Underage Drinking

Deneb Cygnus · 05-10-2017 09:47PM #1

Just curious.
Are you currently underage, and if so, do you drink? Are you now legal, but used to drink underage? What were your experiences with the subject? Discuss

Fr_Dougal · 05-10-2017 09:49PM

Deneb Cygnus wrote: »

Just curious.
Are you currently underage, and if so, do you drink? Are you now legal, but used to drink underage? What were your experiences with the subject? Discuss

KERSPLAT! · 05-10-2017 09:50PM

I drank when underage. It was mostly good craic sprinkled with bouts of puking my guts up after a few litres of crap cider. 6/10, would do again.

Deneb Cygnus · 05-10-2017 09:51PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Now now Father, don't be thinking that way.
Down with that sort of thing, careful now.

I'm currently underage meself, so

PTH2009 · 05-10-2017 09:53PM

Remember giving some random lad money to go into the offie and get us drink and we do the whole 'pass by and hand over the goods without making eye contact' lol

Didn't knw what was happening the first time I felt tipsy lol I thought I was just dizzy

Gerrup Outta Dat! · 05-10-2017 09:54PM

Bunch of 14 year old scangers were outside a local supermarket. They beckoned me over. "Hey mistarr, geh us a few cans will yeh?. (They never specified which ones

)

So I duly obliged. I asked them if I should get them the cheapest I can find, they said yes.

I took their collective 30 Euro and went int the shop. I filled a bag-for-life with shop brand cola. I covered the opening of the bag with another bag for life so it wouldn't be immediately noticeable.

I beckoned one of the scangers and said I'll leave it beside the bin, take it after I drive off so it's not so obvious (I wanted to be out of the firing line :P ).

I could hear them screaming when I was a mile up the road .. little vermin scrotes :P

whiskeyman · 05-10-2017 09:57PM

Discuss?

How about you do your own essay on the topic...

Deneb Cygnus · 05-10-2017 10:00PM

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Bunch of 14 year old scangers were outside a local supermarket. They beckoned me over. "Hey mistarr, geh us a few cans will yeh?. (They never specified which ones )

So I duly obliged. I asked them if I should get them the cheapest I can find, they said yes.

I took their collective 30 Euro and went int the shop. I filled a bag-for-life with shop brand cola. I covered the opening of the bag with another bag for life so it wouldn't be immediately noticeable.

I beckoned one of the scangers and said I'll leave it beside the bin, take it after I drive off so it's not so obvious (I wanted to be out of the firing line :P ).

I could hear them screaming when I was a mile up the road .. little vermin scrotes :P

Ah jayzuz, that's a biteen bad nowðŸ˜‚.

05-10-2017 10:18PM

I have fond memories of the large bottles of Cider drank down by the river or under the train bridge when I was 13-15. Thankfully, we discovered cannabis, a nice sheltered older building and left alcohol far behind us.

Burial. · 05-10-2017 10:33PM

Used have a few cans and a few sups of a naggin on the bus out to the teen disco ever since I was 13/14 and gradually increased. By 16 I "bought" my brothers provisional license off him and rigged it up. Absolutely flawless considering the nonexistent level of security on those old paper licenses. Could get served anywhere outside the busy places in Cork city and anywhere where locals would know I was underage. Probably did a lot of harm to the liver which will f*ck me over in years to come but I don't regret it for one minute.

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-10-2017 10:38PM

Ten John Player Blue and a two litre of Olde English

An evening out for less than a tenner

WoollyRedHat · 05-10-2017 10:39PM

What project is this for OP? Can't you just go to the local park on the Friday and chat to some youths; experience it first hand.. you could even do a vox pox and then show the class.

andekwarhola · 05-10-2017 10:44PM

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Bunch of 14 year old scangers were outside a local supermarket. They beckoned me over. "Hey mistarr, geh us a few cans will yeh?. (They never specified which ones )

So I duly obliged. I asked them if I should get them the cheapest I can find, they said yes.

I took their collective 30 Euro and went int the shop. I filled a bag-for-life with shop brand cola. I covered the opening of the bag with another bag for life so it wouldn't be immediately noticeable.

I beckoned one of the scangers and said I'll leave it beside the bin, take it after I drive off so it's not so obvious (I wanted to be out of the firing line :P ).

I could hear them screaming when I was a mile up the road .. little vermin scrotes :P

You're afraid to set foot in the area since though, aren't you?

Will I Am Not · 05-10-2017 10:44PM

My brother in law is in his early 20's and recently told me he had never been "knacker" drinking. The same with all his mates.

I've often passed the spots where we used to drink when we were younger and there's never anybody there.
Is it not a thing anymore?

retro:electro · 05-10-2017 10:44PM

If you've never taped a naggin to your knickers, are you even Irish?

Hector Bellend · 05-10-2017 10:46PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

What project is this for OP? Can't you just go to the local park on the Friday and chat to some youths; experience it first hand.. you could even do a vox pox and then show the class.

Superb typo.

Been drinking have we?

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-10-2017 10:48PM

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

My brother in law is in his early 20's and recently told me he had never been "knacker" drinking. The same with all his mates.

I've often passed the spots where we used to drink when we were younger and there's never anybody there.
Is it not a thing anymore?

Mollycoddled

Four Phucs Ache · 05-10-2017 10:50PM

From what I can remember my first encounter with drink went like this,

Age 14
Summer night
5 friends
Back garden of friends house
Tent
8 two litre bottles of cider
Smokes
Talking about girls and life
Brian's ma is hot
Brian not happy
So hungry
Puke
Broken swing
Shed blasted with piss
Angry neighbour
Best of scooter cd
Fire
More fire
No more tent
Crying
Parents
More parents
Everybody's fooking parents
Brian's ma still hot
All dad's agree

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 05-10-2017 10:51PM

Other side of the coin: several times when I live in Ireland I went to the offie to get a few beers (as an adult) and was asked by a teenager in the doorway if I'd get a bottle of vodka for him.

In the doorway of the Off-License. How thick is it possible to be...?

andekwarhola · 05-10-2017 10:52PM

The Fake Sheikh wrote: »

My brother in law is in his early 20's and recently told me he had never been "knacker" drinking. The same with all his mates.

I've often passed the spots where we used to drink when we were younger and there's never anybody there.
Is it not a thing anymore?

Maybe more disposable income these days so it's not such a thing?

sdanseo · 05-10-2017 10:56PM

Just to add a voice of dissent for whatever figures you're cooking, I didn't start drinking till I was 23. Never knacker drank or drank underage as a result (naturally).

Generally speaking, I've spent the last 5 years catching up on lost time

allthedoyles · 05-10-2017 10:59PM

Started at 16 drinking Poitin that we used to have at home to give to the lambs if they were dying .

Moved on to vodka and britvic orange after that so everyone thought we were drinking orange.

Throwing up breakfast dinner and supper was a regular occurence .

Noveight · 05-10-2017 11:01PM

I started going out to pubs when I was 17. Usually got past the door without much hassle and drank cans of cider or vodka. Didn't go at it too hard and only once was I sent home in a bad way.

I'm happy with how I was introduced to drink. I learned what my limits were and when to call it quits, with some reckless craic along the way.

Hammer89 · 05-10-2017 11:04PM

Deneb Cygnus wrote: »

Are you currently underage, and if so, do you drink? Are you now legal, but used to drink underage? What were your experiences with the subject? Do you drink in a park? What park? Are there any bushes in the park to hide in? How far away is the nearest Garda station from the park? Are there street lights in the park? Would you get into a car if someone gave you a naggin? Do you carry any weapons on when you're underage drinking such as pepper spray? Do you have a dog? Do you have an alarm? Does your dad have golf clubs in the house? Do you have any creaky floorboards? Discuss. Just curious.

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RoisinClare6 · 05-10-2017 11:04PM

For my junior results my mam got me the alDi versions of smirnoff ice drinks as I had a few friends over to celebrate. Other than that the Christmas before our 18 birthday my dad would bring us for our 'first' drink in the pub. I'm not much of a drinker now, only on the odd occasion and my brother and sisters aren't big drinkers either.

Burial. · 05-10-2017 11:07PM

allthedoyles wrote: »

Started at 16 drinking Poitin that we used to have at home to give to the lambs if they were dying .

Moved on to vodka and britvic orange after that so everyone thought we were drinking orange.

Throwing up breakfast dinner and supper was a regular occurence .

I have no idea why but I can't stop laughing at this sentence.

Larbre34 · 05-10-2017 11:12PM

Underage drinking was always a thing, sank plenty of truly dreadful lager myself at the time - but the gallons of spirits the kids get through these days scares me, it'll be years yet before it is shown the damage many have done to themselves, physically and mentally, but you can bet it will be ugly and costly.

ohnonotgmail · 05-10-2017 11:48PM

naggin of vodka and a couple of cans of LCL pils before heading in to the grove in raheny. Good times.

freshpopcorn · 06-10-2017 12:05AM

I never really went for the whole drinking outside thing. We were generally in a friends house. Our teachers allowed us to drink on foreign school tours but we weren't allowed to take pictures.
A few local pubs the night club would generally serve you once you were around 16/17 and they knew they could trust you.
I am legal now my relationship with alcohol is fine now I only drink drinks I enjoy. I was never into buying the cheapest thing in the shop just to get drunk.

WoollyRedHat · 06-10-2017 12:07AM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Superb typo.

Been drinking have we?

I just have a rhyming addiction, it's quite the affliction.

harry Bailey esq · 06-10-2017 02:56AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Ten John Player Blue and a two litre of Olde English

An evening out for less than a tenner

Our flagons of choice was called boss cider, they used to sell it out of a hatch in some kip in Moore St.

Underage Drinking

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