Drinking

[Charlie]

My gran told me never to drink on an empty stomach.

My dad told me never to have wine and beer on the same night.

 

 

2 pieces of very good advice when drinking.

[KKOB]

My gran told me never to drink on an empty stomach.

My dad told me never to have wine and beer on the same night.

 

 

2 pieces of very good advice when drinking.

 

if you don't want to throw up/not remember a thing.

[The Bard]

I take it you do jager bombs then?

 

Nope, drink it straight and ice cold, just like it says I should on the bottle :p

[AshMat]

I jsut want to say, that some people in this thread have been so damn close-minded it's pissed me off. Having a glass of wine or a can of lager won't make you fucking loopy, loosen up, one might even help you relax when you're stressed. You don't have to drink to get drunk.

[Noodleman]

I used to drink loads when I was at uni, like 3 times a week minimum. But since i've moved back home I dont really drink much anymore. Last time I was properly drunk was New Years Eve. Been out a few times since but I just kinda get bored before I get drunk and end up stoping. Also think I have in the back of my mind the utter tit I made out of myself at New Years, as well as doing some substances the sober me really didnt want to do, resulting in a comedown that lasted about 5 days.

 

However, I am planning on getting utterly destroyed this weekend (By this weekend I mean Thursday onwards.) Festivals FTW

[Rummy]

I typed half of this at 6, but had to go out, so i post now, it's long, skip to conclusion for the short version

Again, rokhed has a bloody good point, the tax on alcohol more than pays for itself I think, at least in terms of drunks in a hospital, which I'll come onto later.

As usual, I left my own opinions out of the first post(this post may turn out long btw), I am split on a number of issues.

Underage drinking? Basically what Moria said, the day before turning 18 and the day after, there's no real different except a day has passed. However, there does of course need to be some sort of age limit, and underage drinking comes with the territory of such a limit. I think a part of the underage drinking is caused by the age limit, either people doing it for the rush of being a rebel or just rebelling and trying to be hard or whatever, you tell anyone not to do something and they'll get a slightly bigger urge to do that. It's kind of why I agree with 'encourage kids from an early age'. Not encourage as such, but familiarise them. Admittedly however, it was always about as I was growing up, and I had the odd glass here and there, but it was of a sort slightly forbidden, and in my case didn't discourage me from underage drinking or thinking it was a big deal. Maybe my family didn't realise that they still gave the impression of 'don't do this', which in most circumstances you'll almost really really want to do, whenever your parents aren't looking.

 

Thats a point I want to come onto, if it's gonna be around growing up, there has to be less 'dont do it!' sort of surrounding it. I can actually understand why too now, having just turned 20, I think back to my days as an underage drinker and a legal drinker. I probably started drinking at about 14/15 sort of time, though not regularly, and whenever I did it would be at hall parties and stuff(nipping off to find an off licence that'd serve someone, usually the girls). I started at a kind of young age for drinking when I look back, despite what everyone says and how you shouldn't do it, now when I look back I think it wasn't good really. Why did I do it? Because I though I knew better, and I know now that I didn't. Funny, because people older than me at the time thought the same, and it makes me think what right do I have to dissapprove of kids doing EXACTLY what I did? We can tell them they're wrong, and not to do it, but they'll think they know better and that things are different and do it anyway.

 

Of course, whilst regretting it, I also don't, as I had some good times and I'm the person that I am today. Yeah sure, we drank on the street, sometimes spilling over from parties and whatnot, and indeed I once like a tit drank too much too fast on the street and ended up in hospital around the age of 15/16. Did it change the way I thought about drink? A little, and it put me off some spirits for a while, made me try to be more sensible etc. Did it stop me drinking? No. Really, it didn't even make me that sensible, it just stopped me getting so fucked I'd end up in hospital, though that may be due to chance and circumstance. I've done some pretty fucking stupid things when wasted since, I've been a terrible angry aggressive drunk, but I've also been a nice drunk too. It's been a while since I was a bad drunk, I think, though I sometimes know he's there under the surface when I'm drunk.

 

In Short

All in all, I think alcohol is kind of silly in its existence, but it's a part of me and our society, a part that will not be removed easily. I drank underage partly cos it wasn't allowed, I did stupid things, I both regretful for alcohol and glad for alcohol. I don't think I could never have alcohol again or have that restriction imposed upon me, but I have respect for the people who abstain, either with or without trying it(though, i believe everyone should try things once). Who am I to criticise and dissapprove of people for doing the exact things I did as an adolescent?

I feel if it's forbidden to people growing up, I believe it increases underage drinking. The stigma of alcohol sort of being 'strictly for adults only' needs to be reduced, and also other issues need to be dealt with. Alot of people think underage drinking is bad and disruptive, but I managed to do it without being a public nuisance or hassling any random people, so why can't the youth of today?

 

The taxes pay for part of it but they don't fully cover the costs. Same goes for smoking. Smokers are actually costing the country money as the treatment for cancer and other smoking related illnesses are so expensive.

 

Got some sauce to go with that? Only I trust another secondary source more that said smoking at least provides more for the NHS than it costs, dunno about the alcohol side admittedly.

[somme]

what are they? iv always wanted to know.

 

 

It's a kind of shot...huge in Australia.

 

Half a can of red bull in a tall glass.

Drop the shot of jager into it and quickly down it. (You actually drop the shot glass into the drink)

[conzer16]

I havent posted my opinons in here yet - and I havent read the thread at all.

 

I drink a fair bit. Usually only at weekends. I like beer - and drink it because i enjoy it. I have a great group of friends who also enjoy it. We party hard because we know that one day we wont be able to.

 

I love socialising with my mates and drink is just a part of that