Americans. How do you cope not drinking until 21?

[2012 Wont Happen]

Me personally: I'm straight edge

Most people: no one I know obeys the law...

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Yeah, in general I'd say most people drink at least a little before legal drinking age.

Though honestly I've never understood why people like alcohol so much.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I don't really intend to drink even after I'm 21. Needless to say it dosn't bother me.

Pretty much this.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Yeah, in general I'd say most people drink at least a little before legal drinking age.

Though honestly I've never understood why people like alcohol so much.

Oh and this.

 

[baseracer]

Yeah, in general I'd say most people drink at least a little before legal drinking age.

Though honestly I've never understood why people like alcohol so much.

Alcohol looses you up alot, and it makes you have a lot more fun at parties than without alcohol. Though, if you drink alcoholic drinks. by yourself, or get really hammered consistently , then you have a problem

 

[dolfan1304]

Lots and Lots of Porn

 

[quellan_thyde]

We get it all done by 19.

 

[MortisLegio]

um fine i actuarially hate alcohol

And spelling.

On topic, I agree. Either I'm bizarre or I don't see the appeal in ingesting mind-altering toxins I have the pay for.

I've had alot of different types and they're all bad
(My opinion)

 

[lizards]

we drink illegally

the law never stopped us from trying to get girls drunk and never wi......well i guess since im 23 it wont ever stop me....

 

[Clashero]

We drink before 21. It just isn't legal.

This, seems pretty obvious doesnt it. Its really not that big of a deal.

True. The age for purchasing and drinking here is 18, but people start drinking way before that. Hell, my parents were the ones who got me into drinking (very sensible of them, actually. They let me try out stuff in the house so I wouldn't go overboard when I went out with friends)

That brings me to a very good point, parents who teach you the sensible way of drinking give a much better example to kids. As opposed to the ones that just stubbornly go on about the evils of drinking and how it should be avoided at all cost.

All parents should do that. I'm grateful they taught me how to drink ("Don't drink just to get drunk", "don't drink with an empty stomach", "if you drink and then move around a lot it'll go to your head faster". They also taught me tons of cocktails, the difference between spirits and liqueur, how to avoid a hangover*, etc.)

*Best advice ever. Between glasses or shots, eat some bread, or drink some olive oil. No hangover, guaranteed.

 

[Kanlic]

We drink before 21. It just isn't legal.

This, seems pretty obvious doesnt it. Its really not that big of a deal.

that is true unless you are a guy like me who gets arrested for just being at a party

 

[Modoutnarrim]

I think you can see the pattern here.

No one ever starts drinking legally. If you ever plan to drink, you will drink in high school probably and after high school definitely, and probably more than you will when it's legal. Easily 90% of license fraud is for this purpose. That's not to say it's tolerated by the police or vendors at all, but practically everyone takes the risk.

 

[Clashero]

Tequila, Vodka, Gin, Burbon, and beer

Your parents sound awesome, mine did that with me. Then again at our family parties the drinking age is 17.

/quote]Make that Gancia, Fernet, Rum, Baileys, Tia Maria and, on one very special occasion, absinthe.

 

[Snotnarok]

I really don't drink often, even when I do I'm lucky if I get past the neck of the bottle.

Some towns in the US don't let you buy booze at ALL...though there's always a shop you can buy from right outside said town that probably makes a LOT of money.

 

[Lordpils]

Comedic social-satire: Anti-depressent abuse, mixed with religion, sexual repression and violent television.

Honest answer: Illegal acquisition of alchohalic substences. (Too many big words?)

 

[Xojins]

We drink before 21. It just isn't legal.

/thread.

 

[LockHeart]

Actually in America the States control drinking age. The reason they are now in line with 21 years has to do with federal highway money. States that want federal funds for their roads have to follow federal highway regulation. At some time some federal organization said 21 years of age drunk driving is safer than under 21 years of age drunk driving. They used drunk driving for highway safety to allow the 21 mandate. If they can tie in the regulation some how to funding it gives the fed the right to deny that specific funding, if that state refuses to fall in line.

Stupid, I know.

So it's ok to drink drive over 21 but not under? I'd like to see that 'study'...

OT: I think they'd only need to 'cope' if they were raging alcoholics...

I didn't use the word "ok" regarding over 21 years of age drunk driving. I said the powers that be in the fedgov. claim it was necessary to have all states follow the 21 year law. Constitutionally they can't. So they tied it into federal funds that can be denied. They tied it to drunk DRIVING and HIGHWAY funds. If a state wanted to keep it at 18, they would be denied the highway money. Instead of losing the money, they fell in line.

It happend in the 70s with the 55MPH law. Then the fed stated if you want fed highway money, then enforce the 55MPH mandate. The idea then is it would save fuel during the oil crisis.

Of course any form of drunk driving is unsafe ragardless of age. I am saying it is stupid reasoning that now in the US everywhere is 21 or older to drink.

That's what I mean, I just don't know how the Federal government can say it's somehow safer for someone over 21 to be drunk driving (what I meant by ok), surely it's going to be dangerous no matter what?

 

[SC1198]

We cant cope 90% of the population cummits suicide before the age of 21