Of course, none of that actually stops kids from alcohol. I had my first glass of wine (though, granted, in the sight of my parents) when I was fifteen and my first beer at a college party when I was seventeen. And now, of course, there's the half-bottle of vodka and three-fourths bottle of rum accomanying the two half-empty wine bottles in my mini-fridge. Screw the illegal drinking age.
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esse - Aug 15, 2003 1:55:38 pm PDT #4738 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Daisy Jane - Aug 15, 2003 1:58:52 pm PDT #4739 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Right. The illegal drinking age is going to stay the same, because it's not about the 18 yr olds who can do it legally, it's about being at an age with a certain amount of autonomy. You can pass for 18 at 16, but it doesn't make much of a difference if the door's got a good bouncer. And, no one was legally allowed to buy packaged until 21.
Cindy - Aug 15, 2003 2:22:11 pm PDT #4740 of 10001
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Of course, the reason the drinking age ever got lowered to 18 was because folks were getting drafted and sent to war and couldn't get a frickin' beer.
Yes. What they should have done, was raise the driving age.
And, no one was legally allowed to buy packaged until 21.
When? This might have been a regional thing. When the drinking age here was 18, it was 18 at package stores, bars, restaurants, the whole shebang. However, it's been 21 for a very long time - for probably about 20 years - for the whole shebang.
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2003 2:23:18 pm PDT #4741 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is a package store just, like, a 7-11 selling beer?
DavidS - Aug 15, 2003 2:24:40 pm PDT #4742 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is a package store just, like, a 7-11 selling beer?
No. They sell packages. They're all in identical boxes, wrapped in plain brown paper. If you're lucky the package you bought has beer. If you're unlucky you just bought a package of used diapers. It's kind of like the lottery.
Daisy Jane - Aug 15, 2003 2:26:25 pm PDT #4743 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Maybe it was only regional. La changed theirs, uhm, maybe 9 years ago.
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2003 2:29:36 pm PDT #4744 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, but really, what the hell is a package store?
Daisy Jane - Aug 15, 2003 2:31:08 pm PDT #4745 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Where you go and buy packaged liquor as opposed to a wholesaler or buying it in a resturaunt or bar, or getting a daquiri from a daquiri place.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 15, 2003 2:36:22 pm PDT #4746 of 10001
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So-- it is a liquor store in Northern parlance? And there are daiquari places!?!
§ ita § - Aug 15, 2003 2:37:53 pm PDT #4747 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And there are daiquari places!?!
They look like slurpee machines, just sitting there.
I thought I was buying a slurpee, but I didn't give it back when I realised my mistake.
Hell, there are daquiri places in the movie theatres.