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A poll on under age drinking
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jjohnson28 Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 6:59 PM EST
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How many of you drank alcohol before it was legal for you to do so? Also what was the drinking age in your state when you did?
Guv Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:06 PM EST
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I must confess I tried alcohol many times prior to my 21st birthday which was the legal drinking age in Pennsylvania. I think I was as young as 13 the first got drunk and I was hanging in bars, shooting darts by time I was 17.
jjohnson28 Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:30 PM EST
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Me 1975,I was 14 almost 15 the drinking age for South Dakota was 18 for beer and 21 for wine and liquor(I hate Reagan for changing the federal drinking age,which BTW should be unconstitutional IMO).I was allowed to drink beer with/by my Grandfather while working for him on his farm during the summer and on Holidays.BTW he'd also let me have an occassion shot of schnapps when we were fishing together.Also BTW, my Grandfather was a recent German immigrant.I rarely drank in high school but it wasn't really frowned upon at home either(they would rather have me at home than drunk at some party).Do you think like most things it just might be the mystic that brings almost 80% of young people to try alcohol?
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#4 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:33 PM EST
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I drank underage, starting at around 13-14, getting quite heavy at times after I turned 16.
I walked into a liquer store one day when I was about 17 and saw behind the counter a woman who had been a lunchlady when I was in gradeschool, we started talking and in normal conversation I convinced her that I was about 25 (which she could have confused me with my brother aslo...) but she never carded me, then or the millions of times I went in after that. :-)
The odd thing is I think I got all my drinking pretty much done and out of my system back then.
I can still (and occasionally do) tie one hell of one on, and have had periods when I have drank like a fish for extended periods, but I haver never felt the NEED to drink. (Sometimes I wish I did, but it jsut isn't in me I guess...)
Anyway... My only regrets are the Millions... AND MILLIONS (sorry... "Rock" moment) of brain cells going over the Niagara Falls of my mind, plummeting to their deaths.
I'll drink to THAT!
jjohnson28 Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:40 PM EST
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Ha! I thought I posted this on the Political board. Oh well let it run it's course,it'll get a bigger audience here anyway. LMAO!
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#6 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 7:58 PM EST
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Oh... AND...
I never really drank at home... Didn't drink in front of my folks, but they knew I was drinking, always picked me up. No questions asked.

Also I had a party for my 18th Birthday... Mom said "NO ALCHAOL" I said, "Mom, if you say no alchaol everyone will bring their own and it will be a mess..."

Instead we got 2 cases of beer and a few bottles of wine. Whe knew how much was being consumed, and there were no problems (with the exception of one guy puking on the snowman outside).

That was in 1985.
Drinking age was 21
daveyg2 Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 8:27 PM EST
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I drank like a friggin fish when I was 15-16 and throughout high school. Then came college. Oh jeez.....lets not talk. I still can put em down nice, but I dont drink as much as I used to at all.
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#8 Posted: Wed, Jun 12 2002, 9:52 PM EST
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I drank underage as well. In college mostly, but some in high school. Thats when drinking was fun because you had zero responsibilty. Don't drink much anymore. Must have got it out of my system before I was legal. LOL
delarob Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 2:43 AM EST
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I was brewing my own by 18.
SteveS Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 5:39 AM EST
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I cannot remember how old I was when I first began drinking, but I drank prodigiously before I was 21 (which was the legal age everywhere I ever went before I WAS 21) ... as a HS junior, half a dozen guys including me were caught by the wrestling team coach at the park, drinking beer and smoking cigars ... that ended our wrestling careers, but not the beer drinkin' or the cigar smoking (obviously, lol) ... as for my college years, well, I don't know how or where to begin and if I did somehow begin, where or how to end ... bottom line is that I think underage drinking has a lot to do with the concept of "forbidden fruit" and that raising the legal age to drink or smoke ... (there's a bill pending in CA to raise the smoking age to 21), will not reduce the problem one iota, but simply expand the number of under-age smokers and drinkers ... it's just not possible to legislate problems out of existance, despite the supposed well-meaning efforts of our big-brother government ...
hegemonic Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 9:06 AM EST
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NY 21 years.
barryneedleman Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 9:22 AM EST
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JJ, Not counting the little bit of wine during the holidays (I would always come back for Elija's cup), I was drinking quarts of beer with my friends @ 13. We would be at the schoolyard or someones front porch. Bars and such started @ 16 or so. This was in suburban NY during the mid to late 60s and the "legal age" was 18. These days, I hardly drink. Barry
CL Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 12:16 PM EST
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Frozen puke, now that's just nasty.
jreddoch Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 3:16 PM EST
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A friend and I got blind drunk on a bottle of Southern Comfort when I was 14. I woke covered in my own puke with my first horrendous hangover. I get nauseous at the smell of SC to this day. Why does anyone look forward to this misery?
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#15 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 7:04 PM EST
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#16 Posted: Thu, Jun 13 2002, 7:07 PM EST
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Must have had too much to drink before trying to enter my previous post. Drank much booze of every persuasion before reaching the legal age of 21. Did do some of it legally by going to Manitoba, where the drinking age is 18. A high school senior with a place to drink legally only three hours away? Oh yeah, you know we were there.
Hansen Offline
#17 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 12:53 AM EST
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In Denmark we have no laws that prohibit (sp?) drinking until a certain age. Bars aren't allowed to serve anyone that is under 18 years. A couple of years ago government passed a new law that says "no beer/wine/booze sale to anyone under 15 years". Some 26 years ago when I was 16 was the first time I was drunk. I've always been drinking mostly beer. An occational drink and (lots) of wine with fook. - I'm a beer-man!!! And I really like single malts of which I try to down as many as possible when I'm in the mood. - No, this isn't always!!!!! So, in Denmark drinking policies and -laws are very - VERY - liberal. This has caused Denmark to have the highest rate (at least in Europe) of youngsters drinking heavily. Noone is in anyway very proud of this fact. Danish kids are heavy drinkers/boozers. And this is a problem to be taken care of. Guess that's why the 15 yr law was passed. Also, a lot of (non caring) parents apparently have a hard time setting limits for their kids. I-don't-want-to-be-a-bad-parent-not-allowing-my-(love)child-anything-syndrome!!! Noone wants to set an example! Whimps!!! KIDS NEEDS LIMITS! KIDS NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT/WRONG! KIDS NEEDS PARENTS WHO CARES ABOUT WHAT THEY DO, WHERE THEY DO IT AND WITH WHOM THEY DO IT!
bud451 Offline
#18 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 2:58 AM EST
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Legal age was 18....threw up a lot.
mhollowa Offline
#19 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 4:40 AM EST
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I lived one summer with an uncle who was a caretaker at a Kiwanis boys camp in Louisiana. I helped him keep the grass mowed and filled the role of "step-n-fetch-it". I also hauled garbage to a rural dump in the camp pickup truck. On one garbage, my uncle joined me for the ride. After shoveling the bed clean, we headed back to camp. As I turned off the levee road onto the main highway, he asked me to stop at a little roadside lean-to with a neon "Jax" sign in the window. We went in and he bought me my first beer, which were 10 oz in Louisiana at that time, may still be. I was 15. I started brewing about five years ago. There is nothing in the world as sweet as a homemade, untaxed beer. Except maybe a great cigar.
esplendidoschick Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 3:57 PM EST
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All I can say as a child born in '64...SEX, DRUGS & ROCK 'N ROLL baby! WOO-HOO! Oh yeah, I turned 21 in 1985 and by that time had been married 2 years and just had a baby 6 days earlier. Thank God I got my partying out of me sooner...well sort of! Like I said, SEX, DRUGS & ROCK 'N ROLL! Only now the sex is WITH my husband, the drugs are prescribed, and the rock 'n roll died when Guns 'N Roses broke up :(...oh well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad! LOL!
BBJ Offline
#21 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 4:22 PM EST
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My Famly Made Home Wine And I All Ways Had A Glass From 10 On.
Of Course This Led To Bigger And Better things.I Ended My Life Long Love Of A Fine Wine (And Any Thing Else I Could Get My Hands On)AT 38.
I Now Have A Liver transplsant To Show For All The Money I Pissed Aginst The Wall.
The Only thing I Miss Is A Brandy Or Scotch With A Great Cigar.To Much Of Any Thing Will Kill You!
But I Still HAve My CIgars :)
mmay Offline
#22 Posted: Fri, Jun 14 2002, 5:17 PM EST
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I had my first drink at age 14, the finest of the illicit distillers' art. The legal age was 18 at the time, but I grew up in a "dry" county in North West Georgia (no, not Deliverance country) so no one could legally buy whiskey without going to Atlanta. But moonshine was readily available and some of the local "distillers" had no moral problems selling to minors. That white lightnin' was the best whiskey I have ever had and I wish I had some right now.
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#23 Posted: Sat, Jun 15 2002, 7:56 AM EST
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#24 Posted: Sat, Jun 15 2002, 7:58 AM EST
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Espie...
You know Axel was "Reforming" G&R... So that leaves me to question which two you are refering to...

;->

Just COULDN'T RESIST!
BTW... a NEW Poison CD just came out... Not GREAT, but not bad... "HollyWeird"
JonR Offline
#25 Posted: Sat, Jun 15 2002, 10:31 AM EST
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I will not drink anything that has not finished aging. One time someone tried to give me a bottle of twelve year old scotch whiskey that was only aged for eleven and one half years, well I told him what he could do with that bottle and another time someone tried to get me to drink kool-aid that was only aged for thirty-five minutes and everyone knows kool-aid should be aged for at least fifty to fifty- five minutes. I hope this helps. JonR
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