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[News] Kids Know Nothing #6129: not drinking



Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
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May 8, 2007
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I was probably part of the last generation who could get away with underage drinking in pubs. I noticed a huge clampdown when I was 18 and I was getting ID’d everywhere I went (the same places that didn’t bother when I was 16 or 17). We knew the score when we were underage- don’t take the piss and keep quiet about it and no one cared. We learnt a lot- how to behave in public around other adults, how much we could drink without utterly disgracing ourselves etc. Which I think the generation of “getting smashed round someone’s house” simply don’t get until they’re 18 by which point they’re probably bell ends

I noticed the same thing when I was that age (I'm 34 now). There were a couple of pubs in Brighton and Burgess Hill we knew we could go to on a Friday night and have no issues with being underage. We never caused any problems and it's just what we did to socialise outside of college. Within a year of me turning 18, one of the pubs put a bouncer on the door and the other one closed down. There was also an off licence in Hassocks we could always buy booze from, and that closed down just before I turned 18.

I think the reasons for drinking have changed over the last few years. It used to just be a case of going out and having a skinful of cheap lager, where as now people are a lot more fussy about what beers they drink. There's more emphasis on enjoying what you're drinking and trying new things, rather than just getting drunk.
 




Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
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May 8, 2007
12,749
Toronto
I would argue 17 year olds don't need booze for any of that. Let's face it, how often does "just one drink" turn into loads and getting hammered? Anything that discourages drinking gets my vote to be honest - one day it'll go the same way as smoking in my opinion.

Give me the choice of my kids drinking or having a bit of weed now and again, I know which I would prefer. Not now obviously, they're 9 and 7

Shall I return the bong I bought them for Christmas then?
 









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