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Title is self-explanatory. 14 for me.

18/19 years old. I never really cared for beer. Mixed cocktails changed my outlook.

Vodka + juice/pop = good

16

Never started. I would if I had the money...

Properly? 16.

16.

Yes 16. I remember now. My first experience of a grimy yet fun gig and alcohol provided by friends. Good night. I'm just a social drinker though.

i started at about 10, drink stella round a mates

14.

Right now I'm 17 and enjoying a glass of wine. Unlike most teens, I highly prefer wine to beer.

13-14.

started getting properly drunk age 12... good fun, no ill effects, i've never had any problems with drinking in excess... ie i've been really really drunk many times, but i've hardly ever drunk so much that i puke or get paryletic or anything, and I've never put myself in any serious danger. Well, potential danger, sure, but not much more than any healthy childhood.... life contains risks, either that or it's pretty damn dull.


Not that i'd neccesarily reccomend this for all 12 yr old kids ;p
ps i'm 19 now.

Mid- to early teens.

Never, I don't use recreational drugs not even the legal ones, well at least not in enough quantity to get drunk.

First year of high school seemed like it would have been a good time to start if I had been interested in that stuff though.

14 and yes, it is a crime here until you're 18.

Cheerio!

I had my first shot of Bailey's at 14. First beer at 17. But I actually started drinking socially at 18.

I turn 21 in four months. Woo hoo.. That just means I can buy my own expensive beer.

10-11.

Don't drink and don't understand why others do...theres no benefit. In my situation I look at it as ridiculous. I'm a seventeen year old athlete, the last thing I need is a hang over, alcohol damaging my liver, or it atrophying my muscles (which is exactly what it does), as well as kill brain cells. Sure, some guys who are less motivated and frankly in my honest opinion wimps claim it helps them talk to girls or have a better time...and my only response to that is that you're a weak person.

My flamebaiting rant for the day. :p

Haven't started yet. I guess it's an acquired taste, anyway, and it's technically illegal for me to buy it for a couple more years in this country (although notably, that's never stopped just about everyone else).

About 14ish.

Don't drink and don't understand why others do...theres no benefit.
If there was no benefit then why would so many millions of people do it? In my experience, getting drunk is fun.
In my situation I look at it as ridiculous. I'm a seventeen year old athlete, the last thing I need is a hang over, alcohol damaging my liver, or it atrophying my muscles (which is exactly what it does), as well as kill brain cells.
Not everyone needs their body to be in peak physical condition.
Sure, some guys who are less motivated and frankly in my honest opinion wimps claim it helps them talk to girls or have a better time...and my only response to that is that you're a weak person.
Alcohol lowers inhibitions, which would, among other things, allow a person to overcome his/her shyness. If you feel that using this fact to talk to girls or have fun is sign of weakness then I can only assume you aspire to live a life of boring celibacy.

18. I drank mixed drinks almost exclusively until I was 21, then discovered good beer and have been a beer drinker ever since.

In response to Wanderjar, it's biological fact that drinking alcohol is enjoyable for most people.

drinking what? water?




I've never drank alcohol....

Don't drink and don't understand why others do...
Well there we go, then.

At age 16.

My parents offered me tastes of their whisky or wine when i was 10+ but i hated the taste so i was put off by it. I got incredibly drunk at 15 at a large family party, had a horrific hangover, but a great time.
Properly started social drinking of alcohol at 17-18, i only drink to socialise. I could live without it, but there really isn't much of a choice for me.

While on a related topic, i know someone who's parents saw their child smoking one of their cigarettes, (only 12 at the time) and forced the child to smoke a whole packet of cigarettes to put him off smoking, unfortunately it had the reverse effect and it got him hooked onto smoking.

My parents let me have some wine and beer as a kid, but I didn't get drunk. I don't think I ever drank socially until I was 18.

I'm 20, and I've had nothing beyond a sip of Communion wine once a week.

about 14 experimenting. by 15 or 16 i was drinking quite a bit. passing out kind of drinking.

now i don't drink at all, heh :P

I'm 20, and I've had nothing beyond a sip of Communion wine once a week.

Communion wine? Is it any good?

14, as tradition in my family. But I drink wine, mainly, every day with my lunch and my dinner.

Never been a fan of the booze.

Communion wine? Is it any good?

It depends on your church. The church I attend while I'm at school has quite a pleasant wine. The church back home? Their wine tastes like vinegar.

Right now I'm 17 and enjoying a glass of wine. Unlike most teens, I highly prefer wine to beer.

I don't think most teens "like" beer. I think its what they can afford.

It was certainly the case when I was one.

But for the OP. I never really "started." My family is from Europe, broadly speaking, and wine was always offered, including to children. Of course, back then I preferred Coke, but still, there was never a time that alcohol was off limits.

It depends on your church. The church I attend while I'm at school has quite a pleasant wine. The church back home? Their wine tastes like vinegar.

And in plenty of places it's just grape juice because so many of the congregents are alcoholics.

Im 21 and I've never had a drink. Which is uncommon in my part of the world.

Why does everyone start so danged early?

Why does everyone start so danged early?

Cos we're cool.

Why does everyone start so danged early?

18/19 years old (it was close to my birthday) isn't that young...

If you mean start drinking as in drink alcohol intentionally, then it would have been around 11 or 12 with wine at meals.

However my first alcoholic drink was completely unintentional. My mother had fixed herself a gin and tonic and was just about to sit down and relax before dinner, when the phone rang. She put her drink down on the coffee table and went to answer the phone. I, being inquisitive wandered over to the table., picked up the glass and downed it in one. The problem was that I was 18 months old at the time. Obviously this description of events is as told to me by my mother. I remember nothing of it. She also tells me that I had a hell of a hangover the next day.

I have never been able to stand even the smell of gin, for as long as I can remember.

Never, and I'm almost 19 (drinking age here is 18). And I'm not even christian! (Or a believer in any other big religion)

Starting drinking socially when I was in high school, like most people I know. But I remember drinking alcoholic Shirley Temples' when I was like 10-11 years old.

I rarely get drunk though. I mostly stay away from whiskey and hard liquor and prefer mixed drinks and malt liquor. Sex is meaningless when you are drunk. So the only times I will get drunk is when it isn't a possibility.

I was never a big fan of wine. Except for cheap blackberry Merlot, which we use to drink after school when we got high and listened to CD's on the days we didn't have practice. Heh. Merlot seems to go perfectly with marijuana.

When I was about 10 my parents started letting me have a glass of wine or beer at parties. When I was 14 they let me have mixed drinks too, and go to bars with them. When I was 17 my step-mom would send me in to buy liquor. The first time I actually got drunk was about that time.

I dunno...12? 13? Something like that.

Pretty young, shortly after I was born, I guess.
Oh, you mean alcohol. I don't drink, so never. Unless you count Communion, in which case, when I was seven or eight.

And, because I think it's funny: this (http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/white-problems-allowing-children-to-drink-wine/).

i think about 11. about the same time i was having a brief affair with holy roller christerism. i quite the penticostals first, that only lasted something like a year and half or so.

i think my lifetime average for alcohaul consumptions has been something like one drink a year. sorry. i never really got into it.

at any rate, i only had samples when i was at home. then in the airforce, in tec school, we were under penalty of fate worse then combat if we were so much as to nod off in class, so i ran on cafene during the week and alcohaul to flush it out of the system on weak ends. but even that didn't hook me on it. nothing's ever hooked me on anything. as soon as i was out of tec school that was pretty much the end of it. i think i had the odd drink, or other mind altering substance on and off on rare occasions from about a year after i got out in 71 through sometime in the mid 80s. just haven't had any occasion or desire for anything of the sort since.

much more interested with what i can do with my mind when its NOT anesthisized to develop any enthusiasm for doing so.

=^^=
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Started drinking at 15 when the parents were around, they gradually let me have more freedom until I moved out of home when I was 17, and I could basically do whatever I wanted...

Uni O week while living in college + introduction to goon = bad :s, I pretty much spend that year getting drunk atleast 2 of 3 nights except in exam times...

Now I usually go out once every one or two weeks, but my theory is that you can have a better time on 6 drinks than 12 drinks...

Underage kids: You will learn this: Clubs are shit, so don't hold your breath for when you turn 18 to go out... You wait an hour in a line to pay an exorbitant cover charge to get into a crowded place that smells of vomit, plays music too loud to hold a conversation and then pay even more for any drinks you want after waiting in a queue for half an hour.

My first taste of alcohol was when I was ten me and a mate took a can of beer from an esky at a house warming party our families were attending, we each took a sip hated it and chucked it over the fence.

Next time I was about 14 when my father allowed me to have a port glass of wine with dinner every Friday and Saturday night.

By the time I was 16 and heading out to parties where alcohol was flowing freely I was drinking quite a bit then but because I had already had the stuff and was used to it I didn't binge drink until I was passed out as alcohol by that point was not a something that was denied by me so I didn't feel the need to rebel and drink as much as I could now as I may not get any again till next weekend

Title is self-explanatory. 14 for me.

First drink => 12
serious drinking => 15 or 16 i guess, when I started going out.

16, was never really bothered b4 that, what an effort it was

I've been cajoled, a few times in my life, to trying alcohol. Truly voluntarily? never. The effects it had on my early life have probably scared me of it's effects forever.

15 was probably the first time I got seriously drunk.

Don't really drink much anymore though.

Right now I'm 17 and enjoying a glass of wine. Unlike most teens, I highly prefer wine to beer.Me to mate.

21.

I don't drink very often, anyway. Only a few times per year, and only in small amounts.

I have a new tip for anyone with a big night. When you first get into town or wherever, have a big alcoholic drink, I did it with a pint of Guinness. After it you'll feel tipsy, as you walk around the town or wherever you after for a bit and wait till you drink more. By the end of the night even when you start to drink heaps more your body will have equalized and you won't feel drunk at all.

Title is self-explanatory. 14 for me.

Depends what you mean by "drinking". I assume you're refering to alcohol, as otherwise the title doesn't make sense.
I can't remember... I've been given a small glass of beer with dinner for as long as I can remember back.
First time I've been drunk though was with 19 or 20.

Started at 15 and was bored of it by 18. Will still have the odd drink occasionally but doing it excessively just seems like a pointless waste of money.

14

Age 13.

But then again, it was Communion Wine...

19, first and only time I've been drunk.

I started drinking (as in spirits not the odd crap beer) at about 14 in the rain as all kids do

nowadays its less and less because I'm poor

The only notable glasses of alcohol I've had where both at the age of 18, some ten years ago.
The first was a glass of vodka, 'forced' upon me by a girl I liked at the time. Not quite sure why she thought it was so important that I drank; but apparently it's some sort of crime not to drink alcohol at a party, meh.. It didn't really taste worth drinking, to boot.
The other drink was some months later; a little bit of whiskey. Not too bad; certainly better than vodka. But I much prefer plain (running) tap water.
So I suppose you can't really say I ever started drinking.

17, in a serious fashion. 16 casually.

Haven't yet, don't ever plan to.

Underage kids: You will learn this: Clubs are shit, so don't hold your breath for when you turn 18 to go out... You wait an hour in a line to pay an exorbitant cover charge to get into a crowded place that smells of vomit, plays music too loud to hold a conversation and then pay even more for any drinks you want after waiting in a queue for half an hour.

Yes but you will also learn that in exchange, you have a higher probability of hooking up with a drunk hot chick and getting laid.

Yes but you will also learn that in exchange, you have a higher probability of hooking up with a drunk hot chick and getting laid.

Yeah and chances are, she's been pounded out by all the disgusting guys that hang out in clubs all the time. If you want sloppy 1000's from them, then go for it.

There are so many other ways to meet better quality women in the 21st century that going to clubs just for chicks has passed it's time.

Apart from Communion Wine, never. And seeing as my grandfather was an alcoholic putting me at higher risk of addiction and cancer, I don't plan on drinking a lot after I turn 21 (legal drinking age in America.)

However, even if I wasn't related to an alcoholic, I wouldn't see the point of doing something that could make me sick or make me lose control of my mind and actions.

I started drinking at 16 on an exchange trip to Berlin and ended up downing a quarter bottle of vodka, had a few joints and pased out in some rich girls basement.

After that my drinking has been a much tamer affair apart from the occasional all day pub crawl. Most of the time I prefer to just sit in a pub and work my way through a few pints over an afternoon and evening if I can

Never. Unless you count the time when they forced wine down my throat to circumcise me...

First time I got properly drunk was 01.01.2000...so 14. Next time was some time in 2003. Now I don't drink that much.

Yes but you will also learn that in exchange, you have a higher probability of hooking up with a drunk chick who looks hot through beer goggles and getting laid.

fixed

To answer the question in the OP, I was 17.

I'm 20, and I've never drunk alcohol. I'm not planning too any time soon either.

16, I think, at my cousin John's "welcome back" party from Marine boot camp.

I have a new tip for anyone with a big night. When you first get into town or wherever, have a big alcoholic drink, I did it with a pint of Guinness. After it you'll feel tipsy, as you walk around the town or wherever you after for a bit and wait till you drink more. By the end of the night even when you start to drink heaps more your body will have equalized and you won't feel drunk at all.

Why on earth would you want to drink heaps and not get drunk? I enjoy being a cheap date. :D

I was almost 19 when I started although that's sort of a misnomer. I never really started in the sense of uncontrollable alcoholism. It never became an actual problem, I never let it get out of hand.

14 on my own initiative but my parents gave me booze ages before that. from the age of about 5 on special occasions and beer and wine with dinner or at a party from about 12.

I have a new tip for anyone with a big night. When you first get into town or wherever, have a big alcoholic drink, I did it with a pint of Guinness. After it you'll feel tipsy, as you walk around the town or wherever you after for a bit and wait till you drink more. By the end of the night even when you start to drink heaps more your body will have equalized and you won't feel drunk at all.

tipsy after a pint? you'd be a cheap date.

Underage kids: You will learn this: Clubs are shit, so don't hold your breath for when you turn 18 to go out... You wait an hour in a line to pay an exorbitant cover charge to get into a crowded place that smells of vomit, plays music too loud to hold a conversation and then pay even more for any drinks you want after waiting in a queue for half an hour.

gotta agree with that. mostly pretty shit, though most of the clubs i went to (rock/metal clubs) didn't usually have too much of a queue...

pubs that try to hard to be clubs are also pretty shit. if i'm in a pub i want to be somewhere i can relax and be with friends, not somewhere where i have to fight to be heard over the shitty music.


I have a new tip for anyone with a big night. When you first get into town or wherever, have a big alcoholic drink, I did it with a pint of Guinness. After it you'll feel tipsy, as you walk around the town or wherever you after for a bit and wait till you drink more. By the end of the night even when you start to drink heaps more your body will have equalized and you won't feel drunk at all.
sorry, dumb question... but what's the point in drinking if you're not going to feel drunk? :confused:

I was almost 19 when I started although that's sort of a misnomer. I never really started in the sense of uncontrollable alcoholism. It never became an actual problem, I never let it get out of hand.

:confused:

I started drinking, heavily, when I did, at 17 or 18. Right after hitting college. After graduation and my MA, sadly I have to say I can´t stomach too much alcohol anymore.

gotta agree with that. mostly pretty shit, though most of the clubs i went to (rock/metal clubs) didn't usually have too much of a queue...

pubs that try to hard to be clubs are also pretty shit. if i'm in a pub i want to be somewhere i can relax and be with friends, not somewhere where i have to fight to be heard over the shitty music.



clubs that try to cater to the everyman or the lowest common denominator will always be shit. clubs that have a specific clientele they cater for or at least have specific nights for different music tend to be better.

I started drinking, heavily, when I did, at 17 or 18. Right after hitting college. After graduation and my MA, sadly I have to say I can´t stomach too much alcohol anymore.

That's not a bad thing, too much alcohol is bad for you.

That's not a bad thing, too much alcohol is bad for you.

True. I like drinking wine everyday though, but that´s for lunch and dinner.:D

True. I like drinking wine everyday though, but that´s for lunch and dinner.:D

Having a drink or two every day is actually good for you, although I haven't had any alcohol in almost 4 months at this point...

Having a drink or two every day is actually good for you, although I haven't had any alcohol in almost 4 months at this point...

Then I commend you on that.;)

Then I commend you on that.;)

It's actually pretty normal for me, but then I have to be very careful about having anything to drink at all... I'm what you might call a borderline alcoholic, I used to have a very bad drinking problem.

pubs that try to hard to be clubs are also pretty shit. if i'm in a pub i want to be somewhere i can relax and be with friends, not somewhere where i have to fight to be heard over the shitty music.

clubs < bars (which is different from a pub IMHO by environment I guess?)

and you forgot the part of the club experience where you find someone passed out forcing you to play guardian angel :mad:

True. I like drinking wine everyday though, but that´s for lunch and dinner.:D

...but breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Yeah and chances are, she's been pounded out by all the disgusting guys that hang out in clubs all the time. If you want sloppy 1000's from them, then go for it.

[insert yo momma joke]

why should I care about a woman sexual experiences? oh right your not getting any are you :p

There are so many other ways to meet better quality women in the 21st century that going to clubs just for chicks has passed it's time.

such as?

I started driving lawn mowers at 6. I started driving tractors at 13. I started driving cars at around 10.

And because I learned on a lawn mower and a tractor, I don't have my license yet. Let's just say...

I don't quite tell the difference between children and speed bumps well :sniper:

I started driving lawn mowers at 6. I started driving tractors at 13. I started driving cars at around 10.

And because I learned on a lawn mower and a tractor, I don't have my license yet. Let's just say...

I don't quite tell the difference between children and speed bumps well :sniper:

:confused:

:confused:

I think they think the thread is about when you started driving. Which, admitedly, I did too, as it appeared on the NS main page with part of the title cut off. However, I bothered to actually read the thread before posting, which took care of that little problem.

As for the OP: I'm 25, never touched the stuff, never will.

I think they think the thread is about when you started driving. Which, admitedly, I did too, as it appeared on the NS main page with part of the title cut off. However, I bothered to actually read the thread before posting, which took care of that little problem.
If only every one would do that... :(
As for the OP: I'm 25, never touched the stuff, never will.

Why not?

13.
yippee.

clubs < bars (which is different from a pub IMHO by environment I guess?)

and you forgot the part of the club experience where you find someone passed out forcing you to play guardian angel :mad:



...but breakfast is the most important meal of the day!



[insert yo momma joke]

why should I care about a woman sexual experiences? oh right your not getting any are you :p



such as?

But... but... but... why breakfast!:headbang:

18

16.

Yes 16. I remember now. My first experience of a grimy yet fun gig and alcohol provided by friends. Good night. I'm just a social drinker though.

So in other words you only get completely drunk/plastered/wasted/similar-colloquial-term when around other people. Good to know. :p

I think they think the thread is about when you started driving. Which, admitedly, I did too, as it appeared on the NS main page with part of the title cut off. However, I bothered to actually read the thread before posting, which took care of that little problem.

As for the OP: I'm 25, never touched the stuff, never will.

Yup, I thought it was about driving.

Now, DRINKING, I don't drink.

But if I did, then my previous post and the message it contained would accurately reflect my drinking habits.

socially 2 abusively 6

20.5 or so

I don't drink. Ever. God, I'm thirsty.

Used to drink dads beer as a kid if he left it laying around. First time drunk was probably 12. Never abused it but did drink off and on until 18. After that it was a normal thing.

First alcoholic drink when I was 10 or so. My dad let me taste the wine he was making.

First time drunk I was 16. A girl I worked with gave me her (Large) BK cup filled with half rum, half Coke. I drank it all by myself and kept a diary of it. Funny looking at what I wrote as my neat handwriting turned to illegible..

Drank regularly at 19.

Now, ten years later...it bores me.

Twelve.

socially 2 abusively 6

This makes me lol even though I know better.

I have a new tip for anyone with a big night. When you first get into town or wherever, have a big alcoholic drink, I did it with a pint of Guinness. After it you'll feel tipsy, as you walk around the town or wherever you after for a bit and wait till you drink more. By the end of the night even when you start to drink heaps more your body will have equalized and you won't feel drunk at all.

Okay, do us all a favor and DON'T drink when you first go to high altitudes? Please? Wait until you've acclimated - about a week, maybe two. Because you'll end up feeling like shit on a cracker the morning after. (and no, I don't know this from experience.)

Why not?

1: No intrest. That right there's a deal breaker in its self, but there's a couple other reasons.

2: I've seen what it does to people, both alcoholisim and normal getting drunk. Neither of them was particularly impressive.

3: I don't need it. Anything I could do drunk I could do better sober. If I can't do it sober, then how the hell is alcohol going to help?

Wine at 6, grappa at 10, beer at 11. Of course, the quantities have undergone a steady increase.

I had a big drunken spew attack in Blackpool when I was 12, but not properly drinking til I was 15

First ever? About 10 at a dinner. Hated it so i nearly spat it out.

Never drank it seriously, though

I probably started drinking (apart from the occasional small glass of wine at dinner) at around 13. I first got dangerously drunk at 14, I think.

Wine at 6, grappa at 10, beer at 11. Of course, the quantities have undergone a steady increase.

Whatever happened to grappa in the Uk? It was pretty big when I was about 15. 0_0

Why does everyone start so danged early?

so they can get over it early and get on with enjoying the rest of their lives.

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I started drinking at age 5, though at the time it was a gulp here and there and maybe a half bottle once a month or so... Though one day I managed to drink half a bottle of Shiner Bock and two and a half bottles of Zima. Didn't get the slightest bit tipsy, and I wasn't even six years old.

The most I've had since then was three bottles (two Bud Ices and a Budweiser in one night this past January, again I didn't get tipsy from it). Aside from that, It's just been a gulp here and there, nothing serious. Next year will be a good year, though, as I'll turn 21 and my stash of Guinness will (probably) never run dry.

Okay, do us all a favor and DON'T drink when you first go to high altitudes? Please? Wait until you've acclimated - about a week, maybe two. Because you'll end up feeling like shit on a cracker the morning after. (and no, I don't know this from experience.)

I'm not sure this is actually true. Yes, you feel more drunk at high altitudes because your brain isn't getting as much oxygen, but I'm pretty sure the dehydration from alcohol consumption (which actually causes hangovers) remains the same.

i started rpoerly when i was 13

At what age did I start drinking what?

At what age did I start drinking what?

That 'joke' has been made way too much in this thread