Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.?

copd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rest of the world wondering what kind of Freedom©®™ makes it illegal to drink outside?!? 😂

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The freedom that puritanical Christians enjoyed to write all the laws.

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  • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eh, it’s pretty common in a lot of other countries as well. Those with significant Muslim populations, and even countries like Norway.

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    • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I grew up in Norway, but haven’t lived there for some time. When I first read this I was like “bullshit. you can drink anywhere”. But, I looked it up and you are correct. However, it is not very often enforced unless you’re being a nuisance. Drinking and driving on the other hand is taken very seriously. Don’t even gamble with that a little bit in Norway.

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      • whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s honestly the same in the US. You can drink a beer in public. I think those laws are probably mostly used to harass homeless people, or selectively enforced at like playgrounds or outside businesses.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean the freedom to pull up to a drive through liquor store (and I mean drive through, you’re inside a large barn-like structure), order a case of beer (which they place in your trunk for you), two gin and tonics which they hand you in Styrofoam cups with kids and straws, hand them some cash and drive away?

    I know, that’s some awful Freedom.

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    • Devi@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you suggesting being able to buy alcohol is an American thing?

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      • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Needing a car to get there is the American part.

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      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Being too fat to get out of your tiny-penis truck to buy a crate of beer is the other American thing

        Someone doesn’t know the difference between laziness and freedom ©®™

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  • Tebbie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I first found out about this while trying to leave a bar with a bottle of beer when I was 22. I was like, “dude, I’m not wasting this, so you’re telling me I have to get smashed for the next few minutes if I was to leave the bar without eating my drink?”.

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