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What age did you start drinking alcohol?

  • 27-06-2014 09:07PM
    #1
    pqdvdplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭pqdvdplayer


    Should be interesting to see the results of this survey.

    What age did you start drinking alcohol? 329 votes

    12 or below
    14% 48 votes
    13
    7% 25 votes
    14
    7% 25 votes
    15
    12% 40 votes
    16
    15% 52 votes
    17
    13% 43 votes
    18
    12% 42 votes
    Older than 18
    8% 27 votes
    Never
    8% 27 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    pqdvdplayer wrote: »
    Should be interesting to see the results of this survey.

    When did you start?


  • #3
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    When did you start?

    When did you become a mod?


  • #4
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    When did you become a mod?

    When did you start back seating?


  • #5
    pqdvdplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭pqdvdplayer


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    When did you start?

    That really doesn't concern you. How dare you ask a stranger about such personal details on an online forum.


  • #6
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    My granaunt gave me a small drop of Baileys when I was 12. I use to take a sip here and there but didn't really start drinking til I was 18. Don't really have much interest in it now, was never a big thing for me.... :-/

    Edit: Which option to I pick? :confused:


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  • #7
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    When did you start back seating?

    I have a little power here if you're looking for some


  • #8
    masti123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭masti123


    When I was 13, used to drink 4 cans of cider for a fiver in the field, the good old days :)


  • #9
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Oooooooooh bitchy.

    Meow


  • #10
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Had first taste drink prob bout 12 or 13 year old.
    But when I was 16 and on holidays with my parents my dad told me to grab a bear from fridge and have a drink with him on the balcony.
    Told me the way to treat drink as to not abuse it or take the pi55 with it.
    Appreciate it a lot more because had me first drink with me dad instead of sitting in a poxy field with me mates and drinking Dutch.


  • #11
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    I have a little power here if you're looking for some

    Powers Whiskey?

    Nah, bit early for me.


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  • #12
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    13/14 I started slowly.

    I remember an older friend asking me could I hold much, meaning in what quantity could I drink, I thought he ment in what I could carry, so I said about three six packs,18 bottles. He was impressed...


  • #13
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    pqdvdplayer wrote: »
    That really doesn't concern you. How dare you ask a stranger about such personal details on an online forum.

    Good way to get people to vote in your poll.


  • #14
    pqdvdplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭pqdvdplayer


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Good way to get people to vote in your poll.


    Well spotted sir. I don't know what I'd do without people like you on the internet to point out the obvious at any opportunity.


  • #15
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Good way to get people to vote in your poll.

    I was expecting a poo post Arthur. I has the disappoint. :(


  • #16
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    I had a few mouthfulls of Guinness when we were out making hay I was around 6 then. Really kicked off when I was 15 because my older brother who is 3 years olderwas out the whole time so I looked older never had any bother getting served.
    I have drank most weekends without fail since and for 15 years or so most Monday, and Thursday nights and maybe a few cans on the other nights if I didnt wander out.
    Found out a month ago that my brother who I looked up to didnt drink until he was 24, the ba5t@r0


  • #17
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    pqdvdplayer wrote: »
    Well spotted sir. I don't know what I'd do without people like you on the internet to point out the obvious at any opportunity.

    You are very welcome. Nice to know that I have been if assistance.


  • #18
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    When I was 15, I got a Saturday job in a shop. It paid £2.50 for the day!

    For that you could get a pack of smokes and 5 or 6 pints of Light and Bitter (Light and Bitter was good - it always felt like you knew what you were talking about) and then maybe a kebab on the way home.

    Happy Days :)


  • #19
    larrlin24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭larrlin24


    Drank for the first time when I was 14, but got drunk for the first time when I was 15 going on 16. Went crazy drinking nearly every weekend until I was about 19 and now at 22 I haven't drank in nearly two years. Not really interested in it any more.


  • #20
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Fat Christy wrote: »
    I was expecting a poo post Arthur. I has the disappoint. :(

    Well I **** myself the first time i got langered - does that count?


  • #21
    HomelessMidge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭HomelessMidge


    I was 12 the first time getting drunk.
    Then when I was 13 it was the odd time like Easter and such.
    I'd say at 14 I was drinking at least 2 to 3 times a month.
    15 I started smoking hash and would have been drinking most weekends.
    16 I was doing different drugs and drinking almost every weekend.
    17 I kinda calmed down and just smoked weed and drank the odd weekend, maybe once a month.
    I'm 22 now and haven't drank since new years.


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  • #22
    Maleficent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Maleficent


    Experimented at 14. Still do.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OP, cough up the personal info or the thread and the pretty poll gets it.


  • #24
    pqdvdplayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭pqdvdplayer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    OP, cough up the personal info or the thread and the pretty poll gets it.
    16


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You get away with it this time OP, this time.

    :cool:


  • #26
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Does gripe water as a baby count?


  • #27
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Am I the only one the intentionally voted inaccurately? Sorry, OP :)


  • #28
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    20 or 21. Though I did take a few sips of a Guinness when I was 4.


  • #29
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    When I was 13, Stag was the Drink of choice of young Rapscallions, if you've ever tasted Stag you'll know that it was impossible to drink much more than 3 - 4 longnecks, feckin poxy stuff

    22/25



  • #30
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Had first taste drink prob bout 12 or 13 year old.
    But when I was 16 and on holidays with my parents my dad told me to grab a bear from fridge and have a drink with him on the balcony.
    Told me the way to treat drink as to not abuse it or take the pi55 with it.
    Appreciate it a lot more because had me first drink with me dad instead of sitting in a poxy field with me mates and drinking Dutch.

    At least there were no bears in the fields, your dad sounds pretty irresponsible, keeping wildlife in the fridge


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  • #31
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,084 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Kept the pledge until 3 days shy of my 18th birthday I decided it would be rebellious to break it with 3 pints of Smithwicks in Madigans of Rathmines


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