Caris Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 What the hell? http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/drinkingage21/ This sucks so bad.
Oxigen_Waste Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 What the hell? http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/drinkingage21/ This sucks so bad. Ah-ah, here in Portugal, drinking age is 16.
EEVILMURRAY Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Well since they remixed the smoking purchasing age to 18, this seemed inevitable. However since I'm over 21 I'm all for it.
Cube Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 All I can find is some survey company suggested that it should be raised way back in April.
McMad Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Fuck this shit, what the fuck am I looking forward to at 18 now then? Going out with my mates for some coke?
Caris Posted November 6, 2007 Author Posted November 6, 2007 Fuck this shit, what the fuck am I looking forward to at 18 now then? Going out with my mates for some coke? Theres Lemonade too.
Slaggis Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 They can feck off with that idea. What would you do on your 18th? Screw that. First this driving age crap, and now this. What's next?
Fierce_LiNk Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 My 21st is in January, so it shouldn't affect me too much. However, I've always thought this was kinda inevitable, raising the age to 21. It certainly won't stop people doing it on the sly.
Guest Jordan Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Oh yeah, because under age kids getting hammered every night is really helping society. Jesus christ, drinking excessivly is just moronic anyway.
Slaggis Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Oh yeah, because under age kids getting hammered every night is really helping society. Jesus christ, drinking excessivly is just moronic anyway. When did anyone talk about drinking exessively? Also, how will raising the age stop the already under age people from drinking to excess on street corners etc like they do/ being anti social? It just means the average joe won't beable to go for a drink with their mates when they're in uni etc which utterly sucks.
Fierce_LiNk Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 I'm guessing it's to do with some under 18 year olds actually looking 18+, and to do with shop keepers and staff selling alcohol to people underage without checking their ID...because, to them, they look 18 or over. However, it's probably far difficult for, say, a 16 year old or 15year old to try and pass themselves off for a 21 year old. I'm guessing that's the logic?
conzer16 Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Funny - I work in a night club and a bar and we (the bar staff) were only discussing this possibility last weekend. I, for one, would fully support an increase of the drinking age to 21 here in Ireland. Irish drinking culture is atrocious. (I'm kind of a hypocrite - I work in the industry and part-take in the socialising too :p )
Sanchez Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 I would be against this and I don't even drink. As long as your old enough to be responsible and reasonable (I would make this 16) you should be allowed to drink, so you learn to be mature about drinking sooner. Ugh, I'd expand this and express it more clearly but I haven't slept in a long time and I can't think coherently.
Fierce_LiNk Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Thing is, you can be 16 and responsible, or 27 and still act like an incredibly immature and irresponsible person.
system_error Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Bad idea - because it won't stop younger people from drinking but instead of doing it in a controlled surrounding eg. a bar, pub, ... they do it alone with friends and probably not with beer but vodka, gin and harder stuff. Here the legal age is 16 - you are allowed to drink wine and beer if a certain percentage of alcohol is not reached. For real booze you need to be 18.
Slaggis Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Thing is, you can be 16 and responsible, or 27 and still act like an incredibly immature and irresponsible person. Exactly. So in that case they might aswell go ahead and ban drinking all together seeing as thats the case. They're not going to stop these idiotic 14/15 year olds drinking to excess etc by raising the age to 21.
Happenstance Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Whats the drinking laws in France? I always heard its actually a better system because they are exposed to wine etc when they are much younger so when it comes to being a teenager alcohol isnt as exciting.
chrizkerr2 Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 Please be joking, I only turned 18 afew months back, having to wait 3 more years ago will fail.
conzer16 Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 It's not possible to stop kids drinking when they're 13/14/15/16 whatever age. It's just not physically possible to implement the law, whatever it may be, whereever you are, 100% regardless of the drinking age. It could be 45 and folks will still get their hands on it
AshMat Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 WEll it's not gonna stop me drinking out of bars like i do now anyway.
Supergrunch Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 I don't think the government are actually going to do this - it just seems that a few months back a high ranking policeman said he thought it would be a good idea, and the government disagreed.
Rummy Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 As long as anyone who is 16 at the time of passing the law is exempt from it, then I think they should(why 16 and not 18 you ask? Because it's really gonna piss off some people who are like 17 and 364 days old, so it's just like an extended window not to piss people off too much).
Zell Posted November 6, 2007 Posted November 6, 2007 I'm eighteen real soon, don't really want this to happen, though I don't really see it happening.
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