Drinking Age - Govt's Latest News Release

[Swoop]

Statistical evidence?
How about an upward trend in teenage pregnancy???

Oh, that's right. The gubbinment pays for and encourages that happening...

[Drunken Monkey]

As I recall (via my booze addled memory)

If you were 18 to 20 and
-with your spouse (over 20)
-with your parents
-eating a meal
-at an RSA

But I am prepared to be corrected

The eating a meal clause was key - in my student days the Student Union would charge $2 for a food voucher to enable "underage" drinkers to legally drink.

The bar had to have a particular license (why it was still R20 for nightclubs, but not student pubs). The technical term for it was "family lounge bar". There was some inconsitency in the law over the last few years of its existence, there was a ruling in a Dunedin court where the judge said a bowl of fries did not constitute "a meal", but a pie did. I beleive it was an Auckland court where the "bowl of fries" rule was contested and won.

[oldrider]

A problem facing facing the "young of anyday" is that the older generation have usually forgotten how tolerant "they" wanted the "older" generation to be, when "they themselves" were "the young of yesterday"! John.

[Patrick]

[QUOTE=Fairlie;747276]I can't see how raising the age by two years is going to cure a lack of morals and social awareness.QUOTE]

Bring back the religeous teachings in schools.... and the cane/whip.

[padre]

Its natural to want to drink. Fish do it. Birds do it. Aint that how the classic song goes. If ya want my opinion we should bar these juveniles from central city at weekends. Put them back into local halls with discos - heavy security presence to monitor the drunken antics. Then when they graduate to not crawling about spewing their ring out (round 20 - 25) then they get a pass enabling pasage to Courtney place. Religious Police are needed down there, with all the meat on display our Iraqi guests will think they're still in Saddams party place. So religious Police armed with blankets and sticks need to photograph offenders before covering them up - put the pics in the paper on Monday. Not every fem is J-Lo.Yeah yoooo beeyutys - ha!