At what age did you start drinking?

yep, this would be enough to start me on the slippery slope to binge drinking too...

Nobody especially enjoyed smoking or drinking (beer and heavier spirits at least) the first times they tried them did they?

it does, because to buy drink you have to pretend to be older than you are. so a 15-year-old *might* *just* be able to pass for 18, but 21 is a stretch.

-- Sororah T Massacre (stevem7...), January 19th, 2006.

i didn't enjoy cigs until i actually learned to inhale the fuckers, but i always liked drink.

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Loved cigarettes straight away, from the first one. Which kind of puts the lie to the old "you only enjoy cigarettes because you're addicted to them" line. I was really anti-smoking until then because I thought people only smoked to look cool. Then my best mate started smoking at 15, and we were sitting in the pub one afternoon and I think I was asking him why he smoked, does it actually do anything, etc, and I tried one just to see...

I discovered good beer as opposed to mass-produced domestic lager in 1995 and have become a beer snob. Occasionally vodka, a good smoky single malt, or wine.

Accentmonkey and the Dirty Vicar have seen me drunk, once twice.

Thirteen sounds incredibly young to me, but I suspect I'm on the naive side, too.

At The Forum? I was there.

MAN.

xp oh!

My family are quite unconcerned about alchohol so I always had the odd small glass of beer throughout growing up, which in retrospect meant I didn't go through the rebelious/forbidden phase like many of my peers. I was 15 in 1990, and at that time alcohol was seen as quite passé. Weed, speed, trips and Es were what many people were doing, so I didn't bother much with regular drinking (of course I sometimes go pissed, but only when there were no drugs around)

It wasn't until I was 20 until I suddenly realised how much I enjoyed getting drunk (which was after I'd completetly cut back on drug use), so I suppose you could either say I started drinking at either 2 or 20.

It was in the ruins of a castle.

I had nothing so much as a sip of beer (yecch) until I went to college, and for my first two years, I had nothing more than a tiny wine cooler or half-cup of keg beer just so I could fit in at parties. When I studied in the UK during my junior year, I began drinking half-pints of cider every so often, but it was far more often that I'd head to the pub at 8 pm and order a coffee. Once I had Guinness for the first time, I realized that beer could be sort of tasty, so I eased into that. (I was such a pussy that the first beer I ordered at an American bar, after I turned 21, was Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.) And Kelsey and I used to make gin and tonics the summer we started dating. But I'd say it wasn't until senior year that I really began drinking, and not until after college that I did it with any real regularity. I remember contemplating the summer after college about how I was imbibing all of these chemicals via coffee, cigarettes, and beer, and how that was sort of a new(ish) thing.

oh and i did one dry stint of 6 months but other than that I've been drunk at least once in every 2 or 3 weeks for the entire 20 years

yeah same and idk if I should be concerned about it

were you ever drunk at school

a couple of times but my students never seemed to notice

started drinking about 13 or 14. think first time was bottles of beer with my cousin.

from upthread: I got caught drinking by the police when I was 14, it was a really bad day. - yep. more amusing in hindsight tho.

i was drunk at school once or twice in the final months when things got lax. stoned a bit more often.

I started 30 years ago, and not once has anyone ever congratulated me as I pass another milestone.

I started drinking when I was 15, myself and a mate got some bottles of heineken one xmas eve and we drank them at the football pitch late in the night. Not long after, I started going to school discos and we used to drink before we got in. We couldnt always get drink from off-licences or get served in pubs so we would often have to depend on vile concoctions (if there was only a little vodka, throw some whiskey in there and maybe a bit of coke or orange for a mixer like) of whatever we could get from our parents drinks cabinet. Puking was usually the outcome but at least you'd get a buzz.

I never was drunk at school although I remember one of my classmates passed around a plastic bottle of poitin during science class and we all took a few sips when the teachers back was turned.

I didn't drink til 16 which was prob a full year after everyone else in my year I'd guess. The usual experience mirrors mike's above apart from the glorious 6 months my mate got a job in a cash and carry and would routinely throw a box of naggins in the skip on a Friday afternoon for later collection.

oh and i did one dry stint of 6 months but other than that I've been drunk at least once in every 2 or 3 weeks for the entire 20 years
yeah same and idk if I should be concerned about it

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I'm going to get my liver function checked sometime this year. if it's off at all then I'm going to go dry for a while. love drinking but prefer functioning organs

Tbh four times a year drunk is about my speed these day

Does

Does the liver regenerate? I had a rough late teens....

The liver does indeed regenerate :-)

Superb

Clink

No it doesn't tbh...

Ok it does but.. Would never bet on it.

it regenerates but not in a magical fashion

like you can still fuck it up. you're not wolverine

Otm.

I know but the problem is when I'm.drinking i forget exactly that

I think deems would know if he gave himself cirrhosis in his late teens is what I'm saying

Because that was fuckin aaaaaaages ago

this is true

What are the cirrrryhmptoms

yellow skin

Wait that's the cirrrrrhympsons

Fuck the liver, I'm just concerned about the beer bloat right now

16 yrs old and got caught drinking at the beach

i lied and said i was 18 and didnt have my wallet (so didnt have id with me)

when the police officer calls me and i walk away from him he flashes his light on my ass and says wut u got back there son?

i say what? he says if youre lying to me i can arrest you

i give him my wallet and he fingerprints me and i get to go to an aa class but it doesnt go on my record

sorry i said i was 21 because this happened in the states (i was in san pedro i think at the time)

My stepdad used to knock back at least 20 odd pints of bitter and countless brandies on an average day-sesh. He nearly died of pneumonia about 10 years ago and got told he'd be dead soonish if he didn't change his ways. He is in his early 70's now and still has 3 or 4 beers when he goes to the casino, or The Funhouse as he calls it. Most other people I knew who used to drink as hard as he did are in the ground - including one who died in his late 30's and another in his 40's. Some people are maybe lucky or their organs can take more of a pounding than others. I have this peasant superstition type belief that a good diet might help - disclaimer - it is probably bollocks!

Going back a ways, we totally drank at school. Irish coffee beforehand, cokes-with-vodka during the day, and excursions to the parking lot for peach schnapps (!) were commonplace. We even found a tunnel underneath the school, nicknamed the "bomb shelter" - for all we knew that is in fact what it was intended for - and day-drank within it.

In fact it was in this school that I heard a particularly elegant phrase about drinking, one that stays with me to this day. One of my cool older sister's cool friends had a 7-11 Big Gulp cup with her on the way to Latin class (klassy!). She was asked if it was Diet Coke, and she said, "Yes, but it's been doctored." Beat. "It's been doctored, and now I'm nursing it."

At the time, this turned me inside out with longing and envy. In retrospect it was actually pretty commonplace, probably not very original, and indicative of people whose lives were not as together as they seemed. But at the time....

haha thats awesome

we had doctored drinks and bottles all the time

drinking in class and at lunch

man no one ever batted an eye