international legal age question...

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-08-26 05:32pm

As it just crossed my mind...
What's the normal legal age in your country?

Here you can buy alcohol (and drink) with 16, except the hard booze, and are of legal age with 18.

Sebastin · Post by **Sebastin** » 2003-08-26 05:46pm

You are german too, aren´t you?

I´m pretty sure it´s 14 for beer and 16 for hard liquor. Or so i always believed.

An additional question for all: How strictly are these regulations enforced where you live.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-08-26 05:49pm

Where i live it's 16 to smoke, 17 to fuck and 18 to drink. In reality if you can see over the counter you get served and if you can get him or her to bend over you fuck. In a country that was unofficially in a civil war for 30 years lots of laws have been poorly enforced.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-08-26 05:52pm

Sebastin wrote:You are german too, aren´t you?

I´m pretty sure it´s 14 for beer and 16 for hard liquor. Or so i always believed.

An additional question for all: How strictly are these regulations enforced where you live.

14 for beer?!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-26 05:54pm

America is pretty much universally 18 to smoke and 21 to drink, but the age of consent varies from 14 to 18 depending on the state. And many states have various exceptions for when the ages at close together yet spanning the normal limit.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-08-26 05:58pm

Legal age of to drink in UK is 18. My brother was mortified we went on holiday to Florida when he was 20.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-08-26 06:58pm

2000AD wrote:My brother was mortified we went on holiday to Florida when he was 20.

Mwahahaha!

Ph34r our power!

Anyway, yep, 18 to smoke, 21 to drink. Florida, it's 16 to fuck. At least if anyone official ever finds out and ever bothers to do anything. So, really, if you keep it somewhat of a secret, you can fuck whenever you find a willing partner (disregarding pedophiles and that sort of scum).

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-08-26 07:13pm

Sebastin wrote:You are german too, aren´t you?

I´m pretty sure it´s 14 for beer and 16 for hard liquor. Or so i always believed.

An additional question for all: How strictly are these regulations enforced where you live.

16 for Beer and "light" stuff, 18 for hard booze.
Except of course, if you are acompanied by one of your parents (or those legally charged with your upbringing). Then you can drink hard booze even with 13...

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-26 07:16pm

it's 16 for emancipation, 17 to fuck, 18 to smoke, and 21 to drink here in New Mexico.

~ver

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-08-26 08:27pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:America is pretty much universally 18 to smoke and 21 to drink, but the age of consent varies from 14 to 18 depending on the state. And many states have various exceptions for when the ages at close together yet spanning the normal limit.

Actually, I think Hawaii was the last state with the 14 year age of consent, which was changed about two years back...

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-08-26 11:40pm

RogueIce wrote: Anyway, yep, 18 to smoke, 21 to drink. Florida, it's 16 to fuck. At least if anyone official ever finds out and ever bothers to do anything. So, really, if you keep it somewhat of a secret, you can fuck whenever you find a willing partner (disregarding pedophiles and that sort of scum).

That's disgusting.

Anyhow, I hate that 21 drinking age. I could drink at 18 in Israel (and I did. Hoo boy). I can smoke, I can own firearms, I can sign up and kill people, but I can't drink! What the hell!

Oh, and did I mention I can create other human beings?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-27 04:42am

5 to drink (at home with your parents)
14 to enter a pub,
16 to drink (at a restaurant with a meal)
16 to buy cigarettes
16 to have straight sex
17 to drive
18 to buy alcohol
18 to vote
18 to have male-male sex

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-27 05:03am

Mor or less from memory:

16 For sex
18 Drink in a Bar/Drive/Vote
20 To drink at home

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-08-27 05:12am

16 concent
18 smoke and drink

Post by **Edi** » 2003-08-27 05:59am

16 for sex
18 to vote, get a driver's license and buy alcohol other than strong booze
20 to buy strong booze

Edi

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-27 06:18am

innerbrat wrote:16 to have straight sex
18 to have male-male sex

~ver

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-27 06:20am

verilon wrote:
innerbrat wrote:16 to have straight sex
18 to have male-male sex

~ver

That'll be the House of Lords continuously finding loopholes in laws before they're passed.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-08-27 06:53am

Faram wrote: 18 Drink in a Bar
20 To drink at home

huh? you wanna explain why you can go to a bar and tie one on at 18 but you can't drink in your own home until you are 20?

oh and just a little side note: in most states in the US is is legal for minors to drink alcohol at home in the presence of their parents. at least it was a few years ago when i was last certified by the state to sell booze.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-27 07:20am

It's amazing how many guests get really angry with me as the Bar Server/Cashier...

It's like posted everywhere....

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-08-27 08:15am

You can drink from the age of 5 in the UK, as long as you are on private property

But its pretty much 16 to drink alcohol at a restaurant with a meal

18 to drink alcohol on its own

16 for sex, 16 for gay sex too, they changed that law a couple of years back, and strangely enough there is no law about female on female action.

Post by **Edi** » 2003-08-27 08:40am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Faram wrote: 18 Drink in a Bar
20 To drink at home
huh? you wanna explain why you can go to a bar and tie one on at 18 but you can't drink in your own home until you are 20?

Means they can't buy alcohol from the Systembolaget (the Swedish state alcohol monopoly) until they're 20.

Edi

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-08-27 08:45am

Edi wrote: Means they can't buy alcohol from the Systembolaget (the Swedish state alcohol monopoly) until they're 20.

Edi

I've heard that Sweedish liquor control laws are very strict. Completely government controlled, heavily taxed, all liquor kept behind the counter, a limit on how much you can purchace..... is all of that true?

Post by **Edi** » 2003-08-27 08:56am

Col. Crackpot wrote:I've heard that Sweedish liquor control laws are very strict. Completely government controlled, heavily taxed, all liquor kept behind the counter, a limit on how much you can purchace..... is all of that true?

Yes, as far as I know. We have harsh control over the alcohol business too, but the Swedes are even stricter. Never been to a Systembolaget store, but here's how it works in Finland: We have a state alcohol monopoly called Alko, and those stores are the only place to get any alcohol except beer or cider. Wine, liquers, rum, vodka or any other type of alcohol that is not beer or cider, and all beer and cider which is stronger than 4.8% is Alko only stuff. Taxes make up something like 70% of the price, so you can imagine what the shit costs here. They're dropping the tax on the hard stuff by 40% come 2004 when Estonia joins the EU, because otherwise everyone will just bring their hard liquor from there. That translates into a 30% drop in hard booze prices. Wines get a lot less of a cut and beer almost nothing. In Sweden alcohol is even more expensive. You should see the expressions of German and other central European tourists when they go to the Alko...

A bottle of Koskenkorva vodka currently costs around €13 and change here, in Estonia similar stuff goes for €6 or thereabouts, and when you can bring 10 liters instead of just one, the state would be looking to lose hundreds of millions in alcohol taxes. We don't have limits on how much we can purchase at home, but the limits of what we can bring from abroad are explicitly designed to bolster the state monopoly and squeeze as much money out of the people as possible, all supposedly because of the health problems that would occur if alcohol were cheap.

I don't know if anything will change in Sweden next year, but the Finnish government had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the alcohol tax cut, and they'd already lost the case in both the EU courts and the Commission, and all I can say is about the fucking time it happened too. I like it here, but this thing has been fucked up beyond all reason for far too long.

Edi

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-27 09:05am

Col. Crackpot wrote:I've heard that Sweedish liquor control laws are very strict. Completely government controlled, heavily taxed, all liquor kept behind the counter, a limit on how much you can purchace..... is all of that true?

If you have the cash you can buy how much it pleases you. No limit on the amount.

And nowdays it's just like any other store walk around pickup whatever you please and pay at the cashier.

Post by **Edi** » 2003-08-27 09:06am

About exactly like Alko, then. Those used to have stuff behind the counter only, but the last of those was converted to the convenience store model several years ago or closed down.

Edi