”… It has become fashionable for people between the ages of 16 and 25 to consume alcohol. I am of the view that pictures of President Obama and Queen Elizabeth ll drinking Guinness send out the wrong message.
If they really want to do something constructive, put more resources into education, enforce under age drinking laws, increase penalties for drink related public disturbance offences and increase charges for anyone turning up at an A&E that is over the limit....
They should reduce the legal drinking age to 16 and run campaigns to encourage people to drink in pubs instead of parks and playgrounds. If you learn to drink alcohol in a proper environment then you will learn to respect it a bit more.
So, bar staff legally serving 16 year old's double vodkas and red bull all night long will help people learn to respect alcohol?
Fair enough
Maybe it's just my own experience
I started drinking in pubs when I was 16-17. You drank in the local pub where there were people of all ages, men and women. People still got drunk and all that goes with that but generally there wasn't really any muckin around because people just didn't stand for it in the community.
Making alcohol harder for teenagers to obtain doesn't mean that they won't obtain it and abuse it. Sticking them in a park with 24 cans isn't going to help anyone learn to drink responsibly. At least if there is some sort of indirect supervision, you might have some chance.
The legal drinking age is 16 in Germany I believe and AFAIK, they don't have the social problems with teenage drinking that we have.
The same people that have brought us bankrupt Ireland
Eh.... that would be the Banks
Nope. Banks would have gone bust, capitalist style, if it weren't for the politicians.
Nope. Banks would have gone bust, capitalist style, if it weren't for the politicians.
And nobody would have any money at all, all savings wiped out. No money in ATM's... sounds good doesnt it.
But it was the politicians who made this choice for us. You were pointing out that the banks were responsible for our bankruptcy. Now you are saying the politicians were right to intervene. That may or may not be the case, but it was the politicians who made this decision, not the banks. It was the politicians who brought us in to the Euro. It was the politicians who failed to competently regulate our finance industry. It was the politicians who inflated our property bubble. Thus it was the politicians, like I said, who are most responsible for our country's bankruptcy. This is what they should now be concentrating on trying to fix, instead of setting up committees intent on directing policy based on a set of collective 'beliefs'.And nobody would have any money at all, all savings wiped out. No money in ATM's... sounds good doesnt it.
It's like 2008 again!
Yeah, I need a drink now. Anyone fancy a pint?
I'll have a Bulmers please
Yes, I'd kill for one right now.Yeah, I need a drink now. Anyone fancy a pint?
If there's nothing else.I'll have a Bulmers please
I was on Guinness or Carlsburg back then (and still am).Why not go back to 2006 and we could all have a Moet? !
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