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[Anonymous No.5502485]

Why is America so backwards with its drinking culture?

>decide to drive 2 hours south to Santa Cruz for the weekend
>walk along the boardwalk Saturday
>party atmosphere; everyone is drinking, playing the games, riding rides, enjoying the beach
>delicious, hand-made food everywhere
>didn't really drink because I wanted to try all the different foods
>dat philly cheesesteak
>dat fried fish
>dem gyros
>gorge myself on delicious food all day
>not even a fatasfatass
>Sunday comes; 11:30 AM
>had enough of food
>time to drink, buy a 24oz beer from a vendor
>decide to walk around the beach and boardwalk
>shades on, headphones in, sipping beer, just enjoying life dawg
>everyone is glaring at me like I'm a leper

Didn't really give a fuck but whats with the sudden shift in attitude? No more than 24 hours ago people were walking around doing THE EXACT SAME THING... Why is there such a stigma against drinking on Sunday? It's called "Sunday Funday" for a reason.

I figured a laid back beach community would be a little more open-minded, but I guess not.

[Anonymous No.5502494]

>>5502485
What the fuck are you talking about? I live in Santa Cruz and have drank on the boardwalk on Sundays and nothing happened.

[Anonymous No.5502495]

>>5502485
>muh Jesus
Is basically the only reason. And it's a shitty reason, too. Jesus was drunk as shit, wine literally flowed in his veins.

[Anonymous No.5502500]

>>5502485
0/10

[Anonymous No.5502502]

>>5502485
>b8 thread
Plus, why do you care what they think? Any time is drinking time, especially after 11a

[Anonymous No.5502508]

>>5502485
It's the Lord's day you heathen.

Go to fucking church before you slog back another drop of the devils piss.

[Anonymous No.5502509]

>>5502485
Maybe you're a grill.

[Anonymous No.5502513]

>>5502508
>the lord's day
Fuck that shit. I don't have a car, but I can't do fuckall because EVERYTHING is closed. It's like this city just dies on sunday.

[Anonymous No.5502572]

>>5502485
Perhaps you are reading too much into it. I drink early in the morning on the weekends frequently, and have rarely had anyone give me any sort of look about it. This morning, I went and bought a bottle of vodka at 8am, and no one gave a shit.

[Anonymous No.5502578]

>>5502513
You need Jesus in your life.

[Anonymous No.5502581]

>>5502578
I need a store that sells chips after the late midnight hour of 6pm

[Anonymous No.5502586]

>>5502581
You've heard of 7-11, yes? Anyway, this greentext story sounds like bullshit.

[Anonymous No.5502587]

>>5502581
>britbong has a single beer
>wher r da chip butties

[Anonymous No.5502593]

>>5502586
yeah its commiefornia, if hed said the south id be more believable

[Anonymous No.5502595]

>>5502485
If you want laid back come on out to the right coast. We don't have the california pretenses here, in fact we make fun of them.

It's a big country and one state doesn't define all of us.

[Anonymous No.5502599]

wtf are you talking about? I've lived here my entire life and people don't give a shit about that

also isn't walking around with a beer illegal in america? I don't know in which areas it's legal but I've never seen people give a shit about it here

[Anonymous No.5502601]

>>5502586
>7-11
>3 miles away with no buses no crosswalks and nothing but highways
Did I mention I don't drive?

[Anonymous No.5502606]

you probably just thought that they were judging you

[Anonymous No.5502614]

>>5502601
maybe get a job and buy a car

[Anonymous No.5502619]

>>5502599
>also isn't walking around with a beer illegal in america?

There's certainly no federal or state laws against that. But, I can think of two potential local exceptions. Some counties are "dry" and prohibit the sale and public consumption of alcohol. But this is a very rare thing. Also, some cities have local ordinances against glass containers. Carrying a can or cup around would be OK but not a glass bottle.

[Anonymous No.5502628]

>>5502599
Depends on the jurisdiction, for instance in New York, yes that's illegal but even within that most cops in Manhattan will just hollar at you for a minute then let you off. In Queens for instance, you'll get a ticket.

In New Orleans and Memphis, walking around with drinks is encouraged, as long as you're not being a jerk about it.

That's not a federal law, not yet anyway where these cunts want to legistlate what people do at the federal level.

[Anonymous No.5502629]

>>5502485

This was all in your head, 100%. This is absolutely not a thing and I'm amazed you even thought it was happening.

[Anonymous No.5502632]

>>5502601

There's a 7-11 less than a mile from the boardwalk. Anyway I think you were just convincing yourself that people were looking at you weird, unless somehow you had a vastly different experience than I've ever had even though I was born here and I'm 26.

[Anonymous No.5502633]

>>5502601
>decide to drive 2 hours south to Santa Cruz for the weekend

Please be more consistent with your lies.

[Anonymous No.5502634]

>>5502614
Maybe they should just run buses until a more reasonable time like 9, isn't that what taxes are for?

[Anonymous No.5502639]

>>5502593

santa cruz is a stoner hippy vacation beach town

[Anonymous No.5502640]

>>5502619
dry counties dont prohibit the consumption just buying it in county

[Anonymous No.5502641]

>>5502619
There are a lot of public intoxication laws and bars don't let you drink on the street or it may compromise their liquor license. Of course a lot of enforcement is lax. For example, it's completely legal in Vegas or at festivals.

[Anonymous No.5502642]

>>5502485
Were you drinking alone before noon on a Sunday, or did you have company?

[Anonymous No.5502647]

Nothing to see here, folks. OP made up a story about people giving a shit about his drinking in a beach and college town. Move along.

[Anonymous No.5502648]

>>5502634
>the entire country is urban

talk about having your head up your ass

[Anonymous No.5502649]

Sunday is the shittiest day ever invented.
I used to think it was just shitty here in the states but then I read that Douglas adams had the same trouble with Sundays in the UK.

[Anonymous No.5502653]

>>5502634
youre pathetic

>>5502639
exactly my point, why would they have an issue with it

[Anonymous No.5502654]

>>5502647
Not sure he is trolling.
I look down on day drinking in general.
The night time is the right time.

[Anonymous No.5502655]

>>5502642
That has nothing to do with anything? Social drinking is only relevant on friday nights

[Anonymous No.5502657]

>>5502653

they wouldn't, he's making shit up or was tripping balls thinking people were staring at him and giving him the stink eye

[Anonymous No.5502674]

>>5502647
Just so you know, I got hollared at by a Brit for "folks" and he was right. Folk is already plural so folks is wrong.

They do tend to know English pretty well.

Just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.5502678]

>>5502674
>what is common usage?

i.e. thats all folks!

[Anonymous No.5502680]

>>5502674
He's wrong. Just like saying persons is fine within context.

[Anonymous No.5502686]

>>5502674
Was it a chav?

[Anonymous No.5502692]

Bet you were drinking shifty beer. Everyone looking at you funny for drinking crap

[Anonymous No.5502702]

>>5502686
Fuck off you English hooligan!

[Anonymous No.5502707]

We have a lot of hipsters here in SC, they were probably judging you for not drinking PBR

I hope you've learned a valuable lesson

[Anonymous No.5502708]

>>5502678
I know common usage vs accuracy. Take that to a compiler to run stuff on a mainframe. Common usage doesn't mean squat.

[Anonymous No.5502711]

>>5502708
They eat faggots though. Should you really be listening to them?

[Anonymous No.5502712]

>>5502708
It determines what's commonly acceptable, and considering language is ever evolving...

[Anonymous No.5502723]

>>5502485
>USA
>legal adults are not allowed to drink alcohol until they're 21
For what purpose

[Anonymous No.5502726]

>>5502723

the purpose of OP making a story up

[Anonymous No.5502727]

>>5502601
>30min walk is too much for amerilard

[Anonymous No.5502729]

>>5502711
The answer to that question is yes. At least they know the meanings of the word faggot and don't get all faggy like uptight faggots here in the states would.

Let's go smoke some fags!

The meaning of that is unstood in England, here in the states a bunch of uptight faggots would get their panties in a bunch and consider that terrorist speach.

[Anonymous No.5502730]

>>5502723
Muh freedums

[Anonymous No.5502733]

>>5502723
federal lobbying groups and in turn federal infrastructure money (MADD and freeway funding)

[Anonymous No.5502734]

>>5502729
>language isnt fluid

[Anonymous No.5502735]

>>5502723
Federal laws, that one came about because people were being stupid. That's a state issue and the federal government threatened the states with pulling highway funding unless they passed it.

It was pretty stupid.

[Anonymous No.5502744]

>>5502734
that's the opposite of what he said, kid.
It's the faggots in USA that think eating/smoking faggots has something to do with homosex

[Anonymous No.5502746]

>>5502735
It was yet another attempt by the federal governent to usurp states rights. The states were stupid to give in, collectively they should have said fuck you, you fund it you federal weenies. Then the feds would have shut up.

Now look at it, the NSA collecting every keystroke in the name of national security, what a load of hypocrasy and shit.

[Anonymous No.5503057]

>>5502708
>>5502712
Not to mention natural languages aren't pre-determined, i.e. there is no ISO committee establishing the syntax and vocabulary of English.

[Anonymous No.5503110]

>>5502485
Santa Cruz is a kickass laid back as fuck place. Should you have had a shitty time somehow you fucked up. Aside from the feminazi school kids at ucsc and the faggots that support them the place is a great place to be.

[Anonymous No.5503113]

>>5503110
>global stop whining

[Anonymous No.5503115]

>>5502727

he's extra retarded because there's one like half a mile away

[Anonymous No.5503118]

>>5502674
eat a fat on faggot

[Anonymous No.5503119]

>>5503110
>feminazi

whoa, 90s pop culture nostalgia

you got any more where that came from?

[Anonymous No.5503120]

>>5502485
>>5502513
gr8 b8 m8

[Anonymous No.5503130]

>>5503119
did that strike a nerve faggot

[Anonymous No.5503141]

>>5503130

no, u? woman in a pant suit got your jimmies?

I think the modern term is "tumblr whore", isn't it? in any case I don't think kids these days are familiar with the term "feminazi", it's obvious enough what it means but I'm surprised to see it in writing in 2014.

here I found some more 90s nostalgia, but from tumblr no less. so we have a little of the old, a little of the new.

[Anonymous No.5503184]

>No pub culture

must be hellish

[Anonymous No.5503185]

>>5503141
>thinK
so thinking is the issue

now I understand

[Anonymous No.5503190]

>>5503185

sure something like that. at this point I'm just looking for an excuse to post scully pics.

[Anonymous No.5503336]

>>5502485
sounds like a "you" problem. I live in Santa Cruz too, and I've seen more drunk people stumbling around town lately since summer started, but its no big deal. Maybe your balls were showing.