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just wondering what the legal drinking age is in all the countries of posters out there and if you could, please say your country and its drinking age if you post .
18 canada

how do you get the poll to work?

18 in Australia

21 usa most of the place

19 canada, though I live next to an 18 canada :p

18 to drink and buy drinks in bars/pubs/clubs etc, and lighter beer in super markets.

20 to buy alcoholic beverages of any strength at Systembolaget (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget), the government run liquor monopoly.

16 in Belgium ... BEAT THAT SUCKAZ :D

just wondering what the legal drinking age is in all the countries of posters out there and if you could, please say your country and its drinking age if you post .
18 canada

how do you get the poll to work?

19; It's different in every provence in Canada. I'm from Ontario.

21 here in the USA...thats why I wanna move to Mexico.

21 here in the USA...thats why I wanna move to Mexico.


COME TO BELGIUM,COME TO BELGIUM


Hey I've got something to say
I live in a land where it’s easy to stay
Man, you should try it here
All is OK, very good beer
We're happy in many ways
Just like "The Fonz" in the Happy Days
All is say : Jump a plane
Take a train
Move your ass


COME TO BELGIUM,COME TO BELGIUM


Now your attention please
There's a couple of things I want you to see
Bring cash, lots af cash
Everything you buy is very expensive
Enjoy your rental car
Traffic jams, you won't get far
We're used to be confused in this beautiful land
But that's no excuse

Mad Cow / Sick pig
Lamb Chops / Steak for everybody
Combats / Riot gangs / Robbing banks
And getting killed while shopping
Hormones / Body-bags
French Fries & Mayonnaise
New King / New Queen
With a smile for everybody


COME TO BELGIUM,COME TO BELGIUM


Belgium makes your dreams alive
Belgium compromises
Belgium takes your dreams away

It doesn't really matter if you're born on the street
You have a big car and a house on the beach
It doesn't really matter if you're born at all
Enjoy our French fries and our mayonnaise


COME TO BELGIUM,COME TO BELGIUM

Yea...but
Margie said, Roy you ain't listening to me
And I've got a whole lot more to say
Roy just crossed the floor and picked up his car keys
And she ain't seen or heard from him to this day

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
And the Cuervo goes down nice and slow
And the warm wind blows
That's why God made Mexico

And Betty fixed Joe dinner every night
At half past six
Cause that's when he rolled through that door
For sixteen years and not a thank you from his lips
She don't fix him dinner no more

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
Where the Cuervo goes down nice and slow
And the warm winds blow
That's why God made Mexico

Cause life is sweet in a border town
You learn to let your hair down
And you don't make trouble
You learn to dance the Fandango
You change your name, maybe change your face
Get used to beans chili paste
And you learn to live and love
Life in the slow lane

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
Maybe Monterey or Acapulco
Anywhere the warm winds blow
Don't you know
That's why God made Mexico

That's why God made
Made Mexico

...Plus...there isn't really a drinking age there.

16 in Belgium ... BEAT THAT SUCKAZ :D
sperm, international waters!!!! hahahahaa.....oh wait i dont live in international waters...

16 in Belgium ... BEAT THAT SUCKAZ :D

10 in New Zealand. Beat that!

As soon as your fetus developes in Spain...hell, as soon as the woman finishes sex she drinks.... now, beat that!

how do you get the poll to work?
You can get a poll in "Thread Tools" near the top of the first post. Or you can (could'a) set up a thread when you make the first post.

10 in New Zealand. Beat that! :p 18 in New Zealand.

:p 18 in New Zealand.

Ah but the government can’t stop a parent or older relative from giving a ten yr old booze now can it? Unless in a public place. But yeah. ;)

Netherlands:
< 16 : shops are not allowed to sell you consumption alcohol
16-18: shops are allowed to sell you "weak" liquor (< 15 volume % alcohol at 20 degrees centrigrade) and wine.
18+: shops can sell you every (legal) drink.

Finland 18 and 20
18 You can buy beer and wine from shops (wine only from Alko, government controlled monopoly, like Systembolaget in Sweden) and drink what ever you like in bars, clubs etc
20 You have to 20 to buy stronger than 15% alcohol beverages from Alko.

Twenty-fucking-One in America. Thanks a lot, government do-gooders who do more harm than good!

0, he he... You may buy alkohol when you are 16

Denmark rules :D

Harry "the Bastard" (English is not my native language)

Germany :

16 -Beer
18 - Everything else.

But to be honest, nobody ever cares. You can go to pub aged 13 or 14 and hardly anybody will refuse to sell you beer.

Germany :

16 -Beer
18 - Everything else.



When your your 16 it is legal to buy wine as well.

But to be honest, nobody ever cares. You can go to pub aged 13 or 14 and hardly anybody will refuse to sell you beer.
Where I live, pubs won't sell hard liquer to anyone who is not yet 18.
(But that is not true for supermarkets, once I bought 40%-stuff when I was 15.

When your your 16 it is legal to buy wine as well.


Where I live, pubs won't sell hard liquer to anyone who is not yet 18.
(But that is not true for supermarkets, once I bought 40%-stuff when I was 15.
I didn't even know you should be 18 to buy strong liquer in Germany. I never had any problems to buy strong alcohol when I was 16. and I don't look older than I am.

good ol' ireland is 18
but i remember the day when it was 16 when all i had to do was go to the off licence after school and get some proper whiskey that would put hairs on your chest . . . . .

anyway we are almost raised with the stuff some of my friends grandmothers used to put a little whiskey in their milk bottles . . . .

UK:
16 you can have a glass of wine or a beer with a meal in a restaurant
18 everything else

10 in New Zealand. Beat that!

Actually it is 18 in New Zealand.

heh its only 18 in New Zealand out in public. I was drinking when I was 14, and that's not freakishly early.

18 in Turkey

Portugal, 16.

Any type of beverage, any hour, any day

Even on christmas.

UK:
16 you can have a glass of wine or a beer with a meal in a restaurant
18 everything else
But the funniest thing is due to a loophole in the law, you can give a 5 yr old a beer in a pub beer garden as long as they don't purchase said beer themselves :D ...they are trying to get rid of that loophole (spoil sports!)

18 in uk but here in portsmouth its 7 :p

But the funniest thing is due to a loophole in the law, you can give a 5 yr old a beer in a pub beer garden as long as they don't purchase said beer themselves :D ...they are trying to get rid of that loophole (spoil sports!)
yeah, my mum used to give me Budweiser when i was little

yeah, my mum used to give me Budweiser when i was little
Good ol' Mum! :p

Norway: you are allowed to buy alcohol at 18, but you can carry alcohol at 16. If you carry alchohol at 15- anyone can confiscate it.

Norway: you are allowed to buy alcohol at 18, but you can carry alcohol at 16. If you carry alchohol at 15- anyone can confiscate it.
Anyone?
I feel a trip to Norway would be good about now! :D

Good ol' Mum! :p
yep, setting me off on the long road to alcoholism lol

yep, setting me off on the long road to alcoholism lol
Nice.
I was the other way round. Mum didn't drink so I never got any alcohol accept wine on Christmas and occasional birthdays. I now feel I'm making up for lost time! :D

Norway: you are allowed to buy alcohol at 18, but you can carry alcohol at 16. If you carry alchohol at 15- anyone can confiscate it.

20 years for beverages with a higher percentage than 15 or something, and you can only buy beer in the shops, wine and other liquors you have to get at the Wine Monopoly. As for "anyone" confiscating it if you carry alcohol at 15 - I have never heard of that before?

18.. I think. No idea, police rarely check here if your underaged and drink. Mostly check whether you drink and drive.

We follow UK law system.. So it should be 18.

Unless your muslim. Then your not allowed to have a single drop of alcohol.

21 usa most of the place
All the place lol I dont know of a state yet that has turned down federal highway money just to reduce the drinking age lol

21 here in the USA...thats why I wanna move to Mexico.

lol thats the biggest joke ever, especially when you think of all the kids who own firearms in the US

16 in Belgium ... BEAT THAT SUCKAZ :D

As far as I know, there isn't a minimum age here in France. Or, if there is, no-one ever bothered to inform me, and no-one ever stopped me from buying alcohol when I was 15 or thereabouts. :p

I'm not entirely sure if there is such a thing a lower age limit for Consumption of alcohol in the UK when within your own home or a beer garden.
Of course in many palces in the Uk the consumption of alcohol in public is banned anyway...

The only restrictions are on the purchase of alcohol, where it is 16 and up for wine , cider or beer with a meal and 18 and over for what ever you want, unless of course you live in the east end of glasgow where Buckfast is available to anyone whose head can be seen over the corner shop's counter...

18 in france :p

18 in france :p

No way. I've bought alcohol when I was much younger than that, and I've never been asked for ID.

16 The netherlands for not destilated drinks
18 for strong stuff

But it is really easy to buy alcohol if you are yonger then 16. And there sure is a lot of abuse of alcohol by young ppl (like 11 years old)

I know this has already been mentioned, but it's 18 here in Australia. We are supposed to have a strict ID checking system, but many underage people still manage to slip through the cracks. Plus I've been drinking at home since I was about eight.

No offence Americans, but your laws are weird.

The minimum in France is definitely 16 for all types of alcohol.

There is no legal minimum in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Nigeria, Poland, Georgia, Thailand or Vietnam. Also some guy said that Portugal had a legal minimum, but as far as I know it doesn't.

21, But I started...don't even remember when. All I know is I'm 21 now. So, anyone who knows me and can cough up the money...well, there's no age limit unless I say. :D

i've been drinking since i was 4 in good old East Sussex, (UK) we don't have ANY police for ANY reason where i live, oh year ny first drink in a pub was @ 10.

18 - Ireland, but if you look anyway over 16 you can get drink in off licences. ithink the american laws are crazy :mp5: :confused:

uh?
no age limits in italy, as for i remember, but u cannot buy cigarettes until 14.....

Here in Portugal, the legal drinking age is 16, the same age we can start attending pubs and discos. So people who calls us conservative due to our abortion laws or whatever, kiss my ass.

18 in the UK

I think you can buy alcohol at any age/16 at supermarkets in France.

I'm all for the age being 18, because I'm 18. I refuse to go to a country where it's higher than that.

In Norway you can drink alcohol and buy beer when you are 18. You have to be 21 to buy Wine or Booze. The govenment have Monopoly on wine and booze, and it is extremly expensive!

Politzei Staad

In Norway you can drink alcohol and buy beer when you are 18. You have to be 21 to buy Wine or Booze. The govenment have Monopoly on wine and booze, and it is extremly expensive!
Politzei Staad

Actually, I've convinced several cops that it's a-ok to drink after you're 16, as you've got legal control over your own body then... and it's 18: wine/beer, and 20 for booze.

Not that I've ever had any problem buying any of that. I bought my first bottle of hard booze when I was 16 :D you're supposed to show id if you're under 25 at the Wine monopoly... That was in Tromsø, tho, and they're all drunken barbarians up there anyway :P

There is no legal minimum in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Nigeria, Poland, Georgia, Thailand or Vietnam. Also some guy said that Portugal had a legal minimum, but as far as I know it doesn't.

Poland has a drinking age limit of 18...

25 in Belgium.

EDIT: Wow, I've a higher postcount then everybody on this page together!

25 in Belgium.

EDIT: Wow, I've a higher postcount then everybody on this page together!
25? grapjas :D

I dont think its the same nationwide in the US. I know its 21 yrs of age in both New Jersey and New York.

In Norway you can drink alcohol and buy beer when you are 18. You have to be 21 to buy Wine or Booze. The govenment have Monopoly on wine and booze, and it is extremly expensive!

Politzei Staad
Because of the taxation?

I've noticed that the government monopoly can also reduce the price of e.g. quality wines. Several Australian wines are cheaper in Finland than in Australia because Alko (the monopoly company) is such a big buyer compared to grocery stores.

18 in the UK


Though technically there is no drinking age. 18 is just the age than licenced sellers are allowed to sell you alcohol.

You can also buy cider when you are 16 (which could be why a lot of scallies drink it, that and White Lightning is cheap).

IIRC, the youngest you can drink in a 'pub' is 14, if you are in a clearly designated area for food (ie a resturant part that some pubs have), and you are accompanied by a parent or guardian (though you cannot buy it, the parent/guardian must do that).

Well, I don't know if this is like this in ever state, but in Ohio parents can give you drinks at any age, as long as you stay with them or close to them and not in public.

Well, I don't know if this is like this in ever state, but in Ohio parents can give you drinks at any age, as long as you stay with them or close to them and not in public.


In New Jersey, thats "endangering the welfare of a minor".

18 in Australia

It all depends on if you get caught... And if you have someone to buy for you... It's not illegal till you get done ;)

20 Iceland

18 in Ireland. Should be 16.