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		Pennsylvania official who introduced new tax on booze surprised to find that it's made him only slightly less popular than Osama bin Laden among Pennsylvanians who drink to try and forget that they have to live in that shiathole (abcnews.go.com)		165
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Weaver95		2008-06-15 03:33:30 PM

Meh. Every time I head down to annapolis, I bring a shopping list and restock my bar. liquor regulation in this state is insane.

JonEdangerousli		2008-06-15 03:43:48 PM

I didn't realize OBL was from PA...

/probably Pittsburg
//Sid Bream FTW
///suck it, Bonds

Snarfangel		2008-06-15 04:01:33 PM

JonEdangerousli: I didn't realize OBL was from PA...

They don't like to advertise the fact.

Weaver95		2008-06-15 04:08:46 PM

Snarfangel: JonEdangerousli: I didn't realize OBL was from PA...

They don't like to advertise the fact.

there's also that pesky vampire problem too, but we don't like to talk about that with outsiders. Let's just say that you want to be indoors before dark.

rocinante721		2008-06-15 04:12:42 PM

I cannot attest for anything outside of the general Philly area, but:

www.phillycraftbeerfest.com

(which I boycott since they shiat-canned Scott Morrison, Brewmaster extraordinaire

Also, props to further out Penna Brewers

www.grannygear.com

... and my fav, now defunct cheap beer (since Lion Brewery was sold & no longer make the returnable 16oz brews)

www.ratebeer.com

/RIP, Leibots!

Suicidal Writer		2008-06-15 04:22:13 PM

Wrong state to try that shiat in.

NeverDrunk23		2008-06-15 04:53:36 PM

Whenever I go to PA, I play everyone's favorite driving game: 'Count the Silos!' I usually get bored when I reach triple digits.

SchlingFo		2008-06-15 05:06:49 PM

I don't understand all the hate. I don't understand, "Die in a fire."

SilentStrider		2008-06-15 05:08:07 PM

fark you subby. some of us actually like it here.

2wolves		2008-06-15 05:24:48 PM

"Osama bin who?" -G.W Bush

strangeguitar		2008-06-15 05:28:44 PM

SilentStrider: fark you subby. some of us actually like it here.
Word, my Pa. brutha.
I love it here.

Just got done playing a great round of gold w/ my father at Westover CC, then went to Iron Hill Brewery in Montgomeryville for drinks. That's all I need.

PWNtheCCP		2008-06-15 05:46:38 PM

Anyone who has grown up drinking water in Pennsylvania will understand the importance of bottled drinks of all kinds.

Peepshow Custodian		2008-06-15 05:47:40 PM

That's it, I am going to the fridge and grabbin a Yuengling.

tbn0.google.com

Finally, they ship this stuff into Chattanooga

KramericaWallet		2008-06-15 05:52:07 PM

Yes, but if they made life in PA less crappy, people would drink less and there would be less drink-tax revenue. It's lose-lose.

fenian-		2008-06-15 05:52:23 PM

I love it when people post an endless series of oversized graphics that take more than 2 pages to scroll by. I bet dialup users love it even more.

D'Annunzio		2008-06-15 05:52:50 PM

Where there's pollution, poor roads, gloomy weather, and lots of dumb drunk people.

I'm one of the latter.

BetterThomas		2008-06-15 05:53:09 PM

PWNtheCCP: Anyone who has grown up drinking water in Pennsylvania will understand the importance of bottled drinks of all kinds.

lol

/Pennsylvanian
//tap water always
///nice place when you ignore the politicians

IshadymilkmanI		2008-06-15 05:54:52 PM

SHIATHOLE?? Are you farking kidding me? Subby must be from New Jersey.

K3rmy		2008-06-15 05:58:54 PM

fenian-: I love it when people post an endless series of oversized graphics that take more than 2 pages to scroll by. I bet dialup users love it even more.

I did not see where the rule is on Fark that threads had to be internet-handicapped friendly.

/slashie

joe714		2008-06-15 05:58:54 PM

Weaver95: Meh. Every time I head down to annapolis, I bring a shopping list and restock my bar. liquor regulation in this state is insane.

You do know it's illegal to have booze in PA that didn't come from the state stores, right?

/ Corruption like the LCB isn't cheap you know.

YixilTesiphon		2008-06-15 05:59:22 PM

SchlingFo: I don't understand all the hate. I don't understand, "Die in a fire."

WIN

/fark the TABC

ScottMpls		2008-06-15 06:00:19 PM

He even looks like a douchebag.

Weaver95		2008-06-15 06:01:38 PM

joe714: Weaver95: Meh. Every time I head down to annapolis, I bring a shopping list and restock my bar. liquor regulation in this state is insane.

You do know it's illegal to have booze in PA that didn't come from the state stores, right?

/ Corruption like the LCB isn't cheap you know.

I'll worry about it when I start seeing checkpoints at the state border.

tonesskin		2008-06-15 06:03:45 PM

fenian-: I love it when people post an endless series of oversized graphics that take more than 2 pages to scroll by. I bet dialup users love it even more.

Wahhhhhh.

downtownkid		2008-06-15 06:05:35 PM

rocinante721: I don't care if you have a million good microbreweries, your state's liquor laws still suck. The state makes it a biatch to buy liquor and that just aint right my man.

blkhwk86		2008-06-15 06:05:44 PM

My brothers and i went insane there. It...is farking...BORING. Nothing to do, nothing to drink(since everything is closed by 8), and you're left with being sober and walking around(if you can). Not surprised at this guy being unpopular. Maybe they should allow grocery stores to sell liquor and beer and allow them to sell past 8pm.

StoneColdAtheist		2008-06-15 06:06:00 PM

Subby, does the new law make him slightly less popular than OBL, or slightly less unpopular?

/not that the difference is real crititcal...

milk_plus		2008-06-15 06:13:12 PM

I drove through central Pennsylvania a few years ago and they have a conspicuously high number of sex toy shops out that way. I think they must be getting boozed up and diddling themselves. God save the poor bastard who tries to tax Pennsylvania dildos.

PsychoPhil		2008-06-15 06:13:51 PM

PA exists to keep New Englanders from the rest of the US. It's only the very determined ones who have the stamina to spend the 4 hours driving across that hellhole to get out.

Of course, this leaves you in Ohio, though at least it gets better from then on.

Seriously, is there anything in PA anymore besides burning towns and closed coal mines? Oh, besides that gangland in the southeast corner, or that other gangland in the western part.

Lancaster's about the only nice part of the state, the rest can burn in hell (wait, it already is...)

Freezy Peak		2008-06-15 06:15:58 PM

Farkers complain about SUVs and U.S. dependency on oil. This tax subsidizes public transit to get SUVs off the road. Farkers will sacrifice a few drops of beer and a few dollars for the better good, right? Wait, not when it's their vice/hobby/property being taxed? Carry on then.

Dinjiin		2008-06-15 06:16:00 PM

I have never liked the idea of taxing one industry that has little to nothing to do with the other.

Alcohol has little to do with roads, other than the transportation of said alcohol and DWI checkpoints. If public transit needs to be subsidized, then raise the fuel tax, road tolls and/or general property taxes.

Reminds me of the tax on telephones used to pay for the Spanish-American War. That war enabled telephones in what direct way?

PsychoPhil		2008-06-15 06:16:49 PM

Oh, duh:
The 10 percent drink tax, in effect since January, was pushed along by Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato to subsidize public transit.

Here's a better idea: Get rid of the deadwood at SEPTA. Seriously, a 3 car train doesn't need 5 people running it...

antrat00		2008-06-15 06:19:09 PM

I am not from PA but I have been there several times.
One of the most beautiful states in the country.
Fark the haters.

Hide your chickens		2008-06-15 06:21:38 PM

milk_plus
God save the poor bastard who tries to tax Pennsylvania dildos.

That's what your mom said!

interruptive_cow		2008-06-15 06:21:51 PM

This didn't work for Alexander Hamilton and it won't work for you either, Mr. Pennsylvania official.

SteelCityKid		2008-06-15 06:26:13 PM

Nice troll fag. Headline sucks +1. Pittsburgh is full of win.

Dougie AXP		2008-06-15 06:28:56 PM

Fark you Smitty. I just moved from PA to Texas, and I'm sorry, I'd take Pennsylvania over this state any day.

/although I highly enjoy buying liquor in every store I enter.
//Miss every beer in rocinante721 post

jafiwam		2008-06-15 06:32:05 PM

joe714: You do know it's illegal to have booze in PA that didn't come from the state stores, right?

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

kirishima		2008-06-15 06:34:39 PM

Shut up, subby!!!! My precious Magibon lives there!!!!

/said the entirety of /b/

Hoax_Device		2008-06-15 06:34:56 PM

Grew up in Boston and went to Penn State. Everything is too expensive up there. I'm glad I could actually afford a house in PA.

Plus there is Yuengling.

MrLint		2008-06-15 06:35:07 PM

fenian-: I love it when people post an endless series of oversized graphics that take more than 2 pages to scroll by. I bet dialup users love it even more.

Since when has fark cared about ppl with slow connections. Perhaps you have missed the multi-flash laden front page.

atlanta_ufo		2008-06-15 06:36:25 PM

Freezy Peak: Farkers complain about SUVs and U.S. dependency on oil. This tax subsidizes public transit to get SUVs off the road. Farkers will sacrifice a few drops of beer and a few dollars for the better good, right? Wait, not when it's their vice/hobby/property being taxed? Carry on then.

I have family up in Pittsburgh. Apparently, you are under the mistaken premise that the Port Authority will spend those tax dollars well.

The Port Authority around the early 1980s had ridership then was about 100 million a year and had about 2,800 employees, almost 1,000 buses and about 90 trolleys. As of 2006 it had a ridership of 70 million people and about 3,000 employees. And the Port Authority budget had gone up 42 percent faster than inflation since 1982.

IdahoPrime		2008-06-15 06:36:44 PM

Go fark yourself, submittard.

accujimmy		2008-06-15 06:40:08 PM

Tis not a shiathole -- now if you'd posted a story about Michigan I might agree with you.

/we do have a lot of dumb racists here though
//almost as many as in meechigan

too2ez		2008-06-15 06:41:34 PM

I live in God-forsaken Flori-duh and even I can attest to the fact that Pennsylvania is indeed a shiathole.

Of course, the fact that I am from Butler may have something to do with that outlook. Anyone who has even driven past Butler knows what I mean. It can suck the life from your soul even in a car doing 70 MPH.

But then again, I did live all over the state (Pittsburgh, Stroudsburg, Pottstown, Sunbury and several other places - Dad was in the hotel business - kind of like being an Army brat). None of the other places are much better.

tonesskin		2008-06-15 06:42:50 PM

OMG GUYZ PA IS SO COOL HOW DARE SUBBY MAKE FUN OF IT!

Apparently PA is not the home of thick skin. There is a farking Florida tag. Everywhere is fair game.

You'll get over it.

everlastinggobstopper		2008-06-15 06:43:50 PM

Subby, you suck.

Yeah, some parts of PA blow and their policy on alcohol sales is anachronistic, but it is FAR from a shiathole.

And as for all those silos, NeverDrunk23, those are kinda handy to have around when you grow crops. If PA is boring, try visiting the midwest some time.

Lumoclear		2008-06-15 06:43:53 PM

I don't even live in Pitt or Philly and I'll drink to forget that I live in that shiathole.

/ kidding, I love going Pittsburgh, Primanti Bros. for lunch and dinner
// got family there in some place with squirrels in the name

too2ez		2008-06-15 06:45:04 PM

Lumoclear: I don't even live in Pitt or Philly and I'll drink to forget that I live in that shiathole.

/ kidding, I love going Pittsburgh, Primanti Bros. for lunch and dinner
// got family there in some place with squirrels in the name

Squirrel Hill?