Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Go see yer DR,could be an early warning of something serious,or put a coat on;)

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

What a shame, even when you joke no one takes you serious.:p

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

I can't see any merits in having a legal age of 21 instead of 18. First, there is no physiological or psychological difference between an 18 and a 21 year old, and second, no one pays the slightest bit of attention to the legal drinking age whatever it is.

What are the merits as you see them?

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

I could be USA president then;)

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Indeed. Only require being born here. Naivete covered.:nod:

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Mmmm think i'd rather be Canadian;)

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Well on a serious note the drinking age is ingrained in the US. You will have to trust me on that. Waiting to 21 to drink has never hurt anyone. I can't speak for all but I certainly matured considerably between 18 and 21 As far as paying attention to the legal drinking age... in Australia perhaps not... In the US I have seen 60 year old men turned away from bars when they had no ID on them.

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Sorry have to say that I spent a lot of time boozing in the US when I was a young man and there were plenty of people under 21 who were no stranger to drink. Getting into places was hard without ID - that, I accept. Thankfully, Australia is nowhere near America's bureaucratic police state-style obsession with identity and so on. I recall a story of a British man in his 90s - 90s - being denied alcohol because he couldn't provide identity papers to an official in a supermarket. No one wants to live in a Soviet-style environment like that. I'd rather have mass public teenage drunkenness than live in an ID state, wouldn't you?

It's why I could never live permanently in the US. Britain is trying a half-hearted attempt at US-style ID culture but luckily it is both questioned and mocked, unlike in the US where as you say it is taken very seriously.

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Try moving to Queensland;)

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

I'm on my way:D

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

I'll tell the russian consulate:D

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

Spasiba, comrade.

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

You need ID to buy Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms, Fly. You do not need ID to walk down the street, go to the mall, see a movie, eat in a restaurant or almost anything else.

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

If i cant pronounce it,i aint drinking it !!!

Re: Should Australia raise the drinking age?
 

But you do need a flak jacket to go to the cinema:thumbdown: