Who has NEVER been drunk?- Page 6

[HumATune]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 6:15am

Guys the drinking age is 21 because that’s when scientists fell our bodies have fully grown and our brains have matured.

I thought I was done growing in high school, but I grew half an inch when I was 20.

Should the drinking age be lowered? I don’t know. But I am in favor of lowering the gambling age. If you can buy a lottery ticket at 18, why not gamble? Unless the gambling age is what it is BECAUSE of the drinking age.

And for some of us it’s not too much DARE education which makes us very careful drinkers. I saw a lot of ugliness from my father when he was drunk, and I don’t want to be like that. I think most drunks are okay, but some aren’t, and I’d rather not find out which kind I am.

And yes, when I was 18 and lived in the dorms my social life did suffer for not participating in the underage drinking games, but I don’t regret it. If people thought I was lame for not going with the herd, oh well. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to do what is right for yourself.

Updated On: 2/22/07 at 06:15 AM

[Allie]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:14am

Guys the drinking age is 21 because that’s when scientists fell our bodies have fully grown and our brains have matured.

So where I am in Canada, we finish growing at 19? Is that why that's the legal drinking age? And it's 18 in a few provinces.

[HumATune]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:34am

No, but I think this is at least part of the reasoning in the US. We're obsessed with that sort of thing over here.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:34am

I'm up for some Beer Pong. Although I'm telling you now: I cheat. Meaning, I drink constantly throughout the game.

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:04am

Shoot, i'm 17 and I know how to play beer pong. i'v ewatched my family play it for years, at all of our family gatherings. Fun game. Never actually played though.

[pemberlee]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:23am

The beauty of beer pong is that no one really loses because everyone ends up nice and buzzed.

Reading this thread has filled me with a desire to go finish the bottle of wine in the kitchen.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:15am

"Guys the drinking age is 21 because that’s when scientists fell our bodies have fully grown and our brains have matured.

So where I am in Canada, we finish growing at 19? Is that why that's the legal drinking age? And it's 18 in a few provinces."

And in many European countries, it is 16.

I guess Europeans mature faster?

In reality, the drinking age is pretty arbitrary. Our brains never stop maturing, they mature until the day we die. There is no cut-off.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:41am

My family has MAJOR issues with alcohol abuse, and I try to stay away from it. Almost like a fear that if I start drinking I'll turn into them. As a young person, not drinking is uncommon. If I'm at a party, I'll have A drink, but not drink to get drunk. I don't see the enjoyment like others my age do, because others my age have not had to deal with their drunken father walking it at all hours of the night.

[DG]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:57am

"I like feeling classy and glamorous"

Just an aside - blind judgement doesn't equate to classy and glamorous.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 6:50am

Being Irish, you would expect me probably to be a drunk, but no. Over here the legal age is 18. I'm 15, and I've never had a drink, never mind been drunk. No plans to either. My friends drink regularly, and if I wanted to I'd have no problem getting alcahol, I just have no intention to.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 7:19am

Going on 14 months sober here!

*thumbs-up sign*

I used to drink, but never in excess. I was more or a social drinker. However, I've been plastered a few times. Not my cup of tea... or glass of beer, as it were. For one, I hate being under the influence and losing control of my motor skills. Also, I became a depressing drunk. But the ultimate reason I'm abstaining is because alcoholism runs in my family and I don't want to fall into that trap. Best to nip it in the bud, I say.

Kudos to all the teetotalers on this board!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:07pm

Just for the record, any throwing up and/or blacking out is an indicator of alcohol poisoning...it takes a lot of alcohol to do that, and it's pretty serious.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:09pm

I'm 17 and I have never been drunk, drinked (except for a sip or so of champagne), smoked, done drugs, had a girlfriend, been kissed, had sex, or even masturbated. Talk about super-virgin...

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:16pm

Well at least I've been kissed.

[Jellylorum]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:46pm

I usually drink when I have a really stressful week, and for me, it's a fun way to blow off steam. And I'm not yet drunk, it's fun to watch other people being drunk. Sometimes, I just have a cigarette or two. Most of the time, I don't do either: I get drunk once a month at the most and it takes me a month or two to smoke a pack of cigarettes. I know those are unhealthy ways to cope with stress, but I know my limits and am definitely not an alcoholic nicotine addict in danger of dropping dead at any moment.

Updated On: 2/25/07 at 12:46 PM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 12:53pm

"I'm 17 and I have never been drunk, drinked (except for a sip or so of champagne), smoked, done drugs, had a girlfriend, been kissed, had sex, or even masturbated. Talk about super-virgin..."

Just change a few words and I think you may be my clone.

Updated On: 2/25/07 at 12:53 PM

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:02pm

I've never been drunk.

I grew up in an extremely overprotective home. Sicilian, but not even a bit of wine at dinner. When I learned to cook, it was a fight to get brandy for recipies.

As an adult, I didn't have my first drink until I spent a weekend in the City with some friends and went to a cocktail bar with them after a show. Can't say I cared for the cosmo I ordered, but the raspberry vodka lemonade at lunch the next day was lovely.

I've never had more than a hint of a buzz...I guess I have a good tolerance level. Or, as a friend joked, it might be the obscene about of coffee I drink countering the alcohol.

I'm comfortable with a little light social drinking...wine or something over dinner with a friend sort of thing.

Absolutely hate beer and champagne, though.

[LiTtLeDaNcEr729]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:03pm

bwaylvsong....I'm 18...and I am the same way. Except I've never had a boyfriend (or a girlfriend- but mainly a boyfriend hah)

The most alcohol I have ever had is Manischevitz on Passover.

[misschung]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:31pm

Being drunk definetly does not equal glamour. All you have to do is Google "Celebrity mugshots" to see that!

I think the drinking age should be lowered too - either that or the draft age should be higher. I mean c'mon - you can go to Iraq but not have a beer? Sounds shady to me

[Andante]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 2:00pm

I'm 17, and though it's apparently "popular" and "cool" to drink/do drugs/have sex, whatever underage, I haven't done it. Society and the media have pressured us teenagers WAY too much when it comes to these things, and I personally refuse to give in to them. I won't drink until I'm of legal age (and I believe I'll find it disgusting), will never smoke (lung cancer history in my family), and will never do drugs because of all the horrible things I have heard about them.

While I think it's a good idea to lower the drinking age, it won't change anything. You'll still have kids/teens drinking at alarmingly early ages, and you'll still have as many drunk-driving accidents, drunk people, etc.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 2:06pm

I've never been drunk, I might play drunk, but I've never touched alchohol in my life. I'm 19 and a freshman in college and I do agree that it's really ridiculous how so many freshmen in college and they're some kids in high school and I think even in middle school who talk about how they get high, how they get drunk, how they are going have sex with their girlfriend and then treat her like trash.

It's really sad that they are a lot of kids drinking under the age limit, and it's funny, they think they'll never get caught, but karma always finds a way to bite you on the a**. Someone I know, the president of my senior class in high school, got busted for DUI and to make things worse, they found a crack or pot pipe in his car. Apparently he got thrown out of college for it.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 3:14pm

Frankly, I'm too much of a paranoid control freak to risk getting drunk. And I'm also evidently one of those girly girls who doesn't like the taste of straight alcohol. So I'll sip some wine in my periodic attempts to understand why people like the stuff, and I don't mind frou-frou cocktails, but that's about it for me. My family just...doesn't drink. There's no culture of drinking- the social beverage is coffee, not alcohol. They'll have wine with dinner sometimes, especially for holidays, but that's about it.

Beer pong is lovely as long as it isn't played anywhere near my place of residence. I came embarassingly close to throwing things at the drunks outside my window last year.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 3:30pm

"I don't understand the question."
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[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 3:45pm

I am a surprisingly good beer ponger.

[Yawper]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 4:49pm

drunk, yeah, but I can get depressed so I stop after one or two (also have a mortal fear of throwing up and definitely don't understand that as a bragging point)

my other huge caveat - I can't drink just to get drunk - if I don't like the taste of it I can't drink it

and, yeah, a shot of Jack before a dentist appointment (or other stressor) works wonders for anxiety :)

an ex-boss's 21 y.o. daughter just totalled her car last week - blew a 0.18 after they got her down to the police station (over 2x legal limit) - that's a heck of a tolerance for a 21 y.o. - she's obviously been pounding them for a few years

sooo...what's everybody's favorite?