Just read on the BBC about controls over bars and drink in Utah being eased. The article says:
From 1 July, anyone wanting a strong drink in the largely Mormon state will no longer have to fill in a form and pay a fee in order to enter a bar.
What the fuck? I know Utah is full of Mormons but surely there are real humans there too. How did they put up with that kind of shit for so long? And isn’t it ludicrous that one state can be under such religious control?
Under the new law, restaurants will be able to take down partitions separating bartenders from diners, meaning bartenders will soon be able to serve drinks directly over bar counters.
That’s properly mental, and surely all built around Mormonosity. Whatever the failings of the church here, and they are legion, they’ve never been so stupid as to try and stop us drinking. That has become a secular issue with the government trying to go all Mormon on us, restricting off-licence hours and all that.
Of course Mormonism is mental so there’s no real surprise that their drinking laws reflect that. How mental are Mormonians? If you’ve got time this South Park episode does a good job of outlining the Mormon philosophy.
And moving away from all that, aren’t there ‘dry counties’ in the USA where no alcohol is served at all? What kind of weird people live in places like that?
Moonshine-making inbreds, I’d imagine.
On the plus side for Mormony people:
“Mormon doctrine states that in order to enter the highest heaven that those who enter must be living in polygamy. “
Too many Mother in Laws…..and no drink.
No drink what so ever allowed into Saudi … Having a bottle of vodko found in your luggage there is teh equivalent of been found with 10K of marching powder in other countries …Used to live there before . How did I survive ?
Easy every two weeks used drive 400K up teh desert road to Bahrain .. and get fucking cunted.Not to mind the blow jobs from the ethopian and somali girls … sweet brwn sugar indeed
Trouble was every other fucker in Saudi (including the locals were doing the same thing) so the place was wall to wall drunks
dumb dumb dumb de de de dumb…..and so on……
I worked in Utah a bit.
you go into any bar and the barman asks you a member ?
if not he shouts out “anyone want to invite these fine gentlemen to join !?”
bar drunk wakes up on cue and goes ‘me’
you buy him a drink as he falls asleep again.
no strong liquor if i remember right.
just shite american beer
The amendment getting rid of Prohibition allowed every state to set its own laws on consumption, and there’s some weird ones. I used to read a blog based in Pittsburgh and the guy was always bitching about having to fill out forms and such to buy bottles of spirits.
In Kansas there were no licenced premises until the end of the 80s. Mississippi didn’t repeal Prohibition at all until the 60s. Bad times, like.
There is a temperance bar in England still
http://www.mrfitzpatricks-cordials.com/
bar drunk wakes up on cue and goes ‘me’
Finally, a career for Dave ?
Twenty,
What most don’t realise is that there are 50 states with 50 different drink laws. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. Here, if you want to buy beer in any quantity other than a 6′er you have to go a state approved “distributer”. Then your choice is a case(24) or a keg.. or of course you can buy 2 or 3 cases….
Every state is different… PA is kinda backwardish Ya’ know.
btw, if you want to buy liuquor or wine, then you have to go to a State Store, now referred to as a Wine and Spirits Store
All sounds very Soviet Brian!
Aye, seems a pain to have to jump through so many hoops to buy booze. Maybe if that’s what you’re used to it’s not so much of a chore though.
Same here in the lovely south…no alcohol sales on Sundays. You can get a drink in most restaurants but not until after 12:30. As for the dry counties, I grew up in Tennessee and there are several there, including Moore County, which is the home of the Jack Daniels distillery.
I believe a special dispensation was passed a while back so that the gift shop on the property could sell bottles.
That may be true but what about the correlation between being cathlic and corrupt? Which would you rather, dodgy drink laws or dodgy society?
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0331/1224243730890.html
That may be true but what about the correlation between being cathlic and corrupt?
Seems anecdotally sound to me. . .
Fundamentalist christians, Twenty, I suspect you have no idea. Irish Catholics can be subversive enough, in their own way.
Halifax is a great place to drink thank god for being a “garrison” town. Pubs open till 1:00 bars till 2:00 and Cabarets open till 3 or 4 am so you can migrate from a decent place to sit and drink and chat to out and out meat market slag holes.
Thank god we don’t have to worry about whack job born again’s running our lives in Canada
and Americans cant drink for shit
Americans cant drink for shit
so true. probably cos of their pissy weak beer.
Apparently what Mormons lack in booziness, they more than compensate for in hardcore, class A drugs. It’s swings and roundabouts really.
A partition between the bartender and the boring/pissed/all-knowing Bar-Fly’s…
Sounds like a great idea…
Land of the free,wha?
Land of the hypocrites, more like.
Utah = Mormons
Pennsylvania = Amish
Mississippi, Kansas = Psycho Evangelists
The problem here is that these religions are relatively young and still have an obnoxious rebellious side to them, much like adolescents.
The Catholic Church on the other hand, spent centuries going on bloody crusades and using scientists, heretics and midwives as firelighters. But now it’s gone beyond that vicious antisocial phase. Now it’s more like the grumpy old granddaddy of religions who has given up on condemning booze and corruption and learned to embrace them with a tired roll of its eyes. And while the other creeds run around the world angrily breaking the furniture and spray-painting the walls, the Catholic Church just sits in a rocking chair in the corner, sipping tea from a saucer, harrumphing a lot and occasionally farting.
I’m going start a campaign to have the second M removed from all instances of the word mormon.
I will never venture west of Vermont. Ever.
Lung the younger – truer words were never spoken.
I’m going start a campaign to have the second M removed from all instances of the word mormon.
We could also rearrange the 4 letters of Buddhist to make a more hilarious religion.
Hey Andraste, long time. No such restrictions where you are…
So you’re complaining about a state that builds walls between drinkers and their drink for religious reasons while living in a country where people build walls between other people for religious reasons(and to keep them from murdering each other)?
Get some perspective. And maybe a mirror.
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/369-best-beer-map-of-america/
Utah not bad on the Us Beer Map…
There’s loads of dry counties in the States. I suspect when prohibition ended, a lot of local councils kept the drink bans in place. The US has more religious fundamentalists than anywhere else.
Get some perspective. And maybe a mirror.
And some shoe polish.
And a haircut.
And some pride.
But at least you’ve already got a dog.
Too many Mother in Laws…..
All I would do is marry sisters problem solved.
what county in Ireland should be made dry?
I’d pick Offaly, just to stop Cowen singing
Thanks for the link Itchy!
“Whatever the failings of the church here, and they are legion, they’ve never been so stupid as to try and stop us drinking.”
Except on Good Friday, you mean. And don’t we still have ‘holy hour’ in off-licences on Sunday? (I’m not certain about that one, but it was certainly in existence up to a few years ago.)
That episode of South Park is superb, I’ve used it to teach many a class about Mormonism, because everything they say in it is completely accurate.
“…but surely there are real humans there too.” You were discussing Utah, correct? What’s a little religion if you can’t mandate its strictures on the unenlightened?
Entertaining post an comments! Like the Irish adjective for yank beer (shite), since it sounds so much better that “shit.”
Swings both ways (huurrr)though. We have a drive through liquor store down the road and drink/body mass charts to estimate how many drinks you can have and still drive.
You can get beer and wine in any grocery store/Spar type place but you have to go to a State store for the hard stuff. Sounds a bit Stalinist but they are everyhwere and very reasonable.
I had the misfortune of attending a mormon wedding once. I’m still not over it.
It HAS been a long time. I thought you’d quit blogging, and then I clicked in for a look at an older post and I’ve been catching up ever since.
You devil you.
They’ll have a flood of conversions after this because it’s only when one’s totalled that the ridiculous seems to make such good sense.
I’ve lived in Utah on and off for about twenty years mainly because my parents, who are not Mormon, live there. Just to clarify, I’m Catholic but I won’t go into what it’s like for non-Mormons to exist in the various communities in Utah on a daily basis.
The place sucks. The mountain areas are visually beautiful, but the mentality (or lack thereof) and the actions of the supposedly Christian and benevolent religious majority in residence is a farce. With very few exceptions, most of the Mormons I have known are dishonest, racial bigots who would sooner stab their own mother in the back in order to get ahead socially or to make a dollar. I believe Utah also has the highest incidence of road rage in the country. My theory is that they have to release their frustrations out on the road because there is no where else they can do so, and to hell with the rest of the population driving on the highways.
Mormons need to do some serious drinking before they can even contemplate becoming part of the real world. A good, rip-roaring drunken binge would do them a desperately-needed shot in the arm. They live in a serious fantasy-land that truly has no place in modern society, except in their own warped minds and in a bit of acreage known as the state of Utah.
By the way, neighboring Idaho is just as populated with the same.
fill in a form and pay a fee in order to enter a bar
..Still better than drinking in Copper Faced Jacks…
If you’re Irish and moving to the States then move to Wisconsin! Loads of great local breweries and the bars and off licences are open all the time. Lots of the same type of characters you’d find in a typical Irish bar. Utah is a beautiful place to look at but not if you’re thirsty.
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