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So we moved to Arkansas about 6 weeks ago and have discovered that this supposedly conservative state still has dry counties. Seems the polar opposite of keeping the government from trying to tell citizens what they can and cannot do. Who in these counties dictates whether it will be dry or not? Prohibition was over almost 100 years ago. Come on Arkansas, get with the times! While in theory I may agree with you, but in principle I won't. Wait until you've lived in the state a bit more than a whole 6 weeks to tell us how backwoods we are. You already knew about the dry county situation before moving here (you asked about in back in Sept in your NWA thread) and I'm quite sure it was discussed with your current job being what it is. Stop acting like a typical Californian and immediately trying to change your new home into the [bleep] you just left. Liquor laws are voted on by the people, not the government. Those dry counties are dry by choice as determined by votes. They can easily become wet if they want to. Seems it's working the way it should, doesn't it? You moved to Arkansas by choice. I'd assume it was because it offered more favorable living conditions and opportunity than where you left. Maybe there's a reason that is.
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Most of the hillbilly state residents are hold overs from the Puritans.
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That's a main reason that the country is so ****ed up. People move from their place of origin instead of trying to fix things they don't like, they move to another place and try to transform it into their idea of a paradise. Then they ***k up the place they moved to so it's just like the place they left.
Just about drives me nuts hearing all these people talking about how they do things "back home " or how there's no snow, and it's so damn hot here. Or you can't find my favorite kind of " sew-dahs" Etc. Etc. Etc. Jeeze yooze guys Just stay where you feel at home, and fix the problems there instead of ragging on somebody else's idea of home
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Ha you think it bad now. Wain until next May/June/July when the mosquitos come out! You will think the no alcohol is nothing when your in constant combat modeπ¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦π¦
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Most of the hillbilly state residents are hold overs from the Puritans. Geography isnβt your strong point is it.
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So we moved to Arkansas about 6 weeks ago and have discovered that this supposedly conservative state still has dry counties. Seems the polar opposite of keeping the government from trying to tell citizens what they can and cannot do. Who in these counties dictates whether it will be dry or not? Prohibition was over almost 100 years ago. Come on Arkansas, get with the times! Just like almost everyone else here, you're confusing conservatism with libertarianism. They are most definitely NOT the same... or they didn't use to be, anyway. This ^ is the truth. Two groups in favor of dry counties. The church crowd and the owners of liquor stores in the adjacent wet counties. Strange bedfellows if you ask me. All it really accomplishes is increasing drunk driving, as all the drunks need to drive to the next county or state to stock up when they run out, and they wonβt wait till they make it home to start back up.
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No big deal, just get your booze over the county line
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MPat70 is on the right track.
I was thinking about what the chiggers are going to do to Roo's grape stompers while he dreaming of a Notorious triple IPA.
Probably best that you throw the doodle dog in the Subaru and go back to Oregon.
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I thought all these laws changed after the movie Footloose came out.
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Drive over to the wet County. This has been the rule forever.
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You all believe you are living in 2022, try 1962
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I've hunted in a lot of dry counties in Arkansas. In everyone of them, the next county over had a 2 or 3 lane drive thru liquor store on the county line.
Cheers. I imagine big truck coolers come standard in every truck in Arkansas. π¦«
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PS: for you southerners, inundated means that lots of them are moving there. We went through this back after the unCivil War: loads of carpetbaggers exhibiting a streak of New England Puritan moralizing moving in to tell us how to live. What's old is new again.....
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
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ruferse move ov'here to montain hom we stay drunk alot
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
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DryPowder, Which counties have those titti bars? Is it full nekked or just merely topless or ???? Memphis was the Holy Grail when it come to tittie bars, Arkansas couldn't compete. Platinum Plus was unreal before the Feds shut it down. I ate a bunch of mushrooms one night and was driving around Memphis looking at the lights and wound up at Platinum. A tittie bar is a hell of a place to ride out a mushroom trip.
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Buy the big jugs by the case and you are set for a month. Problem solved. Edk Either that, or just quit drinking.........problem solved.
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So you didn't try to learn about the county you were moving to beforehand? Must have been from Montana or Texas.
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Dr. Tichenorβs antiseptic.
That's what all the local drunks used to drink when I lived in a dry country in MS growing up. The local county store would usually have a couple can's of chili, a few loaves of bread and a gallon of milk in stock, but the back wall of the store would have about 100 bottles of Dr. Tichenor's. 70% alcohol (140 proof) and you were supposed to mix it 5:1 with water to make a mouthwash but nobody ever used it for that. My mom had a cousin that didn't own a vehicle so he'd drive his old John Deere A model tractor the five miles to the store to get his Dr. Tichenor's every day. He was usually drunk by the time he got back home so he'd occasionally take out a neighbor's fence on the way. He had to cross a couple of old wooden bridges with no rail and I remember once he ran off the bridge and stuck the tractor nose down in the creek, he wasn't hurt. They pulled the tractor out, cleaned it up and it ran fine.
Good times! Get the local store to stock up on Dr. Tichenor's and you'll be all set
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I see heβs a former Oregon resident from the responses whoops. Texas used to have some as well and we had to drive to the county line. Wyoming had some strange to us alcohol laws when we were visiting to buy booze.
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Rufous the same Oregonian (what a shock) that had to plug his freezer in every 300 miles so his Hot Pockets made it safe and sound.
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Can't make this schit up.
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