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The solution to this is to start drinking beers with your kids at age 10. This way drinking will be the most uncool thing ever, and they'll grow up to be teetot

The solution to this is to start drinking beers with your kids at age 10. This way drinking will be the most uncool thing ever, and they'll grow up to be teetotalers. Seriously though, we need a culture change. You can't tell them they can never drink, then turn them loose in another city by themselves and expect it to not be taken to extremes. That's pretty dumb.

anigbrowl 12y ago
This is actually allowed in some states. There's doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to which states allow it and which don't, eg stereotypically liberal California has the same ultra-strict requirements as stereotypically conservative Kentucky. Here's a neat summary of the different exceptions to the 21-year minimum age rule, broken out by state. http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002591 http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
- jessaustin 12y ago
  3. for religious purposes in 26 states Haha, I guess all the Catholic churches in the other 24 states will get raided next time they have a First Communion. This is just one example of how unreliable these sorts of comparisons are.
  - anigbrowl 12y ago
    Not necessarily. When I was growing up in Catholic Ireland we used to eat the communion wafer but only the priest drank the wine - more because it would have been impractical to serve to hundreds of people than any other reason, but also partly from hygiene considerations. I asked our priest about it once (I was an alter boy) and his response was that it was just too much hassle and they were glad to abandon the practice. Back then churches used to be packed 4 times a day on Sundays so I can see how it would be a headache. I used to get hand cramps from holding the little metal plate under people's chins to prevent the communion wafer falling on the floor.
    - cafard 12y ago
      Between the Council of Trent and about 1970, the Roman Catholic laity took communion in one kind only, and the chalice was reserved to the priests.
      - anigbrowl 12y ago
        Interesting! They kept that up for a long time afterwards in Ireland, at least to the late 1980s (which was when I stopped going to church). I've occasionally been to a Catholic church in the US (weddings, funerals although I'm an atheist now) and it was quite disorienting to be offered the wine at Communion.
        jessaustin 12y ago
        I'm similarly apostate, and I'm quite sure you're not welcome in the communion line as an atheist.
Mithaldu 12y ago
Hi, Germany here, it worked on me. Parents gave me beer when i was a kid around 10, shit tasted awful and bitter. Didn't start drinking again until i discovered british ciders and belgian beers at the age of ~28, but that's still a "once a quarter" thing.

anigbrowl 12y ago

This is actually allowed in some states. There's doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to which states allow it and which don't, eg stereotypically liberal California has the same ultra-strict requirements as stereotypically conservative Kentucky. Here's a neat summary of the different exceptions to the 21-year minimum age rule, broken out by state. http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002591 http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...

jessaustin 12y ago
3. for religious purposes in 26 states Haha, I guess all the Catholic churches in the other 24 states will get raided next time they have a First Communion. This is just one example of how unreliable these sorts of comparisons are.
- anigbrowl 12y ago
  Not necessarily. When I was growing up in Catholic Ireland we used to eat the communion wafer but only the priest drank the wine - more because it would have been impractical to serve to hundreds of people than any other reason, but also partly from hygiene considerations. I asked our priest about it once (I was an alter boy) and his response was that it was just too much hassle and they were glad to abandon the practice. Back then churches used to be packed 4 times a day on Sundays so I can see how it would be a headache. I used to get hand cramps from holding the little metal plate under people's chins to prevent the communion wafer falling on the floor.
  - cafard 12y ago
    Between the Council of Trent and about 1970, the Roman Catholic laity took communion in one kind only, and the chalice was reserved to the priests.
    - anigbrowl 12y ago
      Interesting! They kept that up for a long time afterwards in Ireland, at least to the late 1980s (which was when I stopped going to church). I've occasionally been to a Catholic church in the US (weddings, funerals although I'm an atheist now) and it was quite disorienting to be offered the wine at Communion.
      - jessaustin 12y ago
        I'm similarly apostate, and I'm quite sure you're not welcome in the communion line as an atheist.

Mithaldu 12y ago

Hi, Germany here, it worked on me. Parents gave me beer when i was a kid around 10, shit tasted awful and bitter. Didn't start drinking again until i discovered british ciders and belgian beers at the age of ~28, but that's still a "once a quarter" thing.