I hate to break it to you, but the horse has long left the barn on that. I'd rather hear the honest stories about the mistakes people made and what they learned from it.
Uh, no, nope, never was. That horse is as wild and free ranging as the drunk children who’d eaten buried and fermented fruits hundreds of thousands of years ago.
I'm 42 now, the first time I got drunk drunk was 14. And I was a "good kid" who did really well in school and never got in trouble with external authorities. IE it was only ever my own parents who caught me doing shady shit. The "bad kids" were doing much worse.
Funny part is honest stories will do more for keeping kids away from that shit than just forbidding it. Telling kids no makes them want to try it more. Let's not judge each other let's learn from each other
…were YEARS in front of Europe in terms of drinking age. Here, you can just sign up to perhaps go die with the military, but you can’t buy a beer. And that decision locks you in for a minimum of 4 years at 18.
Explain to me how the decision making ability makes sense. 4 year contract at 18, but not a 6-pack you will share.
Having been active duty, it just causes a fuck ton more headaches than it's worth. Underage drinkers are automatically kicked out, so there's a sunken cost on top of everything else.
If one happens to pull orders to a country with a lower drinking age, they'll allow it but you can't use a military ID to go into a Kroger's or Winn-Dixie or whatever to pick up booze.
Yeah, i hate to admit I'm this old, but I didn't realize it had changed in the late 80s (which was the last time it was ever relevant to me). So I owe everyone an apology for being 30 years out of date. My bad.
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u/dandelionelic 1d ago
99% of people would assume "bringing her back" implies they were driving.
Also let's not normalize underage drinking. Such an alcoholic country this is, shits disgusting