At what age did you first get drunk at?

El_Dangeroso · 18-06-2013 10:17AM #1

For me I was 16, my sister took me to a night club and I drank 3 bacardi breezers. When I got home to bed the room would not stop spinning. That put me off alcohol until I was 17 and got to college.

lertsnim · 18-06-2013 10:18AM

12. In a field. Sparkling Cider it was

puddinboxxx · 18-06-2013 10:19AM

22..i was a late bloomer

stefan idiot jones · 18-06-2013 10:22AM

13 and I couldn't get to my feet until mid afternoon the next day. Cider.

April O Neill · 18-06-2013 10:25AM

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

For me I was 16, my sister took me to a night club and I drank 3 bacardi breezers. When I got home to bed the room would not stop spinning. That put me off alcohol until I was 17 and got to college.

17 for me. Copious amounts of vodka.

But I must have been a hardened drinker from the start, because prior to that, at 15 and 16, I'd have two or three drinks on a night out (lax security in the local over 18s!), usually Pernod or Bacardi Breezers and they would barely even make me tipsy.

theteal · 18-06-2013 10:26AM

12-13 and I've not been able to drink cider since

Frolick · 18-06-2013 10:27AM

18 or 19? Can't remember, I was drunk.

darragh16 · 18-06-2013 10:30AM

16; pints of fosters when I was in London for a weekend away, topped off with vodka. Ended up being driven around the locality trying to sober me up before I was caught by the oul pair. I vaguely remember getting sick out the door.

Then my oul pair made me go do touristy shíte the next day whilst severely hungover!

ezekel · 18-06-2013 10:30AM

13 years of age, drunk on a bottle of Thunderbird

Shenshen · 18-06-2013 10:31AM

In my mid-20s.

Don't get me wrong, I can't even remember how old I was when my gran first allowed me a sip off her beer, it's just that I never drank so much that I would end up drunk until one day in my 20s.

I hated it, and have avoided getting drunk since.

mitosis · 18-06-2013 10:31AM

At what age did you first get drunk at?

OP is drunk right now!

downonthefarm · 18-06-2013 10:33AM

13,on vodka.glad i started early dont drink at all now

OldGoat · 18-06-2013 10:34AM

3 months. Gripewater. Can't remember much of what happened, I musta been plastered.

Ihatecuddles-old · 18-06-2013 10:38AM

14, polished off a bottle of gallo. Ugh.

Remember being on the bathroom floor at 4am thinking I was about to die. Kept saying 'I'm sorry, I'll never drink again'

rainbow kirby · 18-06-2013 11:04AM

15, on a karate club trip to Jersey. Having to catch 2 flights the next day with a hangover put me off the stuff for a while, although the Aer Lingus fry (late 90s when this was a thing) did act as good soakage...

The Backwards Man · 18-06-2013 11:06AM

Ten, gathering potatoes in the hail and snow.

aaakev · 18-06-2013 11:07AM

12 on warn cans of beer nicked from my friends house, thought we were mad till we got caught and grounded ;(

Phill Ewinn · 18-06-2013 11:08AM

35. Ma wouldn't let me drink till I tidied my room.

herisson · 18-06-2013 11:10AM

14, drank a heap of cider at a house party. Put me off drinking for a bit.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-06-2013 11:12AM

12, a few hours after I took the pledge.
14, on a school trip to France.
15, drinking neat brandy - first time I actually passed out from drinking.
16/17 - started drinking regularly.

candy-gal1 · 18-06-2013 11:14AM

18 for me, on my 18th birthday, budweiser/heineken!

Had been tipsy before a few times, at 16/17 usually on just a few bacardi breezers :eek:, but 18 was the first time I was just drunkity drunk!
I remember thinking one minute "oh being drunk is great, I can handle drink"

then quickly went to "I dont think I can walk the 5 or 6 steps to the bathroom without falling over"

:rolleyes:

Red Kev · 18-06-2013 11:20AM

4 . With my neighbour who was 4 or 5 at the time, we nicked a couple of bottles of beer out of his parents house and sat beneath a tree playing "oul fellas". Got caught (obviously), vomited everywhere and left it until I was 14, almost 15. I had a few beers when we got the Inter Cert results and I was a fair bit pissed alright. Didn't get caught thank Christ!

--Kaiser-- · 18-06-2013 11:35AM

18
That's why I don't have impaired mental development like most Irish people
:pac:

minidazzler · 18-06-2013 11:46AM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

18
That's why I don't have impaired mental development like most Irish people
:pac:

Too bad you've never reached enlightenment.

17, vodka in Paris on a balcony outside our hotel window. It was amazing... still is to this day. Quote of the trip was "I feel great" because I kept saying it.

Pogmothone · 18-06-2013 11:51AM

13, My friend and I went halves on a six pack of Dutch Gold, I have been drinking that liquid gold ever since. I'm even a member of the Dutch Gold appreciation society.
To the tune of "Touch Me" by Rui Da Silva

"Dutch me in the morning,
and last thing at night
keep those cans a supping
you know it feels right!

Drop me down the offie, I'll go there with you
Six for seven euro,
I'm feelin it too!!"

ScumLord · 18-06-2013 12:10PM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

12, a few hours after I took the pledge.

Do you take the pioneer pledge at 12? I thought it was earlier. I remember on the day I became a pioneer I found a can of beer behind a wall at the priests house, I took it as a sign and drank the can.

wexfordman2 · 18-06-2013 12:11PM

My dad got caught drinking by his mother when he was 36!! She didnt speak to him for weeks!

Me, 17!

dgt · 18-06-2013 12:12PM

14. once when I was in 2nd year I went to a friends house during lunchtime and had a glass of vodka... I don't remember much after that only I had double latin first thing after lunch!

Next time was 16 in a pub and after that was 17 in an army barracks

18-06-2013 12:21PM

I'd drank a few time before in (including in the pub on jc results night) but think the first time I got properly drunk was when I was 16 down the pub with a few relations, Had about 6 or 7 pints, cant believe how drunk I was after so little drink looking back, compared to what I put away some nights now.

GreenWolfe · 18-06-2013 12:21PM

Another late bloomer here, I was just twenty when I first got drunk. It was at the end of second-year exams if I remember correctly.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 18-06-2013 12:26PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Do you take the pioneer pledge at 12? I thought it was earlier. I remember on the day I became a pioneer I found a can of beer behind a wall at the priests house, I took it as a sign and drank the can.

No I was twelve making it on my confirmation.

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