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What a boring saturday night here in Colombia...all because tomorrow is a voting day to elect mayors. For this reason no alcohol may be consumed on these days...WTF it has to be in that way??
just to elect a number of corrupt people 
how these days work in your countries??
I feels so tempted to write, "Cocaine's OK but."
Well if you didn't stock up that's your problem.
wait...they ban alcohol on voting days to prevent people from drunkenly casting ballots?
i think it's the opposite in the U.S. because only a bucket full of booze (or religion, for tee-totalers) can make people reckless enough to think that a) their vote counts, or b) their vote will change anything for the better.
Andrés wrote: What a boring saturday night here in Colombia...all because tomorrow is a voting day to elect mayors. For this reason no alcohol may be consumed on these days...WTF it has to be in that way??
just to elect a number of corrupt people
how these days work in your countries??
So voters should be drunk or hungover to vote for corrupt people, is that your logic?
Sounds like a good idea to me, it is just a day .
That's interesting....I can understand banning intoxicated people into entering the places where you go to vote...but no alcohol whatsoever?
Different places and cultures have different rules, I suppose.
Well, here in the Philippines, there's also an alcohol ban before and during elections.
Elections here are always on the second Monday of May, unless we change our 1987 constitution. So the liquor ban starts on 12 midnight Sunday up to 12 midnight Tuesday. So that's 48 hours.
So on the Saturday night before the elections most bars who follow the law serve only alcohol up to 12 midnight. After 12, or Sunday early morning, if you go around the bars and see a bar full of people, that means they are serving alcohol even beyond 12 mindinght!:)
I think the reason for the alcohol ban is when your drunk, you are a little proned to violence, and what they are avoiding is election-related violence. You know here in the Philippines, the 3Gs are important to win a seat: Guns, Goons, and Gold, especially in the provinces.
Anyway, mr. Nooligan is right. Why didn't you hoard alcohol in your house? Anyway, are you gonna vote and/or are you a candidate?
Just kidding amigo.
Indeed!
Sub-Cultured wrote: Anyway, mr. Nooligan is right. Why didn't you hoard alcohol in your house? Anyway, are you gonna vote and/or are you a candidate?
i didn`t go to vote cause i'm hangover...i had a great time last night...a good party at home, we did drink Jose Cuervo until it made us puke
fortunately i'm a owner pub, so stock up for me it's not a problem...i always have reserves at home.
So that's why i got upset...i just could sell Beck`s non alcoholic and coffee. Well...also think i have a drink problem 
In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
That sounds like keg politics as we used to practice at Uni.
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
cool, that's the way it should be 
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
You'd think with the electoral results they must have been doing that in the USA and UK, last election.
Andrés wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
cool, that's the way it should be
Indeed!
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
Hmmnnn...
I wasn't aware that there were elections during the old Soviet regime. All I know is they just appoint their leader who is loyal to the Communist Party. Or maybe the old Stalinist regime orders everyone to "drink Vodka or die!":)
maybe our friends from the Russian Federation can enlighten us on this subject.
Sub-Cultured wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: In the USSR during elections they actually used to serve vodka and snacks at voting sites to make the idea of voting more attractive to people.
Hmmnnn...
I wasn't aware that there were elections during the old Soviet regime. All I know is they just appoint their leader who is loyal to the Communist Party. Or maybe the old Stalinist regime orders everyone to "drink Vodka or die!":)
maybe our friends from the Russian Federation can enlighten us on this subject.
The Soviet system had all features of a democratic society but only formally. It had a constitution, there was a parliament, its members were elected by people. But there was always only one candidate of a single party to vote for, so no one cared about the results, but the authorities made it sure that people would come and vote. I honestly don't understand why even they (authorities) bothered, maybe trying to justify their rule?
Yes, they have all of those as a publicity stunt to the West. But then, it's authoritarian, single party. Yes, i know they have elections, but only for the local level, as far as i know (just like in China right now). But then, only one candidate belonging to the communist party. All, as i said is a publicity stunt to the West so that they can say that 'we had elections' or 'our leader is elected democratically' but the candidate itself is appointed by the party.
"Vote and drink Vodka or die!":)
Indeed!
