re: Let’s talk about dry counties

He says Shreveport > Pineville

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For liquor but you can buy beer and wine in the actual store.

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I remember this in Florida. We went to a Sams Club a few days before my wedding to buy all the alcohol for the wedding. Sams had the separate store as well.


So silly. Is that because many of those places still only sell beer and wine on Sundays(which is stupid)? So it's easier to close off the other alcohol?

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The wine part is even sillier when you consider how many people cook with wine.

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And that Jesus turned water into wine for a wedding. He didn't turn water into beer.

Yeah third party demo support is for moving cases. They do wonders.

Yeah Whole Foods would be the best bet there.

God I bet those wine reps make bank. Just dick ship whatever and mark it down.

In nearby Beauregard parish where they boast more churches in the parish seat(DeRidder) than any other, was dry as a desert. Until a loop hole was discovered and then some of the merchants began selling alcohol until it was voted on to end this loop hole. Well they did the voting by wards. It took awhile to get this on the ballot, and the whole time all the churches in the city and the parish began their push for keeping the parish dry. Well once the revenue from the sales of alcohol starting coming into the parish coffers, it changed some minds. The local government heads started to see some extra money to pave roads, improve schools and what not. So they put pressure on the churches and lo and behold, most wards stayed wet, with some of the outlining ones went dry. Money talks in some mysterious ways.

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Money talks in some mysterious ways.

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Wish thy treated weed this way.

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Slowly happening all over north and east Texas over the past few years.

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They want legitimate chain grocery stores and they're gradually figuring out that they could use more sales tax revenue after the lumber mills and small shops left town.

My favorite East Texas towns, though, are the ones that don't have bars or alcohol served in restaurants, but do have liquor stores. That way all the good Baptists can drink alone at home in the dark as the Lord intended.

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I assume you are 140 lbs so you can tell us first hand what the effects would be.
Every girl I know gets pretty damn fricked up after that.
Besides, you can always drink at home or get a taxi.
The discussion isn’t duis, it is alcohol in general. Alcohol is there so people can forget about their responsibilities and instead just go get fricked up. A society where everybody needs to check out to feel normal is a society that is clearly fricked. Maybe people shouldn’t need to numb theirselves to feel normal. I know this is some ground breaking stuff here.

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We’re discussing dry counties and how stupid (and counter productive) they are in relation to adults drinking.

The point is that in most states only a couple of beers could get you a DUI. You’re making a horribly blanket statement assuming people who have to drive to a wet county are getting sloshed. It doesn’t take much to be “drunk” by DUI standards.

Also, no one said they aren’t exercising personal responsiblity when it comes to drinking. That they aren’t using a taxi, Uber, Lyft.

None of that makes it any less stupid that people are forced to drive a county away to visit a bar and increase their chances of driving drunk (which takes very little).

And people have been consuming alcoholic beverages for most of human history. So shut the frick up with your moral superiority.