Comments | ceboholic: Old enough to choose, old enough to booze?

ceboholic

Old enough to choose, old enough to booze?

Apr 11, 2009 13:43

Today, I heard that there were rumblings across the pond about reducing the drinking age to 18. I will watch this develop with keen interest. Especially when so many areas are "dry" and having fun is outlawed in many central states. Frankly, I can't imagine not being able to nip down to the bar of an evening when I was at college. The whole furtive ( Read more... )

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80s_child April 11 2009, 13:49:05 UTC

I agree..

ceboholic April 12 2009, 05:09:42 UTC

Jolly good. However, we're both rather biased.

80s_child April 12 2009, 13:59:05 UTC

undoubtedly - I used to hate how I felt denoted when I went there and couldn't even go to a regular karaoke bar!!

ceboholic April 12 2009, 14:06:28 UTC

Denoted? Hm. I didn't go until I was 21 anyway, so it was never an issue. However, I gather that American students in the UK have a whale of a time!

paul April 14 2009, 19:47:48 UTC

Ironic that the yanks are looking to lower the age when it looks more and more like we are going to raise it.

I can see off-sales going entirely within the next 2 decades, there are rumblings of it already if you know where to look.