True. It does nothing for me at all. The vodka in there? It's just really, really weak beer. Allegedly.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.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.
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