Sunday trading

[matthewr88]

Just hurled abuse at the tv for this stupidity...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17419351

If you're concerned about loosing following to window shopping on a Sunday you've already lost fuckers.

Lets simplify things for you dumb ass christians... If you're a good christian you'll go to church, if not you'll either go shopping or stay the fuck at home. People don't go, "hmmm I can't go shopping, fuck it I'm off to church!"

This is church controlling the state, and should be abolished immediately...

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[FBM]

It's the Lord's day. People should stay home and watch football, like the good Lord intended.

[maiforpeace]

We worship money, so shopping is the true religion.

Finally you Brits are getting with the program.

[Svartalf]

Dammit, workers need their rest too.
Regardless of religious origins, it has become traditional in hour societies that sunday should be a general day of rest.
Organizing stupid and costly mass "entertainment" events is not a reason to bow to shop owner greed and let them tyrannize their employees even more than usual.

[Strontium Dog]

Shops should be allowed to open whenever the hell they want. Nobody's forcing anyone at gunpoint to go shopping on a Sunday.

It always fucks me off that I have to drag my arse out of bed before 2pm on a Sunday if I want to buy anything.

[FBM]

Shops should be allowed to open whenever the hell they want. Nobody's forcing anyone at gunpoint to go shopping on a Sunday.

It always fucks me off that I have to drag my arse out of bed before 2pm on a Sunday if I want to buy anything.

Like a beer, for example:

Current Blue Law States
#1 Sunday Liquor Sales Bans
13 States continue to cling to Prohibition-era Blue Laws banning Sunday liquor sales. They include: Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Notably, Connecticut and Indiana are the only two states in the country that ban beer, wine and liquor on Sundays.

http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/legacy/hall.asp

[Ian]

Current Blue Law States
#1 Sunday Liquor Sales Bans
13 States continue to cling to Prohibition-era Blue Laws banning Sunday liquor sales. They include: Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Notably, Connecticut and Indiana are the only two states in the country that ban beer, wine and liquor on Sundays.

http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/legacy/hall.asp

I grew up in Connecticut, near Hartford. The Blue Laws are one of the (thankfully) few truly backward things about the state. When I was old enough to drink, on Sundays or after 8pm we would discuss whether it was worth driving up to Massachusets or not if we were short on booze. Pathetic.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Dammit, workers need their rest too.
Regardless of religious origins, it has become traditional in hour societies that sunday should be a general day of rest.
Organizing stupid and costly mass "entertainment" events is not a reason to bow to shop owner greed and let them tyrannize their employees even more than usual.

Open on weekends means more employees needed, more jobs available.

[FBM]

Current Blue Law States
#1 Sunday Liquor Sales Bans
13 States continue to cling to Prohibition-era Blue Laws banning Sunday liquor sales. They include: Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Notably, Connecticut and Indiana are the only two states in the country that ban beer, wine and liquor on Sundays.

http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/legacy/hall.asp

I grew up in Connecticut, near Hartford. The Blue Laws are one of the (thankfully) few truly backward things about the state. When I was old enough to drink, on Sundays or after 8pm we would discuss whether it was worth driving up to Massachusets or not if we were short on booze. Pathetic.

There are still dry counties in MS where no alcohol can be sold or even possessed (legally) anytime. When I was in high school, the weekend thing was to drive to the county line, buy a bunch of beer and/or liquor, then run the gauntlet of county deputies who loved nothing more than to make beer busts. It's asinine and adolescent. But it keeps the bootlegging industry in operation...

[maiforpeace]

Dammit, workers need their rest too.
Regardless of religious origins, it has become traditional in hour societies that sunday should be a general day of rest.
Organizing stupid and costly mass "entertainment" events is not a reason to bow to shop owner greed and let them tyrannize their employees even more than usual.

This is no longer a tradition in some societies, especially the US, so it's not a mystery the UK would follow suit eventually.

You French are starting to relax some of your rules too if I recall - wasn't there some big political "to do" recently about wanting to relax some of the rules for shopkeepers on certain Sundays so they could capitalize on Christmas sales?

[Svartalf]

Dammit, workers need their rest too.
Regardless of religious origins, it has become traditional in hour societies that sunday should be a general day of rest.
Organizing stupid and costly mass "entertainment" events is not a reason to bow to shop owner greed and let them tyrannize their employees even more than usual.

Open on weekends means more employees needed, more jobs available.

That's what they all say when they want gummint handouts and deregulation.
The actual results are seldom felt, except maybe as a terrible burning around the already employees' asses, going up their bowels.

[redunderthebed]

It's the Lord's day. People should stay home and watch football, like the good Lord intended.

Damn straight.

Current Blue Law States
#1 Sunday Liquor Sales Bans
13 States continue to cling to Prohibition-era Blue Laws banning Sunday liquor sales. They include: Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Notably, Connecticut and Indiana are the only two states in the country that ban beer, wine and liquor on Sundays.

http://www.prohibitionrepeal.com/legacy/hall.asp

I grew up in Connecticut, near Hartford. The Blue Laws are one of the (thankfully) few truly backward things about the state. When I was old enough to drink, on Sundays or after 8pm we would discuss whether it was worth driving up to Massachusets or not if we were short on booze. Pathetic.

There are still dry counties in MS where no alcohol can be sold or even possessed (legally) anytime. When I was in high school, the weekend thing was to drive to the county line, buy a bunch of beer and/or liquor, then run the gauntlet of county deputies who loved nothing more than to make beer busts. It's asinine and adolescent. But it keeps the bootlegging industry in operation...

Haha reminds me of the episode of family guy where peter could only play the piano drunk and they were stuck in dry county. Liquor was banned in Australia on sundays unless you were travelling which resulted in pubs being in places being barely described as villages on the outskirts of larger towns so people could easily travel there and get served beer and get some illegal takeaway beer fresh from the tap.Not to mention the publican turning a blind eye to people who have travelled no more than a few blocks. Its where the phrase having a few travellers came from.

The only restriction here is that the local liquorland shuts at 7pm on sundays. Not a huge problem just me and my mate went down the street to a bottlo that opened till 9pm and my mate lugged the carton on the mainframe of the bike and took the backstreets so he wouldn't get done for riding without a light at nighttime by the cops.

Fun times.

I do remember when supermarkets here were shut 5:30-6:00pm and only on thursdays 9pm which created a tradition of workers going shopping on thursday nights which still persists somewhat to this day despite both supermarkets open till 10pm every night here.

[klr]

It's the Lord's day. People should stay home and watch football, like the good Lord intended.

Heretic! They should be watching rugby instead.

Anyway ...

No-one's forcing you to go shopping on a Sunday, or any other day for that matter. And as for it being "bad for workers" ... how so? If the demand is there from shoppers to have stores open on a Sunday, then that means more work to go around.

[FBM]

When I was posting that, I was thinking that I would use the word 'football' ambiguously so that it might include what any of our members of varous persuastions mean by it. But that falls apart unless rugby is called 'footie' or something similar...

[laklak]

Everything around here is open on Sunday.