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[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by binka_nugget
LOL I love Will and Grace. I want my own Jack..(and maybe a Karen..who knows when that will come in handy) lol. If we're 19 when we finish our program at cwcc, we'll celebrate at a gay bar LOL.

Ok! Lol. They just opened up a new gay bar in Kelowna.

I would love my own Karen too lol. She's hilarious.

[Tonya]

Corona, Margarita on the rocks with salt, vodka cranberry....

Oh! And Michelob Ultra...I don't "love" the taste, but it's low carb and low fat, so I drink it most!

[G.P.girl]

well i'm still underage but i've tried a lot of alcohal ( my parents think that if they let me try it now and don't mae a big del out of it then i won't run out and be drunk all the time when i am old enough to drinkWhich is probly true)) but i like cherry and chocolet liquor best, i don't really care for beer though i think tastes nasty

[dukedogsmom]

Margaritas!

[Desert Arabian]

I am 16 years old, and I am proud to say that I do not drink. Just the smell of alcohol makes me sick...I don't even want to taste it. The only thing I have are ice cream drinks, that’s enough for me.

Mainly the thought of what it does to your body really turns me off, and the horrific pictures and videos I saw of drunk people getting in accidents. At 16 I really don't want to have a messed up liver and mushy brain (killing your brain cells making you stupid)- since the alcohol is stored in the brain until the liver can process it. How pleasant, eh!?!

Also, the fact that alcohol turns nice people into belligerent, wild, obnoxious people.

Crikit, I am with you too. I am disturbed by the thread a lot. I do not see what is so cool about showing off that you drink!?! That’s for the underage drinkers, not the ones who are legal.

I don't know about other places, but in Wisconsin you can go to the bar with your parents and have as much alcohol and liquor that you want. Even if you are 10 years old. But you can't drink underage w/o your parents present.

[Soledad]

Jumping up and down and riding rollercoasters also kill brain cells. Hey, it happens.

And as long as you're not a total idiot and drive whilst drunk or drive in a car with a drunk at the wheel, you can avoid the scary butchered limbs scene.

Not everyone turns into belligerent idiots. Usually, if you're obnoxious sober, you're just going to be more obnoxious while drunk.

[trayi52]

The laws are sure different here, the age allowed to drink here is 21. Tennesse has revised its laws to where, if teenagers are even caught with alcohol in the car, then they lose their licence, and if there is another teenager in the car, they loose too. and if they happen to not have their licence, then they can't get them until they are 18.

They have put kerfews on the new drivers, restricted, intermediate. the restricted are only allowed to be out driving until 11 pm of a night, unless they are coming from a school function, or from work, have a note from the parents. They are not allowed to have but one other passenger in the car that is under the age 18, unless it is a sibling. I think this reasoning came from the fact that we here in Tennessee have lost a lot of our teenage population in automobile accidents due to loading down the car with other teenagers and driving while under the influence of alcohol. I really like this law, because I knew my daughter had to be home by 11 pm, I didn't have to set a kerfew myself.....

I waited a very long time before I did drink anything, but I do drink every once in a while. I don't want my daughter drinking unless she is doing it in front of me. I don't want her to do something while drinking that she will be sorry for later.

Well thats enough from me.

Willie

[2kitties]

I think the US does itself a disservice on so many issues. We don't adequatly educate teens about sex, we don't provide birth control options, we set these silly drinking ages, we don't legalize a harmless smoking substance, etc.
If you look at European countries who have their heads out of their ***es and understand we don't need to apply puritan laws to the masses, you'll see their drinking/drug related deaths and their teen pregnancy rates are much much lower than the US. I think the moral majority in the US is a wonderful thing, until teens suffer because of it.

[trayi52]

I agree 2k, its laws like these, that make the teenagers sneak around and do their drinking. I just don't want my daughter out driving while drinking, or with somebody drinking. I would rather if she is going to do this, do it in front of me. Not away in a car doing her drinking, or at some party, and then have to drive home in that condition, or some drunk driving my daughter home.
It is a hard thing to loose a child in that manner. Seen too much of it here where I live. Funny it seems to happen so close to their proms, and graduations. It seems to not just happen to one set either, when it happens, there will be 2 maybe 3 separate accidents at once. Teenagers seem to not realize they can die, and think they are invincible.

Willie

[Desert Arabian]

(Sorry to get a wee bit of topic/flow)

WW, I just got a phone call from my friend telling me that our English teachers husband died yesterday. He was an alcoholic. I remember her telling us about him a lot in class. She was trying to get him professional help, but he didn't want to get any help.

Poor Ms. Zauppa, what a horrible way to end 2003.

[trayi52]

I am sorry to hear about Ms. Zauppa's husband, sorry for her too. That is a bad way to end the year.

Wilie

[carole]

Although Alcohol has scarred my life,(not through my own doing) I think I still have a reasonable attitude towards the stuff, its fine in MODERATION, but as we all know a lot of humans, young and old find it very hard to follow that idea, and lifestyles especially here in NZ encourage drinking, I have never smoked or drank alcohol since I had children , yet my son he does both, so I ask you, peer pressure is the main feature here I think.

Unfortunately human beings find moderation in all levels of life hard to adhere to, whether it be food, alcohol, smoking,etc etc, and in a perfect world that is how it would be.

I do have one thing that really bothers me though, is when my daughter's friends mother braggs to me about her hard night on the town, I feel sorry for her child, as she tells me how she ended up all day in bed and hey look out if the kids come near me, she is so grumpy, no child should have to witness their parent in this state and put up with that kind of treatment, ( yeah I know in a perfect world again) and it happens all too often, but I cannot for the life of me understand, how she cannot just have her social outings when her child is away (every second weekend to her father) I am not saying she does it all the time, but still, it saddens me, at least she should limit her intake as not to have such a hang-over next day.

Well enough of my raving and ranting here, but this topic has turned into people opinions about alcohol, so just adding mine for what it is worth, thanks for listening.

[Kfamr]

Most things are fine in moderation.

I hate alcohol from what it's done and from what i've seen of it. If you want to frink a few beers a week or on the weekend, that's fine. but getting drunk just to get drunk sickens me. (Not to mention sickens the drinker most of the time )

I agree with most of what YLL said. Alot of kids these days brag aobut drinking, as well as doing other drugs, because it's "cool".

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by Kfamr
If you want to frink a few beers a week or on the weekend, that's fine.

I agree with most of what YLL said. Alot of kids these days brag aobut drinking, as well as doing other drugs, because it's "cool".

Yes, I love to "frink" over the weekend. Hehe, that typo made me laugh!

Yep, that's all kids do at my school is brag on and on. Every single day I have to go to school and listen about how Joe Smith smoked 9 bowls of pot on Friday and had shot contests on Saturday until he/she vomited and passed out. Then when I see Joe Smith's grades I can't help but laugh. Pretty sad (on Joe's half)!

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by YellowLabLover
Yes, I love to "frink" over the weekend. Hehe, that typo made me laugh!

So do you want to go frinking tonight? We can frink until we frop.