If it maybe worked for me and my mates and maybe worked for others including you, my point is the void of that not happening today is not being filled and properly replaced for people like me and my mates. You don't have to drink underage in a pub to develop social skills and respect, but you're...
Perhaps you're right. Give me the choice of my time as a 16/17 year old and the internet and everything that entails for a 16/17 year old today and I'll take what I had every-time - a pub jukebox full of 90's Brit Pop and a £1 coin still seems a whole lot more fun to me than a set of headphones...
I'm not talking about drinking to excess or becoming dependant, but surely as a 16/17 year old as I was with my peers from 6th from college, drinking regularly in a pub, interacting socially in person with ourselves and others in an adult environment helped us develop respect, respect for...
I remember my 18th birthday. It was a Monday night in the 1990's, but fortunately due to Sky Sports creating the joys of modern football it coincided with Liverpool v Arsenal in The Premier League so it went under the radar. :)
Sitting in the corner with our heads down is exactly what we did as well. We didn't prop the bar up, the landlord and landlady knew we were underage and we would only go out drinking on a Friday/Saturday night. All of our parents knew as well and we'd get lifts back etc. We wouldn't go to any...
Having skirted a couple of reports on this today and previously when it's been reported, one fundamental reason in my opinion as to why youngsters are no longer drinking that gets missed is the massive clamp down and cultural shift in recent years to Challenge 25/asking for ID shift in the sale...