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Legal Age is now 20
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:46 am
by Pheonixhawk
The drinking age for Marines in Okinawa Japan is now 20. I am 19, my I.D card says im 20, and I turn 20 in December. But guess what? Im still not gonna drink. I think this policy is a bad one because now even more people can get drunk and stupid. Belive me when I say that Marines + Alchohol = trouble. What most people do as a common mistake when they start drinking, is they believe that you can drink one, wait a few minutes, and then drink another. But alcohol doesnt hit you until you actually stand up and go "whoa." I mean honestly, if you telling your friend to stop moving, and he's just sitting there... you may of had too much to drink. Now out of curiosity, I was wondering why people even drink in the first place? I get the same stupid reson of "It gives me a buzz, or it's relaxing" but is it truly worth it? Is the buzz so good, that you risk harming yourself or others?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:48 am
by Sugami
Light weight
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:24 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
When I was a teen, way back in the neolithic era, I lived in New York and the drinking age was 18. Not that you needed to actually BE 18 to get served in bars, I was drinking in bars at 15.
At 17 and 18 while in AFROTC we got served hard drinks in the officer's clubs while touring bases in states where the drinking age was 21.
Its not really just Marines + Alchohol = trouble, its more like macho American teens + Alchohol = trouble. Remember here you drink to show that you are an adult. Then disprove it by not knowing how to handle alcohol.
The way we handle drinking laws in this country is abreant and ridiciclous. European countries have a much better approach, and far lower rates of alcoholisim to prove it.
Actually I was younger than 5 when I first had alcohol. Being Jewish, I had the traditional four cups of wine at Passover as soon as I could drink out of an actual wine glass. OK, it wasn't much wine and it was watered down. This is a sneaky way the adults get the kids to bed early so they can party after the Seder. It is also an effective innoculation against alcoholism. There is nothing like a sweet wine hangover.
As a teen I had nothing to prove by drinking. I didn't do it to prove I was an adult, after all I had been drinking as a religous duty on several holidays for a decade by then.
Heck, on Purim it is a mitzvah, or offical good deed, the kind that goes down in that big book in the sky, to get drunk. I highly recommend Purim.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:29 am
by Karou Ariyen
I agree, "Light-weight" hehe
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:59 am
by Pheonixhawk
why do you keep saying lite-wieght?
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:36 am
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Light-weights cant hold their booze.
But thse bright enough to know it are not light weight.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:05 am
by Okuza
When I was a teen, way back in the neolithic era, I lived in New York and the drinking age was 18. Not that you needed to actually BE 18 to get served in bars, I was drinking in bars at 15.
LOL, that reminds me of the time I flew out to NY. I was a Jr. in High-School at the time, 16 or 17, iirc. 17, I think. Anyway, I was on my own for the trip. On ariving at the hotel, this guy asked me "Wanna get a drink?", gesturing at the hotel bar.
I was kinda nonplussed -- took me two or three blinks before I realized that the suggestion probably wasn't quite as bad as "hi there lil' kidde, wanna take a ride in my big black van?" NY drinking age was 18 compared to 21 in CA. Even kids can't tell the difference between like 16-19. Still wonder if he was hitting on me. He was at least twice my age.
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:48 am
by Eviticus
I've tasted a few things here and there. Gotten mildly to very(I think) buzzed, but never quite drunk. Alcohol in general tastes nasty. Beer is right out, and vodka tastes like rubbing alcohol smells. Only thing I ever drank that I didn't have a negative or neutral reaction to was something called Bacardi Silver O 3....or something.
A friend called a fruity girly drink as he and his buddies were attempting to drain a keg. >.>; Anyways, every male on my dad's side of the family that did not die of old age, died from alcohol. I never even knew my grandfather because my grandmother divorced him when my dad was only 5 for being a drunken lout.
In moderation, alcoholic beverages are ok. The problem American's seem to have is we have very little worth drinking, and most of our population that does drink does not know the meaning of the word moderation...
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:25 pm
by Sugami
KarouKaniyashia wrote:I agree, "Light-weight" hehe
*high-fives Ka-chan*
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:32 am
by Pheonixhawk
Its not about not being able to hold thier booze. Its about them drinking until they cant hold anymore. EVENTUALLY even the heavy weight drinkers have to give in at a certian amount. Marines don't stop until they are completely wasted, both heavy and light-weight. Now if you referring to me, then I have no idea. I have never drank alcohol *unless certain foods I ate had some in it, and I just didn't know about it. Wine etc etc.* and I sure don't ever plan too.
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:56 am
by Tinacat
*unless certain foods I ate had some in it, and I just didn't know about it.
bread dough would be about the only common example.
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