What age did you start drinking?

TeddyTedson · 17-05-2011 04:30AM #1

I think I was about 14 when I started having regular sessions with my mates. It used to be so easy to get back then, so I imagine its the same for kids today.
What age did people start drinking fairly regularly, I'm not talking about getting pissed at Christmas when you were 8.

amacachi · 17-05-2011 04:32AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

What age did people start drinking fairly regularly, I'm not talking about getting pissed at Christmas when you were 8.

Glad you said that, thought I was the only one...

TeddyTedson · 17-05-2011 04:35AM

amacachi wrote: »

Glad you said that, thought I was the only one...

Nothing better than when you were a really young kid and you take a drink of your parents booze.

TaraFoxglove · 17-05-2011 04:36AM

Only got drunk for first time at 17 after I had finished school. Wet my whistle for the first time at 15ish.

OPENROAD · 17-05-2011 04:38AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Nothing better than when you were a really young kid and you take a drink of your parents booze.

I got caught, my dad went mental, well mental-ish

Lapin · 17-05-2011 04:39AM

Got nice and tipsy after my third glass of wine.

The day I made my first holy communion.

OPENROAD · 17-05-2011 04:40AM

Started going out drinking when I was 17

lalee17 · 17-05-2011 04:41AM

First got drunk at age 14.. Went off it for about a year (it was a bad experience) and then started properly drinking at around age 15.

Seloth · 17-05-2011 05:39AM

First drink at 14...But got proper pissed at 16 and around then it became a bit regular!

seanybiker · 17-05-2011 05:45AM

Proper pissed at about 12 or 13. The good old days of a 3 litre devils bit.

stiffler123 · 17-05-2011 05:55AM

Started drinking those awful 2 litre goons of cider at about 16. Didn't know I was not a cider man and most of my mates were in the same boat. Threw up 70% of the time every time.

OutlawPete · 17-05-2011 05:58AM

Breastmilk, around 11 hours.
Red Lemonade around 2.
Lilt around 4.
Iron Bru around 7.
Cavan Cola around 10.
Club Shandy around 12.
Bottles of Guinness around 13
Tennents around 15.
Furstenberg around 16.
Grolsch around 17.
Jack Daniels around 18.
Methylated Spirits not long after ..

That's right kids, you wanna lead a healthy life of sobriety, lay of the titty milk.

RachaelVO · 17-05-2011 08:21AM

I was about 18ish, couldn't of been arsed! I was allowed to have a drink so cos I was allowed to, I didn't want to! Didn't see the point in sitting in a field freezing my arse off!

You can rest assured I have MORE than made up for not teenage drinking!

Skatedude · 17-05-2011 08:31AM

i had a few beers when i was 17, but very rarely drank till i was 18, and then not very often.
I usally have a fair few beers once a week now on the weekend.

the_syco · 17-05-2011 08:34AM

16 in the fields, 17 in the over 23's Lucan pub (being tall ftw).

Cupcake_Crisis · 17-05-2011 09:16AM

Had my first drink at my mams friends daughters debs when I was about 14. Didn't drink for a fair while after, I'd say I started getting drunk around 16 or 17

GavRedKing · 17-05-2011 09:17AM

I didnt do much of it under age TBH. I just went for the craic with all the buddies. One of the locals was very easy to get served in so by the time we we're 17, nearly 18 we spent friday or saturday nights in there and when we turned 18 we're legally allowed to drink we went to clubs and other bars.

So thew tl:dr answer is 17, nearly 18.

Duggy747 · 17-05-2011 09:35AM

Knacker drinking in the bush when I was 14, only recently upgraded to a thing called a "pub" the other week after 12 years.

prinz · 17-05-2011 09:38AM

About 19 or so, for sessions with friends etc. Long before that for the odd bottle/glass of beer and wine at home with the family.

Guill · 17-05-2011 09:42AM

14.

This thread should have a poll:

11 - 12
13 - 14
15 - 16
16 - 17
17 - 8
18 - 19
19 -20
20 - 21
I'm too cool to drink

Or along those lines.

Donny Bonaduce · 17-05-2011 09:46AM

I grew up in coolock so naturally I started drinking at age 6. But technically speaking seeing as my un married junkie mother was also an alcoholic I was pretty much swimming in alcohol infused ambriotic fluid since the night I was accidentally concieved in what is now the stardust memorial park.

Sunnyisland · 17-05-2011 09:49AM

Donny Bonaduce wrote: »

I grew up in coolock so naturally I started drinking at age 6. But technically speaking seeing as my unmarried junkie mother was also an alcoholic I was pretty much swimming in alcohol infused amniotic fluid since the night I was accidentally conceived in what is now the stardust memorial park.

Its nice to see it hasn't effected your sense of humanity to your own mother.

NothingMan · 17-05-2011 09:50AM

First drink was under severe peer pressure..... from my Mam. It was christmas when I was about 15 or 16 I think. Wasn't that pushed on it really. Had great times with my friends without drink. Then around 16 or 17 I started hanging out with another set of friends and they were more into drinking so I would have started around late 16's or 17 really. Still wouldn't have drank much when with the original group of friends though.

Now I'm a very responsible adult, in so far as if I don't remember, it didn't happen.

Sunnyisland · 17-05-2011 09:52AM

Started 13/14 years of age, finished 47 years of age,

sollar · 17-05-2011 09:53AM

First got tipsy at 8 funnily enough but the real drinking started at 15

blackdog2 · 17-05-2011 09:55AM

Guill wrote: »

14.

This thread should have a poll:

11 - 12
13 - 14
15 - 16
16 - 17
17 - 8
18 - 19
19 -20
20 - 21
I'm too cool to drink

Or along those lines.

Don't forget the Bacardi Jaguar option

17-05-2011 10:04AM

We had a good few pints in the pub after getting the junior cert results so about 16. Got proper pissed in the local around 17. Never did a massive amount of bushing as we could always get served, but we were partial to a niggain here and there too. Was regularly drinking from 17 onwards, going to nightclubs etc.

Obviously I was having sips here and there when I was 7 or 8 like most others too.

df1985 · 17-05-2011 10:04AM

was always allowed a tiny bit of wine at xmas dinner from a very young age.

first time pissed was 13 at a mates 21st birthday. I had 3 pints of bulmers snuck down to me in the corner of the room. I left with a bunch of baloons tied to me......

seamus · 17-05-2011 10:05AM

Probably around 14, don't really remember. Have a mate who's 4 years older than me, so he had no problem getting booze. His family also run a haulage company, so from time to time he'd come home with a case of something alcohol-ish from a batch that they were being paid to dump.

Wasn't all that regular at the time, really just whenever something happened to drop into his hands, we'd sit in his room playing playstation and getting pissed.

It was only after the junior cert that it became more a regular thing every other weekend. We'd get a bag of cans down the local off licence, down 2 or 3 each in about 20 minutes and then walk home via the chipper to play playstation half-pissed. By the end of fourth year we were wandering into town and going to the International.

careca11 · 17-05-2011 10:10AM

started on my 13th Birthday
stonehouse cider ,
lcl pils
linden village
Old english
Kings Acher (absoulte rocket fuel)
ice cold pints of Bulmer's
naggins of grants vodka (like paintstripper)

and to this day I regret starting way back then , have stuff hellish stomach problems , 3 major operation's in the space of 5 months in 2008

current side effects..............cannot drink anything carbonated ever, and cannot burp , all air goes out the dinner dumper
nowasday I drink feck all , when I do its wine or Vodka and OJ

sollar · 17-05-2011 10:14AM

careca11 wrote: »

linden village

The old flagons of linden village

i forgot about them.

What age did you start drinking?

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