Underage Drinking - Page 2

grego · 27-04-2007, 17:46

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

A question for all you accywebbers - how many of you had a drink in a pub or club or out on the streets with your mates BEFORE you were 18?

I was 15 when I first went round town, though only had about 3 drinks, only had 2 quid and I wanted sausage and chips on the way home

I think if your children at a reasonable age are allowed wine with a meal or the odd taste then that should be ok.

SPUGGIE J · 27-04-2007, 18:43

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

A question for all you accywebbers - how many of you had a drink in a pub or club or out on the streets with your mates BEFORE you were 18?

Guilty as charged.

cashman · 27-04-2007, 19:28

Guilty jen, first drink in australian down pleck 1962

grego · 27-04-2007, 19:35

I dont think there's many people who do wait till the're 18, its not always the age that matters but how you treat it. I think the more a parent says no to alcohol the more a teenager would want it and there's always a way of getting it. I remember waiting outside Cellar 5 asking people going in to get me a bottle of Strongbow, I never had to wait long.

shillelagh · 27-04-2007, 20:56

I'd best answer my own question before anyone tells me off!!!

Yes i was going round town at the age of 16 - in fact the first time i went down accy was on my 16th birthday - felt my age and me and my mate came back to baxenden got a couple of bottles of olde english and drank them walking along the back lane back to rising bridge.

Before that i was drinking in the pub - with my mum & dad in attendance. In fact the pub landlord when i was 16 and could go into the pub on my own refused to let me drink alcohol in the pub even if i was with my mum & dad until i was 18.

Eric · 27-04-2007, 21:30

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Originally Posted by cashman

Guilty jen, first drink in australian down pleck 1962

Surprise surprise; I was drinking in there in '60 when I was fifteen!

cashman · 27-04-2007, 22:20

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Originally Posted by Eric

Surprise surprise; I was drinking in there in '60 when I was fifteen!

beat ya by a year eric (14)

saw on news tonight Alcohol Concern say parents could be prosecuted for giving under 15s alcohol, what planet are these clowns on? on that basis most of europes mums n dads would be fined- they aint got the same problems abroad with drunken kids once again i say its all about the upbringing/enviroment than a 12/13 year old havin a shandy or a small wine etc on special occasions and they are that far up their own arses they cant see it.

Remedi · 27-04-2007, 22:36

Too many double standards- do as I say not as I do or more accurately as I did.

Eric · 28-04-2007, 09:52

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Originally Posted by Remedi

Too many double standards- do as I say not as I do or more accurately as I did.

I don't think that it is a double standard. It is giving advice to one's kids based on one's experience. It is worse to say "It's ok because I did it when I was a lad."

garinda · 28-04-2007, 14:01

I didn't really drink until I was fifteen, even though I first went clubbing at twelve. I used to drink whisky and dry ginger, probably because it tasted most like pop.

The first time I got drunk it was on barley wine, when I was sixteen, and I got quite fruity with my friend's mum, something she recently reminded me about.

LancYorkYankee · 28-04-2007, 22:51

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Originally Posted by steeljack

didn't that stuff what you used to rub onto babies gums when they were teething have some sort of alcohol in it ? , I'm talking 30 or 40 years ago before this stuff what you buy now for temporary toothache relief .

probably on same shelf as the Fennings fever cure

We used straight whyskey on both our kids gums. I imagine the little bit of alcohol, besides numbing the gums also had a bit of a sedating effect. I guess it was just something handed down. Would not have any bother with the Government telling me I can't do these sort of things.

BEA

Eric · 29-04-2007, 00:11

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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee

We used straight whyskey on both our kids gums. I imagine the little bit of alcohol, besides numbing the gums also had a bit of a sedating effect. I guess it was just something handed down. Would not have any bother with the Government telling me I can't do these sort of things.

BEA

It's only encouraging bad drinking habits if you make them rinse with coke and ice.