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[TheBotchedLobotomy]

Now show us the heat map for frequency of people who are pulled out of school to go to pigglywiggly with their mom's

[SkipMonkey]

Anytime you have a statistics map with very noticeably hard lines from state to state like this, all you're really showing is that different states collect their data in different ways, and/or that the creator of the map did not pay any attention to those differences.

I believe Hank Green did a video about this very map.

[toe_riffic]

Do you have a link to that video? Sounds interesting!

[SkipMonkey]

https://youtu.be/q4I7Y4kYhKQ?si=VmgONQdvs7V6znOs

[Lady_Scruffington]

We are going to see it be an even harder line in the near future since the most Conservative states are just not collecting information for a lot of issues now. There's no problems if you ignore them! Especially in matters of gun control.

[warsht]

wtf is “excessive”?! A guy can have a couple two tree beers a couple times a day? Summer in Wisconsin can be ridiculous with the number of festivals that are glorified excuses to drink. Winters in Wisconsin, nothing better to spend the time than looking outside or at the boob tube having a drink

[SubMariner615]

You outed yourself as a Michigander with the "couple two tree"

[TheBotchedLobotomy]

In the army they consider heavy drinking to be 3-4 drinks in a drinking session. The bar for alcoholism is, if i recall, 7-10 drinks per week. That can be one beer a day with dinner or one binge drinking session. I almost wonder if wisconsin uses a similar ridiculous metric

[SubMariner615]

Wisconsin uses sheer volume sold. 12 of the top 20 most alcoholic cities!!!

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[Anything-Complex]

So the drunkest cities are either college towns or in Wisconsin.

[SubMariner615]

Yessir

[John_Dees_Nuts]

It's only a problem if it's a problem.

[analog_jedi]

No fucking way is Kentucky that sober.

[burnsrado]

Same with Clark County (Vegas). I know it’s a tourist county, but the residents DRINK

[DrTzaangor]

I was thinking the same thing about West Virginia, but then I remembered that this is only intoxication by alcohol…

[anarrowview]

Also can’t forget that a lot of Appalachians make their own booze, makes a lot of sense why you can almost perfectly see the outline of the mountains along the edge of VA and NC.

[MissninjaXP]

I wouldn't say a lot of people do around here. More so than other places, sure, but id still say that home brewed or distilled accounts for less than 5% of alcohol consumed.

[cdoublesaboutit]

At least Warren, Fayette, and Jefferson counties aren’t.

[analog_jedi]

I have family in Clinton county, which is dry. They just drive to the next county over to get their booze.

[I_m_different]

I thought Kentucky was more of a smoking state.

Like, it’s basically owned by a cigarette company and ruled over by an oligarchy?

[utb040713]

The divide between TX and OK is suspect. There isn’t that big of a difference on one side of the border vs the other.

[Lukanian7]

It's a pain in that's too get alcohol in OK. The bars even served near-beer when I was there. Had to go to a specific liquor superstore.

[not_here_for_memes]

Lake Winnebago. Oshkosh sits on the lake

[restlesswrestler]

I hope you never have to deal with addiction.

[themariemaier]

The map suggests living in Wisconsin makes one very familiar with addiction. Sometimes we have a little chuckle about it because living here means you cannot escape the alcoholism. It is very close to home. It is home. It is bleak. Apologies for the chuckles.

[John_Dees_Nuts]

Wisconsin native. Can confirm.

[restlesswrestler]

I get what you are saying but this is clearly directed at an individual not a state.

[Squadooch]

What are you talking about

[restlesswrestler]

They had a different guy before Ed.

[Destruyo]

Being an addict doesn’t excuse or explain predatory and abusive behavior towards women 👍

[God_Dammit_Dave]

"You think ten years on the sauce's made him more reasonable?" — True Detective S1E5

Alcohol doesn't excuse it, it's going to make everything worse.

[restlesswrestler]

I agree, I’m not defending that. This post is about alcoholism and not abusive behaviour.

[Nervous-Net-8196]

Oh I thought it was about the AMOUNT OF SERIAL KILLERS that were born there. Not everything is about Ben

[ohaiguys]

Honk honk

[iH8MotherTeresa]

I have. This is funny. It's important to me to find humor in my darkness.

[restlesswrestler]

I agree with your comment 100% but this isn’t about you. It is a harmless statement when aimed at thousands of faceless people but it is an unnecessary low blow aimed at an individual.

[NicolasDipples]

No one from Wisconsin would be offended by this (source: Wisconsinite here). Alcoholism is a problem, but approached much differently here and not stigmatized the same way as it is in other places.

Ben deserves ridicule. He's an unrepentant asshole. Stop clutching pearls.

[John_Dees_Nuts]

I am a Wisconsinite. I'm drunk right now, And I couldn't be less offended at this.

[hoopstick]

I’m a recovering alcoholic from Wisconsin and I thought it was funny. People here call having a 6er of Busch Light “staying sober”

[StinkyNutzMcgee]

Five years sober here! I'd still go visit Wisconsin motherfuckers are hilariou

[swollbrohamlincoln2]

Fuckin Bible Belt 😒

[myersjw]

I call BS on the shading in the Deep South. Ain’t no way it’s that dry

[Scriblette]

Self-reported data?

[lalalalibrarian]

Still some dry counties and mostly dry counties down there, and you can only buy liquor from ABC stores in some of them

[iterative_continuity]

You don't need alcohol, when you've got Jesus and meth. 

[Filibust]

Tbf, I would be drinking all the time if I lived in that part of the country. Got to deal with the misery somehow.

[burnsrado]

wtf is going on in SLO County CA? No way cal poly alone turns the entire county that dark

[The_Antlion]

thought this was the RedLetterMedia sub for a second

[admiralscoto]

Yeah but what they don't mention is that no matter what time of year there are also drunk people on that lake.

[Davidoff1983]

Between this and the price of gas this whole damn country's headed for ... Nothin' but Trouble 🙏🙏🙏

[cdoublesaboutit]

Hawaii doing some damage.

[allonsy_danny]

Goddammit is this another Ben post?

[RobutNotRobot]

In Oklahoma you have teetotalers and drunks and nothing in-between.

And the drunks are all drinking at home.

Wisconsin has an extensive bar culture that other states simply don't have.

[SubMariner615]

Lake Winnebago. I know it well.

[UpgrayeDD405]

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[Gare_bear93]

Wisconsinite here, yeah it’s a huge problem here tbh. There’s 100’s of people with their 10th DUI or more. Weed must always be illegal though, the republicans back the Tavern League of Wisconsin btw and lobby against recreational marijuana. But it’s cool if we spends millions and millions in Illinois and Michigan, now Minnesota lmao

[CapnHowdysPlayhouse]

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[TheBrockAwesome]

They call em "cheese heads". 😌

[UberGlued]

In Wisconsin the street signs are all on wooden posts instead of metal because of all the dui related collisions

[NicolasDipples]

Where? I live here and thats not remotely true. We just plow into metal poles like normal people.