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What age did you start drinking alcohol?

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    #32
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,688 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    First sip-8, my aunt thought it would be funny to give me a sip of her Malibu and pineapple, took a sip and puked in the glass.

    First drink-11, same aunt (bitch). Came into Dan Lowries in mosney parched, she handed me a smithwicks shandy, downed it in one.

    First time drunk. 15 at a gaffe party. No real story there.

    Highlight of it all is still walking into a pub with my granddad the day after my 18th and having my first legal drink with him.


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    #33
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Powers Whiskey?

    Nah, bit early for me.

    Even on a Friday?


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    #34
    Dick phelan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    First sip would have been 11 i think.
    First time drunk was 13 older mates 15th birthday in a field 3 cans and i was hammered.


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    #35
    9bred4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭9bred4


    Started proper drinking at 17!

    Side note, some of ye are really bitchy on this. Relax the flaps lads.


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    #36
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Around 4 :eek: myself and my siblings decided it would be a good idea to try some whiskey :eek: luckily enough the mother caught us before we drank too much :) After that about 7 or 8 tasted Guinness. Started drinking pints around 17 didn't try pints of Guinness until 23 and didn't look back.


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    #37
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I've no excuse, in vino veratis, on my posts to boards.


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    #38
    9bred4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭9bred4


    Manach wrote: »
    I've no excuse, in vino veratis, on my posts to boards.

    I'm gonna be stealing that Latin phrase thanks :D


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    #39
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Early teenage years, my neighbour started after his holy communion.


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    #40
    Reiketsu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    When I was 14 my parents let me drink in the house. At the same age I used to go to a friends and be honest about the fact I was going to be having a few drinks. My parents were okay about it because I never came home really steaming and I never lied about where I was or what I was doing.


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    #41
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    13. In Mosney. We swiped the drink, a full bottle of Pernod and a few bottles of sparkling table wine, from a nordie birds chalet.
    Me, her, and my mate and 2 brothers all got hammered.


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    #42
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    12. Me and 2 mates used to chip in for a flagon of Old Somerset and a couple of cans of Scrumpy Jack. My brother's mate would get them for us, and we'd drink them down in my shed on a Saturday afternoon.
    Good old times.


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    #43
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Manach wrote: »
    I've no excuse, in vino veratis, on my posts to boards.

    veratis ?


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lru4dJ4J6g


    :pac:


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    #44
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    17. I spent a year or two of doing a decent amount of drinking, but the novelty has worn off.

    I'd enjoy a cold cider with dinner, but few and far between.


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    #45
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Drank Baileys when I was 3 or 4, asked for milk and my incompetent father decided to give me Baileys.

    But I don't drink now nor smoke.


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    #46
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Started on Celebration Cream when I was about 8. Moved on to Alter wine as an Alter boy and G&Ts in my late teens. Now mostly Burgundy, Merlot, Brandy or White Rum based cocktails.


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    #47
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    When I was 14.
    Drank half a bottle of cheapo red wine up in Tick-Knock on the Wicklow Mountains.
    Every couple of weeks after that, I'd be at a house party getting locked on four cans of Budweiser :)


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    #48
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    15, vodka or cider. All went downhill from there.


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    #49
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    9bred4 wrote: »
    I'm gonna be stealing that Latin phrase thanks :D

    Check the spelling first though.

    (Not meant as grammar natzi post)


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    #50
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    15


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    #51
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    15 if you don't count that time I quaffed a whole set of mini licqueur's in my uncles house because of the pretty colours they were!


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    #52
    Nemeses
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭Nemeses


    Survey says....


    Jagershot!


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    #53
    smellmepower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    11 or 12 at a school disco.Friend stole lots of miniature bottles from his parents drinks cabinet (rum,vodka,gin etc) and we mixed them together with some red lemonade.We thought we were very sophisticated until we started projectile vomiting a few hours later.

    We also drank a bottle of red wine between us in a field beside the school around the same time, with similar results only the school caretaker (who was always trying to sell us stolen phones and chipped playstations) saw us and brought us home.


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    #54
    Herb Powell
    Registered Users Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭Herb Powell


    After I turned 18. I technically had a taste off a friend's can of Dutch at a party when I was 17, but I wouldn't count it as drinking.

    I just wasn't too impressed with the whole underage drinking scene. Didn't want to do my body any unnecessary harm, or get into any trouble over something I saw as stupid.

    Glad I held off, fecking love a good beer now.


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    #55
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Alcohol.. Not till 18 but I sniffed petrol since I was 4!!


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    #56
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    15, but never drank to much when I was younger, I used to smoke the funny fags a lot though, much better craic


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    #57
    emo72
    Registered Users Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭emo72


    im going to pixies tomorrow in marley park with my 16 yo son. should i allow him a sneaky pint or 2? he hasnt asked and isnt pushing for it. he wont even mention it. i know what im gonna do, but what do you guys think?


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    #58
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    In the summer holidays when I was 16. I was maudlin love with a 21 year old farmer. Told him I was a 19 year old student nurse down home from the Mater. He wouldn't have gone near me if he knew I was still in school. He brought me into the hotel on a Sunday afternoon and asked me what did I want to drink. I looked for a Bacardi and Coke cos that's what all the nurses drank. It nearly choked me.
    We had a passionate fling. He had a Mark 11 Ford Escort with yellow headlights and what he called " layback" seats and a tape deck. I could tell you the reg even now 33 years later.
    Of course it all ended in September when he passed me on the road in me school uniform and him on his way to the creamery with the milk.
    He never spoke to me again.
    I sometimes see him in the shops with his teenage daughter. He studiously avoids me.


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    #59
    LoonyLovegood
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 6,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Got given my first drink on holidays with my family when I was 12. My parents were always open about alcohol, and they always let us have tastes and all. I'm not interested in drinking now, tbh.


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    #60
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    didn't touch a drop till I was late 17, only problem is I haven't stopped since.


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    #61
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    I believe I was about thirteen when some of my friends got their hands on naggins and smuggled them into the local teeny boppers disco. Those were the days, passing the bottle around taking slugs and burning the throat off yourself. Us being young and completely inexperienced drinkers meant that we would be absolutely steamed for the " no alcohol " disco. Never did us any harm with the girls mind you, even then dutch courage always helped! Those were the days.


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