Blue Laws? (North Augusta, North: unemployed, purchases, sales tax)

[southernmeltdown]

yep in bars or in the c stores, but only in the city limits.

[tweet]

can restaurants sell alcohol on Sundays?

What about Sumter county/

[tweet]

Can restaurants in Sumter, South Carolina sell alcohol on Sundays?

[elvislives]

Originally Posted by tweet

Can restaurants in Sumter, South Carolina sell alcohol on Sundays?

no

[breaktheterror]

This is all so funny to me.

1. Europe has the most lenient alcohol laws in the Western World. They also have the lowest rates of drunk driving/alcohol abuse. This is not a coincidence.

2. I'm not a Christian, and I moved to South Carolina because of my job, not because I looked it up on a map and said "ooh, that looks nice." I don't feel I should have to kowtow to the moralism and weak plastic faith of the local yokels.

3. Yes, I grew up in the South, but in one of the cities...last time I checked, South Carolina doesn't really have those, at least not in the actual sense of the word.

4. America was not founded as a Christian nation, no matter how hard the revisionists try to change that. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist who created his own Bible that cut out (like, with scissors) all the supernatural parts, leaving the teachings of Jesus. The Founding Fathers would find themselves aghast at the mythology that eliminationist Christians have created re: the birth of the United States.

5. I like the argument over drunken NASCAR enthusiasts vs. Bible-beating mouthbreathers. I copy/pasted it to my brother (also a born-and-raised Southerner), and he said, "those two groups consist of the same people."

Good to know I can get it in Aiken! Then again, Aiken isn't really a wholly Southern town, thank the gods.

[Angie Adams]

Originally Posted by breaktheterror

This is all so funny to me.

1. Europe has the most lenient alcohol laws in the Western World. They also have the lowest rates of drunk driving/alcohol abuse. This is not a coincidence.

2. I'm not a Christian, and I moved to South Carolina because of my job, not because I looked it up on a map and said "ooh, that looks nice." I don't feel I should have to kowtow to the moralism and weak plastic faith of the local yokels.

3. Yes, I grew up in the South, but in one of the cities...last time I checked, South Carolina doesn't really have those, at least not in the actual sense of the word.

4. America was not founded as a Christian nation, no matter how hard the revisionists try to change that. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist who created his own Bible that cut out (like, with scissors) all the supernatural parts, leaving the teachings of Jesus. The Founding Fathers would find themselves aghast at the mythology that eliminationist Christians have created re: the birth of the United States.

5. I like the argument over drunken NASCAR enthusiasts vs. Bible-beating mouthbreathers. I copy/pasted it to my brother (also a born-and-raised Southerner), and he said, "those two groups consist of the same people."

Good to know I can get it in Aiken! Then again, Aiken isn't really a wholly Southern town, thank the gods.

Me, being European living in SC was a culture shock I have noticed that there is no moderation, for example 1 glass of wine at lunch. Instead a lot of excess drinking at night. Why not stop at 2 beers? I was in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople, Greece) archealogy museum and you can see wine was made 500 b.c.

[Colddiamond102]

Originally Posted by breaktheterror

This is all so funny to me.


2. I'm not a Christian, and I moved to South Carolina because of my job, not because I looked it up on a map and said "ooh, that looks nice." I don't feel I should have to kowtow to the moralism and weak plastic faith of the local yokels.

Good to know I can get it in Aiken! Then again, Aiken isn't really a wholly Southern town, thank the gods.

You moved here, you follow our ways. Dont know what Southern city you grew up in, but if you moved to SC looking for the same thing then you made a mistake.
Aiken may not be "wholly Southern" because of all the &^#! horse people...but go out close by to Williston or Wagner and you'll find wholly southern close enough.

[trinkit]

Bravo, Colddiamond. I LOVE the morality and hospitality I have found in Aiken. Some people just don't understand that they have moved to the Bible Belt. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" or go home.

But, answer a question for me, if you will: it is my understanding that Aiken has ALWAYS been "horse country", is that not true?

[Colddiamond102]

Originally Posted by trinkit

Bravo, Colddiamond. I LOVE the morality and hospitality I have found in Aiken. Some people just don't understand that they have moved to the Bible Belt. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" or go home.

But, answer a question for me, if you will: it is my understanding that Aiken has ALWAYS been "horse country", is that not true?

For the most part, yes. Aiken started out with a "Winter Colony", which was basically wealthy northerners coming down to escape the winter. They brought their horses with them and Aiken took off as "horse country".

At least thats my understanding. I said %$%! horse people because sometimes they'll come into my store with their boots caked in horse-pucky, and I have to clean it up off the floor...

[Angie Adams]

As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstratedThat if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) - bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid,
Than to drink water and be full of ****.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service