Originally Posted by
TomMM
Oh, you've missed it. The OP is a non-drinker and doesn't understand why people who do drink can't lay off the juice for a day or two. Which is an interesting position considering the OP's post in another thread about the "Morality Police".
Just to address the strange way that my views are sometimes paraphrased in this thread, I will point out again that I have no objection to people drinking nor do I support prohibition. EDIT: I don't like people becoming drunk if (and only if) it adversely affects others. E.g. drunk driving, become disruptive on planes, etc.
I was just curious as to any properly (rather than just officially) dry country exists. The answer from the thread is clearly no. E.g. see the post above about the magic US$50 turning into a bottle of gin. (Which caused me to LOL.)
As for the '... doesn't understand why people who do drink can't lay off the juice for a day or two ...' For that, I was specifically talking about situations where drinking breaks the law and risks (e.g.) imprisonment. If there was something that I regularly do that would risk imprisonment in some country that I visited, then I would stop doing it in that country and continue once I had left. Or, I wouldn't go.
So yes, I don't understand why people are so keen on drinking that they risk serious fines and/or imprisonment in places such as KSA. I have asked for an explanation, but have not received one. So, if anyone thinks it's somehow 'wrong' that I don't understand this, then perhaps they could explain. I don't believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that your typical drinking/smuggling/brewing KSA (e.g.) expat is physically addicted to alcohol. Though, please correct me if that is wrong. So, it's something else. What?
I'm not sure what is meant by the comment on the 'morality police in another thread.' It's a pretty similar thread really, as I'm asking about the difference between theory and reality. I know the rules for clothing in Iran, but wondered what the reality was in terms of people obeying the rules and the enforcement of those rules. So, to me the threads are very consistent. Given TomMM's wild reinterpretations of what I've written in this thread, I'm guessing that there's some similar weird misinterpretation behind that comment, but don't know what he's thinking.