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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
Maybe there is a more uptight attitude in America than Europe then.
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That doesn't even begin to describe it.
Our countries societal hangups and religious horseshit are insane.
I was amazed at the freedom in Amsterdam for instance. I was looking at a hooker through a window in the shadow of a thousand year old Cathedral.
Meanwhile the town I was living in at the time back here in the U.S. wouldn't even allow a restaurant to serve wine or beer with a meal within a mile of any church. And since that was South Carolina they had "Blue Laws" which said NO alcohol could be served from Satuday night at midnight until Sunday at midnight.
And those same Blue Laws said you couldn't buy anything but food products on Sunday until 1 p.m. when all the churches would let out. Yep, that's right. I went to Walmart one Sunday to buy some chlorine shock for my pool and it was 12:30 and they refused to sell it to me until after 1 p.m.
To say the U.S. has a more "uptight attitude" is an understatement.