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underage drinking was my favorite hobby in middle and high school. no regrets
Someone once said that raising the drinking age to 21 didn't stop 18 year olds from getting booze, but it did stop a lot of 14 year olds from getting booze.
I really don't know anybody from America who didn't drink before 21. I'm still not a fan of alcohol outside of social events, didn't go to parties often in the first place, and was generally a good little honors student who followed the rules. However, even I drank several times before it was legal.
How?
Everyone family and friends that are older
18 year olds can pass for 21 with a fake ID but a 14 year old definitely couldn't
It's more rather preventing seniors at high school buying it for freshmen at high school. Whereas most 21YO+'s friends are adults.
Which is an awful idea, gladly I never had any trouble getting alcohol at 12-14, and yeah, by 22 I had fucked around so much and partied so hard that was already retiring from getting drunk... isn't it better to be irresponsible idiots when you indeed have no responsibilities, and give a good use to all those puberty hormones?
Alcohol can have an impact on the brain's development, which stops at around 32 years old anyway. So it is less harmful (edit : for the brain development) the older you get. Also, the earlier someone starts drinking, the higher their chances are of developing an addiction.
Fun fact! The reason we say brain development stops at 32 is cus the study famous for it stopped at 32 😁
Yep, the real point where the development stops is not widely known yet. There are even articles which say 37 might be the point, but its definite that its past 32.
I've always heard mid to late 20s as the point where most of the growth stops. Your brain changes to some extent throughout your entire life, but most performance metrics peak around then and decline after.
I read it was 25. In any case, it sure isn't 21.
Why does everyone act like being smart is so great. I'm dumb and I'm okay with it.
So true. I'm smart and it low-key sucks
...i played an orc with 7 intelligence; he was great...
Brain development never stops
Your body is in a constant state of change your whole life, but there is still a point where you can call it mature.
No one's ever accused me of being mature.
Drinking after 32 yo has a negative impact on the brain too lmao.
But most certainly less than at a young age.
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Learn to drink before you learn to drive imo
I would like to believe all the lessons I learned doing wreckless could have been learned elsehow, but also it tamed me out by the time I was 14. I could tell a lot of the kids around me at that age were acting out as a result of their newfound freedom, the kinda freedom and lack of supervision I had had for ten years at that point. I had my fill already and became a relatively calm and subdued teen. But only because I had learned my lessons through pain.
Are you me? Same trajectory, really.
I did pick up hard drinking again after a several-year-hiatus, though. Then several years of that made me never touch hard liquor again.
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Hey, more booze for me!
Millenial and trying to forget 🤘
I'm trying to forget Kimi No Na Wa and this meme is not helping
Makes no difference to me as I mostly drink my own homebrew cider and mead.
Ooo, must be nice, Mr I-Make-My-Own-Remedies-At-Home
You need to send me some samples of your superior medicine, you!
I too enjoy replacing the fading sins of my past with entirely new and far worse mistakes
Once had a nondescript volume (sips sips sips) of Jack Daniels from a flask before a night out. Getting that drunk just isn't fun, especially when I'm moving about. Had a hangover so bad my cheeks were bruised from the swelling.
I'm sticking to weed instead.
alcohol is worsssttttttttt
Alcohol let's us live a little while we shave years off our lives.
It's bad, but it's also kind of an understandable reaction to what's going on in the world today. The environment is being destroyed, the planet is becoming more and more uninhabitable for humans (because of the greed of human companies and countries). And the worst human behavior imaginable is being lauded as not just permissable, but recommended.
A lot of us won't accept that... So we just live in this mess hating it all.
People shouldn't drink excessively, but I get it.
i get a bad hangover from alcohol, but not the next day, but immediately, like 5 minutes after drinking.
tfw, allergic
dang, that sounds somewhat inconvenient, but probably good in the long run.
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