2009, 08:32 PM
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
Oregon sucks because it borders on California.
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10-07-2009, 01:15 AM
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mostly harmless
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nunya
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
NY: - taxed more than Massachusetts
- inept state gov't, though at least our governor didn't run away (though I know a lot of people wish he had)
- the Bills and the Mets
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10-07-2009, 04:48 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
The worst thing about the state I'm in is that well, Decay just smells. Unless your nose rots off, then it's not a problem.
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10-07-2009, 06:32 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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The worst thing about the state I'm in is that well, Decay just smells. Unless your nose rots off, then it's not a problem.
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I've decided that Oklahoma smells like wet chihuahua, the dog, not the Mexican state.
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10-07-2009, 06:46 AM
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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The weather pretty much sucks everywhere in this state, at least everywhere I've been. You can live in West Texas where it's hot and dusty, or East Texas where it's a fucking swamp.
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Or North Central Texas (e.g. Austin) where it's juuuuust right. 
Okay way too many days over 100  but otherwise peachy.
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10-07-2009, 01:57 PM
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Quality Contributor
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Luxembourg
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Cafes on the other hand have always been allowed to be open. In fact in the Catholic regions, where I grew up, most men went to the cafe to get drunk right after Sunday Mass.
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Yup. Along with the priest. 
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10-07-2009, 04:55 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: so far out, I'm too far in
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
I think it goes without saying that Austin doesn't really count as part of Texas, despite that minor detail of being the capital and stuff. In other words,  .
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10-07-2009, 09:31 PM
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Bow down before me ... or not.
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
I'm trying to think of something that doesn't.
The hunting is good if you like to kill things.
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10-08-2009, 02:58 AM
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Admin
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
Who doesn't like to kill things?
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10-08-2009, 04:58 AM
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rude, crude, lewd, and unsophisticated
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Puddle City, Cascadia
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Re: Ways in which your state sucks
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Who doesn't like to kill things?
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PETA?
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