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Scotland alchohol age to rise?
Replies: 14 — Last Post June 26, 2008 5:11pm by Birdo
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Apparently your going to need to be 21 to buy booze from off-licences and supermarkets but the age for pubs and clubs will stay at 18.
So i can go out and get absaloutly bladdered but i cant have a beer watching the football in my house.

What a load of shite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7456000/7456276.stm

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I feel bad for the 19 year olds who have been drinking for a year now but now have to stop for 2 years.
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Quote: from morik at 11:13 am on June 16, 2008
I feel bad for the 19 year olds who have been drinking for a year now but now have to stop for 2 years.

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It does seem a little backward doesn't it. I suppose it is an attempt to reduce underage drinking on the street....or just drinking on the street full stop.

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i saw braveheart again the other day, and that made me want to go to scotland. its pretty their.

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Sucks 4 Scotties.
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thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.

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Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:28 am on June 16, 2008
thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.

Again an attempt to stop drinking on the street.

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Quote: from theatreminelli at 8:31 pm on June 16, 2008
Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:28 am on June 16, 2008
thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.

Again an attempt to stop drinking on the street.

its just as easy to drink a spirits on the street as premixed drinks... its easier infact because you can fit 20 standard drinks into 1 drink bottle...

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Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:44 am on June 16, 2008
Quote: from theatreminelli at 8:31 pm on June 16, 2008
Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:28 am on June 16, 2008
thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.
 

 Again an attempt to stop drinking on the street.

its just as easy to drink a spirits on the street as premixed drinks... its easier infact because you can fit 20 standard drinks into 1 drink bottle...

But you have to mix it with something else, so you have to carry around 2 bottles then whatever you want to mix it in cups or a bottle or whatever. With premixed drinks you just opne and drink.

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Quote: from theatreminelli at 8:46 pm on June 16, 2008
Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:44 am on June 16, 2008
Quote: from theatreminelli at 8:31 pm on June 16, 2008
Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:28 am on June 16, 2008
thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.

  Again an attempt to stop drinking on the street.

 

 its just as easy to drink a spirits on the street as premixed drinks... its easier infact because you can fit 20 standard drinks into 1 drink bottle...

But you have to mix it with something else, so you have to carry around 2 bottles then whatever you want to mix it in cups or a bottle or whatever. With premixed drinks you just opne and drink.

you dont have to mix it. lots of people dont, especially guys.

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Quote: from twizlstikz at 11:28 am on June 16, 2008
thats stupid. not as stupid as raising the tax on pre mixed drinks and not spirits though. that is the ultimate of stupid.

The drinking culture is different in England, I think. Teenagers buy pre-mixers because they're cheaper and easier to get hold of than anything else. If you go and buy spirits, you're guaranteed to get ID'd over here.

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It prevents you being able to buy really cheap alcohol, and thus getting wasted on a daily basis. Wherever you want. It's not backwards, but forwards thinking.

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I read about this aswell and find it quite stupid actually.
Although havent they been saying things like this for the past few years, but done nothing about it?


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Sounds like it's more of an attempt to control drinking in youths. We all know teenagers can't be trusted, and only letting them drink in a bar, where their intake is controlled, probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Having a split age though seems a little odd to me too.

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