Should Australia raise the drinking age?
Aug 1st 2012 | 10:34 am
#91
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
I agree. It always amazed me that kids in America can drive, get married, vote, smoke and join the military at 18 but they can't have a drink for another 3 years.
In Canada the drinking age is 19, but really North America doesn't have near the drinking culture I've seen here or what I'm told is in UK. I think especially in Canada teens are much more into marijuana than drinking. Maybe it's because the sale of alcohol is much more regulated? I don't know. What I do know is that drinking in Australia is much more accepted than in North America.
In Canada the drinking age is 19, but really North America doesn't have near the drinking culture I've seen here or what I'm told is in UK. I think especially in Canada teens are much more into marijuana than drinking. Maybe it's because the sale of alcohol is much more regulated? I don't know. What I do know is that drinking in Australia is much more accepted than in North America.
Aug 1st 2012 | 10:44 am
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
I agree, this thread is full of old farts.
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
Aug 1st 2012 | 10:49 am
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
I agree, this thread is full of old farts.
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
I read about Griff Rhys Jones - he had hepatitis and had to stop drinking for a year and at the end of it he just thought "why start again?" and I can understand that now.
Aug 1st 2012 | 12:30 pm
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Aug 1st 2012 | 1:16 pm
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
I agree, this thread is full of old farts.
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
Started drinking at 14, was doing it regular by 15. I'm now 36 and when I go out I usually stay out until I'm sh*tfaced. However in that 20 years of drinking I've never assaulted anyone, fallen asleep in a ditch or any of that nonsense.
If my kids aren't trying to do it when they're 16 I'll think they're a bit weird
I have woken up in a ditch though.........
And been arrested..........
Aug 1st 2012 | 1:31 pm
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
Exactly - and we are in rare agreement! To a certain degree, I miss those days. You know, meet your mates at the pub at lunchtime, roll out of there at 8pm, something to eat and then to a club, home at 4am. I miss the all day sessions and I'm not a big fan of a 'few beers after work'. I enjoy drinking and the feeling of getting drunk - good friends, good times, good memories.
I have woken up in a ditch though.........
And been arrested..........
I have woken up in a ditch though.........
And been arrested..........
Aug 2nd 2012 | 10:17 am
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
Getting drunk might be "fun" for you, but if you make it a regular habit, then you are on the road to trouble, whether it is healthwise or with the police. The attitude that you are going out to get "sh*t faced", as you so nicely put it, is precisely what needs to change.
My uncle drank from an early age. He ended up an alcoholic. It might not happen to you, but it will to a certain portion of the young people who choose to follow your example.
My uncle drank from an early age. He ended up an alcoholic. It might not happen to you, but it will to a certain portion of the young people who choose to follow your example.
Aug 2nd 2012 | 11:20 am
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Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
Getting drunk might be "fun" for you, but if you make it a regular habit, then you are on the road to trouble, whether it is healthwise or with the police. The attitude that you are going out to get "sh*t faced", as you so nicely put it, is precisely what needs to change.
My uncle drank from an early age. He ended up an alcoholic. It might not happen to you, but it will to a certain portion of the young people who choose to follow your example.
My uncle drank from an early age. He ended up an alcoholic. It might not happen to you, but it will to a certain portion of the young people who choose to follow your example.
I stopped drinking to lose weight and I'm really not sure I will ever drink again - not sure. I want to, but I'm starting to ask myself -- why?
