Grew up in South America and underage drinking, though illegal in theory, is pretty much the norm.
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in Germany at 16 it is not underage drinking, you can legaly buy beer and wine.
In Germany underage drinking is at 13-14 and also happens a lot
yes, but leo is 16 in this image, and 16 is nit underage drinking in germany. and 15 is underage, too, isn't it? it happens a lot and is nothing positive, but here we are 🤷
I grew up in the US, and the only person I know who didn't drink as a 15 year old is a 33 year old who still doesn't drink. Lol.
Most people I knew started in college. 15 is a bit young. Only knew a handful of partiers who drank in high school.
As a non-American, every single American teenage movie I've ever watched tells me this is untrue.
I mean getting alcohol for an underage party is the whole plot of Superbad.
As an American emigrant: the red cups are real, but not limited to house parties; alcohol is a lot less accessible, so the party would be more likely to have four different kinds of liqueur from peoples parents or three handles of paint cleaner; getting the cops called on an underage party is serious. Like, potentially lose your job and home serious, even if you were gone for the weekend.
Funny story about that.
When I was a kid, 15+ years ago, my parents told me about somebody that did that here in Texas with their son.
The father took his underage son to a restaurant and was able to get him a beer. During the meal, the father went to the bathroom and the son took a drink of his beer. A cop was sitting nearby and arrested the kid for underage drinking because the father wasn't in the presence of the son so it was no longer "supervised".
That’s exactly what I expected Texas cops to think about while out to dinner.
The day after I moved to Germany I went to the hospital emergency room with what was later diagnosed as a kidney stone and stomach infection.
I was given over the counter painkillers and some cramp medication and told to drink lots of beer to treat the stomach infection by the doctor.
I am serious. I asked about the complications drinking on the pain meds and he just said it was OK.
mixing those meds with alcohol fucks your liver
Was "fuck your liver" as in "once is enough to fuck your liver" or as in "do this every day over a month to see any significant damage" kind of thing.
depends on the painkiller. Tylenol? Yeah goodbye liver. Ibuprofen? Better eat something alongside so your stomach lining doesnt get fucked.
Ah, yes, Germany! The land where there are no alcohol issues because everybody is by default drunk.
I think we're pretty average and it's even on the decline.
I was just making a stupid joke. Playing with an old stereotype. It's germans and beer and us and our mustaches.
That is good to know. My own country had a serious issue with alcohol and we managed to curb it in less than 10 years.
The recent surge revolves around binge drinking and hard liquor, when it was originally around wine. And supposedly women are drinking more than men, nowadays.
Yeah I know, all good :D
Where are you from? Nordic country?
Portugal, Land of the Epic Mustache!!!
That's not Nordic :D and why is Portugal famous for a mustache? Haha
The mustache was a mandatory fixture for the portuguese man between the 70's and the 90's.
Hell I didn't know the mustache was that relevant for Portugal, til.
I think you have Germany confused with Czechia
I think every other country has this joke about themselves, "haha we're the biggest drinkers"
Czechia drinks just a little bit more than germans(Beer). On Average Germans drink afaik 114 l/year when Czechia has something like 116 l/year.
With 16 only Beer, stronger alcoholic drinks only when 18 Years old.
That's the official age for stronger alcoholics. Most 16 year old already drink the hard stuff.
This is inevitable, but they cannot buy it themselves in a store. The owner risks having his store closed and having to pay a large fine if he sells alcohol to minors.
Theoretically you're right, but from my experience a lot of cashiers don't care if you're 18 or not. Some do and ask for your ID, but especially in the more rural areas it generally isn't a big problem to buy harder Alkohol. Of course the shop is risking a fine but I haven't heard about any sort of market getting fined for selling Alkohol to minors.