What age did you start drinking?

17-05-2011 10:18AM

15, celebrating LC results, 2 best friends and I got a litre bottle and went back to one of their houses. Mostly gave up drinking at 16

Minstrel27 · 17-05-2011 11:25AM

12. Sparkling cider was my tipple of choice back in those days.

Liam Byrne · 17-05-2011 11:29AM

18, as per the legal age.

My dad had said that he didn't care when I started drinking as long as he'd be the one that bought me the first.

I guess that makes me seem different to most Irish people who view drinking as some macho crap and that drinking before your voice breaks is somehow cool.

kfallon · 17-05-2011 11:32AM

Had a few 'field' sessions when I was 15, started drinking up the local at 16!

jimthemental · 17-05-2011 11:58AM

prinz wrote: »

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.

You're in the wrong forum, it's the ladies lounge that belongs in.

17-05-2011 12:02PM

16

burt_bondy · 17-05-2011 12:05PM

17, a pint of murphy's i think it was. i had tasted beer before and loathed the taste, but found stout palatable.

my beer aversion lasted for 3 years til i did the J1 - hard to find stout in california...

look at me now, ma.

prinz · 17-05-2011 12:48PM

jimthemental wrote: »

You're in the wrong forum, it's the ladies lounge that belongs in.

Some beers belong in glasses other than pint glasses.

brummytom · 17-05-2011 12:57PM

Seloth wrote: »

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

Yep, I'm the same as this I think ^^^.

starlit · 17-05-2011 01:11PM

17 or 19 when I started drinking but technically it was 10 or 15 when I had my first drink!

parker kent · 17-05-2011 01:17PM

I was 18 when I had my first drink, the day of the LC results.

Fun fact, there is 0% chance of becoming an alcoholic if you don't drink before you turn 18.

poisonated · 17-05-2011 01:30PM

15.

MiniSquish · 17-05-2011 01:34PM

14 with my friends outside (bushing). We'd get a nagon of vodka and drink it straight, I couldn't do that now if you paid me. We'd say we were going to the late show in the cinema to explain u coming in so late (and also to give us time to sober up before coming home). I never got caught

Marty McFly · 17-05-2011 01:42PM

13, My ma had gone out so me and a friend went into mine made up a 2 litre dolly mixture of all the drink that was in ym house then 4 of us drank it in a field at 12 in the day got pissed i was on my bike some the lads were on rollerblades, remember falling over a lot then going home hungover later that day covered in bruises, and somehow I loved that still love my owl pints the weekend.

LeeHoffmann · 17-05-2011 01:46PM

16

TeddyTedson · 17-05-2011 01:48PM

parker kent wrote: »

I was 18 when I had my first drink, the day of the LC results.

Fun fact, there is 0% chance of becoming an alcoholic if you don't drink before you turn 18.[/QUOTE]
You're not serious
I wish I never drank until I was 18, or 21, or never at all:P
I love to be able to go on a night out and not drink like some people on a regular basis. I've done it but find it boring.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 17-05-2011 01:49PM

12 or 13 I think. Started going to pubs and that at 16. At 17, I'm still going to pubs, can't be arsed with clubs.

parker kent · 17-05-2011 01:51PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

You're not serious
I wish I never drank until I was 18, or 21, or never at all:P
I love to be able to go on a night out and not drink like some people on a regular basis. I've done it but find it boring.

There are academic studies on it, I haven't got them to hand but it has been proven to a recent degree.

TeddyTedson · 17-05-2011 01:54PM

parker kent wrote: »

There are academic studies on it, I haven't got them to hand but it has been proven to a recent degree.

That's actually amazing. I never knew that.
A reason to strictly enforce the drinking laws.

seamus · 17-05-2011 01:58PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

That's actually amazing. I never knew that.

That's because it's nonsense.

prinz · 17-05-2011 02:01PM

parker kent wrote: »

Fun fact, there is 0% chance of becoming an alcoholic if you don't drink before you turn 18.

There's less of a chance. It's not zero.

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tipsforparents/a/early_age.htm

Show Time · 17-05-2011 02:08PM

From the age of 17-32 i drank like there was no tomorrow but i have not touched a drop in near five years now.

careca11 · 17-05-2011 02:10PM

MiniSquish wrote: »

14 with my friends outside (bushing). We'd get a nagon of vodka and drink it straight, I couldn't do that now if you paid me. We'd say we were going to the late show in the cinema to explain u coming in so late (and also to give us time to sober up before coming home). I never got caught

I use to stand around the corner from the local teenage disco (I was aged 13/14/15) Neck a naggin of vodka in one go raw , whack a load of triple x into my motuh and then bolt for the query ,
usually the alcohol didn't kick in until I got inside the door ....................then it was party time

I'd die now if I tried that

jimthemental · 17-05-2011 02:15PM

parker kent wrote: »

There are academic studies on it, I haven't got them to hand but it has been proven to a recent degree.

I know, and if you buy all of your cigarettes on the first Tuesday of every month you'll never get cancer. Thank God the scientists proved that one too!

snooleen · 17-05-2011 02:16PM

14 was the first time I got locked. Started drinking every weekend at 15, we would knock back the naggons of vodka straight as well, ugh I could never do that now. Also can't drink vodka and coke or cider because it just takes like the evil cheap crap we used to drink.

RichieC · 17-05-2011 02:18PM

18

seamus · 17-05-2011 02:19PM

prinz wrote: »

There's less of a chance. It's not zero.

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/tipsforparents/a/early_age.htm

Also worth noting that studies on monkeys show almost identical drinking patterns and predispositions, including abusive/happy drunks, alcoholism, teetotallers, etc.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/apr/26/1 (Note: I'm aware this article is light-hearted, but there's solid stuff behind it).

Indicates that we are largely pre-programmed in how we are likely to drink as we grow up. So those who drink later, do so because they're not all that interested in it. By correlation, those who aren't all that interested in drink are unlikely to develop dependence on it.

I know just as many stories of people who became alcoholics after not drinking till 21 as I do of people who drank themselves silly as teenagers and swore off the drink after growing up.

Quality · 17-05-2011 02:21PM

I would say 13, I was getting served in pubs at 14.

I did my leaving cert at 16 so had no problem getting served in bars and clubs from 16 onwards.

I remember the bouncer from the pub I drank in used to be on the same bus as me when I was on my way home from school. He tried to bar me from the pub, but I had a word with the manager and he let me back in again. I used to wave at him on the bus all the time.

Guill · 17-05-2011 02:23PM

Quality wrote: »

I would say 13, I was getting served in pubs at 14.

I did my leaving cert at 16 so had no problem getting served in bars and clubs from 16 onwards.

I remember the bouncer from the pub I drank in used to be on the same bus as me when I was on my way home from school. He tried to bar me from the pub, but I had a word with the manager and he let me back in again. I used to wave at him on the bus all the time.

Did you show them your results or what?

Quality · 17-05-2011 02:25PM

Guill wrote: »

Did you show them your results or what?

Meaning when you are finished school your not gonna sit around and wait 2 years to start drinking in pubs,
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they would have been impressed with the results though

What age did you start drinking?

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