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Ronald Reagan decided 33 years ago that 18-year-olds can't buy a beer
Posted on 4/25/23 at 3:57 am
Posted on 4/25/23 at 3:57 am
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Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:10 am to BK Lounge
I think I remember Louisiana was one of the last states to cave.
I was old enough for it not to matter. Lots of people were pissed.
Mothers against drunk drivers has too much power. No one has the balls to push back against them.
I was old enough for it not to matter. Lots of people were pissed.
Mothers against drunk drivers has too much power. No one has the balls to push back against them.
This post was edited on 4/25/23 at 4:11 am
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:17 am to BK Lounge
Louisiana had a loop hole that allowed them to sell beer to an 18yo up until 1995. Which happened to be the year I turned 18. So we could legally buy beer, them bam, we couldn't anymore. But not that it mattered. Everywhere around here still sold us beer anyway.
This post was edited on 4/25/23 at 4:18 am
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:18 am to Shut Up Mulllet
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Mothers against drunk drivers has too much power. No one has the balls to push back against them.
Hard disagree .
Drinking and driving is an epidemic in this country.. It’s still taken way too casually IMO and i still know people in 2023 who laugh it off and say they drive better ‘after a couple of drinks’… Until someone you know is maimed or killed by a selfish-*** drunk driver, you cant even comprehend .. there needs to be MUCH more of a stigma in this country with re to drinking & driving .
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:21 am to LSUballs
Same here. Turned 18 Aug 6th, the law changed on Aug 15th, 1995. I have a brother 3 years older than me and I did most of my drinking with him anyway so I never had a problem getting alcohol.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:31 am to CHEDBALLZ
But now you can text and drive at 16 and everything else with your phone
Just as dangerous as drinking and driving
Just as dangerous as drinking and driving
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:46 am to BK Lounge
The irony is that a small-government, states-rights champion used federal money to bully states into changing state laws to what the feds saw as best.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:49 am to BK Lounge
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Ronald Reagan decided 33 years ago
Reagan was not president in 1990.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:49 am to BK Lounge
Somebody better check their math.
Reagan wasn’t even President 33 years ago.
Reagan wasn’t even President 33 years ago.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:52 am to nicholastiger
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But now you can text and drive at 16 and everything else with your phone Just as dangerous as drinking and driving
Where in the hell is it still legal to text and drive ? Louisiana ??
Got out of that cesspool state a long time ago, so i dont know- but in a lot (most?) states it’s illegal to text and drive .
Posted on 4/25/23 at 4:54 am to Planetarium
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Somebody better check their math.
Link says the article is from 2017 , i guess it just got updated.. so their math is (was) correct when article was originally published .
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:00 am to BK Lounge
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Link says the article is from 2017 , i guess it just got updated.. so their math is (was) correct when article was originally published .
Slow news day I guess. And further proof that journalism is dead.
I see now the OP covered up the 2017 date in the screenshot. Never clicked the link.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:03 am to LSUballs
Thats what happened to my brothers too 
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:07 am to BK Lounge
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Hard disagree .
Drinking and driving is an epidemic in this country.. It’s still taken way too casually IMO and i still know people in 2023 who laugh it off and say they drive better ‘after a couple of drinks’… Until someone you know is maimed or killed by a selfish-*** drunk driver, you cant even comprehend .. there needs to be MUCH more of a stigma in this country with re to drinking & driving .
But your tolerance is not the same aa my tolerance. I can drink a case of beer or liter+ of liquor and still type and spell perfectly. Whereas you would probably be passed out in a puddle of piss. The idea that .08 is the same for everybody is absurd. I went to detox for alcohol before beause I knew I would be sick coming down, and blew a .36 after I got there. When they checked a couple hours later, it had actually gone up because I chugged a couple more beers to stave off the sickness before I went in. I blew a .39 the second time. That was average drunk for me, a cop there spent the whole time talking to me and couldn't even tell I was drunk other than the breathalyzer.
People shouldn't drive drunk. But also, .08 isn't actually drunk for most people. Might as well make it 0 tolerance other than ruining people's lives because they drank 4 coors lights in 2 hours of they happened to get pulled over for a break light and the cop smells alcohol, so they test them. Driving just fine but over a theoretical limit on what constitutes as drunk. Here's a 10 dollar fine and loss of license, so now you can't get to work to make money to pay off the fine, so jail it is. Meanwhile, the cops and their friends drive over the limt every night out with the boys, but if they get pulled over they just flash their badge while getting out their idea, and it was just a misunderstanding, off they go.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:12 am to Bonghole
And, you are exactly why there’s a problem.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:21 am to BK Lounge
quote:
Where in the hell is it still legal to text and drive ? Louisiana ??
Where in the hell is it legal to drink and drive?
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:23 am to BK Lounge
It was an abuse of federal power,
no matter how good the intentions were.
no matter how good the intentions were.
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:25 am to Bonghole
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Might as well make it 0 tolerance
Bingo .
Normally im not that much of a hard***, but on this issue i am.. With all the options out there today- Uber, designated driver, drinking at home, walking to the bar etc etc etc- there’s just no reason to ever have a sip of alcohol then get behind the wheel of a half-ton weapon… im sure there are plenty of people who feel like they are great at texting & driving too- but there is a reason that texting & driving is illegal in most places, just as drinking & driving should be .
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:26 am to LNCHBOX
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Where in the hell is it legal to drink and drive?
Every single state in America…. You cant legally be drunk and drive, but you sure as hell can drink and drive .
Posted on 4/25/23 at 5:27 am to Bonghole
quote:I heard those words from the man who drove through my father.
I can drink a case of beer or liter+ of liquor and still type and spell perfectly.
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