Anyone ever wait to drink at proper time?

Heatherj43

Has anyone here ever waited to drink until they were of legal age? Or do you even know anyone who didn't drink until they were of legal age?

I was talking with a friend and we realized neither one of us knows of, or even heard of, anyone who didn't drink before the legal age. I am guessing we are not alone.

catefrances

youd be guessing correctly.

dimitrispearljam

is drink illigal is some age???? .!!!,,who would know

Sian-of-the-dead

dimitrispearljam wrote:

is drink illigal is some age???? .!!!,,who would know

Here in the UK you can only drink in public (without a meal) and buy alcohol at 18.
You can drink at home from the age of 5.
You can drink in public with a meal at 16.

However, a law was introduced called 'Challenge 21'. This meant that anyone looking younger than 21 you are asked to produce ID to prove you're old enough. Some places are now raising that age to 25, but eventually it will become law to prove you are over 18 if you look younger than 25.

Greece doesn't have a laws regarding drinking age?!

dimitrispearljam

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

is drink illigal is some age???? .!!!,,who would know

Here in the UK you can only drink in public (without a meal) and buy alcohol at 18.
You can drink at home from the age of 5.
You can drink in public with a meal at 16.

However, a law was introduced called 'Challenge 21'. This meant that anyone looking younger than 21 you are asked to produce ID to prove you're old enough. Some places are now raising that age to 25, but eventually it will become law to prove you are over 18 if you look younger than 25.

Greece doesn't have a laws regarding drinking age?!

they have ..i think is 17..but is like there arent..noone ask,noone care..if u want to buy alchohol u give money and buy it...we are generaly a country that we have laws that noone follows...

LikeAnOcean

I had my first drink at age 14 or 15.. I didn't regularly drink until about 23 or 24.. Now I drink daily. It's good for the heart.

Although I accidentally gulped my grandmas guinness when I was a bout 4 thinking it was pop.. does that count?

dimitrispearljam

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I had my first drink at age 14 or 15.. I didn't regularly drink until about 23 or 24.. Now I drink daily. It's good for the heart.

Although I accidentally gulped my grandmas guinness when I was a bout 4 thinking it was pop.. does that count?

..yes that count!!!...was good for the heart to grow up!!!

redrock

Having partly been raised in France, I remember as a kid I used to go with my grandmother and my mother to the cafe and sometimes had a lil' glass of beer or a drop of wine - legally! OK, so I'm a bit older than the average person on this board and those days might have been different but still.....

I've been letting my daughter have a bit to drink since she was very young. I know this is frowned upon by some, but I believe she has a much more responsible attitude to alcohol than some of her mates do.

Sian-of-the-dead

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I had my first drink at age 14 or 15.. I didn't regularly drink until about 23 or 24.. Now I drink daily. It's good for the heart.

Although I accidentally gulped my grandmas guinness when I was a bout 4 thinking it was pop.. does that count?

When I was 4 I drank a 1.5 litre bottle of Babycham thinking it was pop :oops:

We were allowed to drink with meals from about the age of 10 at home. We always had wine and it was mixed with lemonade. I started going out to drink when I was 16 with my parents consent. I went through a phase of drinking everyday and going out binge drinking 4-5 times a week when I was about 23/24 but now I tend to only drink at weekends and well within my unit limit. I try to drink wine or beer (I love real ale and world beers) but occasionally i'll have a G&T.

LikeAnOcean

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I had my first drink at age 14 or 15.. I didn't regularly drink until about 23 or 24.. Now I drink daily. It's good for the heart.

Although I accidentally gulped my grandmas guinness when I was a bout 4 thinking it was pop.. does that count?

When I was 4 I drank a 1.5 litre bottle of Babycham thinking it was pop :oops:

We were allowed to drink with meals from about the age of 10 at home. We always had wine and it was mixed with lemonade. I started going out to drink when I was 16 with my parents consent. I went through a phase of drinking everyday and going out binge drinking 4-5 times a week when I was about 23/24 but now I tend to only drink at weekends and well within my unit limit. I try to drink wine or beer (I love real ale and world beers) but occasionally i'll have a G&T.

I drink wine or beer daily, but I rarely binge drink. Usually 3 sometimes 4 drinks before bed.. fights the insomnia.

craigb

I don't drink and I don't plan to until I'm 21. I'm 19 now. I have, of course, had sips of alcohol in the past.

pandora

A 21 drinking age is ridiculous. You can marry, have children,vote, own a home, credit cards and bank accounts, die for your country, drive, hell in all aspects of life you are an adult but you can't drink legally. It should be as it was for my generation when you are legal you are legal for it all.
Teaching responsible drinking is where funding should be spent from small school age children on.
Zero tolerance can take a person who is 2 months from their 21st b-day who is well below the legal limit for intoxication and give that person a DUI because with zero tolerance no alcohol in their system is tolerated.
It is not even a question of impairment and license is revoked and the offender is then put in costly drug classes and has lost means of transportation to and from work.
But then take the phone text issue which from studies has shown to be just as dangerous and that drivers perform in a similar impaired and distracted manner. There are no laws to control this and the teen drivers who lack experience are the greatest danger on the roads.
There is no common sense in this country. We need a new party in the 2 party system its The Common Sense Party.

Sleep.With.Innocence

I'm 18 and I love to party.

the wolf

Heatherj43 wrote:

Has anyone here ever waited to drink until they were of legal age? Or do you even know anyone who didn't drink until they were of legal age?

I was talking with a friend and we realized neither one of us knows of, or even heard of, anyone who didn't drink before the legal age. I am guessing we are not alone.

I have one friend who had two shots and two beers on his 21st birthday.

He can probably count on both hands how many drinks he has had since then, and he is 38.

He was just never really interested. So yeah, I know of one. He is the ONLY one though. lol.

Jennytree

I do know someone I went to school with who was very anti-alcohol and anti-drugs until he started college, where he fast went downhill. I also know a few people who just plain well don't drink cos they don't like it.

Drink was never taboo in my house. We never really drank at home (there was always alcohol there, but only for visitors and wine at christmas), but we would have been given alcohol when in pubs or at functions (big family, always somebody getting born, married or dying).

I was drinking in pubs when I was 15 with my older siblings, but I didn't go out too much and I never went knacker-drinking or sneaking about. Other friends whose parents were very strict, were getting drunk down fields, alleyways... anywhere really.

dcfaithful

I think the drinking age of 21 here in the States is absolutely stupid.

18 - you can buy cigarettes (except in Utah...and Alabama as far as I know. You must be 19)
18 - You're considered an adult and can be charged as one
18 - You can enlist in the military.
18 - You CANNOT buy a fucking beer.

:roll:

Brisk.

dimitrispearljam wrote:

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

is drink illigal is some age???? .!!!,,who would know

Here in the UK you can only drink in public (without a meal) and buy alcohol at 18.
You can drink at home from the age of 5.
You can drink in public with a meal at 16.

However, a law was introduced called 'Challenge 21'. This meant that anyone looking younger than 21 you are asked to produce ID to prove you're old enough. Some places are now raising that age to 25, but eventually it will become law to prove you are over 18 if you look younger than 25.

Greece doesn't have a laws regarding drinking age?!

they have ..i think is 17..but is like there arent..noone ask,noone care..if u want to buy alchohol u give money and buy it...we are generaly a country that we have laws that noone follows...

ah so thats why some people are like the way they are....

-Buru-

I didn't really like to drink when I was a teen, I might have had the odd drink here and there (before drinking age, but never got drunk) - because I didn't like alcohol

I drink a bit more now, but cocktails (the only kind of drink I like)
so I might enjoy a gin tonic, a caipiroshka (vodka and lime), rhum and coke or a peach daiquiri

aneutronbomb

yes...like now, now is the proper time...mimosas>beers>pens game

LET GO PENS!!!

yellowporch

21 is definitely a ridiculous age-
I'm 20 and drink regularly, beers with dinner, in high school partying was the only thing to really do around here on the weekends, so at 16 everyone basically started partying. Now I'm over the party scene and just want to order a god damn beer with my dinner when I go out, my boyfriend is 21 so it sucks seeing him order and i have to get a shirley temple :evil:

lukin2006

Legal drinking age in Ontario is 19, but was drinking well before that. Now I really feel for bars and underage drinkers, the government running this province is trying to create a socialist police state. Locally several bars have been shutdown for first time offences for up to 2 weeks even though the patrons showed id, presumably fake. I am one that thinks the age should be lowered to 18, to me if you can join the workforce or live on your own then you can drink. I never understood the US states where the age is 21 :? :? :? . I have ready studies that indicate binge drinking in Europe is less common because it's not such a taboo and are taught to drink responsibly at home, if true this just shows that parents are best left to raise kids. In North America it is apparently a problem among college kids.

lukin2006

dcfaithful wrote:

I think the drinking age of 21 here in the States is absolutely stupid.

18 - you can buy cigarettes (except in Utah...and Alabama as far as I know. You must be 19)
18 - You're considered an adult and can be charged as one
18 - You can enlist in the military.
18 - You CANNOT buy a fucking beer.

:roll:

keeponrockin

Drinking age in Ontario is 19... Was drunk for the first time at 15.

lukin2006

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I had my first drink at age 14 or 15.. I didn't regularly drink until about 23 or 24.. Now I drink daily. It's good for the heart.

Although I accidentally gulped my grandmas guinness when I was a bout 4 thinking it was pop.. does that count?

When I was 4 I drank a 1.5 litre bottle of Babycham thinking it was pop :oops:

We were allowed to drink with meals from about the age of 10 at home. We always had wine and it was mixed with lemonade. I started going out to drink when I was 16 with my parents consent. I went through a phase of drinking everyday and going out binge drinking 4-5 times a week when I was about 23/24 but now I tend to only drink at weekends and well within my unit limit. I try to drink wine or beer (I love real ale and world beers) but occasionally i'll have a G&T.

I drink wine or beer daily, but I rarely binge drink. Usually 3 sometimes 4 drinks before bed.. fights the insomnia.

I'm the same way like to have a couple drinks before bed, I find it relaxes me.

dimitrispearljam

Brisk. wrote:

ah so thats why some people are like the way they are....

i dont what u mean exactly,but we feel and act more free than UK

facepollution

dimitrispearljam wrote:

we are generaly a country that we have laws that noone follows...

My sister is currently living in Greece, she told me the other day that she's looking to learn to drive while she's there, and that it is quite acceptable for people to pay extra money as a bribe to the examiner and they will pass you?! Crazy!

I went on a school trip to Italy when I was about 14, and we had no problems buying beer, I think the laws in Europe in general are fairly relaxed when it comes to drinking.

tinkerbell

I was always allowed a small glass of wine a special occasions as a kid. Got drunk for the 1st time at 14. The legal age used to be 20 here and changed to 18 just after I turned 18. Legally though everyone who looks 25 or under must be IDed. It made my day at the supermarket last week when the checkout girl asked to see my ID when I was buying a bottle of wine!

Heatherj43

So, maybe 2 people that waited to drink? MAYBE at that. That is what we thought.

thesewordselope

keeponrockin wrote:

Drinking age in Ontario is 19... Was drunk for the first time at 15.

Me too...but I didn't drink that much until I was old enough to get into bars. With the exception of the odd high school bush party

Franny

Legal drinking age in Oz is 18yo, legal age to buy smokes is 18yo, then getting drivers licence...well it varies between the states. QLD you can get your learners at 16yo, then go for provisional licence at 17 and hold that for 3years and have zero Blood alcohol.

But back original question....nope know no=one who has waited till "legal" drinking age.

dimitrispearljam

facepollution wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

we are generaly a country that we have laws that noone follows...

My sister is currently living in Greece, she told me the other day that she's looking to learn to drive while she's there, and that it is quite acceptable for people to pay extra money as a bribe to the examiner and they will pass you?! Crazy!

I went on a school trip to Italy when I was about 14, and we had no problems buying beer, I think the laws in Europe in general are fairly relaxed when it comes to drinking.

true..the 90% bride and the other 10% have relatives with the examiners,like uncles,brothers,cousins...