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Drinking age to 21?

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  • #52
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Ah, my father was pulled by a garda and breathalised a while ago. He found it funny cuz he hasn't had a drop of beer in nearly 40 years :D


  • #53
    Jonesy3110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jonesy3110


    I can't stand this attitude kids have of "We drink cos there's nothing else to do" It's just moronic! I remember hearing a girl on some phone in show on the radio and she was 16 and was talking about how there was nothing to do and how she had no money to go to the cinema or anything, but then someone rang in as was like "How can you afford drink?" She shut up pretty quickly then :P
    Saying that I was exactly the same through being 14-17. And when I look back on it I just think, God I wasted those years, I could of being doing something productive.
    The thing with under 35's being ID'ed doesn't mean you have to be over 35 to drink. Its the same here except I think it's 25. I think if you're over 25 you shouldn't have to produce ID.


  • #54
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Jonesy3110 wrote:

    The thing with under 35's being ID'ed doesn't mean you have to be over 35 to drink. Its the same here except I think it's 25. I think if you're over 25 you shouldn't have to produce ID.

    I know you don't have to be 35 to drink. It's just the thought that I'd have to carry around id for the next 15 years.


  • #55
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,858 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    When I did my J1 in the states (first time I was there) I got asked for ID twice in the whole summer, and one of those was on the first night. I was 21 and was still getting ID'd everywhere here at the time. New york is a hell of a lot more relaxed than the rest of the States in this respect I have since realised. Their policy is pointless, stupid, and over the top, yet I still carry my passport with me everywhere when I am in the states just in case.


  • #56
    Judt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Judt


    5starpool wrote:
    When I did my J1 in the states (first time I was there) I got asked for ID twice in the whole summer, and one of those was on the first night. I was 21 and was still getting ID'd everywhere here at the time. New york is a hell of a lot more relaxed than the rest of the States in this respect I have since realised. Their policy is pointless, stupid, and over the top, yet I still carry my passport with me everywhere when I am in the states just in case.
    One might be tempted to say that the Irish policy of getting sloshed at all ages is pointless and over the top, too.

    Every time something comes up about drinking in this country it comes back to a simple fact: We've not got enough imagination to do anything except drink. It's our culture, like... to coin the phrase of another group when wrongdoing goes on....


  • #57
    Jonesy3110
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jonesy3110


    We've not got enough imagination to do anything except drink.

    I think thats hitting the nail on the head. We are a drinking
    culture, but theres also a fighting culture.

    Hey.... I wonder is there a connection hmmmmm


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