No way do I want the drinking age lowered, I prefer spending my time in pubs, not playgrounds. And then there'd be all sorts of playpark stuff, and it would all become very dangerous with drunken revellers falling off climbing frames and swings.

yes but my point is most 16 year olds drink anyway.

Yeah but they have to hide in empty houses, parks and bushes, which makes it more amusing for the local police when they try and intervene

its not like kids abide by those laws. i know i dont, and im 14! :thumb:

So many kids just think that rules are there to be broken. 'Course they are, its their age.. But I dont know if lowering the age limit would actually help at all, seeing as they knew before that they couldn't drink. They'd get bored after a while, 'cause there wouldnt be such a sense of danger and excitement... Meh, I dunno. I say just leave the law as it is, there'll be a few people who liten to it I guess.

Tonight I shall be drinking, rather heavily, in celebration of the mighty Birmingham City destroying Liverpool this afternoon.

Exellent!

Well basically I think that the age is perfectly fine...cause you can drink at home with your parents from 5 years...and could you imagine all the 12 year olds hanging around the street drinking booze cause it makes them cool and going into pubs being stupid and making fools of themselves...besides it's dangerous if you're too young...

No way, I so have to disagree with you. If they reduce the legal drinking age to 16 then it would be legal for you to go clubbing and that’s just wrong. I think the current legal drinking age of 18 is reasonable.

yeah seriously, 16 is way too young. You'd get a bunch of little girls in bars and clubs who can't handle alcohol at all, then getting taken advantage of by guys way older than them.

...or little boys getting taken advantage of by older women, which seems to be the new "thang" lately. No wonder all the good women are taken, they're with the 13 year olds.

why not make the age 6.

then it will be retarted to drink, since it wont be what all the cool older kids do. then kids will stop drinking and people will stop being morons with alcohol.


problem solved.

i wholeheartedly agree with you. But as a 16 year old meself, im not like one of these people that get drunk on a WKD, i enjoy a moderate drink with friends and i prefer remembering what we did! Again its just a bit of a stereotype that all 16 year olds are doing it. Some of us have matured somewhat!

Well little boys do have some damn cool toys these days...

^hahaha..what can i say? it's true

the main argument here is that people are doing it to be cool or rebellious. i dont think thats the reason at all. i think kids are doing it because its fun....hey, theres an idea. iv been drinking for a long time, and since i finished school this summer im drinking practically everyday. i know its rediculous. but i grab a few drinks and catch up with friends i havnt seen for a while. or go to parties and drink and meet people. drinking lowers people inhibitions which is mainly good, but can be bad in some cases. if your with friends then i dont think anything seriously bad will come of it. iv been drinking with people and seen some bad stuff like my friend going hypothermic from drinking too much and people getting their stomach pumped. if your with friends, they take care of you and you learn a valuable lesson..in most cases. have any of you ever seen a teenager grab some beers or spirits or whatever have a swig and say 'thatll learn my parents/teachers/government!! thatll learn 'em good." ?? cant say i have. in most cases rediculous amounts of alcohol are met with broad smiles and a high five. in my experiance anyway..

yea good point

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Hahaha, funny you should mention that. I went to a party recently, and one of my friends is the type of guy who's always anti-government, anti-establishment, basically anti-everything, even more so after a few drinks. If any of you have ever seen That 70's Show, he's basically Hyde, without the fro and aviators. So we're all having a good time, just drinking, kicking back and talking about random stuff, when he goes on about one of his government conspiracy theories (something we've all grown accustomed to, and after listening to quite a few of his drunken ramblings, something we've all come to enjoy). So he goes on a tirade about the government surpressing the youth's ability to reason and develop independant thinking patterns through standardized curriculums, and somehow he links this to a recent rumour of raising the drinking age a year higher. So at the height of his little rant, he grabs a bottle of bacardi, takes a long swig, and shouts at the top of his lungs "Well this is one guy they're not gonna silence! HOW D'YA LIKE THEM APPLES YOU GOVERNMENT PIGS!" Then he kind of fell over a bit after getting up too quickly and stubbed his toe on the coffee table, at which point he launched into a violent and mostly incoherant string of swear words.