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yeah, B'n'M.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heath
B'n'M?Quote:
Originally Posted by ZeldyMore like B'n'M!Quote:
Originally Posted by Heath
You can get alcopops for like less than £1. It's boss.
The place with the best name is Booze Brothers anyway.
I think
You've got me confused now :mad2:
Spar operates a 'think 30' policy where if you don't look really old they ID you.
They don't follow the current law. Raising the age limit isn't going to do jack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Essência
Alcopops aren't real alcohol. >=o
It's still alcohol though!
True. It does nothing for me at all. The vodka in there? It's just really, really weak beer. Allegedly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raebus
Moving the drinking age up will make absolutely no difference at all. Kids will get it anyway, so what's the point?
The drinking age on the continent (France, at least) is 17. (I remember being 17 on a school trip to France and buying some kids some apple schnapps at a cash-and-carry near the ferry port - umm... the teachers wanted to stop off there! ;) ) Children there are taught from an early age to respect alcohol, and not to overdo it, and that seems to help curb binge drinking in youngsters on the scale we see in the UK. The problem is, as children, we see adults drinking alcohol, and we get to age where we want to do it, but it is 'forbidden'. So, as adolescents wanting to assert our independence and grown-up-ness (If that's a word but you know what I mean...), we turn to drink anyway. It's a cool and dangerous thing to do, I guess, and peer pressure is involved.
Here I am, saying 'we' and I'm 24, and this stupid law won't affect me any way. :p Still, it sucks being able to vote, drive (though never at the same time as drinking!) or join the military and lay down your life for your country, but not being able to drink. :mad2:
Well, by the time I move to the UK (if everything goes as planned), I'll be almost 21 anyway :p
we're just vastly outnumbered.Quote:
Originally Posted by RengoriYou say that like people under 21 have a voice.Quote:
Originally Posted by DenmarkThe only Americans that support this law are those that are at least 21 years of age.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
I have like 2 and have stomach aches. It's terrible :( THEY'RE TOO FIZZYQuote:
Originally Posted by Raebus
So that's what they call being a light drinker these days. ;)
Won't change a damn thing. Most people start drinking at 14-16 here anyway. I'm 21 in 6 months so I don't care!
Actually you'll find due to trading and advertising laws Alcopops do include Vodka. The problem is not the % of alcohol but the quantity of Vodka. The average smirnoff ice or reef drink contains approximately HALF a shot of vodka thats something like 20ml or 4 tea spoons of alcohol. As psy said the law won't change a damn thing the only issue is that it will mean a lot less money. I seriously doubt it'd get passed much more likely a public drinking ban to be legally enforced throughout the country instead of in bylaws which would prevent all and any drinking of alcoholic substances outside the premises of a pub or bar. The reasoning for this? Off liscences are exactly that OFF liscences they have a liscence for the sale of alcohol for OFF the premises. Pubs have a liscence for the drinking ON the premises but rarely is it for a pub to hold an Off liscence too. Alcohol and nicotine is the 2 most taxed things in the countries behind cars (road tax, insurance tax, petrol tax, congestion charges, parking fees) the government won't drop a major % of it's money since the people can barely afford council tax and the tax taken from their earnings as it is.
Yes, because witholding things that kids want is the proven, surefire way to ensure they don't pursue it with redoubled vigor. :rolleyes2
Doesn't strike me as the kind of legislation that would be passed, but I don't live in the UK so I don't really know much about the political atmosphere.
I also don't especially care about alcohol, but I'm of the opinion that it's retarded to give someone responsibilities such as voting, driving, smoking, enlisting in the army, etc. but have the age at which they can legally ingest alcohol several years higher.
You're allowed to kill before you can chill...at the bar.
Oh yeah, Ten Points.