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mooface:

--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 13 Mar 2008, 01:18 ---It's just far too old in my opinion. The idea that you'd get up, go to work, come home and then would have to break the law to have a beer while you watched a film or have some wine with your meal is utterly ridiculous to me.

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this just made me think of another point (which has already been touched on but oh well):
if it's illegal for you to drink alcohol then there is almost no way you are going to treat it as something normal.  the only way you will drink it before you turn 21 will probably be by going to house parties and drinking as much of it as you can, because it is a novelty.  you never get an ingrained concept of just sitting down and having an alcoholic drink with your food, or at a calm social gathering with friends.  this makes it far more likely that not only will you abuse alcohol when you are younger, you will continue to abuse it even once you are legal to drink because that is the only way you have experienced drinking alcohol before. 

this is painfully obvious with american college students here in rome.  even though they are living in a culture where most drinking is done in a relaxed setting that is not centered around getting drunk (such as having aperitivo or having a glass of wine with dinner) they seem to feel like they have to drink as much as possible every time they go out.  somehow, i feel as if they had grown up with it being normal to be able to order a beer with their meal when going out to eat then they might be more inclined to approach drinking in a different manner.

Patrick:

--- Quote from: tommydski on 13 Mar 2008, 06:00 ---You should have to be a lot, lot, lot older to buy a gun. They need to bring that age requirement up by a decade or so.

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Heh, here's where we start the gun control debate. Second Amendment #4 lyfe

Switchblade:
Yeah, let's not start on that one. I've seen far too many flame wars kick off over that particular topic.

0bsessions:
Yeah, I've been afraid of this for like three pages. This thread is getting entirely too political. We should either veer back to the subject of "how do you know you're getting old" or just lock this fucking waste of a thread (This thread has gotten progressively more idiotic for a few pages now).

Switchblade:
I wouldn't go that far... There's nothing wrong with a little bit of politics here and there, and I'm yet to see anyone actually be "idiotic".

Believe me, this thread is a haven of sanity and rational discourse in the greater madness of the internet. It's a lot like being in a Lovecraft novel.

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